Clifford Geertz (1926–2006)

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1. Clifford Geertz

   Author of The Interpretation of Cultures, Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia (Phoenix Books), After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)

2. Michel Foucault

   Author of Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge (An Introduction), Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977

3. Claude Lévi-Strauss

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

4. Pierre Bourdieu

   Author of Outline of a Theory of Practice, An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology, Pascalian Meditations

5. Mary Douglas

   Author of Purity and Danger, Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology, Rules and Meanings: The Anthropology of Everyday Knowledge (Penguin modern sociology readings)

6. Émile Durkheim

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

7. 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)

8. Marshall Sahlins

   Author of Islands of History, Culture and Practical Reason, The Use and Abuse of Biology: An Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology

9. 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

10. Max Weber

    Author of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, The Sociology of Religion

11. Benedict Anderson

    Author of Imagined Communities, Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)

12. Bronislaw Malinowski

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

13. Peter L. Berger

    Author of The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge, The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion

14. Edmund Leach

    Author of Claude Levi-Strauss, Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure (London School of Economics Monographs on Social, Structural Study of Myth and Totemism (A.)

15. Marcel Mauss

    Author of The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies, General Theory of Magic (Routledge Classics) (Routledge Classics)

16. Eric R. Wolf

    Author of Europe and the People Without History, Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, Peasants

17. George E. Marcus

    Author of Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences, Ethnography through Thick and Thin

18. Ruth Benedict

    Author of Patterns of Culture

19. Erving Goffman

    Author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

20. Edward W. Said

    Author of Orientalism