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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
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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.33
Shadow worlding: Chasing light in Yogyakarta32
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The house is coming from inside the call21
Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population: An epistolary review essay20
Can women hunt? Yes. Did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.19
Stable condition: Traumatic injury, coma, and vital traffic in a Mumbai hospital ward16
Leaving traces: Fairy houses, kindness stones, and constructed heritage16
Slaughterhouse tours in Denmark: Affective nationalism in the making of citizen‐consumers and the industrial slaughter of happy pigs16
A thousand tiny cuts: Mobility and security across the Bangladesh‐India borderland By SahanaGhosh. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023. 296 pp.16
The forever war, foregone15
Generous peer review14
The Anthropology of Anxiety: An Introduction14
What makes a “good” forensic anthropologist?14
Truth before transition: Reimagining anthropology as restorative justice13
Toxic Waste, Worried Communities: Building an Archaeology of Concern13
Cartographic archives: Excavating the subterranean with a camera13
Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire12
Life in an age of death: War and the river in Bosnia and Herzegovina12
A forgetful ethnography: Memory, memoir, and brain injuries11
Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh By KasiaPaprocki, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 270 pp.11
From rhetoric to reality: Why we need an anthropology of higher education policy11
Queering pregnancy11
The sustainability myth: Environmental gentrification and the politics of justice By MelissaChecker. New York: NYU Press, 2020. 280 pp.10
A croquis for the stenourbanite10
Does a decolonized anthropology require reinterpreting the past?9
An ethnography of joy: Entrepreneurship among Latinx communities in East Los Angeles9
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria9
Relations: An Anthropological Account by MarilynStrathernDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 274 pp.8
“I have no proof, but …”8
The echo of the world: The castaway, the Garabandal apparitions, and the crisis of presence8
The geopower of kaolin clay: Toward a political geology of archaeological ceramics8
Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh by Lamia KarimMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 272 pp.8
Silenced resentments and regrets: Aging in a changing Kibbutz8
Water sharing is a distressing form of reciprocity: Shame, upset, anger, and conflict over water in twenty cross‐cultural sites7
The Art of Remembering and Making a Way: Going There, Knowing There, and Other Curious Lessons From “The Genius of the South”7
Welcoming the foreigner: Notes on the possibility of multispecies hospitality7
Putting Big Tech in its place: A view of the virtual from Los Angeles7
Heritages of (de)colonialism: Reflections from the Pacific Northwest Coast, Canada6
Toward an anthropology that cares: Lessons from the Academic Carework project6
Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors6
Whither book reviews?6
Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability By JacobDoherty. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 288 pp.6
The Worst of Anthro Job Ads for 20216
FandangObon: Amplification, counter‐publics, and fugitive spaces of belonging in Los Angeles6
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There's more to anthropology's past than most of us know6
Pumayuyus5
Fragile Resonance: Caring for Older Family Members in Japan and England, by JasonDanely, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 249 pp.5
Banker, pastor, teef: Christian financial elites and vernaculars of accountability in Ghana5
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology by Redman, Samuel J.Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2022. 314pp.5
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
Bitter Shade: The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness By Michael R.Dove. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. 291 pp.5
Beyond the normative: Ambiguity in the making of a South Indian Sufi5
Introduction: Modalities of planetary health and justice5
The anthropological and the consequential5
Writing in community: Relationship building and accountability in knowledge production5
Anthropology‐as‐theology: Violent endings and the permanence of new beginnings5
Walling In and Walling Out: Why Are We Building New Barriers to Divide Us? edited by LauraMcAtackney and Randall H.McGuireSanta Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research Press & University of New Mexic5
The quest for a good life: Incense seeing and the porous and dividual hoping person in North China5
Archaeology in 2022: Counter‐myths for hopeful futures5
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Jan Vansina (1929–2017)4
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia4
Comments on a found text: “Return to Acirema: Fragments regarding twenty‐first‐century Nacirema culture”4
Paul Edward Farmer (1959–2022)4
Amelia Louise Susman Schultz (1915–2021)4
Chronic Erasure: Eradicating Heritage in Gaza and Ayodhya4
Fire, ice, and flood4
Textures of Black sound and affect: Life and death in New Orleans4
Light Leak as Method: Theorizing a Photographic Accident4
