Talk:List of anthropologists

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[edit] List is on its way out

I recommend the replacement of this list with the current Wikipedia:Category named "Anthropologists" and suggest this list be considered obsolete. I have converted many of the listed names to the Wiki Category Category:Anthropologists, which is getting rather too big.

You can improve the Wikipedia by replacing every last one of these entries in this list with the link [[Category:Anthropologists | last name here, first name and initials here ]] at the bottom of the page. When you do so, please comment out the name on this list.

For those that I have marked with the category, I have effectively removed them from this list by commenting out their names. When all have been converted to the Category:Anthropologists category is time to eliminte this page.

Tom Lougheed 19:28, 7 June 2006 (UTC) Tom Lougheed 23:31, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Any reason not to delete the page then?? Cander0000 (talk) 08:05, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] deleting Chomsky

Regarding deletion of Chomsky: I meant generative, not "structural" linguist (it's been bugging me that I wrote that in the edit summary).

Still, Noam Chomsky is not an anthropologist — at least I got that right! User:Birdmessenger 13 December 2004

George Lakoff also is not an anthropologist!

[edit] Mark Ritchie is not an anthropologist

Mark Andrew Ritchie wrote a book on the Yanomamo that argues for a Christian worldview (or so I gather from a quick Googling). The fact that he wrote about the Yanomamo does not make him an anthropologist. Unless Spicynugget can produce any evidence that Ritchie is an anthropologist, his name should be removed from this list.--Birdmessenger 20:26, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Agree, no verifiable reliable sources so far. If anyone knows of some please provide references! Please remember: verifiable and reliable sources. Weregerbil 08:0lfgdktireoryiptureoigjnfdksgn5, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Since the list is gradually being removed, you may find it more useful to ensure that the [[Category:Anthropologist]] stays off Ritchie's article, should it ever be written. Tom Lougheed 23:35, 3 September 2007 (UTC)