an anthropologist that i admire

My favorit expert in my field is Claude Levi-Strauss. He was a French anthropologist and ethnologist
which introduced the structuralist approach in the social sciences. The most important works he has written was The Elementary Structures of Relationship, Sad Topical, The Wild Thought, The Mythological, among others. About the first book named he wrote about how families were organized, explaining that according to his thought the kinship was based on alliances (marriage). Sad Tropics, in comparison, is about an ethnographic fieldwork carried out by him in Brazil between 1953 and 1939. On the third book named Levi-Strauss he explains that the supposed "primitive thought" uses the same structuring rules as the most modern of scientific thoughts. Finally, in The Mythological, analyzes over 4 volumes the significant elements of thousands of myths through all kinds of oppositions throughout the American continent.
In summary, in view of his most well-known works I can say that I like his work because he researched in more than one branch of anthropology, creating works of high rank and also introduced new forces of doing anthropology as it is with structuralism.