American Anthropologist

Papers
(The median citation count of American Anthropologist 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador By ChristopherKrupa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 318 pp.31
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Leaving traces: Fairy houses, kindness stones, and constructed heritage28
A thousand tiny cuts: Mobility and security across the Bangladesh‐India borderland By SahanaGhosh. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023. 296 pp.25
The forever war, foregone23
Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai19
Slaughterhouse tours in Denmark: Affective nationalism in the making of citizen‐consumers and the industrial slaughter of happy pigs17
What makes a “good” forensic anthropologist?17
The Anthropology of Anxiety: An Introduction17
Stable condition: Traumatic injury, coma, and vital traffic in a Mumbai hospital ward16
Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population: An epistolary review essay15
Can women hunt? Yes. Did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.14
The house is coming from inside the call14
Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire12
Generous peer review12
Cartographic archives: Excavating the subterranean with a camera12
From rhetoric to reality: Why we need an anthropology of higher education policy12
Queering pregnancy11
Toxic Waste, Worried Communities: Building an Archaeology of Concern11
Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh By KasiaPaprocki, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 270 pp.11
Elemental Ethnography: A Proposition10
A croquis for the stenourbanite10
Truth before transition: Reimagining anthropology as restorative justice10
A forgetful ethnography: Memory, memoir, and brain injuries10
The sustainability myth: Environmental gentrification and the politics of justice By MelissaChecker. New York: NYU Press, 2020. 280 pp.10
Moving Readers9
Silenced resentments and regrets: Aging in a changing Kibbutz8
The echo of the world: The castaway, the Garabandal apparitions, and the crisis of presence8
The Art of Remembering and Making a Way: Going There, Knowing There, and Other Curious Lessons From “The Genius of the South”8
Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh by Lamia KarimMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 272 pp.8
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria8
An ethnography of joy: Entrepreneurship among Latinx communities in East Los Angeles8
“I have no proof, but …”8
Welcoming the foreigner: Notes on the possibility of multispecies hospitality7
WITHDRAWAL: We Are Too Anxious: Anthropology and the Decolonial Project7
Whither book reviews?7
Putting Big Tech in its place: A view of the virtual from Los Angeles7
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The geopower of kaolin clay: Toward a political geology of archaeological ceramics7
Does a decolonized anthropology require reinterpreting the past?7
Borderland Anxiety: Negotiating Care Ethics at a Transcultural Clinic7
FandangObon: Amplification, counter‐publics, and fugitive spaces of belonging in Los Angeles7
Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors6
Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability By JacobDoherty. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 288 pp.6
Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey6
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology by Redman, Samuel J.Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2022. 314pp.6
Heritages of (de)colonialism: Reflections from the Pacific Northwest Coast, Canada6
There's more to anthropology's past than most of us know6
The Worst of Anthro Job Ads for 20216
Toward an anthropology that cares: Lessons from the Academic Carework project6
Anthropology of the Hometown6
Navigating the Bureaucratic Dimensions of Reproductive Violence on the US‐Mexico Border During the COVID‐19 Public Health Emergency5
Liberating trails and travel routes in Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en Territories from the tyrannies of heritage resource management regimes5
Fragile Resonance: Caring for Older Family Members in Japan and England, by JasonDanely, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 249 pp.5
Bitter Shade: The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness By Michael R.Dove. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. 291 pp.5
What's Birth Got to Do With It? Skepticism, Voice, and Race at a Midwives’ Vigil in London5
Sampling as ethnographic method/remixing Gulu City5
Correction to “The Violence of Collecting”5
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Banker, pastor, teef: Christian financial elites and vernaculars of accountability in Ghana5
Archaeology in 2022: Counter‐myths for hopeful futures5
When Is a Wrong Answer Right?: Mediating Indigenous Language Revitalization at Taiwan Indigenous Television5
The anthropological and the consequential5
Light Leak as Method: Theorizing a Photographic Accident5
Introduction: Modalities of planetary health and justice5
Pumayuyus5
Writing in community: Relationship building and accountability in knowledge production5
