swap_horiz Paul Rabinow 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

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

Bronislaw Malinowski

Bronisław Malinowski was a Polish-British anthropologist who is credited with establishing the modern practice of ethnog...

Polish Social Fieldwork Past

9.2 Excellent

6

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

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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Philippe Bourgois

Philippe Bourgois is an American anthropologist known for ethnographic research on urban poverty, structural violence, a...

Urban Fieldwork Late 20TH Poverty

8.3 Great

14

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

15

George Marcus

George E. Marcus is an American cultural anthropologist and a foundational figure in the postmodern critique of anthropo...

Theory Method Late 20TH Critique

8.1 Great

16

James Clifford

James Clifford is an American historian and cultural critic who served as a prominent professor in the History of Consci...

Theory Museum Late 20TH Critique

8.1 Great

17

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

18

Renato Rosaldo

Renato Rosaldo is an American cultural anthropologist whose fieldwork with the Ilongot people of the northern Philippine...

Cultural Grief Philippines Late 20TH

7.9 Good

19

Paul Stoller

Paul Stoller is an American anthropologist who has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork among the Songhay people o...

Fieldwork Sensory Late 20TH West Africa

7.3 Good

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Alan Thorne

Alan Thorne (1939-2012) was an Australian physical anthropologist whose research focused on the origins and biological h...

Australia Fieldwork Late 20TH Paleoanthropology

6.5 Fair