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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility By Jessica M.Smith. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. 298 pp.49
A lab unearthed: Plotting the grounds for future fields38
Sounding eeeeeee: Stretching phyto vibrancy beyond anthropology29
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Rituals of Care: Karmic Politics in an Aging Thailand By Felicity AulinoIthaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. 210 pp.21
Mobility and Migration in Ancient Mesoamerican Cities. M. CharlotteArnauld, ChristopherBeekman, GrégoryPereira. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2021. 377 pp.20
Steven Gregory (1953–2021)19
Saving Animals: Multispecies Ecologies of Rescue and Care by Elan AbrellMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 260 pp19
Shadow worlding: Chasing light in Yogyakarta17
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.17
A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador By ChristopherKrupa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 318 pp.16
Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore By NicoleFabricant. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 266 pp.15
Leaving traces: Fairy houses, kindness stones, and constructed heritage15
Studying hazing as an anthropologist: The impact of mandatory reporting14
Helsinki in Zion: Hospital ethics committees and political gatekeeping in Israel/Palestine14
Museum Matters: Making and Unmaking Mexico's National Collections edited by MirunaAchim, SusanDeans‐Smith and SandraRozental, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021. 312 pp.13
Shxwelí li te shxwelítemelh xíts'etáwtxw: The museum's confinement of Indigenous kin12
Meaning or presence? Ways of knowing of the Sámi yoik12
Disrupting the patrón: Indigenous land rights and the fight for environmental justice in Paraguay's Chaco By Joel E.Correia. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023. 236 pp.11
“Our blood is becoming white”: Race, religion, and Siddi becoming in Hyderabad, India11
Can women hunt? Yes. Did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.10
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Michael Silverstein (1945–2020)9
Living ruins: Native engagements with past materialities in contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes Edited by PhilippeErikson and ValentinaVapnarsky. Louisville: University of Colorado Press9
Polyphonic readings of a Luso‐Brazilian sobrado9
Knowing by DEAF‐listening: Epistemologies and ontologies revealed in song‐signing8
Scripting the Conviction: Power and Resistance in the Management of Criminal Stigma8
Leith P. Mullings (1945–2020)8
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.8
The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea by Hannah AppelDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 344 pp.8
Ecosystem duties, green infrastructure, and environmental injustice in Los Angeles8
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Embracing the Anaconda: A Chronicle of Atacameño Life and Mining in the Andes by AnitaCarrascoLondon: Lexington Books, 2020. 171 pp.7
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Archaeologies of the Heart edited by KishaSupernant, Jane EvaBaxter, NatashaLyons, and Sonya AtalayCham, Switzerland: Springer, 2020. 281 pp.7
Breach: A portolan of multimodal practice7
The forever war, foregone6
Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe by FabioMattioliStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 297 pp.6
Genocide‐time: Political violence reckoning in Rwanda6
Segregation made them neighbors: An archaeology of racialization in Boise, Idaho By William A.White III, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. 234 pp.6
Enemy – Stranger – Neighbor: The Image of the Other in Moche Culture by Janusz Z.WołoszynOxford: Archaeopress, 2021. 200 pp.5
Stable condition: Traumatic injury, coma, and vital traffic in a Mumbai hospital ward5
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Revise and resubmit means just that. Revise. Resubmit.5
Framing Complexity in Formative Mesoamerica Edited by LisaDeLance and Gary M.Feinman. Denver: University Press of Colorado, 2022. 336 pp.5
At home in my enemy's house: Israeli activists negotiating ethical values through ritualized Palestinian hospitality5
Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil by Heather F.RollerStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 360 pp.5
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The Carbon Calculation: Global Climate Policy, Forests, and Transnational Governance in Brazil and MozambiqueBy RaquelRodrigues Machaqueiro. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2023. 324 pp.5
On special sections5
Reproducing the “white public space” in anthropology faculty searches4
Citizen‐Suspect: Navigating Surveillance and Policing in Urban Kenya4
Supporting the use of genetic genealogy in restoring family narratives following the transatlantic slave trade4
Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population: An epistolary review essay4
Border assemblages between surveillance and spectacle: What was Moria and what comes after?4
The Biology of Racism4
Political Campaigns, Voter Outreach, and American Democracy: Socializing Effective Participation and Citizen Agency in the United States4
Where Have All the Anthros Gone? The Shift in California Indian Studies from Research “on” to Research “with, for, and by” Indigenous Peoples4
Introduction: Silent Reverberations: Potentialities of Attuned Listening4
Against Methodological Essentialism, Fragmentation, and Instrumentalism in Times of COVID‐194
Ecologies of mistrust: Fish, fishermen, and the multispecies ethics of ethnographic authority4
