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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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Didier Fassin

Didier Fassin is a French social anthropologist and physician currently serving at the Institute for Advanced Study in P...

Contemporary Humanitarianism Medical Africa

8.4 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

8.2 Great

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Christina Toren

Christina Toren is a British anthropologist whose work is associated with cognitive anthropology, the study of how peopl...

Contemporary Development Pacific Fiji

8.2 Great

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Aihwa Ong

Aihwa Ong is a Malaysian-born American cultural anthropologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley....

Contemporary Asia Feminist Neoliberalism

8.1 Great

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Keith Hart

Keith Hart is a British economic anthropologist known for his extensive research on the social and economic structures o...

Contemporary Africa Market Economic

8.1 Great

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Arturo Escobar

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

Development Political Anthropology Colombia

8.1 Great

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Akhil Gupta

Akhil Gupta is an Indian-born American anthropologist and professor at UCLA. His research examines the cultural dimensio...

Contemporary Development South Asia Postcolonial

7.9 Good

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Paul Sillitoe

Paul Sillitoe is a British anthropologist and professor in Durham University's Anthropology Department. His research exa...

Contemporary Development Indigenous Knowledge New Guinea

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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Edith Turner

Edith Turner was an American anthropologist whose fieldwork in Zambia focused on ritual, healing, and religious experien...

Contemporary Africa Healing Ritual

7.8 Good

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Henrietta Moore

Henrietta Moore is a British social anthropologist whose theoretical contributions have deeply influenced feminist anthr...

Contemporary British Africa Feminist

7.7 Good

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Jane Guyer

Jane Guyer (1938–2018) was an American economic anthropologist renowned for her meticulous historical and ethnographic s...

Time Contemporary Africa Economic

7.6 Good

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Peter Geschiere

Peter Geschiere is a Dutch anthropologist recognized for his extensive comparative research on the intersection of witch...

Contemporary Africa Witchcraft Cameroon

7.6 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

7.5 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

7.3 Good

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Francis Nyamnjoh

Francis Nyamnjoh is a Cameroonian anthropologist, novelist, and academic recognized for his extensive research on media,...

Contemporary Media Africa Cameroon

7.3 Good

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Graeme Barker

Graeme Barker is a British archaeologist associated with Cambridge University whose comparative research examines the or...

Contemporary Archaeology Africa Cambridge

7.2 Good

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Parker Shipton

Parker Shipton is an American economic anthropologist who has conducted extensive fieldwork among the Luo people of west...

Contemporary Land Africa Economic

7.0 Good

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Gracia Clark

Gracia Clark is an American anthropologist who specializes in the study of West African economic systems. She is known f...

Contemporary Africa Market Feminist

6.8 Fair