John M. Watanabe

1.5k total citations
23 papers, 645 citations indexed

About

John M. Watanabe is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Anthropology and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, John M. Watanabe has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 645 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 7 papers in Anthropology and 6 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in John M. Watanabe's work include Politics and Society in Latin America (9 papers), Latin American history and culture (6 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 papers). John M. Watanabe is often cited by papers focused on Politics and Society in Latin America (9 papers), Latin American history and culture (6 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 papers). John M. Watanabe collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. John M. Watanabe's co-authors include Barbara Smuts, Bernard R. Ortiz de Montellano, John Monaghan and Edward F. Fischer and has published in prestigious journals such as American Anthropologist, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and International Journal of Primatology.

In The Last Decade

John M. Watanabe

20 papers receiving 527 citations

Peers

John M. Watanabe
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  • Anthropology 184
  • Social Psychology 148
  • Visual Arts and Performing Arts 148
  • Political Science and International Relations 138
  • Sociology and Political Science 127
Anthony Seeger United States
Gregory Forth Canada
Edward L. Schieffelin United States
Lorna Marshall United States
John Paddock Mexico
Aparecida Vilaça Brazil
David E. Stuart Guatemala
Herbert S. Lewis United States
Azar Gat Israel
Åke Hultkrantz Sweden
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Title Journal Authors Indexed citations
1 Racing to the top: descent ideologies and why Ladinos never meant to be mestizos in colonial Guatemala Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies John M. Watanabe 4
2 Maya and Catholic Cultures in Crisis American Anthropologist John M. Watanabe 0
3 Being Like a State: A Historical Anthropology of Translocal Representation (in Both Senses of the Term) Ethnohistory John M. Watanabe 1
4 Pluralizing Ethnography: Comparison and Representation in Maya Cultures, Histories, and Identities John M. Watanabe, Edward F. Fischer 26
5 SOME MODELS IN A MUDDLE: Lineage and house in Classic Maya social organization Ancient Mesoamerica John M. Watanabe 17
6 With All the Means that Prudence Would Suggest: "Procedural Culture and the Writing of Cultural Histories of Power about 19th-century Mesoamerica Journal of Latin American Anthropology John M. Watanabe 1
7 Getting over hegemony and resistance: reinstating culture in the study of power relations across difference: reinstating culture in the study of power relations across difference John M. Watanabe 1
8 Getting Over Hegemony and Resistance: Reinstating Culture in the Study of Power Relations across Difference1 John M. Watanabe 4
9 Explaining Religion without Explaining It Away: Trust, Truth, and the Evolution of Cooperation in Roy A. Rappaport's “The Obvious Aspects of Ritual” American Anthropologist John M. Watanabe, Barbara Smuts 34
10 The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town Ethnohistory John M. Watanabe et al. 45
11 The Covenants with Earth and Rain: Exchange, Sacrifice, and Revelation in Mixtec Sociality American Ethnologist John M. Watanabe 38
12 Indians Into Mexicans: History and Identity in a Mexican Town. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute John M. Watanabe et al. 21
13 Between Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala. David Stoll American Anthropologist John M. Watanabe 1
14 Aztec Medicine, Health, and Nutrition The American Indian Quarterly John M. Watanabe, Bernard R. Ortiz de Montellano 64
15 Maya Saints and Souls in a Changing World. Hispanic American Historical Review John Monaghan, John M. Watanabe 34
16 Maya Saints and Souls in a Changing World University of Texas Press eBooks John M. Watanabe 113
17 Social relationships and ritualized greetings in adult male baboons (Papio cynocephalus anubis) International Journal of Primatology Barbara Smuts, John M. Watanabe 149
18 from saints to shibboleths: image, structure, and identity in Maya religious syncretism American Ethnologist John M. Watanabe 41
19 "We who are here" : the cultural conventions of ethnic identity in a Guatemalan Indian village, 1937-1980 Medical Entomology and Zoology John M. Watanabe 5
20 In the World of the Sun: A Cognitive Model of Mayan Cosmology Man John M. Watanabe 21

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