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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Thought Collectives, Fascism, and Truth23
Archaeology as Cultural Heritage in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq19
“If God Is with Us, Who Can Be against Us?”19
How to Avoid the Trick?18
Comparison through Collaboration18
Dreaming of Robots and War without Humans18
Poetry in Pursuit of Activist Anthropology17
Front Cover16
Queering Kumbh Mela15
DeKeynesianizing Citizenship14
The Price of Wealth: Scarcity and Abundance in an Unequal World13
Comment on Schuster 202513
Domesticities through the Looking Glass :The Archeology of the Homed and the Unhomed12
Considering the Whole Environment in the Arctic Past11
Struggling to Uplift Divine Sparks10
How to “Get By” in a Crisis10
Of Care and Patio Praxis9
The Evolution of Gender Dimorphism in the Human Voice9
Collective Loneliness9
House, Household, and Home9
Databasing Violence8
Hinged Dialogues and Heteroglossic Silence8
To Connect but to Converse8
A Cultural Tensor7
Being Seen like a State7
A Palimpsest Theory of Objects7
From Haunted Houses to Housed Hauntings7
When Smoking Pipes Grow Fins7
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Looting Made Legal6
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The Wood for the Trees5
To the Readers of Current Anthropology5
Habits of Maintenance5
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Questioning the Weirdness of Pedagogy :Learning Without Lessons: Pedagogy in Indigenous Communities5
Early Monumentality, Ritual, and Political Complexity5
Context Specificity of “Market Integration” among the Matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China4
Fish Drought4
Fence Me In4
Front Matter4
Moorings4
Challenging Translations: Law, Social Science, and Fassin’s Critique of Punishment4
Portuguese Saudade, the Trajectories of Longing and Desire4
Trapped Present, or the Capture(d) Affects of Imprisonment4
Dreams of a Transcultural Chamorro4
Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Superstition and Paranoia4
The Earliest Taphonomic Evidence of Rabbit Exploitation by Humans in the Northwestern Mediterranean at Terra Amata (Nice, France)3
The Language of Teotihuacan Writing3
Reduction, Generation, and Truth3
The Aerial Subarctic3
Anchoring Anthropological Categories in Simple, Translatable Words3
Petrous Fever3
Infrastructural Mediation and Vulnerability in Nepal-Malaysia Labor Migration3
From Pages to Praxis: How Real Black Shaped My Thinking on Ethnography and Race3
Misinterpretations of Shimao Research and Chinese Archaeology3
Maritime Piracy and the Ambiguous Art of Existential Arbitrage3
“My Culture Made Me Do It”3
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Tradition3
Bleeding Languages2
Belief-Inclusive Research2
Ethnographic Betrayals2
Inspirational Hauntings and a Fearless Spirit of Resistance2
Introduction to Multireview with Karina Biondi and Elizabeth Mertz2
Infrastructures of (Im)mobility: Human and Mineral Entanglements and Offshore Detention2
Weathering the Hegemons2
Front Matter2
Involuntary Consent2
Footprints2
A Comment on Alvi and Werth 20242
Weathering Anti-Blackness2
Chinese Archaeology: Unilinear or Multilinear?2
Studying California’s Deep History2
The Katechon and the Messias2
Front Matter2
“Affective Publics”2
Tensors in Ethnography2
Quantities of Qualia2
La Cité2
Bringing Class Back2
Comment on Ralph 20252
Balance Sheet Aesthetics and the Racial Contours of Cost1
The Entrepreneurial Catch1
Millennial Pre-Columbian Pigment Mining in the Atacama Desert Coast (Northern Chile)1
The Subject of the Underground1
To the Readers of Current Anthropology1
Reply from Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi1
Front Matter1
Reply to Menéndez et al.1
The Racial Policies of De-development in the Middle East1
Angel1
Aquifer Aporias1
Front Cover1
Always a Trace1
The Affective Politics of Sound1
Real Sincere: Letter to a Black Ethnographer1
Front Matter1
Viral Entanglements1
To the Readers of Current Anthropology1
Shimao and the Rise of States in China1
“We Are All Hypocrites Here”1
Weapons of the Snake1
Anthropology, Development, and Beyond1
Econography1
Landscape of Loess, Millets, and Boar1
Fugitive Hong Kong1
Flooded City1
Shimao and the Archaeology of the Highland Longshan Society1
Tracking Mortgage Pathways in Zagreb1
Comment on Chong 20251
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A Posthumanist Approach to the Origins of Rice Agriculture in Southern China0
Appearance and Origin0
Resistant Breathing0
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On Synecdoche0
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Repatriation as Pedagogy0
How Is Space Culturally Transformed? Religious and Aesthetic Creativity in Walled Spaces0
Magic and Empiricism in Early Chinese Rainmaking0
How to Analyze Your Data without Lying about God0
Elevated0
The Making of the “Brown Savior”0
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The Embarrassment of Heritage Alienability0
Sensational Ensembles0
The Intimacy of Occupation0
Comment on Baviskar 20250
Anthropology and Inheritance0
Barbed Wire in an Agrarian Borderland0
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The Anthropology of Biocultural Environments0
