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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

2

Richard Borshay Lee

Richard Borshay Lee is a Canadian anthropologist whose research on hunter-gatherer societies has centered on the Ju/'hoa...

20TH Century Hunter Gatherer Africa Kalahari

9.1 Excellent

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Marshall Sahlins

Marshall Sahlins was an American cultural anthropologist associated with the University of Chicago and later the Univers...

Economics Cultural Hunter Gatherer Pacific

9.0 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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Fredrik Barth

Fredrik Barth (1928–2016) was a Norwegian social anthropologist who significantly advanced the study of ethnicity and ec...

Ethnicity Ecology Fieldwork Mid 20TH

8.8 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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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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Lila Abu-Lughod

Lila Abu-Lughod (born 1952) is an American anthropologist known for ethnographic research on Bedouin communities in Egyp...

Contemporary Emotion Media Middle East

8.6 Great

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Pascal Boyer

Pascal Boyer is a cognitive anthropologist whose research examines how human cognition contributes to the formation and...

Contemporary Evolutionary Cognitive Religion

8.6 Great

15

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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Caroline Humphrey

Caroline Humphrey is a British social anthropologist whose research has focused on Russia, Mongolia, China, India, Nepal...

Contemporary Central Asia Shamanism Mongolia

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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Mark Nichter

Mark Nichter is an American medical anthropologist whose research links cultural practices and health behavior with publ...

Contemporary Medical South Asia Global Health

8.1 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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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