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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras. Jon Horne Carter. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. 368 pp.	54
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology. Samuel J.Redman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 328 pp.	37
Issue Information	26
Anthropology and complicated people	25
Policing race, ethnicity and culture: Ethnographic perspectives across Europe By JanBeek, ThomasBierschenk, AnnalenaKolloch, and BerndMeyer, eds. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 352 pp.	23
Education as identity	20
Citizens in uniform	18
Translating the social in complex technology development	17
The stigma matrix: Gender, globalization, and the agency of Pakistan's frontline women By FauziaHusain. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 306 pp.	17
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. 2	16
Containment and conversion	13
Issue Information	11
Involuntary consent: The illusion of choice in Japan's adult video industry By Akiko Takeyama. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 252 pp.	11
The confessional community	11
The indebted woman: Kinship, sexuality, and capitalism By Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar, and G. Venkatasubramanian. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 248 pp.	10
Cemetery citizens: Reclaiming the past and working for justice in American burial grounds By AdamRosenblatt. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 286 pp.	10
Revolution squared: Tahrir, political possibilities, and counterrevolution in Egypt By Atef Shahat Said. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 360 pp.	10
Passport island: The market for EU citizenship in Cyprus By TheodorosRakopoulos. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 262 pp.	9
Reflections on unheroic fieldwork	9
Ebola and COVID: Further questions	9
The Shaman's Wages: Trading in Ritual on Cheju Island. KyoimYun. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 256 pp.	8
From the White House to Zimbabwe	8
Fighting to breathe: Race, toxicity, and the rise of youth activism in Baltimore By NicoleFabricant. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 266 pp.	8
Multisituated: Ethnography as diasporic practice By KaushikSunder Rajan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 272 pp.	8
The fluvial imagination: On Lesotho's water‐export economy By Colin Hoag. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 224 pp.	8

Without the state: Self‐organization and political activism in Ukraine By EmilyChannell‐Justice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. 302 pp.	7
Negotiating expendability in crisis	7
On shame	7
From the “spectacle” to “all for show”	7
Cliché anthropologists and the interactive probing of aspirations under market expansion	7
Reparando mundos: Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos By MaríaEugenia Ulfe and XimenaMálaga Sabogal. Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP, 2021. 261 pp.	7
A vicarious scar	7
All that was not her By ToddMeyers. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 232 pp.	6
Becoming malleable	6
Editors’ note	6
A queer footnote	6
Queer debt	6
An imperial meantime	6
Race and the infrapolitics of public space in the time of COVID‐19	5
Running out: In search of water on the High Plains By LucasBessire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 264 pp.	5
Rubbish sick and the dancing devil	5
Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub in Paris. JulieKleinman. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 224 pp.	5
American afterlives: Reinventing death in the 21st centuryShannonLee Dawdy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 272 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. 33	5
Women's “timepass”	5
Zar: Spirit possession, music, and healing rituals in Egypt By Hager ElHadidi. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2016. 180 pp.	5
Suspect others: Spirit mediums, self‐knowledge, and race in multiethnic Suriname By StuartStrange. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 281 pp.	5
Ethnography at its edges	5
Making peace with nature: Ecological encounters along the Korean DMZ By Eleana J.Kim. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 224 pp.	4
Rescaling hospitality	4
Patchwork ethnography	4
Deep ethnography	4
Resistant ecologies and the bi'a beyond methodological nationalism	4
Moral atmospheres: Islam and media in a Pakistani marketplace By Timothy P. A.Cooper. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 288 pp.	4
Sci‐fi chips and sickled cells	4
Humanitarian contradictions	4
Anthropology at sea	4
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’ note	4
The politics of bachaqueo	4
Multiple interfaces	4
Emplacing capital	3
Entrepreneurial activism	3
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
Unmasked: COVID, community, and the case of Okoboji By EmilyMendenhall. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022. 312 pp.	3
Bosnian Refugees in Chicago: Gender, Performance, and Post‐war Economies. AnaCroegaert. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. 210 pp.	3
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Native agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs By Valerie Lambert. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 376 pp.	3
Colonizing Kashmir: State‐building under Indian occupation By HafsaKanjwal. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 366 pp.	3
Placing practice in Thamel, Kathmandu	3
Gendered fortunes: Divination, precarity, and affect in postsecular Turkey By Zeynep K. Korkman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 276 pp.	3
Cement and displacement	3
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Birding under fire	3
Citizenship thinking—with, against, and bypassing the state	3

“I randomize, therefore I think”	3
Productive leisure on the farm	3
Police, provocation, politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul By DenizYonucu. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 222 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
A ritual geology: Gold and subterranean knowledge in Savanna West Africa By Robyn d'Avignon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 304 pp.	3
