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Patrick Kirch

Patrick Vinton Kirch is an American anthropologist and archaeologist who studies the origins, migrations, and social org...

Contemporary Archaeology Pacific Prehistory

9.2 Excellent

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Richard Bauman

Richard Bauman is an American folklorist, anthropologist and linguistic anthropologist whose work examines language as s...

Performance Contemporary Folklore Linguistic

9.0 Excellent

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David MacDougall

David MacDougall is an American-Australian visual anthropologist, documentary and ethnographic filmmaker, and writer on...

Contemporary India Visual Film

9.0 Excellent

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Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro is a Brazilian anthropologist and a leading figure in contemporary Amazonian ethnology. He is...

Contemporary Amazonia Brazil Ontology

8.9 Great

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Richard Price

Richard Price is an American anthropologist and historian whose work focuses on Afro-American history, Caribbean societi...

History Contemporary Cultural Caribbean

8.9 Great

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Paul Farmer

Paul Farmer (1959–2022) was an American medical anthropologist and physician who dedicated his career to providing healt...

Contemporary Applied Medical Poverty

8.8 Great

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Anna Tsing

Anna Tsing is an American anthropologist whose research explores the intersections of globalization, ecology, and capita...

Contemporary Ecology Globalization Fungus

8.8 Great

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Arthur Kleinman

Arthur Kleinman (born 1943) is an American psychiatrist and anthropologist whose work helped establish medical anthropol...

China Medical Harvard Late 20TH

8.7 Great

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Thomas Csordas

Thomas Csordas is an American cultural and medical anthropologist whose work made embodiment a central analytic concept...

Contemporary Medical Healing Religion

8.7 Great

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Peter Bellwood

Peter Bellwood is an Australian archaeologist and anthropologist known for research on the prehistory of Island Southeas...

Contemporary Migration Southeast Asia Archaeology

8.7 Great

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Lila Abu-Lughod

Lila Abu-Lughod (born 1952) is an American anthropologist known for ethnographic research on Bedouin communities in Egyp...

Contemporary Emotion Media Middle East

8.6 Great

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Caroline Humphrey

Caroline Humphrey is a British social anthropologist whose research has focused on Russia, Mongolia, China, India, Nepal...

Contemporary Central Asia Shamanism Mongolia

8.6 Great

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Didier Fassin

Didier Fassin is a French social anthropologist and physician currently serving at the Institute for Advanced Study in P...

Contemporary Humanitarianism Medical Africa

8.4 Great

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Mark Nichter

Mark Nichter is an American medical anthropologist whose research links cultural practices and health behavior with publ...

Contemporary Medical South Asia Global Health

8.1 Great

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Emily Martin

Emily Martin is an American cultural anthropologist known for her feminist analyses of science, medicine, and how cultur...

Body Science Medical Feminist

7.9 Good

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Sarah Franklin

Sarah Franklin is a British sociologist and anthropologist whose pioneering research focuses on reproductive technologie...

Contemporary Science British Feminist

7.8 Good

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João Biehl

João Biehl is a Brazilian-American anthropologist and professor at Princeton University whose research focuses on medica...

Contemporary Medical North America Brazil

7.7 Good

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Merrill Singer

Merrill Singer is an American medical anthropologist recognized for his foundational work in developing syndemic theory....

Contemporary Critical Medical North America

7.6 Good

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Hans Baer

Hans A. Baer is an anthropologist and development-studies specialist whose work spans critical medical anthropology, pol...

Contemporary Environmental Critical Medical

7.6 Good

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Vincanne Adams

Vincanne Adams is an American medical anthropologist at the University of California, San Francisco whose research addre...

Contemporary Medical North America Global Health

7.2 Good