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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Thought Collectives, Fascism, and Truth27
Mobs and Megaprojects21
Archaeology as Cultural Heritage in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq21
Comparison through Collaboration21
“If God Is with Us, Who Can Be against Us?”20
Who Cares? Therapeutic Practices and the Making of Noncommunicable Diseases in Zanzibar19
How to Avoid the Trick?18
Dreaming of Robots and War without Humans17
Poetry in Pursuit of Activist Anthropology16
Front Cover16
Queering Kumbh Mela14
Considering the Whole Environment in the Arctic Past13
DeKeynesianizing Citizenship13
Comment on Schuster 202512
The Price of Wealth: Scarcity and Abundance in an Unequal World11
Struggling to Uplift Divine Sparks10
Domesticities through the Looking Glass :The Archeology of the Homed and the Unhomed10
Collective Loneliness10
The Evolution of Gender Dimorphism in the Human Voice9
How to “Get By” in a Crisis9
House, Household, and Home9
The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java8
Closeted Labor8
Of Care and Patio Praxis7
To Connect but to Converse7
Databasing Violence7
Being in Work7
When Smoking Pipes Grow Fins7
Hinged Dialogues and Heteroglossic Silence7
Front Matter7
Rushing Around7
A Cultural Tensor6
Political Incarnation as Living Archive6
Being Seen like a State6
Front Cover6
From Haunted Houses to Housed Hauntings6
The Return of the Slave Master5
To the Readers of Current Anthropology5
Front Matter5
Looting Made Legal5
A New Big Data Methodology for Anthropology?: Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism through Big Data4
Questioning the Weirdness of Pedagogy :Learning Without Lessons: Pedagogy in Indigenous Communities4
The Wood for the Trees4
The Sheepdog Who Cried Wolf4
Front Matter4
Fish Drought4
Early Monumentality, Ritual, and Political Complexity4
Imperial Abandonment4
Moorings4
The Earliest Taphonomic Evidence of Rabbit Exploitation by Humans in the Northwestern Mediterranean at Terra Amata (Nice, France)3
Habits of Maintenance3
Portuguese Saudade, the Trajectories of Longing and Desire3
Cathedrals in the Blood3
The Language of Teotihuacan Writing3
Front Cover3
The Aerial Subarctic3
Front Matter3
Reduction, Generation, and Truth3
Front Matter3
Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Superstition and Paranoia3
Dreams of a Transcultural Chamorro3
More than “Information in the Head”3
“My Culture Made Me Do It”3
Infrastructural Mediation and Vulnerability in Nepal-Malaysia Labor Migration3
Anchoring Anthropological Categories in Simple, Translatable Words3
Fence Me In3
The Populist Slipper3
Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing3
Petrous Fever3
A Question of Interest?3
Misinterpretations of Shimao Research and Chinese Archaeology3
Maritime Piracy and the Ambiguous Art of Existential Arbitrage3
The Katechon and the Messias2
Beyond “Good Politics, Unspecified”2
Inspirational Hauntings and a Fearless Spirit of Resistance2
Front Matter2
From Pages to Praxis: How Real Black Shaped My Thinking on Ethnography and Race2
Ethnographic Betrayals2
Front Matter2
Quantities of Qualia2
A Comment on Alvi and Werth 20242
Involuntary Consent2
Footprints2
Front Matter2
Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century2
La Cité2
Belief-Inclusive Research2
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Tradition2
Tensors in Ethnography2
Bringing Class Back1
Studying California’s Deep History1
The Racial Policies of De-development in the Middle East1
Weapons of the Snake1
Landscape of Loess, Millets, and Boar1
Aquifer Aporias1
Reply from Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi1
Angel1
“We Are All Hypocrites Here”1
Shimao and the Archaeology of the Highland Longshan Society1
Comment on Ralph 20251
Electrifying Sovereignty1
Chinese Archaeology: Unilinear or Multilinear?1
Front Cover1
Flooded City1
The Affective Politics of Sound1
An Ecology of Mind Approach to Far-Right Publics in Brazil1
Comment on Chong 20251
Front Matter1
Conversion as Refusal1
Reply to Menéndez et al.1
Iru: The Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve1
Weathering the Hegemons1
Infrastructures of (Im)mobility: Human and Mineral Entanglements and Offshore Detention1
Real Sincere: Letter to a Black Ethnographer1
Captures of Protest1
Balance Sheet Aesthetics and the Racial Contours of Cost1
Five Limits to Current Autoethnography1
Millennial Pre-Columbian Pigment Mining in the Atacama Desert Coast (Northern Chile)1
Fugitive Hong Kong1
Weathering Anti-Blackness1
Tracking Mortgage Pathways in Zagreb1
Viral Entanglements1
Front Matter1
Populism’s Crowds1
The Anthropology of Biocultural Environments0
Racial Optics of Escalation0
Insurgent Archivings0
Front Matter0
The Gendering of Anthropological Theory since 20000