Caring labor and the affective economy in the making of the Caribbean4
On Listening and Telling Anew: Possibilities for Archaeologies of Survivance4
De‐Naturalizing the Novice: A Critique of the Theory of Language Socialization4
Resistance and Care in the Time of COVID‐19: Archaeology in 20204
Between privileges and precariousness: Remaking whiteness in China's teaching English as a second language industry4
Economy of Blood: The Persecuted Church and the Racialization of American Copts4
Silence at the end of life: Multivocality at the edges of narrative possibility3
When decolonization is hijacked3
A fablab at the periphery: Decentering innovation from São Paulo3
Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China by Kimberly Chong Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 264 pp.3
The ends of research: Indigenous and settler science after the War in the Woods By TomÖzden‐Schilling. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 294 pp.3
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic3
“Our planet: Too big to fail”: The semiotics of capitalist responses to climate change3
Making Better Numbers through Bioethnographic Collaboration3
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The house is coming from inside the call3
Where language does not live3
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic3
A thousand tiny cuts: Mobility and security across the Bangladesh‐India borderland By SahanaGhosh. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023. 296 pp.3
Between Gender and Kinship: Mediating Rights and Relations in North Indian NGOs3
Primate Research and Conservation in the Anthropocene edited by AlisonBehie, JulieTeichroeb, and NicholasMaloneCambridge Series in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge Univer3
What makes a “good” forensic anthropologist?3
Intersectional justice denied: Racist warring masculinity, negative peace, and violence in post‐peace accords El Salvador3
Slaughterhouse tours in Denmark: Affective nationalism in the making of citizen‐consumers and the industrial slaughter of happy pigs3
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Risky Appearances, Skillful Performances: Female Islamic Preachers and Professional Style in Malaysia3
Food (inter)activism in the Marquesas, French Polynesia3
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic3
Surviving in an age of transparency: Emancipatory transparency‐making in food governance in Italy3
You Are Going to Get Us Killed: Fugitive Archival Practice and the Carceral State2
In Mourning: Sociocultural Anthropology in 20202
Disposing of Modernity: The Archaeology of Garbage and Consumerism during Chicago's 1893 World's Fair by Rebecca S.GraffGainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020. 220 pp.2
“But we met expectations! Why us?”: Threats to anthropology and learning from the program cut at UNC Greensboro2
Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt By RaniaKassab Sweis. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 208 pp.2
Gucci and the waqf: Inalienability in Beirut's postwar reconstruction2
Porous becomings: Anthropological engagements with Michel Serres By AndreasBandak, Daniel M.Knight, Durham: Duke University Press. 2024. 344 pp.2
“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 of2
Catholicism and Taki Onqoy in the Early Colonial Period: Colonial Entanglements of Church Interments at Iglesiachayoq (Chicha‐Soras Valley, Ayacucho, Peru)2
Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia by DanielTubb Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 264 pp.2
The limits of bodies: Gatherings and the problem of collective presence2
Affective silences: Violence, heteropatriarchy, intergenerationality2
From rhetoric to reality: Why we need an anthropology of higher education policy2
How Social Science Got Better: Overcoming Bias with More Evidence, Diversity, and Self‐Reflection By MattGrossmann. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 316 pp.2
Queering pregnancy2
Appropriating corporate personhood: Constructions of the person‐corporation and native nation sovereignty2
The sustainability myth: Environmental gentrification and the politics of justice By MelissaChecker. New York: NYU Press, 2020. 280 pp.2
Pocodisco: The sonic performativity of grief, grievance, and joy in diaspora2
A Mystery in the Archives: The Historiography of Denial, Henrietta Schmerler's Rape and Murder, and Anthropology's Project of Prevention2
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Ex‐gay activism and the reification of sexual identity in law2
Cutting through and going along: A comment on knowing by singing2
Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 1: Introduction Edited by IgorKrupnik. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2022. 931 pp.2
A forgetful ethnography: Memory, memoir, and brain injuries2
Capitalist inequality and power, migration, and urbanity: A biographical interview with Nina Glick Schiller2
Mockery amid shooting: Laughter as an expression of expertise at a public clinic in Greater Rio de Janeiro, Brazil2
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Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh By KasiaPaprocki, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 270 pp.1
Trowels in the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism edited by Christopher P.BartonGainesville: University Press of Florida, 2021. 266 pp.1
Disposable kin: Shifting registers of belonging in global care economies1
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic1
Nancy D. Munn (April 13, 1931–January 20, 2020)1
Atomic archaeology: Italian innovation and American adventurism1
Sally Engle Merry (1944–2020)1
