American Ethnologist

Papers
(The median citation count of American Ethnologist 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras. Jon Horne Carter. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. 368 pp.35
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology. Samuel J.Redman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 328 pp.22
Policing race, ethnicity and culture: Ethnographic perspectives across Europe By JanBeek, ThomasBierschenk, AnnalenaKolloch, and BerndMeyer, eds. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 352 pp.19
Translating the social in complex technology development18
The stigma matrix: Gender, globalization, and the agency of Pakistan's frontline women By FauziaHusain. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 306 pp.18
Sboi i polomki: Etnograficheskoe issledovanie truda fabrichnykh rabochikh [Failures and breakdowns: An ethnographic study of the labor of factory workers] By OlgaPinchuk. Moscow: Common Place, 2021. 216
Containment and conversion15
Education as identity13
Citizens in uniform11
Anthropology and complicated people10
Guardians of the forest or evil spirits?10
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Reflections on unheroic fieldwork8
The confessional community8
Passport island: The market for EU citizenship in Cyprus By TheodorosRakopoulos. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 262 pp.8
Revolution squared: Tahrir, political possibilities, and counterrevolution in Egypt By Atef Shahat Said. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 360 pp.8
Cemetery citizens: Reclaiming the past and working for justice in American burial grounds By AdamRosenblatt. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 286 pp.8
The indebted woman: Kinship, sexuality, and capitalism By Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar, and G. Venkatasubramanian. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 248 pp.8
The fluvial imagination: On Lesotho's water‐export economy By Colin Hoag. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 224 pp.7
The Shaman's Wages: Trading in Ritual on Cheju Island. KyoimYun. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 256 pp.7
Multisituated: Ethnography as diasporic practice By KaushikSunder Rajan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 272 pp.7
Involuntary consent: The illusion of choice in Japan's adult video industry By Akiko Takeyama. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 252 pp.7
Fighting to breathe: Race, toxicity, and the rise of youth activism in Baltimore By NicoleFabricant. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 266 pp.7
Reparando mundos: Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos By MaríaEugenia Ulfe and XimenaMálaga Sabogal. Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP, 2021. 261 pp.7
All that was not her By ToddMeyers. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 232 pp.6
From the White House to Zimbabwe6
Negotiating expendability in crisis6
A vicarious scar6
Race and the infrapolitics of public space in the time of COVID‐196
On shame6
Without the state: Self‐organization and political activism in Ukraine By EmilyChannell‐Justice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. 302 pp.6
Cliché anthropologists and the interactive probing of aspirations under market expansion6
Editors’ note5
Becoming malleable5
Running out: In search of water on the High Plains By LucasBessire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 264 pp.5
Women's “timepass”5
An imperial meantime5
American afterlives: Reinventing death in the 21st centuryShannonLee Dawdy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 272 pp.5
Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub in Paris. JulieKleinman. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 224 pp.5
Queer debt5
A queer footnote5
Zar: Spirit possession, music, and healing rituals in Egypt By Hager ElHadidi. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2016. 180 pp.5
L’aube s'est levée sur un mort: Violence armée et culture du pavot au Mexique [Dawn rose on a dead man: Armed violence and poppy cultivation in Mexico] By AdèleBlazquez. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2022. 334
From a trickle to a torrent: Education, migration, and social change in a Himalayan valley of Nepal By Geoff Childs and Namgyal Choedup. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 248 pp.4
Editors’ note4
Rescaling hospitality4
Ethnography at its edges4
Anthropology at sea4
Rubbish sick and the dancing devil4
Moral atmospheres: Islam and media in a Pakistani marketplace By Timothy P. A.Cooper. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 288 pp.4
Suspect others: Spirit mediums, self‐knowledge, and race in multiethnic Suriname By StuartStrange. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 281 pp.4
Making peace with nature: Ecological encounters along the Korean DMZ By Eleana J.Kim. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 224 pp.4
Resistant ecologies and the bi'a beyond methodological nationalism4
Patchwork ethnography4
If books fail, try beauty: Educated womanhood in the new East Africa By Brooke Schwartz Bocast. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 205 pp.3
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Deep ethnography3