A Framework for Incorporating Diverse Gender Identities into Forensic Anthropology Casework and Theory0
Cultural Literacy as Mission and Product0
What If Anthropology Were a Spiritual Exercise?0
Front Cover0
Niche Expansion and the Natural History of Human-Cat Kinship0
The Impact of Contact and Colonization on Indigenous Worldviews, Rock Art, and the History of Southern Africa0
How to Analyze Your Data without Lying about God0
Time Is Breaking “after” Roe0
Direct Effects of Bipedalism on Early Hominin Fetuses Stimulated Later Musical and Linguistic Evolution0
An Anthropologist at Davos0
Is Mnemonics an End in Itself? Sensory Mnemonic Learning of the Qur’ān in Southwestern Morocco0
Front Cover0
The Debts of Others0
The Naysayers’ Science?0
Futurities Rethought0
Grappling with Exposure in Mexico City0
Anthropology’s Democracy Problem0
The Wager of Popular Address0
Populism: Anthropological Approaches0
Wandering Waste0
Real Time in Rearview0
Front Cover0
The Embarrassment of Heritage Alienability0
Modalities and Criteria of Shared Memory0
Economic Citizenship at the Intersection of Nation, Class, and Gender0
The Problem with “Solutions”: Apolitical Optimism in the Sustainable Energy Industry0
Front Cover0
Uncertainty, Bewilderment Aversion, and the Problem of Physician Suicide0
It Goes with(out) Saying0
Bringing Indigenous Ancestors Back to the Territory0
A Link in Global Agrifood Chains0
Front Matter0
Make Shift0
The Feel of Climate Change0
Irritation, Cooperation, and Human Relationships0
Front Matter0
Public Wealth, Public Enemies, and the Right to Existence0
Reflections of Movement0
The Pleasures of Making0
Front Matter0
Comment on Trisal 20250
Reconciling Historic Hospital Records with a Contemporary Skeletal Data Set0
Front Cover0
Before, During, and After Gender0
Grappling with the Legacies of Anthro-Cast0
Trees versus People0
Checking Facts by a Bot0
Populism, Enjoyment, and the Competition for Partisan Visibility in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua0
To the Readers of Current Anthropology0
Why Do Humans Hunt Cooperatively?0
Deciphering Sands and Stones0
At the Edges of Liberal Care0
Front Cover0
Front Matter0
“Who Morality Epp?”0
Engaging Dirt0
Front Cover0
Unseeing the Past0
Rewild Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer0
Analysis of an Early Neolithic Modified Human Tooth from Isorella, Cascina Bocche (Brescia, Northern Italy)0
Front Matter0
As If You Were Brothers0
Multiunionism, Union Bureaucracy, and Untruth in Collective Ethical Self-Making0
Witchcraft and Patriarchy0
The Time of Agony0
Generosity as Ethics0
Front Matter0
Comment on Elyachar 20250
Phoning Home0
Eating the Last Cannibal0
In Search of an American Dream0
The Imposition of the Holy Cross over the Chakana0
Kin-Work among Black Transit Migrants in Tapachula, Mexico0
Technological Totemism0
Exploring Contemporary Pastoral Variability through Stable Isotope Analysis in the Turkana Basin, Kenya0
Troubling Populations0
The Precariat That Can Speak0
New Adventures in Racial Sincerity: Twenty Years of Real Black by John L. Jackson Jr.0
Prospects of an Anthropology of Understanding0
How Is Space Culturally Transformed? Religious and Aesthetic Creativity in Walled Spaces0
Resistant Breathing0
Plantation Liberalism0
Magic and Empiricism in Early Chinese Rainmaking0
Who Were the Hyksos?0
Review of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Paul Scharre, New York: W. W. Norton, 20230
Front Cover0
Front Matter0
Appearance and Origin0
A Comment on Alvi and Werth 20240
Review of Decolonizing Anthropology: An Introduction, by Soumhya Venkatesan, Cambridge: Polity, 20240
Comment on Baviskar 20250
The Making of the “Brown Savior”0
Money, Currency, and Heterodox Macroeconomics for Archaeology0
Conditional Cash Transfers and the Produced Poor in Indonesia0
Innovating the Cuban Kitchen0
Front Cover0
Anthropology and Inheritance0
Mesoamerica in a Bowl0
Unearthing the Racial Landscape in New Orleans0
Riding, Ruling, and Resistance0
To the Readers of Current Anthropology0
Front Cover0
Realizing Traditional Values through Overseas Education0
Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place0
Front Cover0
Front Matter0
Climate Niche Modeling Reveals the Fate of Pioneering Late Pleistocene Populations in Northern Europe0
Contemporaneous Prehistories: Chronotypes from the Island of Flores0
The Problem of Liquidity0
Sensational Ensembles0
Front Cover0
We Are NotIkumen, We Are Self-Reliant Househusbands0
Cumulative Culture, Archaeology, and the Zone of Latent Solutions0
Erratum0
Front Cover0
Politics of Pools0
Front Cover0
War as an Environment: Domesticity, Bitterness, and Multispecies Attachments to Life0
The Costs of Magical Thinking and Hypervigilance0
Populism, Populism Research, and Their Discontents0
Front Matter0
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