swap_horiz Nancy Munn Alternatives

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Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist whose 1928 book "Coming of Age in Samoa" examined adolescent sexua...

Cultural Fieldwork Oceania Gender

9.2 Excellent

2

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

3

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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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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Ruth Benedict

Ruth Benedict was an American cultural anthropologist who studied under Franz Boas at Columbia University, where she lat...

Academic Cultural Symbolic Mid 20TH

8.9 Great

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Victor Turner

Victor Turner was a British-born cultural anthropologist whose work on ritual and symbolism became foundational to the f...

Symbolic Africa Ritual Mid 20TH

8.9 Great

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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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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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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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Roy Rappaport

Roy Rappaport (1926–1997) was an American ecological anthropologist whose 1968 monograph *Pigs for the Ancestors* examin...

Ecology Ritual Late 20TH Systems

8.4 Great

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Stanley Tambiah

Stanley Tambiah (1929–2014) was a Sri Lankan-born anthropologist who taught at the University of Chicago. His work on Th...

Southeast Asia Buddhism Ritual Late 20TH

8.4 Great

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Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Nancy Scheper-Hughes (born 1944) is an American anthropologist known for ethnographic research on violence, inequality,...

Applied Medical Violence Brazil

8.4 Great

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Jean Comaroff

Jean Comaroff is a South African-born anthropologist who has taught at the University of Chicago and Harvard University....

Africa Feminist Late 20TH Colonialism

8.3 Great

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David Schneider

David M. Schneider was an American cultural anthropologist and professor at the University of Chicago who pioneered the...

Academic Kinship Symbolic Late 20TH

8.1 Great

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Annette Weiner

Annette B. Weiner (1933–1997) was an American cultural anthropologist whose fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands of Papua...

Fieldwork Feminist Exchange Late 20TH

7.9 Good

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Michelle Rosaldo

Michelle Rosaldo (1944–1981) was an American feminist and symbolic anthropologist whose work significantly shaped the st...

Emotion Symbolic Feminist Philippines

7.7 Good