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Edward Evans-Pritchard

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard was a British social anthropologist whose field research in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan examine...

Social 20TH Century Africa Oxford

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Edward Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor was a British anthropologist whose 1871 book "Primitive Culture" provided a foundational definition...

Evolutionary 19TH Century British Foundational

9.2 Excellent

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E. E. Evans-Pritchard

E. E. Evans-Pritchard was a prominent British social anthropologist recognized for his extensive ethnographic studies of...

Social British Africa Religion

9.2 Excellent

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Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is an American anthropologist and primatologist whose work examines female reproductive strategies, p...

Evolutionary 20TH Century Motherhood Sociobiology

9.2 Excellent

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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

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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

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Paul Farmer

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Contemporary Applied Medical Poverty

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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

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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

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Harvey Whitehouse

Harvey Whitehouse is a British social anthropologist whose research examines religion, ritual, memory, cooperation, and...

Contemporary Memory Cognitive Ritual

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Frans de Waal

Frans de Waal (1948–2024) was a Dutch-American primatologist and ethologist who served as C. H. Candler Professor of Pri...

Contemporary Evolutionary Empathy Primatology

8.2 Great

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Christina Toren

Christina Toren is a British anthropologist whose work is associated with cognitive anthropology, the study of how peopl...

Contemporary Development Pacific Fiji

8.2 Great

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Robin Dunbar

Robin Dunbar is a British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist who served as a professor of evolutionary psychol...

Contemporary Evolutionary British Brain Size

8.1 Great

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Webb Keane

Webb Keane is an American anthropologist who currently serves as a professor at the University of Michigan. He is widely...

Contemporary Theory Religion Semiotics

7.8 Good

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Birgit Meyer

Birgit Meyer is a German professor of religious studies at Utrecht University, known for her extensive anthropological r...

Contemporary Media Africa Sensory

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Michael Lambek

Michael Lambek is a Canadian anthropologist and professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough, known for his extens...

Contemporary Canadian Ethics Madagascar

7.8 Good

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Joel Robbins

Joel Robbins is an American anthropologist who holds the Social Anthropology chair at the University of Cambridge. He is...

Contemporary Theory Religion Christianity

7.7 Good