Maurice Godelier

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1. Jack Goody

   Author of The Domestication of the Savage Mind (Themes in the Social Sciences), The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe (Past and Present Publications), Production and Reproduction: A Comparative Study of the Domestic Domain (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

2. Maurice Dobb

   Author of Studies in the Development of Capitalism, Theories of Value and Distribution since Adam Smith: Ideology and Economic Theory, Capitalism yesterday and today (Socialism today series)

3. Claude Lévi-Strauss

   Author of Tristes Tropiques, The Savage Mind, Totemism

4. Pierre Bourdieu

   Author of Outline of a Theory of Practice, Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action, La Misère du monde

5. Perry Anderson

   Author of Lineages of the Absolutist State, In the Tracks of Historical Materialism: Wellek Library Lectures, Arguments Within English Marxism

6. Marshall Sahlins

   Author of Stone Age Economics, Culture and Practical Reason, How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example

7. Marcel Mauss

   Author of The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies, Sociologie et anthropologie

8. Clifford Geertz

   Author of The Interpretation of Cultures, Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology (Basic Books Classics), Peddlers and Princes: Social Development and Economic Change in Two Indonesian Towns (Comparative Studies of New Nations)

9. Victor Witter Turner

   Author of The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures) (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures), Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society (Symbol, Myth, and Ritual Series), Schism and Continuity in an African Society: A Study of Ndembu Village Life (Classic Reprint Series)

10. Adam Kuper

    Author of Culture: The Anthropologists Account, Anthropologists and anthropology: The British School, 1922-1972

11. Louis Dumont

    Author of Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications (Nature of Human Society), Affinity As a Value: Marriage Alliance in South India, With Comparative Essays on Australia

12. Paul Marlor Sweezy

    Author of Theory of Capitalist Development, The present as history; essays and reviews on capitalism and socialism

13. 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, Theories of Primitive Religion

14. Karl Marx

    Author of Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy, Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations

15. Émile Durkheim

    Author of Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Primitive Classification

16. Maurice Bloch

    Author of Marxism and Anthropology: The History of a Relationship (Marxist Introductions)

17. Mary Douglas

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

18. Michel Foucault

    Author of Power: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Volume III, Security, Territory, Population

19. Ralph Miliband

    Author of The state in capitalist society, Marxism and Politics

20. James L. Watson

    Author of Asian and African Systems of Slavery