Ethnography

Papers
(The median citation count of Ethnography 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Transnational giving between Shikoku, Japan and Burma/ Myanmar: From memorializing One’s dead to humanitarianism with peace and war reflections18
Becoming ‘international’: Transgressing national identity as a ritual for class identification15
Matrilineal practices among muslims: An ethnographic study of the Minangkabau of West Sumatra14
The passion of aging: The representation of localism in spiritual eldercare of Naxi in Lijiang11
Close encounters with a third leg: Including fieldwork experiences of sexual harassment as research data8
A Chinese woman’s journey to the “west”: Ethnographic knowledge production amid ambiguous power dynamics7
Triangulation and violence in the Caribbean: Crimes retold from a Curaçaoan juvenile detention centre7
Im/material and intimate relations: Considering ethnographic methodologies for already-surveilled communities6
Concrete sectarianism: Revisiting the Lebanese civil war through Beirut’s built environment6
Immersive scholarship: Inhabiting and crafting storied lifeworlds through ethnographic research retreats6
Negotiating diasporic leisure among Zimbabwean migrants in Britain6
Lebensraum, geopolitics and race—Palestine as a feminist issue in German-speaking academia5
“Been there, done that but also not quite:” Discoveries and limitations in an evaluative, short-term, and multi-sited ethnography of the boy scouts of America5
Men in aprons versus men in suits: Reshaping masculinities within a Japanese nonprofit promoting fatherhood5
Snap-along ethnography: Studying visual politicization in the social media age5
Composite ethnography: Collective encounters with emergent objects in the anthropocene5
The ‘desired state of mind’: Emotional labor and the hidden cost of symbolic power in 911 emergency response in the U.S5
Changing the world in three minutes? A duoethnographic provocation of 3MT in neoliberal Australian universities4
Humanitarian Sovereignty, Exceptional Muslims, and the Transnational Making of Kuwaiti Citizens4
Firsthand practice: Resolving structure and change in Japanese regional cuisine4
The Halfie Predicament in the Ethnography of Religion: Fieldwork with Iranian-Americana Muslim Women in Los Angeles4
Close quarters. Sailing the murky waters of an ethnography ‘at-home’3
‘Say it in Swedish!’: Babies, belonging and multilingualism in an integration initiative activity in Sweden3
Making mistakes in ethnography3
Love and agency in ethnographic fieldwork with children3
The field site as a religious frontier: Negotiating blasphemy accusations and reflexive tensions in Pakistan3
Ambiguous interventions: The social consequences of assistance in the field3
From strangers to families?: Post-reunion kin relationships in Spanish-Nepali adoptions3
Social participation of youth through volunteering: Case study of Centre for Peace Studies in Zagreb3
Observations from the field: On the body, gender, and Al wehdat camp in Amman, Jordan3
Interstitial position or ‘bastard’ status? Interpreters at the French National Court of Asylum3
Kin, friends, philanthronationalists: “Relations” as a modality of colonial and post-colonial charity in Sri Lanka2
Affective encounters with waste: The role of affects in trash activism2
Sacrificial heroes: Masculinity, class, and waste picking in Iran2
Institutional adaptation of managerialism in Chinese higher education: A faculty-centered ethnographic analysis of everyday practices2
BROAD DATA: Ethnographic methods in the age of interdisciplinary collaboration2
Rapping our reality: Young people approaching the Haitian future in the subjunctive2
Being crime: Youth violence and criminal identities in Bahia, Brazil2
Fostering contemplative ethnographers: A tale of fieldwork ethics, vulnerability, and trauma in neoliberal academia2
Presence from another world. An ethnography on paranormal investigation and the social interaction with ghosts2
Autonomous care? Muslim transnational giving networks and perceptions of welfare responsibilities in India2
The gaze in tourism settings: An ethnographical approach above and beyond the theory of the tourist gaze2
Beyond Big Brother: How to Study Tech-Driven Authoritarianism With Restricted Access to State Institutions2
“We are simply being pressed out, slowly but surely” - Unhoused peoples’ experience with exclusionary design2
Chop money life: Joblessness, unretirement, and dependence among transport workers in urban Ghana2
The activism of young muslims in Italy: Citizens ‘crossing borders’ in search of recognition2
Walking the streets: Embodied experiences of place making in Old Bhopal, India2
America materialis: Things and meaning in a donation warehouse2
Learning to (depoliticize) critique: Critical knowledge and the formation of elite habitus in a predominantly White institution2
“Why should we have to eat the chicken’s butt?” - Everyday consumption, deservingness and inclusion in rural Hungary2
Of devotion and disgust: Method, belief and power in anthropological research on religion1
Walking with bread in Cairo: Ethnographic collaboration between a researcher and a research assistant1
Security and heritage in the making of urban futures: A new research avenue1
The unspoken experiences of ethnography: Overcoming boundaries of (un)accepted behaviours1
Turning newcomers into locals: Kinship practices and belonging in low-income neighborhoods in Finland1
Echoes of liminality: Hidden transcripts and subtle resistance in Bhojpuri-speaking women’s Kajari folksongs1
Sovereignty, policing and legitimacy: Minorities and the state of exception in a democratic polity1
