Social Anthropology

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Anthropology is 0. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Conspicuous performances: ritual competition between Christian and non‐Christian Hmong in contemporary Vietnam26
‘Every Person Counts’12
Changing Monsoonal Waterworlds12
Ways of Not-Knowing in Neoliberal Chile11
Forum: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine10
Humour and the Plurality of Everyday Life10
Confronting Uncertainties in Pastoral Areas10
Issue Information10
Book Reviews9
Technomoral Governance8
Waiting for the disappeared: waiting as a form of resilience and the limits of legal space in Turkey7
Ball, Christopher. 2018. Exchanging words: language, ritual, and relationality in Brazil’s Xingu Indigenous Park. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. 288 pp. Hb.: US$49.95. ISBN: 978082637
‘Eating with the People’7
‘What is not Counted, doesn't Count’7
Book Reviews6
Unearthing Unknowns5
Introduction: On the politics of waiting5
Upland pioneers: an introduction5
Soothsayers and horoscopes: new modes of inquiring into the future in northern Laos4
Vernacular Humanitarianisms4
Mussels and Megaprojects3
Vital Matter3
Ambivalent Precarity among Israel's Young Generation of Filmmakers3
Field Aporias in Minho (Portugal)3
‘De-kinning’3
The Okjökull Memorial and Geohuman Relations3
On the educational mode of existence: Latour, meta‐ethnography and the social institution of education2
The potential of intangible loss: reassembling heritage and reconstructing the social in post‐disaster Japan2
Algorithmic Intimacy2
Firat, Bilge. 2019. Diplomacy and lobbying during Turkey’s Europeanisation: the private life of politics (Political Ethnography). Manchester: Manchester University Press. 224 pp. Hb. US$90.00. ISBN: 12
The Hard Way2
Blocking the Exit2
Malmström, Maria Frederika. 2019. The streets are talking to me: affective fragments in Sisi’s Egypt. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 192 pp. Pb.: US$29.95. ISBN: 9780520304338.2
Editorial2
Vertigo and Urgency2
Religence2
PennyHarvey, ChristianKrohn‐Hansen and Knut G.Nustad (eds.) 2019. Anthropos and the material. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 272 pp. Pb.: US$26.95. ISBN: 978‐1‐4780‐0286‐4.2
The Politics of Equivalence2
Traditional culture as a vehicle for Christian future‐making: ethnic minority elites pioneering self‐representations in northern Myanmar2
Editorial2
Vectoral Fieldsites2
Editorial1
When Food Waste Goes to Work1
Syrian refugees and the politics of waiting in a Turkish border town1
Book Reviews1
Collinson, Paul, IainYoung, LucyAntal and HelenMacbeth (eds.) 2019. Food and sustainability in the twenty‐first century: cross‐disciplinary perspectives. New York: Berghahn Books. 227 pp. Hb. US$115.51
The Debate’s Conjuncture1
Passing It On1
Minor Genealogies of Palestine1
Editorial1
Silent Stock1
Cracks in the System and Anthropology1
Martyrdom and Destiny in Time of Revolution1
Encountering Compassion1
Of Fascists and Dreamers1
Hmong Christian elites as political and development brokers: competition, cooperation and mimesis in Vietnam’s highlands1
Concerns, Considerations and Conceptions of Kinship1
Why Urgency, Now?1
The Anti-Politics of Inclusion1
Corporeal moderation: digital labour as affective good1
Managing Mass Graves in Rwanda and Burundi1
Hinojosa, Servando Z. 2020. Maya bonesetters: manual healers in a changing Guatemala. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 256 pp. Hb.: US$29.95. ISBN: 9781477320297.1
Book Reviews1
Suspicion and Evidence1
Introduction: Auto‐Anthropocenes1
Hodges, Adam. 2019. When words trump politics: resisting a hostile regime of language. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 200 pp. Pb.: US$14.00. ISBN: 9781503610798.0
Smallness and Small-device Heuristics0
Anthropologies in/of the Black Mediterranean0
Vital Bodies0
Phong pioneers: exploring the sociopolitics of mythology in upland Laos0
Johnson, Andrew Alan. 2020. Mekong dreaming: life and death along a changing river. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 208 pp. Pb.: US$25.95. Ebook ISBN: 9781478012351.0
AmitVered and Noël B.Salazar (eds.) 2020. Pacing mobilities. Timing, intensity, tempo and duration of human movements. Oxford: Berghahn Books. 194 pp. Pb.: US$135.00. ISBN: 9781789207248.0
Kinning and De-kinning0
Infrastructural stripping and ‘recycling’ of copper: producing the state in an industrial town in Serbia0
Curious Utopias0
Book Reviews0
Reconfiguring Hell0
Kubica, Grażyna. 2020. Maria Czaplicka. Gender, shamanism, race. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, xxii + 593 pp. Hb.: US$85.00. ISBN: 00978‐1‐4962‐2261‐90
Reviews0
Power and transcendence: a comment on upland pioneers0
Editorial0
Scenarios in a Time of Urgency0
From Scottish Independence, to Brexit, and Back Again0
Of Ice and Meteorites0
Book Reviews0
Regnier, Denis. 2021. Slavery and essentialism in highland Madagascar: ethnography, history, cognition. New York: Routledge. 208 pp. Hb: US$115.00. ISBN: 9781350102477.0
