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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

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Fredrik Barth

Fredrik Barth (1928–2016) was a Norwegian social anthropologist who significantly advanced the study of ethnicity and ec...

Ethnicity Ecology Fieldwork Mid 20TH

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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

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Lila Abu-Lughod

Lila Abu-Lughod (born 1952) is an American anthropologist known for ethnographic research on Bedouin communities in Egyp...

Contemporary Emotion Media Middle East

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James Ferguson

James Ferguson was an American anthropologist whose work analyzed development institutions, globalization, and inequalit...

Contemporary Development Political Africa

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Saba Mahmood

Saba Mahmood (1962–2018) was a Pakistani-born anthropologist whose work examined secular governance, religious practice,...

Contemporary Feminist Egypt Islam

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Arjun Appadurai

Arjun Appadurai (born 1949) is an Indian-born anthropologist whose work has influenced the anthropology of globalization...

Theory Media Diaspora Late 20TH

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Roy Rappaport

Roy Rappaport (1926–1997) was an American ecological anthropologist whose 1968 monograph *Pigs for the Ancestors* examin...

Ecology Ritual Late 20TH Systems

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Timothy Ingold

Timothy Ingold is a British anthropologist, born in 1948, who taught at the University of Aberdeen where he established...

Contemporary Theory Environment British

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Didier Fassin

Didier Fassin is a French social anthropologist and physician currently serving at the Institute for Advanced Study in P...

Contemporary Humanitarianism Medical Africa

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Daniel Miller

Daniel Miller is a British anthropologist who taught at University College London and helped establish material culture...

Contemporary Theory Material Culture Consumption

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Richard Wrangham

Richard Wrangham is a British primatologist and biological anthropologist who serves as the Ruth B. Moore Professor of B...

Contemporary North America Primatology Chimpanzee

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Frans de Waal

Frans de Waal (1948–2024) was a Dutch-American primatologist and ethologist who served as C. H. Candler Professor of Pri...

Contemporary Evolutionary Empathy Primatology

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Ann Stoler

Ann Stoler is an American anthropologist who has served as a professor at The New School for Social Research and the Uni...

Contemporary Southeast Asia Colonial North America

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Marvin Harris

Marvin Harris was an American anthropologist known for developing the theoretical framework of cultural materialism. His...

Academic Theory Ecology Mid 20TH

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Aihwa Ong

Aihwa Ong is a Malaysian-born American cultural anthropologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley....

Contemporary Asia Feminist Neoliberalism

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Keith Hart

Keith Hart is a British economic anthropologist known for his extensive research on the social and economic structures o...

Contemporary Africa Market Economic

8.1 Great

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Robin Dunbar

Robin Dunbar is a British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist who served as a professor of evolutionary psychol...

Contemporary Evolutionary British Brain Size

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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

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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

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