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Émile Durkheim
French sociologist (1858–1917)
Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)
James George Frazer
Scottish social anthropologist (1854–1941)
Bronisław Malinowski
Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884–1942)
Edward Burnett Tylor
English anthropologist (1832–1917)
Marcel Mauss
French sociologist and anthropologist (1872-1950)
Andrey Korotayev
Russian anthropologist, economic historian, comparative political scientist, and sociologist
Clifford Geertz
American anthropologist
Mary Douglas
British anthropologist (1921–2007)
Ernest Gellner
Czech anthropologist, philosopher and sociologist
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
French philosopher (1857-1939)
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
British anthropologist (1902–1973)
Edvard Westermarck
Finnish academic (1862–1939)
Arnold van Gennep
French ethnographer and folklorist (1873–1957)
Fredrik Barth
Norwegian social anthropologist (1928–2016)
Victor Turner
British cultural anthropologist (1920-1983)
Edmund Leach
British social anthropologist (1910–1989)
Raymond Firth
ethnologist from New Zealand
Julien Ries
Belgian cardinal and historian (1920–2013)
Talal Asad
anthropologist at the CUNY Graduate Center
Robert Lowie
American anthropologist (1883–1957)
Alexander Chayanov
Soviet scholar (1888–1937)
Paul Radin
American anthropologist (1883–1959)
Sherry Ortner
American anthropologist
Robert Ranulph Marett
British ethnologist (1866–1943)
Claudio Naranjo
Chilean psychiatrist and author (1932-2019)
Saba Mahmood
American anthropologist, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Daria Khaltourina
sociologist and anthropologist
Ward Goodenough
American anthropologist (1919-2013)
Melford Spiro
American anthropologist (1920–2014)
Raffaele Pettazzoni
Italian historian of religion (1883-1959)
Ruth Landes
American anthropologist (1908–1991)
Roy Rappaport
American anthropologist (1926–1997)
Claude Calame
Swiss mythographer
Michael Taussig
Australian anthropologist
Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor
Romanian writer (1900–1968)
Gananath Obeyesekere
Sri Lankan anthropologist
Henric Sanielevici
Romanian journalist and literary critic, also remembered for his work in anthropology, ethnography, sociology and zoology (1875-1951)
Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
American anthropologist (1929–2014)
Bruce Kapferer
Australian anthropologist (born 1940)
Youssef Seddik
Tunisian philosopher
Albert Piette
French anthropologist
E. O. James
British anthropologist (1886–1972)
Alfred Gell
British anthropologist
Sabina Magliocco
American folklorist
Tanya Luhrmann
American anthropologist