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Stith Thompson

1885 - 1976

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Stith Thompson (March 7, 1885 – January 10, 1976) was an American folklorist: he has been described as "America's most important folklorist".He is the "Thompson" of the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index, which indexes folktales by type, and the author of the Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, a resource for folklorists that indexes motifs, granular elements of folklore. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stith Thompson has received more than 139,186 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Stith Thompson is the 121st most popular archaeologist, the 8,722nd most popular biography from United States and the 15th most popular American Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Stith Thompson ranks 121 out of 104Before him are Meave Leakey, Grafton Elliot Smith, Boris Piotrovsky, Colin Groves, Ian Hodder, and Mortimer Wheeler. After him are Klaus Schmidt, Paolo Orsi, Phillip V. Tobias, Alexey Okladnikov, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, and Miroslav Verner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Stith Thompson ranks 207Before him are Enrico Mizzi, Herbert Stothart, Frank Hurley, Karel Hartmann, Burton Downing, and Leonard Peterson. After him are Robert Liottel, C. J. Hambro, George Dole, Bjørn Rasmussen, René Benjamin, and Riccardo Nowak. Among people deceased in 1976, Stith Thompson ranks 209Before him are María Corda, Jimmy Garrison, Martín Luis Guzmán, Armen Ohanian, Mortimer Wheeler, and John A. Costello. After him are John Ainsworth-Davis, Mario Alborta, Camilo Ponce Enríquez, Muhammad Sakizli, James Wong Howe, and Tibor Csík.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stith Thompson ranks 8,722 out of 18,182Before him are Kevin J. Anderson (1962), Spencer Dryden (1938), Edward Abbey (1927), Christopher Young (1958), John Layfield (1966), and Kathy Hochul (1958). After him are Annette Rogers (1913), George Montgomery (1916), Gorilla Monsoon (1937), David Burtka (1975), Joe Roth (1948), and M. Scott Peck (1936).

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United States

Among archaeologists born in United States, Stith Thompson ranks 15Before him are Lewis Binford (1932), Michael D. Coe (1929), Carl Blegen (1887), Robert John Braidwood (1907), Robert T. Bakker (1945), and Charles W. Gilmore (1874). After him are J. P. Mallory (1945) and Nancy Dupree (1927).