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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Transnational giving between Shikoku, Japan and Burma/ Myanmar: From memorializing One’s dead to humanitarianism with peace and war reflections16
Becoming ‘international’: Transgressing national identity as a ritual for class identification15
Matrilineal practices among muslims: An ethnographic study of the Minangkabau of West Sumatra12
The passion of aging: The representation of localism in spiritual eldercare of Naxi in Lijiang9
Close encounters with a third leg: Including fieldwork experiences of sexual harassment as research data7
A Chinese woman’s journey to the “west”: Ethnographic knowledge production amid ambiguous power dynamics6
Im/material and intimate relations: Considering ethnographic methodologies for already-surveilled communities6
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
The ‘desired state of mind’: Emotional labor and the hidden cost of symbolic power in 911 emergency response in the U.S5
Snap-along ethnography: Studying visual politicization in the social media age5
“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
Immersive scholarship: Inhabiting and crafting storied lifeworlds through ethnographic research retreats5
Composite ethnography: Collective encounters with emergent objects in the anthropocene5
Negotiating diasporic leisure among Zimbabwean migrants in Britain5
Triangulation and violence in the Caribbean: Crimes retold from a Curaçaoan juvenile detention centre5
Firsthand practice: Resolving structure and change in Japanese regional cuisine4
Men in aprons versus men in suits: Reshaping masculinities within a Japanese nonprofit promoting fatherhood4
Interstitial position or ‘bastard’ status? Interpreters at the French National Court of Asylum4
Humanitarian Sovereignty, Exceptional Muslims, and the Transnational Making of Kuwaiti Citizens4
The Halfie Predicament in the Ethnography of Religion: Fieldwork with Iranian-Americana Muslim Women in Los Angeles3
Close quarters. Sailing the murky waters of an ethnography ‘at-home’3
Bolognina gym3
The field site as a religious frontier: Negotiating blasphemy accusations and reflexive tensions in Pakistan3
Social participation of youth through volunteering: Case study of Centre for Peace Studies in Zagreb3
‘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
From strangers to families?: Post-reunion kin relationships in Spanish-Nepali adoptions3
Autonomous care? Muslim transnational giving networks and perceptions of welfare responsibilities in India2
Presence from another world. An ethnography on paranormal investigation and the social interaction with ghosts2
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
Institutional adaptation of managerialism in Chinese higher education: A faculty-centered ethnographic analysis of everyday practices2
Making mistakes in ethnography2
The activism of young muslims in Italy: Citizens ‘crossing borders’ in search of recognition2
BROAD DATA: Ethnographic methods in the age of interdisciplinary collaboration2
Learning to (depoliticize) critique: Critical knowledge and the formation of elite habitus in a predominantly White institution2
Affective encounters with waste: The role of affects in trash activism2
Ambiguous interventions: The social consequences of assistance in the field2
Sacrificial heroes: Masculinity, class, and waste picking in Iran2
The gaze in tourism settings: An ethnographical approach above and beyond the theory of the tourist gaze2
Fostering contemplative ethnographers: A tale of fieldwork ethics, vulnerability, and trauma in neoliberal academia2
America materialis: Things and meaning in a donation warehouse2
Elites, bodies, and gender: Women’s appearance as class distinction1
Tangier heat: On migrant vulnerability and social thermology1
Walking with bread in Cairo: Ethnographic collaboration between a researcher and a research assistant1
Scholarly engagements in times of catastrophe1
Echoes of liminality: Hidden transcripts and subtle resistance in Bhojpuri-speaking women’s Kajari folksongs1
I am anthropologist – But where is the field? On fieldwork, intimacy, and home1
Tales from the (disrupted) field: Contemplating interruptions, disruptions, and ethnography amidst a pandemic1
New forms of home blindness: Rethinking fieldwork methods in digitalized environments1
All-encompassing ethnographies: Strategies for feminist and equity-oriented institutional research1
“Why should we have to eat the chicken’s butt?” - Everyday consumption, deservingness and inclusion in rural Hungary1
Escaping the house of secrets: Auto-ethnographic reflections on the complexities of field exit1
The sakan shababiyy, or the world improvised: Displacement and masculine domestic space in Lebanon1
