swap_horiz Alice Fletcher Alternatives

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Edward Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor was a British anthropologist whose 1871 book "Primitive Culture" provided a foundational definition...

Evolutionary 19TH Century British Foundational

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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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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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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Alfred Kroeber

Alfred Kroeber was an influential American cultural anthropologist who spent most of his career at the University of Cal...

Cultural North America Museum Early 20TH

8.6 Great

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Dell Hymes

Dell Hymes (1927–2009) was an American linguist and anthropologist whose work helped establish the field of sociolinguis...

Foundational North America Linguistic Mid 20TH

8.6 Great

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Waldemar Bogoras

Waldemar Bogoras was a Russian ethnographer, anthropologist, and linguist whose fieldwork among the Chukchi of northeast...

Russia 19TH Century Siberian Shamanism

8.6 Great

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Lewis Henry Morgan

Lewis Henry Morgan was a foundational American anthropologist and social theorist whose work significantly shaped the di...

Evolutionary 19TH Century Kinship Foundational

8.5 Great

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William Robertson Smith

William Robertson Smith was a Scottish orientalist, biblical scholar, and professor of Arabic at the University of Cambr...

Sacrifice 19TH Century Comparative Religion

8.5 Great

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Julian Steward

Julian Steward was a prominent American anthropologist active in the mid-20th century who founded the anthropological su...

Academic North America Mid 20TH Cultural Ecology

8.4 Great

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Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Nancy Scheper-Hughes (born 1944) is an American anthropologist known for ethnographic research on violence, inequality,...

Applied Medical Violence Brazil

8.4 Great

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Laura Nader

Laura Nader is an American anthropologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where she joined the fac...

Academic Power Legal North America

8.3 Great

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Gayle Rubin

Gayle Rubin is an American cultural anthropologist and influential feminist theorist whose work has been foundational to...

North America Feminist Late 20TH Sexuality

8.3 Great

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Elizabeth Colson

Elizabeth Colson was an American anthropologist whose extensive career spanned over five decades, primarily at the Unive...

Applied Fieldwork Africa Displacement

8.2 Great

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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

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Sol Tax

Sol Tax was an American anthropologist best known for developing the theoretical framework of "action anthropology" duri...

Academic Applied North America Mid 20TH

7.5 Good

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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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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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Jonathan Hill

Jonathan D. Hill is an American cultural anthropologist whose research centers on Indigenous peoples of the northwestern...

Music History Amazonia North America

6.9 Fair

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Daniel Garrison Brinton

Daniel Garrison Brinton was an American physician, anthropologist, and ethnologist who lived from 1837 to 1899. He taugh...

Language 19TH Century Foundational North America

5.8 Mediocre