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Pauline Wiessner

Anthropology

#1147

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#1515

Historical Rank

#560

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Cultural Anthropology

#74

World Rank

#95

Historical Rank

#43

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Pauline Wiessner's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Pauline Wiessner is an American anthropologist who focused on cultural Anthropology. She is currently a professor at University of Utah. Wiessner has held various professor positions at Universities in the United States, Denmark, and France and various positions in Universities and communities across the world. During her research she work with Ju/’hoansi Bushmen of the Kalahari in South Africa to learn about the social networks and Enga of Papua New Guinea to learn about their customs of exchange, ritual and warfare.

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Pauline Wiessner's Published Works

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Style and Social Information in Kalahari San Projectile Points (1983) (849)
Co-Residence Patterns in Hunter-Gatherer Societies Show Unique Human Social Structure (2011) (722)
Risk, reciprocity and social influences on Kung San economics. (1982) (369)
Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies (2009) (349)
Territoriality Among Human Foragers: Ecological Models and an Application to Four Bushman Groups [and Comments and Reply] (1983) (306)
Embers of society: Firelight talk among the Ju/’hoansi Bushmen (2014) (285)
Reconsidering the Behavioral Basis for Style: A Case Study among the Kalahari San (1984) (252)
Hunting, healing, and hxaro exchange A long-term perspective on !Kung (Ju/'hoansi) large-game hunting (2002) (236)
Foragers, Genuine or Spurious?: Situating the Kalahari San in History [and Comments and Reply] (1990) (181)
Style or Isochrestic Variation? A Reply to Sackett (1985) (177)
Hxaro: a regional system of reciprocity for reducing risk among the !Kung San (1977) (169)
Norm enforcement among the Ju/’hoansi Bushmen (2005) (151)
Wealth Transmission and Inequality among Hunter‐Gatherers (2010) (128)
Beyond Willow Smoke and Dogs’ Tails: A Comment on Binford's Analysis of Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems (1982) (119)
Food and the status quest: an interdisciplinary perspective. (1996) (102)
A Functional Estimator of Population from Floor Area (1974) (100)
Norm Enforcement among the Ju / ' hoansi Bushmen A Case of Strong Reciprocity ? (99)
Historical vines : Enga networks of exchange, ritual, and warfare in Papua New Guinea (1999) (92)
Understanding culture across species (2004) (89)
The Vines of Complexity (2002) (78)
Historical Vines: Enga Networks of Exchange, Ritual, and Warfare in Papua New Guinea (2000) (71)
Household water sharing: A review of water gifts, exchanges, and transfers across cultures (2018) (49)
Toward Peace: Foreign Arms and Indigenous Institutions in a Papua New Guinea Society (2012) (37)
Measuring the impact of social ties on nutritional status among the !kung San (1981) (33)
'Mother! Sing Loudly for Me!': the Annotated Dialogue of a Basarwa Healer in Trance (1979) (26)
From Spears to M-16s: Testing the Imbalance of Power Hypothesis among the Enga (2006) (24)
OWNERS OF THE FUTURE? CALORIES, CASH, CASUALTIES AND SELF‐SUFFICIENCY IN THE NYAE NYAE AREA BETWEEN 1996 AND 20031 (2003) (23)
Prehistoric stone artefacts from Enga and the implication of links between the highlands, lowlands and islands for early agriculture in Papua New Guinea (2008) (21)
Seeking Guidelines through an Evolutionary Approach: Style Revisited among the ! Kung San (Ju/'hoansi) of the 1990s (2008) (21)
The Rift between Science and Humanism (2016) (19)
Cultural evolution of the structure of human groups (2013) (17)
The Challenges of Village Courts and Operation Mekim Save among the Enga of Papua New Guinea Today: A View from the Inside (2018) (17)
Youths, elders, and the wages of war in Enga province, Papua New Guinea (2010) (17)
Collective Action for War and for Peace: A Case Study among the Enga of Papua New Guinea (2019) (14)
The Pathways Of The Past: !Kung San Hxaro Exchange And History (1994) (13)
On Network Analysis: The Potential for Understanding (and Misunderstanding) !Kung Hxaro (1998) (13)
The role of third parties in norm enforcement in customary courts among the Enga of Papua New Guinea (2020) (13)
Parent-offspring conflict in marriage: Implications for social evolution and material culture among the Ju/'hoansi Bushmen (2009) (11)
Patient and Physician Perceptions of Changes in Surgical Care in Mongolia 9 Years After Roll-out of a National Training Program for Laparoscopy (2016) (11)
A Collage Of Cults (1999) (7)
Alienating the inalienable: Marriage and money in a big man society (2012) (6)
Reply to Casteel (1979) (5)
8. Of Human and Spirit Women: From Mother to Seductress to Second Wife (2004) (4)
Scaling of Hunter Gatherer Camp Size and Human Sociality (2019) (4)
Social and Ceremonial Aspects of Death Among the !Kung San (1983) (3)
Violent and Non-violent Responses to State Failure: Papua New Guinea and Ecuador (2008) (3)
Considering selection pressures for identity fusion and self-sacrifice in small-scale societies (2018) (2)
Kinship, Networks, and Exchange: The Capacity and Constraints of Kinship in the Development of the Enga Tee Ceremonial Exchange Network (Papua New Guinea Highlands) (1998) (2)
Scaling of Hunter-Gatherer Camp Size and Human Sociality (2022) (2)
Patient and Physician Demand for Laparoscopy Propels the Development of Surgical Capacity in Mongolia (2014) (1)
On Emergency Decisions, Egalitarianism, and Group Selection (1998) (1)
Culture matters for life history trade-offs (2017) (1)
When marital institutions break down: Impact and adaptation among the Enga of Papua New Guinea (2021) (1)
PHP5I: MEDICAL DEVICE PROBLEMS IN INTENSIVE CARE UNITS: DETECTION, DANGERS, AND DIVERSITY OF TYPES (2003) (1)
CHANGING DIET AMONG THE CONGOLESE REFUGEE POPULATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL INTEGRATIONS (2015) (0)
Seventeen. Parent–Offspring Conflict in Marriage (2019) (0)
among Hunter-Gatherers (2010) (0)
Pushing capacity [1] (2005) (0)
The deep history of imaginary worlds (2022) (0)
INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM DISCUSSIONS REGARDING PALLIATIVE CARE/END-OF-LIFE ISSUES DURING ICU ROUNDS (2006) (0)
Perspectives from ethnography on weak and strong reciprocity (2012) (0)
Production of non-chlorine bleached pulps and their reactivity (1992) (0)
Understanding cultural clusters: An ethnographic perspective (2022) (0)
A 44-y perspective on the influence of cash on Ju/‘hoansi Bushman networks of sharing and gifting (2022) (0)
On the development of high-grade textile pulps and reconstruction measures in the pulp mill at Pirna. [Conference paper]. (1989) (0)
Foreword to the English edition (2020) (0)
PHP56: DIRECT OBSERVATION IN INTENSIVE CARE UNITS: MEDICAL DEVICE-RELATED PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH ALARMS (2003) (0)
UTAH’S SEX EDUCATION CONTROVERSY: IS IT RELEVANT TODAY? (2015) (0)

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