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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Timothy Ingold

Timothy Ingold is a British anthropologist, born in 1948, who taught at the University of Aberdeen where he established...

Contemporary Theory Environment British

8.4 Great

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Daniel Miller

Daniel Miller is a British anthropologist who taught at University College London and helped establish material culture...

Contemporary Theory Material Culture Consumption

8.2 Great

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Frans de Waal

Frans de Waal (1948–2024) was a Dutch-American primatologist and ethologist who served as C. H. Candler Professor of Pri...

Contemporary Evolutionary Empathy Primatology

8.2 Great

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Sarah Franklin

Sarah Franklin is a British sociologist and anthropologist whose pioneering research focuses on reproductive technologie...

Contemporary Science British Feminist

7.8 Good

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Janet Carsten

Janet Carsten is a British social anthropologist and professor at the University of Edinburgh, known for her ethnographi...

Contemporary Kinship British Southeast Asia

7.7 Good

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Henrietta Moore

Henrietta Moore is a British social anthropologist whose theoretical contributions have deeply influenced feminist anthr...

Contemporary British Africa Feminist

7.7 Good

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Richard Bradley

Richard Bradley is a British archaeologist and professor at the University of Reading whose research focuses on the preh...

Contemporary Europe British Archaeology

7.5 Good

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Christopher Tilley

Christopher Tilley is a British archaeologist at University College London who pioneered phenomenological approaches in...

Contemporary British Landscape Archaeology

7.2 Good

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Julian Thomas

Julian Thomas is a British archaeologist at the University of Manchester known for his post-processual interpretations o...

Contemporary British Archaeology Neolithic

7.1 Good

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Paul Halstead

Paul Halstead is a British archaeologist and academic associated with the University of Sheffield, specializing in zooar...

Contemporary British Archaeology Greece

7.0 Good