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Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Anthropology is 3. 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.)

Article	Citations
Publics, Polls, Protest: Public Representation as Sociopolitical Practice	40
Doing Fieldwork Without Knowing It	38
Reconceptualizing Archaeological Perspectives on Long-Term Political Change	37
Aesthetics in Styles and Variation: A Fresh Flavor	31
Primates in Fragmented Habitats	28
Applications of Primate Genetics for Conservation and Management	26
The Carceral State: An American Story	26
Intimacy and the Politics of Love	25
Early Hominin Paleoenvironments and Habitat Heterogeneity	24
African American Archaeology, for Now	22
Cultural-Environmental Systems and the Archaeology of Climate Change and Social Complexity: Midwest and Southeast United States	20
Intersectional Ecologies: Reimagining Anthropology and Environment	20
SARS-CoV-2 Is Not Special, but the Pandemic Is: The Ecology, Evolution, Policy, and Future of the Deadliest Pandemic in Living Memory	19
Constructed Languages	18
Social Movements, Power, and Mediated Visibility	17
South Asian Language Practices: Mother Tongue, Medium, and Media	16
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The Human Sleep Paradox: The Unexpected Sleeping Habits ofHomo sapiens	14
Gut Microbial Intersections with Human Ecology and Evolution	14
The Earliest South African Hominids	14
Peirce and Archaeology: Recent Approaches	14
Slippage: An Anthropology of Shamanism	12
Disappointment	12
Naming and Namelessness	12
Water Needs, Water Insecurity, and Human Biology	12

Syndemics: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Complex Epidemic Events Like COVID-19	11
Health Disparities Among Indigenous Peoples: Exploring the Roles of Evolutionary and Developmental Mismatch on Cardiometabolic Health	11
Biocultural Lactation: Integrated Approaches to Studying Lactation Within and Beyond Anthropology	9
Concrete Times	9
Bridging the Gap: Integrating Knowledge from the Study of Social Network Analysis and Infectious Disease Dynamics in Human and Nonhuman Primates	9
The Archaeology of Early Cities: “What Is the City but the People?”	8
Toward an Anthropology of Self-Care	8
Language and Education: Ideologies of Correctness	8
Steps to an Ecology of Algorithms	8
The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past	8
The Great Pirahã Brouhaha: Linguistic Diversity and Cognitive Universality	7
Biological Normalcy	7
Remarking the Unmarked: An Anthropology of Masculinity Redux	7
Prehistory of Kinship	7
Slaving and Slave Trading in Africa	7
Modalities of Free Speech	7
Extinct Primates and What They Can Tell Us About Future Extinctions	7
The Evolution of Human Infancy: Why It Helps to Be Helpless	7
Postcolonial Semiotics	6
Critical University Studies	6
White Supremacy and the Making of Anthropology	6
The Invisible Labor and Ethics of Interpreting	6
Is a Psychotic Anthropology Possible? Or How to Have Inclusive Anthropologies of Subjectivity and Personhood	5
The Spanish Civil War and Its Aftermath	5
Current Digital Archaeology	5
Thinking in Between Disciplines	5
Wound Culture	5
Anthropology of and from the Ocean	4
Music, Language, Aurality: Latin American and Caribbean Resoundings	4
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Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: The Looping Effects of Persons and Social Worlds	4
Human Bodies in Extreme Environments	4
Multimodality: Reshaping Anthropology	4
Bad Mouths: Taboo and Transgressive Language	4
Rethinking the Landscape: Emerging Approaches to Archaeological Remote Sensing	3
Feminism in the House of Anthropology	3
Acknowledging Inspirations in a Lifetime of Shifting and Pivoting Standpoints to Construct the Past	3
Interdisciplinarity and Positionality	3
Native American and Indigenous Language Practices and Politics	3
Early Maya Monumentalism	3
Rethinking Neandertals	3
Proxy Evidence: Epistemological Considerations for Isotope Analysis in Bioarchaeology and Zooarchaeology	3
Law, Anthropology, and Their Languages	3