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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The passion of aging: The representation of localism in spiritual eldercare of Naxi in Lijiang14
Matrilineal practices among muslims: An ethnographic study of the Minangkabau of West Sumatra13
Transnational giving between Shikoku, Japan and Burma/ Myanmar: From memorializing One’s dead to humanitarianism with peace and war reflections9
Becoming ‘international’: Transgressing national identity as a ritual for class identification8
Close encounters with a third leg: Including fieldwork experiences of sexual harassment as research data6
Im/material and intimate relations: Considering ethnographic methodologies for already-surveilled communities6
Negotiating diasporic leisure among Zimbabwean migrants in Britain6
Lebensraum, geopolitics and race—Palestine as a feminist issue in German-speaking academia6
Concrete sectarianism: Revisiting the Lebanese civil war through Beirut’s built environment6
Immersive scholarship: Inhabiting and crafting storied lifeworlds through ethnographic research retreats5
Triangulation and violence in the Caribbean: Crimes retold from a Curaçaoan juvenile detention centre5
The ‘desired state of mind’: Emotional labor and the hidden cost of symbolic power in 911 emergency response in the U.S5
‘Hand-to-hand sports and the struggle for belonging’5
“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
A Chinese woman’s journey to the “west”: Ethnographic knowledge production amid ambiguous power dynamics5
Men in aprons versus men in suits: Reshaping masculinities within a Japanese nonprofit promoting fatherhood4
Humanitarian Sovereignty, Exceptional Muslims, and the Transnational Making of Kuwaiti Citizens4
The (un)celebrated asylum centre: How Danish media hijacked an ethnographic fieldwork and altered local realities4
Close quarters. Sailing the murky waters of an ethnography ‘at-home’4
Snap-along ethnography: Studying visual politicization in the social media age4
Firsthand practice: Resolving structure and change in Japanese regional cuisine4
Social participation of youth through volunteering: Case study of Centre for Peace Studies in Zagreb4
The Halfie Predicament in the Ethnography of Religion: Fieldwork with Iranian-Americana Muslim Women in Los Angeles3
The sensing eye: Intimate vision in couple dancing3
Interstitial position or ‘bastard’ status? Interpreters at the French National Court of Asylum3
“Tying your ngemb”: Negotiating identity in Senegalese wrestling3
Bolognina gym3
‘Say it in Swedish!’: Babies, belonging and multilingualism in an integration initiative activity in Sweden3
Observations from the field: On the body, gender, and Al wehdat camp in Amman, Jordan3
Love and agency in ethnographic fieldwork with children3
Making mistakes in ethnography2
The activism of young muslims in Italy: Citizens ‘crossing borders’ in search of recognition2
Affective encounters with waste: The role of affects in trash activism2
The gaze in tourism settings: An ethnographical approach above and beyond the theory of the tourist gaze2
Learning to (depoliticize) critique: Critical knowledge and the formation of elite habitus in a predominantly White institution2
New forms of home blindness: Rethinking fieldwork methods in digitalized environments2
Beyond Big Brother: How to Study Tech-Driven Authoritarianism With Restricted Access to State Institutions2
The antifascist boxing body: Political somatics in boxe popolare2
Ambiguous interventions: The social consequences of assistance in the field2
Sacrificial heroes: Masculinity, class, and waste picking in Iran2
Fostering contemplative ethnographers: A tale of fieldwork ethics, vulnerability, and trauma in neoliberal academia2
Being crime: Youth violence and criminal identities in Bahia, Brazil2
America materialis: Things and meaning in a donation warehouse2
The field site as a religious frontier: Negotiating blasphemy accusations and reflexive tensions in Pakistan2
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
Institutional adaptation of managerialism in Chinese higher education: A faculty-centered ethnographic analysis of everyday practices2
“We are simply being pressed out, slowly but surely” - Unhoused peoples’ experience with exclusionary design2
Kin, friends, philanthronationalists: “Relations” as a modality of colonial and post-colonial charity in Sri Lanka2
The unspoken experiences of ethnography: Overcoming boundaries of (un)accepted behaviours1
Tangier heat: On migrant vulnerability and social thermology1
‘Team ethnography visual maps’: Methods for identifying the ethnographic object in multiple sites of fieldwork1
Echoes of liminality: Hidden transcripts and subtle resistance in Bhojpuri-speaking women’s Kajari folksongs1
Texas wildfire survivors’ narratives and the meaning of everyday objects1
‘Why study cinema?’ experiences of crisis and future making in the Portuguese film production sector1
The rule of the anus? Queer imaginaries of power in central Africa1