Jan Vansina (1929–2017)5
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia4
Paul Edward Farmer (1959–2022)4
Housing as asset and payment: Construction, speculation, and financialization at the European periphery4
Chronic Erasure: Eradicating Heritage in Gaza and Ayodhya4
Comments on a found text: “Return to Acirema: Fragments regarding twenty‐first‐century Nacirema culture”4
Calling names: Humoring caste and caste‐ing humor4
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Fire, ice, and flood4
Anti‐Bodies, Anti‐Body: A Black Feminist Call and Response: Introduction3
Segregation made them neighbors: An archaeology of racialization in Boise, Idaho By William A.White III, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. 234 pp.3
Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader edited by Ana Y.Ramos‐Zayas and Mérida M.RúaNew York: New York University Press, 2021. 571 pp.3
When do no harm becomes harm done: Re‐centering ethics in anthropology3
Beyond “Lessons From the Past”: Archaeology and Environmental Crisis3
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Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank By KareemRabie. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. 272 pp.3
Surviving in an age of transparency: Emancipatory transparency‐making in food governance in Italy3
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Textures of Black sound and affect: Life and death in New Orleans3
Caring labor and the affective economy in the making of the Caribbean3
Living ruins: Native engagements with past materialities in contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes Edited by PhilippeErikson and ValentinaVapnarsky. Louisville: University of Colorado Press3
The Fabric of Resistance: Textile Workshops and the Rise of Rebellious Landscapes in Colonial Peru by DiHuTuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2022. 248 pp.3
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Beyond dystopia: Regenerative cultures and ethics among European climate activists3
Trade Networks and Consumer Practices in Amedeka, Ghana: Negotiating “Nkudzedze” From the Late 19th to Mid‐20th Centuries2
Legend of the locked doors: The sexualization of archaeological site workers in the Middle East2
Heritage as new social engineering in China: (De)colonial avenues2
Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots by MaryWeismantelAustin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 246 pp.2
Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt By JessicaBarnes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 320 pp.2
Woman the hunter: The physiological evidence2
Off‐the‐record: Metapragmatic distinctions and linguistic sympathy among interpreters in a California child welfare court2
Black Anti‐Bodies at Play2
Understanding higher education policy in Florida among university students: Bound together or in savage slots?2
After Dark: The Nocturnal Urban Landscape and Lightscape of Ancient Cities By NancyGonlin and Meghan E.Strong, eds. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2022. 312 pp.2
Origami activism, inalienable collections, and crumbling concrete: Material engagements with Histories of violence2
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Atomic archaeology: Italian innovation and American adventurism2
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Seeking clarity at a time of confusion, through world anthropologies2
Politics of Resilience and Materialism in Archaeological Explanation2
Old Bones in New Databases: Historical Insights Into Race, Statistics, and Ancestry Estimation in Anthropology2
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Positioning Ontologies of Racial Inequity That are Prevalent in Reproductive and Maternal Health in South Africa2
The social life of illegality: Suspicion and surveillance against African migrants in urban India2
Artistic Interlude: A Personal Reflection on Visual Storytelling and Harm2
Parenting and the production of ethnographic knowledge2
Roy Wagner (1938–2018)2
Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone By Tania MurrayLi and PujoSemedi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 256 pp.2
“This cannot leave here, I'm telling you because of my trust in you”: Confessions and ethnographic intimacy in fieldwork with Colombian soldiers2
The Problem of Resilience and the Politics of Precarity2
Welcome to the Anthropozine! DIY Booklets as an Alternative to the Peer‐Reviewed Publication2
A (Linguistic) Anthropology of Ambivalence: Exploring Discourses of Serbian Pasts, Presents, and Futures2
Calibrating care: Family caregiving and the social weight of sympathy (tình cảm) in Vietnam2
David Graeber (1961–2020)2
Crossing at y/our own peril: Biocultural boundary crossing in anthropology2
Planting the future2
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic2
NFTs as skeuomorphs: Weaponized sameness and fascist utopias2
We Are the Land: A History of Native California by Damon B.Akins and William J.BauerJr.Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 384 pp.2
Can anthropologists get humor? A collaborative experiment on empathetic knowing at a time of predicaments2
