Roy A. Rappaport (1926–1997)

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1. 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, From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play (PAJ Books)

2. Marshall Sahlins

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3. Mary Douglas

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4. Louis Dumont

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5. Bronislaw Malinowski

   Author of Crime and Custom in Savage Society, A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term

6. Brian M. Fagan

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7. William Edward Wormsley

   Author of White Man Will Eat You: An Anthropologist Among The Imbonggu Of New Guinea

8. E. E. Evans-Pritchard

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9. Andrew Strathern

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10. Paul Erickson

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11. H. Russell Bernard

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12. Edmund Leach

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13. Roy A. Rappaport

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14. Jerry D. Moore

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15. Alan Barnard

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16. Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown

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17. Harvey Whitehouse

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18. John Relethford

    Author of The Human Species: An Introduction to Biological Anthropology

19. Émile Durkheim

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20. Robert L. Welsch

    Author of Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Cultural Anthropology