Anthropological Theory

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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The great transformation: The Durkheimian sociology of religion from Émile Durkheim to Henri Hubert13
Outline of a theory of breakage12
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 theory9
Fibreglass and steel: De-imagineering AI value claims for Danish SMEs8
Over the ruins of subjects: A critique of subjectivism in anthropological discourse8
Identity perplexity, stigma, and social critique: Critical phenomenology with an errant twist7
Political violence, pedagogy, and the politics of world-making: Reflections on Mahmood Mamdani's Neither Settler nor Native7
The irony of development: Critique, complicity, cynicism5
Calibrating home, hospitality and reciprocity in migration4
Corporate sovereignty: Negotiating permissive power for profit in Southern Africa4
Renewing an ‘Armenian’ neighbourhood: Recursive dispossession and the history of extractive sovereignty in Turkey4
On the surprising queerness of norms: Anthropology with Canguilhem, Foucault, and Butler4
The camp, the zone, and sovereign sediments: Querying paradigms through the politics of Made-in-Italy agribusiness operations4
Corridors of countersovereignty: Insurgency, smuggling, and post-nation-state politics in Turkey's Kurdish highlands3
Common difference: Conceptualising simultaneity and racial sincerity in Jewish-Muslim relations in the United Kingdom3
Cosmologies of immanence and transcendence: Sahlins and the comparative anthropology of enchanted politics3
The recognition of presence: Sharing in world society; a short introduction to the section3
Rethinking prevention as a reactive force to contain dangerous classes3
Theorizing ethnographically: No shares without acknowledgement3
The political economy of unredeemable social debt: Superexploiting the labor and networks of refugees who aspire to “give back”3
The ‘onto-logics’ of perspectival multi-naturalism: A realist critique3
Towards a pragmatist anthropology: Objectivity, relativism, ethnocentrism, and intropathy2
The ontological turn revisited: Theoretical decline. Why cannot ontologists fulfil their promise?2
Authenticity and decolonization: On the subversive authenticity of Indigenous resurgence2
Ingold, hermeneutics, and hylomorphic animism2
Semiotic vista2
The Hoard as Processual Object: A Marxian Perspective on Money Power2
Decolonising the political: Presence, law and obligation2
Authenticity and recognition: Theorising antiracist becomings and allyship in the time of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter1
What kinship is and is not in the work of Marshall Sahlins … and beyond1
Indigeneity as a sphere of differences: State enclosure and counter-enclosure of rural spaces in Indonesia1
Sovereign extractions, extractive sovereignty1
Dispute as critique: Moving beyond ‘post-genocide Rwanda’1
Eleven Namibian rains: A phenomenological analysis of experience in time1
Ritual as metaphor1
The smell of bare death: Encountering life at the graveyard of Lampedusa1
In search of decolonised political futures: Engaging Mahmood Mamdani's neither settler nor native1
Political inclusion without social justice: South Africa and the pitfalls of partial decolonisation1
Future perfect: From the pandemic to the Paris climate agreement1
Hannah Arendt, an anthropologist's ally? Relational subjects, political action, and anti-racism in the twenty-first century1
Leaking panic as policy: Bordering, scaling, and forming in Austrian distributive politics1
In/visible politics: Online–offline world-making of the French far-right1
Projects, revisited: A concept for the anthropology of the good1
Just sharing: The (potentially) radical politics of helping1
A space of appearance: Romani publics and privates in the Middle East1
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