Ivor Wilks

1.6k total citations
58 papers, 740 citations indexed

About

Ivor Wilks is a scholar working on Anthropology, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ivor Wilks has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 740 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Anthropology, 26 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Ivor Wilks's work include African history and culture studies (22 papers), African history and culture analysis (22 papers) and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (21 papers). Ivor Wilks is often cited by papers focused on African history and culture studies (22 papers), African history and culture analysis (22 papers) and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (21 papers). Ivor Wilks collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Philippines. Ivor Wilks's co-authors include James W. Brown, D. J. E. Maier, A. I. Asiwaju, David Henige, John O. Hunwick, Margaret A. Priestley, Nehemia Levtzion, David C. Conrad, Olivier Zunz and Jack Goody and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, The Philosophical Quarterly and The International Journal of African Historical Studies.

In The Last Decade

Ivor Wilks

48 papers receiving 468 citations

Peers

Ivor Wilks
Igor Kopytoff United States
Jay Spaulding United States
G. I. Jones United Kingdom
Michael Crowder United Kingdom
P. C. Lloyd United Kingdom
Phyllis M. Martin United States
Leroy Vail Zambia
Elizabeth Isichei New Zealand
Roland Oliver United Kingdom
Robin Law United Kingdom
Igor Kopytoff United States
Ivor Wilks
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ivor Wilks

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wilks, Ivor. (2011). Al-Hajj Salim Suwari and the Suwarians: a search for sources. 1–79. 4 indexed citations
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Wilks, Ivor. (2004). The Forest and the Twis. OpenEdition (OpenEdition). 1–81. 1 indexed citations
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Wilks, Ivor. (2002). “Mallams Do Not Fight with the Heathen”. Ghana Studies. 5(1). 215–230. 1 indexed citations
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Wilks, Ivor, et al.. (1999). One Nation, Many Histories: Ghana past and Present. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 32(2/3). 442–442. 10 indexed citations
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Wilks, Ivor, et al.. (1996). The cloth of many colored silks: papers on history and society, Ghanaian and Islamic in honor of Ivor Wilks. Northwestern University Press eBooks. 404. 19 indexed citations
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Wilks, Ivor. (1995). Consul Dupuis and Wangara: A Window on Islam in Early Nineteenth-Century Asante. 6. 55–72. 1 indexed citations
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Wilks, Ivor. (1995). A portrait of Otumfuo Opoku Ware II as a young man. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1 indexed citations
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Wilks, Ivor. (1994). "Slavery and Akan Origins?" A Reply. Ethnohistory. 41(4). 657–657. 2 indexed citations
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Law, Robin & Ivor Wilks. (1992). Wa and the Wala: Islam and Polity in Northwestern Ghana. Journal of Religion in Africa. 22(4). 377–377. 1 indexed citations
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Wilks, Ivor, et al.. (1989). Chronicles from Gonja: A Tradition of West African Muslim Historiography. The American Historical Review. 94(4). 1147–1147. 1 indexed citations
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Wilks, Ivor. (1982). Wangara, Akan and Portuguese in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. I. The matter of Bitu. The Journal of African History. 23(3). 333–349. 16 indexed citations
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Wilks, Ivor. (1979). The Oyo Empire, c.1600–c.1836. A West African Imperialism in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade. African Affairs. 78(311). 272–274. 19 indexed citations
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Brown, James W. & Ivor Wilks. (1976). Asante in the Nineteenth Century: The Structure and Evolution of a Political Order. ASA Review of Books. 2. 30–30. 140 indexed citations
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Wilks, Ivor. (1965). A NOTE ON THE EARLY SPREAD OF ISLAM IN DAGOMBA. 8. 87–98. 3 indexed citations
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Wilks, Ivor. (1963). THE GROWTH OF ISLAMIC LEARNING IN GHANA. Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria. 2(4). 409–417. 11 indexed citations
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Wilks, Ivor. (1959). Akwamu and Otublohum: An Eighteenth-Century Akan Marriage Arrangement. Africa. 29(4). 391–404. 5 indexed citations
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Wilks, Ivor. (1958). A Note on Twifo and Akwamu. 3(3). 215–217. 2 indexed citations
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Wilks, Ivor. (1957). The Rise of the Akwamu Empire, c. 1650-1710. 3(2). 99–136. 19 indexed citations
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Wilks, Ivor. (1955). A Note on Sovereignty. The Philosophical Quarterly. 5(21). 342–342. 3 indexed citations

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