swap_horiz John Middleton Alternatives

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Arnold van Gennep

French ethnographer and folklorist Arnold van Gennep, who had Dutch-German family roots, studied customs and ritual prac...

France 20TH Century Transition Ritual

9.47 Excellent

2

Sidney Wilfred Mintz

Sidney Wilfred Mintz was an American anthropologist whose Caribbean research connected everyday life with the political...

20TH Century Caribbean Sugar Economic

9.44 Excellent

3

Edward Evans-Pritchard

British social anthropologist Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard examined how social institutions and religious ideas made sens...

Social 20TH Century Africa Oxford

9.35 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

5

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is an American anthropologist and primatologist whose work examines female reproductive strategies, p...

Evolutionary 20TH Century Motherhood Sociobiology

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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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

9.10 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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Knud Rasmussen

Knud Rasmussen (1879-1933) was a Greenland-born Danish explorer, ethnologist and writer of mixed Danish and Inuit herita...

20TH Century Arctic Folklore Greenland

9.01 Excellent

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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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Frederica de Laguna

Frederica de Laguna (1906-2004) was an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for combining archaeology, ethnog...

20TH Century Archaeology Arctic Alaska

8.91 Great

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Robert H. Lowie

Robert H. Lowie was an Austrian-born American anthropologist associated with Franz Boas and the historical-particularist...

Cultural 20TH Century Native American Plains

8.78 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

8.75 Great

14

Alfonso Ortiz

Alfonso Ortiz was a Tewa cultural anthropologist from Ohkay Owingeh, formerly San Juan Pueblo, in New Mexico. His book T...

Cultural 20TH Century Native American Religion

8.24 Great

15

Paul Bohannan

Paul Bohannan was an American anthropologist whose research examined Tiv society in central Nigeria, especially its econ...

20TH Century Africa Exchange Economic

8.12 Great

16

Weston La Barre

Weston La Barre was an American anthropologist associated with psychological anthropology and the study of religion, alt...

20TH Century Psychedelic Religion Shamanism

7.79 Good

17

Birgit Meyer

Birgit Meyer is a German professor of religious studies at Utrecht University, known for her extensive anthropological r...

Contemporary Media Africa Sensory

7.78 Good

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Colin Turnbull

Colin Macmillan Turnbull was a British-American anthropologist whose research focused on peoples of Central and East Afr...

20TH Century Africa Congo Ik

7.68 Good

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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

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Todd Sanders

Todd Sanders is a British social anthropologist known for ethnographic research on the Ihanzu of north-central Tanzania....

Contemporary Fieldwork Africa Witchcraft

6.55 Fair