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Papers

(The median citation count of Anthropological Forum 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.)

Article	Citations
Pluralities of Power in Indonesia’s Intellectual Property Law, Regional Arts and Religious Freedom Debates	23
Drawing the Sea Near: Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa	14
From Local Memories to Living Heritage: The Japanese Ice Tradition ‘ Omiwatari ’ Adapting to Changing Climate	9
Drawing on Human and Plant Correspondences on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea	8
Large-Scale Land Transformations and Changing Sociality among the Wampar in Papua New Guinea	5
Cosmopolitan Networks – Networking Cosmopolitans: Between Anyone, the Other and the Making of Sociality	5
Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico	5
Elder Agency: How Older New Zealanders Played Their Part in Aotearoa New Zealand’s COVID-19 Response	5
Addressing Cultural Difference in Indigenous Copyright Cases	5
The Art of Gardens: An Introduction	5
Historical Touchstones and Imagined Futures During COVID-19 in Aotearoa/New Zealand	4
The Regime: Fire and Human-Landscape Involvement	4
Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok’s Margins	4
In the Hands of God: How Evangelical Belonging Transforms Migrant Experience in the United States	4
Powerful Things: The History and Theory of Sacred Objects	4
The Supreme Sukundimi Declaration – Sacred Water, Moral Ecologies and Ontological Politics in a Mining Encounter in Papua New Guinea	4
Fighting for Andean Resources: Extractive Industries, Cultural Politics, and Environmental Struggles in Peru	4
Domesticity to Autonomy: Women, Pre-Drinking, and the Liminoid Experience	3
Witness Statements as Cross-Cultural (mis)Communication? Evidence from Blue Mud Bay	3
Revisiting Ideas of Power in Southeast Asia	3
Pastors, Preaching and Parking Lot Conversations: Clergy’s Tactics of LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Mainline Protestant Churches	3
States Reimagined: COVID-19, the Ordinary, and Extraordinary in Aotearoa/New Zealand	3
Broken Cities: Inside the Global Housing Crisis	3
Women’s Active Engagement with the Sea Through Fishing in Fiji	3
Losing the Remote: Exploring the Thai Social Order with the Early and Late Hanks	2

Truth and Responsibility: Understanding Christian Pastors and Priests	2
Collecting Memory: Private and Public Remembrance through Photography among Young Akatekos in Southern Mexico	2
Exclusionary Cosmopolitanism in Buenos Aires	2
Aspiring for a Better Future: Rural Women Labour Migrants in Ethiopia’s Industrial Park	2
Reciprocity and Its Practice in Social Research	2
Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World	2
To Cut Down the Dreaming: Epistemic Violence, Ambivalence and the Logic of Coloniality	2
Fox Fake Tiger: The Chinese Middle-class Mentality toward Community-based Deliberative Democracy Led by Social Organisations	2
The Urban Middle-Class Consumer Identity in Malaysia’s Sociopolitical Coffee House Culture	1
De-labelling the ‘Memory of the World’: A Cosmopolitan Perspective on Qiaopi Remittance Letters	1
Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore	1
(Vaka)Vanua as Weakness, (Vaka)Vanua as Strength: Reflections on Fijian Sociality in Urban and Migrant Environments	1
Curriculum Transformation for the Futuristic Worlds: Design Anthropology for Twenty-First Century African Universities	1
Youths, Media and Performance: How Young People Remember Violent Pasts	1
Engaged Social Anthropology and Indigenous Land Claims in Malaysia	1
Correction	1
Politics of Shared Humanity: On Hospitality, Equality and the Spiritual in Rural Gambia	1
Difference, Indigeneity and Ethnoclass Convergence	1
The Dialectics of Adat: Colonialism, the State, and Indigeneity in Indonesia	1
Correction	1
The Good Enough Life	0
Life Is Not Useful Life Is Not Useful , by Ailton Krenak, Translated by Jamille Pinheiro Dias and Alex Brostoff, Cambridge, UK and Hoboken, NJ, Polity Press, 2023, 64 pp	0
Yuupurnju: A Warlpiri Song Cycle	0
Extraordinary Conditions, Ordinary Realities and a Squandered Opportunity: Māori Social Imaginaries and Covid-19	0
Cricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879–1939	0
More Than: An Afterword	0
Forensic and Expert Social Anthropological Practice: An Introduction	0
The Hungarian State’s Good Catholic Pastor: Reading Foucault’s Provocations on Christian Institutions and Governmentality	0
Ronald and Catherine Berndt’s Fieldwork Drawings: Material Sites of Ethnographic Encounter	0
Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka	0
Re-imagining Time in the Midst of Crisis: From Sci Fi Thrillers and Zombie Flicks to Young People’s Lived Temporalities of COVID-19	0
Introducing Urban Anthropology 2nd Edition	0
Cassava Spirit and the Seed of History: On Garden Cosmology in Northern Amazonia	0
A Kaupapa Māori Intervention on Apology for LDS Church's Racism, Zombie Concepts, and Moving Forward	0
Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon's Journals from the Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 and 1898	0
The Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik	0
Migration, Marriage Rituals and Contemporary Cosmopolitanism in Urban Zambia	0
‘Awakening the Stones’: TheNieriPerformance, Gardens and Regeneration in Tanna, Vanuatu	0
Disruption in Bio-Psycho-Social Context: Children’s Perceptions of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand	0
Prowess and Indigenous Capture: Hinges and Epistemic Propositions in the Prey Lang Forest	0
A Brief History of Political Instability in Vanuatu	0
Beyond Narratives of Aboriginal Self-deliverance: Land Rights and Anthropological Visibility in the Australian Public Domain	0
Gardens Between Above and Below: Cosmotechnics of Generative Surfaces in Abulës-Speaking Nyamikum	0
It was not the Government that did it: it was us! Water Supply in Kandon as an Example of Living Lao Socialism	0
Centreing Women, Countering Killing: Women Sacrificing, Sacralising Maternity and Substantiating Intimacy with a Tamil Hindu Goddess	0
Mosques and Imams: Everyday Islam in Eastern Indonesia	0
Temporalities of Emergent Axiomatic Violence in Brexit Scotland	0
Conspiracy / Theory	0
Digital Vā: Pacific Perspectives on the Shift from ‘Ordinary Practices’ to ‘Extraordinary Spaces’ During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Aotearoa/New Zealand	0
Scripted Heritage in Improvised Spaces—Tamil School Plays as Mnemonic Socialisation and Placemaking in Diaspora	0

