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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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Wik Cha'prah – Cha tru chath: Wik blood speaks to you	5
Justice for Walker: Warlpiri responses to the police shooting of Kumunjayi Walker	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
Cool burning the collection: Museum research as a regenerative act	4
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	4
The hunger artist and academic migration: On political depression and relational poverty	3
Unsettled and unsettling tourism landscapes of Timor‐Leste	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
Netflix streaming Video algorithms, taste and corporate responsibility	3
Strange Aeons: Transhumanism, H.P. Lovecraft, and the affective index of posthuman dread	2
S/kinship: The relational ontology of tattoos in contemporary Australian discourse and practice	2
Editorial	2
Love Across Class By RoseButler and EveVincent. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 2024. pp. xxx [2], 2–226. ISBN 9780522880113.	2
The place of dreams in In the Shadow of the Palms	2
The making of style: On the entanglement of algorithms and aesthetics	2
Obituary for Bruce Rigsby	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
Hauntology: A tale of two cities	2
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	2
When does the story end? Presence, the present and ‘the contemporary world’	1
Carceral spectres: Hyperincarceration and the haunting of Aboriginal life	1
What graffiti arts and tags tell us about urban identity in Nouméa (New Caledonia)	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

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
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The tradition of indigenous people and the status of internal migrants – The story of exclusion in West Seram (Maluku, Indonesia)	1
An introduction to ‘Making the city “home”: Practices of belonging in Pacific cities’	1
Wild artefacts at two Australian museums	1
Agreement‐making in the post‐claims era: Continuity and change over 22 years in western Arnhem Land	1
Winimaku ara papa wiimatjaraku and other stories	1
Performing difference, longing for ‘home’: Claiming ethnic identities to build national unity among urban Solomon Islands youth	1
The privilege of being banal: Art, secularism, and Catholicism in Paris By ElayneOliphant, Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2021	1
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An indigenous safehouse project for survivors of witchcraft accusation in the highlands of Papua New Guinea	1
Riding through epics: The cultural anthropology of horseback archery in the Mahabharata	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
Emergency in transit: Witnessing migration in the colonial present	1
The sovereign citizen superconspiracy: Contemporary issues in native title anthropology	1
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
The room where it happened: How evangelical leaders used a Closed‐Door meeting to change sentiment for Donald J. Trump	1
Reading Australia in a grain of rice	1
Erasing trauma – Erasing indigeneity: How the settler colonial state erased Warlpiri trauma in the wake of the police shooting Kumunjayi Walker	1
Anthropology and change over the ‘land rights era’: Towards treaties?	1
Land claim legacies, native title, and the rigours of Indigenous politics	1
Crooked cats: beastly encounters in the AnthropoceneNayanikaMathur. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2021	1
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
The equivocal healthcare market in Bangladesh during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Policy, politics and life	1
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African diasporas in Australia: Christianity and the complicated matter of trust	1
The role of social mechanisms in local ecological knowledge ( LEK ) for biodiversity conservation in the Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia	1
Traffic‐habits and local descent groups: Broadening the scope of ethnographic research into land rights after land claims	1
An introduction in 3 parts: Anthropological perspectives on the shooting of Kumanjayi Walker	0
Multispecies violence, ontological murk, epistemic resistance: Insights from the West Papuan plantation frontier–A response	0
Art and urban space in Athens: The spatial composition of a street art paradise	0
Will you teach me? From seriousness to sincerity with apprentice phenomenography	0
The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic StateDavidVineBerkeley: University of California Press, 2020. xxii + 426 pp., tables, illustra.,	0
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Cosmopolitan gastro‐aesthetics and the new tastes of Timor	0
Re‐territorializing the city: Youth and the productive role of reggae music in Vanuatu	0
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Country, cattle and cooperation: On the potential of Kila in Warmun, Western Australia	0
Family, Faith, Footy: A Pasifika Rugby StoryDirected by Jeremiah Tauamiti. Great Southern Television. 2023. 90 min.Kaugere: A Place Where Nobody EntersDirected by Stephen Dupont. Bordertown Studio. 20	0
Attenuated, transformed and re‐inscribed sacra: Towards an ethnography of traditional land tenure in the Northern Territory now	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
