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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Early Cypriot Prehistory25
Building the American Supersoldier24
Archaeology as Cultural Heritage in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq22
Thought Collectives, Fascism, and Truth22
“If God Is with Us, Who Can Be against Us?”21
Comparison through Collaboration20
Dreaming of Robots and War without Humans17
How to Avoid the Trick?17
Domesticities through the Looking Glass :The Archeology of the Homed and the Unhomed16
Considering the Whole Environment in the Arctic Past16
Collective Loneliness15
Poetry in Pursuit of Activist Anthropology14
How to “Get By” in a Crisis14
Queering Kumbh Mela13
Front Cover12
The Evolution of Gender Dimorphism in the Human Voice12
The Code of Pangolins12
House, Household, and Home12
Hinged Dialogues and Heteroglossic Silence11
Being Seen like a State11
Of Care and Patio Praxis11
Authenticity and Anthropophagy in Kayapó Film Production11
To Connect but to Converse9
From Haunted Houses to Housed Hauntings9
Prehistoric Fermentation, Delayed-Return Economies, and the Adoption of Pottery Technology9
Visual Displays in Space Station Culture9
A Palimpsest Theory of Objects9
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When Smoking Pipes Grow Fins9
From Immunity to Collaboration9
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Looting Made Legal7
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A Cultural Tensor7
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Inside a Residential Girls’ Madrasa in India7
An Imagined Past?6
Early Monumentality, Ritual, and Political Complexity6
To the Readers of Current Anthropology6
Maya’s Story5
Moorings5
Questioning the Weirdness of Pedagogy :Learning Without Lessons: Pedagogy in Indigenous Communities5
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Relational Economies of Reciprocal Gifting5
Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Superstition and Paranoia4
Trapped Present, or the Capture(d) Affects of Imprisonment4
Context Specificity of “Market Integration” among the Matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China4
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Habits of Maintenance4
Challenging Translations: Law, Social Science, and Fassin’s Critique of Punishment4
Maritime Piracy and the Ambiguous Art of Existential Arbitrage4
Fence Me In3
The Earliest Taphonomic Evidence of Rabbit Exploitation by Humans in the Northwestern Mediterranean at Terra Amata (Nice, France)3
Bleeding Languages3
Belief-Inclusive Research3
“Affective Publics”3
“My Culture Made Me Do It”3
Dreams of a Transcultural Chamorro3
Reduction, Generation, and Truth3
Involuntary Consent3
Misinterpretations of Shimao Research and Chinese Archaeology3
Footprints3
Portuguese Saudade, the Trajectories of Longing and Desire3
Petrous Fever3
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Tradition3
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Ethnographic Betrayals2
Cultured Milk2
Living Machines Go Wild2
Infrastructures of (Im)mobility: Human and Mineral Entanglements and Offshore Detention2
Viral Entanglements2
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Quantities of Qualia2
Inspirational Hauntings and a Fearless Spirit of Resistance2
La Cité2
Weathering Anti-Blackness2
Shimao and the Archaeology of the Highland Longshan Society2
Introduction to Multireview with Karina Biondi and Elizabeth Mertz2
Tensors in Ethnography2
Chinese Archaeology: Unilinear or Multilinear?2
The Katechon and the Messias2
Taste-Shaping-Natures2
Bringing Class Back2
“We Are All Hypocrites Here”1
Angel1
Tracking Mortgage Pathways in Zagreb1
A Chronicle of Life in Lockdown1
Grande Hotel Beira1
Econography1
Racializing Aesthetics1
The Affective Politics of Sound1
Fugitive Hong Kong1
Reply from Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi1
The Racial Policies of De-development in the Middle East1
To the Readers of Current Anthropology1
The Subject of the Underground1
Repatriation as Pedagogy1
The Entrepreneurial Catch1
To the Readers of Current Anthropology1
Always a Trace1
Aquifer Aporias1
Shimao and the Rise of States in China1
Abolitionist “Flesh Made Fierce”: Anti-Black Contours of “Progressive” Knowledge, Discipline, and Solidarity1
Flooded City1
Reply to Menéndez et al.1
Variation in the Structure and Role of Religious Institutions1
Fit to Protect1
Medicine and Kingship1
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Landscape of Loess, Millets, and Boar1
Aesthetics of the Unfamiliar0
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Rewild Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer0
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Cultures of Fermentation: Living with Microbes0
Futurities Rethought0
The Impact of Contact and Colonization on Indigenous Worldviews, Rock Art, and the History of Southern Africa0
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
Seeking Prehistoric Fermented Food in Japan and Korea0
Indian Gaming Zones as Oppositional Subculture0
The Anthropology of Biocultural Environments0
Intimate States0
Fermentation in Post-antibiotic Worlds0
