Current Anthropology

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Anthropology is 0. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Thought Collectives, Fascism, and Truth27
Archaeology as Cultural Heritage in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq20
Mobs and Megaprojects20
Comparison through Collaboration19
“If God Is with Us, Who Can Be against Us?”19
How to Avoid the Trick?18
Dreaming of Robots and War without Humans17
Poetry in Pursuit of Activist Anthropology16
Front Cover16
Queering Kumbh Mela15
DeKeynesianizing Citizenship14
Comment on Schuster 202513
The Price of Wealth: Scarcity and Abundance in an Unequal World13
Domesticities through the Looking Glass :The Archeology of the Homed and the Unhomed12
Collective Loneliness11
The Evolution of Gender Dimorphism in the Human Voice10
House, Household, and Home10
Considering the Whole Environment in the Arctic Past9
Struggling to Uplift Divine Sparks9
Closeted Labor9
How to “Get By” in a Crisis9
Of Care and Patio Praxis8
Databasing Violence8
Hinged Dialogues and Heteroglossic Silence7
When Smoking Pipes Grow Fins7
Rushing Around7
To Connect but to Converse7
Being in Work7
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From Haunted Houses to Housed Hauntings6
Front Cover6
Being Seen like a State6
A Cultural Tensor6
Political Incarnation as Living Archive6
Front Matter6
The Return of the Slave Master5
To the Readers of Current Anthropology5
The Sheepdog Who Cried Wolf5
Looting Made Legal5
Early Monumentality, Ritual, and Political Complexity5
Questioning the Weirdness of Pedagogy :Learning Without Lessons: Pedagogy in Indigenous Communities4
The Populist Slipper4
Imperial Abandonment4
Fish Drought4
Moorings4
The Wood for the Trees4
Front Matter4
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Dreams of a Transcultural Chamorro3
Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Superstition and Paranoia3
Habits of Maintenance3
The Earliest Taphonomic Evidence of Rabbit Exploitation by Humans in the Northwestern Mediterranean at Terra Amata (Nice, France)3
The Language of Teotihuacan Writing3
“My Culture Made Me Do It”3
Infrastructural Mediation and Vulnerability in Nepal-Malaysia Labor Migration3
Fence Me In3
Anchoring Anthropological Categories in Simple, Translatable Words3
Maritime Piracy and the Ambiguous Art of Existential Arbitrage3
Reduction, Generation, and Truth3
Misinterpretations of Shimao Research and Chinese Archaeology3
From Pages to Praxis: How Real Black Shaped My Thinking on Ethnography and Race3
Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing3
Front Matter3
Petrous Fever3
Portuguese Saudade, the Trajectories of Longing and Desire3
More than “Information in the Head”3
The Aerial Subarctic3
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Infrastructures of (Im)mobility: Human and Mineral Entanglements and Offshore Detention2
Quantities of Qualia2
A Comment on Alvi and Werth 20242
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Tradition2
The Katechon and the Messias2
La Cité2
Studying California’s Deep History2
Weathering the Hegemons2
Bringing Class Back2
Inspirational Hauntings and a Fearless Spirit of Resistance2
Tensors in Ethnography2
Involuntary Consent2
Belief-Inclusive Research2
Beyond “Good Politics, Unspecified”2
Comment on Ralph 20252
Chinese Archaeology: Unilinear or Multilinear?2
Ethnographic Betrayals2
Footprints2
Reply from Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi1
Viral Entanglements1
Shimao and the Archaeology of the Highland Longshan Society1
Fugitive Hong Kong1
Millennial Pre-Columbian Pigment Mining in the Atacama Desert Coast (Northern Chile)1
Always a Trace1
The Entrepreneurial Catch1
Repatriation as Pedagogy1
The Affective Politics of Sound1
Conversion as Refusal1
Landscape of Loess, Millets, and Boar1
Real Sincere: Letter to a Black Ethnographer1
Angel1
Tracking Mortgage Pathways in Zagreb1
Populism’s Crowds1
Reply to Menéndez et al.1
An Ecology of Mind Approach to Far-Right Publics in Brazil1
Front Cover1
Front Cover1
Balance Sheet Aesthetics and the Racial Contours of Cost1
Aquifer Aporias1
Front Cover1
To the Readers of Current Anthropology1
Front Matter1
Weathering Anti-Blackness1
The Racial Policies of De-development in the Middle East1
Electrifying Sovereignty1
Comment on Chong 20251
“We Are All Hypocrites Here”1
Fit to Protect1
Anthropology, Development, and Beyond1
Weapons of the Snake1
Front Matter1
Captures of Protest1
Flooded City1
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Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place0
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Plantation Liberalism0
Deciphering Sands and Stones0
Aesthetics of the Unfamiliar0
Erratum0
Front Cover0
To the Readers of Current Anthropology0
Realizing Traditional Values through Overseas Education0
Appearance and Origin0
Generosity as Ethics0
A Link in Global Agrifood Chains0
The Problem with “Solutions”: Apolitical Optimism in the Sustainable Energy Industry0
Front Matter0
Unseeing the Past0
Exploring Contemporary Pastoral Variability through Stable Isotope Analysis in the Turkana Basin, Kenya0
