Terence Turner | Academic Influence

Terence Turner 's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings

Terence Turner

Anthropology

#1912

World Rank

#2475

Historical Rank

anthropology Degrees

Download Badge

Anthropology

Terence Turner 's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
Masters Anthropology University of Chicago
Bachelors Anthropology University of Chicago

Similar Degrees You Can Earn

Best Online Bachelor's in Anthropology 2025

Why Is Terence Turner Influential?

(Suggest an Edit or Addition)

According to Wikipedia, Terence Turner was an anthropologist. He was professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Chicago. Turner did extensive ethnographic and activist work with the Kayapo from central Brazil. He also used an anthropological understanding to address broader regional and global development.

(See a Problem?)

Terence Turner 's Published Works

Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works

Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author

Published Works

The Body and Society: Explorations in Social Theory.Bryan S. Turner (1986) (421)
Anthropology and Multiculturalism: What is Anthropology That Multiculturalists Should Be Mindful of It? (1993) (404)
Defiant Images: The Kayapo Appropriation of Video (1992) (233)
The social skin (2012) (216)
The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law between the Global and the Local. Mark Goodale , Sally Engle Merry (2009) (213)
Social Body and Embodied Subject: Bodiliness, Subjectivity, and Sociality among the Kayapo (1995) (181)
An Indigenous People's Struggle for Socially Equitable and Ecologically Sustainable Production: The Kayapo Revolt Against Extractivism (1995) (85)
Yanomami: The Fierce Controversy and What We Can Learn from It (2005) (73)
The Social Dynamics of Video Media in an Indigenous Society: The Cultural Meaning and the Personal Politics of Video–making in Kayapo Communities (1991) (72)
Human Rights, Human Difference: Anthropology's Contribution to an Emancipatory Cultural Politics (1997) (67)
Introduction: Universal Human Rights versus Cultural Relativity (1997) (60)
5. THE GÊ AND BORORO SOCIETIES AS DIALECTICAL SYSTEMS: A GENERAL MODEL (1979) (60)
Marxian value theory (2008) (53)
Amazonian Cosmos: The Sexual and Religious Symbolism of the Tukano Indians. (1972) (47)
The Role of Indigenous Peoples in the Environmental Crisis: The Example of the Kayapo of the Brazilian Amazon (2015) (38)
Representation, Collaboration and Mediation In Contemporary Ethnographic and Indigenous Media (1995) (36)
Representation, Collaboration and Mediation In Contemporary Ethnographic and Indigenous Media (1995) (36)
Remote and edgy (2014) (32)
Political innovation and inter-ethnic alliance: Kayapo resistance to the developmentalist state (2006) (31)
6. KINSHIP, HOUSEHOLD, AND COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AMONG THE KAYAPÓ (1979) (30)
Piaget's Structuralism. Genetic Epistemology. JEAN PIAGET: Le structuralisme. JEAN PIAGET (1973) (27)
Shifting the Frame from Nation-State to Global Market: Class and Social Consciousness in the Advanced Capitalist Countries (2002) (23)
The Beautiful and the Common: Inequalities of Value and Revolving Hierarchy among the Kayapó (2003) (22)
Parsons' Concept of “Generalized Media of Social Interaction” and its Relevance for Social Anthropology (1968) (21)
7. Representation,Polyphony, and the Construction of Power in a Kayapó Video (2003) (15)
On Structure and Entropy: Theoretical Pastiche and the Contradictions of "Structuralism" (1990) (14)
The World Bank in Brazil (1996) (12)
Indigenous and culturalist movements in the contemporary global conjuncture (1999) (11)
Indigenous resurgence, anthropological theory, and the cunning of history (2007) (10)
The Kayapo on Television: An Anthropological Viewing (1992) (9)
Bodiliness: The Body Beyond the Body: Social, Material and Spiritual Dimensions of Bodiliness (2011) (9)
Neoliberal Ecopolitics and Indigenous Peoples : The Kayapo , The “ Rainforest Harvest , ” and The Body Shop (2001) (9)
3. Representation, Politics, and Cultural Imagination in Indigenous Video (2019) (6)
Kaiapo: Amazonia : The Art of Body Decoration (1993) (6)
The American anthropological association, the World Bank group, and ENDESA S.A.: Violations of human rights in the pangue and ralco dam projects on the Bío‐Bío river, Chile (1999) (5)
The Yanomami: Truth and Consequences (1994) (5)
Sicuanga Runa: The Other Side of Development in Amazonian Ecuador. NORMAN E. WHITTEN, JR (1986) (3)
The Cultural Environment of Development: Commentary (2008) (2)
Beauty and the beast (2017) (2)
Rights: Do Anthropologists Have an Ethical Obligation to Promote Human Rights? An Open Exchange (2009) (2)
Sanuma Memories: Yanomami Ethnography in Times of Crisis:Sanuma Memories: Yanomami Ethnography in Times of Crisis. (1998) (2)
The Tribe That Hides from Man. Directed by ADRIAN COWELL (1974) (1)
Amazonian Indians Fight to Save Their Forest World (1989) (1)
Death, Passion and Politics: The Power of Grief and the Charisma of Loss (2005) (1)
Commentaries on “Knowledge and Empire: The Social Sciences and United States Imperial Expansion” (2010) (1)
General/Theoretical Anthropology: The Attraction of Opposites: Thought and Society in the Dualistic Mode. David Maybury‐Lewis and Uri Almagor (1991) (1)
The Kayapo : out of the forest (2009) (1)
Defiant images: The Kaiapo appropriation of video (1993) (0)
BIROn - Birkbeck Institutional Research Online dress practices amongst (2021) (0)
An anthropological perspective (2008) (0)
Selected Bibliography of Terence S. Turner (2006) (0)
[Agnostic Exchange: Homeric Reciprocity and the Heritage of Simmel and Mauss]: A Commentary (2013) (0)
The Young Kayapó Movement (Movimento Mebengokre Nyre) among the Mentuktire Kayapó (2017) (0)

This paper list is powered by the following services:

Other Resources About Terence Turner

en.wikipedia.org

What Schools Are Affiliated With Terence Turner ?

Terence Turner is affiliated with the following schools: