OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Australian Journal of 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Justice for Walker: Warlpiri responses to the police shooting of Kumunjayi Walker	8
Wik Cha'prah – Cha tru chath: Wik blood speaks to you	6
Cool burning the collection: Museum research as a regenerative act	5
Hedgehogs, killing, and kindness: The contradictions of care in conservation practice By LauraMcLauchlan, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. 2024. pp. ix + 259, notes, references, ind	5
Forecasts: A story of weather and finance at the edge of disaster By Caroline E.Schuster, illustrated by EnriqueBernardou, DavidBueno (Eds.), Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2023. pp. xvii + 212	4
Unsettled and unsettling tourism landscapes of Timor‐Leste	3
Netflix streaming Video algorithms, taste and corporate responsibility	3
Bornéo à coeur: Hommage à Bernard Sellato, Argonaute de la forêt tropicale . Borneo at heart: A tribute to Bernard Sellato, argonaut of the tropical rainforest	3
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The hunger artist and academic migration: On political depression and relational poverty	3
Elem and Zimmadari : Masculine moral life in Rohingya refugee camps	2
S/kinship: The relational ontology of tattoos in contemporary Australian discourse and practice	2
Hauntology: A tale of two cities	2
The place of dreams in In the Shadow of the Palms	2
Coal's final void: Extracted futures and the everyday making of the climate crisis By KariDahlgren, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. 2025. pp. xii +124, notes, bibliography, index, ISBN 9781032786643	2
Description, difference and history, in Melanesia, for example	2
The making of style: On the entanglement of algorithms and aesthetics	2
Latour's swan songs: Grappling with the ecological crisis By Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schulz. On the emergence of an ecological class: A memo. Translated by Julie Rose, London: Polity Press. 2022. pp.	1
Strange Aeons: Transhumanism, H.P. Lovecraft, and the affective index of posthuman dread	1
Land claim legacies, native title, and the rigours of Indigenous politics	1
The ethics of staying: Social movements and land rights politics in PakistanMubbashir A.Rizvi, Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2019. pp. 191. ISBN (cloth): 9781503608092; (paperback): 97815036087	1
Wild artefacts at two Australian museums	1
When does the story end? Presence, the present and ‘the contemporary world’	1
The Exeter companion to fairies, nereids, trolls and other social supernatural beings By SimonYoung and DavideErmacora (Eds.), Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 2024. pp. xii + 274, index (hbk and e	1
Obituary for Donald Stanley Gardner (1949–2025)	1

The role of social mechanisms in local ecological knowledge ( LEK ) for biodiversity conservation in the Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia	1
The equivocal healthcare market in Bangladesh during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Policy, politics and life	1
Obituary for Bruce Rigsby	1
Editorial	1
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean By Ryan TuckerJones and Matt K.Matsuda (Volume 1); Anne PeretzHattori and JaneSamson (Volume 2) (Eds.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2023. Volu	1
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Deborah BirdRose. Dreaming ecology: Nomadics and indigenous ecological knowledge, Victoria River, Northern Australia. DarrellLewisMargaretJolly (Eds.), Canberra: ANU Press. 2024. pp. xvi+337, notes, f	1
Agreement‐making in the post‐claims era: Continuity and change over 22 years in western Arnhem Land	1
Renegotiating domesticity in the making of homestays in Atauro, Timor‐Leste	1
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The privilege of being banal: Art, secularism, and Catholicism in Paris By ElayneOliphant, Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2021	1
Crooked cats: beastly encounters in the AnthropoceneNayanikaMathur. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2021	1
African diasporas in Australia: Christianity and the complicated matter of trust	1
Emergency in transit: Witnessing migration in the colonial present	1
