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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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

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.	36
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The Anthropology of Anxiety: An Introduction	28
Leaving traces: Fairy houses, kindness stones, and constructed heritage	28
A thousand tiny cuts: Mobility and security across the Bangladesh‐India borderland By SahanaGhosh. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023. 296 pp.	26
The forever war, foregone	20
Stable condition: Traumatic injury, coma, and vital traffic in a Mumbai hospital ward	18
Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population: An epistolary review essay	17
What makes a “good” forensic anthropologist?	17
Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai	17
Slaughterhouse tours in Denmark: Affective nationalism in the making of citizen‐consumers and the industrial slaughter of happy pigs	15
Can women hunt? Yes. Did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.	14
Correction to “Social‐Science Fiction: The Genesis and Legacy of Horace Miner's ‘Body Ritual Among the Nacirema’”	14
The house is coming from inside the call	12
Moving Readers	12
Cartographic archives: Excavating the subterranean with a camera	12
Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire	12
Toxic Waste, Worried Communities: Building an Archaeology of Concern	12
Generous peer review	12
Queering pregnancy	12
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.	11
A croquis for the stenourbanite	11
From rhetoric to reality: Why we need an anthropology of higher education policy	10

Elemental Ethnography: A Proposition	10
Truth before transition: Reimagining anthropology as restorative justice	9
A forgetful ethnography: Memory, memoir, and brain injuries	9
“I have no proof, but …”	8
The Art of Remembering and Making a Way: Going There, Knowing There, and Other Curious Lessons From “The Genius of the South”	8
Borderland Anxiety: Negotiating Care Ethics at a Transcultural Clinic	8
The echo of the world: The castaway, the Garabandal apparitions, and the crisis of presence	8
Putting Big Tech in its place: A view of the virtual from Los Angeles	8
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria	8
An ethnography of joy: Entrepreneurship among Latinx communities in East Los Angeles	8
WITHDRAWAL: We Are Too Anxious: Anthropology and the Decolonial Project	8
Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh by Lamia KarimMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 272 pp.	7
Does a decolonized anthropology require reinterpreting the past?	7
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The geopower of kaolin clay: Toward a political geology of archaeological ceramics	7
Welcoming the foreigner: Notes on the possibility of multispecies hospitality	7
Heritages of (de)colonialism: Reflections from the Pacific Northwest Coast, Canada	7
Silenced resentments and regrets: Aging in a changing Kibbutz	7
Whither book reviews?	7
FandangObon: Amplification, counter‐publics, and fugitive spaces of belonging in Los Angeles	7
Toward an anthropology that cares: Lessons from the Academic Carework project	6
Anthropology of the Hometown	6
The Worst of Anthro Job Ads for 2021	6
Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey	6
There's more to anthropology's past than most of us know	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
Fragile Resonance: Caring for Older Family Members in Japan and England, by JasonDanely, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 249 pp.	5
Archaeology in 2022: Counter‐myths for hopeful futures	5
When Is a Wrong Answer Right?: Mediating Indigenous Language Revitalization at Taiwan Indigenous Television	5
Bitter Shade: The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness By Michael R.Dove. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. 291 pp.	5
The anthropological and the consequential	5
Issue Information	5
Banker, pastor, teef: Christian financial elites and vernaculars of accountability in Ghana	5
Correction to “The Violence of Collecting”	5
What's Birth Got to Do With It? Skepticism, Voice, and Race at a Midwives’ Vigil in London	5
Navigating the Bureaucratic Dimensions of Reproductive Violence on the US‐Mexico Border During the COVID‐19 Public Health Emergency	5
Introduction: Modalities of planetary health and justice	5
Pumayuyus	5
Light Leak as Method: Theorizing a Photographic Accident	5
Writing in community: Relationship building and accountability in knowledge production	5
Liberating trails and travel routes in Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en Territories from the tyrannies of heritage resource management regimes	5
The New Jewish Shepherd: Land Grabbing and Redemption in the Occupied West Bank	4
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia	4
Comments on a found text: “Return to Acirema: Fragments regarding twenty‐first‐century Nacirema culture”	4
Jan Vansina (1929–2017)	4
Chronic Erasure: Eradicating Heritage in Gaza and Ayodhya	4
Paul Edward Farmer (1959–2022)	4
Sampling as ethnographic method/remixing Gulu City	4

