swap_horiz Roger Keesing 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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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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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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Ralph Linton

Ralph Linton (1893-1953) was an American cultural anthropologist whose work linked social organization, culture, and per...

Cultural 20TH Century Personality Acculturation

8.4 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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Maurice Leenhardt

Maurice Leenhardt was a French Protestant missionary and anthropologist who worked among Kanak communities in New Caledo...

20TH Century Person Christianity New Caledonia

8.1 Great

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Roy Wagner

Roy Wagner was an American cultural anthropologist who served as a professor at the University of Virginia. He is best k...

American Cultural Symbolic Past

8.0 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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Peter Riviere

Peter Rivière is a British social anthropologist whose research focused on Indigenous societies of the Guianas and the w...

Social 20TH Century Amazonia Kinship

7.9 Good

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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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Camilla Wedgwood

Camilla Hildegarde Wedgwood was a British anthropologist and educationist who conducted fieldwork on Manam, a volcanic i...

20TH Century Pacific Gender Manam

7.6 Good

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Hortense Powdermaker

Hortense Powdermaker was an American cultural anthropologist whose research spanned diverse subjects and geographic loca...

American Cultural Media Past

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

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Charles Gabriel Seligman

Charles Gabriel Seligman was a British physician, ethnologist, and anthropologist associated with the London School of E...

Social British Africa Past

6.7 Fair