Multiple interfaces3
Cement and displacement3
Police, provocation, politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul By DenizYonucu. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 222 pp.3
Birding under fire3
A ritual geology: Gold and subterranean knowledge in Savanna West Africa By Robyn d'Avignon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 304 pp.3
Love in the drug war: Selling sex and finding Jesus on the Mexico‐US border By SarahLuna. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 264 pp.3
Humanitarian contradictions3
Gendered fortunes: Divination, precarity, and affect in postsecular Turkey By Zeynep K. Korkman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 276 pp.3
Theory as ethics3
Bosnian Refugees in Chicago: Gender, Performance, and Post‐war Economies. AnaCroegaert. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. 210 pp.3
The politics of bachaqueo3
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Unmasked: COVID, community, and the case of Okoboji By EmilyMendenhall. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022. 312 pp.3
Emplacing capital2
Colonizing Kashmir: State‐building under Indian occupation By HafsaKanjwal. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 366 pp.2
Entrepreneurial activism2
The determined indeterminacy of white supremacy2
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Remembering the tatas: Domestic women and slavery in Tetouan (19th–20th centuries) By Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste. Leiden: Brill, 2024. 444 pp.2
Galvanizing nostalgia? Indigeneity and sovereignty in Siberia By Marjorie MandelstamBalzer. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 254 pp.2
“I randomize, therefore I think”2
Native agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs By Valerie Lambert. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 376 pp.2
The “salt” of life2
Editors’ note2
Inside a jaguar's jaws2
Gut anthro: An experiment in thinking with microbes By Amber Benezra. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 282 pp.2
¡Alerta! Engineering on shaky ground By ElizabethReddy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. 215 pp.2
Placing practice in Thamel, Kathmandu2
Citizenship thinking—with, against, and bypassing the state2
Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone By Tania MurrayLi and PujoSemedi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 256 pp.2
Devenir autre: Hétérogénéité et plasticité du soi [Becoming other: Heterogeneity and plasticity of the self] By DavidBerliner. Paris: La Découverte, 2022. 174 pp.2
Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity. DorinneKondo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 376 pp.2
O mundo do avesso: Verdade e política na era digital [The world inside out: Truth and politics in the digital age] By LetíciaCesarino. São Paulo: Ubu Editora, 2022. 304 pp.2
Productive leisure on the farm2
Miners on the move1
Ageing with smartphones in urban China: From the cultural to the digital revolution in Shanghai By Xinyuan Wang. London: UCL Press, 2023. 291 pp.1
Anthropology with a philosophical sensibility1
A book of waves By Stefan Helmreich. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 411 pp.1
Horticulture as history making1
Managing the “hot spots”1
Soda science: Making the world safe for Coca‐Cola By SusanGreenhalgh. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 354 pp.1
Eating pizza in prison1
Cultivating a trauma‐informed pedagogy1
On the humanitarian horizon1
Applied anthropology, injustice, and the ethics of intervention1
Volumetric citizenship1
Devotion to the administrative state: Religion and social order in Egypt By MonaOraby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 328 pp.1
Building on borrowed time: Rising seas and failing infrastructure in Semarang By LukasLey. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 240 pp.1
O Antropoceno: Sobre modos de compor mundos [The Anthropocene: On ways of composing worlds] Edited by StelioMarras and RenzoTaddei. Belo Horizonte: Fino Traço Editora, 2022. 310 pp.1
(Un)making the manual scavenger1
The promise of multispecies justice Edited by SophieChao, KarinBolender, and EbenKirksey. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 296 pp.1
Seeing our world in 16:9 aspect ratio1
Army of the vulnerable1
Gathering medicines: Nation and knowledge in China's mountain south By Judith Farquhar and Lili Lai. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 304 pp.1
Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal. HannaGarth. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 232 pp.1
Norms and Illegality: Intimate Ethnographies and Politics. CristianaPanella and Walter E.Little, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 228 pp.1
The feel of algorithms By MinnaRuckenstein. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 223 pp.1
Waste's translations1
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Working women in Jordan: Education, migration, and aspiration By FidaAdely. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 207 pp.1
Experimenting with ethnography: A companion to analysis By AndreaBallestero and Brit RossWinthereik, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 301 pp.1
Friendship By MichaelJackson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 224 pp.1
