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Georges Balandier, from the back cover of his festschrift, Afrique plurielle, Afrique actuelle : Hommage à Georges Balandier.

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Claude Lévi-Strauss, via the New York Public Library

There are many images of L-S as a young man in the Amazon, and many of them as an old man because he lived so long, but I haven't seen that many when he was this age.

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"Jack Golson, 1956–57, inspecting a one-piece fishhook made of moa bone at Sarah’s Gully, New Zealand." via Uncovering Pacific Pasts, a new open access books

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 H.D. Skinner’s English Police Certificate of Identity, 1918; his description and photograph certified by A.C. Haddon. Via the open access volume Uncovering Pacific Pasts

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Vale Gananath Obeyesekere. Images via adaderana.lk and Sri Lanka Guardian. The caption for the first image is "Gananath Obeyesekere, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, at his home in Kandy, Sri Lanka, with his wife."

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Vale Sabine Luning, who passed away on 6 March 2025. Via an obituary from Leiden

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"Left to right - Professor Hufanga ‘Okusitino Mahina, Late Professor Epeli Hau’ofa, Professor Randy Thaman (Husband of Konai Helu Thaman)" via Nepituno.to

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Gananath Obeyesekere, via flickr

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Ross Bowden "talking to Vakinap of Avatip village at Bangwis in January 1973. Vakinap would stay with totemic kin at Bangwisannually, during the height of the wet season when his village was inundated by the Sepik’s rising waters"

via the new #openaccess books The Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik (download all 185 megs here) from Sean Kingston publishing

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Rusiate Nayacakalou, via Trove (from an archive of Pacific Islands Monthly)

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Rusiate Nayacakalou, via the cover of his book Leadership In Fiji. How many anthropologists have their portrait on the cover of their ethnographies?

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Ward Goodenough, from the back cover of Under Heaven's Brow, which is available to read (but not download) from Google books.

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Vale James Ferguson, who died at the age of 65. Via the Stanford Daily

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Joy Hendry, far left, with the tennis group between matches. Tateyama, Chiba,Japan, November 1986. Via the edited volume Anthropology and Autobiography.

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Vale Signe Howell. More at Oslo Uni.

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Peter Worsley 'after 2/3 weeks in the bush'. Via the Pitt-Rivers. Worsley's memoir "An Academic Skating on Thin Ice" documents his career as an anthropologist, communist, and key conceptualizer of the concept of 'third world'.

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Eduardo Viveiros de Castro in an atypically dyspeptic moment, via UC Santa Cruz