swap_horiz Chris Gregory Alternatives

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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

9.44 Excellent

2

Bronisław Malinowski

Bronisław Malinowski was a Polish-British anthropologist whose extended fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands between 1914...

Fieldwork Economic Early 20TH Oceania

9.20 Excellent

3

Clifford Geertz

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

Symbolic Indonesia Late 20TH Interpretive

9.20 Excellent

4

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

9.02 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

8.95 Great

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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

8.92 Great

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Sidney Mintz

Sidney Mintz (1922–2015) was an American anthropologist known for his pioneering work in the anthropology of food and po...

Food Caribbean Economic Labor

8.88 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

8.72 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

8.70 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

8.65 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

8.50 Great

12

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

8.47 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

8.42 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

8.42 Great

15

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

8.40 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

8.30 Great

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Jean Comaroff

Jean Comaroff is a South African-born anthropologist who has taught at the University of Chicago and Harvard University....

Africa Feminist Late 20TH Colonialism

8.28 Great

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Maurice Godelier

Maurice Godelier is a French anthropologist, born in 1934, who combined Marxist theory with ethnographic fieldwork, most...

French Late 20TH Marxist Economic

8.22 Great

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Claude Meillassoux

Claude Meillassoux was a French Marxist anthropologist whose work focused on the economic structures of pre-capitalist s...

French Africa Late 20TH Marxist

7.68 Good

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Alan Thorne

Alan Thorne (1939-2012) was an Australian physical anthropologist whose research focused on the origins and biological h...

Australia Fieldwork Late 20TH Paleoanthropology

6.48 Fair