Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009)

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1. Claude Lévi-Strauss

   Author of The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques, Volume 1 (Raw & the Cooked), Totemism, Look, Listen, Read

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
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3. 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)
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4. Bronislaw Malinowski

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

   Author of The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion, The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History, Myth and Reality
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6. Émile Durkheim

   Author of Elementary Forms of Religious Life, The Division of Labor in Society, Primitive Classification
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7. Pierre Bourdieu

   Author of Outline of a Theory of Practice, On Television, Pascalian Meditations
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8. Sigmund Freud

   Author of Totem and Taboo, Moses and Monotheism, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
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9. Roland Barthes

   Author of Writing Degree Zero, Elements of Semiology, The Semiotic Challenge
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10. Max Weber

    Author of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, The Vocation Lectures: Science As a Vocation, Politics As a Vocation
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11. Mary Douglas

    Author of Purity and Danger, Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology, Implicit Meanings: 2nd Edition: Selected Essays in Anthropology
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12. 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
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13. Marcel Mauss

    Author of The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies, Sociologie et anthropologie
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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, Rethinking Anthropology
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15. 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, Schism and Continuity in an African Society: A Study of Ndembu Village Life (Classic Reprint Series)
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16. Walter Benjamin

    Author of Illuminations, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings, Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1, 1913-1926 (Walter Benjamin)
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17. Jacques Derrida

    Author of Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, Kracht van wet het mystieke fundament van het gezag
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18. Ernst Cassirer

    Author of Language and Myth, The Myth of the State, The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy
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19. Maurice Merleau-Ponty

    Author of Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge Classics), The Visible and the Invisible, Signs

20. Herbert Marcuse

    Author of One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, Eros and Civilization : A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, Counterrevolution and Revolt
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