American Anthropologist

Papers
(The median citation count of American Anthropologist is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador By ChristopherKrupa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 318 pp.31
Shadow worlding: Chasing light in Yogyakarta30
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The house is coming from inside the call19
Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population: An epistolary review essay17
Leaving traces: Fairy houses, kindness stones, and constructed heritage16
Can women hunt? Yes. Did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.16
A thousand tiny cuts: Mobility and security across the Bangladesh‐India borderland By SahanaGhosh. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023. 296 pp.16
Stable condition: Traumatic injury, coma, and vital traffic in a Mumbai hospital ward15
Slaughterhouse tours in Denmark: Affective nationalism in the making of citizen‐consumers and the industrial slaughter of happy pigs15
What makes a “good” forensic anthropologist?14
The forever war, foregone14
Generous peer review13
A forgetful ethnography: Memory, memoir, and brain injuries12
Life in an age of death: War and the river in Bosnia and Herzegovina12
Cartographic archives: Excavating the subterranean with a camera12
Queering pregnancy11
A croquis for the stenourbanite10
Truth before transition: Reimagining anthropology as restorative justice10
From rhetoric to reality: Why we need an anthropology of higher education policy10
The sustainability myth: Environmental gentrification and the politics of justice By MelissaChecker. New York: NYU Press, 2020. 280 pp.10
Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh By KasiaPaprocki, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 270 pp.10
Does a decolonized anthropology require reinterpreting the past?9
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria9
Relations: An Anthropological Account by MarilynStrathernDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 274 pp.8
The echo of the world: The castaway, the Garabandal apparitions, and the crisis of presence8
“I have no proof, but …”7
The geopower of kaolin clay: Toward a political geology of archaeological ceramics7
Water sharing is a distressing form of reciprocity: Shame, upset, anger, and conflict over water in twenty cross‐cultural sites7
Silenced resentments and regrets: Aging in a changing Kibbutz7
Welcoming the foreigner: Notes on the possibility of multispecies hospitality7
Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh by Lamia KarimMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 272 pp.7
Putting Big Tech in its place: A view of the virtual from Los Angeles7
An ethnography of joy: Entrepreneurship among Latinx communities in East Los Angeles7
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The Worst of Anthro Job Ads for 20216
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology by Redman, Samuel J.Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2022. 314pp.6
FandangObon: Amplification, counter‐publics, and fugitive spaces of belonging in Los Angeles6
Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors6
Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability By JacobDoherty. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 288 pp.6
Toward an anthropology that cares: Lessons from the Academic Carework project6
Whither book reviews?6
Heritages of (de)colonialism: Reflections from the Pacific Northwest Coast, Canada6
There's more to anthropology's past than most of us know6
The anthropological and the consequential5
Writing in community: Relationship building and accountability in knowledge production5
Banker, pastor, teef: Christian financial elites and vernaculars of accountability in Ghana5
Fragile Resonance: Caring for Older Family Members in Japan and England, by JasonDanely, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 249 pp.5
Pumayuyus5
Archaeology in 2022: Counter‐myths for hopeful futures5
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Bitter Shade: The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness By Michael R.Dove. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. 291 pp.5
Beyond the normative: Ambiguity in the making of a South Indian Sufi5
Light Leak as Method: Theorizing a Photographic Accident5
Anthropology‐as‐theology: Violent endings and the permanence of new beginnings5
Walling In and Walling Out: Why Are We Building New Barriers to Divide Us? edited by LauraMcAtackney and Randall H.McGuireSanta Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research Press & University of New Mexic5
Introduction: Modalities of planetary health and justice5
When do no harm becomes harm done: Re‐centering ethics in anthropology4
Liberating trails and travel routes in Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en Territories from the tyrannies of heritage resource management regimes4
Sampling as ethnographic method/remixing Gulu City4
Housing as asset and payment: Construction, speculation, and financialization at the European periphery4
Calling names: Humoring caste and caste‐ing humor4
Adopting a Root: Documenting Ecological and Cultural Signatures of Plant Translocations in Northwestern North America4
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The quest for a good life: Incense seeing and the porous and dividual hoping person in North China4
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Fire, ice, and flood4
Paul Edward Farmer (1959–2022)4
