Most cited papers in Indigenous Cultures and History

Indigenous Cultures and History

What are the most cited papers in Indigenous Cultures and History?

The most cited paper in Indigenous Cultures and History is "The Logic of Clientelism in Argentina: An Ethnographic Account" (Javier Auyero, 2000), with 470 citations. Next come "Historia del Tahuantinsuyu" (312) and "The Politics of Discursive Authority in Research on the “Invention of Tradition”" (303).

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Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 68 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#	Paper
1	The Logic of Clientelism in Argentina: An Ethnographic Account Javier Auyero · Latin American Research Review Open access	2000	470
2	Historia del Tahuantinsuyu Michael Eugene Moseley · Hispanic American Historical Review Open access	Feb 1990	312
3	The Politics of Discursive Authority in Research on the “Invention of Tradition” Charles L. Briggs · Cultural Anthropology Open access	Nov 1996	303
4	The Territorial Turn: Making Black Territories in Pacific Colombia Karl H. Offen · Journal of Latin American geography Open access	2003	243
5	Girling the girl and boying the boy: the production of adulthood in ancient Mesoamerica Rosemary A. Joyce · World Archaeology	2000	241
6	Mapuche Protest, Environmental Conflict and Social Movement Linkage in Chile David Carruthers, Patricia Rodríguez · Third World Quarterly	Jun 2009	201
7	Evolution and present situation of the South American camelidae Jane C. Wheeler · Biological Journal of the Linnean Society	Mar 1995	197
8	Historia de la Patagonia Julio Djenderedjian · Mundo Agrario Open access	Dec 2005	195
9	Rethinking the Vertical Archipelago Mary Van Buren · American Anthropologist	Jun 1996	194
10	Cycles of Conquest: The Impact of Spain, Mexico, and the United States on the Indians of the Southwest, 1533-1960 Erik K. Reed, Edward H. Spicer · Ethnohistory Open access	1963	192
11	Feminismos territoriales en América Latina: defensas de la vida frente a los extractivismos Astrid Ulloa · Nómadas Open access	2016	182
12	The Western Margins of Amazonia from the Early Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century Anne Christine Taylor · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter	28 Oct 1999	176
13	The crucible of citizenship: ID-paper fetishism in the Argentinean Chaco Gaston R. Gordillo · American Ethnologist	22 Apr 2006	175
14	Culture, Practice and Politics Arturo Escobar · Critique of Anthropology	Dec 1992	172
15	Transnational Oaxacan indigenous identity: The Case of Mixtecs and Zapotecs Michael Kearney · Identities	Jun 2000	171
16	Native Peoples of South America Julian H. Steward · Science	15 Jul 1960	166
17	Burning down the brewery: Establishing and evacuating an ancient imperial colony at Cerro Baúl, Peru Michael E. Moseley, Donna J. Nash, Patrick Ryan Williams et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access	17 Nov 2005	165
18	Changing places: transnational networks, ethnic politics, and community development in the Ecuadorian Amazon Thomas Perreault · Political Geography	2003	164
19	From Exclusion to Inclusion: Bolivia's 2002 Elections Donna Lee Van Cott · Journal of Latin American Studies	Nov 2003	157
20	Creating Citizens, Making Men: The Military and Masculinity in Bolivia Lesley Gill · Cultural Anthropology Open access	Nov 1997	154
21	Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 1810–1910 Brooke Larson	19 Jan 2004	154
22	Liberal democracy andaylludemocracy in Bolivia: The case of Northern Potosí Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui · The Journal of Development Studies	Jul 1990	153
23	The Aboriginal Cultural Geography of the Llanos de Mojos of Bolivia. David Andrews, William M. Denevan · Hispanic American Historical Review	Feb 1968	151
24	Mestizaje, Hybridity, and the Cultural Politics of Difference in Post‐Revolutionary Central America Charles R. Hale · The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology	Sep 1996	148
