Edwin Ardener

4.4k citations
43 papers · 2.8k · 1 hit paper · h-index 15

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Edwin Ardener

35 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Edwin Ardener's Hit Papers

Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. 1967 · 2.1k citations
2.1k0+19+39Years since publication50010001.5k2.0k

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Edwin Ardener
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  • Anthropology 521
  • Geography, Planning and Development 235
  • Sociology and Political Science 1.1k
  • Gender Studies 179
  • Cultural Studies 161
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Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo.
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19672130
2 1989116
3 196679
4 201365
5 201256
6 196842
7 197141
8
Plantation and village in the Cameroons.
196037
9 201337
10 196133
11 196324
12
Coastal Bantu of the Cameroons : the Kpe-Mboko, Duala-Limba and Tanga-Yasa groups of the British and French Trusteeship Territories of the Cameroons
195622
13 196522
14 199819
15
The nature of the reunification of Cameroon
196718
16 199614
17 196112
18 19669
19 19668
20 20138

About Edwin Ardener

Edwin Ardener is a scholar working on Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Language and Linguistics and Political Science and International Relations, having authored 43 papers that have together received 2.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include African history and culture studies (5 papers), Agriculture and Rural Development Research (4 papers), African Studies and Geopolitics (4 papers), Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (2 papers), Coastal and Marine Management (2 papers), African history and culture analysis (2 papers) and Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Anthropology (521 citations), Geography, Planning and Development (235 citations), Sociology and Political Science (1.1k citations), Gender Studies (179 citations) and Cultural Studies (161 citations). Edwin Ardener has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Mary Douglas, Marcel Griaule, Shirley Ardener, Phyllis M. Kaberry, Frederick Quinn, David Zeitlyn, George Peter Murdock, Igor de Garine, William M. Kephart and Michael G. Smith. Their work appears in journals such as Current Anthropology, Geographical Journal, Africa, British Journal of Sociology and Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory.

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