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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
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 perfection18
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 essay15
Anthropology unbound14
Bordering practices13
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
Corrigendum11
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 Information6
“What even the cowherds and women know”6
Placing practice in Thamel, Kathmandu6
Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey. Salih CanAçıksöz. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 272 pp.6
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
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 conversion5
Pig‐feast democracy5
Ethics as ecology, ecology as ethics4
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. 24
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 life4
Guardians of the forest or evil spirits?4
Editors’ note4
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 shepherd4
Reconsidering the vignette as method4
Refusing aid4
Issue Information3
A filtered life: Social media on a college campus By Nicole Taylor and Mimi Nichter. New York: Routledge, 2022. 210 pp.3
Editors’ note3
Citizenship thinking—with, against, and bypassing the state3
What does it mean to be a citizen in the contemporary moment?3
Citizen labor3
Education as identity3
Rights refused: Grassroots activism and state violence in Myanmar By Elliott Prasse‐Freeman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 366 pp.3
Watching fracking3
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 supremacy3
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
Anthropology as spiritual discipline2
Productive leisure on the farm2
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 people2
Homemaking as sensemaking2
Anti‐colonial friendship2
The “fascist” and the “potato beetle”2
Egg providers in eGoli2
Translating the social in complex technology development2
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‐word2
Editors’ note2
Citizens in uniform2
Hypeful worlds2
Emplacing capital2
The stigma matrix: Gender, globalization, and the agency of Pakistan's frontline women By FauziaHusain. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 306 pp.2
Uncertainty by design: Preparing for the future with scenario technology By LimorSamimian‐Darash. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 185 pp.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
Decolonizing queer experience: LGBT+ narratives from eastern Europe and Eurasia Edited by EmilyChannell‐Justice. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. 205 pp.1
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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
A blessing and a curse: Oil, politics, and morality in Bolivarian Venezuela By MattWilde. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 236 pp.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
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
Inhabiting a transforming delta1
Antiblackness By JungMoon‐Kie and João H. CostaVargas, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 392 pp.1
Decolonizing a discipline in distress1
Polygons1
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
Inside a jaguar's jaws1
Sensory futures: Deafness and cochlear implant infrastructures in India By Michele IlanaFriedner. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 288 pp.1
Issue Information1
The self in a time of constant connectivity1
Ethnography, cacophony, and Lebanon as a zone of prestige in the anthropology of the Middle East1
“So that we may be counted”1
Secular‐religious self‐improvement1
Issue Information1
Falshfasad1
The confessional community1
Galvanizing nostalgia? Indigeneity and sovereignty in Siberia By Marjorie MandelstamBalzer. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 254 pp.1
Feeling the (post)colonial1
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
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
The borders of AIDS: Race, quarantine, and resistance By Karma R.Chávez. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 264 pp.1
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What good is anthropology?1
Ethnography after anthropology1
The ultimate intimacy1
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
Issue Information1
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
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