All-encompassing ethnographies: Strategies for feminist and equity-oriented institutional research1
Toward a non-individualistic analysis of neoliberalism: the stay-fit maternity trend in Taiwan1
The sakan shababiyy, or the world improvised: Displacement and masculine domestic space in Lebanon1
Of devotion and disgust: Method, belief and power in anthropological research on religion1
Jala Role: Normative Practice of Collaborative Ethnography in a Hostile Research Frontier, South Omo, Ethiopia1
Let me take a photo with the Shabaken: Reflections on Ikam among the Bujuur Naga1
Security and heritage in the making of urban futures: A new research avenue1
Being Breton through wrestling: Traditional gouren as a distinctive Breton activity1
Emic ethnographic encounters: Researching elderly female household heads’ experience with climate change in rural Zimbabwe1
Resisting the future: Preparedness, degradation, and “inquietude” among survivalists in contemporary France1
Yokozuna Hakuhō—Japanese Mongolian hero1
RETRACTION NOTICE: Recalibrating scale, rupturing coloniality: On relational ethnography and its postcolonial reckonings1
Chop money life: Joblessness, unretirement, and dependence among transport workers in urban Ghana1
Tales from the (disrupted) field: Contemplating interruptions, disruptions, and ethnography amidst a pandemic1
Scholarly engagements in times of catastrophe1
Building community through hospitality: Indirect obligations to reciprocate in a transnational speech community1
‘A Punch Has No Paternity!’: techniques, belonging and the Mexicanidad of Xilam1
Walking with bread in Cairo: Ethnographic collaboration between a researcher and a research assistant1
Being invited. Ethics in participant-researcher relationships1
Escaping the house of secrets: Auto-ethnographic reflections on the complexities of field exit1
Turning newcomers into locals: Kinship practices and belonging in low-income neighborhoods in Finland1
The communitarian stigma: Stigmatization as a mechanism of institutional racism in France1
The construction of the anamnestic-political field or the possibility of ethnography1
“We take responsibility!”: Governing the neighborhood—governing the self1
Online workouts and fitness instructors’ physical autonomy in times of the Covid-19 pandemic1
Teaching Myanmar students under the Gaokao policy in a borderland school: Teachers’ challenges and agency1
I am anthropologist – But where is the field? On fieldwork, intimacy, and home1
Ruination in the ring: Habitus in the making of a professional “opponent”1
Cleaning up shaʿbi: Music and class-cultural divides in cairo0
The fleeting moment and the long haul in urban panhandling0
Fair Trade in an unfair market: economic competitiveness and workers’ rights in Costa Rica’s banana industry0
‘Then we decided not to tell the adults’. Fieldwork among children in an international school0
Personal and social attributes influencing the use of residential shared spaces: An autoethnographic study0
Long-term holistic ethnography for new digital worlds0
A tour into untouched land: Enacting wilderness through relational engagements0
Bodily ethnography: Some epistemological challenges of participation0
Turning around the camera: Self-portraits of an anthropologist on Instagram0
Dikopelo ritual and performance: The embodiment of place0
Performing political stories of the self: Subverting identities in the city of Goma, DR Congo0
‘Military timescapes’: The corporeal experience of time in an Israel defense forces reserve combat unit0
Que Dieu facilite l’aventure!”. Ivorian women confronting border regulations and intimate relationships on European adventures0
Elites, bodies, and gender: Women’s appearance as class distinction0
Places of belonging: Rethinking coexistence from oriental barbershops in a Finnish city0
Editorial0
Re-name the Streets. Toponymic Struggles and Civic Belonging in Murcia (Spain) and Johannesburg (South Africa)0
A relational approach to the ethnographic study of power in the context of the city of London0
Time and space/body and face: Meeting ethnography in the pluriverse0
In honorary of Peter Geschiere, articulation of reproduction: Parents, daughters, and education in north Cameroonian society0
In the name of the (God) father: The unnameable name0
Erratum to “More Bread Less Circus”0
Local–translocal–postlocal: Emerging affordances for multi-sited ethnography0
The embodiment of fear: Reproductive health and migrant women’s choices, in Verona, Italy0
Towards a politics of collaborative worldmaking: ethics, epistemologies and mutual positionalities in conflict research0
Hybrid ethnography: Access, positioning, and data assembly0
The conviction of the inevitable: Collapsism and collective action in contemporary rural France0
Transnational Giving and Evolving Religious, Ethnic and Political Formations in the Global South0
The belts are set out: The batizado as a symbolic welcome to capoeira culture0
A uniform front?: Power and front-line worker variation in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya0
