The Most Famous
ANTHROPOLOGISTS from Senegal
This page contains a list of the greatest Senegalese Anthropologists. The pantheon dataset contains 93 Anthropologists, 1 of which were born in Senegal. This makes Senegal the birth place of the 15th most number of Anthropologists behind Greenland, and Kenya.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Senegalese Anthropologists of all time. This list of famous Senegalese Anthropologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Cheikh Anta Diop (1923 - 1986)
With an HPI of 56.85, Cheikh Anta Diop is the most famous Senegalese Anthropologist. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
Cheikh Anta Diop (29 December 1923 – 7 February 1986) was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial African culture. Diop's work is considered foundational to the theory of Afrocentricity, though he himself never described himself as an Afrocentrist. The questions he posed about cultural bias in scientific research contributed greatly to the postcolonial turn in the study of African civilizations. Diop argued that there was a shared cultural continuity across African people that was more important than the varied development of different ethnic groups shown by differences among languages and cultures over time. Some of his ideas have been criticized as based upon outdated sources and an outdated conception of race. Other scholars have defended his work from what they see as widespread misrepresentation. Cheikh Anta Diop University (formerly known as the University of Dakar), in Dakar, Senegal, is named after him.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Senegalese anthropologists born between 1923 and 1923. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Senegalese anthropologists include Cheikh Anta Diop.
