swap_horiz Nur Yalman 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

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

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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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Carol Stack

Carol B. Stack is an American anthropologist whose research addresses African American communities, kinship, poverty, wo...

African American 20TH Century Urban Kinship

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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A. R. Radcliffe-Brown

Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955) was a British social anthropologist who developed the theoretical approach k...

Social Kinship British Past

8.8 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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George Peter Murdock

George Peter Murdock was an American anthropologist known for comparative studies of kinship, social organization, and f...

20TH Century Comparative Kinship Cross Cultural

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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Edmund Leach

Edmund Leach (1910–1989) was a British social anthropologist who served as Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and hel...

Kinship British Southeast Asia Structuralism

8.6 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

15

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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Janet Carsten

Janet Carsten is a British social anthropologist and professor at the University of Edinburgh, known for her ethnographi...

Contemporary Kinship British Southeast Asia

7.7 Good

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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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Sylvia Yanagisako

Sylvia Yanagisako is an American cultural anthropologist whose research explores the intersections of kinship, gender, a...

Academic Japan Kinship Feminist

7.5 Good

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Jane Collier

American anthropologist known for comparative legal anthropology and research on gender, marriage, and family among Nati...

Academic Kinship Legal Feminist

7.2 Good

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Peter Rivière

Peter Rivière is a British social anthropologist associated with the University of Oxford and the study of Indigenous so...

Amazonia Kinship Oxford Late 20TH

6.8 Fair