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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Building the American Supersoldier27
Thought Collectives, Fascism, and Truth23
Archaeology as Cultural Heritage in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq16
“If God Is with Us, Who Can Be against Us?”16
Front Cover15
How to Avoid the Trick?15
Comparison through Collaboration15
Dreaming of Robots and War without Humans14
Poetry in Pursuit of Activist Anthropology14
Front Cover13
DeKeynesianizing Citizenship13
Queering Kumbh Mela13
Comment on Schuster 202512
The Price of Wealth: Scarcity and Abundance in an Unequal World11
Domesticities through the Looking Glass :The Archeology of the Homed and the Unhomed11
House, Household, and Home11
Considering the Whole Environment in the Arctic Past10
Collective Loneliness9
How to “Get By” in a Crisis9
The Evolution of Gender Dimorphism in the Human Voice8
Struggling to Uplift Divine Sparks8
Of Care and Patio Praxis8
Databasing Violence7
To Connect but to Converse7
When Smoking Pipes Grow Fins7
From Haunted Houses to Housed Hauntings7
Front Matter7
Hinged Dialogues and Heteroglossic Silence7
A Palimpsest Theory of Objects6
Visual Displays in Space Station Culture6
Being Seen like a State6
A Cultural Tensor6
Early Monumentality, Ritual, and Political Complexity5
Front Matter5
To the Readers of Current Anthropology5
Front Matter5
Front Cover5
Looting Made Legal5
Front Matter5
Front Matter4
The Wood for the Trees4
Questioning the Weirdness of Pedagogy :Learning Without Lessons: Pedagogy in Indigenous Communities4
Moorings4
Fish Drought4
Context Specificity of “Market Integration” among the Matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China4
Habits of Maintenance4
The Language of Teotihuacan Writing3
Trapped Present, or the Capture(d) Affects of Imprisonment3
Fence Me In3
Dreams of a Transcultural Chamorro3
Maritime Piracy and the Ambiguous Art of Existential Arbitrage3
Challenging Translations: Law, Social Science, and Fassin’s Critique of Punishment3
Portuguese Saudade, the Trajectories of Longing and Desire3
The Earliest Taphonomic Evidence of Rabbit Exploitation by Humans in the Northwestern Mediterranean at Terra Amata (Nice, France)3
Front Matter3
Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Superstition and Paranoia3
Reduction, Generation, and Truth3
Petrous Fever2
“My Culture Made Me Do It”2
Infrastructural Mediation and Vulnerability in Nepal-Malaysia Labor Migration2
Bleeding Languages2
Tensors in Ethnography2
A Comment on Alvi and Werth 20242
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Tradition2
Misinterpretations of Shimao Research and Chinese Archaeology2
“Affective Publics”2
Involuntary Consent2
Quantities of Qualia2
Inspirational Hauntings and a Fearless Spirit of Resistance2
From Pages to Praxis: How Real Black Shaped My Thinking on Ethnography and Race2
Belief-Inclusive Research2
The Aerial Subarctic2
Front Matter2
Footprints2
Ethnographic Betrayals2
The Katechon and the Messias2
To the Readers of Current Anthropology1
Landscape of Loess, Millets, and Boar1
Viral Entanglements1
Flooded City1
Front Matter1
Chinese Archaeology: Unilinear or Multilinear?1
Angel1
The Affective Politics of Sound1
Balance Sheet Aesthetics and the Racial Contours of Cost1
Aquifer Aporias1
Variation in the Structure and Role of Religious Institutions1
Shimao and the Archaeology of the Highland Longshan Society1
Reply from Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi1
Reply to Menéndez et al.1
Comment on Chong 20251
Infrastructures of (Im)mobility: Human and Mineral Entanglements and Offshore Detention1
Introduction to Multireview with Karina Biondi and Elizabeth Mertz1
Weathering Anti-Blackness1
Real Sincere: Letter to a Black Ethnographer1
Millennial Pre-Columbian Pigment Mining in the Atacama Desert Coast (Northern Chile)1
“We Are All Hypocrites Here”1
The Racial Policies of De-development in the Middle East1
Fugitive Hong Kong1
Comment on Ralph 20251
Tracking Mortgage Pathways in Zagreb1
Studying California’s Deep History1
Bringing Class Back1
La Cité1
Front Matter1
Front Matter1
A Chronicle of Life in Lockdown1
Shimao and the Rise of States in China1
Front Matter0
Money, Currency, and Heterodox Macroeconomics for Archaeology0
The Imposition of the Holy Cross over the Chakana0
Front Cover0
Time Is Breaking “after” Roe0
The Debts of Others0
Returning Life in Tanzania0
Comment on Ribeiro 20250
Erratum0
Front Cover0
Before, During, and After Gender0
The Costs of Magical Thinking and Hypervigilance0
The Impact of Contact and Colonization on Indigenous Worldviews, Rock Art, and the History of Southern Africa0
On Synecdoche0
Parents, Caregivers, and Peers0
Wandering Waste0
Reflections of Movement0
The Fragility of Voice0
The Problem with “Solutions”: Apolitical Optimism in the Sustainable Energy Industry0