Samting Bilong Yumi Yet: Creative continuities and national beginnings	0
Introduction: Convergences and religious change in Asian religions	0
Yuupurnju: A warlpiri song cycle By Henry Cooke AndersonJakamarra, Jerry PatrickJangala, Steven DixonJapanangka, Wanta Steven Patrick Pawu‐KurlpurlurnuJampijinpa, CarmelO'Shannessy, and MyfanyTurpin,	0
Messing with Methods: Doing Anthropology in Uncertain Times	0
Picking our way through modernity	0
Duty of care toward the Kinabatangan River: Environmental monitoring, social learning and Care of Place in Sabah, Malaysia	0

The antisemitism to come? Gaza and the colonial management of necropolitical pollution	0
The transnational village in Timor‐Leste	0
Epistemic attunements: Experiments in intermedial anthropology	0
Editorial	0
Fire's habit: Elemental media and the politics of apprehension	0
Haunting biology: Science and indigeneity in Australia By EmmaKowal (Ed.), Durham, NC: Duke UP. 2023. pp. 264. US$27.95, ISBN: 9781478027539	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
The changing Buddhist landscape: Anxiety and the development of Pure Land Buddhism in medieval China	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
Luŋ'thun: Sand, saltwater, and collaborative attunements	0
Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific. NicholasBaintonDebraMcDougallKalissaAlexeyeffJohnCox, eds. Canberra: ANU Press, 2021, notes, figures, bibliog. A$80.00 (pb.), <	0
Dark tourism in Timor‐Leste: An examination of foreign tourists' visits to the Santa Cruz cemetery and the Comarca Balide prison via analysis of Tripadvisor reviews	0
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Masculinity, consumerism and the post‐national Indian city: Streets, neighbourhoods, home By SanjaySrivastava, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. 186. £75.00 (hc). ISBN: 9781009179867	0
‘The last thing we want is somebody who liked a soft pink lipstick to have a bright red’: Dead body aesthetics in South Australian funeral homes	0
The presence of elephants: Sharing lives and landscapes in Assam By Paul G.Keil, London: Routledge. 2024. pp. viii + 173. ISBN : 978‐1‐003‐40298‐5	0
Does the state usher in a special stage in history? Probing the Dawn of Everything: A new history of humanity	0
On resistingplus ça changein the anthropology of religion	0
Cross‐sector collaboration for refugee employment: An anthropology of development perspective	0
Consuming place: Women, wine and imagination	0
Afterword: Context erasure	0
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Six paintings from Papunya: A conversation By Fred R.Myers and TerrySmith, with a reflection by Stephen Gilchrist. Durham: Duke University Press, 2024. Pp. 136	0
Fragrant FrontierBy SarahTurner; AnnuskaDerks; Jean‐FrançoisRousseau (Eds.), Copenhagen: Nias Press. 2022. xv, 230pp., photos, index, figures, maps, tables. A$ 43. ISBN: 9788776943141	0
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
Cult, cosmos, and craft at a Thai art academy	0
Multispecies marginality: Mangroves and migrant Papuans in the margins of urban colonisation	0
System change for a liveable future	0
Kitkińike of recognition: In the direction of bibliographies as cultural landscapes	0
Come back anytime. Director: JohnDashbach, JD Media Ltd, 2021. 120 minutes. Japanese with English subtitles. Good docs.	0
Renegotiating domesticity in the making of homestays in Atauro, Timor‐Leste	0
Transformed ecologies and transformational saints: Exploring new pilgrimage routes in North East England	0
Translating the field	0
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The archipelago of meaning: Methodological contributions to the study of Vanuatu sand drawing	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
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Suspicion: The politics of knowledge production when fieldwork and writing are uneasy	0
The Good Enough Life	0
Afterword: Reaching more than halfway	0
Nor shadow of turning: Anthropological reflections on theological critiques of doctrinal change	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
Affective propositions, the plant turn, and critiques of development	0
Frictions around rendering technical: Land disputes over climate change mitigation projects in Suau, Papua New Guinea	0
Reflections	0
Tantric religion and social change	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
Re‐imagining suburbia, feeling the future: Reflections on collaborative ethnographic filmmaking	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
Global Hong Kong: Post‐2019 migration and the new Hong Kong diaspora	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
The rites of normality: A co‐phenomenological auto‐ethnographic critique of a technocratic birth	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
EPILOGUE : Currents of convergence—Religious change in Asian contexts	0
Obituary for Robert (Bob) Tonkinson (1938‐2024)	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
The consumption of ritual and the changing values of filial piety in ancestor worship	0
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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
The temporality of dwelling in Christian Papua New Guinea	0
Arts practice as subject and method: Contemporary anthropological perspectives	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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‘Cop chasing’ in Alice Springs: Youth experiences of surveillance in a Central Australian Town	0
