The Most Famous
ANTHROPOLOGISTS from South Africa
This page contains a list of the greatest South African Anthropologists. The pantheon dataset contains 69 Anthropologists, 1 of which were born in South Africa. This makes South Africa the birth place of the 22nd most number of Anthropologists behind New Zealand and India.
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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South African Anthropologists of all time. This list of famous South African Anthropologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Max Gluckman (1911 - 1975)
With an HPI of 47.89, Max Gluckman is the most famous South African Anthropologist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Herman Max Gluckman (; 26 January 1911 – 13 April 1975) was a South African and British social anthropologist. He is best known as the founder of the Manchester School of anthropology.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as anthropologists born between 1911 and 1911. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased anthropologists include Max Gluckman. As of April 2022, 1 new anthropologists have been added to Pantheon including Max Gluckman.