Issue Information	4
Fire, ice, and flood	4
Beyond dystopia: Regenerative cultures and ethics among European climate activists	3
Housing as asset and payment: Construction, speculation, and financialization at the European periphery	3
Surviving in an age of transparency: Emancipatory transparency‐making in food governance in Italy	3
Critical Research Spaces as Scholarship: an Ethnography Lab as an Apparatus for the Experimental, the Imaginary, and the Relational	3
Issue Information	3
Introduction	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
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
When do no harm becomes harm done: Re‐centering ethics in anthropology	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
Beyond “Lessons From the Past”: Archaeology and Environmental Crisis	3
Anti‐Bodies, Anti‐Body: A Black Feminist Call and Response: Introduction	3
Textures of Black sound and affect: Life and death in New Orleans	3
Caring labor and the affective economy in the making of the Caribbean	3
Calling names: Humoring caste and caste‐ing humor	3
Issue Information	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
Stuck Moving: Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology By PeterBenson. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 361 pp.	2
Old Bones in New Databases: Historical Insights Into Race, Statistics, and Ancestry Estimation in Anthropology	2
Heritage and decoloniality: Reflections from Sri Lanka—A conversation	2
Welcome to the Anthropozine! DIY Booklets as an Alternative to the Peer‐Reviewed Publication	2
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Positioning Ontologies of Racial Inequity That are Prevalent in Reproductive and Maternal Health in South Africa	2
Atomic archaeology: Italian innovation and American adventurism	2
Trade Networks and Consumer Practices in Amedeka, Ghana: Negotiating “Nkudzedze” From the Late 19th to Mid‐20th Centuries	2
Artistic Interlude: A Personal Reflection on Visual Storytelling and Harm	2
Heritage as new social engineering in China: (De)colonial avenues	2
Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots by MaryWeismantelAustin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 246 pp.	2
Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt By JessicaBarnes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 320 pp.	2
The social life of illegality: Suspicion and surveillance against African migrants in urban India	2
On the Compositional Relationship of Text and Image in Graphic Anthropology: The Promise of “Sequential” and “Unrestrained” Perspectives for Unsettling Representation	2
Parenting and the production of ethnographic knowledge	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
Loss remakes you	2
Origami activism, inalienable collections, and crumbling concrete: Material engagements with Histories of violence	2
Understanding higher education policy in Florida among university students: Bound together or in savage slots?	2
Reciprocity and intimate capital in household work: Exchanging love and care for labor rights in contemporary Buenos Aires	2
Calibrating care: Family caregiving and the social weight of sympathy (tình cảm) in Vietnam	2
Seeking clarity at a time of confusion, through world anthropologies	2
The Problem of Resilience and the Politics of Precarity	2
Decentering death: The war on terror and the less‐than‐lethal paradigm	2
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Woman the hunter: The physiological evidence	2
NFTs as skeuomorphs: Weaponized sameness and fascist utopias	2
Roy Wagner (1938–2018)	2
Issue Information	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
Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone By Tania MurrayLi and PujoSemedi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 256 pp.	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
Can anthropologists get humor? A collaborative experiment on empathetic knowing at a time of predicaments	2
Politics of Resilience and Materialism in Archaeological Explanation	2
A (Linguistic) Anthropology of Ambivalence: Exploring Discourses of Serbian Pasts, Presents, and Futures	2
David Graeber (1961–2020)	2
Legend of the locked doors: The sexualization of archaeological site workers in the Middle East	2
Planting the future	2
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic	2
Black Anti‐Bodies at Play	2
Off‐the‐record: Metapragmatic distinctions and linguistic sympathy among interpreters in a California child welfare court	2