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Paul Farmer

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

Contemporary Applied Medical Poverty

8.8 Great

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Thomas Csordas

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

Contemporary Medical Healing Religion

8.7 Great

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Adriana Petryna

Adriana Petryna is an American anthropologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania whose research examines he...

Contemporary Science Medical Ukraine

8.6 Great

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James Ferguson

James Ferguson was an American anthropologist whose work analyzed development institutions, globalization, and inequalit...

Contemporary Development Political Africa

8.5 Great

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Wendy James

Wendy James was a British social anthropologist whose research centered on the Uduk-speaking people of the Blue Nile reg...

Contemporary Social Ethics Africa

8.5 Great

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Keith Hart

Keith Hart is a British economic anthropologist known for his extensive research on the social and economic structures o...

Contemporary Africa Market Economic

8.1 Great

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Mark Nichter

Mark Nichter is an American medical anthropologist whose research links cultural practices and health behavior with publ...

Contemporary Medical South Asia Global Health

8.1 Great

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Birgit Meyer

Birgit Meyer is a German professor of religious studies at Utrecht University, known for her extensive anthropological r...

Contemporary Media Africa Sensory

7.8 Good

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Edith Turner

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

Contemporary Africa Healing Ritual

7.8 Good

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Henrietta Moore

Henrietta Moore is a British social anthropologist whose theoretical contributions have deeply influenced feminist anthr...

Contemporary British Africa Feminist

7.7 Good

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João Biehl

João Biehl is a Brazilian-American anthropologist and professor at Princeton University whose research focuses on medica...

Contemporary Medical North America Brazil

7.7 Good

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Jane Guyer

Jane Guyer (1938–2018) was an American economic anthropologist renowned for her meticulous historical and ethnographic s...

Time Contemporary Africa Economic

7.6 Good

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Peter Geschiere

Peter Geschiere is a Dutch anthropologist recognized for his extensive comparative research on the intersection of witch...

Contemporary Africa Witchcraft Cameroon

7.6 Good

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Merrill Singer

Merrill Singer is an American medical anthropologist recognized for his foundational work in developing syndemic theory....

Contemporary Critical Medical North America

7.6 Good

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Hans Baer

Hans A. Baer is an anthropologist and development-studies specialist whose work spans critical medical anthropology, pol...

Contemporary Environmental Critical Medical

7.6 Good

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Frederick Cooper

Frederick Cooper is an American historian at New York University whose research examines the history of labor, coloniali...

Contemporary Historical Africa Colonialism

7.5 Good

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Sara Berry

Sara Berry is an American anthropologist and economic historian whose research examines the intersections of agricultura...

Contemporary Land Historical Africa

7.3 Good

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Francis Nyamnjoh

Francis Nyamnjoh is a Cameroonian anthropologist, novelist, and academic recognized for his extensive research on media,...

Contemporary Media Africa Cameroon

7.3 Good

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Graeme Barker

Graeme Barker is a British archaeologist associated with Cambridge University whose comparative research examines the or...

Contemporary Archaeology Africa Cambridge

7.2 Good

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Parker Shipton

Parker Shipton is an American economic anthropologist who has conducted extensive fieldwork among the Luo people of west...

Contemporary Land Africa Economic

7.0 Good