Theory as ethics	3
Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone By Tania MurrayLi and PujoSemedi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 256 pp.	3
The “salt” of life	2
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Miners on the move	2
Father time: A natural history of men and babies By Sarah BlafferHrdy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 432 pp.	2
Ageing with smartphones in urban China: From the cultural to the digital revolution in Shanghai By Xinyuan Wang. London: UCL Press, 2023. 291 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
The determined indeterminacy of white supremacy	2
Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity. DorinneKondo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 376 pp.	2
Friendship By MichaelJackson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 224 pp.	2
(Un)making the manual scavenger	2
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.	2
¡Alerta! Engineering on shaky ground By ElizabethReddy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. 215 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
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
Inside a jaguar's jaws	2
Experimenting with ethnography: A companion to analysis By AndreaBallestero and Brit RossWinthereik, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 301 pp.	2
Gut anthro: An experiment in thinking with microbes By Amber Benezra. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 282 pp.	2
Editors’ note	2
Waste's translations	1
Working women in Jordan: Education, migration, and aspiration By FidaAdely. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 207 pp.	1
I was wrong about theory	1
How many worlds are there?	1
Contesting pandemic imaginaries and epidemic‐response spectacle	1
Eating pizza in prison	1
Diplomacy and lobbying during Turkey's Europeanisation: The private life of politics By BilgeFirat. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. 224 pp.	1
Seeing our world in 16:9 aspect ratio	1
The feel of algorithms By MinnaRuckenstein. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 223 pp.	1
Issue Information	1
Soda science: Making the world safe for Coca‐Cola By SusanGreenhalgh. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 354 pp.	1
A book of waves By Stefan Helmreich. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 411 pp.	1
On the humanitarian horizon	1
Devotion to the administrative state: Religion and social order in Egypt By MonaOraby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 328 pp.	1
Norms and Illegality: Intimate Ethnographies and Politics. CristianaPanella and Walter E.Little, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 228 pp.	1
The promise of multispecies justice Edited by SophieChao, KarinBolender, and EbenKirksey. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 296 pp.	1
Seen but not meant	1
Kill your ancestors	1
A transit state	1
Managing the “hot spots”	1
The made‐up state: Technology, trans femininity, and citizenship in Indonesia By Benjamin Hegarty. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 198 pp.	1
Horticulture as history making	1
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
Anthropology with a philosophical sensibility	1
Building on borrowed time: Rising seas and failing infrastructure in Semarang By LukasLey. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 240 pp.	1
Applied anthropology, injustice, and the ethics of intervention	1
Conjuring criminals	1
Improperty	1
Fucking up, fixing up, and standing up (to the colonial project of gender and sexuality)	1
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Army of the vulnerable	1
Creating value for objects‐in‐waiting	1
Cultivating a trauma‐informed pedagogy	1
Spaces and challenges of citizenship	1
Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal. HannaGarth. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 232 pp.	1
Volumetric citizenship	1
Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion. SarahMuir. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 200 pp.	1
Peche problems	0
An anthropology of crosslocations By SarahGreen, SamuliLähteenaho, PhaedraDouzina‐Bakalaki, CarlRommel, Joseph J.Viscomi, Laia SotoBermant, and PatriciaScalco. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 202	0
Migrant Conversions: Transforming Connections between Peru and South Korea. EricaVogel. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 186 pp.	0
Ethnography and ethical life	0
In the skin of the city: Spatial transformation in Luanda By AntónioTomás. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 266 pp.	0
Resistance as negotiation: Making states and tribes in the margins of modern India By UdayChandra. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 340 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
Tear gas in orbit	0
Imagistic care: Growing old in a precarious world Edited by Cheryl Mattingly and Lone Grøn. New York: Fordham University Press, 2022. 272 pp.	0
Corrigendum	0
More‐than‐“bird”	0
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
Witnessing “imperfect victims”	0
Density and domination	0
Residual governance: How South Africa foretells planetary futures By GabrielleHecht. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 288 pp.	0
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
Relational flexibility	0

Lawful sins: Abortion rights and reproductive governance in Mexico By ElyseOna Singer. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 260 pp.	0
Issue Information	0
Egg providers in eGoli	0
Issue Information	0
Fiat speech, fiat infrastructure	0
Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea. SarahBesky. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 252 pp.	0
Editors’ note	0
Reading the present from the past in Hopkins, Belize	0
Fishers who don't fish	0
Re‐membering culture: Erasure and renewal in Hmong American education By BicNgo. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. 248 pp.	0
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I was wrong when I studied Russian nuclear weapons scientists	0
Visible critique/critical visibility	0
Work, development, and refusal in urban Ethiopia	0
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The violence of democracy: Interparty conflict in South Asia By RuchiChaturvedi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 250 pp.	0
