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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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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.55
Shadow worlding: Chasing light in Yogyakarta38
The house is coming from inside the call30
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Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic28
De‐Naturalizing the Novice: A Critique of the Theory of Language Socialization22
Stable condition: Traumatic injury, coma, and vital traffic in a Mumbai hospital ward19
You Are Going to Get Us Killed: Fugitive Archival Practice and the Carceral State19
Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe by FabioMattioliStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 297 pp.19
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.15
The forever war, foregone14
Slaughterhouse tours in Denmark: Affective nationalism in the making of citizen‐consumers and the industrial slaughter of happy pigs14
Generous peer review14
What makes a “good” forensic anthropologist?14
Multimodal Ambivalence and the Struggle against Techno‐Supremacies14
Cartographic archives: Excavating the subterranean with a camera13
A forgetful ethnography: Memory, memoir, and brain injuries13
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From rhetoric to reality: Why we need an anthropology of higher education policy12
Queering pregnancy12
Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh By KasiaPaprocki, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 270 pp.11
The sustainability myth: Environmental gentrification and the politics of justice By MelissaChecker. New York: NYU Press, 2020. 280 pp.10
A croquis for the stenourbanite10
The echo of the world: The castaway, the Garabandal apparitions, and the crisis of presence9
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria9
Life in an age of death: War and the river in Bosnia and Herzegovina9
Relations: An Anthropological Account by MarilynStrathernDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 274 pp.9
Truth before transition: Reimagining anthropology as restorative justice9
Does a decolonized anthropology require reinterpreting the past?9
Knowing Animals: Multispecies Ethnography and the Scope of Anthropology9
Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh by Lamia KarimMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 272 pp.8
“I have no proof, but …”8
Water sharing is a distressing form of reciprocity: Shame, upset, anger, and conflict over water in twenty cross‐cultural sites7
An ethnography of joy: Entrepreneurship among Latinx communities in East Los Angeles7
Silenced resentments and regrets: Aging in a changing Kibbutz7
Putting Big Tech in its place: A view of the virtual from Los Angeles7
Welcoming the foreigner: Notes on the possibility of multispecies hospitality7
The geopower of kaolin clay: Toward a political geology of archaeological ceramics7
The Worst of Anthro Job Ads for 20216
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Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors6
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
FandangObon: Amplification, counter‐publics, and fugitive spaces of belonging in Los Angeles6
Writing in community: Relationship building and accountability in knowledge production5
Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability By JacobDoherty. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 288 pp.5
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There's more to anthropology's past than most of us know5
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
Archaeology in 2022: Counter‐myths for hopeful futures5
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology by Redman, Samuel J.Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2022. 314pp.5
Hometown Prison: Whiteness, Safety, and Prison Work in Upstate New York State5
Bitter Shade: The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness By Michael R.Dove. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. 291 pp.5
The quest for a good life: Incense seeing and the porous and dividual hoping person in North China5
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The anthropological and the consequential5
Banker, pastor, teef: Christian financial elites and vernaculars of accountability in Ghana5
Pumayuyus5
Amelia Louise Susman Schultz (1915–2021)4
Fragile Resonance: Caring for Older Family Members in Japan and England, by JasonDanely, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 249 pp.4
Sampling as ethnographic method/remixing Gulu City4
Fire, ice, and flood4
Beyond dystopia: Regenerative cultures and ethics among European climate activists4
Comments on a found text: “Return to Acirema: Fragments regarding twenty‐first‐century Nacirema culture”4
Beyond the normative: Ambiguity in the making of a South Indian Sufi4
Liberating trails and travel routes in Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en Territories from the tyrannies of heritage resource management regimes4
Jan Vansina (1929–2017)4
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia4
Textures of Black sound and affect: Life and death in New Orleans4
A Rabbi of One's Own? Navigating Religious Authority and Ethical Freedom in Everyday Judaism4
Introduction: Modalities of planetary health and justice4
Anthropology‐as‐theology: Violent endings and the permanence of new beginnings4
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic4
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic4
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Housing as asset and payment: Construction, speculation, and financialization at the European periphery4
The varieties of sonic experience: “Quiet” versus “not‐noise” in a Ghanaian harvest festival3
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
Paul Edward Farmer (1959–2022)3
The Mechanics of Sovereignty: Autonomy and Interdependence across Three Cables to Iceland3
In Mourning: Sociocultural Anthropology in 20203
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic3
Embracing the Anaconda: A Chronicle of Atacameño Life and Mining in the Andes by AnitaCarrascoLondon: Lexington Books, 2020. 171 pp.3
Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia by DanielTubb Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 264 pp.3
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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.3