Comments on a found text: “Return to Acirema: Fragments regarding twenty‐first‐century Nacirema culture”4
Jan Vansina (1929–2017)4
The varieties of sonic experience: “Quiet” versus “not‐noise” in a Ghanaian harvest festival4
Amelia Louise Susman Schultz (1915–2021)4
Beyond dystopia: Regenerative cultures and ethics among European climate activists4
Textures of Black sound and affect: Life and death in New Orleans4
In Mourning: Sociocultural Anthropology in 20203
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Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia by DanielTubb Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 264 pp.3
Seeking clarity at a time of confusion, through world anthropologies3
Segregation made them neighbors: An archaeology of racialization in Boise, Idaho By William A.White III, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. 234 pp.3
Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank By KareemRabie. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. 272 pp.3
The Fabric of Resistance: Textile Workshops and the Rise of Rebellious Landscapes in Colonial Peru by DiHuTuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2022. 248 pp.3
Atomic archaeology: Italian innovation and American adventurism3
Calibrating care: Family caregiving and the social weight of sympathy (tình cảm) in Vietnam3
Reciprocity and intimate capital in household work: Exchanging love and care for labor rights in contemporary Buenos Aires3
Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader edited by Ana Y.Ramos‐Zayas and Mérida M.RúaNew York: New York University Press, 2021. 571 pp.3
Embracing the Anaconda: A Chronicle of Atacameño Life and Mining in the Andes by AnitaCarrascoLondon: Lexington Books, 2020. 171 pp.3
Caring labor and the affective economy in the making of the Caribbean3
Chronic Erasure: Eradicating Heritage in Gaza and Ayodhya3
Sonic matters: Singing as method and the epistemology of singing across Bengali esoteric lineages3
David Graeber (1961–2020)3
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Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia3
Surviving in an age of transparency: Emancipatory transparency‐making in food governance in Italy3
Living ruins: Native engagements with past materialities in contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes Edited by PhilippeErikson and ValentinaVapnarsky. Louisville: University of Colorado Press3
Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt By JessicaBarnes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 320 pp.2
Can anthropologists get humor? A collaborative experiment on empathetic knowing at a time of predicaments2
Parenting and the production of ethnographic knowledge2
Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone By Tania MurrayLi and PujoSemedi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 256 pp.2
NFTs as skeuomorphs: Weaponized sameness and fascist utopias2
“This cannot leave here, I'm telling you because of my trust in you”: Confessions and ethnographic intimacy in fieldwork with Colombian soldiers2
Stuck Moving: Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology By PeterBenson. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 361 pp.2
The eye and the other: Language and ethics in deaf Nepal2
We Are the Land: A History of Native California by Damon B.Akins and William J.BauerJr.Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 384 pp.2
Crossing at y/our own peril: Biocultural boundary crossing in anthropology2
Off‐the‐record: Metapragmatic distinctions and linguistic sympathy among interpreters in a California child welfare court2
The social life of illegality: Suspicion and surveillance against African migrants in urban India2
Heritage as new social engineering in China: (De)colonial avenues2
Woman the hunter: The physiological evidence2
Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain by David M CarballoNew York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 351 pp.2
Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality by TodneThomasDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 252 pp.The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family by SophieBjork‐J2
After Dark: The Nocturnal Urban Landscape and Lightscape of Ancient Cities By NancyGonlin and Meghan E.Strong, eds. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2022. 312 pp.2
The Problem of Resilience and the Politics of Precarity2
Politics of Resilience and Materialism in Archaeological Explanation2
Heritage and decoloniality: Reflections from Sri Lanka—A conversation2
Archaeology of Violence and Privilege edited by Christopher N.Matthews and Bradley D.PhillippiAlbuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020. 306 pp.2
Decentering death: The war on terror and the less‐than‐lethal paradigm2
Loss remakes you2
Understanding higher education policy in Florida among university students: Bound together or in savage slots?2
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Legend of the locked doors: The sexualization of archaeological site workers in the Middle East2
Roy Wagner (1938–2018)2
Origami activism, inalienable collections, and crumbling concrete: Material engagements with Histories of violence2
Beyond “Lessons From the Past”: Archaeology and Environmental Crisis2
Old Bones in New Databases: Historical Insights Into Race, Statistics, and Ancestry Estimation in Anthropology2
Toward an Ethnography of God1
Sorcery in Mesoamerica edited by Jeremy D.Coltman and John M. D.PohlLouisville: University Press of Colorado, 2022. 409 pp.1
