Margaret Mead was best known for her work in anthropology. She had a career at the New School for over twenty years.

Those who argue for the first view endow man with such pugnacious instincts that some outlet in aggressive behavior is necessary if man is to reach full human stature.

As we have just emphasized, nature, like culture, moves to the double rhythm of receiving and giving. But the two moments of this rhythm, as produced by nature are not viewed indifferently by culture.

We are engaged in a revolutionary discipline, as I have claimed, because of our ancestry. Modern anthropology is a child of the European Enlightenment, the axial age of the modern consciousness.

Stanley Diamond was an anthropologist and poet who founded The New School’s graduate anthropology program in 1970.

Elsie Clews Parsons, née Elsie Worthington Clews (November 27, 1875, N.Y., N.Y. – December 19, 1941, N.Y., N.Y.), was an American sociologist and anthropologist who produced landmark studies of the Pueblo and other Native American tribes in the Southwest, Mexico, and South America.

It has long been the fashion to invoke languages which lack the terms for expressing such a concept as ‘tree’ or ‘animal’, even though they contain all the words necessary for a detailed inventory of species and varieties.

In any study of the relations between personality and social classification the queries arise why the social categories are alike so compulsive to the conservative-minded and so precious, why they are given such unfailing loyalty, why such unquestioning devotion?

There remains one question to be discussed; namely, whether some tribes represent a lower cultural stage when looked at from an evolutionary point of view.

The term race is often used loosely to indicate groups of men differing in appearance, language or culture. As here understood it applies solely to the biological grouping of human types.

Claude Lévi-Strauss was a visiting professor at the New School for Social Research in New York City (1941–45), where he was influenced by the work of linguist Roman Jakobson. You can read more about him here.

Ashley Montagu, in full Montague Francis Ashley Montagu, original name Israel Ehrenberg (born June 28, 1905, London, Eng.—died Nov. 26, 1999, Princeton, N.J.), British American anthropologist noted for his works popularizing anthropology and science.