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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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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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Claude Levi-Strauss

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French Kinship Past Structuralism

9.2 Excellent

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Eric Wolf

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9.0 Excellent

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Marilyn Strathern

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9.0 Excellent

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David Schneider

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Academic Kinship Symbolic Late 20TH

8.1 Great

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Peter Riviere

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Social 20TH Century Amazonia Kinship

7.9 Good

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Stephen Hugh-Jones

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7.6 Good

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Sylvia Yanagisako

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7.5 Good

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Andrew Sherratt

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7.5 Good

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David Maybury-Lewis

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7.4 Good

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Joanna Overing

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7.4 Good

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Jane Collier

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7.2 Good

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Terence Turner

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7.2 Good

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Neil Whitehead

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History Amazonia North America Violence

7.0 Good

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Jonathan Hill

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6.9 Fair

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Paul Dresch

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6.9 Fair

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Nur Yalman

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6.8 Fair

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Christine Hugh-Jones

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6.8 Fair

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Napoleon Chagnon

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6.6 Fair