“Green peppers, tomatoes, and lemons, disunite!”: Feminist solidarity in times of wars1
Flower Worlds: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest edited by Michael D.Mathiowetz and Andrew D.Turner1
Trees Are Shape Shifters: How Cultivation, Climate Change, and Disaster Create Landscapes By Andrew S.Mathews. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. 320 pp.1
Resistance and Care in the Time of COVID‐19: Archaeology in 20201
A conversation on redefining ethical considerations in forensic anthropology1
Introduction: Mother Tongue as Global Politics1
“What's going on with my China?”: Political subjectivity, scalar inquiry, and the magical power of Li Wenliang1
Biocarceral citizenship: Criminalizing through care in postapartheid South Africa1
Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by CameliaDewan, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 210 pp.1
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Against Methodological Essentialism, Fragmentation, and Instrumentalism in Times of COVID‐191
“Heritage is about today, it's not about what happened in the past”: A conversation with Webber Ndoro, Director General of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of1
Theorizing with incorrect data: A new look at the historical inaccuracies of the bioarchaeology of corsets1
Esteeming goods for non‐accumulation, small realms with few people: Interpreting kula withLaozi1
The shop floor conditions of anthropology's past and present1
Revise and resubmit means just that. Revise. Resubmit.1
(M)other Tongue Aspirations: Negotiating Banjara Language, Identity, and Education Policy in Rural India1
Douglas A. Feldman (1947–2020)1
The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security by Stephen J.Collier and AndrewLakoffPrinceton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 480 pp.1
Marshall David Sahlins (1930–2021)1
Studying hazing as an anthropologist: The impact of mandatory reporting1
Managing, now becoming, refugees: Climate change and extractivism in the Republic of Nauru1
Between privileges and precariousness: Remaking whiteness in China's teaching English as a second language industry1
Dilemmas of anthropological activism, solidarity, and human rights: Lessons from Haiti1
Planting the future1
Paul Rabinow (1944–2021)1
Animal work before capitalism: Sheep's reproductive labor in the ancient South Caucasus1
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“I confess, I hardly know what to say …”1
This Language Is Mine: US College Students Navigating Contradictions of “Mother Tongue” and Heritage Language1
The end of bamboo houses in northern Laos1
Museum Matters: Making and Unmaking Mexico's National Collections edited by MirunaAchim, SusanDeans‐Smith and SandraRozental, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021. 312 pp.1
The Interlocutor Slot: Citing, Crediting, Cotheorizing, and the Problem of Ethnographic Expertise1
Risk and its others: Toward an anthropology of “protection” in rural Mongolia1
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Spectral sonics: Field recordings from an extractive zone1
A Tyranny Against Itself: Intimate Partner Violence in the Margins of Bogotá1
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The presence of abandonment: Left to live at the borderland of Lampedusa1
Alluvium and Empire: The Archaeology of Colonial Resettlement and Indigenous Persistence on Peru's North Coast by ParkerVanValkenburghTucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021. 306 pp.1
Food (inter)activism in the Marquesas, French Polynesia1
The violence of collecting1
Mockery amid shooting: Laughter as an expression of expertise at a public clinic in Greater Rio de Janeiro, Brazil1
Arranged Marriage Often Subverts Offspring Mate Choice: An HRAF‐Based Study1
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Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas by RadhikaGovindrajanChicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 220 pp.1
Bargaining and interdependence: Common parent‐offspring conflict resolution strategies among Chon Chuuk and their implications for suicidal behavior1
Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots by MaryWeismantelAustin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 246 pp.1
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Alliance Rises in the West: Labor, Race, and Solidarity in Industrial California by Charlotte K. SunseriLincoln: University of Nebraska Press and the Society for Historical Archaeology, 2020. 174 pp.1
Mobility and Migration in Ancient Mesoamerican Cities. M. CharlotteArnauld, ChristopherBeekman, GrégoryPereira. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2021. 377 pp.1
Reproducing the “white public space” in anthropology faculty searches1
Of Athens, crises, and other medicines1
Drawing the Sea Near: Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa by C. Anne ClausMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 256 pages.1
On special sections1
Engaged Archaeology in the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico edited by Kelley A.Hays‐Gilpin, Sarah A.Herr, and Patrick D.Lyons, Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2021. 342 pp.1
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Fear the Native woman: Femininity, food, and power in the sixteenth‐century North Carolina Piedmont0
Vibrant modalities: Indigenous modes of being and survival in the sixth extinction0
The Value of Forensic Anthropology in Undergraduate Anthropology Programs0
