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Bruce M. Knauft

36 works· latest 2023· 2 institutionscluster: provisionalORCID 0000-0002-5693-8511

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Most cited in this library

Egalitarian Behavior and Reverse Dominance Hierarchy [and Comments and Reply]1993 · 675 citations
Critically Modern: Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies2002 · 496 citations
Violence and Sociality in Human Evolution [and Comments and Replies]1991 · 427 citations
Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology2013 · 213 citations
Reconsidering Violence in Simple Human Societies: Homicide among the Gebusi of New Guinea [and Comments and Reply]1987 · 209 citations

Works

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Anthropology Bright and Dark

Social Analysis·2023·7 authors·Open access

36citations

Good anthropology in dark times: Critical appraisal and ethnographic application

The Australian Journal of Anthropology·2018·1 author

64citations

Self-possessed and Self-governed: Transcendent Spirituality in Tibetan Tantric Buddhism

Ethnos·2017·1 author

10citations

Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology

Routledge eBooks·2013·1 author·book

213citations

Returns to the field : multitemporal research and contemporary anthropology

·2012·3 authors

56citations

Anthropology in the middle

Anthropological Theory·2006·1 author

57citations

The Gebusi: Lives Transformed in a Rainforest World

Exchanging the past : a rainforest world of before and after

University of Chicago Press eBooks·2002·1 author·book

156citations

Critically Modern

Indiana University Press eBooks·2002·1 author·book

97citations

From primitive to postcolonial in Melanesia and anthropology

Choice Reviews Online·2000·1 author·other

71citations

From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology

University of Michigan Press eBooks·1999·1 author·book·Open access

145citations

Theoretical Currents in Late Modern Cultural Anthropology

Cultural Dynamics·1997·1 author

19citations

Gender Identity, Political Economy and Modernity in Melanesia and Amazonia

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute·1997·1 author

67citations

2 Culture and Cooperation in Human Evolution

Lynne Rienner Publishers eBooks·1994·1 author·chapter

11citations

Pushing Anthropology Past the Posts

Critique of Anthropology·1994·1 author

23citations

On Human Egalitarianism: An Evolutionary Product of Machiavellian Status Escalation?

Current Anthropology·1994·4 authors·editorial

142citations

South Coast New Guinea Cultures

Cambridge University Press eBooks·1993·1 author·book

123citations

Women's status

Cambridge University Press eBooks·1993·1 author·chapter

10citations

Violence and Sociality in Human Evolution [and Comments and Replies]

Current Anthropology·1991·8 authors

427citations

The question of Ritualised homosexuality among the Kiwai of South New Guinea∗

Journal of Pacific History·1990·1 author

6citations

MELANESIAN WARFARE: A THEORETICAL HISTORY

Oceania·1990·1 author

64citations

Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part Three

·1989·16 authors·book

36citations

On Reconsidering Violence in Simple Human Societies

Current Anthropology·1988·4 authors·editorial

54citations

Good Company and Violence: Sorcery and Social Action in a Lowland New Guinea Society

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion·1987·2 authors

144citations

Divergence between Cultural Success and Reproductive Fitness in Preindustrial Cities

Cultural Anthropology·1987·1 author·Open access

12citations

Cargo Cults and Relational Separation

Cross-Cultural Research·1978·1 author

26citations