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Catherine Besteman

16 works· latest 2018· 1 institutionscluster: provisional

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Unraveling Somalia1999 · 147 citations
Making Refuge2016 · 140 citations
Transforming Cape Town2008 · 102 citations
violent politics and the politics of violence: the dissolution of the Somali nation‐state1996 · 88 citations
Why America's top pundits are wrong : anthropologists talk back2005 · 84 citations

Works

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Cultures of Militarism

Current Anthropology·2018·2 authors·other

43citations

Life by Algorithms

University of Chicago Press eBooks·2018·2 authors·book

52citations

Making Refuge

Duke University Press eBooks·2016·1 author·book

140citations

Three reflections on public anthropology (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)

Anthropology Today·2013·1 author

28citations

Translating Race across Time and Space: The Creation of Somali Bantu Ethnicity

Identities·2012·1 author

24citations

In and Out of the Academy: Policy and the Case for a Strategic Anthropology

Human Organization·2010·1 author

20citations

The Insecure American

University of California Press eBooks·2009·2 authors·book

64citations

Transforming Cape Town

University of California Press eBooks·2008·1 author·book

102citations

Why America's top pundits are wrong : anthropologists talk back

·2005·2 authors

84citations

Unraveling Somalia

University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks·1999·1 author·book

147citations

A Response to Helander's Critique of “Violent Politics and the Politics of Violence”

American Ethnologist·1999·1 author

24citations

Unraveling Somalia: Race, Violence, and the Legacy of Slavery

The International Journal of African Historical Studies·1999·2 authors

79citations

Unraveling Somalia: Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery

Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)·1999·1 author

33citations

Primordialist Blinders: A Reply to I. M. Lewis

Cultural Anthropology·1998·1 author·Open access

64citations

violent politics and the politics of violence: the dissolution of the Somali nation‐state

American Ethnologist·1996·1 author

88citations

Representing Violence and “Othering” Somalia

Cultural Anthropology·1996·1 author·Open access

74citations