Richard Handler

10.1k citations

138 papers · 5.4k · 4 hit papers · h-index 28

Impact in

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

Papers in

Museology 27
- Museums and Cultural Heritage 27
Anthropology 25
- Anthropological Studies and Insights 10
- Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture 9

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 T Lowenthal (1 shared paper)Daniel A. Segal (8 shared papers)John Martin Ellis (1 shared paper)
Journals: American Anthropologist (19 papers)American Ethnologist (8 papers)Museum Anthropology (8 papers)Anthropological Quarterly (7 papers)Journal of American History (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany Italy

In The Last Decade

Richard Handler

119 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Richard Handler's Hit Papers

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Routes: Travel and Translation In the Late Twentieth Century 1998 · 985 citations

What are hit papers?

Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

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	985
2	The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics Museum Anthropology ·Richard Handler Hit paper breakdown →	1996	764
3	Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec Anthropological Quarterly ·Mark P. Leone, Richard Handler Hit paper breakdown →	1990	615
4	Tradition, Genuine or Spurious Journal of American Folklore ·Richard Handler, Jocelyn Linnekin Hit paper breakdown →	1984	430
5	In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies Western Folklore ·Richard Handler, Regina Bendix	1998	255
6	Authenticity Anthropology Today ·Richard Handler	1986	180
7	Culture, Identity, and Politics. Man ·Richard Handler, Ernest Gellner	1988	177
8	The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg The William and Mary Quarterly ·David T Lowenthal, Richard Handler, Eric Gable	1998	166
9	Dyssimulation: Reflexivity, Narrative, and the Quest for Authenticity in “Living History” Cultural Anthropology ·Richard Handler, William Saxton	1988	160
10	The New History in an Old Museum Richard Handler, Eric Gable	1997	124
11	Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles. Museum Anthropology ·Richard Handler	1994	113
12	CHAPTER I. Is "Identity" a Useful Cross-Cultural Concept? Princeton University Press eBooks ·Richard Handler	1994	81
13	On Dialogue and Destructive Analysis: Problems in Narrating Nationalism and Ethnicity Journal of Anthropological Research ·Richard Handler	1985	76
14	on the uses of relativism: fact, conjecture, and black and white histories at Colonial Williamsburg American Ethnologist ·Eric Gable, Richard Handler, Anna Lawson	1992	76
15	After Authenticity at an American Heritage Site American Anthropologist ·Eric Gable, Richard Handler	1996	74
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	55
17	Invisible genealogies: A history of Americanist anthropology Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences ·Richard Handler	2002	50
18	Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists American Anthropologist ·Richard Handler	1997	46
19	An Interview with Clifford Geertz Current Anthropology ·Richard Handler	1991	44
20	Conserving Culture: A New Discourse on Heritage. Journal of American History ·Richard Handler, Mary T. Hufford	1995	43

About Richard Handler

Richard Handler is a scholar working on Museology, Anthropology, Archeology, History and Sociology and Political Science, having authored 138 papers that have together received 5.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Museums and Cultural Heritage (27 papers), Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (15 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (10 papers), Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (9 papers), Canadian Identity and History (6 papers), Photography and Visual Culture (6 papers), Culinary Culture and Tourism (6 papers) and Cultural Identity and Heritage (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Museology (830 citations), Anthropology (1.3k citations), Geography, Planning and Development (552 citations), Space and Planetary Science (118 citations) and Archeology (853 citations). Richard Handler has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Italy. Frequent co-authors include Mark P. Leone, Eric Gable, Jocelyn Linnekin, Regina Bendix, Ernest Gellner, David T Lowenthal, Daniel A. Segal, John Martin 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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