Front Matter0
Why Do Humans Hunt Cooperatively?0
Climate Niche Modeling Reveals the Fate of Pioneering Late Pleistocene Populations in Northern Europe0
Economic Citizenship at the Intersection of Nation, Class, and Gender0
War as an Environment: Domesticity, Bitterness, and Multispecies Attachments to Life0
Is Mnemonics an End in Itself? Sensory Mnemonic Learning of the Qur’ān in Southwestern Morocco0
Modalities and Criteria of Shared Memory0
Phoning Home0
Direct Effects of Bipedalism on Early Hominin Fetuses Stimulated Later Musical and Linguistic Evolution0
The Naysayers’ Science?0
Repatriation as Pedagogy0
Cumulative Culture, Archaeology, and the Zone of Latent Solutions0
The Pleasures of Making0
Front Cover0
Fit to Protect0
Decolonizing Production0
Insurgent Archivings0
“Who Morality Epp?”0
The Embarrassment of Heritage Alienability0
Radical Habitus0
Cultural Literacy as Mission and Product0
Public Wealth, Public Enemies, and the Right to Existence0
Analysis of an Early Neolithic Modified Human Tooth from Isorella, Cascina Bocche (Brescia, Northern Italy)0
Front Matter0
Front Cover0
Magic and Empiricism in Early Chinese Rainmaking0
The Time of Agony0
We Are NotIkumen, We Are Self-Reliant Househusbands0
The Predictable Evolution of Letter Shapes0
To the Readers of Current Anthropology0
Front Cover0
Front Cover0
Front Cover0
Hydraulic Hospitality and the Waters of New York City Restaurants0
Mesoamerica in a Bowl0
Front Matter0
The Feel of Climate Change0
Anthroman Lives: The Emcee Epistemology of Real Black0
Front Cover0
How Is Space Culturally Transformed? Religious and Aesthetic Creativity in Walled Spaces0
Front Matter0
Checking Facts by a Bot0
A Link in Global Agrifood Chains0
Make Shift0
Futurities Rethought0
Riding, Ruling, and Resistance0
Review of Decolonizing Anthropology: An Introduction, by Soumhya Venkatesan, Cambridge: Polity, 20240
Multiunionism, Union Bureaucracy, and Untruth in Collective Ethical Self-Making0
Indian Gaming Zones as Oppositional Subculture0
Front Matter0
Front Cover0
Sensational Ensembles0
Uncertainty, Bewilderment Aversion, and the Problem of Physician Suicide0
The Punishment Theories Do, or How to Do Punishment with Theories (Fassin’sThe Will to Punish)0
Conditional Cash Transfers and the Produced Poor in Indonesia0
The Material Creativity of Affective Artifacts in the Dutch Colonial World0
Eating the Last Cannibal0
Realizing Traditional Values through Overseas Education0
The Problem of Liquidity0
Front Matter0
The Subject of the Underground0
Front Matter0
Prospects of an Anthropology of Understanding0
Front Matter0
A Posthumanist Approach to the Origins of Rice Agriculture in Southern China0
Resistant Breathing0
Racial Optics of Escalation0
The Evolution of Australian Kin Terminologies0
Econography0
Cultural Disruption Suggested by Dates of Late Holocene Burials, Southwestern Cape, South Africa0
Being Vigilant about Sacred Cows: On Belief and Violence in India0
Review of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Paul Scharre, New York: W. W. Norton, 20230
Grappling with Exposure in Mexico City0
Front Cover0
Anthropology, Development, and Beyond0
Front Matter0
The Anthropology of Biocultural Environments0
It Goes with(out) Saying0
Weapons of the Snake0
Comment on Baviskar 20250
An Anthropologist at Davos0
Front Matter0
Sanguma Em I Stap” (Sanguma Is Real)0
The Indian’s White Man0
Front Cover0
Real Time in Rearview0
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
Technological Totemism0
Front Cover0
Intimate States0
Rewild Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer0
Appearance and Origin0
Unseeing the Past0
Contemporaneous Prehistories: Chronotypes from the Island of Flores0
Front Cover0
Reconciling Historic Hospital Records with a Contemporary Skeletal Data Set0
Politics of Pools0
Front Cover0
The Intimacy of Occupation0
Who Were the Hyksos?0
Front Cover0
In Search of an American Dream0
The Making of the “Brown Savior”0
How to Analyze Your Data without Lying about God0
Kin-Work among Black Transit Migrants in Tapachula, Mexico0
Generosity as Ethics0
New Adventures in Racial Sincerity: Twenty Years of Real Black by John L. Jackson Jr.0
At the Edges of Liberal Care0
Racializing Aesthetics0
Prison Rebellions, Black Radical Consciousness, and Counterinsurgency0
Refusing Rohingya0
Niche Expansion and the Natural History of Human-Cat Kinship0
To the Readers of Current Anthropology0
Front Matter0
Comment on Trisal 20250
Unearthing the Racial Landscape in New Orleans0
A Framework for Incorporating Diverse Gender Identities into Forensic Anthropology Casework and Theory0
The Entrepreneurial Catch0
The Gendering of Anthropological Theory since 20000
Grappling with the Legacies of Anthro-Cast0
Comment on Elyachar 20250
Anthropology and Inheritance0
Always a Trace0
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