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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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone By Tanya MurrayLi and PujoSemedi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 256 pp.	49
How to make a wetland: Water and moral ecology in Turkey By CaterinaScaramelli. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 240 pp.	32
Unruly speech: Displacement and the politics of transgression By SaskiaWitteborn. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 250 pp.	32
A possible perfection	18
Economic Life in the Real World: Logic, Emotion and Ethics. CharlesStafford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 210 pp.	17
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A view from another side, or, not just another quit‐lit essay	15
Anthropology unbound	14
Bordering practices	13
Waste worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's infrastructures of disposability By JacobDoherty. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 288 pp.	12
Fat in four cultures—a global ethnography of weight By CindiSturtzSreetharan, AlexandraBrewis, JessicaHardin, SarahTrainer, and AmberWutich. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 236 pp.	11
Corrigendum	11
Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras. Jon Horne Carter. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. 368 pp.	10
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology. Samuel J.Redman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 328 pp.	8
Zainab's traffic: Moving saints, selves, and others across borders By EmrahYıldız. Oakland: University of California Press, 2024. 191 pp.	7
Digital unsettling: Decoloniality and dispossession in the age of social media By Sahana Udupa and Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan. New York: New York University Press, 2023. 264 pp.	7
To be real: Truth and racial authenticity in African American standup comedy By LanitaJacobs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 224 pp.	6
Religion and Daily Life in the Mountains of Iran: Theology, Saints, People. ErikaFriedl. London: I. B. Tauris, 2020. 200 pp.	6
Issue Information	6
“What even the cowherds and women know”	6
Placing practice in Thamel, Kathmandu	6
Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey. Salih CanAçıksöz. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 272 pp.	6
Chemical heroes: Pharmacological supersoldiers in the US military By Andrew Bickford. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 320 pp.	5
Why do I write anthropology? Why do you?	5
Containment and conversion	5

Pig‐feast democracy	5
Policing race, ethnicity and culture: Ethnographic perspectives across Europe By JanBeek, ThomasBierschenk, AnnalenaKolloch, and BerndMeyer, eds. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 352 pp.	5
“I randomize, therefore I think”	5
Ethics as ecology, ecology as ethics	4
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	4
Terror capitalism: Uyghur dispossession and masculinity in a Chinese city By DarrenByler. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 296 pp.	4
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.	4
Black food matters: Racial justice in the wake of food justice By HannaGarth and Ashanté M.Reese, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 312 pp.	4
After servitude: Elusive property and the ethics of kinship in Bolivia By MareikeWinchell. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 352 pp.	4
I was never alone or oporniki: An ethnographic play on disability in Russia By CassandraHartblay. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 218 pp.	4
Undocumented motherhood: Conversations on love, trauma, and border crossing By ElizabethFarfán‐Santos. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. 176 pp.	4
The “salt” of life	4
Guardians of the forest or evil spirits?	4
Editors’ note	4
The cancer within: Reproduction, cultural transformation, and health care in Romania By ChristinaPop. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022. 229 pp.	4
Beware the bad shepherd	4
Reconsidering the vignette as method	4
Refusing aid	4
Issue Information	3
A filtered life: Social media on a college campus By Nicole Taylor and Mimi Nichter. New York: Routledge, 2022. 210 pp.	3
Editors’ note	3
Citizenship thinking—with, against, and bypassing the state	3
What does it mean to be a citizen in the contemporary moment?	3
Citizen labor	3
Education as identity	3
Rights refused: Grassroots activism and state violence in Myanmar By Elliott Prasse‐Freeman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 366 pp.	3
Watching fracking	3
Native agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs By Valerie Lambert. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 376 pp.	3
The determined indeterminacy of white supremacy	3
The movement for reproductive justice: Empowering women of color through social activism By Patricia Zavella. New York: New York University Press, 2020. 299 pp.	3
