OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cultural 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
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	19
	18
Isha’s Wait	15
The Dying Home: “Bad Deaths” and Spatial Inscriptions of Mourning in a Favela	14
The Massacre and Martyr(dom)s of Oak Creek	14
A Wild Boar Chase: Ecology of Harm and Half-Life Politics in Coastal Fukushima	14
Place, Time, and Affect: Changing Landscapes around a New Guinea Mining Area	10
	10
Infrastructural Decay	10
The Substitute and the Excuse	9
Through the Body of the Midwife	9
Fracking and Historicizing	9
Circulating Objects, Changing Scales	8
Dissonance: Cartooning in Iran, Humor, and the Study of Things That Don’t Match	8
Malicious Game	7
Citing Black Women: From Citational Refusal to Recognition	6
Gaining Voice through Injury	6
“As if I Were an Illegal”	6
Blessed Acts of Oblivion	6
“Do they do our thozhil?”	6
Good Bureaucrats and God: The Ethical Labor of the Public	6
National Reconciliation in the Age of New Social Media	5
Waste Donations	5
From Hoping to Expecting: Cochlear Implantation and Habilitation in India	4

Utopias of Oil	4
“Life is a Gamble”	4
Black Feminist Citational Praxis and Disciplinary Belonging	4
Refusing the God Trick: Engaging Black Women’s Knowledge	4
The Ordinariness of Ethics and the Extraordinariness of Revolution	4
Multiscale Home: Shifting Landscapes and Living-in-Movement in Haiti	4
Deciphering a Non-meal	4
When Ethics Can't Be Found: Evaluative Gaps in Ordinary Life	4
Effective Cynicism	4
No Stone Unturned	4
Quantifying Vulnerability	3
Green Involution	3
Evoking Eternity	3
Corporations and States	3
Governing by Proximity: State Performance and Migrant Citizenship on the India-Pakistan Border	3
Opening Editorial	3
	3
Virtuous Indecisiveness	3
Oikography: Ethnographies of House-ing in Critical Times	3
Bureaucraft	3
Life in Traffic: Riddling Field Notes on the Political Economy of “Sex” and Nature	3
Borderlands as Barracks	2
Of Feral and Obedient Cows	2
Morally Immunizing Debts: Wage Bank, Gendered Credit Access, and Intimacy in the Soma Coal Basin	2
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Religious Afterlives of a Revolution	2
Intercorporeal Togetherness: On Russian Blind Activists’ Technology of Disability Inclusion	2
The Meme Radar	2
Economy of Favors	2
Archives at the Margins: Toward a Liberatory Pedagogy in Anthropology	2
In the Shade of Hailstones: Life-Forming Realities among the Luo of Kano, Kenya	1
Centering Black Women: A Black Feminist Critique of Mainstream Anthropology from the Margins of an HBCU	1
	1
Love as Enjoyment	1
The Paradox of Humanitarian Recognition	1
Vital Labors: Transacting Oocytes across Borders in the Post-Soviet Space	1
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The Immune Home: Domestic Enclaves, Diffuse Protections	1
Habilitating Bodyminds, Caring for Potential	1
“Too Much” Sand, Not Water: A Geostory of Himalayan Riverine Sediments as “Problem”	1
Volumes	1
The Multiply Produced Film: Collaboration, Ethnography, and Feminist Epistemology	1
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	1
The Bioeconomics of Domesticating Zoonoses	1
EU-Driven Border Control in Niger: From Migrants to Gold, Drugs, and Rare Animals	1
Orders of Protection	1
Anti-Blackness and Moral Repair	1
Bioeconomy and Migrants’ Lives in Libya	1
On Exile and Postcolonial Nationhood in Rwanda and Burundi	1

Human Routers	1
Pedagogies of Prohibition: Time, Education, and the War on Drugs in Rio de Janeiro’s Zona Norte	1
(Re)Writing Anthropology and Raising Our Voices from the Academic Margins	1
Erratum for "Resisting Alternative Images"	1
Delivering the State	1
On Chainsaws and Acoustic Violence: Sound and Deforestation in Ajusco-Chichinautzin, Mexico	1
Predatory Fleas, Sterile Flies, and the Settlers	1
The Weightless State	1
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Sustaining Containability	1