swap_horiz Bruce Kapferer Alternatives

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Arnold van Gennep

French ethnographer and folklorist Arnold van Gennep, who had Dutch-German family roots, studied customs and ritual prac...

France 20TH Century Transition Ritual

9.47 Excellent

2

Patrick Kirch

Patrick Vinton Kirch is an American anthropologist and archaeologist who studies the origins, migrations, and social org...

Contemporary Archaeology Pacific Prehistory

9.16 Excellent

3

Mary Douglas

Mary Douglas was a British social anthropologist whose 1966 book "Purity and Danger" examined concepts of pollution, tab...

British Symbolic Ritual Mid 20TH

9.05 Excellent

4

Richard Bauman

Richard Bauman is an American folklorist, anthropologist and linguistic anthropologist whose work examines language as s...

Performance Contemporary Folklore Linguistic

9.03 Excellent

5

David MacDougall

David MacDougall is an American-Australian visual anthropologist, documentary and ethnographic filmmaker, and writer on...

Contemporary India Visual Film

9.02 Excellent

6

Victor Turner

Victor Turner was a British-born cultural anthropologist whose work on ritual and symbolism became foundational to the f...

Symbolic Africa Ritual Mid 20TH

8.92 Great

7

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

8.88 Great

8

Richard Price

Richard Price is an American anthropologist and historian whose work focuses on Afro-American history, Caribbean societi...

History Contemporary Cultural Caribbean

8.87 Great

9

Anna Tsing

Anna Tsing is an American anthropologist whose research explores the intersections of globalization, ecology, and capita...

Contemporary Ecology Globalization Fungus

8.82 Great

10

Paul Farmer

Paul Farmer (1959–2022) was an American medical anthropologist and physician who dedicated his career to providing healt...

Contemporary Applied Medical Poverty

8.80 Great

11

Thomas Csordas

Thomas Csordas is an American cultural and medical anthropologist whose work made embodiment a central analytic concept...

Contemporary Medical Healing Religion

8.73 Great

12

Peter Bellwood

Peter Bellwood is an Australian archaeologist and anthropologist known for research on the prehistory of Island Southeas...

Contemporary Migration Southeast Asia Archaeology

8.73 Great

13

Barbara Myerhoff

Barbara Myerhoff was an American anthropologist and filmmaker who studied Jewish identity, ritual, community, and aging....

Cultural 20TH Century Ritual Aging

8.72 Great

14

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

8.35 Great

15

Harvey Whitehouse

Harvey Whitehouse is a British social anthropologist whose research examines religion, ritual, memory, cooperation, and...

Contemporary Memory Cognitive Ritual

8.31 Great

16

Daniel Miller

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

Contemporary Theory Material Culture Consumption

8.22 Great

17

Edith Turner

Edith Turner was an American anthropologist whose fieldwork in Zambia focused on ritual, healing, and religious experien...

Contemporary Africa Healing Ritual

7.84 Good

18

Webb Keane

Webb Keane is an American anthropologist who currently serves as a professor at the University of Michigan. He is widely...

Contemporary Theory Religion Semiotics

7.82 Good

19

Joel Robbins

Joel Robbins is an American anthropologist who holds the Social Anthropology chair at the University of Cambridge. He is...

Contemporary Theory Religion Christianity

7.72 Good

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Don Handelman

Don Handelman is an Israeli-Canadian anthropologist and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is...

Israel Theory Ritual Late 20TH

6.90 Fair