American Anthropologist

Papers
(The TQCC of American Anthropologist is 1. 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
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
Shadow worlding: Chasing light in Yogyakarta17
A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador By ChristopherKrupa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 318 pp.16
Leaving traces: Fairy houses, kindness stones, and constructed heritage15
Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore By NicoleFabricant. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 266 pp.15
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
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
Knowing by DEAF‐listening: Epistemologies and ontologies revealed in song‐signing8
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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
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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
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
The forever war, foregone6
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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
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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
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
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
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
“Our planet: Too big to fail”: The semiotics of capitalist responses to climate change3
Making Better Numbers through Bioethnographic Collaboration3
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Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic3
The house is coming from inside the call3
Between Gender and Kinship: Mediating Rights and Relations in North Indian NGOs3
Where language does not live3
A thousand tiny cuts: Mobility and security across the Bangladesh‐India borderland By SahanaGhosh. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023. 296 pp.3
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
Risky Appearances, Skillful Performances: Female Islamic Preachers and Professional Style in Malaysia3
Slaughterhouse tours in Denmark: Affective nationalism in the making of citizen‐consumers and the industrial slaughter of happy pigs3
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic3
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Food (inter)activism in the Marquesas, French Polynesia3
Surviving in an age of transparency: Emancipatory transparency‐making in food governance in Italy3
Silence at the end of life: Multivocality at the edges of narrative possibility3
Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China by Kimberly Chong Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 264 pp.3
When decolonization is hijacked3
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic3
A fablab at the periphery: Decentering innovation from São Paulo3
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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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
Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco by Savannah Shange Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 212 pp.1
Sorcery in Mesoamerica edited by Jeremy D.Coltman and John M. D.PohlLouisville: University Press of Colorado, 2022. 409 pp.1
Scammer's Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica by Jovan Scott LewisMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 248 pp.1
Seeing (or perceiving) difference in multiracial Singapore: Habits of looking in a raciolinguistic image economy1
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
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The Sovereign Street: Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia by Carwil Bjork‐JamesTucson: Arizona University Press, 2020. 305 pp.1
Sonic matters: Singing as method and the epistemology of singing across Bengali esoteric lineages1
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“I know I shouldn't say this, but…”1
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
Tales from Albarado: Ponzi Logics of Accumulation in Postsocialist Albania by Smoki MusarajIthaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. 216 pages.1
Reconstructing Sovereignty on Ancient Mesoamerica's Southern Pacific Coast1
Flower Worlds: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest edited by Michael D.Mathiowetz and Andrew D.Turner1
Truth before transition: Reimagining anthropology as restorative justice1
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
Delia's Return: The Detention and Deportation of an Unaccompanied Child1
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
“You have harmed us”: Stories of violence, narratives of hope among the Port Gamble S'Klallam1
A Sense of Momentary Presence: Using Instagram to Document Consumer Culture's Ambivalences1
Paul Rabinow (1944–2021)1
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
Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh By KasiaPaprocki, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 270 pp.1
Disposable kin: Shifting registers of belonging in global care economies1
Trowels in the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism edited by Christopher P.BartonGainesville: University Press of Florida, 2021. 266 pp.1
Nancy D. Munn (April 13, 1931–January 20, 2020)1
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic1
Sally Engle Merry (1944–2020)1
Atomic archaeology: Italian innovation and American adventurism1
Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas by RadhikaGovindrajanChicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 220 pp.1
Reciprocity and intimate capital in household work: Exchanging love and care for labor rights in contemporary Buenos Aires1
Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy by GabrieleKochStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 230 pp.1
Adventures in “belief”: Hearing an old concept in a new key1
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
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