Issue Information0
Searching for an ‘Authentic Encounter’0
Beyond Failure0
Projects and Project Temporalities0
Book Reviews0
Chasing Rotten Ice0
Afterword0
The Sound of Difference0
Automating Morality0
Urgency and Imminence0
Imagining Himalayan Glacial Futures0
Revisiting the Untranslatable0
The Properties of Self-Managed Collective Housing0
The absent presence of the deportation apparatus: methodological challenges in the production of knowledge on immigration detention0
Editorial0
Introduction0
Remaining Kin over Time0
‘Utopian Confluences’0
Waiting for the Inevitable0
Inhabiting Volatile Worlds0
The Ends of Consent0
Clashing Scales and Accelerated Change0
Ode to the Literature Review0
Editorial0
Stratifying academia: ranking, oligarchy and the market‐myth in academic audit regimes0
Controlled experiments: ethnographic notes on the intergenerational dynamics of aspirational migration and agrarian change in upland Laos0
Ethical Endeavours0
Imperial Infinity, Project Futurity and Clockwork Discipline0
Coronavirus Verity0
Engaged Lingering0
Stout, Noelle. 2019. Dispossessed: how predatory bureaucracy foreclosed on the American middle class. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 280 pp. Hb.: US$29.95/£25.00. ISBN: 9780520291782.0
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Deportability and spirituality in a hostile environment: an intersubjective perspective0
Militancy and Martyrs’ Ghostly Whispers0
Religious Nationalism, Strategic Detachment and the Politics of Vernacular Humanitarianism in Post-War Sri Lanka0
Building Legacies0
Zani, Leah. 2019. Bomb children. Life in the former battlefields of Laos. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 184 pp. Pb.: US$24.95. ISBN: 978‐1‐4780‐0485‐1.0
Moore, Amelia. 2019. Destination Anthropocene: science and tourism in The Bahamas. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 216 pp. Pb.: US$29.95. ISBN: 9780520298934.0
Afterword0
Vignerons and the Vines0
Projects as an Iterative Pursuit0
Book Reviews0
To Fail at Scale!0
The Desire to Help0
Henley, Paul. 2020. L’aventure du Réel. Jean Rouch et la Pratique du Cinéma Ethnographique. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes. 518 pp. Broché: €30.00, ISBN: 97827535791250
Anthropology against Borders0
Roque, Ricardo and Elizabeth G.Traube (eds.) 2019. Crossing histories and ethnographies: following colonial historicities in Timor‐Leste. New York: Berghahn, Books. 362 pp. Hb.: US$135.00. ISBN: 978170
Safe and sound: listening to Guns N’ Roses in the car0
Algorithmic Governance, Public Participation and Trust0
‘Not as single spies’: a review of European Social Anthropology 20200
Leapfrogging the Grid0
Beyond (Un)Stable0
Book Reviews0
‘Leave No One Behind’0
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Editorial0
Bodies of and against austerity: gendered dispossession, agency and struggles for worth in Portugal0
Forum: ‘Utopian Confluences’0
Anthropology Comes In When Translation Fails0
LeighBinford, LesleyGill and SteveStriffler (eds.) 2020. Fifty years of peasant wars in Latin America. New York: Berghahn Books. 228 pp. Hb.: US$120.00. ISBN: 9781789205619.0
Wright, Susan, StephenCarney, John BenedictoKrejsler, Gritt BykærholmNielsen and Jakob WilliamsØrberg. 2020. Enacting the university. Danish university reform in an ethnographic perspective. Dordrecht0
Book Reviews0
Ambiguous entanglements: infrastructure, memory and identity in indigenous Evenki communities along the Baikal–Amur Mainline0
Shacktopia0
Reality, Realism and the Future0
Waiting for justice amidst the remnants: urban development, displacement and resistance in Diyarbakir0
Technomoral Politics in Conservative Britain0
Rhythming Volatilities0
Editorial0
We Just Want to Know How it was Calculated0
Editorial0
Editorial0
Editorial0
Essence in excess: heritage and the problem of potentiality0
Valued Volatility0
Curfew ‘until further notice’: waiting and spatialisation of sovereignty in a Kurdish bordertown in Turkey0
Landmine Clearance, or the Promise of a Project without End0
Unhinged0
Policy as Experimentation0
Becoming Time-Bound0
Laziness and Stinginess0
The Hau of the Article and Dividual Authors0
William C.Olsen and ThomasCsordas (eds.) 2019. Engaging evil: a moral anthropology. New York: Berghahn Books. 322 pp. Hb. US$135.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐78920‐213‐7.0
The Golden Passport ‘Russian’ Eutopia0
Henley, Paul. 2020. Beyond observation: a history of authorship in ethnographic film. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 568 pp. Hb. £85.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐5261‐3134‐8.0
Keeping the Snout in the Plough Furrow0
‘Before others’: construction pioneers in the uplands of northwestern Laos0
Situating the Investigation on Clandestine Graves in Mexico0
(Un)Doing the Colombian Armed Conflict0
Interstitial urban spaces: housing strategies and the use of the city by homeless asylum seekers and refugees in Trento, Italy0
Editorial0
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