Love Across Class By RoseButler and EveVincent. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 2024. pp. xxx [2], 2–226. ISBN 9780522880113.	1
The made‐up state: Technology, trans femininity, and citizenship in Indonesia By BenjaminHegarty, Ithaca and London: Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University Press. 2022. pp. xvii + 179	1
Anthropology and change over the ‘land rights era’: Towards treaties?	1
An indigenous safehouse project for survivors of witchcraft accusation in the highlands of Papua New Guinea	1
What graffiti arts and tags tell us about urban identity in Nouméa (New Caledonia)	1
Traffic‐habits and local descent groups: Broadening the scope of ethnographic research into land rights after land claims	1
The room where it happened: How evangelical leaders used a Closed‐Door meeting to change sentiment for Donald J. Trump	1
Winimaku ara papa wiimatjaraku and other stories	1
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The sovereign citizen superconspiracy: Contemporary issues in native title anthropology	1
Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour: Interlocutor Reference and Self–Other Relations across Southeast Asian Languages By Dwi NoverriniDjenar and JackSidnell (Eds), Singapore: NUS Press. 2023. pp. i	1
Reading Australia in a grain of rice	1
Riding through epics: The cultural anthropology of horseback archery in the Mahabharata	1
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Duty of care toward the Kinabatangan River: Environmental monitoring, social learning and Care of Place in Sabah, Malaysia	0
Yuupurnju: A warlpiri song cycle By Henry Cooke AndersonJakamarra, Jerry PatrickJangala, Steven DixonJapanangka, Wanta Steven Patrick Pawu‐KurlpurlurnuJampijinpa, CarmelO'Shannessy, and MyfanyTurpin,	0
Sentient ecologies: xenophobic imaginaries of landscapesBy Cotofana, Alexandra and HikmetKuran (Eds.), Berghahn: New York. 2023, 276 pages	0
Public deaths and negotiation opportunities: Cats, dogs and people in COVID China	0
Masculinity, consumerism and the post‐national Indian city: Streets, neighbourhoods, home By SanjaySrivastava, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. 186. £75.00 (hc). ISBN: 9781009179867	0
Suspicion: The politics of knowledge production when fieldwork and writing are uneasy	0
Jungle passports: Fences, mobility and citizenship at the Northeast India‐Bangladesh borderlands by Malini Sur.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Special series ethnographies of political	0
Does the state usher in a special stage in history? Probing the Dawn of Everything: A new history of humanity	0
Fire's habit: Elemental media and the politics of apprehension	0
Re‐imagining suburbia, feeling the future: Reflections on collaborative ethnographic filmmaking	0
‘The last thing we want is somebody who liked a soft pink lipstick to have a bright red’: Dead body aesthetics in South Australian funeral homes	0
The unexpected gifts of life history as an ethnographic method	0
Tantric religion and social change	0
Imacoqwa's arrow: On the biunity of the sun and moon in a Papuan lifeworld	0
Country, cattle and cooperation: On the potential of Kila in Warmun, Western Australia	0
In the shadow of the palms: More‐than‐human becomings in West Papua By SophieChao, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2022	0
Derriere le Miroir (but in parallel)John RichensTik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other Melbourne:Melbourne University Press. 2022. pp xi 2–260.ISBN 9780522878141	0
Picking our way through modernity	0
Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik.By RossBowdenCanon Pyon: Sean Kingston, 2022. Pp. x + 232, figures, bibliography, index, appendices. ISBN	0
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Cosmopolitan gastro‐aesthetics and the new tastes of Timor	0

Screen as stage	0
Filming jilba: Sensing beyond the exclusionary fictions of climate science	0
Circulations: Modernist imaginaries of colonialism and decolonization in Papua New Guinea By CourtneyHandman. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2025. pp. 232, USD34.95. ISBN 978‐0‐52‐041600‐0	0
Making our own destiny: Single women, opportunity, and family in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo by LynneY, Nakano Honolulu: University of Hawai'i press. 2022. pp. xiii+238, ISBN: 9780824889	0
