OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Anthropologist is 2. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
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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.	56
Shadow worlding: Chasing light in Yogyakarta	38
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The house is coming from inside the call	30
De‐Naturalizing the Novice: A Critique of the Theory of Language Socialization	28
You Are Going to Get Us Killed: Fugitive Archival Practice and the Carceral State	22
Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population: An epistolary review essay	19
Stable condition: Traumatic injury, coma, and vital traffic in a Mumbai hospital ward	19
Leaving traces: Fairy houses, kindness stones, and constructed heritage	16
Slaughterhouse tours in Denmark: Affective nationalism in the making of citizen‐consumers and the industrial slaughter of happy pigs	16
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
What makes a “good” forensic anthropologist?	15
Multimodal Ambivalence and the Struggle against Techno‐Supremacies	14
Generous peer review	14
The forever war, foregone	14
A forgetful ethnography: Memory, memoir, and brain injuries	13
Cartographic archives: Excavating the subterranean with a camera	13
Queering pregnancy	12
From rhetoric to reality: Why we need an anthropology of higher education policy	12
A croquis for the stenourbanite	12
Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh By KasiaPaprocki, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 270 pp.	12
The sustainability myth: Environmental gentrification and the politics of justice By MelissaChecker. New York: NYU Press, 2020. 280 pp.	11

Truth before transition: Reimagining anthropology as restorative justice	10
Life in an age of death: War and the river in Bosnia and Herzegovina	10
Knowing Animals: Multispecies Ethnography and the Scope of Anthropology	10
An ethnography of joy: Entrepreneurship among Latinx communities in East Los Angeles	9
Does a decolonized anthropology require reinterpreting the past?	9
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria	9
Welcoming the foreigner: Notes on the possibility of multispecies hospitality	9
Relations: An Anthropological Account by MarilynStrathernDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 274 pp.	9
Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh by Lamia KarimMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 272 pp.	8
The echo of the world: The castaway, the Garabandal apparitions, and the crisis of presence	8
The geopower of kaolin clay: Toward a political geology of archaeological ceramics	7
Silenced resentments and regrets: Aging in a changing Kibbutz	7
“I have no proof, but …”	7
FandangObon: Amplification, counter‐publics, and fugitive spaces of belonging in Los Angeles	7
Putting Big Tech in its place: A view of the virtual from Los Angeles	7
Water sharing is a distressing form of reciprocity: Shame, upset, anger, and conflict over water in twenty cross‐cultural sites	7
Whither book reviews?	6
Heritages of (de)colonialism: Reflections from the Pacific Northwest Coast, Canada	6
There's more to anthropology's past than most of us know	6
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Toward an anthropology that cares: Lessons from the Academic Carework project	6
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology by Redman, Samuel J.Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2022. 314pp.	6
Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors	6
Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability By JacobDoherty. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 288 pp.	6
The Worst of Anthro Job Ads for 2021	6
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 Mexic	5
Introduction: Modalities of planetary health and justice	5
Sampling as ethnographic method/remixing Gulu City	5
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Pumayuyus	5
Banker, pastor, teef: Christian financial elites and vernaculars of accountability in Ghana	5
Liberating trails and travel routes in Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en Territories from the tyrannies of heritage resource management regimes	5
Jan Vansina (1929–2017)	5
The anthropological and the consequential	5
Archaeology in 2022: Counter‐myths for hopeful futures	5
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 Sufi	5
The quest for a good life: Incense seeing and the porous and dividual hoping person in North China	5
Fragile Resonance: Caring for Older Family Members in Japan and England, by JasonDanely, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 249 pp.	5
Writing in community: Relationship building and accountability in knowledge production	5
Anthropology‐as‐theology: Violent endings and the permanence of new beginnings	5
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When do no harm becomes harm done: Re‐centering ethics in anthropology	4
Paul Edward Farmer (1959–2022)	4
The Mechanics of Sovereignty: Autonomy and Interdependence across Three Cables to Iceland	4
Textures of Black sound and affect: Life and death in New Orleans	4
Amelia Louise Susman Schultz (1915–2021)	4
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia	4
Fire, ice, and flood	4
Calling names: Humoring caste and caste‐ing humor	4

Comments on a found text: “Return to Acirema: Fragments regarding twenty‐first‐century Nacirema culture”	4
Chronic Erasure: Eradicating Heritage in Gaza and Ayodhya	4
Housing as asset and payment: Construction, speculation, and financialization at the European periphery	4
Beyond dystopia: Regenerative cultures and ethics among European climate activists	4
The varieties of sonic experience: “Quiet” versus “not‐noise” in a Ghanaian harvest festival	4
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
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.	3
Living ruins: Native engagements with past materialities in contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes Edited by PhilippeErikson and ValentinaVapnarsky. Louisville: University of Colorado Press	3
Origami activism, inalienable collections, and crumbling concrete: Material engagements with Histories of violence	3
Embracing the Anaconda: A Chronicle of Atacameño Life and Mining in the Andes by AnitaCarrascoLondon: Lexington Books, 2020. 171 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
Sonic matters: Singing as method and the epistemology of singing across Bengali esoteric lineages	3
Centering Prisons: Reframing Analysis of the State, Relations of Power and Resistance	3
In Mourning: Sociocultural Anthropology in 2020	3
Reciprocity and intimate capital in household work: Exchanging love and care for labor rights in contemporary Buenos Aires	3
Caring labor and the affective economy in the making of the Caribbean	3
Calibrating care: Family caregiving and the social weight of sympathy (tình cảm) in Vietnam	3
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
David Graeber (1961–2020)	3
Atomic archaeology: Italian innovation and American adventurism	3
Introduction	3
Seeking clarity at a time of confusion, through world anthropologies	3
Surviving in an age of transparency: Emancipatory transparency‐making in food governance in Italy	3
Adopting a Root: Documenting Ecological and Cultural Signatures of Plant Translocations in Northwestern North America	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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Archaeology of Violence and Privilege edited by Christopher N.Matthews and Bradley D.PhillippiAlbuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020. 306 pp.	2
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
Decentering death: The war on terror and the less‐than‐lethal paradigm	2
The eye and the other: Language and ethics in deaf Nepal	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‐J	2
Loss remakes you	2
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Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt By JessicaBarnes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 320 pp.	2
Parenting and the production of ethnographic knowledge	2
Off‐the‐record: Metapragmatic distinctions and linguistic sympathy among interpreters in a California child welfare court	2
“This cannot leave here, I'm telling you because of my trust in you”: Confessions and ethnographic intimacy in fieldwork with Colombian soldiers	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
Legend of the locked doors: The sexualization of archaeological site workers in the Middle East	2
Heritage and decoloniality: Reflections from Sri Lanka—A conversation	2
Understanding higher education policy in Florida among university students: Bound together or in savage slots?	2
NFTs as skeuomorphs: Weaponized sameness and fascist utopias	2
Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots by MaryWeismantelAustin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 246 pp.	2
Woman the hunter: The physiological evidence	2
Can anthropologists get humor? A collaborative experiment on empathetic knowing at a time of predicaments	2
The social life of illegality: Suspicion and surveillance against African migrants in urban India	2
Crossing at y/our own peril: Biocultural boundary crossing in anthropology	2
Stuck Moving: Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology By PeterBenson. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 361 pp.	2
Roy Wagner (1938–2018)	2
Objects Don't Have Desires: Toward an Anthropology of Technology beyond Anthropomorphism	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
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Biocarceral citizenship: Criminalizing through care in postapartheid South Africa	2
Heritage as new social engineering in China: (De)colonial avenues	2