Lila Abu-Lughod

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1. Lila Abu-Lughod

   Author of Veiled Sentiments, Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories

2. Clifford Geertz

   Author of The Interpretation of Cultures, Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author

3. Bronislaw Malinowski

   Author of Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays, Argonauts of the Western Pacific, A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term

4. E. E. Evans-Pritchard

   Author of The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People, Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande

5. Ruth Behar

   Author of Translated Woman, The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart, Women Writing Culture

6. Judith Butler

   Author of Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex, Feminists Theorize the Political

7. Mary Douglas

   Author of Purity and Danger, Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology

8. Claude Lévi-Strauss

   Author of Tristes Tropiques, The Savage Mind, Structural Anthropology

9. Keith H. Basso

   Author of Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache, Portraits of 'the Whiteman': Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols among the Western Apache

10. Margaret Mead

    Author of Coming of Age in Samoa, Male and Female

11. Margot Badran

    Author of Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing, Feminists, Islam, and Nation

12. Leila Ahmed

    Author of Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate, A Border Passage: From Cairo to America - A Woman's Journey

13. Patrick Califia

    Author of Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex, Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism

14. Fatima Mernissi

    Author of Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in a Modern Muslim Society, Scheherazade Goes West

15. Judith Halberstam

    Author of Female Masculinity, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives

16. Émile Durkheim

    Author of Elementary Forms of Religious Life, The Division of Labor in Society, Primitive Classification

17. Saba Mahmood

    Author of Politics of Piety

18. Marjorie Shostak

    Author of Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman

19. George E. Marcus

    Author of Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences

20. James Clifford

    Author of Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (A School of American Research Advanced Seminar), The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art