Rodney Needham

7.8k citations
118 papers · 4.1k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 25

Rodney Needham

110 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

The Elementary Structures of Kinship.1.0k19642026198420052505007501000

Peers

Rodney Needham
Comparison fields: 5 of 154
  • Anthropology 957
  • Archeology 63
  • Geography, Planning and Development 282
  • Sociology and Political Science 1.7k
  • Cultural Studies 300
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20141
2 19890
3 198016
4
The role of ecology in national parks.
19791
5
Rois et courtisans
19783
6 19772
7 19766
8 1976127
9
Belief, Language and Experience
1972221
10 19704
11 19671
12 196627
13 196618
14 19661
15 196516
16
Death & the right hand
196018
17
Research projects in Southeast Asia
19601
18 195926
19 195828
20 19531

About Rodney Needham

Rodney Needham is a scholar working on Anthropology, Linguistics and Language, Religious studies, Political Science and International Relations and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, having authored 118 papers that have together received 4.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include South Asian Studies and Conflicts (5 papers), Asian Studies and History (5 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 papers), Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (4 papers), American Environmental and Regional History (4 papers), African history and culture analysis (4 papers), Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (3 papers) and African history and culture studies (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Anthropology (957 citations), Archeology (63 citations), Geography, Planning and Development (282 citations), Sociology and Political Science (1.7k citations) and Cultural Studies (300 citations). Rodney Needham has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Claude Lévi‐Strauss, Sally Falk Moore, Marcel Mauss, Robin Fox, Émile Durkheim, T. M. S. Evens, Mary Douglas, Ben Brewster, F. C. T. Moore and David M. Schneider. Their work appears in journals such as Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, American Anthropologist, Africa, Oceania and Ethnos.

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