Building socialism: The afterlife of East German architecture in urban Vietnam By Christina Schwenkel. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 432 pp.	2
Anthropology and complicated people	2
Homemaking as sensemaking	2
Anti‐colonial friendship	2
The “fascist” and the “potato beetle”	2
Egg providers in eGoli	2
Translating the social in complex technology development	2
Making Global MBAs: The Culture of Business and the Business of Culture. AndrewOrta. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 256 pp.	2
Consultation is the new C‐word	2
Editors’ note	2
Citizens in uniform	2
Hypeful worlds	2
Emplacing capital	2
The stigma matrix: Gender, globalization, and the agency of Pakistan's frontline women By FauziaHusain. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 306 pp.	2
Anthropology as spiritual discipline	2
Productive leisure on the farm	2
Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea. SarahBesky. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 252 pp.	1
Corrections to “Managing the ‘hot spots’: Health care, policing, and the governance of poverty in the US”	1
Health in ruins: The capitalist destruction of medical care at a Colombian maternity hospital By César ErnestoAbadía‐Barrero. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 312 pp.	1
Inhabiting a transforming delta	1

Decolonizing a discipline in distress	1
Feeling the (post)colonial	1
Fencing in democracy: Border walls, necrocitizenship, and the security state By MiguelDíaz‐Barriga and Margaret E.Dorsey. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 200 pp.	1
The borders of AIDS: Race, quarantine, and resistance By Karma R.Chávez. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 264 pp.	1
What good is anthropology?	1
The ultimate intimacy	1
Issue Information	1
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.	1
Inside a jaguar's jaws	1
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The self in a time of constant connectivity	1
“So that we may be counted”	1
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Uncertainty by design: Preparing for the future with scenario technology By LimorSamimian‐Darash. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 185 pp.	1
The confessional community	1
Devenir autre: Hétérogénéité et plasticité du soi [Becoming other: Heterogeneity and plasticity of the self] By DavidBerliner. Paris: La Découverte, 2022. 174 pp.	1
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A blessing and a curse: Oil, politics, and morality in Bolivarian Venezuela By MattWilde. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 236 pp.	1
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.	1
Antiblackness By JungMoon‐Kie and João H. CostaVargas, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 392 pp.	1
Polygons	1
Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity. DorinneKondo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 376 pp.	1
Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts.FrédéricKeck. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 256 pp.	1
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Ethnography after anthropology	1
Mediating Catholicism: Religion and media in global Catholic imaginaries Edited by Eric Hoenes delPinal, Marc RoscoeLoustau, and KristinNorget. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 245 pp.	1
Weighing the future: Race, science, and pregnancy trials in the postgenomic era By NataliValdez. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 284 pp.	1
Horizon work: At the edges of knowledge in an age of runaway climate change By AdrianaPetryna. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. 224 pp.	1
Sensory futures: Deafness and cochlear implant infrastructures in India By Michele IlanaFriedner. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 288 pp.	1
Ethnography, cacophony, and Lebanon as a zone of prestige in the anthropology of the Middle East	1
Secular‐religious self‐improvement	1
Falshfasad	1
Galvanizing nostalgia? Indigeneity and sovereignty in Siberia By Marjorie MandelstamBalzer. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 254 pp.	1
Decolonizing queer experience: LGBT+ narratives from eastern Europe and Eurasia Edited by EmilyChannell‐Justice. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. 205 pp.	1
The smugness of privilege	0
Rescaling hospitality	0
Bolivia in the Age of Gas. BretGustafson. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 328 pp.	0
Issue Information	0
“Only the orangutans get a life jacket”	0
Contamination in theory and protest	0
If books fail, try beauty: Educated womanhood in the new East Africa By Brooke Schwartz Bocast. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 205 pp.	0
Multiple interfaces	0
Sweaty motions	0
Provincializing bioethics	0
Terror trials: Life and law in Delhi's courts By Mayur R. Suresh. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023. 272 pp.	0
Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affect, and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army.MariaRashid. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 288 pp.	0
Morality, religious authority, and the digital edge	0
In the skin of the city: Spatial transformation in Luanda By AntónioTomás. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 266 pp.	0
Imagining beyond a statist imaginary	0
Cultural loss and compensation in the anthropology of Aboriginal Australia	0
Saving animals: Multispecies ecologies of rescue and care By ElanAbrell. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 272 pp.	0
Keeping busy when there's nothing to do	0
Asylum and extraction in the Republic of Nauru By Julia CarolineMorris. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 318 pp.	0
The king of martyrs	0
Shopping with Allah: Muslim pilgrimage, gender and consumption in a globalised world By ViolaThimm. London: UCL Press, 2023. 287 pp.	0
Remaking the value of work	0
Flexible families: Nicaraguan transnational families in Costa Rica By CaitlinFouratt. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022. 181 pp.	0
Spaces and challenges of citizenship	0
Peasant politics of the twenty‐first century: Transnational social movements and agrarian change By Marc Edelman. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. 356 pp.	0
Toward anthropologies of the metaverse	0
Catch‐all technopolitics	0
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Ritual as image	0
A ritual geology: Gold and subterranean knowledge in Savanna West Africa By Robyn d'Avignon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 304 pp.	0
Managing the “hot spots”	0
I was wrong when I studied Russian nuclear weapons scientists	0
Intertextual politics	0
Anthropology at sea	0
Rubber boots methods for the Anthropocene: Doing fieldwork in multispecies worlds By NilsBubandt, Astrid OberborbeckAnderson, and RachelCypher, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 4	0
A history of false hope: Investigative commissions in Palestine By LoriAllen. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 432 pp.	0
Improperty	0
The work of repair: Capacity after colonialism in the timber plantations of South Africa By Thomas Cousins. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023. 314 pp.	0
Meaningless citizenship: Iraqi refugees and the welfare state By Sally WesleyBonet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 256 pp.	0
The current economy: Electricity markets and techno‐economics By CanayÖzden‐Schilling. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 205 pp.	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
Fucking up, fixing up, and standing up (to the colonial project of gender and sexuality)	0
The composition of worlds: Interviews with Pierre Charbonnier By PhilippeDescola. Cambridge: Polity, 2024. 200 pp.	0
Corrigendum	0
Fishers who don't fish	0
Religious authority in the urban mosque	0

The art of unnoticing	0
Face‐to‐face with the (animal) Other	0
Seeing our world in 16:9 aspect ratio	0
Futures after progress: Hope and doubt in late industrial Baltimore By Chloe Ahmann. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2024. 366 pp.	0
The mother, the politician, and the guerrilla: Women's political imagination in the Kurdish movement By Nazan Üstündağ. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023. 272 pp.	0
Deep ethnography	0
Unfinished nature: Particle physics at CERN By ArpitaRoy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 296 pp.	0
Habitus, mobilized	0
A thousand steps to parliament: Constructing electable women in Mongolia By Manduhai Buyandelger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 288 pp.	0
Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal. HannaGarth. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 232 pp.	0
Reversible pigs	0
Novelistic account, ethnographic accountability	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
Nullius: The anthropology of ownership, sovereignty, and the law in India By Kriti Kapila. Chicago: Hau Books, 2022. 207 pp.	0
Eating pizza in prison	0
To write or not to write?	0
An anti‐genealogical take on US anthropology and disciplinary reform	0
Visible critique/critical visibility	0
Anthropology is good	0
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Performing control	0
The made‐up state: Technology, trans femininity, and citizenship in Indonesia By Benjamin Hegarty. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 198 pp.	0
Distributed humanitarianism	0
Entrepreneurial activism	0
Humanitarian contradictions	0
The trauma mantras: A memoir of prose poems By Adrie Kusserow. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 176 pp.	0
Unmasked: COVID, community, and the case of Okoboji By EmilyMendenhall. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022. 312 pp.	0
Mafiacraft: An ethnography of deadly silence By DeborahPuccio‐Den. Chicago: Hau Books, 2021. 294 pp.	0
The long road	0
The border within: Vietnamese migrants transforming ethnic nationalism in Berlin By Phi Hong Su. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 216 pp.	0