Stuck Moving: Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology By PeterBenson. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 361 pp.2
Loss remakes you2
Heritage and decoloniality: Reflections from Sri Lanka—A conversation2
Reciprocity and intimate capital in household work: Exchanging love and care for labor rights in contemporary Buenos Aires2
Decentering death: The war on terror and the less‐than‐lethal paradigm2
On the Compositional Relationship of Text and Image in Graphic Anthropology: The Promise of “Sequential” and “Unrestrained” Perspectives for Unsettling Representation2
Esteeming goods for non‐accumulation, small realms with few people: Interpreting kula withLaozi1
Theorizing with incorrect data: A new look at the historical inaccuracies of the bioarchaeology of corsets1
“Heritage is about today, it's not about what happened in the past”: A conversation with Webber Ndoro, Director General of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of1
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On special sections1
Trees Are Shape Shifters: How Cultivation, Climate Change, and Disaster Create Landscapes By Andrew S.Mathews. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. 320 pp.1
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Managing, now becoming, refugees: Climate change and extractivism in the Republic of Nauru1
Engaged Archaeology in the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico edited by Kelley A.Hays‐Gilpin, Sarah A.Herr, and Patrick D.Lyons, Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2021. 342 pp.1
A conversation on redefining ethical considerations in forensic anthropology1
Cultivating Potentialities: Future‐Making and Its Conditions in Tarlabaşı, Istanbul1
Legibility and Agency1
Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by CameliaDewan, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 210 pp.1
Reproducing the “white public space” in anthropology faculty searches1
Mockery amid shooting: Laughter as an expression of expertise at a public clinic in Greater Rio de Janeiro, Brazil1
Bargaining and interdependence: Common parent‐offspring conflict resolution strategies among Chon Chuuk and their implications for suicidal behavior1
“That's the negative moment of the dialectic …”1
Spectral sonics: Field recordings from an extractive zone1
Burn to harvest, burn to sabotage: Between fire and water on a sugar plantation in Madagascar1
The shop floor conditions of anthropology's past and present1
Tracing the structural consequences of colonialism in rural Yucatán, Mexico1
Braided Storytelling as a Method in Archaeology: Reimagining the Sugpiaq Past Through Story1
Flower Worlds: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest edited by Michael D.Mathiowetz and Andrew D.Turner1
Dilemmas of anthropological activism, solidarity, and human rights: Lessons from Haiti1
Douglas A. Feldman (1947–2020)1
Revise and resubmit means just that. Revise. Resubmit.1
Alluvium and Empire: The Archaeology of Colonial Resettlement and Indigenous Persistence on Peru's North Coast by ParkerVanValkenburghTucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021. 306 pp.1
(M)other Tongue Aspirations: Negotiating Banjara Language, Identity, and Education Policy in Rural India1
Studying hazing as an anthropologist: The impact of mandatory reporting1
The violence of collecting1
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Paul Rabinow (1944–2021)1
Introduction: Mother Tongue as Global Politics1
A Tyranny Against Itself: Intimate Partner Violence in the Margins of Bogotá1
Food (inter)activism in the Marquesas, French Polynesia1
Once Upon the Permafrost: Knowing Culture and Climate Change in Siberia by Susan. ACrateTucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021. 327 pp.1
“What's going on with my China?”: Political subjectivity, scalar inquiry, and the magical power of Li Wenliang1
In the Shadow of the Palms: More‐Than‐Human Becomings in West Papua by SophieChao,Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 336 pp.1
Diagnosis, visibility, and “Illnesses You Have to Fight to Get”1
Artistic Interlude: A Personal Reflection on Birth1
Reviewing review1
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The presence of abandonment: Left to live at the borderland of Lampedusa1
Introduction: Book Forum on Andrew Brandel's Moving Words: Literature, Memory, and Migration in Berlin1
“Green peppers, tomatoes, and lemons, disunite!”: Feminist solidarity in times of wars1
Museum Matters: Making and Unmaking Mexico's National Collections edited by MirunaAchim, SusanDeans‐Smith and SandraRozental, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021. 312 pp.1
Biocarceral citizenship: Criminalizing through care in postapartheid South Africa1
Refusal and Aporia: At the Limits of Anthropological Knowledge1
How to Fish With Respect: A Transformation of Human‐Fish Relations in Riverside Amazonia1
Exposure: Racialized Birth Trauma and Epigenetic Inheritance1
The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security by Stephen J.Collier and AndrewLakoffPrinceton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 480 pp.1
