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Papers

(The median citation count of Anthropological Theory 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The great transformation: The Durkheimian sociology of religion from Émile Durkheim to Henri Hubert	13
Outline of a theory of breakage	11
The misperception of the environment: A critical evaluation of the work of Tim Ingold and an alternative guide to the use of the senses in anthropological theory	10
Political violence, pedagogy, and the politics of world-making: Reflections on Mahmood Mamdani's Neither Settler nor Native	8
Over the ruins of subjects: A critique of subjectivism in anthropological discourse	8
The irony of development: Critique, complicity, cynicism	8
Corporate sovereignty: Negotiating permissive power for profit in Southern Africa	7
Identity perplexity, stigma, and social critique: Critical phenomenology with an errant twist	7
The camp, the zone, and sovereign sediments: Querying paradigms through the politics of Made-in-Italy agribusiness operations	5
Renewing an ‘Armenian’ neighbourhood: Recursive dispossession and the history of extractive sovereignty in Turkey	5
Common difference: Conceptualising simultaneity and racial sincerity in Jewish-Muslim relations in the United Kingdom	4
Calibrating home, hospitality and reciprocity in migration	4
Corridors of countersovereignty: Insurgency, smuggling, and post-nation-state politics in Turkey's Kurdish highlands	4
On the surprising queerness of norms: Anthropology with Canguilhem, Foucault, and Butler	4
The recognition of presence: Sharing in world society; a short introduction to the section	4
Value moves in multiple ways: Ethical values, the anthropology of Christianity, and an example of women and movement	4
Ingold, hermeneutics, and hylomorphic animism	3
The ontological turn revisited: Theoretical decline. Why cannot ontologists fulfil their promise?	3
Towards a pragmatist anthropology: Objectivity, relativism, ethnocentrism, and intropathy	3
Theorizing ethnographically: No shares without acknowledgement	3
Decolonising the political: Presence, law and obligation	3
The Hoard as Processual Object: A Marxian Perspective on Money Power	3
Rethinking prevention as a reactive force to contain dangerous classes	3
The ‘onto-logics’ of perspectival multi-naturalism: A realist critique	3
Semiotic vista	2

Authenticity and decolonization: On the subversive authenticity of Indigenous resurgence	2
Anthropology and the politics of alterity: A Latin American dialectic and its relevance for ontological anthropologies	1
Leaking panic as policy: Bordering, scaling, and forming in Austrian distributive politics	1
The smell of bare death: Encountering life at the graveyard of Lampedusa	1
Eleven Namibian rains: A phenomenological analysis of experience in time	1
A space of appearance: Romani publics and privates in the Middle East	1
Just sharing: The (potentially) radical politics of helping	1
Authenticity and recognition: Theorising antiracist becomings and allyship in the time of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter	1
Hannah Arendt, an anthropologist's ally? Relational subjects, political action, and anti-racism in the twenty-first century	1
Sovereign extractions, extractive sovereignty	1
In search of decolonised political futures: Engaging Mahmood Mamdani's neither settler nor native	1
Ellen and the little one: A critical phenomenology of potentiality in life with dementia	1
Controlling academics: Power and resistance in the archipelago of post-COVID-19 audit regimes	1
Indigeneity as a sphere of differences: State enclosure and counter-enclosure of rural spaces in Indonesia	1
Ritual as metaphor	1
What kinship is and is not in the work of Marshall Sahlins … and beyond	1
Projects, revisited: A concept for the anthropology of the good	1
Future perfect: From the pandemic to the Paris climate agreement	1
Dispute as critique: Moving beyond ‘post-genocide Rwanda’	1