swap_horiz Claude Levi-Strauss Alternatives

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Marcel Mauss

Marcel Mauss was a French sociologist and anthropologist whose 1925 essay "The Gift" analyzed systems of reciprocal exch...

French Foundational Early 20TH Gift Theory

9.2 Excellent

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Bronislaw Malinowski

Bronisław Malinowski was a Polish-British anthropologist who is credited with establishing the modern practice of ethnog...

Polish Social Fieldwork Past

9.2 Excellent

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E. E. Evans-Pritchard

E. E. Evans-Pritchard was a prominent British social anthropologist recognized for his extensive ethnographic studies of...

Social British Africa Religion

9.2 Excellent

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Edward Burnett Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor was an English anthropologist who played a foundational role in the development of cultural anthrop...

Evolution Cultural British Foundational

9.2 Excellent

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Marilyn Strathern

Marilyn Strathern (born 1941) is a British anthropologist whose work has profoundly influenced feminist anthropology and...

Kinship British Feminist Late 20TH

9.0 Excellent

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Carol Stack

Carol B. Stack is an American anthropologist whose research addresses African American communities, kinship, poverty, wo...

African American 20TH Century Urban Kinship

9.0 Excellent

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James C. Scott

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

American Resistance Political Anthropology

8.9 Great

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A. R. Radcliffe-Brown

Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955) was a British social anthropologist who developed the theoretical approach k...

Social Kinship British Past

8.8 Great

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Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) was a British anthropologist and social scientist whose work spanned ethnography, cybernetic...

Communication Cultural British Systems

8.7 Great

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George Peter Murdock

George Peter Murdock was an American anthropologist known for comparative studies of kinship, social organization, and f...

20TH Century Comparative Kinship Cross Cultural

8.7 Great

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Edmund Leach

Edmund Leach (1910–1989) was a British social anthropologist who served as Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and hel...

Kinship British Southeast Asia Structuralism

8.6 Great

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Meyer Fortes

Meyer Fortes (1906–1983) was a South African-born British anthropologist who became a central figure in the development...

Social Kinship British Africa

8.2 Great

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W. H. R. Rivers

W. H. R. Rivers was a British psychiatrist, neurologist, and anthropologist who pioneered the genealogical method of stu...

Social Psychology Kinship British

8.1 Great

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Floyd Lounsbury

Floyd Lounsbury was an American anthropologist and linguist renowned for his foundational work in kinship systems and Me...

American Kinship Past Linguistic

7.8 Good

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Rodney Needham

Rodney Needham (1923–2006) was a British social anthropologist and a prominent faculty member at the University of Oxfor...

Comparative Kinship British Structuralism

7.4 Good

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Henry Maine

Henry Maine was a 19th-century British jurist, legal historian, and comparative anthropologist. In his 1861 work Ancient...

Social Kinship British Legal

7.4 Good

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Irawati Karve

Irawati Karve was a prominent Indian anthropologist and sociologist who taught at Deccan College in Pune. She is recogni...

India Kinship Sociology Anthropology

7.3 Good

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Kathleen Gough

Kathleen Gough was a British anthropologist recognized for her extensive research on kinship and social structures in So...

India Social Kinship Marxist

7.1 Good

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Johann Jakob Bachofen

Johann Jakob Bachofen was a Swiss jurist and anthropologist whose work helped shape nineteenth-century theories about ki...

Swiss Evolution Theory Kinship

6.7 Fair

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Brenda Seligman

Brenda Zara Seligman was a British anthropologist who worked with her husband, Charles Seligman, on ethnographic surveys...

Social Kinship British Past

6.2 Fair