Calling names: Humoring caste and caste‐ing humor3
Adopting a Root: Documenting Ecological and Cultural Signatures of Plant Translocations in Northwestern North America3
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic3
Centering Prisons: Reframing Analysis of the State, Relations of Power and Resistance3
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
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When do no harm becomes harm done: Re‐centering ethics in anthropology3
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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
Caring labor and the affective economy in the making of the Caribbean3
Living ruins: Native engagements with past materialities in contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes Edited by PhilippeErikson and ValentinaVapnarsky. Louisville: University of Colorado Press3
Sonic matters: Singing as method and the epistemology of singing across Bengali esoteric lineages3
Surviving in an age of transparency: Emancipatory transparency‐making in food governance in Italy3
Atomic archaeology: Italian innovation and American adventurism3
“This cannot leave here, I'm telling you because of my trust in you”: Confessions and ethnographic intimacy in fieldwork with Colombian soldiers2
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
Calibrating care: Family caregiving and the social weight of sympathy (tình cảm) in Vietnam2
David Graeber (1961–2020)2
Origami activism, inalienable collections, and crumbling concrete: Material engagements with Histories of violence2
Decentering death: The war on terror and the less‐than‐lethal paradigm2
Woman the hunter: The physiological evidence2
The social life of illegality: Suspicion and surveillance against African migrants in urban India2
Loss remakes you2
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Objects Don't Have Desires: Toward an Anthropology of Technology beyond Anthropomorphism2
Legend of the locked doors: The sexualization of archaeological site workers in the Middle East2
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
Reciprocity and intimate capital in household work: Exchanging love and care for labor rights in contemporary Buenos Aires2
Roy Wagner (1938–2018)2
Crossing at y/our own peril: Biocultural boundary crossing in anthropology2
NFTs as skeuomorphs: Weaponized sameness and fascist utopias2
Understanding higher education policy in Florida among university students: Bound together or in savage slots?2
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
Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone By Tania MurrayLi and PujoSemedi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 256 pp.2
Stuck Moving: Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology By PeterBenson. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 361 pp.2
Heritage and decoloniality: Reflections from Sri Lanka—A conversation2
Seeking clarity at a time of confusion, through world anthropologies2
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
The eye and the other: Language and ethics in deaf Nepal2
Can anthropologists get humor? A collaborative experiment on empathetic knowing at a time of predicaments2
Off‐the‐record: Metapragmatic distinctions and linguistic sympathy among interpreters in a California child welfare court2
Heritage as new social engineering in China: (De)colonial avenues2
Archaeology of Violence and Privilege edited by Christopher N.Matthews and Bradley D.PhillippiAlbuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020. 306 pp.2
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Dilemmas of anthropological activism, solidarity, and human rights: Lessons from Haiti1
Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt By JessicaBarnes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 320 pp.1
The end of bamboo houses in northern Laos1
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
Marshall David Sahlins (1930–2021)1
On special sections1
The presence of abandonment: Left to live at the borderland of Lampedusa1
Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by CameliaDewan, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 210 pp.1
Mockery amid shooting: Laughter as an expression of expertise at a public clinic in Greater Rio de Janeiro, Brazil1
Scripting the Conviction: Power and Resistance in the Management of Criminal Stigma1
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic1
Animal work before capitalism: Sheep's reproductive labor in the ancient South Caucasus1
Against Methodological Essentialism, Fragmentation, and Instrumentalism in Times of COVID‐191
The violence of collecting1
Studying hazing as an anthropologist: The impact of mandatory reporting1
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Arranged Marriage Often Subverts Offspring Mate Choice: An HRAF‐Based Study1
Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots by MaryWeismantelAustin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 246 pp.1
Spectral sonics: Field recordings from an extractive zone1
“What's going on with my China?”: Political subjectivity, scalar inquiry, and the magical power of Li Wenliang1
“Green peppers, tomatoes, and lemons, disunite!”: Feminist solidarity in times of wars1
Introduction: Mother Tongue as Global Politics1
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
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic1
“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
Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas by RadhikaGovindrajanChicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 220 pp.1
Between privileges and precariousness: Remaking whiteness in China's teaching English as a second language industry1
Resistance and Care in the Time of COVID‐19: Archaeology in 20201
Mobility and Migration in Ancient Mesoamerican Cities. M. CharlotteArnauld, ChristopherBeekman, GrégoryPereira. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2021. 377 pp.1
Parenting and the production of ethnographic knowledge1
Reproducing the “white public space” in anthropology faculty searches1
Anthropology after Gluckman: The Manchester School, Colonial and Postcolonial Transformations by RichardWerbnerManchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 322 pp.1
Food (inter)activism in the Marquesas, French Polynesia1
Biocarceral citizenship: Criminalizing through care in postapartheid South Africa1
