Nicolas Peterson

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
55 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Nicolas Peterson is a scholar working on Anthropology, General Health Professions and Geography, Planning and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolas Peterson has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Anthropology, 10 papers in General Health Professions and 10 papers in Geography, Planning and Development. Recurrent topics in Nicolas Peterson's work include Indigenous Studies and Ecology (10 papers), Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (8 papers) and Australian Indigenous Culture and History (6 papers). Nicolas Peterson is often cited by papers focused on Indigenous Studies and Ecology (10 papers), Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (8 papers) and Australian Indigenous Culture and History (6 papers). Nicolas Peterson collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Iran. Nicolas Peterson's co-authors include Christopher Pinney, Marcia Langton, John Taylor, Eric Alden Smith, Stephen Beckerman, Roy R. Grinker, John E. Yellen, Kristen Hawkes, Jon Altman and George W. Wenzel and has published in prestigious journals such as American Anthropologist, Current Anthropology and Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

In The Last Decade

Nicolas Peterson

50 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self: Sentiment, Place, and Poli... 1987 2026 2000 2013 1987 1993 100 200 300 400

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicolas Peterson Australia 18 853 547 395 391 349 55 2.2k
Roy A. Rappàport United States 14 624 0.7× 1.2k 2.2× 386 1.0× 184 0.5× 188 0.5× 29 3.0k
Ronald M. Berndt Australia 25 790 0.9× 443 0.8× 478 1.2× 390 1.0× 228 0.7× 93 2.2k
Andrew Strathern United States 30 1.3k 1.5× 1.5k 2.8× 801 2.0× 227 0.6× 305 0.9× 160 3.9k
Keith H. Basso United States 15 479 0.6× 515 0.9× 250 0.6× 191 0.5× 235 0.7× 33 2.1k
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Brazil 26 2.1k 2.5× 1.2k 2.2× 1.1k 2.8× 206 0.5× 681 2.0× 71 4.8k
Nurit Bird‐David Israel 17 671 0.8× 480 0.9× 449 1.1× 69 0.2× 220 0.6× 36 1.7k
George W. Stocking United States 29 1.2k 1.4× 1.4k 2.5× 340 0.9× 84 0.2× 181 0.5× 127 3.8k
Richard J. Parmentier United States 14 378 0.4× 410 0.7× 271 0.7× 90 0.2× 156 0.4× 49 1.5k
Melvin Ember United States 29 417 0.5× 1.0k 1.9× 107 0.3× 96 0.2× 190 0.5× 85 2.4k
Carol R. Ember United States 32 489 0.6× 1.5k 2.8× 148 0.4× 122 0.3× 266 0.8× 104 3.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nicolas Peterson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicolas Peterson

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Peterson, Nicolas. (2015). Place, Personhood and Marginalization: Ontology and Community in Remote Desert Australia. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 11 indexed citations
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Peterson, Nicolas. (2006). Visual Knowledge: Spencer and Gillen's Use of Photography in 'The Native Tribes' of Central Australia. Australian aboriginal studies. 2006(1). 12. 3 indexed citations
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Peterson, Nicolas. (2006). Early 20th Century Photography of Australian Aboriginal Families: Illustration or Evidence?. Visual Anthropology Review. 2 indexed citations
4.
Rigsby, Bruce & Nicolas Peterson. (2005). Donald Thomson: The Man and Scholar. 1 indexed citations
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Peterson, Nicolas. (2004). On the visibility of Indigenous Australian systems of marine tenure. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 67(67). 427–444. 3 indexed citations
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Peterson, Nicolas, et al.. (2000). Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: Changing Conceptions and Possibilities. Pacific Affairs. 73(1). 154–154. 4 indexed citations
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Peterson, Nicolas. (1999). Hunter-Gatherers in First World Nation States : Bringing Anthropology Home. 23(4). 847–861. 3 indexed citations
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Peterson, Nicolas & John Taylor. (1998). Demographic transition in a hunter-gatherer population: The Tiwi case, 1929-1996. Australian aboriginal studies. 1998(1). 11–22. 9 indexed citations
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Peterson, Nicolas. (1991). Cash, Commoditisation and Authenticity : When do Aboriginal People Stop Being Hunter-Gatherers?. Senri ethnological studies. 30(30). 67–90. 13 indexed citations
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Peterson, Nicolas. (1991). SES no.30; Introduction : Cash, Commoditisation and Changing Foragers. Senri ethnological studies. 30. 1–16. 8 indexed citations
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Peterson, Nicolas, et al.. (1991). Cash, Commoditisation and changing foragers. 28 indexed citations
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Peterson, Nicolas. (1990). 'Studying man and man's nature': The history of the institutionalisation of aboriginal anthropology. Australian aboriginal studies. 3. 27 indexed citations
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Peterson, Nicolas. (1989). A colonial image: Penetrating the reality of the message. Australian aboriginal studies. 59. 3 indexed citations
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Testart, Alain, Tim Ingold, Dominique Legros, et al.. (1988). Some Major Problems in the Social Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers [and Comments and Reply]. Current Anthropology. 29(1). 1–31. 42 indexed citations
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Dayananda, M. A., Stanley Rothman, Wayne E. King, & Nicolas Peterson. (1987). Norman L. Peterson Memorial Symposium, Oxidation of Metals and Associated Mass Transport : proceedings of a symposium sponsored jointly by the Metallurgical Society of AIME and the MSD-ASM Atomic Transport Activity held at the TMS-AIME fall meeting in Orlando, Florida, October 6-7, 1986 and dedicated to the memory of Norman L. Peterson. 5 indexed citations
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Peterson, Nicolas. (1986). Fantasy and utopia in the contemporary Soviet novel, 1976-1981. University Microfilms International eBooks.
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Peterson, Nicolas & S.D. Harkness. (1976). Radiation damage in metals : papers presented at a seminar of the American Society for Metals, November 9 and 10, 1975. 13 indexed citations
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Peterson, Nicolas. (1973). CAMP SITE LOCATION AMONGST AUSTRALIAN HUNTER‐GATHERERS: ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE FOR A KEY DETERMINANT. Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania. 8(3). 173–193. 47 indexed citations
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Peterson, Nicolas. (1972). Totemism Yesterday: Sentiment and Local Organisation Among the Australian Aborigines. Man. 7(1). 12–12. 51 indexed citations
20.
Peterson, Nicolas. (1971). Open sites and the ethnographic approach to the archaeology of hunter-gatherers. 239–248. 17 indexed citations

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