The Evolution of Australian Kin Terminologies0
Sincerity, Anthropology, and the Ongoing Adventures of Anthroman: A Reply0
Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place0
Rewild Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer0
Cultural Literacy as Mission and Product0
Grappling with Exposure in Mexico City0
The Problem with “Solutions”: Apolitical Optimism in the Sustainable Energy Industry0
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The Costs of Magical Thinking and Hypervigilance0
It Goes with(out) Saying0
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Money, Currency, and Heterodox Macroeconomics for Archaeology0
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Who Were the Hyksos?0
In Search of an American Dream0
Kin-Work among Black Transit Migrants in Tapachula, Mexico0
The Impact of Contact and Colonization on Indigenous Worldviews, Rock Art, and the History of Southern Africa0
Make Shift0
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Eating the Last Cannibal0
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Climate Niche Modeling Reveals the Fate of Pioneering Late Pleistocene Populations in Northern Europe0
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Anthropology, Democracy, and Authoritarianism0
A Link in Global Agrifood Chains0
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
Reflections of Movement0
Comment on Trisal 20250
The Material Creativity of Affective Artifacts in the Dutch Colonial World0
Before, During, and After Gender0
The Imposition of the Holy Cross over the Chakana0
Review of Decolonizing Anthropology: An Introduction, by Soumhya Venkatesan, Cambridge: Polity, 20240
Racializing Aesthetics0
War as an Environment: Domesticity, Bitterness, and Multispecies Attachments to Life0
The Gendering of Anthropological Theory since 20000
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The “Lost Parts of Us”0
Niche Expansion and the Natural History of Human-Cat Kinship0
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To the Readers of Current Anthropology0
Hierarchy as a Democratic Value in India0
At the Edges of Liberal Care0
Time Is Breaking “after” Roe0
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“Who Morality Epp?”0
The Indian’s White Man0
Is Mnemonics an End in Itself? Sensory Mnemonic Learning of the Qur’ān in Southwestern Morocco0
Real Time in Rearview0
Realizing Traditional Values through Overseas Education0
Being Vigilant about Sacred Cows: On Belief and Violence in India0
Hydraulic Hospitality and the Waters of New York City Restaurants0
Comment on Elyachar 20250
Contemporaneous Prehistories: Chronotypes from the Island of Flores0
The Time of Agony0
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Uncertainty, Bewilderment Aversion, and the Problem of Physician Suicide0
Politics of Pools0
An Anthropologist at Davos0
Unseeing the Past0
Prospects of an Anthropology of Understanding0
Why I Write?0
Riding, Ruling, and Resistance0
Generosity as Ethics0
A Framework for Incorporating Diverse Gender Identities into Forensic Anthropology Casework and Theory0
Insurgent Archivings0
“We Wouldn’t Change Him for the World, but We’d Change the World for Him”0
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The Fragility of Voice0
The Problem of Liquidity0
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Economic Citizenship at the Intersection of Nation, Class, and Gender0
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Why Do Humans Hunt Cooperatively?0
Public Wealth, Public Enemies, and the Right to Existence0
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Racial Optics of Escalation0
The Pleasures of Making0
Reconciling Historic Hospital Records with a Contemporary Skeletal Data Set0
Fit to Protect0
The Punishment Theories Do, or How to Do Punishment with Theories (Fassin’sThe Will to Punish)0
Checking Facts by a Bot0
Conditional Cash Transfers and the Produced Poor in Indonesia0
Modalities and Criteria of Shared Memory0
Direct Effects of Bipedalism on Early Hominin Fetuses Stimulated Later Musical and Linguistic Evolution0
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The Naysayers’ Science?0
Radical Habitus0
Phoning Home0
Mesoamerica in a Bowl0
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Unearthing the Racial Landscape in New Orleans0
Futurities Rethought0
Review of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Paul Scharre, New York: W. W. Norton, 20230
Analysis of an Early Neolithic Modified Human Tooth from Isorella, Cascina Bocche (Brescia, Northern Italy)0
Wandering Waste0
Grappling with the Legacies of Anthro-Cast0
Aesthetics of the Unfamiliar0
We Are NotIkumen, We Are Self-Reliant Househusbands0
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Anthroman Lives: The Emcee Epistemology of Real Black0
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Erratum0
Sanguma Em I Stap” (Sanguma Is Real)0
The Debts of Others0
Parents, Caregivers, and Peers0
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Medicine and Kingship0
Technological Totemism0
Multiunionism, Union Bureaucracy, and Untruth in Collective Ethical Self-Making0
New Adventures in Racial Sincerity: Twenty Years of Real Black by John L. Jackson Jr.0
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