Biographical Sketches

Throughout my career, I have had an interest in the history of anthropology, and in the intellectual trajectories of specific thinkers within the modern discipline. From one point of view, these explorations may be regarded as the intellectual starting points for my own development as an anthropologist. But from another, they provide a focal point for various articles and essays that I have occasionally published over the years. I give here a selection of such thinkers and their contributions in particular where I have written, or am writing, more widely about them.