20th-century French anthropologists

Jean Gagnepain (November 16, 1923 – January 3, 2006) was a French linguist and anthropologist.

Marc Augé (2 September 1935 – 24 July 2023) was a French anthropologist.
In an essay and book of the same title, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1995), Augé coined the phrase "non-place" to refer to spaces where concerns of relations, history, and identity are erased. Examples of a non-place would be a motorway, a hotel room, an airport or a supermarket.

Philippe Jacquin (22 January 1942 – 28 September 2002) was a French anthropologist.