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Ágoston

Ágoston Pável (1886–1946), Hungarian Slovene writer, poet, ethnologist, linguist and historian

Agrest

Matest M. Agrest (1915–2005), Russian ethnologist and mathematician

Albert Samuel Gatschet

Albert Samuel Gatschet (October 3, 1832, Beatenberg, Canton of Bern – March 16, 1907) was a Swiss-American ethnologist who trained as a linguist in the universities of Bern and Berlin, but later moved to the United States in order to study Native American languages, in which field he was a pioneer.

Benedict Sandin

Benedict Sandin (1918–1982) was an Iban ethnologist, historian, and Curator of the Sarawak Museum in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.

Calvin Ira Kephart

Colonel Calvin Ira Kephart LL.D. (1883–1969) was an American professor of law, genealogist, historian, expert on heraldry and amateur ethnologist.

Christoph Fürer von Haimendorf

Christoph Fürer von Haimendorf, better known as Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, (1909–1995), Austrian ethnologist

Des Morris

:For the British ethnologist and zoologist, see Desmond Morris

Diamond Jenness

He then served as an ethnologist with the Canadian Arctic Expedition from 1913 to 1916 under the leadership of both Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Dr. Rudolph M. Anderson.

Garrick Mallery

Garrick Mallery (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, April 25, 1831 - October 24, 1894) was an American ethnologist specializing in Native American sign language and pictographs.

George H. Pepper

George Hubbard Pepper (February 2, 1873 – May 13, 1924) was an ethnologist and archaeologist, was born in Tottenville, Staten Island, New York.

George Pepper

George H. Pepper (1873–1924), American ethnologist and archaeologist

Gold-digging ant

French ethnologist Michel Peissel claims that the Himalayan marmot on the Deosai Plateau in Gilgit–Baltistan province of Pakistan, may have been what Herodotus called giant "ants".

Hafstein

Valdimar Tr. Hafstein (born 1972), Icelandic folklorist and ethnologist

Hans Heinrich Brüning

Hans Heinrich (Enrique) Brüning (Aug. 20, 1848, Hoffeld - July 2, 1928, Bordesholm) was a German-born Peruvian ethnologist and collector of antiquities.

Himalayan marmot

Research by the French ethnologist Michel Peissel makes a claim that the story of 'gold-digging ants' reported by the Greek historian Herodotus, who lived in the 5th century BC, was founded on the golden Himalayan marmot of the Deosai plateau and the habit of local tribes such as the Minaro to collect the gold dust excavated from their burrows.

Hose's Broadbill

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the British colonial administrator, zoologist and ethnologist Charles Hose.

Hugh Raffles

His writing has appeared in academic and popular venues, including Granta, Public Culture, Natural History, Orion, American Ethnologist, the New York Times, and The Best American Essays.

Japanese settlement in Palau

At least one ethnologist, Mark Peattie, suggested that the strong representation of Japanese-Palauans in leading positions in society could be attributed to the mainstream Japanese education which they had received in their youth.

Jean-Pierre Hallet

Jean-Pierre Hallet (1927 – 1 January 2004) was a Belgian (born in Africa) ethnologist, naturalist, and humanitarian best known for his extensive work with the Efé (Bambuti) pygmies of the Ituri Rainforest.

John C. Ewers

At the time of his death he was Ethnologist Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution and was the first recipient of the Smithsonian's Exceptional Service Award as well as the Western History Association's Oscar O. Winther Award and the American Alliance of Museums's Distinguished Service Award.

Joseph LaFlesche

She also worked with an ethnologist from the University of Pennsylvania to collect traditions and stories from the tribes.

Karl von den Steinen

Karl von den Steinen (born March 7, 1855 in Mülheim, died November 4, 1929 in Kronberg im Taunus) was a German physician (with emphasis in psychiatry), ethnologist, explorer, and author of important anthropological work, which is particularly to the study of Indian cultures of Central Brazil, and the art of the Marquesas.

Lady with the Ring

In 1920, an ethnologist determined that there were nineteen cities in Germany that claimed that a version of the Lady of the Ring had occurred there, including Hamburg, Lübeck, Dresden, and Freiberg.

Louis Shotridge

Perhaps inspired by contact with the ethnologist Lt. G. T. Emmons, Louis accompanied Florence to Portland to exhibit and sell Tlingit artifacts from Klukwan.

Maraini

Fosco Maraini, Italian ethnologist, photographer, film-maker, mountaineer, writer and professor

Marett

Robert Ranulph Marett (1866–1943), British ethnologist, son of Robert Pipon Marett

Moisés Espírito Santo Bagagem

Moisés Espírito Santo (also Moisés Espírito Santo Bagagem) (born in 1934 in Batalha, Portugal) is a Portuguese ethnologist and sociologist well known for his work on Ethnology and Sociology of Religion, summarized in the books The Portuguese Popular Religion (1990) and Oriental Origins of the Portuguese Popular Religion (1988).

New Zealand Coot

It was described in 1893 by New Zealand naturalist, ethnologist and museum director Augustus Hamilton, from material he had collected the previous year at Castle Rocks on the Oreti River in Southland.

Percy Smith

Stephenson Percy Smith (1840–1922), known as Percy Smith, New Zealand ethnologist and surveyor

Poch

Rudolf Pöch (1870–1921), Austrian doctor, anthropologist, and ethnologist

Rangachari

K. Rangachari was an Indian ethnologist who served as Assistant Superintendent of the Madras museum.

Regna Darnell

Her publications include biographies of the linguistic anthropologist Edward Sapir and of the ethnologist Daniel Garrison Brinton.

Sanzan period

Ethnologist Ōbayashi Taryō argued that the narrative on Sanzan recorded centuries later by Ryūkyū reflected the tripartite ideology, which the French scholar Georges Dumézil found in Proto-Indo-European mythology.

Tymovskoye

Bronisław Piłsudski (1866–1918), Polish ethnologist, sentenced to fifteen years of forced labor for planned assassination of Tsar Alexander III, served part of his sentence in Rykovskoye.

Vilhjálmur

Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879–1962), Canadian Arctic explorer and ethnologist

William N. Fenton

In his work as an ethnologist with the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology, Fenton drew attention to existing historic and ethnographic sources.


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