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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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Isha’s Wait	17
A Wild Boar Chase: Ecology of Harm and Half-Life Politics in Coastal Fukushima	16
Fugitive Kinships	14
The Massacre and Martyr(dom)s of Oak Creek	14
Through the Body of the Midwife	10
Infrastructural Decay	10
Place, Time, and Affect: Changing Landscapes around a New Guinea Mining Area	10
Dissonance: Cartooning in Iran, Humor, and the Study of Things That Don’t Match	9
The Substitute and the Excuse	9
Circulating Objects, Changing Scales	8
Fracking and Historicizing	8
Malicious Game	7
Marine Inequality, Borderization, and the Radical Potential of Kinship	7
Blessed Acts of Oblivion	6
“As if I Were an Illegal”	6
Good Bureaucrats and God: The Ethical Labor of the Public	6
Gaining Voice through Injury	5
Citing Black Women: From Citational Refusal to Recognition	5
Waste Donations	5
National Reconciliation in the Age of New Social Media	5
“Do they do our thozhil?”	5
No Stone Unturned	4

When Ethics Can't Be Found: Evaluative Gaps in Ordinary Life	4
Refusing the God Trick: Engaging Black Women’s Knowledge	4
Utopias of Oil	4
From Hoping to Expecting: Cochlear Implantation and Habilitation in India	4
Effective Cynicism	4
Deciphering a Non-meal	4
Black Feminist Citational Praxis and Disciplinary Belonging	4
Virtuous Indecisiveness	3
Opening Editorial	3
“Life is a Gamble”	3
The Ordinariness of Ethics and the Extraordinariness of Revolution	3
Governing by Proximity: State Performance and Migrant Citizenship on the India-Pakistan Border	3
Green Involution	3
Corporations and States	3
Quantifying Vulnerability	3
Life in Traffic: Riddling Field Notes on the Political Economy of “Sex” and Nature	2
The Meme Radar	2
Intercorporeal Togetherness: On Russian Blind Activists’ Technology of Disability Inclusion	2
Archives at the Margins: Toward a Liberatory Pedagogy in Anthropology	2
Anti-Blackness and Moral Repair	2
Borderlands as Barracks	2
Evoking Eternity	2
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Of Feral and Obedient Cows	2
The Weightless State	2
Morally Immunizing Debts: Wage Bank, Gendered Credit Access, and Intimacy in the Soma Coal Basin	2
Bureaucraft	2
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Religious Afterlives of a Revolution	2
Economy of Favors	2
Orders of Protection	2
The Revolutionary’s Two Temporalities?	1
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Predatory Fleas, Sterile Flies, and the Settlers	1
The Paradox of Humanitarian Recognition	1
Delivering the State	1
Habilitating Bodyminds, Caring for Potential	1
Centering Black Women: A Black Feminist Critique of Mainstream Anthropology from the Margins of an HBCU	1
(Re)Writing Anthropology and Raising Our Voices from the Academic Margins	1
Debt and the American Dream	1
Bioeconomy and Migrants’ Lives in Libya	1
EU-Driven Border Control in Niger: From Migrants to Gold, Drugs, and Rare Animals	1
The Bioeconomics of Domesticating Zoonoses	1
On Chainsaws and Acoustic Violence: Sound and Deforestation in Ajusco-Chichinautzin, Mexico	1
Love as Enjoyment	1
Pedagogies of Prohibition: Time, Education, and the War on Drugs in Rio de Janeiro’s Zona Norte	1
Erratum for "Resisting Alternative Images"	1

“Too Much” Sand, Not Water: A Geostory of Himalayan Riverine Sediments as “Problem”	1
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Vital Labors: Transacting Oocytes across Borders in the Post-Soviet Space	1