Crime as culture revisited: Being young, poor and delinquent in Lisbon, Portugal1
The construction of the anamnestic-political field or the possibility of ethnography1
All-encompassing ethnographies: Strategies for feminist and equity-oriented institutional research1
‘Why study cinema?’ experiences of crisis and future making in the Portuguese film production sector1
Toward a non-individualistic analysis of neoliberalism: the stay-fit maternity trend in Taiwan1
Elites, bodies, and gender: Women’s appearance as class distinction1
The religious experience of homeless people who use drugs in the city of Porto – Portugal1
Ruination in the ring: Habitus in the making of a professional “opponent”1
Who moved my challah? Evolving practices and innovations in traditional Jewish bread1
Scholarly engagements in times of catastrophe1
The sakan shababiyy, or the world improvised: Displacement and masculine domestic space in Lebanon1
The communitarian stigma: Stigmatization as a mechanism of institutional racism in France1
The rule of the anus? Queer imaginaries of power in central Africa1
New forms of home blindness: Rethinking fieldwork methods in digitalized environments1
The challenges of reciprocity: Access, uncertainty, and politics1
Creative moves: Embedding hip-hop cultural practice in Bolivia1
Danger on my mind: Dangerous imaginaries and their effect on epistemologies1
Jala Role: Normative Practice of Collaborative Ethnography in a Hostile Research Frontier, South Omo, Ethiopia1
“Don’t take too many pictures”: Discomfort as urban ethnographic method in Rajarhat1
Being invited. Ethics in participant-researcher relationships1
‘Team ethnography visual maps’: Methods for identifying the ethnographic object in multiple sites of fieldwork1
Of human bondage: Tales of migrant fishermen in Thailand1
Tangier heat: On migrant vulnerability and social thermology1
Escaping the house of secrets: Auto-ethnographic reflections on the complexities of field exit1
Resisting the future: Preparedness, degradation, and “inquietude” among survivalists in contemporary France1
Tales from the (disrupted) field: Contemplating interruptions, disruptions, and ethnography amidst a pandemic1
Online workouts and fitness instructors’ physical autonomy in times of the Covid-19 pandemic1
I am anthropologist – But where is the field? On fieldwork, intimacy, and home1
Teaching Myanmar students under the Gaokao policy in a borderland school: Teachers’ challenges and agency1
Contested knowledges: Negotiating the epistemic politics of engaged activist ethnography0
‘The game is on!’ Eventness at a distance at a livestream concert during lockdown0
Studying ‘closed’ workplaces: ‘Embedded-actualised’ ethnography and reflections on ‘embeddedness’ from the remote UK oilfields0
“Unsure whether it feels like home anymore”: Unsettled feelings amongst former panel-block residents in Moscow and Berlin0
In honorary of Peter Geschiere, articulation of reproduction: Parents, daughters, and education in north Cameroonian society0
White people’s colorblind racial identity work in music-related contexts0
Re-name the Streets. Toponymic Struggles and Civic Belonging in Murcia (Spain) and Johannesburg (South Africa)0
White privilege: grey zones. Portuguese migrants in Angola0
Carceral ethnography in a time of pandemic: Examining migrant detention and deportation during COVID-190
The Independence Day as a nationalist ritual: Framework of the March of Independence in Poland0
Ethnographic experiences of participating in a correctional officer training program: An exploration of values, ethics, and role conflict0
Living in the frame of structural violence: Institutional regulations and daily life in Lleida, Spain0
Suspicious compassion: On affect and state power in the Dutch asylum procedure0
Hybrid ethnography: Access, positioning, and data assembly0
Dimensions of time and comparative analysis in surrogacy research0
Gore kinship: The cultural economies of killing in an ethnography of invasive pufferfish in Crete0
Kickboxing with Bourdieu: Heterodoxy, hysteresis and the disruption of “race thinking”0
Drawing beyond silence: Exploring present realities and imagined futures of Karen encamped refugee youths0
Witchcraft as a case of ethnographic murk: Impasse of knowledge, harshness of experience0
Alone and unaware: An ethnography of unidentified and unacknowledged youth loneliness0
A uniform front?: Power and front-line worker variation in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya0
Ethnography of the kitchen: The Women’s House, a space for feminist alliance and intercultural encounter0
From the presence of absence to the absence of presence: Violence and the practical consequences of nostalgia in Guatemala City0
Fair Trade in an unfair market: economic competitiveness and workers’ rights in Costa Rica’s banana industry0
The Māori precariat: Excerpts from urban ethnography on precarity in Auckland city0
Cruising Boston and Providence: The roles of place and desire for reflexive queer research(ers)0
Dikopelo ritual and performance: The embodiment of place0
Ethnography in the plural: Experimenting with collective ethnography in research on politics and politicians in Brazil0
Ritualization and emotional resilience in times of crisis: Insights from a diary study of Romanian Orthodox Easter during the first COVID-19 lockdown0
No one is self-made: Evolving iterations of giving and shaping of transnational Kamma caste subjectivities0
Turning around the camera: Self-portraits of an anthropologist on Instagram0
Giving and belonging: Religious networks of Sub-Saharan African Muslims in Guangzhou, China0