Lawful sins: Abortion rights and reproductive governance in Mexico By ElyseOna Singer. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 260 pp.	0
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Citizenship, agency, and the problem of sovereignty	0
Comrades and spies	0
Birding under fire	0
“Strange” affinities	0
Vital decomposition: Soil practitioners + life politics By Kristina M. Lyons. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 218 pp.	0
Being dead otherwise By Anne Allison. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 256 pp.	0
The sexual politics of empire: Postcolonial homophobia in Haiti By Erin L.Durban. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. 234 pp.	0
Ecologies of capture in Bangladesh's Sundarbans	0
Disability worlds By FayeGinsburg and RaynaRapp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 271 pp.	0
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Palestinian counter‐forensics and the cruel paradox of property	0
Thanks for watching: An anthropological study of video sharing on YouTube By Patricia G.Lange. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2019. 362 pp.	0
Rubbish sick and the dancing devil	0
Cement and displacement	0
From decolonizing knowledge to postimperialism	0
Community fashioning	0
Capture‐recapture	0
Engineering vulnerability: In pursuit of climate adaptation By Sarah E.Vaughn. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 148 pp.	0
The gift of hospitality and the (un)welcoming of Syrian migrants in Turkey	0
Ethnography and ethical life	0
Between dreams and ghosts: Indian migration and Middle Eastern oil By AndreaWright. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 288 pp.	0
Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic. AmyMoran‐Thomas. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 384 pp.	0
Anxious suitcases and their contents	0
Brown saviors and their others: Race, caste, labor, and the global politics of help in India By ArjunShankar. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 336 pp.	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
Religion and transnational citizenship in the African diaspora: Akan London By Mattia Fumanti. London: Routledge, 2023. 195 pp.	0
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Obras politics	0
Ethnographic thinking	0
Citizenship beyond solidarity and belonging	0
A transit state	0
Beastly identification in India	0
The small matter of suing Chevron By SuzanaSawyer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 416 pp.	0
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Bones of contention	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
Chinese village life today: Building families in an age of transition By Gonçalo Santos. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 320 pp.	0
Roses from Kenya: Labor, Environment, and the Global Trade in Cut Flowers.Megan A.Styles. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 256 pp.	0
A decolonial birth for anthropology	0
Kill your ancestors	0
Creating value for objects‐in‐waiting	0
A witch's hand: Curing, killing, kinship, and colonialism among the Lujere of New Guinea By William E. Mitchell. Chicago: Hau Books, 2024. 567 pp.	0
Keep the bones alive: Missing people and the search for life in Brazil By Graham DenyerWillis. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 230 pp.	0
Unsettled borders: The militarized science of surveillance on sacred Indigenous lands By Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 207 pp.	0
The politics of bachaqueo	0
Being forgotten, being remembered	0
There's a disco ball between us: A theory of Black gay life By JafariAllen. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 440 pp.	0
Patchwork ethnography	0
Predatory economies: The Sanema and the socialist state in contemporary Amazonia By Amy Penfield. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023. 248 pp.	0
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.	0
Fiat speech, fiat infrastructure	0
Indifference: On the praxis of interspecies being By Naisargi Davé. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 208 pp.	0
Gathering medicines: Nation and knowledge in China's mountain south By Judith Farquhar and Lili Lai. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 304 pp.	0
Gendered fortunes: Divination, precarity, and affect in postsecular Turkey By Zeynep K. Korkman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 276 pp.	0
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
“Punching is a sickness”	0
On epistemic aporias and the coloniality of (my) categories	0
Orphaned landscapes: Violence, visuality, and appearance in Indonesia By PatriciaSpyer. New York: Fordham University Press, 2021. 336 pp.	0
De‐occupation as planetary politics	0
The violence of recognition: Adivasi indigeneity and anti‐Dalitness in India By PinkyHota. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024. 230 pp.	0
“Magical math hand‐waving”	0
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