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 — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John M. Watanabe United States 13 184 148 148 138 127 23 645
Anthony Seeger United States 15 278 1.5× 62 0.4× 56 0.4× 28 0.2× 143 1.1× 63 924
Gregory Forth Canada 13 281 1.5× 95 0.6× 9 0.1× 137 1.0× 309 2.4× 94 838
Edward L. Schieffelin United States 10 268 1.5× 76 0.5× 22 0.1× 45 0.3× 226 1.8× 16 636
Lorna Marshall United States 15 512 2.8× 106 0.7× 13 0.1× 35 0.3× 248 2.0× 22 1.1k
John Paddock Mexico 9 72 0.4× 89 0.6× 56 0.4× 16 0.1× 217 1.7× 20 462
Aparecida Vilaça Brazil 15 542 2.9× 63 0.4× 43 0.3× 30 0.2× 204 1.6× 41 886
David E. Stuart Guatemala 5 248 1.3× 123 0.8× 15 0.1× 15 0.1× 248 2.0× 8 764
Herbert S. Lewis United States 11 222 1.2× 48 0.3× 12 0.1× 138 1.0× 258 2.0× 52 587
Azar Gat Israel 12 88 0.5× 91 0.6× 8 0.1× 276 2.0× 482 3.8× 38 811
Åke Hultkrantz Sweden 15 177 1.0× 146 1.0× 20 0.1× 31 0.2× 171 1.3× 88 757

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John M. Watanabe

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Watanabe, John M.. (2016). Racing to the top: descent ideologies and why Ladinos never meant to be mestizos in colonial Guatemala. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies. 11(3). 305–322. 4 indexed citations
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Watanabe, John M.. (2014). Maya and Catholic Cultures in Crisis. American Anthropologist. 116(1). 202–203.
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Watanabe, John M.. (2008). Being Like a State: A Historical Anthropology of Translocal Representation (in Both Senses of the Term). Ethnohistory. 55(4). 509–524. 1 indexed citations
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Watanabe, John M. & Edward F. Fischer. (2004). Pluralizing Ethnography: Comparison and Representation in Maya Cultures, Histories, and Identities. 26 indexed citations
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Watanabe, John M.. (2004). SOME MODELS IN A MUDDLE: Lineage and house in Classic Maya social organization. Ancient Mesoamerica. 15(1). 159–166. 17 indexed citations
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Watanabe, John M.. (2001). 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. 6(2). 134–174. 1 indexed citations
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Watanabe, John M.. (1999). 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. 117–126. 1 indexed citations
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Watanabe, John M.. (1999). Getting Over Hegemony and Resistance: Reinstating Culture in the Study of Power Relations across Difference1. 4 indexed citations
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Watanabe, John M. & Barbara Smuts. (1999). 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. 101(1). 98–112. 34 indexed citations
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Watanabe, John M., et al.. (1998). The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town. Ethnohistory. 45(4). 815–815. 45 indexed citations
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Watanabe, John M.. (1997). The Covenants with Earth and Rain: Exchange, Sacrifice, and Revelation in Mixtec Sociality. American Ethnologist. 24(1). 229–230. 38 indexed citations
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Watanabe, John M., et al.. (1997). Indians Into Mexicans: History and Identity in a Mexican Town.. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 3(3). 603–603. 21 indexed citations
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Watanabe, John M.. (1994). Between Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala. David Stoll. American Anthropologist. 96(3). 738–739. 1 indexed citations
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Watanabe, John M. & Bernard R. Ortiz de Montellano. (1993). Aztec Medicine, Health, and Nutrition. The American Indian Quarterly. 17(1). 149–149. 64 indexed citations
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Monaghan, John & John M. Watanabe. (1993). Maya Saints and Souls in a Changing World.. Hispanic American Historical Review. 73(4). 720–720. 34 indexed citations
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Watanabe, John M.. (1992). Maya Saints and Souls in a Changing World. University of Texas Press eBooks. 113 indexed citations
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Smuts, Barbara & John M. Watanabe. (1990). Social relationships and ritualized greetings in adult male baboons (Papio cynocephalus anubis). International Journal of Primatology. 11(2). 147–172. 149 indexed citations
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Watanabe, John M.. (1990). from saints to shibboleths: image, structure, and identity in Maya religious syncretism. American Ethnologist. 17(1). 131–150. 41 indexed citations
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Watanabe, John M.. (1984). "We who are here" : the cultural conventions of ethnic identity in a Guatemalan Indian village, 1937-1980. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 5 indexed citations
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Watanabe, John M.. (1983). In the World of the Sun: A Cognitive Model of Mayan Cosmology. Man. 18(4). 710–710. 21 indexed citations

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