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James C. Scott

James C. Scott was an American political anthropologist and Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University....

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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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Philippe Descola

Philippe Descola is a prominent French anthropologist who succeeded Claude Lévi-Strauss at the Collège de France. He is...

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Audra Simpson

Audra Simpson is a Kahnawake Mohawk anthropologist and a leading scholar in Indigenous political anthropology. She is wi...

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Bruce Albert

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Kim TallBear

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Eduardo Kohn

Eduardo Kohn is a Canadian anthropologist and an associate professor at McGill University in Montreal. His ethnographic...

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Elizabeth Povinelli

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Marisol de la Cadena

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Tania Murray Li

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Ghassan Hage

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Patricia L. Crown

Patricia L. Crown is an American archaeologist and distinguished professor at the University of New Mexico, specializing...

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Wade Davis

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Kirin Narayan

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Niko Besnier

Niko Besnier is a Dutch anthropologist and an academic specializing in the cultural and linguistic analysis of Pacific I...

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Kirsten Hastrup

Kirsten Hastrup is a Danish anthropologist and a professor emerita at the University of Copenhagen. Her academic researc...

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Hugh Brody

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Miriam T. Stark

Miriam T. Stark is an American archaeologist and anthropologist whose research focuses on Southeast Asia, particularly C...

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Peggy Sanday

Peggy Reeves Sanday is an American anthropologist whose work examines gender, power, violence, and the organization of s...

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Signe Howell

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