American Anthropologist

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.)
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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 Yogyakarta38
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The house is coming from inside the call30
De‐Naturalizing the Novice: A Critique of the Theory of Language Socialization28
You Are Going to Get Us Killed: Fugitive Archival Practice and the Carceral State22
Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population: An epistolary review essay19
Stable condition: Traumatic injury, coma, and vital traffic in a Mumbai hospital ward19
Leaving traces: Fairy houses, kindness stones, and constructed heritage16
Slaughterhouse tours in Denmark: Affective nationalism in the making of citizen‐consumers and the industrial slaughter of happy pigs16
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‐Supremacies14
Generous peer review14
The forever war, foregone14
A forgetful ethnography: Memory, memoir, and brain injuries13
Cartographic archives: Excavating the subterranean with a camera13
Queering pregnancy12
From rhetoric to reality: Why we need an anthropology of higher education policy12
A croquis for the stenourbanite12
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 justice10
Life in an age of death: War and the river in Bosnia and Herzegovina10
Knowing Animals: Multispecies Ethnography and the Scope of Anthropology10
An ethnography of joy: Entrepreneurship among Latinx communities in East Los Angeles9
Does a decolonized anthropology require reinterpreting the past?9
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria9
Welcoming the foreigner: Notes on the possibility of multispecies hospitality9
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 presence8
The geopower of kaolin clay: Toward a political geology of archaeological ceramics7
Silenced resentments and regrets: Aging in a changing Kibbutz7
“I have no proof, but …”7
FandangObon: Amplification, counter‐publics, and fugitive spaces of belonging in Los Angeles7
Putting Big Tech in its place: A view of the virtual from Los Angeles7
Water sharing is a distressing form of reciprocity: Shame, upset, anger, and conflict over water in twenty cross‐cultural sites7
Whither book reviews?6
Heritages of (de)colonialism: Reflections from the Pacific Northwest Coast, Canada6
There's more to anthropology's past than most of us know6
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Toward an anthropology that cares: Lessons from the Academic Carework project6
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 metaphors6
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 20216
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
Introduction: Modalities of planetary health and justice5
Sampling as ethnographic method/remixing Gulu City5
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Banker, pastor, teef: Christian financial elites and vernaculars of accountability in Ghana5
Liberating trails and travel routes in Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en Territories from the tyrannies of heritage resource management regimes5
Jan Vansina (1929–2017)5
The anthropological and the consequential5
Archaeology in 2022: Counter‐myths for hopeful futures5
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 Sufi5
The quest for a good life: Incense seeing and the porous and dividual hoping person in North China5
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 production5
Anthropology‐as‐theology: Violent endings and the permanence of new beginnings5
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When do no harm becomes harm done: Re‐centering ethics in anthropology4
Paul Edward Farmer (1959–2022)4
The Mechanics of Sovereignty: Autonomy and Interdependence across Three Cables to Iceland4
Textures of Black sound and affect: Life and death in New Orleans4
Amelia Louise Susman Schultz (1915–2021)4
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia4
Fire, ice, and flood4
Calling names: Humoring caste and caste‐ing humor4
Comments on a found text: “Return to Acirema: Fragments regarding twenty‐first‐century Nacirema culture”4
Chronic Erasure: Eradicating Heritage in Gaza and Ayodhya4
Housing as asset and payment: Construction, speculation, and financialization at the European periphery4
Beyond dystopia: Regenerative cultures and ethics among European climate activists4
The varieties of sonic experience: “Quiet” versus “not‐noise” in a Ghanaian harvest festival4
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 Press3
Origami activism, inalienable collections, and crumbling concrete: Material engagements with Histories of violence3
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 lineages3
Centering Prisons: Reframing Analysis of the State, Relations of Power and Resistance3
In Mourning: Sociocultural Anthropology in 20203
Reciprocity and intimate capital in household work: Exchanging love and care for labor rights in contemporary Buenos Aires3
Caring labor and the affective economy in the making of the Caribbean3
Calibrating care: Family caregiving and the social weight of sympathy (tình cảm) in Vietnam3
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 adventurism3
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Seeking clarity at a time of confusion, through world anthropologies3
Surviving in an age of transparency: Emancipatory transparency‐making in food governance in Italy3
Adopting a Root: Documenting Ecological and Cultural Signatures of Plant Translocations in Northwestern North America3
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 paradigm2
The eye and the other: Language and ethics in deaf Nepal2
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
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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 knowledge2
Off‐the‐record: Metapragmatic distinctions and linguistic sympathy among interpreters in a California child welfare court2
“This cannot leave here, I'm telling you because of my trust in you”: Confessions and ethnographic intimacy in fieldwork with Colombian soldiers2
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 East2
Heritage and decoloniality: Reflections from Sri Lanka—A conversation2
Understanding higher education policy in Florida among university students: Bound together or in savage slots?2
NFTs as skeuomorphs: Weaponized sameness and fascist utopias2
Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots by MaryWeismantelAustin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 246 pp.2
Woman the hunter: The physiological evidence2
Can anthropologists get humor? A collaborative experiment on empathetic knowing at a time of predicaments2
The social life of illegality: Suspicion and surveillance against African migrants in urban India2
Crossing at y/our own peril: Biocultural boundary crossing in anthropology2
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 Anthropomorphism2
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 Africa2
Heritage as new social engineering in China: (De)colonial avenues2
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