swap_horiz Akhil Gupta Alternatives

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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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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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Pascal Boyer

Pascal Boyer is a cognitive anthropologist whose research examines how human cognition contributes to the formation and...

Contemporary Evolutionary Cognitive Religion

8.6 Great

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Adriana Petryna

Adriana Petryna is an American anthropologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania whose research examines he...

Contemporary Science Medical Ukraine

8.6 Great

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Kathryn Woolard

Kathryn Woolard is an American linguistic anthropologist whose research concerns language, ethnicity, bilingual communit...

Contemporary Catalonia Linguistic Bilingualism

8.6 Great

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James Ferguson

James Ferguson was an American anthropologist whose work analyzed development institutions, globalization, and inequalit...

Contemporary Development Political Africa

8.5 Great

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Nurit Bird-David

Nurit Bird-David is an Israeli cultural anthropologist at the University of Haifa whose research focuses on hunter-gathe...

Contemporary Hunter Gatherer Animism Ecology

8.4 Great

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Christina Toren

Christina Toren is a British anthropologist whose work is associated with cognitive anthropology, the study of how peopl...

Contemporary Development Pacific Fiji

8.2 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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David Sneath

David Sneath is a British social anthropologist whose research focuses on Mongolia, Inner Asia, pastoralism, political o...

Contemporary Central Asia Mongolia State

8.1 Great

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Paul Sillitoe

Paul Sillitoe is a British anthropologist and professor in Durham University's Anthropology Department. His research exa...

Contemporary Development Indigenous Knowledge New Guinea

7.9 Good

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Thomas Blom Hansen

Thomas Blom Hansen is a contemporary Danish anthropologist who serves as a professor at Stanford University. He is widel...

Contemporary Politics South Asia Violence

7.5 Good

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Francis Nyamnjoh

Francis Nyamnjoh is a Cameroonian anthropologist, novelist, and academic recognized for his extensive research on media,...

Contemporary Media Africa Cameroon

7.3 Good