All Critical, Feminist and Postcolonial Anthropologists

Gayle S. Rubin (born January 1, 1949) is an American cultural anthropologist, theorist and activist, best known for her pioneering work in feminist theory and queer studies.

She has made significant contributions to the fields of colonial and postcolonial studies, historical anthropology, feminist theory, and affect. She is particularly known for her writings on race and sexuality in the works of French philosopher Michel Foucault.

He spent the 1982-83 academic year at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, where he came up with the idea for Anthropology as Cultural Critique, which he co-wrote with Michael M. J. Fischer and published in 1986 (a second edition was later published in 1999).

He is best known for his engagement with Marx's idea of commodity fetishism, especially in terms of the work of Walter Benjamin.

was an anthropologist known for her studies of the Ilongot people in the Philippines and of women's studies and the anthropology of gender.

His next two books developed a critique of anthropological knowledge and research practices: Writing Culture; the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography , co-edited with George Marcus (1986), and The Predicament of Culture: 20th Century Ethnography, Literature and Art (1988).

Ferguson was the author of six books, including his best-known, The Anti-Politics Machine: “Development,” Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (Cambridge University Press, 1990), and gave the Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture, considered the most prestigious lecture in cultural anthropology, in 2009.