swap_horiz Andrew Sherratt Alternatives

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Edward Evans-Pritchard

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Social 20TH Century Africa Oxford

9.4 Excellent

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Clifford Geertz

Clifford Geertz was an American anthropologist central to the development of interpretive, or symbolic, anthropology. He...

Symbolic Indonesia Late 20TH Interpretive

9.2 Excellent

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Patrick Kirch

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Contemporary Archaeology Pacific Prehistory

9.2 Excellent

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V. Gordon Childe

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Europe Archaeology Foundational Mid 20TH

9.1 Excellent

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Eric Wolf

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Historical Political Economy Late 20TH World System

9.0 Excellent

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Marilyn Strathern

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Kinship British Feminist Late 20TH

9.0 Excellent

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Talal Asad

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Colonial Late 20TH Critique Islam

8.9 Great

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Frederica de Laguna

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20TH Century Archaeology Arctic Alaska

8.9 Great

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Michael Coe

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7.8 Good

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Kristian Kristiansen

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Contemporary Europe Denmark Archaeology

7.7 Good

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Richard Bradley

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Contemporary Europe British Archaeology

7.5 Good

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Alan Macfarlane

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Europe England Historical Late 20TH

7.4 Good

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Timothy Earle

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Political Archaeology North America Late 20TH

7.3 Good

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Michael Shanks

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Theory Archaeology Stanford Late 20TH

7.2 Good

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Michael Dietler

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Contemporary Europe Archaeology North America

7.2 Good

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Chris Gosden

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Contemporary Archaeology Oxford Colonialism

7.2 Good

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Mark Leone

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Critical Historical Archaeology North America

7.1 Good

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Philip Kohl

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Politics Archaeology North America Late 20TH

7.1 Good

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Paul Dresch

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6.9 Fair

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Peter Rivière

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Amazonia Kinship Oxford Late 20TH

6.8 Fair