Rane Willerslev

3.5k total citations
54 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Rane Willerslev is a scholar working on Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Rane Willerslev has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Anthropology, 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 11 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Rane Willerslev's work include Anthropological Studies and Insights (23 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (11 papers) and Indigenous Studies and Ecology (10 papers). Rane Willerslev is often cited by papers focused on Anthropological Studies and Insights (23 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (11 papers) and Indigenous Studies and Ecology (10 papers). Rane Willerslev collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United Kingdom and Ukraine. Rane Willerslev's co-authors include Nils Bubandt, Ton Otto, Alberto Corsín Jiménez, Dorthe Refslund Christensen, Martin Holbraad, Piers Vitebsky, Morten Axel Pedersen, Lotte Meinert, Cristina Grasseni and Felix Riede and has published in prestigious journals such as Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Current Anthropology and Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

In The Last Decade

Rane Willerslev

45 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rane Willerslev Denmark	19	547	356	349	214	140	54	1.2k
Nurit Bird‐David Israel	17	671 1.2×	449 1.3×	480 1.4×	220 1.0×	136 1.0×	36	1.7k
Richard J. Parmentier United States	14	378 0.7×	271 0.8×	410 1.2×	156 0.7×	117 0.8×	49	1.5k
Eduardo Kohn Canada	9	468 0.9×	756 2.1×	344 1.0×	112 0.5×	162 1.2×	31	1.6k
Martin Holbraad United Kingdom	19	781 1.4×	398 1.1×	634 1.8×	94 0.4×	249 1.8×	47	1.7k
James J. Fox Australia	25	382 0.7×	238 0.7×	535 1.5×	117 0.5×	172 1.2×	103	2.0k
Zoe Todd Canada	10	236 0.4×	514 1.4×	544 1.6×	217 1.0×	183 1.3×	16	1.5k
Carlos Fausto Brazil	19	738 1.3×	300 0.8×	219 0.6×	423 2.0×	61 0.4×	55	1.7k
Nicolas Peterson Australia	18	853 1.6×	395 1.1×	547 1.6×	349 1.6×	112 0.8×	55	2.2k
Beth A. Conklin United States	9	603 1.1×	166 0.5×	302 0.9×	159 0.7×	207 1.5×	19	1.2k
Stephen Hugh‐Jones United Kingdom	15	487 0.9×	132 0.4×	326 0.9×	212 1.0×	114 0.8×	41	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rane Willerslev

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Walsh, Matthew J., Sean O’Neill, Anna Marie Prentiss, et al.. (2023). Ideas with Histories: Traditional Knowledge Evolves. ARCTIC. 76(1). 26–47. 4 indexed citations

Løvschal, Mette, et al.. (2019). Human sacrifice and value. Antiquity. 93(370). 2 indexed citations

Willerslev, Rane, et al.. (2018). Faith in anthropologyResponse to rejoinders to Willerslev, Rane, and Christian Suhr. 2018 “Is there a place for faith in anthropology? Religion, reason, and the ethnographer’s divine revelation.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 8 (1): 65–78.. Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 8(1-2). 92–96.

Riede, Felix, et al.. (2018). Arctic Disequilibrium: Shifting Human-Environmental Systems. Cross-Cultural Research. 53(3). 243–251. 2 indexed citations

Riede, Felix, et al.. (2018). Special Section Introduction: Socioecological Disequilibrium in the Circumpolar North. Human Ecology. 46(5). 615–620. 4 indexed citations

Willerslev, Rane, et al.. (2016). Regenerating Life in the Face of Predation: A Study of Mortuary Ritual as Sacrifice among the Siberian Chukchi. Sibirica. 15(2). 1–39. 7 indexed citations

Willerslev, Rane. (2016). The Anthropology of Ontology Meets the Writing Culture Debate: Is Reconciliation Possible?. Social Analysis. 60(1). 6 indexed citations

Bohn, Annette, Rane Willerslev, & Lotte Meinert. (2016). In 1980, there was an outbreak of cholera and famine: Life story memories of the Ik of Uganda.

Willerslev, Rane, George E. Marcus, & Lotte Meinert. (2016). Obstruction and Intervention as Creative Methods in Anthropological Research. Ethnos. 82(5). 809–819. 3 indexed citations

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Willerslev, Rane & Lotte Meinert. (2016). Understanding Hunger with Ik Elders and Turnbull'sThe Mountain People. Ethnos. 82(5). 820–845. 5 indexed citations

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Willerslev, Rane. (2013). Taking Animism Seriously, but Perhaps Not Too Seriously?. 4(1). 40 indexed citations

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Willerslev, Rane, et al.. (2012). When Good Luck Is Bad Fortune: Between Too Little and Too Much Hunting Success in Siberia. Social Analysis. 56(2). 11 indexed citations

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Willerslev, Rane, et al.. (2012). Revisiting the Animism vs. Totemism Debate: Fabricating Persons among Eveny and Chukchi of Northeastern Siberia. Berghahn Books.

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Willerslev, Rane. (2012). Laughing at the Spirits in North Siberia: Is Animism Being Taken too Seriously?. 1 indexed citations

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Willerslev, Rane. (2011). Frazer strikes back from the armchair: a new search for the animist soul*. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 17(3). 504–526. 46 indexed citations

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Willerslev, Rane. (2009). The optimal sacrifice: A study of voluntary death among the Siberian Chukchi. American Ethnologist. 36(4). 693–704. 40 indexed citations

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Willerslev, Rane, et al.. (2007). The sable frontier: the Siberian fur trade as montage. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 26(2). 79–100. 10 indexed citations

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Willerslev, Rane. (2007). Comments on Carlos Fausto's Article "Feasting on People: Eating Animals and Humans in Amazonia". Current Anthropology. 48(4). 3 indexed citations

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Willerslev, Rane. (2004). Not Animal Not Not-Animal: Hunting, Imitation and Empathetic Knowledge among the Siberian Yukaghirs. Ministry of Culture Research Portal. 4 indexed citations

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Willerslev, Rane. (2004). Spirits as ‘ready to hand’. Anthropological Theory. 4(4). 395–418. 21 indexed citations

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