swap_horiz Piers Vitebsky Alternatives

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Patrick Kirch

Patrick Vinton Kirch is an American anthropologist and archaeologist who studies the origins, migrations, and social org...

Contemporary Archaeology Pacific Prehistory

9.2 Excellent

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Richard Bauman

Richard Bauman is an American folklorist, anthropologist and linguistic anthropologist whose work examines language as s...

Performance Contemporary Folklore Linguistic

9.0 Excellent

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David MacDougall

David MacDougall is an American-Australian visual anthropologist, documentary and ethnographic filmmaker, and writer on...

Contemporary India Visual Film

9.0 Excellent

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Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro is a Brazilian anthropologist and a leading figure in contemporary Amazonian ethnology. He is...

Contemporary Amazonia Brazil Ontology

8.9 Great

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Richard Price

Richard Price is an American anthropologist and historian whose work focuses on Afro-American history, Caribbean societi...

History Contemporary Cultural Caribbean

8.9 Great

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Paul Farmer

Paul Farmer (1959–2022) was an American medical anthropologist and physician who dedicated his career to providing healt...

Contemporary Applied Medical Poverty

8.8 Great

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Anna Tsing

Anna Tsing is an American anthropologist whose research explores the intersections of globalization, ecology, and capita...

Contemporary Ecology Globalization Fungus

8.8 Great

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Thomas Csordas

Thomas Csordas is an American cultural and medical anthropologist whose work made embodiment a central analytic concept...

Contemporary Medical Healing Religion

8.7 Great

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Peter Bellwood

Peter Bellwood is an Australian archaeologist and anthropologist known for research on the prehistory of Island Southeas...

Contemporary Migration Southeast Asia Archaeology

8.7 Great

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Lila Abu-Lughod

Lila Abu-Lughod (born 1952) is an American anthropologist known for ethnographic research on Bedouin communities in Egyp...

Contemporary Emotion Media Middle East

8.6 Great

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Pascal Boyer

Pascal Boyer is a cognitive anthropologist whose research examines how human cognition contributes to the formation and...

Contemporary Evolutionary Cognitive Religion

8.6 Great

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Waldemar Bogoras

Waldemar Bogoras was a Russian ethnographer, anthropologist, and linguist whose fieldwork among the Chukchi of northeast...

Russia 19TH Century Siberian Shamanism

8.6 Great

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Adriana Petryna

Adriana Petryna is an American anthropologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania whose research examines he...

Contemporary Science Medical Ukraine

8.6 Great

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Caroline Humphrey

Caroline Humphrey is a British social anthropologist whose research has focused on Russia, Mongolia, China, India, Nepal...

Contemporary Central Asia Shamanism Mongolia

8.6 Great

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Kathryn Woolard

Kathryn Woolard is an American linguistic anthropologist whose research concerns language, ethnicity, bilingual communit...

Contemporary Catalonia Linguistic Bilingualism

8.6 Great

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Saba Mahmood

Saba Mahmood (1962–2018) was a Pakistani-born anthropologist whose work examined secular governance, religious practice,...

Contemporary Feminist Egypt Islam

8.5 Great

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Kath Weston

Kath Weston is an American anthropologist whose work connects kinship studies with gender and sexuality. Her book Famili...

Contemporary Kinship Lgbtq+ Feminist

8.5 Great

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Wendy James

Wendy James was a British social anthropologist whose research centered on the Uduk-speaking people of the Blue Nile reg...

Contemporary Social Ethics Africa

8.5 Great

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Miyako Inoue

Miyako Inoue is a linguistic anthropologist and professor at Stanford University who studies language, gender, modernity...

Contemporary Japan Modernity Gender

8.5 Great

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Leo Sternberg

Leo Sternberg was a Russian ethnographer and anthropologist whose fieldwork focused on Indigenous peoples of the Russian...

Russia 19TH Century Siberian Shamanism

8.1 Great