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Edward Evans-Pritchard

British social anthropologist Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard examined how social institutions and religious ideas made sens...

Social 20TH Century Africa Oxford

9.35 Excellent

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Clifford Geertz

Clifford Geertz was an American anthropologist central to the development of interpretive, or symbolic, anthropology. He...

Symbolic Indonesia Late 20TH Interpretive

9.20 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

9.18 Excellent

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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

9.13 Excellent

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Eric Wolf

Eric Wolf (1923–1999) was an Austrian-American anthropologist recognized for integrating Marxist political economy and w...

Historical Political Economy Late 20TH World System

9.02 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

8.95 Great

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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

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Jean Comaroff

Jean Comaroff is a South African-born anthropologist who has taught at the University of Chicago and Harvard University....

Africa Feminist Late 20TH Colonialism

8.28 Great

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Maurice Godelier

Maurice Godelier is a French anthropologist, born in 1934, who combined Marxist theory with ethnographic fieldwork, most...

French Late 20TH Marxist Economic

8.22 Great

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Johannes Fabian

Johannes Fabian is a Belgian anthropologist, born in 1937, who taught at the University of Amsterdam and conducted ethno...

Time Critical Africa Late 20TH

8.20 Great

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John Comaroff

John L. Comaroff is a South African-born anthropologist and the Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American...

Political Africa Late 20TH Colonialism

8.18 Great

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Sally Falk Moore

Sally Falk Moore was an American legal anthropologist and a professor at Harvard University. She is best known for intro...

Academic Legal Africa Late 20TH

8.10 Great

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Claude Meillassoux

Claude Meillassoux was a French Marxist anthropologist whose work focused on the economic structures of pre-capitalist s...

French Africa Late 20TH Marxist

7.68 Good

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William Roseberry

American anthropologist (1950–2000) known for his Marxist political-economy approach to Latin American peasant societies...

Historical Latin America Political Economy Late 20TH

7.48 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

7.45 Good

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Alan Macfarlane

Alan Macfarlane is a prominent British anthropologist and historian born in 1941, known for his interdisciplinary approa...

Europe England Historical Late 20TH

7.38 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

7.28 Good

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Olivia Harris

Olivia Harris (1948–2009) was a British anthropologist and a prominent scholar of Andean communities, particularly the L...

Historical Latin America Feminist Late 20TH

7.15 Good

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Mark Leone

Mark P. Leone is an American historical archaeologist who established the long-running Archaeology in Annapolis project...

Critical Historical Archaeology North America

7.12 Good

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Kajsa Ekholm Friedman

Kajsa Ekholm Friedman is a Swedish social anthropologist whose academic work has addressed African societies, global sys...

Global Theory Africa Political Economy

6.65 Fair