Bruce Kapferer

4.0k citations
115 papers · 2.4k · 1 hit paper · h-index 23

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Bruce Kapferer

79 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Bruce Kapferer's Hit Papers

Legends of People, Myths of State: Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia. 1989 · 363 citations
3630+12+24Years since publication100200300

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Bruce Kapferer
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  • Anthropology 837
  • Geography, Planning and Development 226
  • Sociology and Political Science 1.2k
  • Political Science and International Relations 519
  • Cultural Studies 173
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Bruce Kapferer, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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Legends of People, Myths of State: Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia.
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1989363
2 1986148
3 1977126
4 1984123
5 2010110
6 200494
7 197793
8 199892
9
Strategy and transaction in an African factory: African workers and Indian management in a Zambian town
197283
10 200568
11 197364
12
Beyond rationalism : rethinking magic, witchcraft and sorcery
200359
13 201159
14
Us and Them in Modern Societies: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Mauritius, Trinidad and Beyond
199254
15 197252
16 200550
17 198944
18 200741
19 200241
20 197940

About Bruce Kapferer

Bruce Kapferer is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology, Political Science and International Relations, Philosophy and Cultural Studies, having authored 115 papers that have together received 2.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Anthropological Studies and Insights (19 papers), Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (7 papers), Political Economy and Marxism (6 papers), Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (5 papers), Religion and Society Interactions (5 papers), Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (5 papers), Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (4 papers) and Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Anthropology (837 citations), Geography, Planning and Development (226 citations), Sociology and Political Science (1.2k citations), Political Science and International Relations (519 citations) and Cultural Studies (173 citations). Bruce Kapferer has collaborated with scholars based in Norway, United Kingdom and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Jonathan Spencer, James J. Davis, R. L. Stirrat, Diane P. Mines, Don Handelman, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Martin Holbraad, W.E.A. van Beek and Jeffrey H. Goldstein. Their work appears in journals such as Social Analysis, Anthropology Today, American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist and The Australian Journal of Anthropology.

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