Mesoamerica in a Bowl0
The Work of Impossibility in Brazil0
Multiunionism, Union Bureaucracy, and Untruth in Collective Ethical Self-Making0
The Embarrassment of Heritage Alienability0
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“We Wouldn’t Change Him for the World, but We’d Change the World for Him”0
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The Nectar of Life0
On Synecdoche0
Review of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Paul Scharre, New York: W. W. Norton, 20230
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Mixing Beats, Pop-Locking, Graffiti Art, and Digitally Reimagined Masculinity in Delhi, India0
Cultural Literacy as Mission and Product0
Elevated0
Uncertainty, Bewilderment Aversion, and the Problem of Physician Suicide0
Checking Facts by a Bot0
How to Analyze Your Data without Lying about God0
BaYaka Adolescent Boys Nominate Accessible Adult Men as Preferred Spear Hunting Models0
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How Is Space Culturally Transformed? Religious and Aesthetic Creativity in Walled Spaces0
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Conditional Cash Transfers and the Produced Poor in Indonesia0
Money, Currency, and Heterodox Macroeconomics for Archaeology0
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Precarious Writings0
Subprime Empire0
Direct Effects of Bipedalism on Early Hominin Fetuses Stimulated Later Musical and Linguistic Evolution0
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Barbed Wire in an Agrarian Borderland0
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Unearthing the Racial Landscape in New Orleans0
Toward a Global Ecology of Fermented Foods0
Prospects of an Anthropology of Understanding0
The Costs of Magical Thinking and Hypervigilance0
Review of Ban Chiang, Northeast Thailand, Volumes 2A, 2B, and 2C0
Just out of Reach0
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Parents, Caregivers, and Peers0
Microbial Antagonism in the Trentino Alps0
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The Time of Agony0
Climate Niche Modeling Reveals the Fate of Pioneering Late Pleistocene Populations in Northern Europe0
A Link in Global Agrifood Chains0
Economic Citizenship at the Intersection of Nation, Class, and Gender0
Contemporaneous Prehistories: Chronotypes from the Island of Flores0
Unseeing the Past0
Phoning Home0
It Goes with(out) Saying0
Why I Write?0
Before, During, and After Gender0
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Reflections of Movement0
Being Vigilant about Sacred Cows: On Belief and Violence in India0
We Are NotIkumen, We Are Self-Reliant Househusbands0
Preserving the Microbial Commons0
The Precariat That Can Speak0
Anthropology, Democracy, and Authoritarianism0
Who Were the Hyksos?0
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Bamboo Shoot in Our Blood0
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Time Is Breaking “after” Roe0
To the Readers of Current Anthropology0
Journey to Amerika0
The Punishment Theories Do, or How to Do Punishment with Theories (Fassin’sThe Will to Punish)0
Erratum0
Hierarchy as a Democratic Value in India0
At the Edges of Liberal Care0
Hydraulic Hospitality and the Waters of New York City Restaurants0
The Making of the “Brown Savior”0
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An Anthropologist at Davos0
Radical Habitus0
Missing Microbes and Other Gendered Microbiopolitics in Bovine Fermentation0
Wandering Waste0
Riding, Ruling, and Resistance0
Eating the Last Cannibal0
The Predictable Evolution of Letter Shapes0
The Problem with “Solutions”: Apolitical Optimism in the Sustainable Energy Industry0
Overnight Urbanization and Changing Spirits0
A Posthumanist Approach to the Origins of Rice Agriculture in Southern China0
In Search of an American Dream0
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Quantifying Surplus and Sustainability in the Archaeological Record at the Carthaginian-Roman Urban Mound of Zita, Tripolitania0
Make Shift0
Enacting Culture0
The Pleasures of Making0
Anthropology and Inheritance0
Generosity as Ethics0
Appearance and Origin0
Resistant Breathing0
The Imposition of the Holy Cross over the Chakana0
Review of Decolonizing Anthropology: An Introduction, by Soumhya Venkatesan, Cambridge: Polity, 20240
Grappling with the Legacies of Anthro-Cast0
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Magic and Empiricism in Early Chinese Rainmaking0
Why Do Humans Hunt Cooperatively?0
Insurgent Archivings0
The Material Creativity of Affective Artifacts in the Dutch Colonial World0
Racial Optics of Escalation0
Cultures of Fermentation0
Is Mnemonics an End in Itself? Sensory Mnemonic Learning of the Qur’ān in Southwestern Morocco0
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Review of Fabricating Transnational Capitalism0
War as an Environment: Domesticity, Bitterness, and Multispecies Attachments to Life0
The Gendering of Anthropological Theory since 20000
The Evolution of Australian Kin Terminologies0
Sensational Ensembles0
The Intimacy of Occupation0
The Indian’s White Man0
The “Lost Parts of Us”0
“Who Morality Epp?”0
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