Bargaining and interdependence: Common parent‐offspring conflict resolution strategies among Chon Chuuk and their implications for suicidal behavior1
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Douglas A. Feldman (1947–2020)1
Managing, now becoming, refugees: Climate change and extractivism in the Republic of Nauru1
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic1
Revise and resubmit means just that. Revise. Resubmit.1
Flower Worlds: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest edited by Michael D.Mathiowetz and Andrew D.Turner1
“I confess, I hardly know what to say …”1
Paul Rabinow (1944–2021)1
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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
Where Have All the Anthros Gone? The Shift in California Indian Studies from Research “on” to Research “with, for, and by” Indigenous Peoples1
A conversation on redefining ethical considerations in forensic anthropology1
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
Planting the future1
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“I've never told anyone that before …”0
Strategic generosity among local patrons: Place belonging and ethnic exclusion in a transforming lower‐income neighborhood of Tel Aviv0
Aspirational architecture and AK‐47s: Fragmented violence in Liberia from settlement to the contemporary0
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“The Statistical View Is Not the Moral View”: Disposable Medical Plastics as Toxic Infrastructure0
Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility By Jessica M.Smith. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. 298 pp.0
A semiotics of argan phytodiplomacy0
Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore By NicoleFabricant. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 266 pp.0
Linguistic taboo, ideology, and erasure: Reproducing homophobia as norm and lesbianism as stigma in women's football in Turkey0
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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
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
“I'm telling you this because I love you”0
“But we met expectations! Why us?”: Threats to anthropology and learning from the program cut at UNC Greensboro0
The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make by J. Lorand MatoryDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 384 pp.0
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Reflections on the weaponization of “civil” discourse and the silencing of dissent in higher education: An example from Florida0
“We're tired of this Weber guy!”—Force experts, police reforms, and the violence of standardization0
The Value of Forensic Anthropology in Undergraduate Anthropology Programs0
Jane Isabel Guyer (1943–2024)0
Political Campaigns, Voter Outreach, and American Democracy: Socializing Effective Participation and Citizen Agency in the United States0
The Polyglot: Plurilingual Wonders, “Mother Tongue” Hegemony, and Totalizing Images in and of Singapore0
Steven Gregory (1953–2021)0
Contemporary art, Amerindian rock art heritage, and decolonization in the Guadeloupean archipelago0
Genocide‐time: Political violence reckoning in Rwanda0
Breach: A portolan of multimodal practice0
Pocodisco: The sonic performativity of grief, grievance, and joy in diaspora0
Introduction: Silent Reverberations: Potentialities of Attuned Listening0
Porous becomings: Anthropological engagements with Michel Serres By AndreasBandak, Daniel M.Knight, Durham: Duke University Press. 2024. 344 pp.0
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A Simpler Life: Synthetic Biological Experiments by TaliaDan‐CohenIthaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 174 pp.0
“Is your investigation from a professional perspective, or as a woman?”0
Ex‐gay activism and the reification of sexual identity in law0
Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt By RaniaKassab Sweis. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 208 pp.0
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
Implementing an antiracist framework in forensic anthropology: Our responsibility in professional organizations and as scientists0
Anthropology and the misery of writing0
Response to “Can women hunt? Yes, did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.”0
Evolving payoff currencies through the construction of causal theories0
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
Property in transition: Legal fantasies, land “reforms,” and contracting peace in Colombia0
Intimate ethnography: What's it good for?0
Fear the Native woman: Femininity, food, and power in the sixteenth‐century North Carolina Piedmont0
“It comes down to dealing with people”: A conversation with Brennen Ferguson, Haudenosaunee Confederacy0
The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea by Hannah AppelDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 344 pp.0
Vibrant modalities: Indigenous modes of being and survival in the sixth extinction0
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Technological sovereignty in agroecology: Harnessing GIS and drones for socially just food systemsDrones and geographical information technologies in agroecology and organic farming: Contributions 0
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.0
A Sense of Momentary Presence: Using Instagram to Document Consumer Culture's Ambivalences0
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Adventures in “belief”: Hearing an old concept in a new key0
In lieu of “keywords”: Toward an anthropology of rapport0
“You have harmed us”: Stories of violence, narratives of hope among the Port Gamble S'Klallam0
“Eliminate Anthropology”: Attitudes toward social science in the public discourse0
The Beetle or the Bug? Multispecies Politics in a West Papuan Oil Palm Plantation0
Disposable kin: Shifting registers of belonging in global care economies0
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The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere by Paulette F. C.SteevesLincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 326 pp.0
Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru By JuliaCaroline Morris. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 308 pp.0
The psychology and social dynamics of fetal sex prognostication in China: Evidence from historical data0
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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