OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Asia Pacific 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Snow Leopards, Checkpoints, and Roads: Negotiating Selective Legibility in Hemis National Park, India	8
The ‘Good’ Neoliberalism: E-Commerce Entrepreneurship and the Search for a Good Life in China	6
Circulations: Place, Movement, Belonging	6
Heritage Tourism: From Problems to Possibilities	6
Nancy Munn in Central Australia: Gendering the Field and How What Matters and Who Matters Changed	6
Disposable People as Infrastructure? The Livelihood Trials and Tactics of Three-Wheeler Delivery Drivers on Hanoi’s Streets, Vietnam	5
Professional Women, Nation-Making, and the Negotiation of Difference at Boarding Schools in Bougainville and Solomon Islands	5
Labour of Devotion: Material Construction and Charisma of Saintly Monks in the Myanmar–Thai Border Region	5
Reproducing Life in Conditions of Abandonment in Oceania	5
‘Slowly, Steadily, Carefully’: Imagining a Better Tomorrow through Shinji Yamashita’s Public Anthropology	5
Encountering Universals in Cambodia and Indonesia—Translations Across Historical Multiplicity	4
Lukautim Yu Yet Gut (Take Good Care of Yourself): Moka Gomo Women Pursuing Health in Papua New Guinea	3
Rethinking Human Rights and Peace in Post-Independence Timor-Leste Through Local Perspectives	3
A High Price to Pay: Weddings and Waithood in Cambodia	3
On Face and Face-Work in Iran: From Etic Theories to Emic Practices	3
‘I am the Bridge’: Brokering Health, Development and Peace in Myanmar’s Kayin State	3
Making Kin and Population: Counting Life in the Wake of Abandonment in Timor-Leste	2
From Nuclear Colonialism to COVID-19 Scepticism: Navigating Political Suffering in French Polynesia	2
Mediating Response-ability in Planning: The Elusiveness of the Cambodia Waste Management Report	2
Personifying Progress: Negotiating Autonomy, Obligation and Intergenerational Aspirations in the Philippines	2
Tenuous Connectivity: Time, Citizenship, and Infrastructure in a Papua New Guinea Telecommunications Network	2
The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World	2
Work Security and Other Challenges for Street Vendors in Guwahati City, Assam	2
Infertility, Pooled Reproduction and Distributed Agency Among the Big Nambas of Malakula, Vanuatu	2
The Mockery of Animals Among the Rotenese of Eastern Indonesia	2

Unveiling Swearing: Some Football Supporter Rituals in Indonesia	1
Creative Peacebuilding and Resistance in Indonesia	1
Transitions and Intersections between Communalism and Possessive Individualism in Rural Fiji: Repercussions for Responding to Climate Change	1
A Road, a Border, and Development in New Guinea	1
Laughing the Pain Away: UnderstandingSambatPractice among Javanese Youth	1
Child-Soldiering: A Nuanced View Through the Eyes of a Gorkha Youth in Kachin State, Myanmar	1
TikTok and the New Public Ethnographer	1
Artivism in Maluku	1
Hiding in Sight: The Eco-social Rhythms of Women’s Worlds in Small Town Nepal	1
Oil Palm’s Grey Horizons	1
River Life and the Upswing of Nature	1
(In)tangible Journeying and Its Transformation among the Rang from Byans, Far Western Nepal	1
Managing Toxins and Making Water ‘Safe’: Consumer Buffering Practices in Contexts of Chemo-Uncertainty	1
Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labour Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims	1
Post-Colonial Welcome?	1
Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition	1
The Gendered Slow Violence of Global Environmental Governance in Suau, Papua New Guinea	1
Paths Not Taken: On Negative Wayfaring in Ladakh	0
Is Custom a Tool for Remedying or Reinforcing Social Inequalities? New Strategies for Dialogue and Peace in Maluku, Indonesia	0
‘The Doll Wants to Breathe’: Russian-Speaking Migrant Women’s Practice of Wearing Japanese Kimonos	0
The Story of Abu-abu and the Theory of Dispossession from Below	0
Reproduction, Sexual Culture and Colonialism among Kamoro People in West Papua	0
Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted	0
Embodied Connections: Gender, Race, and Reproduction in Oceania	0
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border	0
