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E. Adamson Hoebel
Georges Balandier
F. G. Bailey
Fredrik Barth
Jeremy Boissevain
Robert L. Carneiro
Henri J. M. Claessen
Jean Comaroff
John Comaroff
Pierre Clastres
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
Wolfgang Fikentscher
Meyer Fortes
Morton Fried
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
Ernest Gellner
David Graeber
Lesley Gill
Ulf Hannerz
Thomas Blom Hansen
Ted C. Lewellen
Edmund Leach
Ralph Linton
Elizabeth Mertz
Sidney Mintz
Sally Falk Moore
Rodney Needham
Marshall Sahlins
James C. Scott
Elman Service
Aidan Southall
Jonathan Spencer
Bjorn Thomassen
Douglas R. White
Eric Wolf
Related articles
Circumscription theory
Legal anthropology
Left–right paradigm
State formation
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Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems
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Political and Legal Anthropology Review
Journal of Legal Anthropology
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In cultural anthropology, a leveling mechanism is a practice in some non-Western cultures that acts to ensure social equality, usually by shaming or humbling members of a group that attempt to put themselves above other members.[1]
^Eller, Jack David. "Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Issues - Student Resources Glossary". Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives. Routledge. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
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