swap_horiz Terence Turner Alternatives

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Clifford Geertz

Clifford Geertz was an American anthropologist central to the development of interpretive, or symbolic, anthropology. He...

Symbolic Indonesia Late 20TH Interpretive

9.2 Excellent

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Eric Wolf

Eric Wolf (1923–1999) was an Austrian-American anthropologist recognized for integrating Marxist political economy and w...

Historical Political Economy Late 20TH World System

9.0 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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Talal Asad

Talal Asad (born 1932) is a Saudi-born anthropologist whose theoretical work has influenced the study of religion, secul...

Colonial Late 20TH Critique Islam

8.9 Great

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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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David Graeber

David Graeber was an American anthropologist and political activist whose work bridged economic anthropology and anarchi...

Activist Late 20TH Economic Anarchism

8.7 Great

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Arthur Kleinman

Arthur Kleinman (born 1943) is an American psychiatrist and anthropologist whose work helped establish medical anthropol...

China Medical Harvard Late 20TH

8.7 Great

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Sherry Ortner

Sherry B. Ortner (born 1941) is an American anthropologist whose work has shaped feminist anthropology, practice theory,...

Theory Symbolic Feminist Late 20TH

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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Arjun Appadurai

Arjun Appadurai (born 1949) is an Indian-born anthropologist whose work has influenced the anthropology of globalization...

Theory Media Diaspora Late 20TH

8.5 Great

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Stanley Tambiah

Stanley Tambiah (1929–2014) was a Sri Lankan-born anthropologist who taught at the University of Chicago. His work on Th...

Southeast Asia Buddhism Ritual Late 20TH

8.4 Great

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Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Nancy Scheper-Hughes (born 1944) is an American anthropologist known for ethnographic research on violence, inequality,...

Applied Medical Violence Brazil

8.4 Great

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Stephen Hugh-Jones

Stephen Hugh-Jones is a British social anthropologist associated with the University of Cambridge who conducted extensiv...

Amazonia Kinship British Late 20TH

7.6 Good

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David Maybury-Lewis

David Maybury-Lewis was an anthropologist recognized for his extensive ethnographic fieldwork among Indigenous peoples o...

Activism Amazonia Applied Late 20TH

7.4 Good

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Joanna Overing

Joanna Overing is an American anthropologist recognized for her extensive ethnographic fieldwork among the Piaroa people...

Philosophy Amazonia British Late 20TH

7.4 Good

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Neil Whitehead

Neil Whitehead (1956-2012) was a British anthropologist who served as a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...

History Amazonia North America Violence

7.0 Good

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Jonathan Hill

Jonathan D. Hill is an American cultural anthropologist whose research centers on Indigenous peoples of the northwestern...

Music History Amazonia North America

6.9 Fair

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Peter Rivière

Peter Rivière is a British social anthropologist associated with the University of Oxford and the study of Indigenous so...

Amazonia Kinship Oxford Late 20TH

6.8 Fair

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Christine Hugh-Jones

Christine Hugh-Jones is a British anthropologist recognized for her ethnographic research in the Colombian Amazon. She,...

Amazonia British Exchange Ritual

6.8 Fair

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Napoleon Chagnon

Napoleon Chagnon was an American cultural anthropologist best known for long-term fieldwork among Yanomami communities i...

Amazonia Controversy Late 20TH Sociobiology

6.6 Fair