Animal work before capitalism: Sheep's reproductive labor in the ancient South Caucasus1
The end of bamboo houses in northern Laos1
“I confess, I hardly know what to say …”1
Toward an Ethnography of God1
Living in the Paraindustrial1
This Language Is Mine: US College Students Navigating Contradictions of “Mother Tongue” and Heritage Language1
More‐than‐human supremacy: Himalayan lessons on cosmopolitics1
Risk and its others: Toward an anthropology of “protection” in rural Mongolia1
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Reflections on the weaponization of “civil” discourse and the silencing of dissent in higher education: An example from Florida0
Introduction: On Vanishing Fieldsites0
The Multiplicity of Reduction: Feeding Strategies for Working Together0
Response to “Can women hunt? Yes, did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.”0
Contemporary art, Amerindian rock art heritage, and decolonization in the Guadeloupean archipelago0
Conjuring and Calming Anxiety: CrossFit and Whiteness in Contemporary America0
Living With Latent Waste: Archaeology in a Permanently Polluted World0
Everyday Life in the Spectacular City: Making Home in Dubai0
Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore By NicoleFabricant. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 266 pp.0
Tasting Red, Hearing Silk: Synesthesia, Sensory Labor, and the Social Aesthetics of Chefs0
Whose “Problem” Is the Climate? Deep Time Perspectives and the Contemporary Lens0
Wheels Turning: Anthropological Solidarity, Engaged Buddhism, and a Return to the 1990s0
The ends of research: Indigenous and settler science after the War in the Woods By TomÖzden‐Schilling. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 294 pp.0
Black Anti‐Bodies Versus Resistive Antibody in a Feminist Infrastructure of Care0
“Like We're Meeting the Ancestors”: Toward an Lˈnucentric Archaeology in Miˈkmaˈki0
Implementing an antiracist framework in forensic anthropology: Our responsibility in professional organizations and as scientists0
Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity by Ramyar D.Rossoukh and Steven C.Caton, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 288 pp.0
Epistemania! (On the Very Idea of “Knowledge Production”)0
Fear the Native woman: Femininity, food, and power in the sixteenth‐century North Carolina Piedmont0
Commentary on “Unsettling the Self: Autoethnography and Related Kin”0
Comments on Andrew Brandel's Moving Words: Literature, Memory, and Migration in Berlin0
“See, Your Grandma Has Two Mother Tongues…or Only One?”: Shame, Dialect, and Shifting Mother Tongues in Sicily0
“But we met expectations! Why us?”: Threats to anthropology and learning from the program cut at UNC Greensboro0
Evolving payoff currencies through the construction of causal theories0
The psychology and social dynamics of fetal sex prognostication in China: Evidence from historical data0
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In lieu of “keywords”: Toward an anthropology of rapport0
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“We're tired of this Weber guy!”—Force experts, police reforms, and the violence of standardization0
The Polyglot: Plurilingual Wonders, “Mother Tongue” Hegemony, and Totalizing Images in and of Singapore0
Battle in the Clouds0
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“The Statistical View Is Not the Moral View”: Disposable Medical Plastics as Toxic Infrastructure0
Jane Isabel Guyer (1943–2024)0
Fieldwork confessionals0
Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru By JuliaCaroline Morris. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 308 pp.0
I don't bite0
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Learning to Love Rats: A Postwar Ecology in a Cambodian Minefield0
Crisis Talk: Archaeology and the Narrativization of the Environmental Present0
Knowing‐through‐Performing0
“Is your investigation from a professional perspective, or as a woman?”0
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the troubled birth of psychedelic science By BenjaminBreen. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2024. 384 pp.0
Aspirational architecture and AK‐47s: Fragmented violence in Liberia from settlement to the contemporary0
Rooting in a useless land: Ancient farmers, celebrity chefs, and environmental justice in Yucatán By ChelseaFisher, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023. 280 pp.0
Weathered remains: Bioarchaeology, identity, and the landscape0
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Hunger as more‐than‐human communicative modality on the West Papuan oil palm frontier0
Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility By Jessica M.Smith. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. 298 pp.0
Pocodisco: The sonic performativity of grief, grievance, and joy in diaspora0
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Climate the Antagonist0
Intimate ethnography: What's it good for?0
“You have harmed us”: Stories of violence, narratives of hope among the Port Gamble S'Klallam0
“I've never told anyone that before …”0
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