Reciprocity and intimate capital in household work: Exchanging love and care for labor rights in contemporary Buenos Aires1
Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas by RadhikaGovindrajanChicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 220 pp.1
Adventures in “belief”: Hearing an old concept in a new key1
Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy by GabrieleKochStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 230 pp.1
Audrey Smedley (1930–2020)1
Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood by VanessaDíazDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 310 pp.1
Centering Prisons: Reframing Analysis of the State, Relations of Power and Resistance1
Publishing: It's complicated1
A semiotics of argan phytodiplomacy1
Generous peer review1
Anthropology of proprioception: Endurance and collectivity on unstable grounds in postrevolutionary Cairo1
“I confess, I hardly know what to say …”1
A croquis for the stenourbanite1
Sorcery in Mesoamerica edited by Jeremy D.Coltman and John M. D.PohlLouisville: University Press of Colorado, 2022. 409 pp.1
Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco by Savannah Shange Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 212 pp.1
Seeing (or perceiving) difference in multiracial Singapore: Habits of looking in a raciolinguistic image economy1
Scammer's Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica by Jovan Scott LewisMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 248 pp.1
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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.1
Sonic matters: Singing as method and the epistemology of singing across Bengali esoteric lineages1
The Sovereign Street: Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia by Carwil Bjork‐JamesTucson: Arizona University Press, 2020. 305 pp.1
“I know I shouldn't say this, but…”1
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Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis by JodiRiosIthaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. 294 pp.1
Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by CameliaDewan, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 210 pp.1
David Graeber (1961–2020)1
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.1
Calibrating care: Family caregiving and the social weight of sympathy (tình cảm) in Vietnam1
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“Homeless” Deities and Refugee Devotees: Hindu Temples, Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora, and Politics in the United Kingdom1
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic1
Coastal Lives: Nature, Capital, and the Struggle for Artisanal Fisheries in Peru by Maximilian Viatori and Héctor BombiellaTucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019. 228 pp.1
Reconstructing Sovereignty on Ancient Mesoamerica's Southern Pacific Coast1
Tales from Albarado: Ponzi Logics of Accumulation in Postsocialist Albania by Smoki MusarajIthaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. 216 pages.1
Truth before transition: Reimagining anthropology as restorative justice1
Flower Worlds: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest edited by Michael D.Mathiowetz and Andrew D.Turner1
Delia's Return: The Detention and Deportation of an Unaccompanied Child1
The Fabric of Resistance: Textile Workshops and the Rise of Rebellious Landscapes in Colonial Peru by DiHuTuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2022. 248 pp.1
“You have harmed us”: Stories of violence, narratives of hope among the Port Gamble S'Klallam1
Review of Max D.Price. Evolution of a Taboo: Pigs and People in the Ancient Near East. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2021, 336 Pages. ISBN: Hardcover 9780197543276, Ebook 9780197543276.1
Paul Rabinow (1944–2021)1
A Sense of Momentary Presence: Using Instagram to Document Consumer Culture's Ambivalences1
Made in Baja: The Lives of Farmworkers and Growers behind Mexico's Transnational Agricultural Boom by Christian Zlolniski Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 256 pp.1
A Simpler Life: Synthetic Biological Experiments by TaliaDan‐CohenIthaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 174 pp.1
Seeking clarity at a time of confusion, through world anthropologies1
Decolonizing US anthropology: A view from India1
The presence of abandonment: Left to live at the borderland of Lampedusa1
Living Tangier: Migration, Race, and Illegality in a Moroccan City by Abdelmajid Hannoum Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 272 pp.1
Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors0
Property in transition: Legal fantasies, land “reforms,” and contracting peace in Colombia0
Loss remakes you0
Anthropology and the misery of writing0
A poetics of living rebellion: Sociocultural anthropology in 20210
Becoming politicians: Indigenous pageants as training sites for public life0
Analyzing asymmetries and praxis in aDNA research: A bioanthropological critique0
Moving materialities: Oceanic epistemologies and embodied knowledge production in Pentecostal women's health mentorship in Samoa0
Rethinking the study of governance from the Christian AmericasThe Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil by Maria JosédeAbreuDurham, NC: Duke University 0
The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make by J. Lorand MatoryDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 384 pp.0
Intimate war across borders: Terrifying encounters, recognition, and “the Colombian armed conflict” in Quito, Ecuador0
Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession by ThomasHendriksDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 320 pp.0