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Scents of care: Multispecies relations in Pakistan's heatwave	0
Beyond the law: Living blasphemy in Pakistan By MuhammadBilal. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2024. pp. xv + 205, notes, bibliography, index, appendix, €139,99, ISBN 9783031710285 (hardcover)	0
Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel By EdwardNarain and TarrynPhillips. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press. 2024. pp. viii +356, reading guide, references, acknowledgements, glossary. ISBN	0
Nor shadow of turning: Anthropological reflections on theological critiques of doctrinal change	0
Homand Honiara: Interpreting, importing, and adapting “home” in Solomon Islands	0
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Multispecies violence, ontological murk, epistemic resistance: Insights from the West Papuan plantation frontier–A response	0
Luŋ'thun: Sand, saltwater, and collaborative attunements	0
Obituary: Elfriede Hermann (1960–2025)	0
The Banality of Good: The UN's Global Fights Against Human Trafficking By LiebaFaier. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 2024. pp. xv, 303, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978‐1‐4780‐3056‐0	0
Reframing indigenous biography	0
Buddhism and sociocultural changes in Thailand: From Buddhist chant to rap	0
Attenuated, transformed and re‐inscribed sacra: Towards an ethnography of traditional land tenure in the Northern Territory now	0
The presence of elephants: Sharing lives and landscapes in Assam By Paul G.Keil, London: Routledge. 2024. pp. viii + 173. ISBN : 978‐1‐003‐40298‐5	0
Eating as cultural practice: An indigenous Australian case study	0
A bird, a flock, a song, and a forest: The decline of Regent Honeyeater life	0
Epistemic attunements: Experiments in intermedial anthropology	0
Editorial	0
The consumption of ritual and the changing values of filial piety in ancestor worship	0
The Fences: A webcomic on collective debt and ruination in Paraguay	0
We just ‘SHAREit’: Smartphones, data and music sharing in urban Papua New Guinea	0
Beading wáwya: Counting coup on cancer	0
The antisemitism to come? Gaza and the colonial management of necropolitical pollution	0
Editorial	0
Fractured selves, contested lands: Marlpa identity and the politics of native title	0
Kitkińike of recognition: In the direction of bibliographies as cultural landscapes	0
Unequal lives: Gender, race and class in the Western Pacific. By NicholasBainton, DebraMcDougall, KalissaAlexeyeff and JohnCox, eds. Canberra: ANU Press, 2021, notes, figures, bibliog. A$80	0
Roger Sandall's films and contemporary anthropology: Explorations in the aesthetic, the existential, and the possible. By LorraineMortimer, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2019, 347 pp. ISB	0
On Behalf of the Living. Directed by Ton Otto, Christian Suhr and Gary Kildea. Denmark: Moesgaard film, 2023, 105 min, filmed in Papua New Guinea and the Netherlands Documentary Educational Resources,	0
Trial‐and‐error: Securing field access for qualitative research in Vietnam	0
Can we trust technology? By SarahPink and EmmaQuilty. New York: Routledge, 2025. pp. 103, figures, bibliography, index. USD43.99. ISBN 9781032710433	0
The Good Enough Life	0
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Animal activism on and off screen By ClaireParkinson and LaraHerring (eds.), Gadigal Country, NSW: Sydney University Press, 2024. pp. vii + 362, appendix, contributors, index. ISBN: 9781743329757	0
Attunement: Form in motion	0
Cult, cosmos, and craft at a Thai art academy	0
Kinship and reproduction: A perspective of the Akha in Laos	0
Translating the field	0
Universities and settler colonialism in two countries: Australia and IsraelDhoombak Gooboowana: A history of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne, Volume 1: Truth By Ross L.Jones, Jame	0
After rupture: Visions of history, African spirituality and theological repair in Nigerian Pentecostalism	0
An Indigenous South: German writers on colonial South Australia By PeterMonteath and Matthew P.Fitzpatrick (Eds.). Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2024. 302 pp. ISBN: 978‐1‐923042‐35‐3	0
