Anthropological musings: Anthropologists of the moment

New research fields, new themes, interdisciplinary research partners and the digitisation of everything requires a radical rethinking of academic cogitation. Furthermore 20th century theorists writing for pre-digital, pre-feminist, pre-globalised, pre-austerity societies can be cannabilised for insight but they are no longer worth engaging in any kind of extensive way (well maybe a few favourites, but not many).

It is time to update our theoretical frameworks for the contemporary world. With this in mind, let's discover who is alive now and providing conceptual understandings of social dynamics that provide useful framings to think through and with.

So who are the leading contemporary thinkers in social sciences esp anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, human geography and urban studies? Can they be identified by

- number of citations

- number of times paper downloaded from web

- number of publications / in key/ highly rated journals

- Professorships

- ESRC grant awards

Or shall we just name some favourites (in no particular order).

Marilyn Strathern (obviously)

Alberto Corsin Jiminez