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Edward Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor was a British anthropologist whose 1871 book "Primitive Culture" provided a foundational definition...

Evolutionary 19TH Century British Foundational

9.2 Excellent

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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

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E. E. Evans-Pritchard

E. E. Evans-Pritchard was a prominent British social anthropologist recognized for his extensive ethnographic studies of...

Social British Africa Religion

9.2 Excellent

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Edward Burnett Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor was an English anthropologist who played a foundational role in the development of cultural anthrop...

Evolution Cultural British Foundational

9.2 Excellent

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Mary Douglas

Mary Douglas was a British social anthropologist whose 1966 book "Purity and Danger" examined concepts of pollution, tab...

British Symbolic Ritual Mid 20TH

9.1 Excellent

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Eric Wolf

Eric Wolf (1923–1999) was an Austrian-American anthropologist recognized for integrating Marxist political economy and w...

Historical Political Economy Late 20TH World System

9.0 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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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

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Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro is a Brazilian anthropologist and a leading figure in contemporary Amazonian ethnology. He is...

Contemporary Amazonia Brazil Ontology

8.9 Great

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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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David Maybury-Lewis

David Maybury-Lewis was an anthropologist recognized for his extensive ethnographic fieldwork among Indigenous peoples o...

Activism Amazonia Applied Late 20TH

7.4 Good

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Leslie Aiello

Leslie Aiello is a British-American paleoanthropologist known for co-developing the expensive tissue hypothesis with Pet...

Evolution British Late 20TH Brain

7.4 Good

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Terence Turner

Terence Turner is an American anthropologist known for his decades-long ethnographic fieldwork with the Kayapó people of...

Activism Amazonia Media Late 20TH

7.2 Good

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Neil Whitehead

Neil Whitehead (1956-2012) was a British anthropologist who served as a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...

History Amazonia North America Violence

7.0 Good

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Jonathan Hill

Jonathan D. Hill is an American cultural anthropologist whose research centers on Indigenous peoples of the northwestern...

Music History Amazonia North America

6.9 Fair

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Richard Tapper

Richard Tapper is a British social anthropologist and a professor emeritus at SOAS, University of London. He is best kno...

British Middle East Late 20TH Iran

6.9 Fair

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Penelope Harvey

Penelope Harvey is a British social anthropologist associated with the University of Manchester. Her ethnographic resear...

Infrastructure British Latin America Peru

6.9 Fair

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Peter Rivière

Peter Rivière is a British social anthropologist associated with the University of Oxford and the study of Indigenous so...

Amazonia Kinship Oxford Late 20TH

6.8 Fair

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Christine Hugh-Jones

Christine Hugh-Jones is a British anthropologist recognized for her ethnographic research in the Colombian Amazon. She,...

Amazonia British Exchange Ritual

6.8 Fair

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Napoleon Chagnon

Napoleon Chagnon was an American cultural anthropologist best known for long-term fieldwork among Yanomami communities i...

Amazonia Controversy Late 20TH Sociobiology

6.6 Fair