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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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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

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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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Edward Burnett Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor was an English anthropologist who played a foundational role in the development of cultural anthrop...

Evolution Cultural British Foundational

9.2 Excellent

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Mary Douglas

Mary Douglas was a British social anthropologist whose 1966 book "Purity and Danger" examined concepts of pollution, tab...

British Symbolic Ritual Mid 20TH

9.1 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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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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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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Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) was a British anthropologist and social scientist whose work spanned ethnography, cybernetic...

Communication Cultural British Systems

8.7 Great

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Michael Taussig

Michael Taussig is an Australian-born anthropologist and professor at Columbia University, recognized for his literary a...

Surrealism Latin America Violence Late 20TH

8.1 Great

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June Nash

June Nash (1927–2019) was an American anthropologist recognized for her extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Latin Americ...

Mining Latin America Feminist Late 20TH

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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William Roseberry

American anthropologist (1950–2000) known for his Marxist political-economy approach to Latin American peasant societies...

Historical Latin America Political Economy Late 20TH

7.5 Good

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Leslie Aiello

Leslie Aiello is a British-American paleoanthropologist known for co-developing the expensive tissue hypothesis with Pet...

Evolution British Late 20TH Brain

7.4 Good

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Joanna Overing

Joanna Overing is an American anthropologist recognized for her extensive ethnographic fieldwork among the Piaroa people...

Philosophy Amazonia British Late 20TH

7.4 Good

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Olivia Harris

Olivia Harris (1948–2009) was a British anthropologist and a prominent scholar of Andean communities, particularly the L...

Historical Latin America Feminist Late 20TH

7.2 Good

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Richard Tapper

Richard Tapper is a British social anthropologist and a professor emeritus at SOAS, University of London. He is best kno...

British Middle East Late 20TH Iran

6.9 Fair

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Christine Hugh-Jones

Christine Hugh-Jones is a British anthropologist recognized for her ethnographic research in the Colombian Amazon. She,...

Amazonia British Exchange Ritual

6.8 Fair