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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Shadow worlding: Chasing light in Yogyakarta64
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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.26
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The house is coming from inside the call21
Can women hunt? Yes. Did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.17
Slaughterhouse tours in Denmark: Affective nationalism in the making of citizen‐consumers and the industrial slaughter of happy pigs17
Stable condition: Traumatic injury, coma, and vital traffic in a Mumbai hospital ward17
Leaving traces: Fairy houses, kindness stones, and constructed heritage16
The forever war, foregone15
A thousand tiny cuts: Mobility and security across the Bangladesh‐India borderland By SahanaGhosh. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023. 296 pp.15
Generous peer review14
The Anthropology of Anxiety: An Introduction14
What makes a “good” forensic anthropologist?14
Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai14
Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population: An epistolary review essay14
Cartographic archives: Excavating the subterranean with a camera13
A forgetful ethnography: Memory, memoir, and brain injuries13
Queering pregnancy12
Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire12
Toxic Waste, Worried Communities: Building an Archaeology of Concern12
Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh By KasiaPaprocki, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 270 pp.11
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria10
Truth before transition: Reimagining anthropology as restorative justice10
From rhetoric to reality: Why we need an anthropology of higher education policy10
The sustainability myth: Environmental gentrification and the politics of justice By MelissaChecker. New York: NYU Press, 2020. 280 pp.10
Life in an age of death: War and the river in Bosnia and Herzegovina10
A croquis for the stenourbanite10
Putting Big Tech in its place: A view of the virtual from Los Angeles9
“I have no proof, but …”9
The Art of Remembering and Making a Way: Going There, Knowing There, and Other Curious Lessons From “The Genius of the South”9
The echo of the world: The castaway, the Garabandal apparitions, and the crisis of presence9
Borderland Anxiety: Negotiating Care Ethics at a Transcultural Clinic8
Does a decolonized anthropology require reinterpreting the past?8
Silenced resentments and regrets: Aging in a changing Kibbutz8
Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh by Lamia KarimMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 272 pp.8
Welcoming the foreigner: Notes on the possibility of multispecies hospitality8
The geopower of kaolin clay: Toward a political geology of archaeological ceramics7
An ethnography of joy: Entrepreneurship among Latinx communities in East Los Angeles7
Water sharing is a distressing form of reciprocity: Shame, upset, anger, and conflict over water in twenty cross‐cultural sites7
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Toward an anthropology that cares: Lessons from the Academic Carework project6
The Worst of Anthro Job Ads for 20216
We Are Too Anxious: Anthropology and the Decolonial Project6
FandangObon: Amplification, counter‐publics, and fugitive spaces of belonging in Los Angeles6
Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors6
Anthropology of the Hometown6
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology by Redman, Samuel J.Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2022. 314pp.6
Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability By JacobDoherty. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 288 pp.6
Whither book reviews?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 anthropological and the consequential6
The quest for a good life: Incense seeing and the porous and dividual hoping person in North China5
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Liberating trails and travel routes in Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en Territories from the tyrannies of heritage resource management regimes5
Beyond the normative: Ambiguity in the making of a South Indian Sufi5
Banker, pastor, teef: Christian financial elites and vernaculars of accountability in Ghana5
Navigating the Bureaucratic Dimensions of Reproductive Violence on the US‐Mexico Border During the COVID‐19 Public Health Emergency5
Introduction: Modalities of planetary health and justice5
Pumayuyus5
Light Leak as Method: Theorizing a Photographic Accident5
Anthropology‐as‐theology: Violent endings and the permanence of new beginnings5
Archaeology in 2022: Counter‐myths for hopeful futures5
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
Correction to “The Violence of Collecting”5
When do no harm becomes harm done: Re‐centering ethics in anthropology4
Embracing the Anaconda: A Chronicle of Atacameño Life and Mining in the Andes by AnitaCarrascoLondon: Lexington Books, 2020. 171 pp.4
Chronic Erasure: Eradicating Heritage in Gaza and Ayodhya4
Writing in community: Relationship building and accountability in knowledge production4
Comments on a found text: “Return to Acirema: Fragments regarding twenty‐first‐century Nacirema culture”4
The varieties of sonic experience: “Quiet” versus “not‐noise” in a Ghanaian harvest festival4
Calling names: Humoring caste and caste‐ing humor4
Paul Edward Farmer (1959–2022)4
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia4
Amelia Louise Susman Schultz (1915–2021)4
Jan Vansina (1929–2017)4
Beyond dystopia: Regenerative cultures and ethics among European climate activists4
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Housing as asset and payment: Construction, speculation, and financialization at the European periphery4
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Textures of Black sound and affect: Life and death in New Orleans4
Sampling as ethnographic method/remixing Gulu City4
Fire, ice, and flood4
Anti‐Bodies, Anti‐Body: A Black Feminist Call and Response: Introduction3
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
