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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Building the American Supersoldier32
Archaeology as Cultural Heritage in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq26
Thought Collectives, Fascism, and Truth25
Comparison through Collaboration24
“If God Is with Us, Who Can Be against Us?”24
Front Cover21
How to Avoid the Trick?17
Collective Loneliness16
Dreaming of Robots and War without Humans16
Considering the Whole Environment in the Arctic Past16
House, Household, and Home16
Domesticities through the Looking Glass :The Archeology of the Homed and the Unhomed16
DeKeynesianizing Citizenship15
How to “Get By” in a Crisis14
Comment on Schuster 202514
The Price of Wealth: Scarcity and Abundance in an Unequal World14
Poetry in Pursuit of Activist Anthropology13
Queering Kumbh Mela13
Hinged Dialogues and Heteroglossic Silence12
Front Cover12
Of Care and Patio Praxis12
The Evolution of Gender Dimorphism in the Human Voice12
Databasing Violence12
The Code of Pangolins12
Being Seen like a State11
To Connect but to Converse11
Front Matter10
Prehistoric Fermentation, Delayed-Return Economies, and the Adoption of Pottery Technology10
From Haunted Houses to Housed Hauntings10
Visual Displays in Space Station Culture9
From Immunity to Collaboration9
When Smoking Pipes Grow Fins9
A Palimpsest Theory of Objects9
A Cultural Tensor8
Front Matter8
Front Cover7
Front Matter7
Front Matter7
Front Matter7
Looting Made Legal6
Moorings6
Early Monumentality, Ritual, and Political Complexity6
To the Readers of Current Anthropology6
The Wood for the Trees5
Front Cover5
Front Matter5
Questioning the Weirdness of Pedagogy :Learning Without Lessons: Pedagogy in Indigenous Communities5
Fish Drought5
Habits of Maintenance5
Trapped Present, or the Capture(d) Affects of Imprisonment4
Portuguese Saudade, the Trajectories of Longing and Desire4
Relational Economies of Reciprocal Gifting4
Challenging Translations: Law, Social Science, and Fassin’s Critique of Punishment4
The Earliest Taphonomic Evidence of Rabbit Exploitation by Humans in the Northwestern Mediterranean at Terra Amata (Nice, France)4
Dreams of a Transcultural Chamorro4
Context Specificity of “Market Integration” among the Matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China4
Fence Me In4
Maritime Piracy and the Ambiguous Art of Existential Arbitrage4
Reduction, Generation, and Truth4
Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Superstition and Paranoia4
Front Matter3
Belief-Inclusive Research3
Infrastructural Mediation and Vulnerability in Nepal-Malaysia Labor Migration3
Involuntary Consent3
Petrous Fever3
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Tradition3
“Affective Publics”3
Footprints3
Misinterpretations of Shimao Research and Chinese Archaeology3
“My Culture Made Me Do It”3
Front Matter3
The Aerial Subarctic3
Bleeding Languages3
Front Matter2
The Katechon and the Messias2
To the Readers of Current Anthropology2
Quantities of Qualia2
Tracking Mortgage Pathways in Zagreb2
Inspirational Hauntings and a Fearless Spirit of Resistance2
Infrastructures of (Im)mobility: Human and Mineral Entanglements and Offshore Detention2
Cultured Milk2
Introduction to Multireview with Karina Biondi and Elizabeth Mertz2
Shimao and the Archaeology of the Highland Longshan Society2
Tensors in Ethnography2
Bringing Class Back2
A Comment on Alvi and Werth 20242
Comment on Ralph 20252
Taste-Shaping-Natures2
Chinese Archaeology: Unilinear or Multilinear?2
La Cité2
Living Machines Go Wild2
Viral Entanglements2
Ethnographic Betrayals2
Weathering Anti-Blackness2
To the Readers of Current Anthropology1
The Affective Politics of Sound1
Landscape of Loess, Millets, and Boar1
“We Are All Hypocrites Here”1
Flooded City1
Front Matter1
The Racial Policies of De-development in the Middle East1
Variation in the Structure and Role of Religious Institutions1
Anthropology, Development, and Beyond1
The Entrepreneurial Catch1
Weapons of the Snake1
Always a Trace1
Fugitive Hong Kong1
Aquifer Aporias1
Reply to Menéndez et al.1
Comment on Chong 20251
A Chronicle of Life in Lockdown1
Grande Hotel Beira1
Fit to Protect1
The Subject of the Underground1
Millennial Pre-Columbian Pigment Mining in the Atacama Desert Coast (Northern Chile)1
Shimao and the Rise of States in China1
Reply from Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi1
Angel1
Front Matter1
Balance Sheet Aesthetics and the Racial Contours of Cost1
Front Cover1
Econography1
Racial Optics of Escalation0
The Anthropology of Biocultural Environments0
Why Do Humans Hunt Cooperatively?0
Grappling with the Legacies of Anthro-Cast0
Modalities and Criteria of Shared Memory0
The Punishment Theories Do, or How to Do Punishment with Theories (Fassin’sThe Will to Punish)0
Front Matter0
Conditional Cash Transfers and the Produced Poor in Indonesia0
Prospects of an Anthropology of Understanding0
The “Lost Parts of Us”0
Front Matter0
Comment on Baviskar 20250
The Naysayers’ Science?0
Bamboo Shoot in Our Blood0
Front Cover0
Direct Effects of Bipedalism on Early Hominin Fetuses Stimulated Later Musical and Linguistic Evolution0
Riding, Ruling, and Resistance0
BaYaka Adolescent Boys Nominate Accessible Adult Men as Preferred Spear Hunting Models0
Radical Habitus0
The Making of the “Brown Savior”0
The Indian’s White Man0
Front Cover0
Sensational Ensembles0
Cultures of Fermentation: Living with Microbes0
Realizing Traditional Values through Overseas Education0
Before, During, and After Gender0
The Problem with “Solutions”: Apolitical Optimism in the Sustainable Energy Industry0
Make Shift0
The Problem of Liquidity0
The Gendering of Anthropological Theory since 20000
Front Cover0
A Posthumanist Approach to the Origins of Rice Agriculture in Southern China0
Front Cover0
Contemporaneous Prehistories: Chronotypes from the Island of Flores0
The Fragility of Voice0
To the Readers of Current Anthropology0
Comment on Trisal 20250
Seeking Prehistoric Fermented Food in Japan and Korea0
Intimate States0
Reflections of Movement0
Front Cover0
Real Time in Rearview0
A Link in Global Agrifood Chains0
Review of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Paul Scharre, New York: W. W. Norton, 20230
How Is Space Culturally Transformed? Religious and Aesthetic Creativity in Walled Spaces0
The Pleasures of Making0
Review of Decolonizing Anthropology: An Introduction, by Soumhya Venkatesan, Cambridge: Polity, 20240
Cultural Literacy as Mission and Product0
Eating the Last Cannibal0
Front Matter0
Front Cover0
The Evolution of Australian Kin Terminologies0
Front Cover0
Front Matter0
Niche Expansion and the Natural History of Human-Cat Kinship0
Cultures of Fermentation0
The Predictable Evolution of Letter Shapes0
Money, Currency, and Heterodox Macroeconomics for Archaeology0
Barbed Wire in an Agrarian Borderland0
At the Edges of Liberal Care0
Time Is Breaking “after” Roe0
The Time of Agony0
The Costs of Magical Thinking and Hypervigilance0
Unearthing the Racial Landscape in New Orleans0
Mesoamerica in a Bowl0
Front Cover0
Wandering Waste0
Front Matter0
The Embarrassment of Heritage Alienability0
Indian Gaming Zones as Oppositional Subculture0
Front Matter0
Front Cover0
Front Matter0
Economic Citizenship at the Intersection of Nation, Class, and Gender0
Climate Niche Modeling Reveals the Fate of Pioneering Late Pleistocene Populations in Northern Europe0
Appearance and Origin0
Comment on Elyachar 20250
Anthropology and Inheritance0
Unseeing the Past0
Phoning Home0
Public Wealth, Public Enemies, and the Right to Existence0
A Framework for Incorporating Diverse Gender Identities into Forensic Anthropology Casework and Theory0
We Are NotIkumen, We Are Self-Reliant Househusbands0
Front Cover0
Front Matter0
The Impact of Contact and Colonization on Indigenous Worldviews, Rock Art, and the History of Southern Africa0
Is Mnemonics an End in Itself? Sensory Mnemonic Learning of the Qur’ān in Southwestern Morocco0
Being Vigilant about Sacred Cows: On Belief and Violence in India0
War as an Environment: Domesticity, Bitterness, and Multispecies Attachments to Life0
Checking Facts by a Bot0
Precarious Writings0
The Precariat That Can Speak0
Hierarchy as a Democratic Value in India0
Review of Ban Chiang, Northeast Thailand, Volumes 2A, 2B, and 2C0
Front Matter0
Microbial Antagonism in the Trentino Alps0
An Anthropologist at Davos0
Front Matter0
The Intimacy of Occupation0
Magic and Empiricism in Early Chinese Rainmaking0
How to Analyze Your Data without Lying about God0
The Debts of Others0
Hydraulic Hospitality and the Waters of New York City Restaurants0
“Who Morality Epp?”0
Erratum0
Technological Totemism0
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
Missing Microbes and Other Gendered Microbiopolitics in Bovine Fermentation0
Toward a Global Ecology of Fermented Foods0
Front Cover0
Futurities Rethought0
Parents, Caregivers, and Peers0
In Search of an American Dream0
Front Cover0
Front Cover0
The Nectar of Life0
Overnight Urbanization and Changing Spirits0
Rewild Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer0
Multiunionism, Union Bureaucracy, and Untruth in Collective Ethical Self-Making0
Fermentation in Post-antibiotic Worlds0
Resistant Breathing0
Who Were the Hyksos?0
Generosity as Ethics0
On Synecdoche0
Predigestion as an Evolutionary Impetus for Human Use of Fermented Food0
Uncertainty, Bewilderment Aversion, and the Problem of Physician Suicide0
Aesthetics of the Unfamiliar0
Preserving the Microbial Commons0
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