swap_horiz Alessandro Duranti 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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Edward Sapir

Edward Sapir was an American anthropologist and linguist who played a foundational role in the development of cultural a...

Foundational North America Early 20TH Linguistic

9.1 Excellent

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William F. Whyte

William Foote Whyte was an American sociologist whose research helped develop participant observation in the study of ur...

Community 20TH Century Urban Italian American

9.1 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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Ruth Benedict

Ruth Benedict was an American cultural anthropologist who studied under Franz Boas at Columbia University, where she lat...

Academic Cultural Symbolic Mid 20TH

8.9 Great

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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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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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Miyako Inoue

Miyako Inoue is a linguistic anthropologist and professor at Stanford University who studies language, gender, modernity...

Contemporary Japan Modernity Gender

8.5 Great

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Elinor Ochs

Elinor Ochs is an American linguistic anthropologist and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, recogni...

Contemporary Academic North America Linguistic

8.1 Great

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Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962–2024) was a Norwegian social anthropologist and professor at the University of Oslo. He was...

Contemporary Academic Ethnicity Norway

7.9 Good

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Bambi Schieffelin

Bambi B. Schieffelin is an American linguistic anthropologist and professor at New York University. She is a foundationa...

Contemporary Academic North America Linguistic

7.7 Good

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Faye Ginsburg

Faye Ginsburg is an American anthropologist whose research explores the intersection of media, culture, and social activ...

Contemporary Academic Media North America

7.6 Good

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Don Kulick

Don Kulick is a prominent linguistic and cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on the complex intersections of...

Contemporary Sweden Academic Sexuality

7.3 Good

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Paul Friedrich

Paul Friedrich was an American anthropologist, linguist, and scholar of language and poetics associated with the Univers...

Language American Past Linguistic

7.1 Good