Living ruins: Native engagements with past materialities in contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes Edited by PhilippeErikson and ValentinaVapnarsky. Louisville: University of Colorado Press3
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Sonic matters: Singing as method and the epistemology of singing across Bengali esoteric lineages3
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Caring labor and the affective economy in the making of the Caribbean3
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
Atomic archaeology: Italian innovation and American adventurism3
Surviving in an age of transparency: Emancipatory transparency‐making in food governance in Italy3
Seeking clarity at a time of confusion, through world anthropologies3
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
Reciprocity and intimate capital in household work: Exchanging love and care for labor rights in contemporary Buenos Aires3
Trade Networks and Consumer Practices in Amedeka, Ghana: Negotiating “Nkudzedze” From the Late 19th to Mid‐20th Centuries3
David Graeber (1961–2020)3
“This cannot leave here, I'm telling you because of my trust in you”: Confessions and ethnographic intimacy in fieldwork with Colombian soldiers2
Understanding higher education policy in Florida among university students: Bound together or in savage slots?2
Crossing at y/our own peril: Biocultural boundary crossing in anthropology2
NFTs as skeuomorphs: Weaponized sameness and fascist utopias2
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
The Problem of Resilience and the Politics of Precarity2
On the Compositional Relationship of Text and Image in Graphic Anthropology: The Promise of “Sequential” and “Unrestrained” Perspectives for Unsettling Representation2
Politics of Resilience and Materialism in Archaeological Explanation2
Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality by TodneThomasDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 252 pp.The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family by SophieBjork‐J2
A conversation on redefining ethical considerations in forensic anthropology2
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The social life of illegality: Suspicion and surveillance against African migrants in urban India2
Parenting and the production of ethnographic knowledge2
Artistic Interlude: A Personal Reflection on Visual Storytelling and Harm2
Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone By Tania MurrayLi and PujoSemedi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 256 pp.2
Legend of the locked doors: The sexualization of archaeological site workers in the Middle East2
Roy Wagner (1938–2018)2
Black Anti‐Bodies at Play2
Origami activism, inalienable collections, and crumbling concrete: Material engagements with Histories of violence2
Calibrating care: Family caregiving and the social weight of sympathy (tình cảm) in Vietnam2
Decentering death: The war on terror and the less‐than‐lethal paradigm2
Archaeology of Violence and Privilege edited by Christopher N.Matthews and Bradley D.PhillippiAlbuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020. 306 pp.2
Planting the future2
Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt By JessicaBarnes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 320 pp.2
Heritage as new social engineering in China: (De)colonial avenues2
Can anthropologists get humor? A collaborative experiment on empathetic knowing at a time of predicaments2
The eye and the other: Language and ethics in deaf Nepal2
Loss remakes you2
Stuck Moving: Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology By PeterBenson. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 361 pp.2
Heritage and decoloniality: Reflections from Sri Lanka—A conversation2
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
Beyond “Lessons From the Past”: Archaeology and Environmental Crisis2
Old Bones in New Databases: Historical Insights Into Race, Statistics, and Ancestry Estimation in Anthropology2
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Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots by MaryWeismantelAustin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 246 pp.2
Woman the hunter: The physiological evidence2
Off‐the‐record: Metapragmatic distinctions and linguistic sympathy among interpreters in a California child welfare court2
Toward an Ethnography of God1
“What's going on with my China?”: Political subjectivity, scalar inquiry, and the magical power of Li Wenliang1
Animal work before capitalism: Sheep's reproductive labor in the ancient South Caucasus1
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Spectral sonics: Field recordings from an extractive zone1
The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil1
“That's the negative moment of the dialectic …”1
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
Braided Storytelling as a Method in Archaeology: Reimagining the Sugpiaq Past Through Story1
Esteeming goods for non‐accumulation, small realms with few people: Interpreting kula withLaozi1
Reviewing review1
Mobility and Migration in Ancient Mesoamerican Cities. M. CharlotteArnauld, ChristopherBeekman, GrégoryPereira. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2021. 377 pp.1
“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
Food (inter)activism in the Marquesas, French Polynesia1
The presence of abandonment: Left to live at the borderland of Lampedusa1
How to Fish With Respect: A Transformation of Human‐Fish Relations in Riverside Amazonia1
The violence of collecting1
Of Athens, crises, and other medicines1
Paul Rabinow (1944–2021)1
Biocarceral citizenship: Criminalizing through care in postapartheid South Africa1
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
The end of bamboo houses in northern Laos1
“I confess, I hardly know what to say …”1
Douglas A. Feldman (1947–2020)1
(M)other Tongue Aspirations: Negotiating Banjara Language, Identity, and Education Policy in Rural India1
Once Upon the Permafrost: Knowing Culture and Climate Change in Siberia by Susan. ACrateTucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021. 327 pp.1
Bargaining and interdependence: Common parent‐offspring conflict resolution strategies among Chon Chuuk and their implications for suicidal behavior1
