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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...

Amazon France Anthropology Current

8.5 Great

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Audra Simpson

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

Canadian Indigenous Political Anthropology

8.1 Great

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Arturo Escobar

Arturo Escobar is a Colombian-American anthropologist and a foundational figure in postdevelopment theory. He is best kn...

Development Political Anthropology Colombia

8.1 Great

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Marc Auge

Marc Augé was a prominent French anthropologist and ethnologist who served as the director of the École des Hautes Étude...

France Urban Anthropology Modernity

7.8 Good

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Kim TallBear

Kim TallBear is a prominent Indigenous scholar and a professor at the University of Alberta, where she holds the Canada...

Canadian Science Indigenous Anthropology

7.8 Good

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Eduardo Kohn

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

Amazon Canadian Anthropology Current

7.8 Good

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Elizabeth Povinelli

Elizabeth Povinelli is an American anthropologist and academic who has served as a professor at Columbia University. Her...

American Australia Indigenous Anthropology

7.8 Good

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Marisol de la Cadena

Marisol de la Cadena is a Peruvian anthropologist and academic whose work focuses on Andean ethnography. She is known fo...

Indigenous Peru Anthropology Andes

7.7 Good

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Tania Murray Li

Tania Murray Li is a prominent Canadian geographer and anthropologist who currently serves as a professor at the Univers...

Canadian Development Indonesia Anthropology

7.7 Good

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Ghassan Hage

Ghassan Hage is a prominent Lebanese-Australian academic and anthropologist whose research focuses on the intersecting t...

Australia Migration Race Anthropology

7.5 Good

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Patricia L. Crown

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

American Archaeology Southwest Anthropology

7.4 Good

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Wade Davis

Wade Davis is a Canadian cultural anthropologist and ethnobotanist whose work focuses on indigenous cultures, particular...

Canadian Public Ethnobotany Anthropology

7.4 Good

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Robert Hertz

Robert Hertz was a French sociologist and anthropologist, closely associated with Émile Durkheim and the Année Sociologi...

France Anthropology Religion Past

7.2 Good

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Kirin Narayan

Kirin Narayan is an anthropologist and author whose academic work integrates ethnography with the literary study of stor...

Narrative American India Anthropology

7.2 Good

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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...

Pacific Anthropology Current Gender

7.2 Good

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Kirsten Hastrup

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

Theory Denmark Anthropology Iceland

7.2 Good

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Hugh Brody

Hugh Brody is a British-Canadian anthropologist, writer, and filmmaker recognized for his extensive work with Indigenous...

Indigenous British Arctic Anthropology

7.1 Good

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Miriam T. Stark

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

American Southeast Asia Archaeology Anthropology

7.0 Good

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Signe Howell

Signe Howell is a Norwegian social anthropologist whose research has addressed kinship, adoption, personhood, morality,...

Kinship Norway Anthropology Malaysia

7.0 Good

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Jacques Lizot

Jacques Lizot is a French anthropologist known for long-term fieldwork with Yanomami communities in Venezuela and Brazil...

Amazon France Anthropology Current

5.4 Mediocre