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Edmund Leach

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Meyer Fortes

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David Schneider

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Peter Riviere

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Janet Carsten

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Sylvia Yanagisako

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Henry Maine

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Jane Collier

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Terence Turner

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Richard Tapper

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Peter Rivière

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