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Patrick Kirch

Patrick Vinton Kirch is an American anthropologist and archaeologist who studies the origins, migrations, and social org...

Contemporary Archaeology Pacific Prehistory

9.2 Excellent

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Richard Bauman

Richard Bauman is an American folklorist, anthropologist and linguistic anthropologist whose work examines language as s...

Performance Contemporary Folklore Linguistic

9.0 Excellent

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David MacDougall

David MacDougall is an American-Australian visual anthropologist, documentary and ethnographic filmmaker, and writer on...

Contemporary India Visual Film

9.0 Excellent

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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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Richard Price

Richard Price is an American anthropologist and historian whose work focuses on Afro-American history, Caribbean societi...

History Contemporary Cultural Caribbean

8.9 Great

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Paul Farmer

Paul Farmer (1959–2022) was an American medical anthropologist and physician who dedicated his career to providing healt...

Contemporary Applied Medical Poverty

8.8 Great

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Anna Tsing

Anna Tsing is an American anthropologist whose research explores the intersections of globalization, ecology, and capita...

Contemporary Ecology Globalization Fungus

8.8 Great

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Arthur Kleinman

Arthur Kleinman (born 1943) is an American psychiatrist and anthropologist whose work helped establish medical anthropol...

China Medical Harvard Late 20TH

8.7 Great

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Thomas Csordas

Thomas Csordas is an American cultural and medical anthropologist whose work made embodiment a central analytic concept...

Contemporary Medical Healing Religion

8.7 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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Adriana Petryna

Adriana Petryna is an American anthropologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania whose research examines he...

Contemporary Science Medical Ukraine

8.6 Great

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Kathryn Woolard

Kathryn Woolard is an American linguistic anthropologist whose research concerns language, ethnicity, bilingual communit...

Contemporary Catalonia Linguistic Bilingualism

8.6 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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Nurit Bird-David

Nurit Bird-David is an Israeli cultural anthropologist at the University of Haifa whose research focuses on hunter-gathe...

Contemporary Hunter Gatherer Animism Ecology

8.4 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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João Biehl

João Biehl is a Brazilian-American anthropologist and professor at Princeton University whose research focuses on medica...

Contemporary Medical North America Brazil

7.7 Good

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Merrill Singer

Merrill Singer is an American medical anthropologist recognized for his foundational work in developing syndemic theory....

Contemporary Critical Medical North America

7.6 Good

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Hans Baer

Hans A. Baer is an anthropologist and development-studies specialist whose work spans critical medical anthropology, pol...

Contemporary Environmental Critical Medical

7.6 Good

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Thomas Blom Hansen

Thomas Blom Hansen is a contemporary Danish anthropologist who serves as a professor at Stanford University. He is widel...

Contemporary Politics South Asia Violence

7.5 Good

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Vincanne Adams

Vincanne Adams is an American medical anthropologist at the University of California, San Francisco whose research addre...

Contemporary Medical North America Global Health

7.2 Good