swap_horiz George Peter Murdock 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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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

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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

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Claude Levi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist who lived from 1908 to 2009 and is widely recognized as a foundational f...

French Kinship Past Structuralism

9.2 Excellent

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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

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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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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

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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

9.0 Excellent

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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

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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

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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

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A. R. Radcliffe-Brown

Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955) was a British social anthropologist who developed the theoretical approach k...

Social Kinship British Past

8.8 Great

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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

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Elliot Liebow

Elliot Liebow was an American urban anthropologist whose book Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men, publish...

African American 20TH Century Urban Poverty

8.8 Great

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Barbara Myerhoff

Barbara Myerhoff was an American anthropologist and filmmaker who studied Jewish identity, ritual, community, and aging....

Cultural 20TH Century Ritual Aging

8.7 Great

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Kenneth Oakley

Kenneth Oakley was a British physical anthropologist and geologist who worked at the Natural History Museum in London. H...

20TH Century Britain Dating Paleoanthropology

8.6 Great

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Diamond Jenness

Diamond Jenness was a Canadian anthropologist and archaeologist whose work advanced the study of Inuit societies and Arc...

Canada 20TH Century Native American Arctic

8.6 Great

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Jack Goody

Jack Goody (1919–2015) was a British social anthropologist who taught at Cambridge University for over five decades and...

Comparative Kinship Africa Literacy

8.5 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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Rodney Needham

Rodney Needham (1923–2006) was a British social anthropologist and a prominent faculty member at the University of Oxfor...

Comparative Kinship British Structuralism

7.4 Good