swap_horiz Jack Goody Alternatives

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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

9.35 Excellent

2

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist whose 1928 book "Coming of Age in Samoa" examined adolescent sexua...

Cultural Fieldwork Oceania Gender

9.20 Excellent

3

Claude Levi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist who lived from 1908 to 2009 and is widely recognized as a foundational f...

French Kinship Past Structuralism

9.20 Excellent

4

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

9.18 Excellent

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Richard Borshay Lee

Richard Borshay Lee is a Canadian anthropologist whose research on hunter-gatherer societies has centered on the Ju/'hoa...

20TH Century Hunter Gatherer Africa Kalahari

9.13 Excellent

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Mary Douglas

Mary Douglas was a British social anthropologist whose 1966 book "Purity and Danger" examined concepts of pollution, tab...

British Symbolic Ritual Mid 20TH

9.05 Excellent

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V. Gordon Childe

Vere Gordon Childe (1892–1957) was an Australian-born archaeologist and academic who specialized in European prehistory....

Europe Archaeology Foundational Mid 20TH

9.05 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

9.02 Excellent

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Marshall Sahlins

Marshall Sahlins was an American cultural anthropologist associated with the University of Chicago and later the Univers...

Economics Cultural Hunter Gatherer Pacific

8.98 Great

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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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Victor Turner

Victor Turner was a British-born cultural anthropologist whose work on ritual and symbolism became foundational to the f...

Symbolic Africa Ritual Mid 20TH

8.92 Great

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George Peter Murdock

George Peter Murdock was an American anthropologist known for comparative studies of kinship, social organization, and f...

20TH Century Comparative Kinship Cross Cultural

8.72 Great

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Edmund Leach

Edmund Leach (1910–1989) was a British social anthropologist who served as Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and hel...

Kinship British Southeast Asia Structuralism

8.62 Great

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Max Gluckman

Max Gluckman (1911–1975) was a South African-born anthropologist who became a leading figure in British social anthropol...

Africa Ritual Conflict Mid 20TH

8.55 Great

15

Meyer Fortes

Meyer Fortes (1906–1983) was a South African-born British anthropologist who became a central figure in the development...

Social Kinship British Africa

8.20 Great

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Elizabeth Colson

Elizabeth Colson was an American anthropologist whose extensive career spanned over five decades, primarily at the Unive...

Applied Fieldwork Africa Displacement

8.18 Great

17

Monica Wilson

Monica Wilson (1908–1982) was a South African social anthropologist whose ethnographic fieldwork among the Nyakyusa peop...

South Africa Africa Ritual Religion

7.52 Good

18

William Howells

William White Howells (1908–2005) was an American physical anthropologist at Harvard University known for extensive cran...

Comparative North America Physical Mid 20TH

7.45 Good

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Fred Eggan

Fred Eggan was an American anthropologist associated with the University of Chicago, recognized for his detailed ethnogr...

Academic Social Structure Kinship North America

7.38 Good

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Rodney Needham

Rodney Needham (1923–2006) was a British social anthropologist and a prominent faculty member at the University of Oxfor...

Comparative Kinship British Structuralism

7.35 Good