A relational approach to the ethnographic study of power in the context of the city of London0
‘Military timescapes’: The corporeal experience of time in an Israel defense forces reserve combat unit0
The researcher wears gucci: Reflexive considerations of dress and embodiment in ethnographic research0
The fleeting moment and the long haul in urban panhandling0
Ethnographic (dis) locations: An approach for studying marginalisation in the context of socio-economic change0
Constructing responsibility: Infrastructural harm, citizen oversight and the politics of publics0
Choosing not to help: The ethical challenge of beneficence for clinicians conducting ethnographic research0
Bodily ethnography: Some epistemological challenges of participation0
The embodiment of fear: Reproductive health and migrant women’s choices, in Verona, Italy0
Chinese rural left-behind elderly: Their individualization, descending familism and difficulties0
‘Then we decided not to tell the adults’. Fieldwork among children in an international school0
When fieldwork is forbidden: Ontological dilemmas, subjectivity and moral imperatives as constraints in the field0
Towards a politics of collaborative worldmaking: ethics, epistemologies and mutual positionalities in conflict research0
Yusuke’s story: Journey, precarity, and coming of age in care0
Putting our bodies on the line: Corporeal ethnography and metamorphosis0
The conviction of the inevitable: Collapsism and collective action in contemporary rural France0
Trusts on the monsoon winds: Parsi transnational religious philanthropy0
Construction of normality in the gecekondu settlement: Experience of place, social pressure, and tactics0
Energy and the ethnography of everyday life: A methodology for a world that matters0
Cleaning up shaʿbi: Music and class-cultural divides in cairo0
Slow violence, depoliticisation and hope: Cultural landscapes of schooling in Wentworth, South Africa0
Walking sensorially through the landscapes of a galaxy far, far away0
Ethnography, 2025: The housekeeping year0
A tour into untouched land: Enacting wilderness through relational engagements0
In the name of the (God) father: The unnameable name0
Risky business? Parenting children of deployed Danish soldiers0
‘A debt never dies’: Navigating trust and betrayal in southeastern Nigeria0
Design ethnography: A view from an industrial think tank0
Que Dieu facilite l’aventure!”. Ivorian women confronting border regulations and intimate relationships on European adventures0
Disrupting sense of place in a northern English city: The assemblage of everyday encounter0
Understanding integration at a UK medical school: An ethnographic exploration0
Methodological issues in African youth languages research0
“It almost seems as if, in the forest, the city has disappeared”: Walking ethnography in an urban wilderness0
Ethnic fragmentation: An ethnographic study of the Uluan community of South Sumatra, Indonesia0
Time and space/body and face: Meeting ethnography in the pluriverse0
Geschierian magic: Belonging beyond autochthony. A special issue in honour of Peter Geschiere0
Playing ethnographically living well together: Collaborative ethnography as speculative experiment0
The interpretation of relationships: Fieldwork as boundary-negotiation0
‘Bed-space’ housing in Dubai: African migrants, ambivalence towards authorities and gender differences0
Performing political stories of the self: Subverting identities in the city of Goma, DR Congo0
From the street to the drug consumption room. Injected drug use across consumption environments0
Places of belonging: Rethinking coexistence from oriental barbershops in a Finnish city0
Animals in anthropology: From objects of ethnography to ethnographic subjects?0
On board the quarantine-ship as “floating hotspot”: Creeping externalization practices in the Mediterranean Sea0
Memeing a conspiracy theory: On the biopolitical compression of the great replacement conspiracy theories0
Local–translocal–postlocal: Emerging affordances for multi-sited ethnography0
Reconsidering recipocity and capitalism0
Tales from the field: Giving voice to my digital self0
Ethnographic research of outer space: Challenges and opportunities0
Transnational Giving and Evolving Religious, Ethnic and Political Formations in the Global South0
The observer observed: Ethnographic discomforts and (a)symmetrical relationships in a digital ethnography0
Im/mobility and privilege during COVID-19: Reprography of commercial surrogacy in India0
Extra-terrestrial landings: An ethnographic account of doing ethnography0
Long-term holistic ethnography for new digital worlds0
Effort in absence: Technologically mediated aesthetic experiences of the culture industries’ routine workers0
The “ farmily” that changed me: An ethnography and autoethnography of small-scale farming and Agrarian worldviews in Australia0
National differentiation and imagined authenticity: The Hmong New Year in multicultural Laos and the United States0
Corrigendum to “Transnational Giving and Evolving Religious, Ethnic and Political Formations in the Global South”0
‘Troubled lads’ . Schools between pathologization, lads’ culture and social suffering in Rome0
How time is experienced and conceptualised when conducting ethnography mapping NEET interventions in education settings0
The power of ethnographic toolkit in understanding transnational culture0
From stigma to inclusion: Ethnographic studies in social pedagogy0
Personal and social attributes influencing the use of residential shared spaces: An autoethnographic study0
Editorial0
Emotion and othering in a contaminated community0
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