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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Building the American Supersoldier32
Thought Collectives, Fascism, and Truth26
Archaeology as Cultural Heritage in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq26
“If God Is with Us, Who Can Be against Us?”24
Early Cypriot Prehistory23
Comparison through Collaboration22
Front Cover18
How to Avoid the Trick?17
House, Household, and Home16
Domesticities through the Looking Glass :The Archeology of the Homed and the Unhomed16
Collective Loneliness16
Dreaming of Robots and War without Humans16
Considering the Whole Environment in the Arctic Past16
The Price of Wealth: Scarcity and Abundance in an Unequal World15
How to “Get By” in a Crisis14
DeKeynesianizing Citizenship14
Poetry in Pursuit of Activist Anthropology13
Front Cover12
The Code of Pangolins12
Queering Kumbh Mela12
Hinged Dialogues and Heteroglossic Silence12
The Evolution of Gender Dimorphism in the Human Voice12
Of Care and Patio Praxis12
Being Seen like a State11
From Haunted Houses to Housed Hauntings11
To Connect but to Converse11
When Smoking Pipes Grow Fins10
Visual Displays in Space Station Culture10
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A Cultural Tensor9
A Palimpsest Theory of Objects9
From Immunity to Collaboration9
Prehistoric Fermentation, Delayed-Return Economies, and the Adoption of Pottery Technology9
Front Cover7
Looting Made Legal7
Front Matter7
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Early Monumentality, Ritual, and Political Complexity7
Moorings6
To the Readers of Current Anthropology6
Context Specificity of “Market Integration” among the Matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China6
Questioning the Weirdness of Pedagogy :Learning Without Lessons: Pedagogy in Indigenous Communities6
Maya’s Story5
Relational Economies of Reciprocal Gifting5
Habits of Maintenance5
Fish Drought5
The Wood for the Trees5
The Earliest Taphonomic Evidence of Rabbit Exploitation by Humans in the Northwestern Mediterranean at Terra Amata (Nice, France)4
Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Superstition and Paranoia4
Fence Me In4
Front Matter4
Maritime Piracy and the Ambiguous Art of Existential Arbitrage4
Challenging Translations: Law, Social Science, and Fassin’s Critique of Punishment4
Dreams of a Transcultural Chamorro4
Portuguese Saudade, the Trajectories of Longing and Desire4
Front Cover4
Trapped Present, or the Capture(d) Affects of Imprisonment4
Reduction, Generation, and Truth4
Petrous Fever3
Belief-Inclusive Research3
Front Matter3
Quantities of Qualia3
Inspirational Hauntings and a Fearless Spirit of Resistance3
“Affective Publics”3
Involuntary Consent3
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Tradition3
Bleeding Languages3
Tensors in Ethnography3
The Aerial Subarctic3
Front Cover3
“My Culture Made Me Do It”3
Misinterpretations of Shimao Research and Chinese Archaeology3
Footprints3
Ethnographic Betrayals3
The Racial Policies of De-development in the Middle East2
The Katechon and the Messias2
La Cité2
Living Machines Go Wild2
Flooded City2
Infrastructures of (Im)mobility: Human and Mineral Entanglements and Offshore Detention2
Bringing Class Back2
Viral Entanglements2
Reply to Menéndez et al.2
Taste-Shaping-Natures2
Tracking Mortgage Pathways in Zagreb2
Chinese Archaeology: Unilinear or Multilinear?2
Weathering Anti-Blackness2
Front Matter2
Front Matter2
Angel2
Cultured Milk2
To the Readers of Current Anthropology2
Introduction to Multireview with Karina Biondi and Elizabeth Mertz2
Shimao and the Archaeology of the Highland Longshan Society2
The Subject of the Underground1
Variation in the Structure and Role of Religious Institutions1
Abolitionist “Flesh Made Fierce”: Anti-Black Contours of “Progressive” Knowledge, Discipline, and Solidarity1
Shimao and the Rise of States in China1
Reply from Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi1
To the Readers of Current Anthropology1
Anthropology, Democracy, and Authoritarianism1
Medicine and Kingship1
Racializing Aesthetics1
Fit to Protect1
Balance Sheet Aesthetics and the Racial Contours of Cost1
Grande Hotel Beira1
“We Are All Hypocrites Here”1
Front Matter1
Landscape of Loess, Millets, and Boar1
Econography1
The Material Creativity of Affective Artifacts in the Dutch Colonial World1
Front Cover1
Anthropology, Development, and Beyond1
Repatriation as Pedagogy1
The Affective Politics of Sound1
A Chronicle of Life in Lockdown1
Fugitive Hong Kong1
Aquifer Aporias1
Always a Trace1
Elevated1
Review of Fabricating Transnational Capitalism1
The Entrepreneurial Catch1
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The Pleasures of Making0
Preserving the Microbial Commons0
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Prison Rebellions, Black Radical Consciousness, and Counterinsurgency0
Who Were the Hyksos?0
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Review of Decolonizing Anthropology: An Introduction, by Soumhya Venkatesan, Cambridge: Polity, 20240
The Debts of Others0
Racial Optics of Escalation0
Checking Facts by a Bot0
