swap_horiz Diamond Jenness Alternatives

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Arnold van Gennep

Arnold van Gennep was a French ethnographer and folklorist of Dutch-German background whose work examined customs, folkl...

France 20TH Century Transition Ritual

9.5 Brilliant

2

Edward Evans-Pritchard

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard was a British social anthropologist whose field research in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan examine...

Social 20TH Century Africa Oxford

9.4 Excellent

3

Sidney Wilfred Mintz

Sidney Wilfred Mintz was an American anthropologist whose research connected Caribbean history, labor, food, and the pol...

20TH Century Caribbean Sugar Economic

9.4 Excellent

4

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is an American anthropologist and primatologist whose work examines female reproductive strategies, p...

Evolutionary 20TH Century Motherhood Sociobiology

9.2 Excellent

5

Richard Borshay Lee

Richard Borshay Lee is a Canadian anthropologist whose research on hunter-gatherer societies has centered on the Ju/'hoa...

20TH Century Hunter Gatherer Africa Kalahari

9.1 Excellent

6

William F. Whyte

William Foote Whyte was an American sociologist whose research helped develop participant observation in the study of ur...

Community 20TH Century Urban Italian American

9.1 Excellent

7

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

8

Knud Rasmussen

Knud Rasmussen (1879-1933) was a Greenland-born Danish explorer, ethnologist and writer of mixed Danish and Inuit herita...

20TH Century Arctic Folklore Greenland

9.0 Excellent

9

Frederica de Laguna

Frederica de Laguna (1906-2004) was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for combining archaeology, ethnog...

20TH Century Archaeology Arctic Alaska

8.9 Great

10

Robert H. Lowie

Robert H. Lowie was an Austrian-born American anthropologist associated with Franz Boas and the historical-particularist...

Cultural 20TH Century Native American Plains

8.8 Great

11

John Swanton

John R. Swanton (1873-1958) was an American anthropologist who spent most of his career with the Smithsonian Institution...

Cultural 20TH Century Native American Linguistics

8.4 Great

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Joel Sherzer

Joel Sherzer (1942-2022) was an American anthropological linguist known for long-term research with the Guna people of P...

20TH Century Native American Linguistic Verbal Art

8.3 Great

13

Alfonso Ortiz

Alfonso Ortiz was a Tewa cultural anthropologist from Ohkay Owingeh, formerly San Juan Pueblo, in New Mexico. His book T...

Cultural 20TH Century Native American Religion

8.2 Great

14

Jean Malaurie

Jean Malaurie was a French geographer and anthropologist known for field research in the Arctic, especially among Inuit...

France 20TH Century Arctic Greenland

8.2 Great

15

Marius Barbeau

Marius Barbeau was a Canadian ethnographer and folklorist whose fieldwork documented Indigenous cultures, oral tradition...

Canada Cultural 20TH Century Folklore

8.1 Great

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Frank Speck

Frank Gouldsmith Speck (1881-1950) was an American anthropologist and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, whe...

Cultural 20TH Century Native American Northeast

8.0 Great

17

Philip Drucker

Philip Drucker (1911-1982) was an American anthropologist and archaeologist whose research focused on the Indigenous peo...

20TH Century Native American Archaeology Northwest Coast

8.0 Great

18

Erna Gunther

Erna Gunther was an American anthropologist associated with the University of Washington and the study of Indigenous peo...

20TH Century Material Culture Native American Northwest Coast

7.8 Good

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Nancy Lurie

Nancy Oestreich Lurie was an American anthropologist and museum curator whose work focused on Indigenous peoples and pub...

Advocacy Cultural 20TH Century Native American

7.7 Good

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Kaj Birket-Smith

Kaj Birket-Smith (1893-1977) was a Danish ethnologist and museum-based anthropologist whose career focused heavily on Ar...

20TH Century Denmark Arctic Greenland

7.5 Good