List of fictional anthropologists
Fictional anthropologists appear in novels, short stories, comics, movies, and radio and television series. The following list excludes characters designated as exclusively archaeologists.
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Michael Shanks as Daniel Jackson
- Dr. Zachary Uriah "Zack" Addy (Zack Addy) is a forensic anthropologist in the television series, Bones. He is portrayed by Eric Millegan.
- Mary Albright (played by Jane Curtin) in the Sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun
- Dr. Stephen Arden (played by Alfred Molina) introduces himself as an anthropologist in the science-fiction horror movie Species.
- Dr. Alex Blake is a forensic linguistic (apparently not specified as an anthropologist) in the television serious Criminal Minds.
- Linda Bluenight is a forensic anthropologist of Cherokee heritage who goes to teach Papago children on the reservation in Arizona in Mission to Sonora Cramer.
- Elenore Smith Bowen? - The protagonist of an only slightly fictionalized ethnographer in Africa around the 1940s, based on the author's own field work in Nigeria in the late 1940s and early 1950s, in the novel Return to Laughter by Laura Bohannon writing as Elenore Smith Bowen.
- Temperance "Tempe" Brennan is a forensic anthropologist in novel series Temperance Brennan by Kathy Reichs.
- Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan (born Joy Keenan) (played by Emily Deschanel), is one of the co-protagonists of the American television series, Bones, which is very loosely based on author and forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs.
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Emily Deschanel, who plays Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan.
- Chakotay (played by Robert Beltran) in the television series Star Trek: Voyager
- Daniel Jackson (played by Michael Shanks, James Spader) in the television series and film Stargate SG-1
- Nelson Denoon of the novel Mating (1992) by Norman Rush is an anthropologist and cult founder in Botswana.
- Claire DeLoone, an anthropologist at New York's American Museum of Natural History is one of the three female leads in the 1944 Broadway musical-comedy, On the Town. The role was originated by Betty Comden who co-wrote the book.
- Nelson Denoon in Norman Rush's novel Mating.
- Clark Thomas Edison is a forensic physical anthropologist in the television series Bones.
- Gregory Eyck, a post-modernist anthropologist at the University of the Midwest in Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror by James Hynes
- Rudolfo Fuentes is a forensic anthropologist from Cuba, interning under Dr. Brennan in the 9th season of the television series Bones. He is played by Ignacio Serricchio.
- Robert Fuhrey in The Last Safari by Richard Rhodes is identified as a paleontologist who discovers an ancient hominid.
- Frank Holliwell is an anthropologist in the political thriller A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone.
- Aric Hort is an anthropologist (ethnographer) on the planet Langri in Lloyd Biggle, Jr.'s science-fiction novel, Monument (1974)
- Daniel Jackson (Stargate) is a linguist and an archaeologist the 1994 science-fiction movie Stargate and the spin-off Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.
- Johnathan, a graduate student in anthropology, starts a new life on the Faeroe Islands in the novel Far Afield by Susanna Kaysen.
- Kagura (Kagura (Azumanga Daioh) given name unknown, is a fictional character from the anime and manga series Azumanga Daioh. She also makes a cameo appearance as an anthropologist in Classroom of Thesis; From the Report to the Graduation Thesis (論文の教室[レポートから卒論まで]?) by Kazuhisa Todayama.
- John Kegedi in The Last Safari by Richard Rhodes is a Tanzanian identified as Fuhrey's assistant, working on a site with a hominid older than any other yet discovered. He teaches soil chemistry, agriculture, and paleontology, but denies that he is a paleontologist. No specific mention is made of anthropology.
- Charlotte Lewis (played by Rebecca Mader) is a cultural anthropologist on the ABC television series Lost.
- Domenica Macdonald is a fictional anthropologist, and the creation of Alexander McCall Smith, in his "44 Scotland Street" series, e.g.. in Lover over Scotland (Anchor Books, 20060.
- Elizabeth MacPherson, forensic anthropologist, is the protagonist of the Elizabe
- Don Maddson, linguist in James P. Hogan's Giant's Star (not specifically called an anthropologist), is given the task of learning and translating the Ganymedeans' language.th MacPherson novels by Sharyn McCrumb.
- "Uncle Martin" in the television sitcom My Favorite Martian was a Martian anthropologist interested in Earth culture.
- Dr. Ann Pearlmutter in James Patterson's Women's Murder Club series of novels is a marginal character who works at the UCSD, specializing in body ID and facial reconstruction.
- Katherine Reichs, a fictional anthropologist created by the fictional anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan in the television program (see above). (although Kathy Reichs is a real anthropologist from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and inspiration for the main character on "Bones")
- W.H.R. Rivers is a fictional version of the real anthropologist of the same name, in Regeneration by Pat Barker. Rivers treats shell-shocked soldiers so that can be sent back to the front in the brutal First World War.
- Dan Sherman, an anthropology instructor whose attempt at problem-based learning is problem-filled.[1] A didactic story, "Dan Tries Problem-Based Learning: A Case Study" by Harold B. White III, in To Improve the Academy, published by The Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education, volume 15, pp. 80–91. 1996.
- Grant Thornton, anthropologist and major love interest in Africa, in A Touch of Betrayal: Treasures of the Heart #3 by Catherine Palmer.
- Bolivar Trask is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. (1965+).
- Martiya van der Leun is an anthropologist in the murder mystery Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski.
- Professor Edward Travers, played by Jack Watling, is a fictional anthropologist and explorer who appears in two serials of the BBC television series Doctor Who.
- The [unnamed] narrator of the novel Mating (1992) by Norman Rush is a female graduate student of anthropology.[2]
- Bud Warhol, a fictional forensic anthropologist in Tantric Zoo and other Bud Warhol mysteries by Rob Loughran.
- Constance Wright, played by the real forensic scientist Kathy Reichs, is a forensic anthropologist on the board conducting Zack Addy's dissertation defense, in the television series Bones.
References
- ↑ "DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - L". Retrieved 2014-09-03.
- ↑ Bergeron & Pietrykowski, Suzanne & Bruce. "Can There Be a Genre Difference in Economic Literature," What Do Economists Know?: New Economics of Knowledge, p. 140. Retrieved 2014-07-22.
External links
For a short list of fictional archaeologists, see http://www.wasteflake.com/tiki-index.php?page=FictionalArchaeologists.
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