Is Mnemonics an End in Itself? Sensory Mnemonic Learning of the Qur’ān in Southwestern Morocco0
BaYaka Adolescent Boys Nominate Accessible Adult Men as Preferred Spear Hunting Models0
A Posthumanist Approach to the Origins of Rice Agriculture in Southern China0
The Punishment Theories Do, or How to Do Punishment with Theories (Fassin’sThe Will to Punish)0
The Impact of Contact and Colonization on Indigenous Worldviews, Rock Art, and the History of Southern Africa0
Intersections of Taste, Race, and Class0
Mesoamerica in a Bowl0
Hierarchy as a Democratic Value in India0
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Wandering Waste0
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A Framework for Incorporating Diverse Gender Identities into Forensic Anthropology Casework and Theory0
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Aesthetics of the Unfamiliar0
Conditional Cash Transfers and the Produced Poor in Indonesia0
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The Costs of Magical Thinking and Hypervigilance0
In Search of an American Dream0
Indian Gaming Zones as Oppositional Subculture0
Toward a Global Ecology of Fermented Foods0
The Nectar of Life0
The Problem of Liquidity0
Public Wealth, Public Enemies, and the Right to Existence0
Microbial Antagonism in the Trentino Alps0
Hydraulic Hospitality and the Waters of New York City Restaurants0
Phoning Home0
Being Vigilant about Sacred Cows: On Belief and Violence in India0
Quantifying Surplus and Sustainability in the Archaeological Record at the Carthaginian-Roman Urban Mound of Zita, Tripolitania0
Direct Effects of Bipedalism on Early Hominin Fetuses Stimulated Later Musical and Linguistic Evolution0
On Synecdoche0
The Precariat That Can Speak0
“We Wouldn’t Change Him for the World, but We’d Change the World for Him”0
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Overnight Urbanization and Changing Spirits0
Tymlat, Close0
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Precarious Writings0
Bamboo Shoot in Our Blood0
How Is Space Culturally Transformed? Religious and Aesthetic Creativity in Walled Spaces0
Cultures of Fermentation0
The Time of Agony0
Fostering Inclusive Practices of Citation and Teamwork in Biological Anthropology0
Review of Ban Chiang, Northeast Thailand, Volumes 2A, 2B, and 2C0
The Gendering of Anthropological Theory since 20000
Ontologies and Worlds0
Rewild Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer0
The “Lost Parts of Us”0
The Making of the “Brown Savior”0
Futurities Rethought0
Subprime Empire0
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Radical Habitus0
Uncertainty, Bewilderment Aversion, and the Problem of Physician Suicide0
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An Anthropologist at Davos0
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
To the Readers of Current Anthropology0
Prospects of an Anthropology of Understanding0
Economic Citizenship at the Intersection of Nation, Class, and Gender0
Parents, Caregivers, and Peers0
A Link in Global Agrifood Chains0
Resistant Breathing0
The Predictable Evolution of Letter Shapes0
“Who Morality Epp?”0
Mixing Beats, Pop-Locking, Graffiti Art, and Digitally Reimagined Masculinity in Delhi, India0
Grappling with the Legacies of Anthro-Cast0
Front Matter0
Anthropology and Inheritance0
The Anthropology of Biocultural Environments0
Reflections of Movement0
Insurgent Archivings0
Why I Write?0
Before, During, and After Gender0
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Why Do Humans Hunt Cooperatively?0
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Climate Niche Modeling Reveals the Fate of Pioneering Late Pleistocene Populations in Northern Europe0
Seeking Prehistoric Fermented Food in Japan and Korea0
Magic and Empiricism in Early Chinese Rainmaking0
How to Analyze Your Data without Lying about God0
Money, Currency, and Heterodox Macroeconomics for Archaeology0
War as an Environment: Domesticity, Bitterness, and Multispecies Attachments to Life0
Time Is Breaking “after” Roe0
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Learning from the Herd?0
The Indian’s White Man0
Journey to Amerika0
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At the Edges of Liberal Care0
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The Intimacy of Occupation0
The Work of Impossibility in Brazil0
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The Embarrassment of Heritage Alienability0
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Contemporaneous Prehistories: Chronotypes from the Island of Flores0
Erratum0
The Problem with “Solutions”: Apolitical Optimism in the Sustainable Energy Industry0
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Appearance and Origin0
Riding, Ruling, and Resistance0
The Naysayers’ Science?0
Intimate States0
Enacting Culture0
Review of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Paul Scharre, New York: W. W. Norton, 20230
The Evolution of Australian Kin Terminologies0
Barbed Wire in an Agrarian Borderland0
Fermentation in Post-antibiotic Worlds0
Cultural Literacy as Mission and Product0
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