Meyer Fortes

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Meyer Fortes is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Anthropology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Meyer Fortes has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 8 papers in Anthropology and 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Meyer Fortes's work include African history and culture analysis (7 papers), Biblical Studies and Interpretation (4 papers) and African history and culture studies (3 papers). Meyer Fortes is often cited by papers focused on African history and culture analysis (7 papers), Biblical Studies and Interpretation (4 papers) and African history and culture studies (3 papers). Meyer Fortes collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and United States. Meyer Fortes's co-authors include Sally Falk Moore, Audrey I. Richards, Max Gluckman, Daryll Forde, Victor Turner, Fernando Henriques, Ernest Gellner, J. David Sapir, Lucy Mair and Doris Mayer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, American Sociological Review and Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Meyer Fortes

52 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Kinship and the Social Order: The Legacy of Lewis Henry M... 1970 2026 1988 2007 1970 50 100 150

Peers

Meyer Fortes
Comparison fields: 5 of 112
  • Sociology and Political Science 739
  • Anthropology 537
  • Political Science and International Relations 240
  • Cultural Studies 145
  • General Health Professions 143
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Fields of papers citing papers by Meyer Fortes

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Meyer Fortes

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
1 5
2
The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi: Being the First Part of an Analysis of the Social Structure of a Trans-Volta Tribe
2
3 33
4
An Interview With Professor Meyer Fortes by Dr. Kwesi Prah and Professor A. Bujra
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5
Sistemas políticos africanos
4
6 0
7 38
8
Tallensi Ritual Festivals and the Ancestors
9
9
Studies in African social anthropology
49
10 11
11 1
12 26
13
Family and colour in Jamaica
80
14
Institutionen in primitiven Gesellschaften
2
15 39
16 70
17 2
18
Names among the Tallensi of the Gold Coast
7
19 201
20
Social anthropology : at Cambridge since 1900 : an inaugural lecture
5

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