Conjuring criminals1
I was wrong about theory1
The made‐up state: Technology, trans femininity, and citizenship in Indonesia By Benjamin Hegarty. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 198 pp.1
Diplomacy and lobbying during Turkey's Europeanisation: The private life of politics By BilgeFirat. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. 224 pp.1
Spaces and challenges of citizenship1
Fucking up, fixing up, and standing up (to the colonial project of gender and sexuality)1
How many worlds are there?1
Improperty1
Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion. SarahMuir. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 200 pp.1
Density and domination0
Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan. AllisonAlexy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 248 pp.The Relationship People: Mediating Love and Mar0
Editors’ note0
Ethnography and ethical life0
“The agenda is to wipe out critical thought”—Struggles for academic freedom (part 2)0
On epistemic aporias and the coloniality of (my) categories0
Four challenges from anthropology's current meta0
Waste worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's infrastructures of disposability By JacobDoherty. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 288 pp.0
Capture‐recapture0
Tear gas in orbit0
Falshfasad0
To write or not to write?0
Uncertainty by design: Preparing for the future with scenario technology By LimorSamimian‐Darash. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 185 pp.0
Eating besides ourselves: Thresholds of foods and bodies By Heather Paxson and Marianne Elisabeth Lien, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 248 pp.0
The cancer within: Reproduction, cultural transformation, and health care in Romania By ChristinaPop. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022. 229 pp.0
Resistant ecologies0
More‐than‐“bird”0
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Thanks for watching: An anthropological study of video sharing on YouTube By Patricia G.Lange. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2019. 362 pp.0
Corrigendum0
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Peche problems0
Embodying Black religions in Africa and its diasporas By YolandaCovington‐Ward and Jeannette S.Jouili, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 352 pp.0
I was never alone or oporniki: An ethnographic play on disability in Russia By CassandraHartblay. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 218 pp.0
The right to public security0
Capitalist colonial: Thai migrant workers in Israeli agriculture By MatanKaminer. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 269 pp.0
How to make a wetland: Water and moral ecology in Turkey By CaterinaScaramelli. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 240 pp.0
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Anthropological humanitarianism0
Ethical disconcertment and the politics of troublemaking0
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A decolonial birth for anthropology0
“The world hates the truth”0
Fishers who don't fish0
The new science of the enchanted universe: An anthropology of most of humanity By MarshallSahlins. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. 208 pp.0
Face‐to‐face with the (animal) Other0
Asylum and extraction in the Republic of Nauru By Julia CarolineMorris. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 318 pp.0
Composing violence: The limits of exposure and the making of minorities By MoyukhChatterjee. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 184 pp.0
The violence of democracy: Interparty conflict in South Asia By RuchiChaturvedi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 250 pp.0
In the shadow of the palms: More‐than‐human becomings in West Papua By SophieChao. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 336 pp.0
Flexible families: Nicaraguan transnational families in Costa Rica By CaitlinFouratt. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022. 181 pp.0
The king of martyrs0
The sexual politics of empire: Postcolonial homophobia in Haiti By Erin L.Durban. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. 234 pp.0
Chinese village life today: Building families in an age of transition By Gonçalo Santos. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 320 pp.0
Anthropology as spiritual discipline0
Cultural loss and compensation in the anthropology of Aboriginal Australia0
Reconsidering the vignette as method0
Sweaty motions0
Something in these hills: The culture of family land in southern Appalachia By John M. Coggeshall. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 238 pp.0
Consultation is the new C‐word0
Amazonian cosmopolitans: Navigating a shamanic cosmos, shifting Indigenous policies, and other modern projects By SuzanneOakdale. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. 262 pp.0
A sovereign atmosphere0
Polygons0
Fat in four cultures—a global ethnography of weight By CindiSturtzSreetharan, AlexandraBrewis, JessicaHardin, SarahTrainer, and AmberWutich. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 236 pp.0
Citizenship, agency, and the problem of sovereignty0
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Beware the bad shepherd0
