Laura Rival

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Laura Rival is a scholar working on Anthropology, Cultural Studies and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura Rival has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Anthropology, 7 papers in Cultural Studies and 5 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Laura Rival's work include Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 papers), Indigenous Studies in Latin America (5 papers) and Indigenous Cultures and History (5 papers). Laura Rival is often cited by papers focused on Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 papers), Indigenous Studies in Latin America (5 papers) and Indigenous Cultures and History (5 papers). Laura Rival collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and United States. Laura Rival's co-authors include Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Catherine V. Howard, Doyle McKey, Marianne Élias, Greg Urban, Joël Sherzer, Roger Jeffery, Doyle McKey, Benoît Pujol and Neil L. Whitehead and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Biological Conservation and Current Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

Laura Rival

32 papers receiving 826 citations

Hit Papers

From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in ... 1993 2026 2004 2015 1993 50 100 150 200
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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.

  1. From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society.
    1993 238 citations Laura Rival et al. Man profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Laura Rival United Kingdom 15 414 206 177 166 166 35 1.1k
Peter Rivière United Kingdom 21 551 1.3× 87 0.4× 200 1.1× 267 1.6× 190 1.1× 53 1.5k
Philippe Descola France 21 552 1.3× 92 0.4× 438 2.5× 674 4.1× 139 0.8× 111 2.1k
Carlos Fausto Brazil 19 738 1.8× 126 0.6× 300 1.7× 219 1.3× 588 3.5× 55 1.7k
Eugene S. Hunn United States 19 155 0.4× 371 1.8× 194 1.1× 164 1.0× 32 0.2× 51 1.7k
Daniel W. Gade United States 21 159 0.4× 284 1.4× 158 0.9× 196 1.2× 58 0.3× 75 1.3k
Barbara Bender United Kingdom 13 590 1.4× 33 0.2× 454 2.6× 284 1.7× 92 0.6× 31 1.7k
Fernando Santos‐Granero Panama 17 451 1.1× 24 0.1× 133 0.8× 155 0.9× 159 1.0× 57 860
Kay Milton United Kingdom 13 226 0.5× 125 0.6× 334 1.9× 423 2.5× 21 0.1× 24 1.5k
Terence Turner United States 18 482 1.2× 29 0.1× 144 0.8× 519 3.1× 80 0.5× 56 1.4k
R. Brian Ferguson United States 17 340 0.8× 48 0.2× 99 0.6× 332 2.0× 70 0.4× 61 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Laura Rival

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laura Rival

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rival, Laura. (2023). Pedagogies for the future: ethnographic reflections on two Latin American learning journeys. Oxford Review of Education. 49(4). 555–568. 2 indexed citations
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Rival, Laura. (2009). Time and Memory in Indigenous Amazonia: Anthropological Perspectives. Tipití Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America. 7(2). 10 indexed citations
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Rival, Laura & Doyle McKey. (2008). Domestication and Diversity in Manioc (Manihot esculentaCrantz ssp.esculenta, Euphorbiaceae). Current Anthropology. 49(6). 1119–1128. 80 indexed citations
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Rival, Laura. (2007). Indigenous People, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America. Development in Practice. 17(6). 820–823. 14 indexed citations
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Pujol, Benoît, et al.. (2007). The unappreciated ecology of landrace populations: Conservation consequences of soil seed banks in Cassava. Biological Conservation. 136(4). 541–551. 33 indexed citations
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Rival, Laura. (2006). Amazonian historical ecologies. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 12(s1). 38 indexed citations
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Rival, Laura. (2005). Introduction: What Constitutes a Human Body in Native Amazonia?. Tipití Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America. 3(2). 4 indexed citations
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Rival, Laura. (2005). Resistance in an Amazonian Community. Huaorani Organizing against the Global Economy. Journal of Latin American Anthropology. 10(1). 257–259. 7 indexed citations
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Rival, Laura. (2002). Trekking Through History. Columbia University Press eBooks. 114 indexed citations
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Rival, Laura & Neil L. Whitehead. (2001). Beyond the visible and the material : the Amerindianization of society in the work of Peter Rivière. Oxford University Press eBooks. 13 indexed citations
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Rival, Laura, et al.. (2000). "Hijos del Sol, padres del jaguar. Los Huaorani de ayer y hoy", Laura Rival, Quito 1996 : [recenzja] / Tarzycjusz Buliński.. 84. 6 indexed citations
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Élias, Marianne, Laura Rival, & Doyle McKey. (2000). Perception and management of Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) diversity among Makushi Amerindians of Guyana. Journal of Ethnobiology. 20(2). 36 indexed citations
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Élias, Marianne, Laura Rival, & Doyle McKey. (2000). Perception and management of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) diversity among Makushi Amerindians of Guyana (South America). Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 71 indexed citations
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Rival, Laura, Don Slater, & Daniel Miller. (1998). Sex and Sociality. Theory Culture & Society. 15(3-4). 295–321. 15 indexed citations
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Rival, Laura. (1998). Androgynous Parents and Guest Children: The Huaorani Couvade. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 4(4). 619–619. 75 indexed citations
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Rival, Laura. (1997). Modernity and the Politics of Identity in an Amazonian Society. Bulletin of Latin American Research. 16(2). 137–151. 10 indexed citations
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Rival, Laura. (1996). Hijos del sol, padres del jaguar : los Huaorani de ayer y hoy. 19 indexed citations
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Rival, Laura, et al.. (1994). The Club-Fighters of the Amazon: Warfare Among the Kaiapo Indians of Central Brazil.. Man. 29(3). 781–781. 22 indexed citations
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Rival, Laura, Greg Urban, & Joël Sherzer. (1992). Nationstates and Indians in Latin America.. Man. 27(3). 688–688. 96 indexed citations

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