Abstract
Writing,citation, and other canon-setting patterns in the recent (1977-86) litera-
ture of sociocultural anthropology reveal the impact of gender relations. In this
article, citation is treated as a social practice which, among other things, legitim-
izes the voice of the cited author. While women produce a substantial proportion
of the work available for citation, the proportion of women authors cited is lower
than would be expected on that basis, and it varies with the citing author's gender.
Annual meetings programs also show a tendency for women to be extremely ac-
tive, but the frequent focus on gender and feminism is not reflected in overviews
of the field. Conclusions are drawn about the relative marginalization of women's
work and about the relationship between the warranting of women's academic
work and the public or private context of its evaluation.
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