Scholarship, Money, and Prose: Behind the Scenes at an Academic Journal. Michael Chibnik. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 210 pp.0
Racial hydrologies0
How to write for American Ethnologist0
Ritual as image0
To be real: Truth and racial authenticity in African American standup comedy By LanitaJacobs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 224 pp.0
The fraudulent family0
Bodyland0
Reversible pigs0
Work, development, and refusal in urban Ethiopia0
Imagistic care: Growing old in a precarious world Edited by Cheryl Mattingly and Lone Grøn. New York: Fordham University Press, 2022. 272 pp.0
Relational flexibility0
Performing control0
In the hands of God: How evangelical belonging transforms migrant experience in the United States By JohannaBard Richlin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. 272 pp.0
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Forest lost: Producing green capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon By Maron E.Greenleaf. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 304 pp.0
Futures after progress: Hope and doubt in late industrial Baltimore By Chloe Ahmann. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2024. 366 pp.0
Intertextual politics0
Gringo love: Stories of sex tourism in Brazil By Marie‐EveCarrier‐Moisan. Adapted by WilliamFlynn. Illustrated by DéboraSantos. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 200 pp.Light in dark times: 0
Listening to love0
Probing arts and emergent forms of life By Michael M. J. Fischer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 336 pp.0
Religious authority in the urban mosque0
Mafiacraft: An ethnography of deadly silence By DeborahPuccio‐Den. Chicago: Hau Books, 2021. 294 pp.0
Imagining beyond a statist imaginary0
Making place for Muslims in contemporary India By Kalyani DevakiMenon. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 196 pp.0
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Why do I write anthropology? Why do you?0
The composition of worlds: Interviews with Pierre Charbonnier By PhilippeDescola. Cambridge: Polity, 2024. 200 pp.0
In the skin of the city: Spatial transformation in Luanda By AntónioTomás. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 266 pp.0
Llamas beyond the Andes: Untold histories of camelids in the modern world By MarciaStephenson. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023. 448 pp.0
I was wrong when I studied Russian nuclear weapons scientists0
Egg providers in eGoli0
Fiat speech, fiat infrastructure0
A ritual of indistinction0
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Lawful sins: Abortion rights and reproductive governance in Mexico By ElyseOna Singer. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 260 pp.0
Reading the present from the past in Hopkins, Belize0
Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea. SarahBesky. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 252 pp.0
After servitude: Elusive property and the ethics of kinship in Bolivia By MareikeWinchell. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 352 pp.0
Privileged observers and colonial continuities0
Editors’ note0
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Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections By Lisa Mitchell. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 320 pp.0
Ethnography vs. zombie methodologies0
Experiments of the mind: From the cognitive psychology lab to the world of Facebook and Twitter By EmilyMartin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 312 pp.0
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Decolonizing Middle East anthropology0
Editors’ note0
A thousand steps to parliament: Constructing electable women in Mongolia By Manduhai Buyandelger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 288 pp.0
Sensory futures: Deafness and cochlear implant infrastructures in India By Michele IlanaFriedner. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 288 pp.0
Working out desire: Women, sport, and self‐making in Istanbul By SertaçSehlikoglu.Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2021. 318 pp.0
Dwelling as resistance, dwelling as repair0
There's a disco ball between us: A theory of Black gay life By JafariAllen. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 440 pp.0
Governing beyond capacity0
Witnessing “imperfect victims”0
Migrant Conversions: Transforming Connections between Peru and South Korea. EricaVogel. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 186 pp.0
Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro‐Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism. Richard M.Shain. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2018. 214 pp.0
De‐occupation as planetary politics0
Saving animals: Multispecies ecologies of rescue and care By ElanAbrell. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 272 pp.0
Contamination in theory and protest0
Resistance as negotiation: Making states and tribes in the margins of modern India By UdayChandra. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 340 pp.0
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Between dreams and ghosts: Indian migration and Middle Eastern oil By AndreaWright. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 288 pp.0
Visible critique/critical visibility0
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