swap_horiz Alfonso Ortiz Alternatives

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Arnold van Gennep

Arnold van Gennep was a French ethnographer and folklorist of Dutch-German background whose work examined customs, folkl...

France 20TH Century Transition Ritual

9.5 Brilliant

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Edward Evans-Pritchard

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard was a British social anthropologist whose field research in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan examine...

Social 20TH Century Africa Oxford

9.4 Excellent

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Robert H. Lowie

Robert H. Lowie was an Austrian-born American anthropologist associated with Franz Boas and the historical-particularist...

Cultural 20TH Century Native American Plains

8.8 Great

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Francis La Flesche

Francis La Flesche (1857-1932) was an Omaha ethnologist who worked with the Bureau of American Ethnology and the Smithso...

19TH Century Cultural Indigenous Native American

8.8 Great

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Barbara Myerhoff

Barbara Myerhoff was an American anthropologist and filmmaker who studied Jewish identity, ritual, community, and aging....

Cultural 20TH Century Ritual Aging

8.7 Great

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Diamond Jenness

Diamond Jenness was a Canadian anthropologist and archaeologist whose work advanced the study of Inuit societies and Arc...

Canada 20TH Century Native American Arctic

8.6 Great

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Roger Keesing

Roger Keesing was an anthropologist and linguist whose long-term fieldwork among the Kwaio of Malaita in the Solomon Isl...

Social Cultural 20TH Century Melanesia

8.5 Great

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Ralph Linton

Ralph Linton (1893-1953) was an American cultural anthropologist whose work linked social organization, culture, and per...

Cultural 20TH Century Personality Acculturation

8.4 Great

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John Swanton

John R. Swanton (1873-1958) was an American anthropologist who spent most of his career with the Smithsonian Institution...

Cultural 20TH Century Native American Linguistics

8.4 Great

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Joel Sherzer

Joel Sherzer (1942-2022) was an American anthropological linguist known for long-term research with the Guna people of P...

20TH Century Native American Linguistic Verbal Art

8.3 Great

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John Middleton

John Middleton was a British social anthropologist whose fieldwork examined the Lugbara of northwestern Uganda and the w...

20TH Century Africa East Africa Religion

8.1 Great

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Marius Barbeau

Marius Barbeau was a Canadian ethnographer and folklorist whose fieldwork documented Indigenous cultures, oral tradition...

Canada Cultural 20TH Century Folklore

8.1 Great

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Frank Speck

Frank Gouldsmith Speck (1881-1950) was an American anthropologist and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, whe...

Cultural 20TH Century Native American Northeast

8.0 Great

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Philip Drucker

Philip Drucker (1911-1982) was an American anthropologist and archaeologist whose research focused on the Indigenous peo...

20TH Century Native American Archaeology Northwest Coast

8.0 Great

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Weston La Barre

Weston La Barre was an American anthropologist associated with psychological anthropology and the study of religion, alt...

20TH Century Psychedelic Religion Shamanism

7.8 Good

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Erna Gunther

Erna Gunther was an American anthropologist associated with the University of Washington and the study of Indigenous peo...

20TH Century Material Culture Native American Northwest Coast

7.8 Good

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Reo Fortune

Reo Fortune was a New Zealand social anthropologist whose fieldwork in Melanesia included research on Dobu in the Massim...

Cultural 20TH Century Sorcery Melanesia

7.7 Good

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Nancy Lurie

Nancy Oestreich Lurie was an American anthropologist and museum curator whose work focused on Indigenous peoples and pub...

Advocacy Cultural 20TH Century Native American

7.7 Good

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Melford Spiro

Melford Spiro was an American cultural anthropologist recognized for his extensive contributions to psychological and re...

American Cultural Psychological Religion

7.6 Good

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Derek Freeman

Derek Freeman was a New Zealand anthropologist whose work focused in part on social life and kinship among the Iban of B...

Cultural 20TH Century Samoa Mead Critique

6.9 Fair