“It comes down to dealing with people”: A conversation with Brennen Ferguson, Haudenosaunee Confederacy0
Intimate ethnography: What's it good for?0
Knowing‐through‐Performing0
Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility By Jessica M.Smith. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. 298 pp.0
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Aspirational architecture and AK‐47s: Fragmented violence in Liberia from settlement to the contemporary0
“Is your investigation from a professional perspective, or as a woman?”0
Breach: A portolan of multimodal practice0
Hunger as more‐than‐human communicative modality on the West Papuan oil palm frontier0
Introduction: Silent Reverberations: Potentialities of Attuned Listening0
Ex‐gay activism and the reification of sexual identity in law0
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The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse: Coast Miwok Resilience and Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial California by Tsim D.SchneiderTucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021. 232 pp.0
Evolving payoff currencies through the construction of causal theories0
Fieldwork confessionals0
Disposable kin: Shifting registers of belonging in global care economies0
Anthropology and the misery of writing0
“The Statistical View Is Not the Moral View”: Disposable Medical Plastics as Toxic Infrastructure0
Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru By JuliaCaroline Morris. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 308 pp.0
Nancy D. Munn (April 13, 1931–January 20, 2020)0
Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity by Ramyar D.Rossoukh and Steven C.Caton, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 288 pp.0
Against Natural Resources: Engaging With Indigenous Knowledge to Imagine the Past and the Future of the Amazon0
Introduction: On Vanishing Fieldsites0
Contemporary art, Amerindian rock art heritage, and decolonization in the Guadeloupean archipelago0
The psychology and social dynamics of fetal sex prognostication in China: Evidence from historical data0
In lieu of “keywords”: Toward an anthropology of rapport0
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The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea by Hannah AppelDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 344 pp.0
Jill Susanna Dubisch (1943–2023)0
Intersectional justice denied: Racist warring masculinity, negative peace, and violence in post‐peace accords El Salvador0
Nothing comes without its story0
Genocide‐time: Political violence reckoning in Rwanda0
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Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the troubled birth of psychedelic science By BenjaminBreen. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2024. 384 pp.0
Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt By RaniaKassab Sweis. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 208 pp.0
“But we met expectations! Why us?”: Threats to anthropology and learning from the program cut at UNC Greensboro0
The Polyglot: Plurilingual Wonders, “Mother Tongue” Hegemony, and Totalizing Images in and of Singapore0
Climate the Antagonist0
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The Poetics of Processing: Memory Formation, Identity, and the Handling of the Dead edited by Anna J.OsterholtzLouisville: University Press of Colorado, 2020. 264 pp.0
“I've never told anyone that before …”0
“We're tired of this Weber guy!”—Force experts, police reforms, and the violence of standardization0
Property in transition: Legal fantasies, land “reforms,” and contracting peace in Colombia0
Weathered remains: Bioarchaeology, identity, and the landscape0
Jane Isabel Guyer (1943–2024)0
“See, Your Grandma Has Two Mother Tongues…or Only One?”: Shame, Dialect, and Shifting Mother Tongues in Sicily0
Response to “Can women hunt? Yes, did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.”0
The importance of professional organizations as disciplinary leaders and the need for meaningful ethical codes in anthropology0
“I'm telling you this because I love you”0
Steven Gregory (1953–2021)0
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Strategic generosity among local patrons: Place belonging and ethnic exclusion in a transforming lower‐income neighborhood of Tel Aviv0
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Implementing an antiracist framework in forensic anthropology: Our responsibility in professional organizations and as scientists0
Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore By NicoleFabricant. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 266 pp.0
“You have harmed us”: Stories of violence, narratives of hope among the Port Gamble S'Klallam0
Reflections on the weaponization of “civil” discourse and the silencing of dissent in higher education: An example from Florida0
“Eliminate Anthropology”: Attitudes toward social science in the public discourse0
Pocodisco: The sonic performativity of grief, grievance, and joy in diaspora0
The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make by J. Lorand MatoryDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 384 pp.0
Unsettling Production: Affective Geographies of Contested Commodities in Sápmi0
Rooting in a useless land: Ancient farmers, celebrity chefs, and environmental justice in Yucatán By ChelseaFisher, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023. 280 pp.0
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