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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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Publics, Polls, Protest: Public Representation as Sociopolitical Practice	36
Doing Fieldwork Without Knowing It	29
Aesthetics in Styles and Variation: A Fresh Flavor	28
Reconceptualizing Archaeological Perspectives on Long-Term Political Change	27
Primates in Fragmented Habitats	26
The Carceral State: An American Story	25
Applications of Primate Genetics for Conservation and Management	23
Intimacy and the Politics of Love	23
Early Hominin Paleoenvironments and Habitat Heterogeneity	20
Cultural-Environmental Systems and the Archaeology of Climate Change and Social Complexity: Midwest and Southeast United States	19
Intersectional Ecologies: Reimagining Anthropology and Environment	19
African American Archaeology, for Now	18
SARS-CoV-2 Is Not Special, but the Pandemic Is: The Ecology, Evolution, Policy, and Future of the Deadliest Pandemic in Living Memory	17
Social Movements, Power, and Mediated Visibility	16
Constructed Languages	16
South Asian Language Practices: Mother Tongue, Medium, and Media	14
Peirce and Archaeology: Recent Approaches	14
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	13
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Disappointment	12
Slippage: An Anthropology of Shamanism	12
Water Needs, Water Insecurity, and Human Biology	12
Health Disparities Among Indigenous Peoples: Exploring the Roles of Evolutionary and Developmental Mismatch on Cardiometabolic Health	11

Syndemics: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Complex Epidemic Events Like COVID-19	10
Biocultural Lactation: Integrated Approaches to Studying Lactation Within and Beyond Anthropology	9
Naming and Namelessness	9
Language and Education: Ideologies of Correctness	8
Steps to an Ecology of Algorithms	8
Bridging the Gap: Integrating Knowledge from the Study of Social Network Analysis and Infectious Disease Dynamics in Human and Nonhuman Primates	8
The Archaeology of Early Cities: “What Is the City but the People?”	8
Concrete Times	8
Modalities of Free Speech	7
The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past	7
Remarking the Unmarked: An Anthropology of Masculinity Redux	7
Toward an Anthropology of Self-Care	7
Slaving and Slave Trading in Africa	6
Biological Normalcy	6
The Great Pirahã Brouhaha: Linguistic Diversity and Cognitive Universality	6
Extinct Primates and What They Can Tell Us About Future Extinctions	6
The Invisible Labor and Ethics of Interpreting	6
Postcolonial Semiotics	6
The Evolution of Human Infancy: Why It Helps to Be Helpless	6
Prehistory of Kinship	6
White Supremacy and the Making of Anthropology	6
Wound Culture	5
Is a Psychotic Anthropology Possible? Or How to Have Inclusive Anthropologies of Subjectivity and Personhood	5
Thinking in Between Disciplines	5
Current Digital Archaeology	5
Critical University Studies	5
Multimodality: Reshaping Anthropology	4
Bad Mouths: Taboo and Transgressive Language	4
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
Rethinking the Landscape: Emerging Approaches to Archaeological Remote Sensing	3
Feminism in the House of Anthropology	3
Proxy Evidence: Epistemological Considerations for Isotope Analysis in Bioarchaeology and Zooarchaeology	3
Rethinking Neandertals	3
Early Maya Monumentalism	3
Native American and Indigenous Language Practices and Politics	3
Interdisciplinarity and Positionality	3
Law, Anthropology, and Their Languages	3