swap_horiz William Roseberry 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

2

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

3

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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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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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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Roy Rappaport

Roy Rappaport (1926–1997) was an American ecological anthropologist whose 1968 monograph *Pigs for the Ancestors* examin...

Ecology Ritual Late 20TH Systems

8.4 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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Michael Taussig

Michael Taussig is an Australian-born anthropologist and professor at Columbia University, recognized for his literary a...

Surrealism Latin America Violence Late 20TH

8.1 Great

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June Nash

June Nash (1927–2019) was an American anthropologist recognized for her extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Latin Americ...

Mining Latin America Feminist Late 20TH

7.7 Good

14

Alan Macfarlane

Alan Macfarlane is a prominent British anthropologist and historian born in 1941, known for his interdisciplinary approa...

Europe England Historical Late 20TH

7.4 Good

15

Jonathan Friedman

Jonathan Friedman is a Swedish-American anthropologist whose theoretical work addresses global systems, cultural identit...

Global Theory Political Economy Late 20TH

7.3 Good

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Olivia Harris

Olivia Harris (1948–2009) was a British anthropologist and a prominent scholar of Andean communities, particularly the L...

Historical Latin America Feminist Late 20TH

7.2 Good

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Mark Leone

Mark P. Leone is an American historical archaeologist who established the long-running Archaeology in Annapolis project...

Critical Historical Archaeology North America

7.1 Good

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Don Donham

Don Donham is an American anthropologist and academic recognized for his ethnographic research on social and economic tr...

Historical Africa Late 20TH Marxist

6.9 Fair

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Penelope Harvey

Penelope Harvey is a British social anthropologist associated with the University of Manchester. Her ethnographic resear...

Infrastructure British Latin America Peru

6.9 Fair

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Kajsa Ekholm Friedman

Kajsa Ekholm Friedman is a Swedish social anthropologist whose academic work has addressed African societies, global sys...

Global Theory Africa Political Economy

6.7 Fair