American Ethnologist

Papers
(The TQCC of American Ethnologist is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
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 Information26
Anthropology and complicated people25
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 identity20
Citizens in uniform18
Translating the social in complex technology development17
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. 216
Containment and conversion13
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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 community11
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 fieldwork9
Ebola and COVID: Further questions9
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 Zimbabwe8
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 crisis7
On shame7
From the “spectacle” to “all for show”7
Cliché anthropologists and the interactive probing of aspirations under market expansion7
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 scar7
An imperial meantime6
All that was not her By ToddMeyers. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 232 pp.6
Becoming malleable6
Editors’ note6
A queer footnote6
Queer debt6
Ethnography at its edges5
Race and the infrapolitics of public space in the time of COVID‐195
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 devil5
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. 335
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
Making peace with nature: Ecological encounters along the Korean DMZ By Eleana J.Kim. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 224 pp.4
Rescaling hospitality4
Patchwork ethnography4
Deep ethnography4
Resistant ecologies and the bi'a beyond methodological nationalism4
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 cells4
Humanitarian contradictions4
Anthropology at sea4
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
The politics of bachaqueo4
Multiple interfaces4
Theory as ethics3
Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone By Tania MurrayLi and PujoSemedi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 256 pp.3
Emplacing capital3
Entrepreneurial activism3
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, Kathmandu3
Gendered fortunes: Divination, precarity, and affect in postsecular Turkey By Zeynep K. Korkman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 276 pp.3
Cement and displacement3
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Birding under fire3
Citizenship thinking—with, against, and bypassing the state3
“I randomize, therefore I think”3
Productive leisure on the farm3
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
Inside a jaguar's jaws2
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
Editors’ note2
The “salt” of life2
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Miners on the move2
(Un)making the manual scavenger2
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
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 supremacy2
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
Experimenting with ethnography: A companion to analysis By AndreaBallestero and Brit RossWinthereik, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 301 pp.2
¡Alerta! Engineering on shaky ground By ElizabethReddy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. 215 pp.2
Gut anthro: An experiment in thinking with microbes By Amber Benezra. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 282 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
Improperty1
Fucking up, fixing up, and standing up (to the colonial project of gender and sexuality)1
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Army of the vulnerable1
Creating value for objects‐in‐waiting1
Cultivating a trauma‐informed pedagogy1
Spaces and challenges of citizenship1
Volumetric citizenship1
Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal. HannaGarth. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 232 pp.1
Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion. SarahMuir. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 200 pp.1
Waste's translations1
Working women in Jordan: Education, migration, and aspiration By FidaAdely. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 207 pp.1
I was wrong about theory1
How many worlds are there?1
Contesting pandemic imaginaries and epidemic‐response spectacle1
Eating pizza in prison1
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 ratio1
The feel of algorithms By MinnaRuckenstein. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 223 pp.1
Issue Information1
A book of waves By Stefan Helmreich. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 411 pp.1
Soda science: Making the world safe for Coca‐Cola By SusanGreenhalgh. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 354 pp.1
On the humanitarian horizon1
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 meant1
Kill your ancestors1
A transit state1
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 making1
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 sensibility1
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 intervention1
Conjuring criminals1
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