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The rites of passage

1960 • 3,286 citations

Readings in Social Psychology.

1959 • 1,258 citations

African Political Systems.

1940 • 1,105 citations

Custom and Conflict in Africa

1955 • 975 citations

Structure and function in primitive society, essays and addresses

1952 • 743 citations

On a Method of Investigating the Development of Institutions; Applied to Laws of Marriage and Descent

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Six Cultures: Studies of Child Rearing.

1964 • 440 citations

The Law of Primitive Man

1954 • 332 citations

American Handbook of Psychiatry.

1960 • 262 citations

The Law of Primitive Man: A Study in Comparative Legal Dynamics

1955 • 248 citations

Industrial Man: The Relation of Status to Experience, Perception, and Value

1960 • 221 citations

The function of male initiation ceremonies at puberty

1958 • 165 citations

A Cross‐Cultural Study of Female Initiation Rites

1963 • 102 citations

The absent father and cross-sex identity

1960 • 99 citations

The Function of Male Initiation Ceremonies: A Crosscultural Test of an Alternative Hypothesis

1962 • 61 citations

THE ANABOLIC EFFECTS OF THE ANDROGENS AND SOMATIC GROWTH IN MAN

1944 • 50 citations

Social Change and Social Character: The Role of Parental Mediation¹

1955 • 45 citations

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1963 • 36 citations

Social Structure and Personality: A Casebook.

1962 • 35 citations

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology: Essays in the Scope and Methods of the Science of Man

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1951 • 33 citations

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1964 • 26 citations

Social Structure and Personality: A Casebook

1962 • 21 citations

Types of Corporate Unilineal Descent Groups*

1962 • 18 citations

Unconscious Inference and Cultural Origins¹

1963 • 9 citations

THE INDUCTION OF PREMATURE PUBERTY WITH ANDROGENIC SUBSTANCE

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Maturation of Performance with Space-Displaced Vision

1963 • 2 citations