Improvisations towards a sonorous ethics in Aotearoa New Zealand	0
Affective propositions, the plant turn, and critiques of development	0
Introduction: From rupture to repair	0
Come back anytime. Director: JohnDashbach, JD Media Ltd, 2021. 120 minutes. Japanese with English subtitles. Good docs.	0
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Yawulyu: Art and song in Warlpiri Women's ceremony By MeganMorais, Lucy NampijinpaMartin, Peggy NampijinpaMartin, Marilyn NampijinpaMartin, Leah NampijinpaMartin, Helen NapurrurlaMorton, Janet Nakamar	0
Transformed ecologies and transformational saints: Exploring new pilgrimage routes in North East England	0
The archipelago of meaning: Methodological contributions to the study of Vanuatu sand drawing	0
Obituary for Robert (Bob) Tonkinson (1938‐2024)	0
The changing Buddhist landscape: Anxiety and the development of Pure Land Buddhism in medieval China	0
Samting Bilong Yumi Yet: Creative continuities and national beginnings	0
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Afterword: Reaching more than halfway	0
The temporality of dwelling in Christian Papua New Guinea	0
Pacific artistic communities in Australia: Gaining visibility in the art world	0
‘Playing the tourist card’: Clandestine solidarity in occupied Timor‐Leste	0
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The transnational village in Timor‐Leste	0
Witch Power: Hexing the Patriarchy with Feminist Magic By EmmaQuilty. Cambridge: Polity, 2025. Pp. 165, references, index, AUD41 .95.	0
Women, masculinities and cultural change in conflict: Ethnographic insights from Pakistan's tribal areas	0
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Christian temporalities: Living between the already fulfilled and the not yet completedBy Anna‐KarinaHermkens, SimonColeman, MattTomlinson (Eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2024. pp. xiii + 237, hardc	0
Will you teach me? From seriousness to sincerity with apprentice phenomenography	0
Fragrant FrontierBy SarahTurner; AnnuskaDerks; Jean‐FrançoisRousseau (Eds.), Copenhagen: Nias Press. 2022. xv, 230pp., photos, index, figures, maps, tables. A$ 43. ISBN: 9788776943141	0
Afterword: A reconciled Australia: A vision for change based on continuity	0
Messing with Methods: Doing Anthropology in Uncertain Times	0
Frictions around rendering technical: Land disputes over climate change mitigation projects in Suau, Papua New Guinea	0
Multispecies marginality: Mangroves and migrant Papuans in the margins of urban colonisation	0
System change for a liveable future	0
The rites of normality: A co‐phenomenological auto‐ethnographic critique of a technocratic birth	0

EPILOGUE : Currents of convergence—Religious change in Asian contexts	0
The composition of worlds: Interviews with Pierre Charbonnier, Translated from the original French by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidoff. By PhilippeDescola. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. 2024. pp	0
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REACH: Research as regeneration	0
On language, (inter)disciplinarity, and collaboration with local scholars in Papua New Guinea environmental anthropology	0
Writing to the gods: Digraphia, script choice and spiritual efficacy in contemporary Vietnam	0
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Shared Country, Different Stories: An Anthropologist's Journey	0
Digicel! Topap long ples ia! An international telecommunications company making itself at home in the urban landscapes of Vanuatu, Samoa and Tonga	0
Introduction: Convergences and religious change in Asian religions	0
Pragmatic cosmopolitanism in a parochial space: How international‐student returnees (re)negotiate home in Teochew, China	0
Building on borrowed time: rising seas and failing infrastructure in semarang By LukasLey (Ed.), Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2021. 240 pp. (pbk). US$27.00 (Sc). ISB	0
Silent But Deadly: The Underlying Cultural Patterns of Everyday Behaviour By KirstenBell. London: Caw Press. 2022. pp. x + 208 notes, £11.99. figures, bibliography. ISBN	0
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On resistingplus ça changein the anthropology of religion	0
Small town markets and crowded buses: Later‐generation Australian–Hungarian ‘diaspora backpackers’ narrate their journey to Hungary	0