Falshfasad	0
Chinese village life today: Building families in an age of transition By Gonçalo Santos. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 320 pp.	0
Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections By Lisa Mitchell. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 320 pp.	0
Novelistic account, ethnographic accountability	0
The right to public security	0
Anthropology as spiritual discipline	0
“I am the noise”	0
Asylum and extraction in the Republic of Nauru By Julia CarolineMorris. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 318 pp.	0
After servitude: Elusive property and the ethics of kinship in Bolivia By MareikeWinchell. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 352 pp.	0
Contamination in theory and protest	0
Pandemic, paternalism, and the (im)possibilities of citizenship in China	0
Beware the bad shepherd	0
Racial hydrologies	0
Making place for Muslims in contemporary India By Kalyani DevakiMenon. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 196 pp.	0
Decolonizing Middle East anthropology	0
Privileged observers and colonial continuities	0
“The agenda is to wipe out critical thought”—Struggles for academic freedom (part 2)	0
Listening to love	0
The copy generic: How the nonspecific makes our social worlds By ScottMacLochlainn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 232 pp.	0
Cultural loss and compensation in the anthropology of Aboriginal Australia	0
How to make a wetland: Water and moral ecology in Turkey By CaterinaScaramelli. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 240 pp.	0
Four challenges from anthropology's current meta	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
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Waste worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's infrastructures of disposability By JacobDoherty. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 288 pp.	0
Futures after progress: Hope and doubt in late industrial Baltimore By Chloe Ahmann. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2024. 366 pp.	0
Amazonian cosmopolitans: Navigating a shamanic cosmos, shifting Indigenous policies, and other modern projects By SuzanneOakdale. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. 262 pp.	0
Polygons	0
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
Mafiacraft: An ethnography of deadly silence By DeborahPuccio‐Den. Chicago: Hau Books, 2021. 294 pp.	0
A ritual of indistinction	0
The sexual politics of empire: Postcolonial homophobia in Haiti By Erin L.Durban. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. 234 pp.	0
Consultation is the new C‐word	0
Performing control	0
Saving animals: Multispecies ecologies of rescue and care By ElanAbrell. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 272 pp.	0
We have never been woke: The cultural contradictions of a new elite By Musaal‐Gharbi. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 280 pp.	0
A sovereign atmosphere	0
Anthropological humanitarianism	0
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 Mar	0
Working out desire: Women, sport, and self‐making in Istanbul By SertaçSehlikoglu.Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2021. 318 pp.	0
Affect ethnography: Exploring performance and narrative in the creation of unstories By CristianaGiordano and GregPierotti. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 289 pp.	0
The news event: Popular sovereignty in the age of deep mediatization By FrancisCody. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 260 pp.	0
The new science of the enchanted universe: An anthropology of most of humanity By MarshallSahlins. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. 208 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
The space‐age hotel	0
Probing arts and emergent forms of life By Michael M. J. Fischer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 336 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
Flexible families: Nicaraguan transnational families in Costa Rica By CaitlinFouratt. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022. 181 pp.	0
Fraternal critique: The politics of the Muslim community in France By KirstenWesselhoeft. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. 218 pp.	0
To be real: Truth and racial authenticity in African American standup comedy By LanitaJacobs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 224 pp.	0
Bodyland	0
“The world hates the truth”	0
Dwelling as resistance, dwelling as repair	0
Citizenship, agency, and the problem of sovereignty	0
The art of unnoticing	0
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Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro‐Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism. Richard M.Shain. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2018. 214 pp.	0
The composition of worlds: Interviews with Pierre Charbonnier By PhilippeDescola. Cambridge: Polity, 2024. 200 pp.	0
Reconsidering the vignette as method	0
Editors’ note	0
Between dreams and ghosts: Indian migration and Middle Eastern oil By AndreaWright. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 288 pp.	0
On epistemic aporias and the coloniality of (my) categories	0
Sensory futures: Deafness and cochlear implant infrastructures in India By Michele IlanaFriedner. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 288 pp.	0
Why do I write anthropology? Why do you?	0
How to write for American Ethnologist	0
Issue Information	0
Capture‐recapture	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
Capitalist colonial: Thai migrant workers in Israeli agriculture By MatanKaminer. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 269 pp.	0
The king of martyrs	0
The fraudulent family	0
Editors’ note	0
Imagining beyond a statist imaginary	0
Forest lost: Producing green capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon By Maron E.Greenleaf. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 304 pp.	0
Repetitions of history	0
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
Composing violence: The limits of exposure and the making of minorities By MoyukhChatterjee. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 184 pp.	0
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Ethical disconcertment and the politics of troublemaking	0