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Zora Neale Hurston
Cultural anthropology, African-American folklore, ethnographic work
Margaret Mead
Cultural anthropology, coming of age in different cultures, gender roles
Mary Douglas
Social anthropology, Purity and Danger, grid and group theory
Gregory Bateson
Cybernetic theory, systems thinking, ecology of mind
Ulf Hannerz
Cultural complexity, transnational anthropology, globalization
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
Structural functionalism, biological analogy for society, study of kinship systems
Edward Burnett Tylor
Cultural evolution, animism, definition of culture
Maurice Bloch
Cognitive anthropology, ritual and religion, Marxist anthropology
Bronisław Malinowski
Functionalism, participant observation, Trobriand Islanders
Geertz
Thick description, interpretative anthropology, the Balinese cockfight
Pierre Bourdieu
Theory of practice, habitus and field, cultural capital
Max Gluckman
Social anthropology, extended case method, ritual and rebellion
Victor Turner
Symbolic anthropology, concepts of liminality and communitas, rituals and social change
Karl Polanyi
Economic anthropology, the substantivist perspective, 'The Great Transformation'
Ruth Benedict
Patterns of culture, configurations of culture, the Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Arnold Van Gennep
Rites of passage, life-crisis rituals, the concept of liminality
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Medical anthropology, critical anthropology, violence and human rights
Franz Boas
Cultural relativism, four-field approach of anthropology, critique of scientific racism
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Structuralism, kinship and myth, binary oppositions
Clifford Geertz
Interpretive anthropology, thick description, symbolic and interpretive approaches in anthropology
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
Structural functionalism, social structure, comparative method in social anthropology
Elman Service
Cultural evolution, social systems theory, 'Primitive Social Organization'
Levi-Strauss
Structuralism, kinship and myth, binary oppositions
Marvin Harris
Cultural materialism, explanation of cultural practices, 'Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches'
Ann Stoler
Colonial studies, power and intimacy, race and governance
Fredrik Barth
Ethnic groups and boundaries, transactionalism, political anthropology
E.E. Evans-Pritchard
Social anthropology, work on Nuer and Azande, witchcraft and magic
Alfred Kroeber
Cultural areas, superorganic concept of culture, Ishi, the last Yahi Indian
Eric Wolf
Peasant societies, political economy in anthropology, 'Europe and the People Without History'
James Ferguson
Anthropology of development, the 'anti-politics' machine, global connectivity
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