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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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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.40
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Leaving traces: Fairy houses, kindness stones, and constructed heritage31
A thousand tiny cuts: Mobility and security across the Bangladesh‐India borderland By SahanaGhosh. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023. 296 pp.28
The forever war, foregone22
What makes a “good” forensic anthropologist?20
Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population: An epistolary review essay18
The house is coming from inside the call17
Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai16
Correction to “Social‐Science Fiction: The Genesis and Legacy of Horace Miner's ‘Body Ritual Among the Nacirema’”16
Slaughterhouse tours in Denmark: Affective nationalism in the making of citizen‐consumers and the industrial slaughter of happy pigs15
Can women hunt? Yes. Did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.15
The Anthropology of Anxiety: An Introduction13
Generous peer review13
Stable condition: Traumatic injury, coma, and vital traffic in a Mumbai hospital ward13
Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom13
Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire12
Moving Readers12
Toxic Waste, Worried Communities: Building an Archaeology of Concern12
Cartographic archives: Excavating the subterranean with a camera12
Queering pregnancy12
A croquis for the stenourbanite9
Elemental Ethnography: A Proposition9
Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh By KasiaPaprocki, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 270 pp.9
The sustainability myth: Environmental gentrification and the politics of justice By MelissaChecker. New York: NYU Press, 2020. 280 pp.9
Truth before transition: Reimagining anthropology as restorative justice8
A forgetful ethnography: Memory, memoir, and brain injuries8
Welcoming the foreigner: Notes on the possibility of multispecies hospitality8
Sensations: French Archaeology Between Science and Spectacle, 1890–19408
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria8
From rhetoric to reality: Why we need an anthropology of higher education policy8
The Art of Remembering and Making a Way: Going There, Knowing There, and Other Curious Lessons From “The Genius of the South”8
“I have no proof, but …”7
WITHDRAWAL: We Are Too Anxious: Anthropology and the Decolonial Project7
An ethnography of joy: Entrepreneurship among Latinx communities in East Los Angeles7
Putting Big Tech in its place: A view of the virtual from Los Angeles7
Borderland Anxiety: Negotiating Care Ethics at a Transcultural Clinic7
Does a decolonized anthropology require reinterpreting the past?6
Whither book reviews?6
The echo of the world: The castaway, the Garabandal apparitions, and the crisis of presence6
The geopower of kaolin clay: Toward a political geology of archaeological ceramics6
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Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh by Lamia KarimMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 272 pp.6
Silenced resentments and regrets: Aging in a changing Kibbutz6
FandangObon: Amplification, counter‐publics, and fugitive spaces of belonging in Los Angeles6
Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors5
Toward an anthropology that cares: Lessons from the Academic Carework project5
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Banker, pastor, teef: Christian financial elites and vernaculars of accountability in Ghana5
The anthropological and the consequential5
Heritages of (de)colonialism: Reflections from the Pacific Northwest Coast, Canada5
The Worst of Anthro Job Ads for 20215
Anthropology of the Hometown5
Introduction: Modalities of planetary health and justice5
Pumayuyus5
Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability By JacobDoherty. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 288 pp.5
Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey5
There's more to anthropology's past than most of us know5
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
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Writing in community: Relationship building and accountability in knowledge production4
Correction to “The Violence of Collecting”4
Archaeology in 2022: Counter‐myths for hopeful futures4
Navigating the Bureaucratic Dimensions of Reproductive Violence on the US‐Mexico Border During the COVID‐19 Public Health Emergency4
Jan Vansina (1929–2017)4
Comments on a found text: “Return to Acirema: Fragments regarding twenty‐first‐century Nacirema culture”4
When Is a Wrong Answer Right?: Mediating Indigenous Language Revitalization at Taiwan Indigenous Television4
The New Jewish Shepherd: Land Grabbing and Redemption in the Occupied West Bank4
Light Leak as Method: Theorizing a Photographic Accident4
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia4
Paul Edward Farmer (1959–2022)4
What's Birth Got to Do With It? Skepticism, Voice, and Race at a Midwives’ Vigil in London4
Bodies, Stereotypes, and Reproduction: Black Migrants Experiencing Obstetric Violence and Racism in Portugal4
Liberating trails and travel routes in Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en Territories from the tyrannies of heritage resource management regimes4
Housing as asset and payment: Construction, speculation, and financialization at the European periphery3
Fire, ice, and flood3
Sampling as ethnographic method/remixing Gulu City3
Surviving in an age of transparency: Emancipatory transparency‐making in food governance in Italy3
Living ruins: Native engagements with past materialities in contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes Edited by PhilippeErikson and ValentinaVapnarsky. Louisville: University of Colorado Press3
When do no harm becomes harm done: Re‐centering ethics in anthropology3
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Calling names: Humoring caste and caste‐ing humor3
Caring labor and the affective economy in the making of the Caribbean3
Anti‐Bodies, Anti‐Body: A Black Feminist Call and Response: Introduction3
