Neil L. Whitehead

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Neil L. Whitehead

Anthropology

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#920

Historical Rank

#352

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Social Anthropology

#84

World Rank

#99

Historical Rank

#13

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According to Wikipedia, Neil L. Whitehead was an English anthropologist, who is best known for his work on the anthropology of violence, dark shamanism , post-human anthropology and the historical anthropology of South America and the Caribbean. From 1997 to 2007 he was the editor of Ethnohistory, Journal of the American Society for Ethnohistory.

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Neil L. Whitehead's Published Works

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War in the tribal zone : expanding states and indigenous warfare (1993) (223)
Violent democracies in Latin America (2010) (137)
Lords of the Tiger Spirit: A History of the Caribs in Colonial Venezuela and Guyana 1498-1820 (1990) (78)
Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation (2009) (71)
The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana (1998) (64)
In Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia (2004) (63)
Beyond the visible and the material : the Amerindianization of society in the work of Peter Rivière (2001) (48)
Living with Bad Surroundings (2020) (48)
Ethnic transformation and historical discontinuity in native Amazonia and Guayana, 1500-1900 (1993) (46)
Individual and Society in Guiana: A Comparative Study of Amerindian Social Organization (1986) (44)
Human no more : digital subjectivities, unhuman subjects, and the end of anthropology (2012) (43)
Dark Shamans: Kanaima and the Poetics of Violent Death (2002) (42)
Carib cannibalism. The historical evidence (1984) (42)
Virtual war and magical death : technologies and imaginaries for terror and killing (2013) (41)
In Darkness and Secrecy (2004) (37)
The Historical Anthropology of Text: The Interpretation of Ralegh's Discoverie of Guiana (1995) (34)
Hans Staden and the Cultural Politics of Cannibalism (2000) (31)
Carib Ethnic Soldiering in Venezuela, the Guianas, and the Antilles, 1492-1820 (1990) (29)
Violence & the cultural order (2007) (26)
Materializing the past among the Lokono (Arawak) of the Berbice River, Guyana (2010) (22)
The Ethnographer’s Tale (2002) (20)
Wild Majesty. Encounters with Caribs from Columbus to the Present Day. An Anthology (1993) (20)
Wolves from the sea : readings in the anthropology of the native Caribbean (1996) (19)
Histories and Historicities in Amazonia (2003) (19)
South America / Amazonia: the forest of marvels (2002) (19)
Suicide, Violence, and Cultural Conceptions of Martyrdom in Palestine (2014) (18)
A History of Research on Warfare in Anthropology-Reply to Keith Otterbein (2000) (17)
The Crises And Transformations of Invaded Societies: The Caribbean (1492–1580) (1999) (17)
Terror and violence: Imagination and the unimaginable (2006) (16)
Anthropologies of Guayana : cultural spaces in northeastern Amazonia (2009) (16)
Amazonian archaeology; searching for paradise? A review of recent literature and fieldwork (1996) (15)
POST-HUMAN ANTHROPOLOGY (2009) (14)
The Mutual Co-Construction of Online and Onground in Cyborganic: Making an Ethnography of Networked Social Media Speak to Challenges of the Posthuman 11 (2012) (14)
My Genes Made Me Do It (1999) (14)
Absent-minded imperialism : Britain and the expansion of empire in nineteenth-century Brazil (1996) (14)
Dark Shamans and the Shamanic State: Sorcery and Witchcraft as Political Process in Guyana and the Venezuelan Amazon (2020) (13)
Of Cannibals and Kings: Primal Anthropology in the Americas (2011) (13)
The Indigenous People of the Caribbean (1998) (13)
War and Violence as Cultural Expression (2005) (12)
Introduction: Dark Shamanism (2004) (12)
MONSTROSITY AND MARVEL: SYMBOLIC CONVERGENCE AND MIMETIC ELABORATION IN TRANS-CULTURAL REPRESENTATION: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL READING OF RALEGH'S DISCOVERIE… (1997) (12)
Native Peoples Confront Colonial Regimes in Northeastern South America (c. 1500–1900) (1999) (11)
Recent Research on the Native History of Amazonia and Guayana (1993) (9)
Rethinking anthropology of violence (2004) (9)
Ethnography, Silence, Torture and Knowledge (2012) (8)
Introduction: Virtual War and Magical Death (2013) (8)
Dark Shamans (2020) (7)
Native american cultures along the Atlantic littoral of South America, 1499-1650 (1993) (6)
Introduction: Human No More (2013) (5)
Wild Majesty: Encounters with Caribs from Columbus to the Present Day, an Anthology (1994) (5)
Native society and the European occupation of the Caribbean islands and coastal Tierra Firme, 1492–1650 (2003) (5)
Inside and out: alterity and the ceremonial construction of the person in the Guianas (2001) (5)
Ethnography, Knowledge, Torture, and Silence (2013) (5)
Ethnopornography : Sexuality, Colonialism, and Anthropological/Archival Knowledge (2020) (4)
Power, Culture, and History: The Legacies of Wolf, Sahlins, and Fabian (2004) (4)
Archaeology in the Lowland American Tropics: Current Analytical Methods and Recent Applications. Peter W. Stahl (1996) (4)
Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger. Arjun Appadurai (2008) (4)
Editor's Foreword (2000) (4)
Indigenous Slavery in South America, 1492–1820 (2011) (3)
Ethnography, Torture and the Human Terrain / Terror System (2009) (3)
The Occult Life of Things: Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood edited by Fernando Santos‐Granero (2011) (3)
