swap_horiz Philippe Bourgois Alternatives

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Margaret Mead

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

Cultural Fieldwork Oceania Gender

9.2 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

9.2 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

9.2 Excellent

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

Fredrik Barth

Fredrik Barth (1928–2016) was a Norwegian social anthropologist who significantly advanced the study of ethnicity and ec...

Ethnicity Ecology Fieldwork Mid 20TH

8.8 Great

11

Paul Farmer

Paul Farmer (1959–2022) was an American medical anthropologist and physician who dedicated his career to providing healt...

Contemporary Applied Medical Poverty

8.8 Great

12

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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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

14

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

15

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

16

Paul Rabinow

Paul Rabinow was an American anthropologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, recognized for his...

France Fieldwork Late 20TH Critique

8.1 Great

17

Annette Weiner

Annette B. Weiner (1933–1997) was an American cultural anthropologist whose fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands of Papua...

Fieldwork Feminist Exchange Late 20TH

7.9 Good

18

Paul Stoller

Paul Stoller is an American anthropologist who has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork among the Songhay people o...

Fieldwork Sensory Late 20TH West Africa

7.3 Good

19

Oscar Lewis

Oscar Lewis was an American anthropologist known for his ethnographic work in Mexico and his theory of the 'culture of p...

Urban Mexico Fieldwork Poverty

6.7 Fair

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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

6.5 Fair