The Most Famous
ANTHROPOLOGISTS from Pakistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Pakistani Anthropologists. The pantheon dataset contains 93 Anthropologists, NaN of which were born in Pakistan. This makes Pakistan the birth place of the 0th most number of Anthropologists.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Pakistani Anthropologists of all time. This list of famous Pakistani Anthropologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Saba Mahmood (1961 - 2018)
With an HPI of 41.89, Saba Mahmood is the most famous Pakistani Anthropologist. Her biography has been translated into 14 different languages on wikipedia.
Saba Mahmood (1961–2018) was professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, she was also affiliated with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Institute for South Asia Studies, and the Program in Critical Theory. Her scholarly work straddled debates in anthropology and political theory, with a focus on Muslim majority societies of West Asia (including the Middle East) and South Asia. Mahmood made major theoretical contributions to rethinking the relationship between ethics and politics, religion and secularism, freedom and submission, and reason and embodiment. Influenced by the work of Talal Asad, she wrote on issues of gender, religious politics, secularism, and Muslim and non-Muslim relations in the Middle East.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Pakistani anthropologists born between 1961 and 1961. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Pakistani anthropologists include Saba Mahmood. As of April 2024, 1 new Pakistani anthropologists have been added to Pantheon including Saba Mahmood.