Critical Research Spaces as Scholarship: an Ethnography Lab as an Apparatus for the Experimental, the Imaginary, and the Relational3
Textures of Black sound and affect: Life and death in New Orleans3
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
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
Chronic Erasure: Eradicating Heritage in Gaza and Ayodhya3
Positioning Ontologies of Racial Inequity That are Prevalent in Reproductive and Maternal Health in South Africa2
Can anthropologists get humor? A collaborative experiment on empathetic knowing at a time of predicaments2
Legend of the locked doors: The sexualization of archaeological site workers in the Middle East2
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
Black Anti‐Bodies at Play2
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Calibrating care: Family caregiving and the social weight of sympathy (tình cảm) in Vietnam2
Trade Networks and Consumer Practices in Amedeka, Ghana: Negotiating “Nkudzedze” From the Late 19th to Mid‐20th Centuries2
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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
Understanding higher education policy in Florida among university students: Bound together or in savage slots?2
Parenting and the production of ethnographic knowledge2
Heritage as new social engineering in China: (De)colonial avenues2
Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone By Tania MurrayLi and PujoSemedi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 256 pp.2
Politics of Resilience and Materialism in Archaeological Explanation2
Heritage and decoloniality: Reflections from Sri Lanka—A conversation2
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Campaneando : Surveilling With the Dead in Bogotá’s Drug Markets2
Artistic Interlude: A Personal Reflection on Visual Storytelling and Harm2
The Problem of Resilience and the Politics of Precarity2
Beyond “Lessons From the Past”: Archaeology and Environmental Crisis2
Seeking clarity at a time of confusion, through world anthropologies2
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A (Linguistic) Anthropology of Ambivalence: Exploring Discourses of Serbian Pasts, Presents, and Futures2
Roy Wagner (1938–2018)2
NFTs as skeuomorphs: Weaponized sameness and fascist utopias2
Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic2
Loss remakes you2
Decentering death: The war on terror and the less‐than‐lethal paradigm2
Origami activism, inalienable collections, and crumbling concrete: Material engagements with Histories of violence2
Welcome to the Anthropozine! DIY Booklets as an Alternative to the Peer‐Reviewed Publication2
On the Compositional Relationship of Text and Image in Graphic Anthropology: The Promise of “Sequential” and “Unrestrained” Perspectives for Unsettling Representation2
Old Bones in New Databases: Historical Insights Into Race, Statistics, and Ancestry Estimation in Anthropology2
“This cannot leave here, I'm telling you because of my trust in you”: Confessions and ethnographic intimacy in fieldwork with Colombian soldiers2
Reciprocity and intimate capital in household work: Exchanging love and care for labor rights in contemporary Buenos Aires2
David Graeber (1961–2020)2
The Fabric of Resistance: Textile Workshops and the Rise of Rebellious Landscapes in Colonial Peru by DiHuTuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2022. 248 pp.2
Stuck Moving: Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology By PeterBenson. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 361 pp.2
The social life of illegality: Suspicion and surveillance against African migrants in urban India2
Woman the hunter: The physiological evidence2
Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt By JessicaBarnes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 320 pp.1
Theorizing with incorrect data: A new look at the historical inaccuracies of the bioarchaeology of corsets1
Exposure: Racialized Birth Trauma and Epigenetic Inheritance1
The shop floor conditions of anthropology's past and present1
Mockery amid shooting: Laughter as an expression of expertise at a public clinic in Greater Rio de Janeiro, Brazil1
In the Shadow of the Palms: More‐Than‐Human Becomings in West Papua by SophieChao,Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 336 pp.1
The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil1
On special sections1
Can there be a Godly ethnography? Islamic anthropology, epistemic decolonization, and the ethnographic stance1
Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia1
Mobilizing an Ancient Lens to Obscure “Disaster”1
Dilemmas of anthropological activism, solidarity, and human rights: Lessons from Haiti1
Sisterly intimacies: Islam, gift‐giving, and women's relations of care in Russia1
Containing Histories Past and Present: Making Samples in the “Huntington Collection” (1893–1921)1
Diagnosis, visibility, and “Illnesses You Have to Fight to Get”1
Legibility and Agency1
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“What's going on with my China?”: Political subjectivity, scalar inquiry, and the magical power of Li Wenliang1
Toward an Ethnography of God1
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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
Off‐the‐record: Metapragmatic distinctions and linguistic sympathy among interpreters in a California child welfare court1
Cultivating Potentialities: Future‐Making and Its Conditions in Tarlabaşı, Istanbul1
Douglas A. Feldman (1947–2020)1
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Artistic Interlude: A Personal Reflection on Birth1
Paul Rabinow (1944–2021)1
Burn to harvest, burn to sabotage: Between fire and water on a sugar plantation in Madagascar1
“That's the negative moment of the dialectic …”1
More‐than‐human supremacy: Himalayan lessons on cosmopolitics1
Revise and resubmit means just that. Revise. Resubmit.1
Introduction ‐ The heritage and decoloniality nexus: Global exchanges and unresolved questions in sedimented landscapes of injustice1
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
On Translatability, Commensurability, and the Present Moment in Germany1
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Braided Storytelling as a Method in Archaeology: Reimagining the Sugpiaq Past Through Story1
