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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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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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Peter Bellwood

Peter Bellwood is an Australian archaeologist and anthropologist known for research on the prehistory of Island Southeas...

Contemporary Migration Southeast Asia Archaeology

8.7 Great

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Edmund Leach

Edmund Leach (1910–1989) was a British social anthropologist who served as Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and hel...

Kinship British Southeast Asia Structuralism

8.6 Great

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Kath Weston

Kath Weston is an American anthropologist whose work connects kinship studies with gender and sexuality. Her book Famili...

Contemporary Kinship Lgbtq+ Feminist

8.5 Great

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Timothy Ingold

Timothy Ingold is a British anthropologist, born in 1948, who taught at the University of Aberdeen where he established...

Contemporary Theory Environment British

8.4 Great

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Roy Ellen

Roy Ellen is a British social anthropologist and human ecologist whose research centers on ethnobiology, environmental k...

Contemporary Southeast Asia Ecological Classification

8.4 Great

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Daniel Miller

Daniel Miller is a British anthropologist who taught at University College London and helped establish material culture...

Contemporary Theory Material Culture Consumption

8.2 Great

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Ann Stoler

Ann Stoler is an American anthropologist who has served as a professor at The New School for Social Research and the Uni...

Contemporary Southeast Asia Colonial North America

8.2 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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Robin Dunbar

Robin Dunbar is a British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist who served as a professor of evolutionary psychol...

Contemporary Evolutionary British Brain Size

8.1 Great

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W. H. R. Rivers

W. H. R. Rivers was a British psychiatrist, neurologist, and anthropologist who pioneered the genealogical method of stu...

Social Psychology Kinship British

8.1 Great

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Sarah Franklin

Sarah Franklin is a British sociologist and anthropologist whose pioneering research focuses on reproductive technologie...

Contemporary Science British Feminist

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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Stephen Hugh-Jones

Stephen Hugh-Jones is a British social anthropologist associated with the University of Cambridge who conducted extensiv...

Amazonia Kinship British Late 20TH

7.6 Good

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Robert Hefner

Robert W. Hefner is an American anthropologist and professor at Boston University, specializing in the study of Islam an...

Contemporary Southeast Asia North America Civil Society

7.6 Good

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Richard Bradley

Richard Bradley is a British archaeologist and professor at the University of Reading whose research focuses on the preh...

Contemporary Europe British Archaeology

7.5 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

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Henry Maine

Henry Maine was a 19th-century British jurist, legal historian, and comparative anthropologist. In his 1861 work Ancient...

Social Kinship British Legal

7.4 Good

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Christopher Tilley

Christopher Tilley is a British archaeologist at University College London who pioneered phenomenological approaches in...

Contemporary British Landscape Archaeology

7.2 Good