swap_horiz Alfred Kroeber Alternatives

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Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist whose 1928 book "Coming of Age in Samoa" examined adolescent sexua...

Cultural Fieldwork Oceania Gender

9.2 Excellent

2

Bronisław Malinowski

Bronisław Malinowski was a Polish-British anthropologist whose extended fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands between 1914...

Fieldwork Economic Early 20TH Oceania

9.2 Excellent

3

Marcel Mauss

Marcel Mauss was a French sociologist and anthropologist whose 1925 essay "The Gift" analyzed systems of reciprocal exch...

French Foundational Early 20TH Gift Theory

9.2 Excellent

4

Edward Burnett Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor was an English anthropologist who played a foundational role in the development of cultural anthrop...

Evolution Cultural British Foundational

9.2 Excellent

5

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

6

Marshall Sahlins

Marshall Sahlins was an American cultural anthropologist associated with the University of Chicago and later the Univers...

Economics Cultural Hunter Gatherer Pacific

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

12

Robert Lowie

Robert H. Lowie (1883–1957) was an Austrian-born American anthropologist who trained under Franz Boas at Columbia Univer...

Academic Kinship North America Early 20TH

8.1 Great

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Paul Radin

Paul Radin (1883–1959) was an American cultural anthropologist whose ethnographic work focused primarily on Native Ameri...

Cultural Fieldwork North America Trickster

7.7 Good

14

James Mooney

James Mooney was an American ethnologist who worked for the Bureau of American Ethnology in the late 19th and early 20th...

19TH Century Fieldwork North America Museum

7.7 Good

15

Clark Wissler

Clark Wissler (1870–1947) was an American anthropologist who spent his career at the American Museum of Natural History,...

Academic North America Museum Early 20TH

7.4 Good

16

Frank Hamilton Cushing

Frank Hamilton Cushing (1857–1900) was an American anthropologist associated with the Bureau of American Ethnology who c...

19TH Century Fieldwork North America Museum

7.4 Good

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Ruth Bunzel

Ruth Leah Bunzel was an American anthropologist who studied under Franz Boas at Columbia University, becoming one of the...

Fieldwork North America Art Early 20TH

7.3 Good

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Gene Weltfish

Gene Weltfish (1902–1980) was an American anthropologist who studied under Franz Boas at Columbia University. She co-aut...

Academic Applied North America Race

7.0 Good

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Aleš Hrdlička

Aleš Hrdlička was a Czech-born American physical anthropologist who led the Division of Physical Anthropology at the Uni...

North America Museum Physical Measurement

6.5 Fair

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Ernest Hooton

Ernest Hooton was an American physical anthropologist who taught at Harvard University and wrote widely for both academi...

North America Harvard Physical Race

5.9 Mediocre