swap_horiz Marcel Mauss Alternatives

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Bronisław Malinowski

Bronisław Malinowski was a Polish-British anthropologist whose extended fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands between 1914...

Fieldwork Economic Early 20TH Oceania

9.2 Excellent

2

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

3

Claude Levi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist who lived from 1908 to 2009 and is widely recognized as a foundational f...

French Kinship Past Structuralism

9.2 Excellent

4

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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Edward Sapir

Edward Sapir was an American anthropologist and linguist who played a foundational role in the development of cultural a...

Foundational North America Early 20TH Linguistic

9.1 Excellent

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V. Gordon Childe

Vere Gordon Childe (1892–1957) was an Australian-born archaeologist and academic who specialized in European prehistory....

Europe Archaeology Foundational Mid 20TH

9.1 Excellent

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Alfred Kroeber

Alfred Kroeber was an influential American cultural anthropologist who spent most of his career at the University of Cal...

Cultural North America Museum Early 20TH

8.6 Great

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Dell Hymes

Dell Hymes (1927–2009) was an American linguist and anthropologist whose work helped establish the field of sociolinguis...

Foundational North America Linguistic Mid 20TH

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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Maurice Godelier

Maurice Godelier is a French anthropologist, born in 1934, who combined Marxist theory with ethnographic fieldwork, most...

French Late 20TH Marxist Economic

8.2 Great

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Robert Lowie

Robert H. Lowie (1883–1957) was an Austrian-born American anthropologist who trained under Franz Boas at Columbia Univer...

Academic Kinship North America Early 20TH

8.1 Great

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Paul Radin

Paul Radin (1883–1959) was an American cultural anthropologist whose ethnographic work focused primarily on Native Ameri...

Cultural Fieldwork North America Trickster

7.7 Good

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Claude Meillassoux

Claude Meillassoux was a French Marxist anthropologist whose work focused on the economic structures of pre-capitalist s...

French Africa Late 20TH Marxist

7.7 Good

14

Elsie Clews Parsons

Elsie Clews Parsons (1875–1941) was an American anthropologist, sociologist, and folklorist who conducted extensive ethn...

Academic Feminist Folklore Early 20TH

7.4 Good

15

Clark Wissler

Clark Wissler (1870–1947) was an American anthropologist who spent his career at the American Museum of Natural History,...

Academic North America Museum Early 20TH

7.4 Good

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Ruth Bunzel

Ruth Leah Bunzel was an American anthropologist who studied under Franz Boas at Columbia University, becoming one of the...

Fieldwork North America Art Early 20TH

7.3 Good

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Gene Weltfish

Gene Weltfish (1902–1980) was an American anthropologist who studied under Franz Boas at Columbia University. She co-aut...

Academic Applied North America Race

7.0 Good

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Aleš Hrdlička

Czech-American physical anthropologist who founded the American Journal of Physical Anthropology in 1918 and served as t...

North America Museum Physical Measurement

6.5 Fair

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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

German naturalist (1752–1840) who pioneered physical anthropology with his 1775 racial classification system and coined...

German 18TH Century Foundational Physical

6.0 Fair

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Ernest Hooton

American physical anthropologist at Harvard whose Up from the Ape (1931) popularized the field, though his racial classi...

North America Harvard Physical Race

5.9 Mediocre