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Marilyn Strathern publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marilyn Strathern sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 270 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Marilyn Strathern D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marilyn Strathern sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 62 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - International Balzan Prize
  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1990 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Marilyn Strathern is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences, with a particular focus on anthropology. Their work spans multiple subfields including anthropology, geography, planning and development, demography, sociology and political science, as well as general health professions.

The primary topics addressed in their research include:

  • Anthropological Studies and Insights
  • Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
  • Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
  • Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

Strathern has an array of recent peer-reviewed papers that illustrate the scope of their investigations. Notable publications include:

  • "Terms of engagement" (2021) in Social Anthropology
  • "Counting generation(s)" (2021) in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
  • "Underestimation/complacency: two comments on the language of warfare" (2020) in Social Anthropology
  • "The mediation of emotions" (2021) in Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory
  • "L'accomplissement du sexe" (2022) in Techniques & culture

The venues that frequently publish their work include:

  • Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory
  • Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
  • Social Anthropology
  • Techniques & culture
  • Maloca Revista de Estudos Indígenas

Collaboration is a component of their academic career, with several co-authors contributing to multiple publications. Frequent collaborators are:

  • Tony Crook
  • James Leach
  • Joel Robbins
  • Carlos Fausto
  • Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

Beyond articles, Marilyn Strathern has also published books, including "Crises in Time: Ethnographic Horizons in Amazonia and Melanesia" (2024), published by Sean Kingston Publishing eBooks.

Throughout their career, Strathern has been recognized with several awards and memberships, including:

  • International Balzan Prize (2018)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1996)
  • Member of Academia Europaea (1990)

Best Publications

  • The gender of the gift : problems with women and problems with society in Melanesia

    Marilyn Strathern

  • Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy

    Marilyn Strathern

  • Cutting the Network

    Marilyn Strathern

  • The Tyranny of Transparency

    Marilyn Strathern

  • After Nature: English Kinship in the Late Twentieth Century

    Marilyn Strathern

  • Property, Substance and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things

    Marilyn Strathern

  • Nature, culture and gender

    Carol P. MacCormack;Marilyn Strathern

  • Reproducing the Future: Essays on Anthropology, Kinship and the New Reproductive Technologies

    Marilyn Strathern

  • ‘Improving ratings’: audit in the British University system

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  • An Awkward Relationship: The Case of Feminism and Anthropology.

    Marilyn Strathern

  • Reproducing the Future: Anthropology, Kinship, and the New Reproductive Technologies

    Chris Shore;Marilyn Strathern

  • Welcome to Cyberia: Notes on the Anthropology of Cyberculture [and Comments and Reply]

    Arturo Escobar;David Hess;Isabel Licha;Will Sibley

  • Kinship, Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are Always a Surprise

    Marilyn Strathern

  • Kinship, Law and the Unexpected: THE ARITHMETIC OF OWNERSHIP

    Unknown

  • Out of Context: The Persuasive Fictions of Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]

    Marilyn Strathern;M. R. Crick;Richard Fardon;Elvin Hatch

  • Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship.

    Marilyn Strathern;Kath Weston

  • Women's Status in Egalitarian Society: Implications for Social Evolution [and Comments and Reply]

    Eleanor Leacock;Virginia Abernethy;Amita Bardhan;Catherine H. Berndt

  • Anthropology as Interpretive Quest [and Comments and Reply]

    Roger M. Keesing;Malcolm Crick;Barbara Frankel;Jonathan Friedman

  • Ethnography Without Tears [with Comments and Reply]

    Paul A. Roth;Michal Buchowski;James Clifford;Michael Herzfeld

  • Out of Context: The Persuasive Fictions of Anthropology

    Marilyn Strathern

  • Commons and borderlands : working papers on interdisciplinarity, accountability and the flow of knowledge

    Marilyn Strathern

  • The relation : issues in complexity and scale

    Marilyn Strathern

  • Big Men and Great Men: Personifications of Power in Melanesia

    John Barker;Maurice Godelier;Marilyn Strathern

  • The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim

    Marilyn Strathern;Nancy D. Munn

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Roepstorff
Andreas Roepstorff Aarhus University
Michael Young
Michael Young University of Connecticut
Arturo Escobar
Arturo Escobar University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael E. Smith
Michael E. Smith Arizona State University
Annemarie Mol
Annemarie Mol University of Amsterdam
Terry K. Smith
Terry K. Smith University of St Andrews
Mike Hulme
Mike Hulme University of Cambridge
Georg Kaser
Georg Kaser University of Innsbruck
Charles F. Kennel
Charles F. Kennel University of California, San Diego
Paul Rabinow
Paul Rabinow University of California, Berkeley

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