swap_horiz James C. Scott Alternatives

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Sherwood Washburn

Sherwood Washburn was an American physical anthropologist who taught at institutions including the University of Califor...

American Evolution Primatology Biological

8.08 Great

2

Audra Simpson

Audra Simpson is a Kahnawake Mohawk anthropologist and a leading scholar in Indigenous political anthropology. She is wi...

Canadian Indigenous Political Anthropology

8.05 Great

3

Arturo Escobar

Arturo Escobar is a Colombian-American anthropologist and a foundational figure in postdevelopment theory. He is best kn...

Development Political Anthropology Colombia

8.05 Great

4

Roy Wagner

Roy Wagner was an American cultural anthropologist who served as a professor at the University of Virginia. He is best k...

American Cultural Symbolic Past

8.02 Great

5

Sally Engle Merry

Sally Engle Merry was an American anthropologist and a professor at New York University. Her research focused on legal a...

American Human Rights Legal Anthropology

8.02 Great

6

Pierre Clastres

Pierre Clastres was a French anthropologist known for his fieldwork among Indigenous groups in the Amazon basin and Para...

Amazon France Political Past

8.00 Great

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Clyde Kluckhohn

Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn (1905-1960) was an American cultural anthropologist at Harvard University who conducted extens...

American Cultural Southwest Past

7.88 Good

8

Floyd Lounsbury

Floyd Lounsbury was an American anthropologist and linguist renowned for his foundational work in kinship systems and Me...

American Kinship Past Linguistic

7.82 Good

9

Elizabeth Povinelli

Elizabeth Povinelli is an American anthropologist and academic who has served as a professor at Columbia University. Her...

American Australia Indigenous Anthropology

7.82 Good

10

Marc Auge

Marc Augé was a prominent French anthropologist and ethnologist who served as the director of the École des Hautes Étude...

France Urban Anthropology Modernity

7.75 Good

11

Jean Briggs

Jean Briggs was a Canadian-American anthropologist recognized for her extensive ethnographic fieldwork among Inuit commu...

Emotion Canadian Anthropology Past

7.75 Good

12

Clyde Snow

Clyde Snow was an American forensic anthropologist whose work significantly advanced the use of skeletal analysis in hum...

American Human Rights Forensic Past

7.70 Good

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Frances Densmore

Frances Densmore was an American anthropologist and ethnomusicologist dedicated to documenting and preserving Native Ame...

American Native American Anthropology Past

7.28 Good

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Gladys Reichard

Gladys Reichard (1893-1955) was an American anthropologist and linguist who made significant contributions to the study...

American Anthropology Past Linguistic

7.18 Good

15

Beatrice Medicine

Beatrice Medicine was a Lakota anthropologist, educator, and author who specialized in Native American studies. Born at...

American Native American Anthropology Past

7.12 Good

16

Jesse Walter Fewkes

Jesse Walter Fewkes was an American anthropologist, archaeologist, and ethnologist whose research focused on Indigenous...

American Archaeology Southwest Anthropology

7.05 Good

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Ruth Underhill

Ruth Underhill was an American anthropologist known for research and writing on the Tohono O’odham, formerly called the...

American Applied Native American Anthropology

6.92 Fair

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Matilda Coxe Stevenson

Matilda Coxe Stevenson was an American anthropologist and ethnologist associated with the Bureau of American Ethnology o...

American Anthropology Past Zuni

6.45 Fair

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Alice Cunningham Fletcher

Alice Cunningham Fletcher was an American ethnologist whose research included Omaha music, social life, and culture. She...

American Native American Anthropology Past

5.95 Mediocre

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Carlos Castaneda

Carlos Castaneda was a Peruvian-born American writer who studied anthropology at the University of California, Los Angel...

American Controversial Anthropology Past

3.80 Poor