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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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Bronislaw Malinowski

Bronisław Malinowski was a Polish-British anthropologist who is credited with establishing the modern practice of ethnog...

Polish Social Fieldwork Past

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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Svante Paabo

Svante Pääbo is a Swedish geneticist and biologist recognized as one of the founders of the field of paleogenomics. He s...

Evolution Swedish Molecular Current

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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Carol Stack

Carol B. Stack is an American anthropologist whose research addresses African American communities, kinship, poverty, wo...

African American 20TH Century Urban Kinship

9.0 Excellent

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Anna Tsing

Anna Tsing is an American anthropologist whose research explores the intersections of globalization, ecology, and capita...

Contemporary Ecology Globalization Fungus

8.8 Great

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A. R. Radcliffe-Brown

Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1881–1955) was a British social anthropologist who developed the theoretical approach k...

Social Kinship British Past

8.8 Great

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Elliot Liebow

Elliot Liebow was an American urban anthropologist whose book Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men, publish...

African American 20TH Century Urban Poverty

8.8 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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Veena Das

Veena Das is an Indian anthropologist whose extensive work focuses on violence, social suffering, and the relationship b...

India Cultural Medical Violence

8.5 Great

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Philippe Descola

Philippe Descola is a prominent French anthropologist who succeeded Claude Lévi-Strauss at the Collège de France. He is...

Amazon France Anthropology Current

8.5 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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Wendy James

Wendy James was a British social anthropologist whose research centered on the Uduk-speaking people of the Blue Nile reg...

Contemporary Social Ethics Africa

8.5 Great

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Tim Ingold

Tim Ingold is a prominent British anthropologist who served as the Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Abe...

Theory Social Environment British

8.4 Great

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Philippe Bourgois

Philippe Bourgois is an American anthropologist known for ethnographic research on urban poverty, structural violence, a...

Urban Fieldwork Late 20TH Poverty

8.3 Great

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Unni Wikan

Unni Wikan is a Norwegian social anthropologist and professor emerita at the University of Oslo. Her fieldwork has inclu...

Contemporary Social Norway Middle East

8.3 Great

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Maurice Bloch

Maurice Bloch is a prominent British social anthropologist, born in 1939, who served as a professor at the London School...

Social British Ritual Madagascar

7.8 Good

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Andre Beteille

Andre Beteille is an Indian sociologist and anthropologist, widely recognized for his extensive academic work on social...

India Social Current Inequality

7.7 Good

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Jonathan Parry

Jonathan Parry is a British social anthropologist known for work on death, caste, and religion in India, including his 1...

India Social British Current

7.5 Good