Rodney Needham
Impact in
- Anthropology top 0.5%
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Archeology top 2%
Papers in
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- Asian Studies and History 8
- Anthropology 16
- Anthropological Studies and Insights 5
- Co-authors
- Claude Lévi‐Strauss (2 shared papers)Sally Falk Moore (1 shared paper)Marcel Mauss (4 shared papers)Émile Durkheim (3 shared papers)Robin Fox (2 shared papers)Mary Douglas (1 shared paper)T. M. S. Evens (1 shared paper)Ben Brewster (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (16 papers)American Anthropologist (14 papers)Africa (4 papers)Ethnos (3 papers)Oceania (3 papers)
- Partner nations
- United KingdomNetherlands
In The Last Decade
Rodney Needham
117 papers receiving 3.4k citations
Rodney Needham's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 152
- Anthropology 1.1k
- Archeology 69
- Geography, Planning and Development 332
- Sociology and Political Science 2.0k
- Cultural Studies 347
Countries citing papers authored by Rodney Needham
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Fields of papers citing papers by Rodney Needham
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Rodney Needham, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 128 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Elementary Structures of Kinship. Hit paper breakdown → | 1970 | 1263 |
| 2 | Primitive Classification. Hit paper breakdown → | 1964 | 520 |
| 3 | 1968 | 255 | |
| 4 | Belief, Language and Experience | 1972 | 248 |
| 5 | 1969 | 248 | |
| 6 | 1975 | 212 | |
| 7 | 1980 | 163 | |
| 8 | 1976 | 159 | |
| 9 | 1974 | 150 | |
| 10 | 1968 | 127 | |
| 11 | 1974 | 112 | |
| 12 | 1967 | 100 | |
| 13 | Polythetic Classfication: Convergence and Consequences. | 1975 | 87 |
| 14 | 1963 | 80 | |
| 15 | 1958 | 67 | |
| 16 | 1963 | 64 | |
| 17 | 1960 | 54 | |
| 18 | 1976 | 53 | |
| 19 | 1954 | 47 | |
| 20 | 1969 | 46 |
About Rodney Needham
Rodney Needham is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology, Political Science and International Relations, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Language and Linguistics, having authored 128 papers that have together received 5.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Asian Studies and History (8 papers), South Asian Studies and Conflicts (5 papers), Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (5 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 papers), American Environmental and Regional History (4 papers), African history and culture analysis (4 papers), Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (3 papers) and Botany and Plant Ecology Studies (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Anthropology (1.1k citations), Archeology (69 citations), Geography, Planning and Development (332 citations), Sociology and Political Science (2.0k citations) and Cultural Studies (347 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, Émile Durkheim, Robin Fox, Mary Douglas, T. M. S. Evens, Ben Brewster, F. C. T. Moore and H. Fisher Raymond. 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, Ethnos and Oceania.
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