Marvin Harris

9.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
86 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Marvin Harris is a scholar working on Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marvin Harris has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Anthropology, 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Marvin Harris's work include Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (8 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (4 papers) and Livestock Management and Performance Improvement (4 papers). Marvin Harris is often cited by papers focused on Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (8 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (4 papers) and Livestock Management and Performance Improvement (4 papers). Marvin Harris collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and India. Marvin Harris's co-authors include Peter Loïzos, Waldo E. Haisley, John Gillin, Thomas N. Headland, Kenneth L. Pike, Stephen K. Sanderson, William Divale, Charles Wagley, Bryan Byrne and Wilhelm E. Mühlmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Academy of Management Review, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and American Sociological Review.

In The Last Decade

Marvin Harris

78 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

The Rise of Anthropological Theory 1970 2026 1988 2007 1970 1983 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

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. The Rise of Anthropological Theory
    1970 713 citations Marvin Harris et al. profile →
  2. Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture
    1983 703 citations Marvin Harris et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marvin Harris United States 29 2.1k 852 594 463 397 86 5.4k
Mircéa Éliade United States 30 2.1k 1.0× 997 1.2× 651 1.1× 483 1.0× 397 1.0× 204 6.1k
Fredrik Barth United States 29 3.0k 1.4× 1.4k 1.6× 422 0.7× 1.2k 2.5× 496 1.2× 81 6.1k
Rodney Needham United Kingdom 25 1.7k 0.8× 957 1.1× 346 0.6× 478 1.0× 300 0.8× 118 4.1k
Elizabeth Colson United States 24 3.0k 1.4× 783 0.9× 525 0.9× 770 1.7× 251 0.6× 76 6.7k
George Peter Murdock United States 27 1.6k 0.8× 734 0.9× 698 1.2× 229 0.5× 313 0.8× 67 4.6k
Edmund Leach United States 35 2.2k 1.0× 1.4k 1.6× 306 0.5× 1.1k 2.3× 314 0.8× 130 5.2k
E. E. Evans‐Pritchard United Kingdom 22 2.5k 1.2× 1.2k 1.4× 410 0.7× 723 1.6× 203 0.5× 112 5.5k
Marcel Mauss Canada 29 3.7k 1.8× 1.3k 1.5× 569 1.0× 914 2.0× 469 1.2× 115 7.9k
Maurice Bloch United Kingdom 37 2.9k 1.4× 2.2k 2.6× 690 1.2× 886 1.9× 516 1.3× 112 7.2k
Jack Goody United Kingdom 44 3.4k 1.6× 2.1k 2.4× 321 0.5× 1.2k 2.5× 575 1.4× 221 9.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Marvin Harris

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marvin Harris

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marvin Harris

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marvin Harris. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marvin Harris based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Marvin Harris. Marvin Harris is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Harris, Marvin & Maxine L. Margolis. (2001). Rise of Anthropological Theory. Rowman & Littlefield eBooks.
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Harris, Marvin, et al.. (1995). A Reply to Telles. Social Forces. 73(4). 1613–1614. 8 indexed citations
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Byrne, Bryan, et al.. (1995). What's in a Name? The Consequences of Violating Brazilian Emic Color-Race Categories in Estimates of Social Well-Being. Journal of Anthropological Research. 51(4). 389–397. 18 indexed citations
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Harris, Marvin, et al.. (1993). Who are the Whites?: Imposed Census Categories and the Racial Demography of Brazil. Social Forces. 72(2). 451–451. 58 indexed citations
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Harris, Marvin & Thomas M. Stephens. (1991). Dictionary of Latin American Racial and Ethnic Terminology. Ethnohistory. 38(1). 86–86. 5 indexed citations
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Headland, Thomas N., Kenneth L. Pike, & Marvin Harris. (1990). Emics and Etics the Insider/Outsider Debate. Sage eBooks. 406 indexed citations
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Harris, Marvin. (1990). General/Theoretical Anthropology: Animals and People Sharing the World. Andrew N. Rowan, ed. American Anthropologist. 92(4). 1079–1080. 1 indexed citations
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Harris, Marvin. (1981). America now : the anthropology of a changing culture. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew). 35 indexed citations
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Harris, Marvin, et al.. (1981). Boundary perception in fluent speech. Journal of Phonetics. 9(1). 1–18. 6 indexed citations
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Divale, William & Marvin Harris. (1978). Reply to Lancaster and Lancaster. American Anthropologist. 80(1). 117–118. 1 indexed citations
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Harris, Marvin & Edward O. Wilson. (1978). Encounter: The Envelope and the Twing. The Sciences. 18(8). 10–15. 12 indexed citations
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Harris, Marvin. (1978). CONCERNING THE ORIGINS OF CULTURES. PEDIATRICS. 62(4). 548–548.
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Harris, Marvin. (1976). Lévi-Strauss et la palourde. Réponse à la Conférence Gildersleeve de 1972. L Homme. 16(2). 5–22. 3 indexed citations
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Harris, Marvin. (1974). The emperor's clothing store. Reviews in Anthropology. 1(2). 170–184. 2 indexed citations
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Harris, Marvin. (1972). How green the revolution. Journal of Contemporary Asia. 2(4). 446–448. 4 indexed citations
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Freeman, Derek, et al.. (1970). On Harris' Rise of Anthropological Theory. Current Anthropology. 11(1). 65–67. 1 indexed citations
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Porterfield, Austin L., Morton H. Fried, Marvin Harris, & Robert F. Murphy. (1969). War: The Anthropology of Armed Conflict and Aggression.. Social Forces. 47(3). 360–360. 8 indexed citations
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Harris, Marvin. (1964). Patterns of race in the Americas. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 284 indexed citations
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Harris, Marvin. (1960). DIVISION OF ANTHROPOLOGY: ADAPTATION IN BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL SCIENCE*. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences. 23(1 Series II). 59–65. 10 indexed citations

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