Bruce M. Knauft

3.8k total citations
50 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Bruce M. Knauft is a scholar working on Anthropology, Geography, Planning and Development and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce M. Knauft has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Anthropology, 17 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Bruce M. Knauft's work include Anthropological Studies and Insights (16 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (12 papers) and Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (9 papers). Bruce M. Knauft is often cited by papers focused on Anthropological Studies and Insights (16 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (12 papers) and Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (9 papers). Bruce M. Knauft collaborates with scholars based in United States. Bruce M. Knauft's co-authors include Keith F. Otterbein, Christopher Boehm, Robert Knox Dentan, Valerio Valeri, Susan Kent, Harold B. Barclay, Steve Rayner, Jonathan D. Hill, Marie-Claude Dupré and Laura Betzig and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Behavioral and Brain Sciences and American Anthropologist.

In The Last Decade

Bruce M. Knauft

48 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Peers

Bruce M. Knauft
Melvin Ember United States
Carol R. Ember United States
Keith F. Otterbein United States
Thomas N. Headland United States
Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo United States
Nicolas Peterson Australia
Ward H. Goodenough United States
Roger M. Keesing Australia
Louise Lamphere United States
James V. Spickard United States
Melvin Ember United States
Bruce M. Knauft
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bruce M. Knauft

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Langlitz, Nicolas, et al.. (2023). Anthropology Bright and Dark. Social Analysis. 67(4). 43–100. 1 indexed citations
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Knauft, Bruce M.. (2017). What Is Genealogy? An Anthropological/Philosophical Reconsideration. Genealogy. 1(1). 5–5. 9 indexed citations
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Knauft, Bruce M.. (2013). Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology. 24 indexed citations
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Howell, Signe, Aud Talle, & Bruce M. Knauft. (2012). Returns to the field : multitemporal research and contemporary anthropology. Indiana University Press eBooks. 34 indexed citations
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Knauft, Bruce M.. (2007). Provincializing America. Current Anthropology. 48(6). 781–805. 9 indexed citations
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Knauft, Bruce M.. (2003). What Ever Happened to Ritualized Homosexuality? Modern Sexual Subjects in Melanesia and Elsewhere. PubMed. 14(1). 137–159. 13 indexed citations
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Knauft, Bruce M.. (2002). Exchanging the past : a rainforest world of before and after. University of Chicago Press eBooks. 60 indexed citations
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Knauft, Bruce M.. (2002). Exchanging the Past. 3 indexed citations
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Knauft, Bruce M.. (1997). Theoretical Currents in Late Modern Cultural Anthropology. Cultural Dynamics. 9(3). 277–300. 9 indexed citations
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Knauft, Bruce M., Frederick Errington, & Deborah Gewertz. (1996). Articulating Change in the "Last Unknown". Ethnohistory. 43(4). 731–731. 3 indexed citations
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Brown, Paula & Bruce M. Knauft. (1994). South Coast New Guinea Cultures: History, Comparison, Dialectic. Man. 29(3). 769–769. 9 indexed citations
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Knauft, Bruce M.. (1993). South Coast New Guinea Cultures. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 56 indexed citations
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Knauft, Bruce M.. (1992). Imágenes del cuerpo en Melanesia: sustancias culturales y metáforas naturales. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 199–278. 1 indexed citations
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Knauft, Bruce M.. (1990). MELANESIAN WARFARE: A THEORETICAL HISTORY. Oceania. 60(4). 250–311. 43 indexed citations
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Goff, Jacques Le, David Kunzle, Thomas Laqueur, et al.. (1989). Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part Three. 18 indexed citations
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Knauft, Bruce M.. (1989). Sociality versus self-interest in human evolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 12(4). 712–713. 6 indexed citations
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Knauft, Bruce M.. (1987). Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia. GILBERT H. HERDT, ed. American Ethnologist. 14(2). 401–404. 1 indexed citations
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Strathern, Andrew & Bruce M. Knauft. (1987). Good Company and Violence: Sorcery and Social Action in a Lowland New Guinea Society. Man. 22(1). 204–204. 27 indexed citations
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Knauft, Bruce M.. (1986). Text and Social Practice: Narrative “Longing” and Bisexuality Among the Gebusi of New Guinea. Ethos. 14(3). 252–281. 14 indexed citations
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Knauft, Bruce M.. (1979). On Percussion and Metaphor. Current Anthropology. 20(1). 189–191. 5 indexed citations

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