Gardens Without Magic: Tending the Church as the Locus of Growth in a Presbyterian Village, Vanuatu	0
Afterword: Axioms of Violence	0
Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon: Laura Gilpin, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty	0
Religion as Atmosphere: The Material Mediation and Aesthetical Ambiguity of a Contemporary Night Church Atmosphere	0
Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China	0
Welcome Home, Yukun: A Family’s Spiritual and Emotional Healing Through the Repatriation of Their Ancestor	0
Magic, Self and (World) Society: Groundwork for an Existential and Cosmopolitan Anthropology	0
The Perils of Being a Pastor: Then and Now	0
Constructing Anthropological Expertise: Community Support and Legal Partnership in Transgender Cases	0
The Death of Vernacular Cosmopolitanism	0
‘Keeping Inside the Law’: Digital Animations, Indigenous Law & Younger Generation Yanyuwa, Northern Australia	0
Transinsular Networks of the Caribbean Seascape	0
Emergent Axioms of Violence: Toward an Anthropology of Post-Liberal Modernity	0
Refusals of Tolerance: Hunger, Mercy, and the Ethics of Immediacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina	0
The Research Imagination During COVID-19: Rethinking Norms of Group Size and Authorship in Anthropological and Anthropology-Adjacent Collaborations	0
Pastors as Mediators of Respect in African American Pentecostal Churches	0
Environments and Socialities in Oceania – Changing Ideas and Practices	0
Revisiting Power in a Southeast Asian Landscape – Discussant’s Comments	0
Revolutions of Rice – Agrarian Acceleration and Modernist Metanarratives among ‘Indigenous’ Peasants in Laos	0
The Multiple Roles of Socio-Anthropological Expert Evidence in Indigenous Land Claims: The Xukuru People Case	0
Reframing Welfare: Expectations, Collaboration and Ownership at the World’s Largest Sovereign Wealth-Fund	0
Embodying the Call: ‘Call Narratives’ and the Importance of Encouragement for Progressive Mennonite Pastors	0
Article 1F and Anthropological Evidence: A Fine Line Between Justice and Injustice?	0
‘Life is Individual’: Outline of a Cosmopolitan Civility and its Anthropology	0
Re-engaging Foodways: Life-courses of Disconnection and Reconnection with Food, Environment, and Sociality in Hawai‘i	0
The Rohingya: An Ethnography of ‘Subhuman’ Life	0
‘Rebirthing’ the Violent Past: Friction Between Post-Conflict Axioms of Remembrance and Cambodian Buddhist Forgetting	0
Power Protection, Social Relationships and the Ethnographer	0
Reinventing Chinese Postnatal Rituals: ‘Doing the Month’ in Taiwanese Postpartum Nursing Centres	0
Sensing Disaster: Local Knowledge and Vulnerability in Oceania	0
Anthropology in Australian Indigenous Legal Cases: What I've Learned from the Law and What Lawyers Have Learned from Me	0
Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras , by Jon Horne Carter, The William and Bettye Now	0
Engaging Environments in Tonga: Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World	0
Building on Borrowed Time: Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang	0
Forecasts: A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster	0
Anxiety, Ambivalence, and the Violence of Expectations: Migrant Reception and Resettlement in Sicily	0
New Horizons for Human Solace: Universal Basic Income Making a Difference in People’s Well-Being	0