A Mining Theme Park—Cultural Competition and the Politics of Identity Claims in an Indonesian Mining Town	0
Diaspora Space-Time: Transformations of a Chinese Emigrant Community	0
Ophir	0
Visual Psychological Anthropology: Capturing Complexity of Autism	0
Epilogue: Journeying With One of Japan’s Leading Anthropologists	0
Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care and Precarious Migrations	0
War and the Arc of the Human Experience	0
Punk Worlding: An Alternative Framework for Anarcho-Punk Culture in Indonesia	0
Bhutan: The Unremembered Nation Bhutan: The Unremembered Nation K arma U ra Oxford, Oxford Universi	0
Reimagining Nativeness from a Migrant Anthropologist’s Positionality	0
Middle-aged Women and Intergenerational Aspirations in Dehradun, India: Mobility as Social Achievement During Post-active Motherhood	0
Edgy Ethnographic Film about Death and Religion: On Behalf of the Living	0
Marriage Migration, Intercultural Families and Global Intimacies	0
The Snow Leopard: Whose Fault?	0
Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography	0
Difference and Care in Lisa Palmer’s Collaborative Engagements with Timor Leste	0
Love Across Class	0
Seizing the Opportunity in Pu’er Tea Business: Ethnicised Tea Femininity and Tai Lue Female Entrepreneurs in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China	0
Weed-Eating Pigs: Cultural Keystone Species, Interiority and Traditional Village Protection in Central China	0
Counterterrorism, Civil Society Organisations and Peacebuilding: The Role of Non-State Actors in Deradicalisation in Bima, Indonesia	0
‘Impoldering Indonesia’: Of Universal Water Technology and Unfinishedness in Semarang	0
Imploding Fictions: Following the Object Through the Ethnographic Novel	0
Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar	0
Valuing Hard Work: ‘Station Times’, the Pioneer Complex and Settler-Descended Graziers’ Views on Work in Cape York Peninsula	0
A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-class Waste of Global Cities	0

Translating Sustainability at an Indonesian Fishing Port	0
Ol Sing Blong Plantesen: South Sea Island Spirituals from the Queensland Canefields and Beyond	0
‘It’s All About Education’: Middle-class, High-caste Women’s Aspirations of Choice, Freedom and Modernity in Urban Nepal	0
Beauty for Development? Betel Aesthetics and Socioeconomic Stability in Urban Solomon Islands	0
Learning to Dream at the End of Time	0
Face-Veiled Women in Contemporary Indonesia Face-Veiled Women in Contemporary Indonesia Eva F. NisaLondon and New York, Routledge, 2023	0
EPILOGUE: Translating Universals and the Making of the Local	0
Recognising Shinji Yamashita, Dynamic Ethnographer Par Excellence: A Prologue	0
A Thousand Fires	0
Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World	0
Roots and Routes: Funeral Practices and Land-based Identities in the Yunnan-Tibetan Borderlands	0
What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make	0
From ‘Renunciation of Parents’ to Filial Piety: An Ethnographic Study of Chinese Catholic Clergy	0
Shopping in the Rainforest: Provisions of Uneven Living at the Sari-Sari Store	0
Projectland – Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village	0
Witnessing Threatened Indigenous Papuan Lifeworlds through a Multispecies Ethnographic Lens	0
Death of the One Who Knows	0
Eudaimonic Wellbeing in Southeastern Myanmar’s Contested Moral Landscape	0
Reluctant Compliance and Collaborative Fiscal Disobedience: How Hmong Consumers Evade Value-Added Tax in Vietnam’s Northern Uplands	0
David Charles Hyndman (1947–2021)	0
The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects	0
(Re)building Interethnic Relations Through Sharecropping in Post-Conflict Maluku	0
Infrastructure Meets Infrapolitics: Emic Negotiation of State and Market Inputs in Upland Northern Vietnam	0
Wearing your Moral Character on the Sleeve of your School Uniform: Ethical Becoming and Nation-building in Indonesia	0
Hospital Births and Frontier Obstetrics in Urban West Papua	0
Being Muslim in Indonesia: Religiosity, Politics and Cultural Diversity in Bima	0
