E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902–1973)

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1. Claude Lévi-Strauss

   Author of The Savage Mind, The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques, Volume 1 (Raw & the Cooked), Totemism

2. E. E. Evans-Pritchard

   Author of The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People, Theories of Primitive Religion, Nuer Religion

3. Clifford Geertz

   Author of The Interpretation of Cultures, Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology (Basic Books Classics), Negara: The Theatre State In Nineteenth-Century Bali

4. Marshall Sahlins

   Author of Stone Age Economics, Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities: Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom (Asao Specia, Culture and Practical Reason

5. Bronislaw Malinowski

   Author of Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays, Argonauts of the Western Pacific, Sex and Repression in Savage Society

6. 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, Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society (Symbol, Myth, and Ritual Series)

7. Edmund Leach

   Author of Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure (London School of Economics Monographs on Social, Culture and Communication: The Logic by which Symbols Are Connected. An Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysi, Structural Study of Myth and Totemism (A.)

8. Émile Durkheim

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

9. Mary Douglas

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

10. Margaret Mead

    Author of Coming of Age in Samoa, Sex & Temperament

11. Jean Comaroff

    Author of Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa (Of Revelation and, Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People, Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism (A Public Culture Book)

12. Maurice Bloch

    Author of Marxism and Anthropology: The History of a Relationship (Marxist Introductions), Death and the Regeneration of Life, Marxist Analyses and Social Anthropology (ASA studies)

13. Michael Taussig

    Author of Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America, Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses, Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing

14. Sharon Elaine Hutchinson

    Author of Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War, and the State

15. Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown

    Author of Structure and Function in Primitive Society

16. Franz Boas

    Author of Race, Language, and Culture, General anthropology

17. James Clifford

    Author of Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (A School of American Research Advanced Seminar)

18. Marcel Mauss

    Author of The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies

19. Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo

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

20. Renato Rosaldo

    Author of Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974: A Study in Society and History