Military policing and labour extraction in the north‐west Kimberley	0
Perceptions of Turkish film and television among Turkish‐Australians in Broadmeadows	0
Six paintings from Papunya: A conversationBy Fred R.Myers and TerrySmith, with a reflection by Stephen Gilchrist. Durham: Duke University Press, 2024. Pp. 136	0
FORM: Anthropology as design	0
Review of Evadne Kelly, Dancing spirit, love, and war: Performing the translocal realities of contemporary Fiji, studies in dance history. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2019	0
Powerful things: The history and theory of sacred objects By Karl‐HeinzKohl, (2020). CanonPyon, Sean Kingston Publishing, xi+224 pp., foreword, index (hardback), A$110, ISBN: 978–1–912,385‐	0
Uneven connections: A partial history of the mobile phone in Papua New Guinea By Robert J.Foster. Canberra: ANU press. 2024. pp. xvi + 221, notes, figures, bibliography, index. AU	0
Polynesianising and regenerating urban spaces: An analysis of the artworks and interventions of the Centre des Métiers d'Art de Polynésie française and of its artists	0
Changing with the whims of dogs: An inter‐species exploration of self‐alteration with companion animals	0
Art and urban space in Athens: The spatial composition of a street art paradise	0
The last language on earth: Linguistic utopianism in the PhilippinesBy PiersKelly. New York: Oxford University Press. 2022. pp. xxxi + 291. (pbk). ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐750992‐0, USD $39.95	0
Arts practice as subject and method: Contemporary anthropological perspectives	0
Economic diversity in contemporary Timor‐Leste By KellySilva, LisaPalmer, TeresaCunha (Eds.), Leiden: Leiden University Press. 2023. pp. 326. ISBN: 9789087283957	0
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Personal beginnings and institutional endings in spiritualism	0
From modernity to memes: Reexamining visual culture as a Christian vehicle	0
Structures of care and credibility: Emotional abuse, institutional blind spots, and the gendered recognition of care	0
Consuming place: Women, wine and imagination	0
Reflections	0
Family, Faith, Footy: A Pasifika Rugby Story Directed by Jeremiah Tauamiti. Great Southern Television. 2023. 90 min.Kaugere: A Place Where Nobody Enters Directed by Stephen Dupont. Bordertown Studio.	0
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From culture to crowns: The necessary integration of anthropology in Australian oral health practice	0
Encountering (im)probable wit: Religious puns in an Indonesian post‐conflict setting	0
Hearing Heat: An Anthropocene acoustemology	0
Editorial	0
Cross‐sector collaboration for refugee employment: An anthropology of development perspective	0
The governmentality of funding: Cultures of audit and compliance in Australian refugee and asylum seeker support organisations	0
Introduction to ‘Anthropology and change over the land rights era’	0
Enacted relations: Performing knowledge in an Australian indigenous community By FrancaTamisari, Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books. 2024. pp. viii + 274. $34.95 (ebook), $135 (hardback). ISBN (hardb	0
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The ocean on fire—Pacific stories from nuclear survivors and climate activists By AnaïsMaurer, Durham: Duke University Press. 2024. pp. xvi + 240, notes, illustrations, bibliography, index. US$26.95 (	0
Global Hong Kong: Post‐2019 migration and the new Hong Kong diaspora	0
Dark tourism in Timor‐Leste: An examination of foreign tourists' visits to the Santa Cruz cemetery and the Comarca Balide prison via analysis of Tripadvisor reviews	0
A minority language's struggle against the violence of double assimilation: A review of the politics of language oppression in Tibet	0
Narrative reconstruction of the self: Living funerals as rituals of trauma and transformation	0
Haunting biology: Science and indigeneity in Australia By EmmaKowal (Ed.), Durham, NC: Duke UP. 2023. pp. 264. US$27.95, ISBN: 9781478027539	0
Unbroken chains: The hidden role of human trafficking in the American economy By Melissa HopeDitmore, Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2023. pp. xiv, 1–211. ISBN	0
Sanan rai wisdom in Atauro's tourism transformation	0