Ruination in the ring: Habitus in the making of a professional “opponent”1
Security and heritage in the making of urban futures: A new research avenue1
Turning newcomers into locals: Kinship practices and belonging in low-income neighborhoods in Finland1
The rule of the anus? Queer imaginaries of power in central Africa1
Creative moves: Embedding hip-hop cultural practice in Bolivia1
Resisting the future: Preparedness, degradation, and “inquietude” among survivalists in contemporary France1
Danger on my mind: Dangerous imaginaries and their effect on epistemologies1
The communitarian stigma: Stigmatization as a mechanism of institutional racism in France1
Chop money life: Joblessness, unretirement, and dependence among transport workers in urban Ghana1
Kin, friends, philanthronationalists: “Relations” as a modality of colonial and post-colonial charity in Sri Lanka1
Being crime: Youth violence and criminal identities in Bahia, Brazil1
Of human bondage: Tales of migrant fishermen in Thailand1
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
The unspoken experiences of ethnography: Overcoming boundaries of (un)accepted behaviours1
‘Team ethnography visual maps’: Methods for identifying the ethnographic object in multiple sites of fieldwork1
Sovereignty, policing and legitimacy: Minorities and the state of exception in a democratic polity1
Toward a non-individualistic analysis of neoliberalism: the stay-fit maternity trend in Taiwan1
‘Why study cinema?’ experiences of crisis and future making in the Portuguese film production sector1
Being invited. Ethics in participant-researcher relationships1
The construction of the anamnestic-political field or the possibility of ethnography1
Online workouts and fitness instructors’ physical autonomy in times of the Covid-19 pandemic1
Rapping our reality: Young people approaching the Haitian future in the subjunctive1
The challenges of reciprocity: Access, uncertainty, and politics1
Teaching Myanmar students under the Gaokao policy in a borderland school: Teachers’ challenges and agency1
No one is self-made: Evolving iterations of giving and shaping of transnational Kamma caste subjectivities0
From the presence of absence to the absence of presence: Violence and the practical consequences of nostalgia in Guatemala City0
‘Military timescapes’: The corporeal experience of time in an Israel defense forces reserve combat unit0
Ethnic fragmentation: An ethnographic study of the Uluan community of South Sumatra, Indonesia0
The interpretation of relationships: Fieldwork as boundary-negotiation0
Yusuke’s story: Journey, precarity, and coming of age in care0
Living in the frame of structural violence: Institutional regulations and daily life in Lleida, Spain0
‘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
Chinese rural left-behind elderly: Their individualization, descending familism and difficulties0
Geschierian magic: Belonging beyond autochthony. A special issue in honour of Peter Geschiere0
Hybrid ethnography: Access, positioning, and data assembly0
A uniform front?: Power and front-line worker variation in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya0
Animals in anthropology: From objects of ethnography to ethnographic subjects?0
Ethnographic research of outer space: Challenges and opportunities0
Putting our bodies on the line: Corporeal ethnography and metamorphosis0
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
Choosing not to help: The ethical challenge of beneficence for clinicians conducting ethnographic research0
Construction of normality in the gecekondu settlement: Experience of place, social pressure, and tactics0
Cleaning up shaʿbi: Music and class-cultural divides in cairo0
Corrigendum to “Transnational Giving and Evolving Religious, Ethnic and Political Formations in the Global South”0
Alone and unaware: An ethnography of unidentified and unacknowledged youth loneliness0
The Māori precariat: Excerpts from urban ethnography on precarity in Auckland city0
The power of ethnographic toolkit in understanding transnational culture0
Dikopelo ritual and performance: The embodiment of place0
The researcher wears gucci: Reflexive considerations of dress and embodiment in ethnographic research0
Understanding integration at a UK medical school: An ethnographic exploration0
From stigma to inclusion: Ethnographic studies in social pedagogy0
Time and space/body and face: Meeting ethnography in the pluriverse0
Disrupting sense of place in a northern English city: The assemblage of everyday encounter0
Editorial0
‘Then we decided not to tell the adults’. Fieldwork among children in an international school0
From the street to the drug consumption room. Injected drug use across consumption environments0
Ethnographic (dis) locations: An approach for studying marginalisation in the context of socio-economic change0
