swap_horiz Ralph Linton 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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Alfonso Ortiz

Alfonso Ortiz was a Tewa cultural anthropologist from Ohkay Owingeh, formerly San Juan Pueblo, in New Mexico. His book T...

Cultural 20TH Century Native American Religion

8.2 Great

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Marius Barbeau

Marius Barbeau was a Canadian ethnographer and folklorist whose fieldwork documented Indigenous cultures, oral tradition...

Canada Cultural 20TH Century Folklore

8.1 Great

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Frank Speck

Frank Gouldsmith Speck (1881-1950) was an American anthropologist and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, whe...

Cultural 20TH Century Native American Northeast

8.0 Great

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Reo Fortune

Reo Fortune was a New Zealand social anthropologist whose fieldwork in Melanesia included research on Dobu in the Massim...

Cultural 20TH Century Sorcery Melanesia

7.7 Good

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Nancy Lurie

Nancy Oestreich Lurie was an American anthropologist and museum curator whose work focused on Indigenous peoples and pub...

Advocacy Cultural 20TH Century Native American

7.7 Good

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Cora Du Bois

Cora Du Bois was an American cultural anthropologist whose work significantly advanced the field of culture-and-personal...

American Cultural Indonesia Personality

7.4 Good

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Derek Freeman

Derek Freeman was a New Zealand anthropologist whose work focused in part on social life and kinship among the Iban of B...

Cultural 20TH Century Samoa Mead Critique

6.9 Fair