Digicel! Topap long ples ia! An international telecommunications company making itself at home in the urban landscapes of Vanuatu, Samoa and Tonga	0
Pacific artistic communities in Australia: Gaining visibility in the art world	0
REACH: Research as regeneration	0
Buddhism and sociocultural changes in Thailand: From Buddhist chant to rap	0
Can we trust technology? By SarahPink and EmmaQuilty. New York: Routledge, 2025. pp. 103, figures, bibliography, index. USD43.99. ISBN 9781032710433	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
Encountering (im)probable wit: Religious puns in an Indonesian post‐conflict setting	0
Public deaths and negotiation opportunities: Cats, dogs and people in COVID China	0
Pragmatic cosmopolitanism in a parochial space: How international‐student returnees (re)negotiate home in Teochew, China	0
Fractured selves, contested lands: Marlpa identity and the politics of native title	0
Attunement: Form in motion	0
The unexpected gifts of life history as an ethnographic method	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
Perceptions of Turkish film and television among Turkish‐Australians in Broadmeadows	0

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The governmentality of funding: Cultures of audit and compliance in Australian refugee and asylum seeker support organisations	0
Small town markets and crowded buses: Later‐generation Australian–Hungarian ‘diaspora backpackers’ narrate their journey to Hungary	0
Sanan rai wisdom in Atauro's tourism transformation	0
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Witch Power: Hexing the Patriarchy with Feminist Magic By EmmaQuilty. Cambridge: Polity, 2025. Pp. 165, references, index, AUD41 .95.	0
FORM: Anthropology as design	0
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	0
Introduction: From rupture to repair	0
Trial‐and‐error: Securing field access for qualitative research in Vietnam	0
Homand Honiara: Interpreting, importing, and adapting “home” in Solomon Islands	0
From modernity to memes: Reexamining visual culture as a Christian vehicle	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
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Reframing indigenous biography	0
Scents of care: Multispecies relations in Pakistan's heatwave	0
Economic diversity in contemporary Timor‐Leste By KellySilva, LisaPalmer, TeresaCunha (Eds.), Leiden: Leiden University Press. 2023. pp. 326. ISBN: 9789087283957	0
Kinship and reproduction: A perspective of the Akha in Laos	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
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
Introduction to ‘Anthropology and change over the land rights era’	0
Military policing and labour extraction in the north‐west Kimberley	0
Changing with the whims of dogs: An inter‐species exploration of self‐alteration with companion animals	0
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Writing to the gods: Digraphia, script choice and spiritual efficacy in contemporary Vietnam	0
‘Playing the tourist card’: Clandestine solidarity in occupied Timor‐Leste	0
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Obituary: Elfriede Hermann (1960–2025)	0
Hope in a time of world‐shattering events and unbearable situations: Policing and an emergent ‘ethics of dwelling’ in Lander Warlpiri country	0
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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
Filming jilba: Sensing beyond the exclusionary fictions of climate science	0
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Personal beginnings and institutional endings in spiritualism	0
Sentient ecologies: xenophobic imaginaries of landscapesBy Cotofana, Alexandra and HikmetKuran (Eds.), Berghahn: New York. 2023, 276 pages	0
Structures of care and credibility: Emotional abuse, institutional blind spots, and the gendered recognition of care	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
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
Eating as cultural practice: An indigenous Australian case study	0
On language, (inter)disciplinarity, and collaboration with local scholars in Papua New Guinea environmental anthropology	0
Screen as stage	0
Improvisations towards a sonorous ethics in Aotearoa New Zealand	0
Hearing Heat: An Anthropocene acoustemology	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
Christian temporalities: Living between the already fulfilled and the not yet completed. Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Book Series.By Anna‐KarinaHermkens, SimonColeman, MattTomlinson (Eds.). C	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
Narrative reconstruction of the self: Living funerals as rituals of trauma and transformation	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
In the shadow of the palms: More‐than‐human becomings in West Papua By SophieChao, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2022	0
A bird, a flock, a song, and a forest: The decline of Regent Honeyeater life	0
Afterword: A reconciled Australia: A vision for change based on continuity	0
After rupture: Visions of history, African spirituality and theological repair in Nigerian Pentecostalism	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
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
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
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