Marshall Sahlins

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1. 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

2. Clifford Geertz

   Author of The Interpretation of Cultures, Negara: The Theatre State In Nineteenth-Century Bali, After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)
   All: (1 member)

3. Claude Lévi-Strauss

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

4. Bronislaw Malinowski

   Author of Argonauts of the Western Pacific, A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term, Coral Gardens And Their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands: Two Volumes Bound As One
   All: (1 member)

5. 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
   All: (1 member)

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, Schism and Continuity in an African Society: A Study of Ndembu Village Life (Classic Reprint Series)
   All: (1 member)

7. George W. Stocking

   Author of Race, Culture, and Evolution: Essays in the History of Anthropology, The Ethnographer's Magic and Other Essays in the History of Anthropology, After Tylor: British Social Anthropology, 1888-1951
   All: (1 member)

8. Eric R. Wolf

   Author of Europe and the People Without History, Peasants, Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis
   All: (1 member)

9. 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
   All: (1 member)

10. Émile Durkheim

    Author of Elementary Forms of Religious Life, The Division of Labor in Society, Primitive Classification
    All: (1 member)

11. Raymond William Firth

    Author of We, the Tikopia: A Sociological Study of Kinship in Primitive Polynesia, Malay fishermen : their peasant economy, Tikopia Ritual and Belief
    All: (1 member)

12. Mary Douglas

    Author of Purity and Danger, Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology
    All: (1 member)

13. Pierre Bourdieu

    Author of Outline of a Theory of Practice, Homo Academicus
    All: (1 member)

14. Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown

    Author of Structure and Function in Primitive Society, African Systems of Kinship and Marriage

15. Gananath Obeyesekere

    Author of The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific
    All: (1 member)

16. 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

17. Carl Schmitt

    Author of The Concept of the Political, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy
    All: (1 member)

18. Elman Rogers Service

    Author of Profiles in Ethnology, Primitive social organization: an evolutionary perspective (Studies in anthropology), Origins of the State and Civilization: The Process of Cultural Evolution

19. Hayden White

    Author of Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism
    All: (1 member)

20. Maurice Godelier

    Author of The Enigma of the Gift, Mental & the Material: Thought Economy & Society