Food (inter)activism in the Marquesas, French Polynesia1
A Tyranny Against Itself: Intimate Partner Violence in the Margins of Bogotá1
Animal work before capitalism: Sheep's reproductive labor in the ancient South Caucasus1
(M)other Tongue Aspirations: Negotiating Banjara Language, Identity, and Education Policy in Rural India1
The violence of collecting1
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Refusal and Aporia: At the Limits of Anthropological Knowledge1
“Green peppers, tomatoes, and lemons, disunite!”: Feminist solidarity in times of wars1
How to Fish With Respect: A Transformation of Human‐Fish Relations in Riverside Amazonia1
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Spectral sonics: Field recordings from an extractive zone1
Tracing the structural consequences of colonialism in rural Yucatán, Mexico1
“I confess, I hardly know what to say …”1
Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots by MaryWeismantelAustin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 246 pp.1
Tracing Invisible Historical Legacies in Human Milk Donation: Does Race Matter in Postpartum Care in Cabo Verde?1
Once Upon the Permafrost: Knowing Culture and Climate Change in Siberia by Susan. ACrateTucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021. 327 pp.1
The Dawn of Everything by DavidGraeber and DavidWengrowNew York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2021. 692 pp.1
Introduction: Book Forum on Andrew Brandel's Moving Words: Literature, Memory, and Migration in Berlin1
Black Anti‐bodies and the Lexicon of Racism: A Thought Piece1
The end of bamboo houses in northern Laos1
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
Land Back: Indigenous sovereignty as care through responsibility and relationship1
Planting the future1
Introduction: Mother Tongue as Global Politics1
Risk and its others: Toward an anthropology of “protection” in rural Mongolia1
Studying hazing as an anthropologist: The impact of mandatory reporting1
“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
Biocarceral citizenship: Criminalizing through care in postapartheid South Africa1
This Language Is Mine: US College Students Navigating Contradictions of “Mother Tongue” and Heritage Language1
The presence of abandonment: Left to live at the borderland of Lampedusa1
Bargaining and interdependence: Common parent‐offspring conflict resolution strategies among Chon Chuuk and their implications for suicidal behavior1
Energizing partnerships in research‐to‐policy projects0
Reflections on the weaponization of “civil” discourse and the silencing of dissent in higher education: An example from Florida0
Wheels Turning: Anthropological Solidarity, Engaged Buddhism, and a Return to the 1990s0
“See, Your Grandma Has Two Mother Tongues…or Only One?”: Shame, Dialect, and Shifting Mother Tongues in Sicily0
Commentary on “Unsettling the Self: Autoethnography and Related Kin”0
Knowing‐through‐Performing0
“But we met expectations! Why us?”: Threats to anthropology and learning from the program cut at UNC Greensboro0
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
The Polyglot: Plurilingual Wonders, “Mother Tongue” Hegemony, and Totalizing Images in and of Singapore0
Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility By Jessica M.Smith. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. 298 pp.0
Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta0
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Aspirational architecture and AK‐47s: Fragmented violence in Liberia from settlement to the contemporary0
“I'm telling you this because I love you”0
No Place Like Home in a New City: Anti‐Urbanism and Life in Nairobi0
Jill Susanna Dubisch (1943–2023)0
Introduction: On Vanishing Fieldsites0
Hunger as more‐than‐human communicative modality on the West Papuan oil palm frontier0
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
Perfecting Exit: The Politics of Quitting Among Migrant Care Workers in the United States0
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Nothing comes without its story0
Intimate ethnography: What's it good for?0
Vibrant modalities: Indigenous modes of being and survival in the sixth extinction0
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
Fear the Native woman: Femininity, food, and power in the sixteenth‐century North Carolina Piedmont0
Genocide‐time: Political violence reckoning in Rwanda0
Whose “Problem” Is the Climate? Deep Time Perspectives and the Contemporary Lens0
Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore By NicoleFabricant. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 266 pp.0
Against Natural Resources: Engaging With Indigenous Knowledge to Imagine the Past and the Future of the Amazon0
The psychology and social dynamics of fetal sex prognostication in China: Evidence from historical data0
Contemporary art, Amerindian rock art heritage, and decolonization in the Guadeloupean archipelago0
Everything Leaves Traces: A Critical Review of Slum Acts by Veena Das0
Fieldwork confessionals0
Living With Latent Waste: Archaeology in a Permanently Polluted World0
The Multiplicity of Reduction: Feeding Strategies for Working Together0
Learning to Love Rats: A Postwar Ecology in a Cambodian Minefield0
Crisis Talk: Archaeology and the Narrativization of the Environmental Present0
Jane Isabel Guyer (1943–2024)0
I don't bite0
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Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru By JuliaCaroline Morris. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 308 pp.0
Conjuring and Calming Anxiety: CrossFit and Whiteness in Contemporary America0
“I've never told anyone that before …”0
Introduction: Silent Reverberations: Potentialities of Attuned Listening0
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“We're tired of this Weber guy!”—Force experts, police reforms, and the violence of standardization0
It Takes Two to Tango: A Pluralist Account for Building Comprehensive Explanations in Human Evolution0
“It comes down to dealing with people”: A conversation with Brennen Ferguson, Haudenosaunee Confederacy0
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