David Zeitlyn

David Zeitlyn

University of Oxford

H-index: 25

Europe-United Kingdom

About David Zeitlyn

David Zeitlyn, With an exceptional h-index of 25 and a recent h-index of 15 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Oxford, specializes in the field of Cameroon, photography, sociolinguistics, divination, archives.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Arguments for humility: lessons for anthropologists from six key texts

Bounding an archiving: assessing the relative completeness of the Jacques Toussele archive using pattern-matching and face-recognition

What is going on and who is responsible? Scholarship on conflict on the Mambila Plateau. A response to Lenshie et al. 2021

An argument for sparsity

Dense sampling of ethnic groups within African countries reveals fine-scale genetic structure and extensive historical admixture

An anthropological toolkit: sixty useful concepts

Disciplinary perspectives on archiving qualitative data

Archiving ethnography? The impossibility and the necessity. Damned if we do, damned if we don’t

David Zeitlyn Information

University

Position

Professor of Social Anthropology

Citations(all)

5896

Citations(since 2020)

1754

Cited By

1987

hIndex(all)

25

hIndex(since 2020)

15

i10Index(all)

47

i10Index(since 2020)

24

Email

University Profile Page

University of Oxford

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David Zeitlyn Skills & Research Interests

Cameroon

photography

sociolinguistics

divination

archives

Top articles of David Zeitlyn

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Arguments for humility: lessons for anthropologists from six key texts

Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford

David Zeitlyn

2023/1/20

Bounding an archiving: assessing the relative completeness of the Jacques Toussele archive using pattern-matching and face-recognition

Visual Studies

David Zeitlyn

Ernesto Coto

Andrew Zisserman

2023/8/8

What is going on and who is responsible? Scholarship on conflict on the Mambila Plateau. A response to Lenshie et al. 2021

African Identities

David Zeitlyn

Bruce Connell

2023/7/3

An argument for sparsity

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

David Zeitlyn

2023/6

Dense sampling of ethnic groups within African countries reveals fine-scale genetic structure and extensive historical admixture

Science Advances

Nancy Bird

Louise Ormond

Paschal Awah

Elizabeth F Caldwell

Bruce Connell

...

2023/3/29

An anthropological toolkit: sixty useful concepts

David Zeitlyn

2022/9/13

Disciplinary perspectives on archiving qualitative data

Rachel Ayrton

Carolynn Low

Susie Weller

David Zeitlyn

2022/8/4

Archiving ethnography? The impossibility and the necessity. Damned if we do, damned if we don’t

Ateliers d’anthropologie. Revue éditée par le Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative

David Zeitlyn

2022/3/31

Ritual, fusion, and conflict: The roots of agro-pastoral violence in rural Cameroon

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

Michael D Buhrmester

David Zeitlyn

Harvey Whitehouse

2022/1

The Rhetoric of Kinship

Rhetoric and Social Relations: Dialectics of Bonding and Contestation

David Zeitlyn

2021/2/2

Archaeological evidence for population rise and collapse between~ 2500 and~ 500 cal. yr BP in Western Central Africa

Afrique: Archéologie & Arts

Geoffroy de Saulieu

Yannick Garcin

David Sebag

Pascal R Nlend Nlend

David Zeitlyn

...

2021/11/22

The rhetoric of kinship:‘doing kinship’–some Mambila cases

David Zeitlyn

2021/2/1

Preuve archéologique de l’augmentation et de l’effondrement de la population entre~ 2500 et~ 500 ans cal. BP en Afrique centrale occidentale. Version abrégée en français

Afrique: Archéologie & Arts

Geoffroy de Saulieu

Yannick Garcin

David Sebag

Pascal R Nlend Nlend

David Zeitlyn

...

2021/11/22

Video talks about Photo Cameroon: Studio Portraiture 1970-1990s

D Zeitlyn

2021

For Augustinian Archival Openness and Laggardly Sharing: Trustworthy Archiving and Sharing of Social Science Data From Identifiable Human Subjects

Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics

David Zeitlyn

2021/10/14

Language ecology, language endangerment, and relict languages: Case studies from Adamawa (Cameroon-Nigeria)

Open Linguistics

Bruce Connell

David Zeitlyn

Sascha Griffiths

Laura Hayward

Marieke Martin

2021/6/11

Divination and ontologies: a reflection

Social Analysis

David Zeitlyn

2021/6/1

Cite, plagiarise, pass-off: deixis, bibliographic imposture and photography

Philosophy of Photography

David Zeitlyn

2020/6/1

Mambila divination: framing questions, constructing answers

David Zeitlyn

2020/2/20

Haunting, Dutching and Interference: models for an anthropology of time

Current Anthropology

D Zeitlyn

2020

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Co-Authors

H-index: 194
Andrew Zisserman

Andrew Zisserman

University of Oxford

H-index: 85
Mark G Thomas

Mark G Thomas

University College London

H-index: 34
Krishna Veeramah

Krishna Veeramah

Stony Brook University

H-index: 27
Michael D. Buhrmester

Michael D. Buhrmester

University of Oxford

H-index: 25
Marcus Banks

Marcus Banks

University of Oxford

H-index: 24
Daniel W Hook

Daniel W Hook

Imperial College London

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