swap_horiz Edward Evans-Pritchard 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

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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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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

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Roger Keesing

Roger Keesing was an anthropologist and linguist whose long-term fieldwork among the Kwaio of Malaita in the Solomon Isl...

Social Cultural 20TH Century Melanesia

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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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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James George Frazer

James George Frazer (1854–1941) was a Scottish social anthropologist and classical scholar best known for The Golden Bou...

Social Comparative British Religion

8.2 Great

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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

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Paul Bohannan

Paul Bohannan was an American anthropologist whose research examined Tiv society in central Nigeria, especially its econ...

20TH Century Africa Exchange Economic

8.1 Great

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John Middleton

John Middleton was a British social anthropologist whose fieldwork examined the Lugbara of northwestern Uganda and the w...

20TH Century Africa East Africa Religion

8.1 Great

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Audrey Richards

Audrey Richards was a British social anthropologist who conducted foundational research on nutrition, ritual, and gender...

Nutrition Social British Africa

8.0 Great

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Peter Riviere

Peter Rivière is a British social anthropologist whose research focused on Indigenous societies of the Guianas and the w...

Social 20TH Century Amazonia Kinship

7.9 Good

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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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Weston La Barre

Weston La Barre was an American anthropologist associated with psychological anthropology and the study of religion, alt...

20TH Century Psychedelic Religion Shamanism

7.8 Good

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Colin Turnbull

Colin Macmillan Turnbull was a British-American anthropologist whose research focused on peoples of Central and East Afr...

20TH Century Africa Congo Ik

7.7 Good

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S. F. Nadel

Siegfried Frederick Nadel (1903-1956) was an Austrian-born British social anthropologist who made significant contributi...

Theory Social British Africa

7.6 Good

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Monica Wilson

Monica Wilson (1908–1982) was a South African social anthropologist whose ethnographic fieldwork among the Nyakyusa peop...

South Africa Africa Ritual Religion

7.5 Good

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Daryll Forde

Daryll Forde was a British social anthropologist and geographer known for his extensive research on African societies. H...

Social British Africa Economy

7.4 Good

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Godfrey Lienhardt

Godfrey Lienhardt was a prominent British social anthropologist associated with the University of Oxford, recognized for...

Social British Religion Past

7.4 Good

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Charles Gabriel Seligman

Charles Gabriel Seligman was a British physician, ethnologist, and anthropologist associated with the London School of E...

Social British Africa Past

6.7 Fair