Honorary Membership
*1 New Honorary Members elected in 2018 | *2 Honorary Members elected in 2013
| NAME | COUNTRY | AFFILIATION / FORMER AFFILIATION | ||
| Lourdes Arizpe | Mexico | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | ||
| H. Russell Bernard | USA | University of Florida | ||
| Nils-Arvid Bringéus | Sweden | Lund University | ||
| Christian Bromberger | France | l'Université de Provence | ||
| Buddhadeb Chaudhuri2 | India | Calcutta University | ||
| Henri J. M. Claessen | The Netherlands | Leiden University | ||
| John Ernest Gledhill1 | UK | University of Manchester | ||
| Gustavo Lins Ribeiro1 | Mexico; Brazil | Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana; Universidade de Brasilia | ||
| Joan P. Mencher1 | USA | Lehman College of City University of New York | ||
| Chie Nakane | Japan | University of Tokyo | ||
| Paul N. Nkwi | Cameroon | Catholic University of Cmeroon; University of Yaounde | ||
| Keiichi Omoto | Japan | University of Tokyo | ||
| Sherry Beth Ortner | USA | University of California, Los Angeles | ||
| Posthumous/Deceased Honorary Members | ||||
| Paul T. Baker | USA | (1927-2007) | The Pennsylvania State University | |
| Fredrik Barth | Norway | (1928-2016) | Boston University; University of Oslo; University of Bergen | |
| Prafullo Chandra Biswas | India | University of Delhi | ||
| Jean Cuisenier | France | (1927-2017) | Centre de sociologie européenne,Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires; Centre d'Ethnologie Française | |
| Silvio Coelho dos Santos1 | Brazil | (1928-2008) | Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina | |
| Fred Russell Eggan | USA | (1906-1991) | University of Chicago | |
| Sir Raymond William Firth | UK | (1901-2002) | London School of Economics | |
| George M. Foster | USA | (1913-2006) | University of California, Berkeley | |
| Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf | UK | (1909-1995) | School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) | |
| Robert Gessain | France | (1907-1986) | Muséum national d'histoire naturelle | |
| Sir John (Jack) Rankine Goody2 | UK | (1919- 2015) | St John's College, University of Cambridge | |
| Vinigi L. Grottanelli | Italy | (1912-1993) | Univ. di Roma; Pontificia università urbaniana | |
| Lawrence Krader | Germany | (1919-1998) | University of Syracuse; City College of New York (CCNY); American University; University of Waterloo; Free University of Berlin | |
| Sir Edmund Ronald Leach | UK | (1910-1989) | King's College, Cambridge | |
| Claude Levi-Strauss | France | (1908-2009) | Collège de France | |
| José Matos Mar | Peru | (1921-2015) | Instituto de Estudios Peruanos; Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos | |
| Ikenna Nzimiro | Nigeria | (1927 - 2006) | University of Nigeria | |
| Masao Oka | Japan | (1898-1982) | Tokyo Metropolitan University; Meiji University; Tokyo University of Foreign Studies | |
| Gonzalo Rubio Orbe | Ecuador | (1909-1994) | Universidad Central del Ecuador; Universidad Católica; Rector del Colegio Normal Juan Montalvo | |
| Wu Rukang (Woo Ju-Kang) | China | (1916-2006) | Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
| Aidan Southall | UK | (1920-2009) | Makerere University; University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas | India | (1916-1999) | University of Delhi; Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda; Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore; National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore | |
| Eric Sunderland | UK | (1930-2010) | Bangor University; Durham University | |
| Hisashi Suzuki | Japan | (1912-2004) | University of Tokyo | |
| Sol Tax | USA | (1907-1995) | University of Chicago | |
| Phillip Valentine Tobias | South Africa | (1925-2012) | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg | |
| Sergei Alexandrowitsch Tokarev | USSR | (1899-1985) | Lomonosov Moscow State University | |
| Lallita Prasad Vidyarthi | India | (1931-1985) | Ranchi University | |
| Gordon Randolph Willey | USA | (1913-2002) | Harvard University | |
| Fei Xiaotong (Fei Hsiao-Tung) | China | (1910-2005) | Peking University | |
| Vsevolod Petrovich Yakimov | USSR | (1912-1982) | Moscow State University | |
