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Arnold van Gennep

Arnold van Gennep was a French ethnographer and folklorist of Dutch-German background whose work examined customs, folkl...

France 20TH Century Transition Ritual

9.5 Brilliant

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Patrick Kirch

Patrick Vinton Kirch is an American anthropologist and archaeologist who studies the origins, migrations, and social org...

Contemporary Archaeology Pacific Prehistory

9.2 Excellent

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Edward Sapir

Edward Sapir was an American anthropologist and linguist who played a foundational role in the development of cultural a...

Foundational North America Early 20TH Linguistic

9.1 Excellent

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David MacDougall

David MacDougall is an American-Australian visual anthropologist, documentary and ethnographic filmmaker, and writer on...

Contemporary India Visual Film

9.0 Excellent

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Saba Mahmood

Saba Mahmood (1962–2018) was a Pakistani-born anthropologist whose work examined secular governance, religious practice,...

Contemporary Feminist Egypt Islam

8.5 Great

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Laura Nader

Laura Nader is an American anthropologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where she joined the fac...

Academic Power Legal North America

8.3 Great

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Richard Wrangham

Richard Wrangham is a British primatologist and biological anthropologist who serves as the Ruth B. Moore Professor of B...

Contemporary North America Primatology Chimpanzee

8.2 Great

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Ann Stoler

Ann Stoler is an American anthropologist who has served as a professor at The New School for Social Research and the Uni...

Contemporary Southeast Asia Colonial North America

8.2 Great

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Elinor Ochs

Elinor Ochs is an American linguistic anthropologist and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, recogni...

Contemporary Academic North America Linguistic

8.1 Great

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Erik Trinkaus

Erik Trinkaus is an American paleoanthropologist who has been a professor at Washington University in St. Louis for deca...

Contemporary North America Fossils Neanderthal

7.9 Good

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Bambi Schieffelin

Bambi B. Schieffelin is an American linguistic anthropologist and professor at New York University. She is a foundationa...

Contemporary Academic North America Linguistic

7.7 Good

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João Biehl

João Biehl is a Brazilian-American anthropologist and professor at Princeton University whose research focuses on medica...

Contemporary Medical North America Brazil

7.7 Good

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Faye Ginsburg

Faye Ginsburg is an American anthropologist whose research explores the intersection of media, culture, and social activ...

Contemporary Academic Media North America

7.6 Good

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Robert Hefner

Robert W. Hefner is an American anthropologist and professor at Boston University, specializing in the study of Islam an...

Contemporary Southeast Asia North America Civil Society

7.6 Good

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Merrill Singer

Merrill Singer is an American medical anthropologist recognized for his foundational work in developing syndemic theory....

Contemporary Critical Medical North America

7.6 Good

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Charles Hirschkind

Charles Hirschkind is an American anthropologist whose research centers on the intersection of Islam, media, and public...

Contemporary Media Sensory Egypt

7.5 Good

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Thomas Barfield

Thomas Barfield is an American anthropologist and academic recognized for his comparative studies of nomadic political o...

Contemporary North America Central Asia Afghanistan

7.3 Good

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Susan Greenhalgh

Susan Greenhalgh is an American anthropologist and professor at Harvard University whose research examines China's popul...

Contemporary China North America Population

7.3 Good

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Michael Dietler

Michael Dietler is an American anthropological archaeologist at the University of Chicago whose research examines alcoho...

Contemporary Europe Archaeology North America

7.2 Good

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Vincanne Adams

Vincanne Adams is an American medical anthropologist at the University of California, San Francisco whose research addre...

Contemporary Medical North America Global Health

7.2 Good