swap_horiz Michael Coe Alternatives

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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

2

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

3

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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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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Frederica de Laguna

Frederica de Laguna (1906-2004) was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for combining archaeology, ethnog...

20TH Century Archaeology Arctic Alaska

8.9 Great

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David Graeber

David Graeber was an American anthropologist and political activist whose work bridged economic anthropology and anarchi...

Activist Late 20TH Economic Anarchism

8.7 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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Sherry Ortner

Sherry B. Ortner (born 1941) is an American anthropologist whose work has shaped feminist anthropology, practice theory,...

Theory Symbolic Feminist Late 20TH

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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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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Arjun Appadurai

Arjun Appadurai (born 1949) is an Indian-born anthropologist whose work has influenced the anthropology of globalization...

Theory Media Diaspora Late 20TH

8.5 Great

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Richard MacNeish

Richard MacNeish was an American archaeologist whose fieldwork examined the transition from hunting and gathering to agr...

20TH Century Archaeology Mesoamerica Origins Agriculture

8.5 Great

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James Clifford

James Clifford is an American historian and cultural critic who served as a prominent professor in the History of Consci...

Theory Museum Late 20TH Critique

8.1 Great

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Andrew Sherratt

Andrew Sherratt (1946–2006) was a prominent British archaeologist and academic associated with the University of Oxford....

Europe Archaeology Oxford Late 20TH

7.5 Good

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Timothy Earle

Timothy Earle is an American anthropologist and archaeologist whose research focuses on the emergence of complex societi...

Political Archaeology North America Late 20TH

7.3 Good

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Michael Shanks

Michael Shanks is a British archaeologist, a professor at Stanford University, and a leading figure in post-processual a...

Theory Archaeology Stanford Late 20TH

7.2 Good

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Mark Leone

Mark P. Leone is an American historical archaeologist who established the long-running Archaeology in Annapolis project...

Critical Historical Archaeology North America

7.1 Good

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Philip Kohl

Philip L. Kohl is an American anthropological archaeologist and professor emeritus at Wellesley College known for his re...

Politics Archaeology North America Late 20TH

7.1 Good