Liberating trails and travel routes in Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en Territories from the tyrannies of heritage resource management regimes0
Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots by MaryWeismantelAustin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 246 pp.0
The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia by TeoBallvéIthaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. 228 pp.0
Pushpin memoir: Making meaning out of murder0
Boundary objects and collaboration in a planetary health project in Boruca Indigenous Territory, Costa Rica0
Robots Won't Save Japan: An Ethnography of Eldercare Automation By JamesWright. Ithaca: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2023. 182 pp.0
Making Friends, Building Roads: Chinese Entrepreneurship and the Search for Reliability in Angola0
Bitter Shade: The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness By Michael R.Dove. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. 291 pp.0
Resilience—Peril or promise? Mapping current and future directions in the anthropology of resilience0
Parenting and the production of ethnographic knowledge0
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic0
Heritage as new social engineering in China: (De)colonial avenues0
Soledad directed by Lisa Molomot, based on essays by Shefali Milczarek‐Desai Newburgh, NY: New Day Films, 2019.​0
Pitch Black: How design entrepreneurs are rethinking race in post‐Katrina schools0
Fragile Resonance: Caring for Older Family Members in Japan and England, by JasonDanely, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 249 pp.0
Living in the Paraindustrial0
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Understanding higher education policy in Florida among university students: Bound together or in savage slots?0
Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru By JuliaCaroline Morris. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 308 pp.0
Maya Gods of War by KarenBassie‐SweetLouisville: University Press of Colorado, 2021. 324 pp.0
Boarding school voices: Carlisle Indian students speak By ArnoldKrupat, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 351 pp.0
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology by Redman, Samuel J.Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2022. 314pp.0
Fear the Native woman: Femininity, food, and power in the sixteenth‐century North Carolina Piedmont0
Biocarceral citizenship: Criminalizing through care in postapartheid South Africa0
Skilling race: Affective labor and “white” pedagogies in the Chilean service economy0
Captivity, Kinship, and Black Masculine Care Work under Domestic Warfare0
The Archaeology of Food: Identity, Politics, and Ideology in the Prehistoric and Historic Past by Katheryn C.TwissCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 256 pp.0
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 Mexic0
Reflections on the weaponization of “civil” discourse and the silencing of dissent in higher education: An example from Florida0
Anthropology after Gluckman: The Manchester School, Colonial and Postcolonial Transformations by RichardWerbnerManchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 322 pp.0
Proving injustice: Smuggler killings, impunity work, and vernacular counterforensics in Turkey's Kurdish borderlands0
Borderland Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo by JenniferKoshatka SemanAustin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 232 pp.0
NFTs as skeuomorphs: Weaponized sameness and fascist utopias0
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Toward an anthropology that cares: Lessons from the Academic Carework project0
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic0
Bridging worlds: An interview with Ethiopian American archaeologist Helina Woldekiros0
Hometown Prison: Whiteness, Safety, and Prison Work in Upstate New York State0
“We're tired of this Weber guy!”—Force experts, police reforms, and the violence of standardization0
Lambros Comitas (1927–2020)0
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Out of the ordinary: Everyday life and the “carnival of Mussolini”0
The importance of professional organizations as disciplinary leaders and the need for meaningful ethical codes in anthropology0
Anthropology‐as‐theology: Violent endings and the permanence of new beginnings0
Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity by Ramyar D.Rossoukh and Steven C.Caton, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 288 pp.0
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The problem of criminal charisma: State authority and the politics of narcocultura in Mexico's drug war0
Frederick K. Errington (1941–2021)0
The anthropological and the consequential0
Immigrant Farmworker Youth's Right to Aspire: A Review of Two Films0
Beyond the dead zone: The meanings of loving violence in Highland Mexico0
Under Pressure: Diamond Mining and Everyday Life in Northern Canada By Lindsay A.Bell. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. 188 pp.0
Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age by Ayala Fader Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 288 pp.0
At the Limits of CureBharat JayramVenkatDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 304 pp.0
Introduction: Modalities of planetary health and justice0
We Are Not Alone: William King and the Naming of the Neanderthals0
It's just a font0
Leveraging anthropological expertise to respond to the COVID‐19 global mental health syndemic0
Vibrant modalities: Indigenous modes of being and survival in the sixth extinction0
Ethnography and quantification: Insights from epidemiology for Indigenous health equity0
Land Back: Indigenous sovereignty as care through responsibility and relationship0
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