Anthropologists

Said culture is "personality writ large" in the book Patterns of Culture in 1934.

Said you must have contact with the people you study. Wrote Argonauts of the Western Pacific.

Most influential linguist in history; said vocabulary constrains thoughts about the world.

Father of American anthropology. Wrote The Mind of Primitive Man in 1911.

Was symbolic anthropologist; said human behaviors are described in context so they make sense.

Said blacks and whites in Africa could form a unified social system.

Father of modern anthropology. Wrote Tristes Tropiques in 1955.

Studied mythology , compared religions/cultures, wrote The Golden Bough in 1890.

Developed theory of Structural Functionalism. Analyzed customs, traditions, and organizations.

Studied Samoan girls, wrote Coming of Age in Samoa in 1928, was controversial.