Between Smart Images and Fast Trucks: Digital Surveillance and Obscured Labour in Hyderabad, India	0
Multiple Developments: Intergenerational Aspiration and Contested Childhoods in a Delhi NGO	0
Performing Peace: The Evolving Roles of Security Groups in Indonesia	0
Raciolinguistic Disposability: The Experience of Filipino Teachers in China Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Sojourn in Paradise: The Experiences of Foreign Students in North Korea	0
The Flickering Flame of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Support: Burned Down, but Not Out	0
Beyond Sedentary Bias: An Ethnographic Reflection of Deforestation in Seram, Eastern Indonesia	0
Afterword. Relations, Refusal, Reticulation	0
Passing on the Wedding Cloth: Consolidating Alliance Relations through Funeral Ceremonies among the Simalungun of North Sumatra	0
A Long Way Home	0
Gendering Transnational Business Spaces: Cross-Border Burmese Women Jadeite Traders in Yunnan, China	0
Cutting Cosmos: Masculinity and Spectacular Events Among the Bugkalot	0
Intergenerational Aspirations Across the Life Course in Asia	0
Trending Graphics	0
A Cosmology of Interconnection	0
Making Money, Missing Home: Reflections on Timorese Informal Labour Migration to Britain	0
Desire, Obligation and Familial Love: Mothers, Daughters, and Communication Technology in the Tongan Diaspora	0
Entanglement of Values: Examining the Phenomenon of Pesantren Producing Films in the Post- Reformasi Era	0
KOENTJARANINGRAT MEMORIAL LECTURE: Koentjaraningrat's Legacy and Contemporary Anthropology in Indonesia	0
Burning Wet Waste: Environmental Particularity, Material Specificity, and the Universality of Infrastructure	0
Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia: Democracy and the Quest for an Inclusive Public Ethics	0
Paradigm Conflict: Village Health Volunteers and Public Health in Thailand	0
Attuning to Anthropologies Otherwise: The Curatorium Collective's Epistemic Experiments in Ethnography	0
Ceasefire City: Militarism, Capitalism, and Urbanism in Dimapur	0
Transitory Subject: The Working Life of Indonesian Startup Founders and Professionals	0
Products of Protest? The Creative Protest Potential of Zines on Bali	0
Introduction—Building Infrastructural Lives: Mobile and Creative Livelihoods in India and Vietnam	0
Visual Abstracts and Reproductive Abandonment	0
Paths of Care: Following the Ismaili Right Path through Caring for Roads and Walkers in the Karakoram Mountains, Pakistan	0
Sounds of Aotearoa New Zealand	0
Collage and Reintegration: The Works of Leang Seckon as Mortuary Objects	0
Development in Spirit: Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands	0
Marshall D. Sahlins 27 December 1930–5 April 2021 A MEMOIRE	0
Permeating Plantations. Rethinking Violence and Ecologies in West Papua	0
Speculative Ethnography in the Multiverse: Caroline E. Schuster’s Forecasts and Chronotopes of Disaster in the Critical Graphic Narrative	0
Dreams and Dispossession in West Papua: A Response	0
Eating at the Margins: Negotiating Food Safety and Food Security in Ho Chi Minh City’s Charities	0
Translating Genocide, the Politics of Memory, and (In)Commensurabilities in Post-conflict Cambodia	0
Social Capital and Sport Organisations	0
Clifford Sather (27 August 1938 – 25 September 2024) A Memoire	0
Navigating Home in Migration: Yi Migrant Workers and Their Homemaking Experiences in Shenzhen Factories	0
Sanitising Social Media and the Production of Non-political Creative Content	0
Generational Difference, the Category Pemuda and the Several Paradoxes of Becoming Indonesian for Nuaulu in the Moluccan Islands	0
Hidden Letters Hidden Letters Violet Du Feng & Zhao Qing (directors)Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas, Jean Tsien, & Su Kim (producers)Fish+Bear PicturesDuration: 86 minut	0
Anthropology's Lost Language Syndrome	0
On the Way to Heaven: Memorial Benches, State Integration, and the Coming of Religion Among the Kulung Rai (Nepal)	0
Drawing the Sea Near: Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa	0
Colonial Ghosts, the French Cemetery and Urban Renewal in Hanoi	0
Mining and Masculinity in Indonesia	0