Historical Writing about Brazil, 1500–1800 (2012) (3)
Interview: with Jan Vansina (1984) (3)
Introduction: Humanistic Approaches to Violence (2009) (3)
Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Archival Knowledge (2019) (3)
Are We There Yet? The End of Anthropology Is Beyond the Human (2013) (2)
The Ethnographic Lens In The New World: Staden, De Bry, And The Representation Of The Tupi In Brazil (2010) (2)
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of Panfilo de Narvaez (review) (2001) (2)
The sign of Kanaimà, the space of Guayana and the demonology of development (2003) (2)
Feasting on My Enemy: Images of Violence and Change in the New Guinea Highlands (1999) (2)
Yanomamology, Missiology, and Anthropology (1998) (2)
The Haberleins and the Political Culture of Scholarship (2001) (2)
Uncovering Amazonia: History, Ethnology, and Archaeology in the Guayana Region (2006) (2)
The Forbidden Lands. Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil’s Eastern Indians, 1750-1830 (review) (2008) (2)
Compendium of the Sphere (2008) (1)
The Art of Surrender: Decomposing Sovereignty at Conflict’s End. By Robin Wagner‐Pacifici. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xii+210. (2006) (1)
Golden Kings, Cocaine Lords, and the Madness of El Dorado: Guayana as Native and Colonial Imaginary (2013) (1)
Discovering the Realm of El Dorado: Ralegh and Schomburgk in the Guianas (2009) (1)
Commentary on the journal of Lourens Lourenszoon (1618-1625) and his stay among the Arocouros on the Lower Cassiporé River, Amapá (Brazil) (2009) (1)
Demon Landscapes, Sacrificial Architecture and Monumental Death (2010) (1)
Introduction:: Ethnopornography as Methodology and Critique: Merging the Ethno-, the Porno-, and the -Graphos (2020) (1)
John Gabriel Stedman’s collection of Amerindian artifacts (1986) (1)
The Ecology of Power: Culture, Place and Personhood in Southern Amazon, AD 1000-2000. Michael J. Heckenberger (2005) (1)
Conclusion: Loving, Being, Killing Animals (2013) (1)
Native Americans and Europeans (2011) (1)
From Maps to Mummy-Curses: Rethinking Encounters, Ethnography and Ethnology (2012) (1)
The search for history in the native Caribbean and South America (2000) (1)
APM and Icon colour change... (1999) (0)
Editor's foreword (2004) (0)
My Cocaine Museum (2005) (0)
Dying to Live (2009) (0)
The White Enemy (2010) (0)
Editor's Statement (2002) (0)
The Strategies and Politics of Martyrdom in Palestine (2009) (0)
State Expansion and the Violence of “Peace Making” in Palestine (2009) (0)
Modernity, Development, and Kanaimá Violence (2002) (0)
Approvals, Dedications, and Sonnets (2008) (0)
The Great Expedition: Contact with the OroNao', OroEo, and OroAt on the Negro and Ocaia Rivers (2010) (0)
Histories and Historicities in Palestine (2009) (0)
Order and Anarchy. Civil Society, Social Disorder and War by Robert Layton (2011) (0)
The Foreigner, the Dead (2010) (0)
Editor's statement (2003) (0)
“The Enemy Says He's OroNao' ”: Contact with the OroWaram, OroWaramXijein, and OroMon (2010) (0)
Geography of the Most Distinguished Kingdoms and Provinces of the Indies (2008) (0)
Neocolonial legacies and evolving war (2008) (0)
Tales of the Kanaimá: Observers (2002) (0)
The Widening River: Contact with the OroNao' of the Whites (2010) (0)
Charles Tilly, 1929–2008 (2014) (0)
Declaration of the Proper Names of this Book (2008) (0)
Wolves from the Sea: Readings in the Anthropology of the Native Caribean (1996) (0)
Tales of the Kanaimà: Participants (2002) (0)
Fiction and Lies (2007) (0)
Studying War, Anthropological Perspectives. S. P. Reyna and R. E. Downs, eds (1996) (0)
Acholi worlds and the colonial encounter (2008) (0)
The Motives of the Whites (2010) (0)
N. Whitehead The search for history in the native Caribbean and South America In: New West Indian Guide/ Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (2006) (0)
Response to Zenner (2009) (0)
Violence in the City of Women: Police and Batterers in Bahia, Brazil. Sarah J. Hautzinger (2009) (0)
Editor's Statement (2000) (0)
Rebel manifestos in context (2008) (0)
The conquest of the Caribs of the Orinoco basin (1984) (0)
Book Four of the Indian Militia (2008) (0)
Wartime rumors and moral truths (2008) (0)
The Xilixana Yanomami of the Amazon: History, Social Structure, and Population Dynamics. John D. Early and John F. Peters. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 2000. xii + 323 pp., figures, tables, bibliography, index. $49.95 (cloth). (2000) (0)
Uprooting the pumpkins (2008) (0)
Conclusion: Ethnopornography Coda (2020) (0)
Book Three of the Indian Militia (2008) (0)
Ritual Violence and Magical Death in Amazonia (2002) (0)
Beyond War: The Human Potential for Peace by Douglas P. Fry (2008) (0)
1 Introduction: Dark Shamanism (2020) (0)
Obituary (1979) (0)
Caroline A. Williams, Between Resistance and Adaptation. Indigenous Peoples and the Colonisation of the Chocó, 1510–1753 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, Latin American Studies New Series 5, 2004), pp. x+254, £40.00, hb. (2006) (0)
The Brother-in-Law (2010) (0)
1. Ethnography, Knowledge, Torture, and Silence (2020) (0)
Hydrography of the Coasts and Seas of the Indies (2008) (0)
Editor's Statement (2001) (0)
Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires (2021) (0)
A Brief Description of All the Western Indies (2008) (0)
Editor’s Statement (2002) (0)
Human No More: Digital Subjectivities in a Post‐Human Anthropology (2009) (0)
Editor's statement (1995) (0)

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