swap_horiz Paul Bohannan Alternatives

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Arnold van Gennep

Arnold van Gennep was a French ethnographer and folklorist of Dutch-German background whose work examined customs, folkl...

France 20TH Century Transition Ritual

9.5 Brilliant

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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

9.4 Excellent

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Sidney Wilfred Mintz

Sidney Wilfred Mintz was an American anthropologist whose research connected Caribbean history, labor, food, and the pol...

20TH Century Caribbean Sugar Economic

9.4 Excellent

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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

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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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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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William F. Whyte

William Foote Whyte was an American sociologist whose research helped develop participant observation in the study of ur...

Community 20TH Century Urban Italian American

9.1 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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Knud Rasmussen

Knud Rasmussen (1879-1933) was a Greenland-born Danish explorer, ethnologist and writer of mixed Danish and Inuit herita...

20TH Century Arctic Folklore Greenland

9.0 Excellent

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Sidney Mintz

Sidney Mintz (1922–2015) was an American anthropologist known for his pioneering work in the anthropology of food and po...

Food Caribbean Economic Labor

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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Keith Hart

Keith Hart is a British economic anthropologist known for his extensive research on the social and economic structures o...

Contemporary Africa Market Economic

8.1 Great

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John Middleton

John Middleton was a British social anthropologist whose fieldwork examined the Lugbara of northwestern Uganda and the w...

20TH Century Africa East Africa Religion

8.1 Great

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Claude Meillassoux

Claude Meillassoux was a French Marxist anthropologist whose work focused on the economic structures of pre-capitalist s...

French Africa Late 20TH Marxist

7.7 Good

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Colin Turnbull

Colin Macmillan Turnbull was a British-American anthropologist whose research focused on peoples of Central and East Afr...

20TH Century Africa Congo Ik

7.7 Good

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Jane Guyer

Jane Guyer (1938–2018) was an American economic anthropologist renowned for her meticulous historical and ethnographic s...

Time Contemporary Africa Economic

7.6 Good

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Sara Berry

Sara Berry is an American anthropologist and economic historian whose research examines the intersections of agricultura...

Contemporary Land Historical Africa

7.3 Good

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Parker Shipton

Parker Shipton is an American economic anthropologist who has conducted extensive fieldwork among the Luo people of west...

Contemporary Land Africa Economic

7.0 Good

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Gracia Clark

Gracia Clark is an American anthropologist who specializes in the study of West African economic systems. She is known f...

Contemporary Africa Market Feminist

6.8 Fair