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Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Anthropology is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Publics, Polls, Protest: Public Representation as Sociopolitical Practice	48
Aesthetics in Styles and Variation: A Fresh Flavor	29
Primates in Fragmented Habitats	27
The Carceral State: An American Story	24
Reconceptualizing Archaeological Perspectives on Long-Term Political Change	24
Applications of Primate Genetics for Conservation and Management	23
Intimacy and the Politics of Love	18
Early Hominin Paleoenvironments and Habitat Heterogeneity	17
The Evolution of Primate Social Systems and Social Complexity: The Promise and Challenge of Comparative Phylogenetic Methods	17
Cultural-Environmental Systems and the Archaeology of Climate Change and Social Complexity: Midwest and Southeast United States	15
African American Archaeology, for Now	15
The Coproduction of Medical Knowledge	15
Anthropology of Gender-Based Violence: Beyond the Binaries of Intervention	14
SARS-CoV-2 Is Not Special, but the Pandemic Is: The Ecology, Evolution, Policy, and Future of the Deadliest Pandemic in Living Memory	13
Gut Microbial Intersections with Human Ecology and Evolution	12
Social Movements, Power, and Mediated Visibility	12
South Asian Language Practices: Mother Tongue, Medium, and Media	12
Water Needs, Water Insecurity, and Human Biology	11
Disappointment	11
Health Disparities Among Indigenous Peoples: Exploring the Roles of Evolutionary and Developmental Mismatch on Cardiometabolic Health	10
The Archaeology of Early Cities: “What Is the City but the People?”	9
Naming and Namelessness	9
Concrete Times	9
Biocultural Lactation: Integrated Approaches to Studying Lactation Within and Beyond Anthropology	9
Bridging the Gap: Integrating Knowledge from the Study of Social Network Analysis and Infectious Disease Dynamics in Human and Nonhuman Primates	8

Language and Education: Ideologies of Correctness	8
Archaeoacoustics: Research on Past Musics and Sounds	8
Remarking the Unmarked: An Anthropology of Masculinity Redux	7
Steps to an Ecology of Algorithms	7
Toward an Anthropology of Self-Care	7
The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past	7
Modalities of Free Speech	6
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Biological Normalcy	5
Extinct Primates and What They Can Tell Us About Future Extinctions	5
Remapping Anthropology's “Outside Within”: From Domestic Periphery to Transnational Crossroads	5
Prehistory of Kinship	5
Slaving and Slave Trading in Africa	5
The Great Pirahã Brouhaha: Linguistic Diversity and Cognitive Universality	4
White Supremacy and the Making of Anthropology	4
Is a Psychotic Anthropology Possible? Or How to Have Inclusive Anthropologies of Subjectivity and Personhood	4
The Invisible Labor and Ethics of Interpreting	4
Wound Culture	4
Thinking in Between Disciplines	4
Critical University Studies	4
Human Bodies in Extreme Environments	4
Anthropology of and from the Ocean	3
Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: The Looping Effects of Persons and Social Worlds	3
Multimodality: Reshaping Anthropology	3
The Spanish Civil War and Its Aftermath	3
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Bad Mouths: Taboo and Transgressive Language	3
Current Digital Archaeology	3
Rethinking Neandertals	2
Proxy Evidence: Epistemological Considerations for Isotope Analysis in Bioarchaeology and Zooarchaeology	2
Sex Work, Antitrafficking, and Mobility	2
Native American and Indigenous Language Practices and Politics	2
Law, Anthropology, and Their Languages	2
Truth at the Crossroads	2
Interdisciplinarity and Positionality	2
Early Maya Monumentalism	2
Acknowledging Inspirations in a Lifetime of Shifting and Pivoting Standpoints to Construct the Past	2