Claude Lévi-Strauss, Émile Durkheim, Clifford Geertz, Ruth Benedict, Marshall Sahlins, Louis Dumont, Franz Boas, Marcel Mauss, Bronisław Malinowski, Lewis Henry Morgan, Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Grafton Elliot Smith, Raymond Firth, Victor Turner, Celso Castro