swap_horiz Peter Metcalf 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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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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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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Robert H. Lowie

Robert H. Lowie was an Austrian-born American anthropologist associated with Franz Boas and the historical-particularist...

Cultural 20TH Century Native American Plains

8.8 Great

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Elliot Liebow

Elliot Liebow was an American urban anthropologist whose book Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men, publish...

African American 20TH Century Urban Poverty

8.8 Great

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George Peter Murdock

George Peter Murdock was an American anthropologist known for comparative studies of kinship, social organization, and f...

20TH Century Comparative Kinship Cross Cultural

8.7 Great

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Barbara Myerhoff

Barbara Myerhoff was an American anthropologist and filmmaker who studied Jewish identity, ritual, community, and aging....

Cultural 20TH Century Ritual Aging

8.7 Great

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Kenneth Oakley

Kenneth Oakley was a British physical anthropologist and geologist who worked at the Natural History Museum in London. H...

20TH Century Britain Dating Paleoanthropology

8.6 Great

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Diamond Jenness

Diamond Jenness was a Canadian anthropologist and archaeologist whose work advanced the study of Inuit societies and Arc...

Canada 20TH Century Native American Arctic

8.6 Great

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Roger Keesing

Roger Keesing was an anthropologist and linguist whose long-term fieldwork among the Kwaio of Malaita in the Solomon Isl...

Social Cultural 20TH Century Melanesia

8.5 Great

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Irven DeVore

Irven DeVore was an American evolutionary anthropologist and primatologist associated with Harvard University. He conduc...

Evolutionary 20TH Century Hunter Gatherer Primatology

8.5 Great

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Richard MacNeish

Richard MacNeish was an American archaeologist whose fieldwork examined the transition from hunting and gathering to agr...

20TH Century Archaeology Mesoamerica Origins Agriculture

8.5 Great

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John Swanton

John R. Swanton (1873-1958) was an American anthropologist who spent most of his career with the Smithsonian Institution...

Cultural 20TH Century Native American Linguistics

8.4 Great

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Geoffrey Gorer

Geoffrey Gorer was an English anthropologist and writer associated with the culture-and-personality tradition of anthrop...

20TH Century Britain Death Culture Personality

6.8 Fair