Playing ethnographically living well together: Collaborative ethnography as speculative experiment0
Carceral ethnography in a time of pandemic: Examining migrant detention and deportation during COVID-190
Suspicious compassion: On affect and state power in the Dutch asylum procedure0
‘A debt never dies’: Navigating trust and betrayal in southeastern Nigeria0
Local–translocal–postlocal: Emerging affordances for multi-sited ethnography0
When fieldwork is forbidden: Ontological dilemmas, subjectivity and moral imperatives as constraints in the field0
Energy and the ethnography of everyday life: A methodology for a world that matters0
Memeing a conspiracy theory: On the biopolitical compression of the great replacement conspiracy theories0
On board the quarantine-ship as “floating hotspot”: Creeping externalization practices in the Mediterranean Sea0
Drawing beyond silence: Exploring present realities and imagined futures of Karen encamped refugee youths0
Trusts on the monsoon winds: Parsi transnational religious philanthropy0
Fair Trade in an unfair market: economic competitiveness and workers’ rights in Costa Rica’s banana industry0
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
Long-term holistic ethnography for new digital worlds0
Ethnography in the plural: Experimenting with collective ethnography in research on politics and politicians in Brazil0
Walking sensorially through the landscapes of a galaxy far, far away0
The “ farmily” that changed me: An ethnography and autoethnography of small-scale farming and Agrarian worldviews in Australia0
A tour into untouched land: Enacting wilderness through relational engagements0
Contested knowledges: Negotiating the epistemic politics of engaged activist ethnography0
Risky business? Parenting children of deployed Danish soldiers0
Emotion and othering in a contaminated community0
Personal and social attributes influencing the use of residential shared spaces: An autoethnographic study0
Methodological issues in African youth languages research0
Studying ‘closed’ workplaces: ‘Embedded-actualised’ ethnography and reflections on ‘embeddedness’ from the remote UK oilfields0
A relational approach to the ethnographic study of power in the context of the city of London0
Giving and belonging: Religious networks of Sub-Saharan African Muslims in Guangzhou, China0
Re-name the Streets. Toponymic Struggles and Civic Belonging in Murcia (Spain) and Johannesburg (South Africa)0
In the name of the (God) father: The unnameable name0
Bodily ethnography: Some epistemological challenges of participation0
‘The game is on!’ Eventness at a distance at a livestream concert during lockdown0
Towards a politics of collaborative worldmaking: ethics, epistemologies and mutual positionalities in conflict research0
Places of belonging: Rethinking coexistence from oriental barbershops in a Finnish city0
The embodiment of fear: Reproductive health and migrant women’s choices, in Verona, Italy0
Effort in absence: Technologically mediated aesthetic experiences of the culture industries’ routine workers0
Ethnographic experiences of participating in a correctional officer training program: An exploration of values, ethics, and role conflict0
The conviction of the inevitable: Collapsism and collective action in contemporary rural France0
Reconsidering recipocity and capitalism0
‘Troubled lads’ . Schools between pathologization, lads’ culture and social suffering in Rome0
Gore kinship: The cultural economies of killing in an ethnography of invasive pufferfish in Crete0
The fleeting moment and the long haul in urban panhandling0
The observer observed: Ethnographic discomforts and (a)symmetrical relationships in a digital ethnography0
Extra-terrestrial landings: An ethnographic account of doing ethnography0
Cruising Boston and Providence: The roles of place and desire for reflexive queer research(ers)0
Slow violence, depoliticisation and hope: Cultural landscapes of schooling in Wentworth, South Africa0
National differentiation and imagined authenticity: The Hmong New Year in multicultural Laos and the United States0
Design ethnography: A view from an industrial think tank0
Constructing responsibility: Infrastructural harm, citizen oversight and the politics of publics0
Transnational Giving and Evolving Religious, Ethnic and Political Formations in the Global South0
“Unsure whether it feels like home anymore”: Unsettled feelings amongst former panel-block residents in Moscow and Berlin0
Que Dieu facilite l’aventure!”. Ivorian women confronting border regulations and intimate relationships on European adventures0
In honorary of Peter Geschiere, articulation of reproduction: Parents, daughters, and education in north Cameroonian society0
Turning around the camera: Self-portraits of an anthropologist on Instagram0
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