Eleanor Leacock

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Eleanor Leacock is a scholar working on Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Eleanor Leacock has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Anthropology, 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Eleanor Leacock's work include Indigenous Studies and Ecology (5 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 papers) and Canadian Identity and History (3 papers). Eleanor Leacock is often cited by papers focused on Indigenous Studies and Ecology (5 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 papers) and Canadian Identity and History (3 papers). Eleanor Leacock collaborates with scholars based in United States. Eleanor Leacock's co-authors include Aram A. Yengoyan, Charles A. Bishop, Maurice Bloch, Nancy Oestreich Lurie, Christine Ward Gailey, Sylvia Van Kirk, Nan A. Rothschild, June Nash, María Román and Ronald Cohen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Eleanor Leacock

45 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Politics and History in Band Societies

1985 268 citations Charles A. Bishop, Eleanor Leacock et al. Ethnohistory profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eleanor Leacock United States	17	633	545	241	226	161	50	1.8k
Keith H. Basso United States	15	515 0.8×	479 0.9×	235 1.0×	140 0.6×	127 0.8×	33	2.1k
Nicolas Peterson Australia	18	547 0.9×	853 1.6×	349 1.4×	294 1.3×	112 0.7×	55	2.2k
Allen Johnson United States	20	712 1.1×	411 0.8×	159 0.7×	416 1.8×	123 0.8×	43	2.2k
Ronald M. Berndt Australia	25	443 0.7×	790 1.4×	228 0.9×	168 0.7×	69 0.4×	93	2.2k
Thomas N. Headland United States	18	602 1.0×	487 0.9×	151 0.6×	285 1.3×	122 0.8×	39	2.1k
Adam Kuper United Kingdom	27	1.3k 2.0×	957 1.8×	142 0.6×	112 0.5×	381 2.4×	136	2.7k
Melvin Ember United States	29	1.0k 1.6×	417 0.8×	190 0.8×	334 1.5×	179 1.1×	85	2.4k
Nurit Bird‐David Israel	17	480 0.8×	671 1.2×	220 0.9×	226 1.0×	136 0.8×	36	1.7k
Raoul Naroll United States	21	581 0.9×	311 0.6×	181 0.8×	282 1.2×	98 0.6×	58	2.0k
Richard J. Parmentier United States	14	410 0.6×	378 0.7×	156 0.6×	123 0.5×	117 0.7×	49	1.5k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Gailey, Christine Ward, et al.. (1988). Women's Work: Development and the Division of Labor by Gender. Anthropologica. 30(2). 218–218. 73 indexed citations

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Leacock, Eleanor. (1988). Anthropologists in Search of a Culture: Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman and All the Rest of Us. 8(1). 3–20. 8 indexed citations

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Leacock, Eleanor. (1985). Individuals and society in anthropological theory. Dialectical Anthropology. 10(1-2). 3 indexed citations

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Bishop, Charles A., et al.. (1985). Politics and History in Band Societies. Ethnohistory. 32(1). 63–63. 268 indexed citations breakdown →

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Leacock, Eleanor & Sylvia Van Kirk. (1984). "Many Tender Ties": Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870. Ethnohistory. 31(1). 55–55. 17 indexed citations

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Cohen, Ronald & Eleanor Leacock. (1984). Myths of Male Dominance: Collected Articles on Women Cross-Culturally. Ethnohistory. 31(2). 126–126. 6 indexed citations

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Leacock, Eleanor. (1983). Interpreting the origins of gender inequality: Conceptual and historical problems. Dialectical Anthropology. 7(4). 27 indexed citations

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Leacock, Eleanor, et al.. (1982). Comparative Perspectives of Third World Women: The Impact of Race, Sex, and Class.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 11(3). 313–313. 20 indexed citations

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Safa, Helen I. & Eleanor Leacock. (1981). Preface. Signs. 7(2). 265–267. 2 indexed citations

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Leacock, Eleanor. (1981). History, Development, and the Division of Labor by Sex: Implications for Organization. Signs. 7(2). 474–491. 14 indexed citations

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Cox, Bruce & Eleanor Leacock. (1979). More on Women's Status in Egalitarian Societies. Current Anthropology. 20(2). 415–417. 2 indexed citations

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Leacock, Eleanor & Eleanor Leacock. (1977). Women, Development, and Anthropoligical Facts and Fictions. Latin American Perspectives. 4(1-2). 8–17. 6 indexed citations

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Leacock, Eleanor & Maurice Bloch. (1976). Marxist Analyses and Social Anthropology.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 5(5). 671–671. 132 indexed citations

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Leacock, Eleanor, et al.. (1974). Training programs for new opportunities in applied anthropology : a symposium sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology, Boston, March 1974. 4 indexed citations

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Leacock, Eleanor. (1974). The structure of band society. Reviews in Anthropology. 1(2). 212–222. 2 indexed citations

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Leacock, Eleanor, et al.. (1973). The Cayuse Indians: Imperial Tribesmen of Old Oregon. The American Historical Review. 78(5). 1531–1531. 4 indexed citations

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Leacock, Eleanor. (1971). The Culture of poverty : a critique. 174 indexed citations

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Leacock, Eleanor. (1969). Teaching and learning in city schools : a comparative study. Basic Books. 50 indexed citations

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Leacock, Eleanor, et al.. (1965). Myth and Cult among Primitive Peoples. Ethnohistory. 12(2). 190–190. 3 indexed citations

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Leacock, Eleanor, Martin Deutsch, & Joshua A. Fishman. (1959). The Bridgeview Study: A Preliminary Report*. Journal of Social Issues. 15(4). 30–37. 6 indexed citations

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