Barbara Tedlock

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Barbara Tedlock is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Visual Arts and Performing Arts. According to data from OpenAlex, Barbara Tedlock has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 5 papers in Anthropology and 5 papers in Visual Arts and Performing Arts. Recurrent topics in Barbara Tedlock's work include Latin American history and culture (5 papers), Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education (4 papers) and Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (2 papers). Barbara Tedlock is often cited by papers focused on Latin American history and culture (5 papers), Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education (4 papers) and Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (2 papers). Barbara Tedlock collaborates with scholars based in United States. Barbara Tedlock's co-authors include Dennis Tedlock, Michael J. Lawson and Frank A. Salamone and has published in prestigious journals such as Social Science & Medicine, American Anthropologist and Current Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

Barbara Tedlock

30 papers receiving 779 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. From Participant Observation to the Observation of Participation: The Emergence of Narrative Ethnography
    1991 367 citations Barbara Tedlock Journal of Anthropological Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Barbara Tedlock United States 13 353 198 118 97 84 32 1.0k
Joël Sherzer United States 20 235 0.7× 233 1.2× 164 1.4× 72 0.7× 65 0.8× 55 1.9k
Greg Urban United States 11 374 1.1× 278 1.4× 75 0.6× 92 0.9× 82 1.0× 24 1.6k
Judith T. Irvine United States 18 390 1.1× 223 1.1× 88 0.7× 73 0.8× 70 0.8× 40 2.5k
Barbara G. Myerhoff United States 13 525 1.5× 151 0.8× 118 1.0× 65 0.7× 90 1.1× 29 1.1k
William F. Hanks United States 19 262 0.7× 259 1.3× 60 0.5× 78 0.8× 76 0.9× 42 1.6k
William O Beeman United States 12 588 1.7× 220 1.1× 194 1.6× 101 1.0× 48 0.6× 90 1.3k
Régna Darnell Canada 19 404 1.1× 276 1.4× 100 0.8× 92 0.9× 145 1.7× 104 2.2k
Bennetta Jules‐Rosette United States 15 504 1.4× 301 1.5× 104 0.9× 78 0.8× 30 0.4× 84 1.1k
Edith Turner United States 13 742 2.1× 270 1.4× 135 1.1× 70 0.7× 114 1.4× 45 1.4k
Roger D. Abrahams United States 20 466 1.3× 274 1.4× 110 0.9× 124 1.3× 60 0.7× 106 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Barbara Tedlock

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Fields of papers citing papers by Barbara Tedlock

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Barbara Tedlock

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Barbara Tedlock. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Barbara Tedlock based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Barbara Tedlock. Barbara Tedlock is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tedlock, Barbara. (2012). La décolonisation et le double langage du rêve. Anthropologie et Sociétés. 35(3). 43–62.
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Tedlock, Barbara. (2006). Indigenous Heritage and Biopiracy in the Age of Intellectual Property Rights. EXPLORE. 2(3). 256–259. 9 indexed citations
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Tedlock, Barbara. (2006). Toward a Theory of Divinatory Practice. Anthropology of Consciousness. 17(2). 62–77. 16 indexed citations
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Tedlock, Barbara. (2005). The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine. 39 indexed citations
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Tedlock, Barbara. (2003). Rêves et visions chez les Amérindiens : " produire un ours ". Anthropologie et Sociétés. 18(2). 13–27. 4 indexed citations
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Tedlock, Barbara. (2001). Divination as a Way of Knowing: Embodiment, Visualisation, Narrative, and Interpretation. Folklore. 112(2). 189–197. 22 indexed citations
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Tedlock, Barbara. (2000). Vulnerability and Violation in the New Ethnography. Anthropology & Humanism. 25(2). 203–204. 1 indexed citations
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Tedlock, Barbara, et al.. (1998). Bridges to Humanity: Narratives on Anthropology and Friendship.. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 4(1). 147–147. 2 indexed citations
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Tedlock, Barbara, et al.. (1994). The Beautiful and the Dangerous: Encounters with the Zuni Indians. The American Indian Quarterly. 18(2). 272–272. 15 indexed citations
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Lawson, Michael J., et al.. (1994). The Beautiful and the Dangerous: Encounters with the Zuni Indians. The History Teacher. 27(3). 369–369. 4 indexed citations
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Tedlock, Barbara. (1992). SOCIETY FOR HUMANISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY. Anthropology News. 33(6). 15–15. 2 indexed citations
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Tedlock, Barbara. (1992). The Role of Dreams and Visionary Narratives in Mayan Cultural Survival. Ethos. 20(4). 453–476. 10 indexed citations
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Tedlock, Barbara. (1991). The new anthropology of dreaming.. Dreaming. 1(2). 161–178. 27 indexed citations
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Tedlock, Barbara. (1991). From Participant Observation to the Observation of Participation: The Emergence of Narrative Ethnography. Journal of Anthropological Research. 47(1). 69–94. 367 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tedlock, Barbara. (1987). Dreaming: Anthropological and psychological interpretations.. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 139 indexed citations
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Tedlock, Barbara. (1987). An interpretive solution to the problem of humoral medicine in Latin America. Social Science & Medicine. 24(12). 1069–1083. 38 indexed citations
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Tedlock, Barbara & Dennis Tedlock. (1985). Text and Textile: Language and Technology in the Arts of the Quiché Maya. Journal of Anthropological Research. 41(2). 121–146. 27 indexed citations
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Tedlock, Barbara. (1985). Hawks, Meteorology and Astronomy in Quiché-Maya Agriculture. 8. 80. 1 indexed citations
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Tedlock, Barbara. (1982). Time and the highland Maya. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 104 indexed citations
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Tedlock, Barbara. (1978). Quiché Maya divination : a theory of practice. University Microfilms International eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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