swap_horiz Eric Wolf Alternatives

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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

9.2 Excellent

2

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

3

Talal Asad

Talal Asad (born 1932) is a Saudi-born anthropologist whose theoretical work has influenced the study of religion, secul...

Colonial Late 20TH Critique Islam

8.9 Great

4

David Graeber

David Graeber was an American anthropologist and political activist whose work bridged economic anthropology and anarchi...

Activist Late 20TH Economic Anarchism

8.7 Great

5

Arthur Kleinman

Arthur Kleinman (born 1943) is an American psychiatrist and anthropologist whose work helped establish medical anthropol...

China Medical Harvard Late 20TH

8.7 Great

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Sherry Ortner

Sherry B. Ortner (born 1941) is an American anthropologist whose work has shaped feminist anthropology, practice theory,...

Theory Symbolic Feminist Late 20TH

8.7 Great

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Arjun Appadurai

Arjun Appadurai (born 1949) is an Indian-born anthropologist whose work has influenced the anthropology of globalization...

Theory Media Diaspora Late 20TH

8.5 Great

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Roy Rappaport

Roy Rappaport (1926–1997) was an American ecological anthropologist whose 1968 monograph *Pigs for the Ancestors* examin...

Ecology Ritual Late 20TH Systems

8.4 Great

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Stanley Tambiah

Stanley Tambiah (1929–2014) was a Sri Lankan-born anthropologist who taught at the University of Chicago. His work on Th...

Southeast Asia Buddhism Ritual Late 20TH

8.4 Great

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Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Nancy Scheper-Hughes (born 1944) is an American anthropologist known for ethnographic research on violence, inequality,...

Applied Medical Violence Brazil

8.4 Great

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Laura Nader

Laura Nader is an American anthropologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where she joined the fac...

Academic Power Legal North America

8.3 Great

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Philippe Bourgois

Philippe Bourgois is an American anthropologist known for ethnographic research on urban poverty, structural violence, a...

Urban Fieldwork Late 20TH Poverty

8.3 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

8.3 Great

14

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

7.5 Good

15

Alan Macfarlane

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

Europe England Historical Late 20TH

7.4 Good

16

Jonathan Friedman

Jonathan Friedman is a Swedish-American anthropologist whose theoretical work addresses global systems, cultural identit...

Global Theory Political Economy Late 20TH

7.3 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

7.2 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

7.1 Good

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Don Donham

Don Donham is an American anthropologist and academic recognized for his ethnographic research on social and economic tr...

Historical Africa Late 20TH Marxist

6.9 Fair

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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

6.7 Fair