In the Shadow of the Palms: More‐Than‐Human Becomings in West Papua by SophieChao,Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 336 pp.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
The shop floor conditions of anthropology's past and present1
More‐than‐human supremacy: Himalayan lessons on cosmopolitics1
Revise and resubmit means just that. Revise. Resubmit.1
Theorizing with incorrect data: A new look at the historical inaccuracies of the bioarchaeology of corsets1
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Sorcery in Mesoamerica edited by Jeremy D.Coltman and John M. D.PohlLouisville: University Press of Colorado, 2022. 409 pp.1
Reproducing the “white public space” in anthropology faculty searches1
Risk and its others: Toward an anthropology of “protection” in rural Mongolia1
On special sections1
Exposure: Racialized Birth Trauma and Epigenetic Inheritance1
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
Introduction: Mother Tongue as Global Politics1
Mockery amid shooting: Laughter as an expression of expertise at a public clinic in Greater Rio de Janeiro, Brazil1
Landscapes of forgetting and structural silence in the American Southeast1
Dilemmas of anthropological activism, solidarity, and human rights: Lessons from Haiti1
Flower Worlds: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest edited by Michael D.Mathiowetz and Andrew D.Turner1
This Language Is Mine: US College Students Navigating Contradictions of “Mother Tongue” and Heritage Language1
Swamped: On Depression and Vision1
Living in the Paraindustrial1
“Green peppers, tomatoes, and lemons, disunite!”: Feminist solidarity in times of wars1
Tracing the structural consequences of colonialism in rural Yucatán, Mexico1
Artistic Interlude: A Personal Reflection on Birth1
Diagnosis, visibility, and “Illnesses You Have to Fight to Get”1
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
Burn to harvest, burn to sabotage: Between fire and water on a sugar plantation in Madagascar1
Studying hazing as an anthropologist: The impact of mandatory reporting1
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Legibility and Agency1
A Tyranny Against Itself: Intimate Partner Violence in the Margins of Bogotá1
Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by CameliaDewan, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 210 pp.1
Managing, now becoming, refugees: Climate change and extractivism in the Republic of Nauru1
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Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil by Heather F.RollerStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 360 pp.0
“But we met expectations! Why us?”: Threats to anthropology and learning from the program cut at UNC Greensboro0
Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility By Jessica M.Smith. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. 298 pp.0
The Multiplicity of Reduction: Feeding Strategies for Working Together0
Evolving payoff currencies through the construction of causal theories0
Commentary on “Unsettling the Self: Autoethnography and Related Kin”0
Fear the Native woman: Femininity, food, and power in the sixteenth‐century North Carolina Piedmont0
Crisis Talk: Archaeology and the Narrativization of the Environmental Present0
Introduction: On Vanishing Fieldsites0
The importance of professional organizations as disciplinary leaders and the need for meaningful ethical codes in anthropology0
Learning to Love Rats: A Postwar Ecology in a Cambodian Minefield0
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
“See, Your Grandma Has Two Mother Tongues…or Only One?”: Shame, Dialect, and Shifting Mother Tongues in Sicily0
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Breach: A portolan of multimodal practice0
“Is your investigation from a professional perspective, or as a woman?”0
Nancy D. Munn (April 13, 1931–January 20, 2020)0
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Implementing an antiracist framework in forensic anthropology: Our responsibility in professional organizations and as scientists0
Intimate ethnography: What's it good for?0
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Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru By JuliaCaroline Morris. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 308 pp.0
Australia's First Nations0
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Wheels Turning: Anthropological Solidarity, Engaged Buddhism, and a Return to the 1990s0
Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity by Ramyar D.Rossoukh and Steven C.Caton, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 288 pp.0
Vibrant modalities: Indigenous modes of being and survival in the sixth extinction0
Knowing‐through‐Performing0
Conjuring and Calming Anxiety: CrossFit and Whiteness in Contemporary America0
Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore By NicoleFabricant. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 266 pp.0
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
Whose “Problem” Is the Climate? Deep Time Perspectives and the Contemporary Lens0
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
“Eliminate Anthropology”: Attitudes toward social science in the public discourse0
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“The Statistical View Is Not the Moral View”: Disposable Medical Plastics as Toxic Infrastructure0
Aspirational architecture and AK‐47s: Fragmented violence in Liberia from settlement to the contemporary0
Nothing comes without its story0
“I've never told anyone that before …”0
Hunger as more‐than‐human communicative modality on the West Papuan oil palm frontier0
Reflections on the weaponization of “civil” discourse and the silencing of dissent in higher education: An example from Florida0
Fieldwork confessionals0
Anthropology and the misery of writing0
The Polyglot: Plurilingual Wonders, “Mother Tongue” Hegemony, and Totalizing Images in and of Singapore0
Jane Isabel Guyer (1943–2024)0
The psychology and social dynamics of fetal sex prognostication in China: Evidence from historical data0
Steven Gregory (1953–2021)0
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“Like We're Meeting the Ancestors”: Toward an Lˈnucentric Archaeology in Miˈkmaˈki0
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