Richard Handler

10.1k citations

145 papers · 5.5k · 4 hit papers · h-index 30

Impact in

Museology top 0.01%
- Museums and Cultural Heritage
Anthropology top 0.2%
- Anthropological Studies and Insights

Papers in

Anthropology 28
- Anthropological Studies and Insights 11
- Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture 9
- Philippine History and Culture 6
Museology 27
- Museums and Cultural Heritage 27

Co-authors: Mark P. Leone (1 shared paper)Eric Gable (19 shared papers)Jocelyn Linnekin (2 shared papers)Regina Bendix (1 shared paper)Ernest Gellner (1 shared paper)David Löwenthal (1 shared paper)Daniel A. Segal (8 shared papers)John Ellis (1 shared paper)
Journals: American Anthropologist (19 papers)American Ethnologist (9 papers)Museum Anthropology (8 papers)Anthropological Quarterly (7 papers)Journal of American History (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States Italy Germany

In The Last Decade

Richard Handler

122 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Richard Handler's Hit Papers

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Routes: Travel and Translation In the Late Twentieth Century 1998 · 990 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1998 American Ethnologist
1996 Museum Anthropology
1990 Anthropological Quarterly
1984 Journal of American Folklore

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1	Routes: Travel and Translation In the Late Twentieth Century American Ethnologist ·Richard Handler Hit paper breakdown →	1998	990
2	The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics Museum Anthropology ·Richard Handler Hit paper breakdown →	1996	765
3	Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec Anthropological Quarterly ·Mark P. Leone, Richard Handler Hit paper breakdown →	1990	622
4	Tradition, Genuine or Spurious Journal of American Folklore ·Richard Handler, Jocelyn Linnekin Hit paper breakdown →	1984	445
5	In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies Western Folklore ·Richard Handler, Regina Bendix	1998	260
6	Culture, Identity, and Politics. Man ·Richard Handler, Ernest Gellner	1988	182
7	The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg The William and Mary Quarterly ·David Löwenthal, Richard Handler, Eric Gable	1998	174
8	Authenticity Anthropology Today ·Richard Handler	1986	173
9	Dyssimulation: Reflexivity, Narrative, and the Quest for Authenticity in “Living History” Cultural Anthropology ·Richard Handler, William Saxton	1988	166
10	The New History in an Old Museum Richard Handler, Eric Gable	1997	126
11	Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles. Museum Anthropology ·Richard Handler	1994	111
12	CHAPTER I. Is "Identity" a Useful Cross-Cultural Concept? Princeton University Press eBooks ·Richard Handler	1994	82
13	After Authenticity at an American Heritage Site American Anthropologist ·Eric Gable, Richard Handler	1996	80
14	On Dialogue and Destructive Analysis: Problems in Narrating Nationalism and Ethnicity Journal of Anthropological Research ·Richard Handler	1985	79
15	on the uses of relativism: fact, conjecture, and black and white histories at Colonial Williamsburg American Ethnologist ·Eric Gable, Richard Handler, Anna Lawson	1992	75
16	On Sociocultural Discontinuity: Nationalism and Cultural Objectification in Quebec [and Comments and Reply] Current Anthropology ·Richard Handler, Bernard Arcand, Ronald Cohen, Bernard Delfendahl, Dean MacCannell, Kent Maynard, Lise Pilon-Lê, M. Estellie Smith	1984	57
17	Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists American Anthropologist ·Richard Handler	1997	52
18	Invisible genealogies: A history of Americanist anthropology Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences ·Richard Handler	2002	50
19	An Interview with Clifford Geertz Current Anthropology ·Richard Handler	1991	45
20	Conserving Culture: A New Discourse on Heritage. Journal of American History ·Richard Handler, Mary Hufford	1995	44

About Richard Handler

Richard Handler is a scholar working on Anthropology, Museology, Sociology and Political Science, Archeology and History, having authored 145 papers that have together received 5.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Museums and Cultural Heritage (27 papers), Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (16 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (11 papers), Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (9 papers), Culinary Culture and Tourism (7 papers), Philippine History and Culture (6 papers), Photography and Visual Culture (6 papers) and Canadian Identity and History (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Museology (842 citations), Anthropology (1.4k citations), Geography, Planning and Development (562 citations), Space and Planetary Science (114 citations) and Archeology (866 citations). Richard Handler has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Italy and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Mark P. Leone, Eric Gable, Jocelyn Linnekin, Regina Bendix, Ernest Gellner, David Löwenthal, Daniel A. Segal, John Ellis, Roy Rosenzweig and Gerald M. Sider. Their work appears in journals such as American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Museum Anthropology, Anthropological Quarterly and Journal of American History.

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