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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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.	55
Shadow worlding: Chasing light in Yogyakarta	38
The house is coming from inside the call	30
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Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic	28
De‐Naturalizing the Novice: A Critique of the Theory of Language Socialization	22
Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe by FabioMattioliStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 297 pp.	19
Stable condition: Traumatic injury, coma, and vital traffic in a Mumbai hospital ward	19
You Are Going to Get Us Killed: Fugitive Archival Practice and the Carceral State	19
Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population: An epistolary review essay	17
Can women hunt? Yes. Did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.	16
Leaving traces: Fairy houses, kindness stones, and constructed heritage	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
What makes a “good” forensic anthropologist?	14
Multimodal Ambivalence and the Struggle against Techno‐Supremacies	14
The forever war, foregone	14
Slaughterhouse tours in Denmark: Affective nationalism in the making of citizen‐consumers and the industrial slaughter of happy pigs	14
Generous peer review	14
A forgetful ethnography: Memory, memoir, and brain injuries	13
Cartographic archives: Excavating the subterranean with a camera	13
From rhetoric to reality: Why we need an anthropology of higher education policy	12
Queering pregnancy	12
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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.	11
A croquis for the stenourbanite	10
The sustainability myth: Environmental gentrification and the politics of justice By MelissaChecker. New York: NYU Press, 2020. 280 pp.	10
Does a decolonized anthropology require reinterpreting the past?	9
Knowing Animals: Multispecies Ethnography and the Scope of Anthropology	9
The echo of the world: The castaway, the Garabandal apparitions, and the crisis of presence	9
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria	9
Life in an age of death: War and the river in Bosnia and Herzegovina	9
Relations: An Anthropological Account by MarilynStrathernDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 274 pp.	9
Truth before transition: Reimagining anthropology as restorative justice	9
“I have no proof, but …”	8
Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh by Lamia KarimMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 272 pp.	8
Welcoming the foreigner: Notes on the possibility of multispecies hospitality	7
The geopower of kaolin clay: Toward a political geology of archaeological ceramics	7
Water sharing is a distressing form of reciprocity: Shame, upset, anger, and conflict over water in twenty cross‐cultural sites	7
An ethnography of joy: Entrepreneurship among Latinx communities in East Los Angeles	7
Silenced resentments and regrets: Aging in a changing Kibbutz	7
Putting Big Tech in its place: A view of the virtual from Los Angeles	7
Heritages of (de)colonialism: Reflections from the Pacific Northwest Coast, Canada	6
FandangObon: Amplification, counter‐publics, and fugitive spaces of belonging in Los Angeles	6
The Worst of Anthro Job Ads for 2021	6
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Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors	6
Toward an anthropology that cares: Lessons from the Academic Carework project	6
Whither book reviews?	6
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 China	5
Foreword	5
The anthropological and the consequential	5
Banker, pastor, teef: Christian financial elites and vernaculars of accountability in Ghana	5
Pumayuyus	5
Writing in community: Relationship building and accountability in knowledge production	5
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 know	5
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
Archaeology in 2022: Counter‐myths for hopeful futures	5
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 State	5
Introduction: Modalities of planetary health and justice	4
Anthropology‐as‐theology: Violent endings and the permanence of new beginnings	4
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic	4
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic	4
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Housing as asset and payment: Construction, speculation, and financialization at the European periphery	4
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 City	4
Fire, ice, and flood	4
Beyond dystopia: Regenerative cultures and ethics among European climate activists	4

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 Sufi	4
Liberating trails and travel routes in Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en Territories from the tyrannies of heritage resource management regimes	4
Jan Vansina (1929–2017)	4
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia	4
Textures of Black sound and affect: Life and death in New Orleans	4
A Rabbi of One's Own? Navigating Religious Authority and Ethical Freedom in Everyday Judaism	4
Sonic matters: Singing as method and the epistemology of singing across Bengali esoteric lineages	3
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Surviving in an age of transparency: Emancipatory transparency‐making in food governance in Italy	3
The varieties of sonic experience: “Quiet” versus “not‐noise” in a Ghanaian harvest festival	3
Paul Edward Farmer (1959–2022)	3
The Mechanics of Sovereignty: Autonomy and Interdependence across Three Cables to Iceland	3
In Mourning: Sociocultural Anthropology in 2020	3
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic	3
Atomic archaeology: Italian innovation and American adventurism	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
Embracing the Anaconda: A Chronicle of Atacameño Life and Mining in the Andes by AnitaCarrascoLondon: Lexington Books, 2020. 171 pp.	3
Introduction	3
Calling names: Humoring caste and caste‐ing humor	3
Adopting a Root: Documenting Ecological and Cultural Signatures of Plant Translocations in Northwestern North America	3
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic	3
Centering Prisons: Reframing Analysis of the State, Relations of Power and Resistance	3
Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia by DanielTubb Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 264 pp.	3
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
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
When do no harm becomes harm done: Re‐centering ethics in anthropology	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
Caring labor and the affective economy in the making of the Caribbean	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
The eye and the other: Language and ethics in deaf Nepal	2
Can anthropologists get humor? A collaborative experiment on empathetic knowing at a time of predicaments	2
Off‐the‐record: Metapragmatic distinctions and linguistic sympathy among interpreters in a California child welfare court	2
Heritage as new social engineering in China: (De)colonial avenues	2
Archaeology of Violence and Privilege edited by Christopher N.Matthews and Bradley D.PhillippiAlbuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020. 306 pp.	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
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 Vietnam	2
David Graeber (1961–2020)	2
Origami activism, inalienable collections, and crumbling concrete: Material engagements with Histories of violence	2
Decentering death: The war on terror and the less‐than‐lethal paradigm	2
Woman the hunter: The physiological evidence	2
The social life of illegality: Suspicion and surveillance against African migrants in urban India	2
Loss remakes you	2
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Objects Don't Have Desires: Toward an Anthropology of Technology beyond Anthropomorphism	2
Legend of the locked doors: The sexualization of archaeological site workers in the Middle East	2
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 Aires	2
Roy Wagner (1938–2018)	2
Crossing at y/our own peril: Biocultural boundary crossing in anthropology	2
NFTs as skeuomorphs: Weaponized sameness and fascist utopias	2
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 conversation	2
Seeking clarity at a time of confusion, through world anthropologies	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