Disrupting sense of place in a northern English city: The assemblage of everyday encounter0
Alone and unaware: An ethnography of unidentified and unacknowledged youth loneliness0
Ethnography of the kitchen: The Women’s House, a space for feminist alliance and intercultural encounter0
The Independence Day as a nationalist ritual: Framework of the March of Independence in Poland0
Understanding integration at a UK medical school: An ethnographic exploration0
The observer observed: Ethnographic discomforts and (a)symmetrical relationships in a digital ethnography0
Gendered encounters in mobility: Women researching migrant construction workers0
‘Bed-space’ housing in Dubai: African migrants, ambivalence towards authorities and gender differences0
Kickboxing with Bourdieu: Heterodoxy, hysteresis and the disruption of “race thinking”0
Witchcraft as a case of ethnographic murk: Impasse of knowledge, harshness of experience0
Contested knowledges: Negotiating the epistemic politics of engaged activist ethnography0
‘The game is on!’ Eventness at a distance at a livestream concert during lockdown0
Walking sensorially through the landscapes of a galaxy far, far away0
Suspicious compassion: On affect and state power in the Dutch asylum procedure0
Giving and belonging: Religious networks of Sub-Saharan African Muslims in Guangzhou, China0
Living in the frame of structural violence: Institutional regulations and daily life in Lleida, Spain0
Design ethnography: A view from an industrial think tank0
Choosing not to help: The ethical challenge of beneficence for clinicians conducting ethnographic research0
Constructing responsibility: Infrastructural harm, citizen oversight and the politics of publics0
From the presence of absence to the absence of presence: Violence and the practical consequences of nostalgia in Guatemala City0
Emotion and othering in a contaminated community0
“La racaille,” a performed figure in French contemporary youth0
Memeing a conspiracy theory: On the biopolitical compression of the great replacement conspiracy theories0
Energy and the ethnography of everyday life: A methodology for a world that matters0
Reconsidering recipocity and capitalism0
Cruising Boston and Providence: The roles of place and desire for reflexive queer research(ers)0
Extra-terrestrial landings: An ethnographic account of doing ethnography0
From the street to the drug consumption room. Injected drug use across consumption environments0
Slow violence, depoliticisation and hope: Cultural landscapes of schooling in Wentworth, South Africa0
Studying ‘closed’ workplaces: ‘Embedded-actualised’ ethnography and reflections on ‘embeddedness’ from the remote UK oilfields0
Construction of normality in the gecekondu settlement: Experience of place, social pressure, and tactics0
National differentiation and imagined authenticity: The Hmong New Year in multicultural Laos and the United States0
The interpretation of relationships: Fieldwork as boundary-negotiation0
“Unsure whether it feels like home anymore”: Unsettled feelings amongst former panel-block residents in Moscow and Berlin0
Risky business? Parenting children of deployed Danish soldiers0
‘A debt never dies’: Navigating trust and betrayal in southeastern Nigeria0
Yusuke’s story: Journey, precarity, and coming of age in care0
Playing ethnographically living well together: Collaborative ethnography as speculative experiment0
The power of ethnographic toolkit in understanding transnational culture0
Geschierian magic: Belonging beyond autochthony. A special issue in honour of Peter Geschiere0
Reflexive collaboration: Building pluri-ethnographic partnerships in an Ecuadorian bank0
Frontera Sur: Behind and beyond the fences of Ceuta and Melilla0
Ethnic fragmentation: An ethnographic study of the Uluan community of South Sumatra, Indonesia0
Corrigendum to “Transnational Giving and Evolving Religious, Ethnic and Political Formations in the Global South”0
Ethnographic (dis) locations: An approach for studying marginalisation in the context of socio-economic change0
No one is self-made: Evolving iterations of giving and shaping of transnational Kamma caste subjectivities0
Effort in absence: Technologically mediated aesthetic experiences of the culture industries’ routine workers0
Trusts on the monsoon winds: Parsi transnational religious philanthropy0
Carceral ethnography in a time of pandemic: Examining migrant detention and deportation during COVID-190
When fieldwork is forbidden: Ontological dilemmas, subjectivity and moral imperatives as constraints in the field0
On board the quarantine-ship as “floating hotspot”: Creeping externalization practices in the Mediterranean Sea0
Ethnographic experiences of participating in a correctional officer training program: An exploration of values, ethics, and role conflict0
Ethnographic research of outer space: Challenges and opportunities0
Unearthing conscious intent in women’s everyday resistance to mining in Indonesia0
Chinese rural left-behind elderly: Their individualization, descending familism and difficulties0
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