swap_horiz Leo Sternberg 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

2

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

3

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

4

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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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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Francis La Flesche

Francis La Flesche (1857-1932) was an Omaha ethnologist who worked with the Bureau of American Ethnology and the Smithso...

19TH Century Cultural Indigenous Native American

8.8 Great

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Waldemar Bogoras

Waldemar Bogoras was a Russian ethnographer, anthropologist, and linguist whose fieldwork among the Chukchi of northeast...

Russia 19TH Century Siberian Shamanism

8.6 Great

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Caroline Humphrey

Caroline Humphrey is a British social anthropologist whose research has focused on Russia, Mongolia, China, India, Nepal...

Contemporary Central Asia Shamanism Mongolia

8.6 Great

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Lewis Henry Morgan

Lewis Henry Morgan was a foundational American anthropologist and social theorist whose work significantly shaped the di...

Evolutionary 19TH Century Kinship Foundational

8.5 Great

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William Robertson Smith

William Robertson Smith was a Scottish orientalist, biblical scholar, and professor of Arabic at the University of Cambr...

Sacrifice 19TH Century Comparative Religion

8.5 Great

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Piers Vitebsky

Piers Vitebsky is a British social anthropologist whose research concerns religion, ecology, and Indigenous peoples in S...

Contemporary Siberian Shamanism Reindeer

8.2 Great

12

Weston La Barre

Weston La Barre was an American anthropologist associated with psychological anthropology and the study of religion, alt...

20TH Century Psychedelic Religion Shamanism

7.8 Good

13

Eugène Dubois

Eugène Dubois (1858–1940) was a Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist who discovered the first recognized fossils of "...

Java 19TH Century Fossils Paleoanthropology

7.7 Good

14

James Mooney

James Mooney was an American ethnologist who worked for the Bureau of American Ethnology in the late 19th and early 20th...

19TH Century Fieldwork North America Museum

7.7 Good

15

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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Frank Hamilton Cushing

Frank Hamilton Cushing (1857–1900) was an American anthropologist associated with the Bureau of American Ethnology who c...

19TH Century Fieldwork North America Museum

7.4 Good

17

Lucien Lévy-Bruhl

Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857-1939) was a French philosopher and anthropologist who taught at the Sorbonne and wrote about rel...

France 19TH Century Comparative Religion

7.4 Good

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Alice Fletcher

American anthropologist (1838–1923) known for her fieldwork with Omaha and Nez Perce peoples and her influential role in...

Music 19TH Century Applied North America

6.0 Fair

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Daniel Garrison Brinton

American anthropologist (1837–1899) who held one of the first US university professorships in anthropology and was a lea...

Language 19TH Century Foundational North America

5.8 Mediocre

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Carlos Castaneda

Carlos Castaneda was a Peruvian-born American writer and anthropologist, famous for the 1968 book The Teachings of Don J...

American Controversial Anthropology Past

3.8 Poor