25	Top-down or bottom-up: rural settlement and raised field agriculture in the Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia John Wayne Janusek, Alan L. Kolata · Journal of Anthropological Archaeology	Dec 2004	148
26	The Not So Peaceful Civilization: A Review of Maya War DAVID L. WEBSTER · Journal of World Prehistory	Mar 2000	147
27	The Indigenous in the Plural in Bolivian Oppositional Politics Robert Albro · Bulletin of Latin American Research	22 Sep 2005	145
28	Forging an Indigenous Counterpublic Sphere: The Taller de Historia Oral Andina in Bolivia Marcia C. Stephenson · Latin American Research Review Open access	2002	139
29	Spectacles of Autonomy and Crisis: Or, What Bulls and Beauty Queens have to do with Regionalism in Eastern Bolivia Bret Gustafson · The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology	Nov 2006	138
30	MAPUDUNGUN. EL HABLA MAPUCHE FERNANDO WITTIG G · RLA. Revista de lingüística teórica y aplicada Open access	Dec 2006	135
31	Nightwatch. The Politics of Protest in the Andes Stuart Alexander Rockefeller · American Ethnologist	May 2000	133
32	Colonialism, the Shuar Federation, and the Ecuadorian State Steven Rubenstein · Environment and Planning D Society and Space	Jun 2001	129
33	SOCIAL AND CULTURAL POLICIES TOWARD INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: Perspectives from Latin America Guillermo de la Peña · Annual Review of Anthropology Review	16 Sep 2005	128
34	Más allá de la escritura: la epistemología de la etnografía en colaboración Joanne Rappaport, Mariela Eva Rodríguez · Revista Colombiana de Antropología Open access	Dec 2007	124
35	Struggles against Accumulation by Dispossession in Bolivia Susan Jane Spronk, Jeffery R. Webber · Latin American Perspectives	Mar 2007	119
36	New Perspectives on the Pueblos Lyman Tyler · Hispanic American Historical Review	Aug 1973	116
37	Power, Labor, and the Dynamics of Change in Chacoan Political Economy Dean J. Saitta · American Antiquity	1997	116
38	Mining and Social Movements: Struggles over Livelihood and Rural Territorial Development in the Andes Anthony Bebbington, Jeffrey Todd Bury, Denise Humphreys Bebbington et al. · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access	2008	115
39	Animism, Relatedness, Life: Post-Western Perspectives Alejandro F. Haber · Cambridge Archaeological Journal	Oct 2009	114
40	Indigenous Struggles and Contested Identities in Argentina Histories of Invisibilization and Reemergence Gaston R. Gordillo, Silvia Hirsch · The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Open access	Sep 2003	114
41	Managing Diversity in Postneoliberal Ecuador Carmen Martínez Novo · The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology	Mar 2014	114
42	“Failing to Marvel”: Atahualpa's Encounter with the Word Patricia Seed · Latin American Research Review Open access	1991	112
43	Types of Social Structure among the Lowland Tribes of South and Central America Kalervo Oberg · American Anthropologist	Jun 1955	111
44	Road construction in the Peruvian Amazon: process, causes and consequences Sanna Mäki, Risto Kalliola, Kai Vuorinen · Environmental Conservation	Sep 2001	110
45	The Politics of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States Ulrich Oslender · Political Geography Open access	30 Jul 2004	110
46	"Los cometas de Atawallpa: acerca del papel de las profecias en la política del estado inka" Mariusz Ziółkowski · Anthropologica Open access	8 Sep 1988	106
47	Civilizing the Popular? Carmen Medeiros · Critique of Anthropology	Dec 2001	106
48	Indigenous Knowledge and Management of Araucaria Araucana Forest in the Chilean Andes: Implications for Native Forest Conservation Thora Martina Herrmann · Biodiversity and Conservation	Feb 2006	103
49	Between the State and Indigenous Autonomy: Unpacking Video Indígena in Mexico Erica Cusi Wortham · American Anthropologist	Jun 2004	103
50	Native Forests and Agriculture in Salta (Argentina) Lucas Seghezzo, José Volante, José María Paruelo et al. · The Journal of Environment & Development	8 Aug 2011	102

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