OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of History and Anthropology 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
‘The church should know its place': The passions and the interests of urban struggle in post-atheist Russia	10
Tracing silences: Towards an anthropology of the unspoken and unspeakable	10
Arranged marriages: Whose choice and why? Reflections on the principles underlying spouse selection worldwide*	10
Displacing empire: Aphasia, ‘trade’, and histories of empire in an English city	7
New deals for the past: the Cold War, American archaeology, and UNESCO in Egypt and Syria	7
Omar is dead: Aphasia and the escalating anti-radicalization business	7
Strategies of silence in an age of transparency: Navigating HIV and visibility in Aceh, Indonesia	6
Crisis futures: The affects and temporalities of economic collapse in Iceland	6
Kinship, gender and the spiritual economy in medieval Central European Towns	5
Merapi multiple: Protection around Yogyakarta’s celebrity volcano through masks, dreams, and seismographs	5
Articulations of inferiority: From pre-colonial to post-colonial paternalism in tourism and development among the indigenous Bushmen of Southern Africa	5
‘Devious silence’: Refugee art, memory activism, and the unspeakability of loss among Syrians in Turkey	5
Gender and inheritance patterns in rural Europe: Women as wives, widows, daughters and sisters	5
Introduction: Ethnographies of escalation	4
Bolivian migration and ethnic subsidiarity in Chilean sulphur and borax high-altitude mining (1888–1946)	4
Practising affect for haunted speakability: Triggering trauma through an interactive art project	4
Between diversity and hegemony: Transformations of kinship and gender relations in Upper Yemen, seventh- to thirteenth-century CE	4
Gender, succession and dynastic rule	4
The global proliferation of radical gynaecological surgeries: A history of the present	4
Community, society and memory in late medieval nunneries	3
The Escalation of Gambling in Papua New Guinea, 1936–1971: Notable absence to national obsession	3
A warlike culture? Religion and war in the Aztec world	3
Reimagining the enlightenment: Alternate timelines and utopian futures in the Scottish independence movement	3
Across regional disparities and beyond family ties: A Ghanaian middle class in the making	3
Magnetism of strangeness: Silenced histories of landscapes	3

Waiting for accelerations. Speculating on guar seeds in the Indian desert	3
Iron fist or nimble fingers?: An anatomy of Erdogan's strongman politics	2
Putting anthropology in its (hospitable) place: Harry Shapiro’s fieldwork on Pitcairn Island, 1934–1935	2
Living Buddhism: Migration, memory, and castelessness in South India	2
The emancipatory promise of cooperatives in a historical perspective: Evidence from an ice-cream factory in France	2
Borderline politics: Reading Nepal-India relations as ‘energohistory’	2
Spooks, goons, ‘intellectuals’: The military–catholic network in the Cold War diplomacy of Suharto’s Indonesia	2
Religion and war: A synthesis	2
Pastoralism’s distributive ruse: Extractivism, financialization, Indigenous labour and a rightful share in Northern Australia	2
A crack in everything: Violence in soldiers’ narratives about the Portuguese colonial war in Angola	2
Materiality in the absence of the church: Practising protestantism during China's Cultural Revolution	2
Gender, kinship and relatedness in fifteenth-century Tibet: The biography of Chokyi Dronma (1422–1455) through anthropological eyes	2
Bhakt nation: The return of the Hindu diaspora in Modi’s India	2
Christianity's stamp: Of hybrids, traitors, false peace, massacres and other horrors	2
‘Abandoned’ things: Looting German property in post-war Poland	2
Ethnography and liberty: a new look at the anthropological work of Wilhelm von Humboldt	2
‘We Were all Italian!’: The construction of a ‘sense of Italianness’ among Jews from Libya (1920s–1960s)	2
The nomads, the settlers and the in-betweens: Nordic clergymen on Sámi livelihoods in the early nineteenth century	2
The ship	2
Archival ethnography and ethnography of archiving: Towards an anthropology of riot inquiry commission reports in postcolonial India	2
Testimony from knotted strings: An archival reconstruction of early colonial Andean khipu readings	1
The enchanted moments of place: Mythology, rituals and materiality at the saint Mariam Bawardy Shrine	1
Expelled from public memory: Cato Manor and the segregation of memory in South Africa	1
Anxiety of treason in a small country: ‘Russian agents’ and disturbed identities in Georgia	1
Amerindian war and religion in the Eastern Woodlands of North America, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries	1
The gendered politics of fieldwork and state medicine in the Altos of Chiapas, 1940–1960	1
Good enough sovereignty, or on land as property and territory in Latvia	1
Sacred violence and spirited resistance: on war and religion in African history	1
Beyond Idi Amin: urban militarization, Africanization and materiality in Kampalans’ experiences of expulsion	1
Kinship and gender relations across historical Asia and Europe: An introduction to comparative reassessments between the 8th and 19th centuries CE	1
Venezuela’s oil specter: Contextualizing and historicizing the Bolivarian attempt to sow the oil	1
Work, precarity and militant unionism in an industrial Area in the mid-hills of Nepal	1
Remembering through possessed treasures? Landscapes and memories of societal violence in contemporary Turkey	1
Afterword: Haunted histories and the silences of everyday life	1
Book forum on Charles Hirschkind,The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia(Chicago, 2021)	1
The ‘haunting’ and the ‘haunted’: Whiteness, orthography and the (post)-apartheid condition in Namibia	1
Person and relation as categories: Mauss’ legacy	1
Colonies of benevolence: A carceral archipelago of empire in the greater Netherlands	1
Expulsions: Knowledge, temporality, and materiality in Africa	1
Through a peephole: Vladimír Karbusický, the secret police and the scholarly ethos in socialist Czechoslovakia	1
When pilgrimage does not heal: Memory and loss in Greek Cypriots’ pilgrimages to Apostolos Andreas	1
Race and the legacy of slavery in Yemen	1
Creation and legacy of historic silences in anthropological traditions: An ethnohistorical re-analysis of nineteenth-century Coast Salish genealogy, leadership, and territoriality	1
The shipping container	1
The route of Orion: Towards a deconstructive history of alien contact in Chile	1
‘Good men don’t elope’: Afghan migrant men’s discourses on labour migration, marriage and masculinity	1
Events of citizenship: Left militantism and the returns of revolution in Tunisia	1
The Martial Temple in the Song	1
Past the canal: An anthropology of maritime passages	1
Post-colonial caste, Ambedkar, and the politics of counter-narrative	1

Violence and warfare in Medieval Western Islam	1
A glimpse behind closed doors. Alfred L. Kroeber and the representation of native Californian music	1
The Congo Museum (1898–1910): On collaboration, conflict, bureaucracy and immorality	1
Halted narratives: The combative futurity of Sahrawi female militant’s public memory	1
Cocoa and compliance: How exemptions made mass expulsion in Ghana	1
Uncovering disciplined pasts: Tour guiding through Kyiv's changing place names	1
US Social scientists of the 1950s in the Mezzogiorno and Ernesto de Martino: Two divergent approaches to history and development	1
A biographic foreword to Axel Sommerfelt’s 1967 paper – from a daughter’s point of view	1
An archaeology of interruption: Expulsion and hiatus in Southern Africa’s long past	1
The end of the bazaar? Morphology of a post-Soviet marketplace	1