Maurice Bloch

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1. 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, Nuer Religion

2. Maurice Godelier

   Author of Perspectives in Marxist Anthropology, Rationality and Irrationality in Economics

3. Maurice Bloch

   Author of Death and the Regeneration of Life, Prey into Hunter: The Politics of Religious Experience (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures), From Blessing to Violence: History and Ideology in the Circumcision Ritual of the Merina (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

4. Victor Witter Turner

   Author of The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures) (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures), The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual, The Anthropology of Experience

5. Michael Lambek

   Author of A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion (Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology), Bodies and Persons: Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia

6. Edmund Leach

   Author of Culture and Communication: The Logic by which Symbols Are Connected. An Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysi, Dialectic in Practical Religion (Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology)

7. Marshall Sahlins

   Author of Stone Age Economics, Culture and Practical Reason, The Use and Abuse of Biology: An Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology

8. Mary Douglas

   Author of Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology, Evans-Pritchard

9. Marilyn Strathern

   Author of The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia (Studies in Melanesian Anthropology), After Nature: English Kinship in the Late Twentieth Century (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures)

10. Sherry B. Ortner

    Author of Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture, Sherpas through their Rituals (Cambridge Studies in Cultural Systems)

11. Claude Lévi-Strauss

    Author of The Savage Mind, Structural Anthropology, The Elementary Structures of Kinship

12. Maxime Rodinson

    Author of Muhammad, Islam and Capitalism (Saqi Essentials)

13. Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo

    Author of Knowledge and Passion: Ilongot Notions of Self & Social Life

14. Lucio Colletti

    Author of Marxism and Hegel

15. Jean L. Briggs

    Author of Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family

16. Veena Das

    Author of Structure and Cognition: Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual (Oxford India Paperbacks)

17. Göran Therborn

    Author of Science, Class and Society

18. Peter Metcalf

    Author of Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual

19. David Francis Pocock

    Author of Understanding Social Anthropology

20. Émile Durkheim

    Author of Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Primitive Classification