Time Is Breaking “after” Roe0
Trees versus People0
Multiunionism, Union Bureaucracy, and Untruth in Collective Ethical Self-Making0
Who Were the Hyksos?0
Technological Totemism0
Why Do Humans Hunt Cooperatively?0
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Before, During, and After Gender0
Populism, Populism Research, and Their Discontents0
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Comment on Elyachar 20250
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Insurgent Archivings0
Conditional Cash Transfers and the Produced Poor in Indonesia0
The Anthropology of Biocultural Environments0
At the Edges of Liberal Care0
Cultural Literacy as Mission and Product0
How to Analyze Your Data without Lying about God0
The Gendering of Anthropological Theory since 20000
“Who Morality Epp?”0
A Comment on Alvi and Werth 20240
Sensational Ensembles0
Front Matter0
Analysis of an Early Neolithic Modified Human Tooth from Isorella, Cascina Bocche (Brescia, Northern Italy)0
An Anthropologist at Davos0
Radical Habitus0
Comment on Baviskar 20250
The Making of the “Brown Savior”0
The Debts of Others0
Front Matter0
The Naysayers’ Science?0
The Impact of Contact and Colonization on Indigenous Worldviews, Rock Art, and the History of Southern Africa0
The Costs of Magical Thinking and Hypervigilance0
Futurities Rethought0
Anthroman Lives: The Emcee Epistemology of Real Black0
Uncertainty, Bewilderment Aversion, and the Problem of Physician Suicide0
Wandering Waste0
Phoning Home0
The Fragility of Voice0
How Is Space Culturally Transformed? Religious and Aesthetic Creativity in Walled Spaces0
Contemporaneous Prehistories: Chronotypes from the Island of Flores0
Reflections of Movement0
Populism: Anthropological Approaches0
Innovating the Cuban Kitchen0
Front Cover0
What If Anthropology Were a Spiritual Exercise?0
Climate Niche Modeling Reveals the Fate of Pioneering Late Pleistocene Populations in Northern Europe0
A Framework for Incorporating Diverse Gender Identities into Forensic Anthropology Casework and Theory0
We Are NotIkumen, We Are Self-Reliant Househusbands0
Front Cover0
It Goes with(out) Saying0
War as an Environment: Domesticity, Bitterness, and Multispecies Attachments to Life0
Resistant Breathing0
As If You Were Brothers0
Front Cover0
Populism, Enjoyment, and the Competition for Partisan Visibility in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua0
Comment on Trisal 20250
The Wager of Popular Address0
The Pleasures of Making0
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Grappling with the Legacies of Anthro-Cast0
Review of Decolonizing Anthropology: An Introduction, by Soumhya Venkatesan, Cambridge: Polity, 20240
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Unearthing the Racial Landscape in New Orleans0
The Time of Agony0
How the Churches Serve the State0
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Real Time in Rearview0
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Barbed Wire in an Agrarian Borderland0
Mesoamerica in a Bowl0
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Anthropology’s Democracy Problem0
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The Problem of Liquidity0
Not So Equitable: “Digging Deep” into Access and Benefit Sharing in South Africa’s Medicinal Plant Trade :Biotraffic: Medicines and Environmental Governance in the Afterlives of Apartheid0
Riding, Ruling, and Resistance0
Rewild Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer0
Modalities and Criteria of Shared Memory0
Economic Citizenship at the Intersection of Nation, Class, and Gender0
Witchcraft and Patriarchy0
New Adventures in Racial Sincerity: Twenty Years of Real Black by John L. Jackson Jr.0
A Posthumanist Approach to the Origins of Rice Agriculture in Southern China0
In Search of an American Dream0
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Anthropology and Inheritance0
Make Shift0
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Reconciling Historic Hospital Records with a Contemporary Skeletal Data Set0
Parents, Caregivers, and Peers0
Racial Optics of Escalation0
Public Wealth, Public Enemies, and the Right to Existence0
To the Readers of Current Anthropology0
Sincerity, Anthropology, and the Ongoing Adventures of Anthroman: A Reply0
Niche Expansion and the Natural History of Human-Cat Kinship0
Being Vigilant about Sacred Cows: On Belief and Violence in India0
The Embarrassment of Heritage Alienability0
Prospects of an Anthropology of Understanding0
Direct Effects of Bipedalism on Early Hominin Fetuses Stimulated Later Musical and Linguistic Evolution0
Review of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Paul Scharre, New York: W. W. Norton, 20230
Is Mnemonics an End in Itself? Sensory Mnemonic Learning of the Qur’ān in Southwestern Morocco0
Magic and Empiricism in Early Chinese Rainmaking0
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Checking Facts by a Bot0
Grappling with Exposure in Mexico City0
Money, Currency, and Heterodox Macroeconomics for Archaeology0
Hydraulic Hospitality and the Waters of New York City Restaurants0
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