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Sampling as ethnographic method/remixing Gulu City4
Calling names: Humoring caste and caste‐ing humor4
The varieties of sonic experience: “Quiet” versus “not‐noise” in a Ghanaian harvest festival4
Sonic matters: Singing as method and the epistemology of singing across Bengali esoteric lineages3
Surviving in an age of transparency: Emancipatory transparency‐making in food governance in Italy3
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
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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
Caring labor and the affective economy in the making of the Caribbean3
Anti‐Bodies, Anti‐Body: A Black Feminist Call and Response: Introduction3
Atomic archaeology: Italian innovation and American adventurism3
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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
Embracing the Anaconda: A Chronicle of Atacameño Life and Mining in the Andes by AnitaCarrascoLondon: Lexington Books, 2020. 171 pp.3
In Mourning: Sociocultural Anthropology in 20203
Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia by DanielTubb Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 264 pp.3
Politics of Resilience and Materialism in Archaeological Explanation3
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
Housing as asset and payment: Construction, speculation, and financialization at the European periphery3
Adopting a Root: Documenting Ecological and Cultural Signatures of Plant Translocations in Northwestern North America3
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
Beyond dystopia: Regenerative cultures and ethics among European climate activists3
Can anthropologists get humor? A collaborative experiment on empathetic knowing at a time of predicaments2
The social life of illegality: Suspicion and surveillance against African migrants in urban India2
Legend of the locked doors: The sexualization of archaeological site workers in the Middle East2
Origami activism, inalienable collections, and crumbling concrete: Material engagements with Histories of violence2
Loss remakes you2
Black Anti‐Bodies at Play2
“This cannot leave here, I'm telling you because of my trust in you”: Confessions and ethnographic intimacy in fieldwork with Colombian soldiers2
Beyond “Lessons From the Past”: Archaeology and Environmental Crisis2
Seeking clarity at a time of confusion, through world anthropologies2
Calibrating care: Family caregiving and the social weight of sympathy (tình cảm) in Vietnam2
Roy Wagner (1938–2018)2
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
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
The eye and the other: Language and ethics in deaf Nepal2
Heritage and decoloniality: Reflections from Sri Lanka—A conversation2
Artistic Interlude: A Personal Reflection on Visual Storytelling and Harm2
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
The Problem of Resilience and the Politics of Precarity2
David Graeber (1961–2020)2
Stuck Moving: Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology By PeterBenson. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 361 pp.2
NFTs as skeuomorphs: Weaponized sameness and fascist utopias2
Parenting and the production of ethnographic knowledge2
Off‐the‐record: Metapragmatic distinctions and linguistic sympathy among interpreters in a California child welfare court2
Archaeology of Violence and Privilege edited by Christopher N.Matthews and Bradley D.PhillippiAlbuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020. 306 pp.2
Crossing at y/our own peril: Biocultural boundary crossing in anthropology2
Decentering death: The war on terror and the less‐than‐lethal paradigm2
Old Bones in New Databases: Historical Insights Into Race, Statistics, and Ancestry Estimation in Anthropology2
Reciprocity and intimate capital in household work: Exchanging love and care for labor rights in contemporary Buenos Aires2
Trade Networks and Consumer Practices in Amedeka, Ghana: Negotiating “Nkudzedze” From the Late 19th to Mid‐20th Centuries2
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
Woman the hunter: The physiological evidence2
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
Mobility and Migration in Ancient Mesoamerican Cities. M. CharlotteArnauld, ChristopherBeekman, GrégoryPereira. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2021. 377 pp.1
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A conversation on redefining ethical considerations in forensic anthropology1
Resistance and Care in the Time of COVID‐19: Archaeology in 20201
Planting the future1
Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots by MaryWeismantelAustin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 246 pp.1
Arranged Marriage Often Subverts Offspring Mate Choice: An HRAF‐Based Study1
Paul Rabinow (1944–2021)1
The shop floor conditions of anthropology's past and present1
“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
Flower Worlds: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest edited by Michael D.Mathiowetz and Andrew D.Turner1
“Green peppers, tomatoes, and lemons, disunite!”: Feminist solidarity in times of wars1
“I confess, I hardly know what to say …”1
Douglas A. Feldman (1947–2020)1
Marshall David Sahlins (1930–2021)1
Mockery amid shooting: Laughter as an expression of expertise at a public clinic in Greater Rio de Janeiro, Brazil1
Dilemmas of anthropological activism, solidarity, and human rights: Lessons from Haiti1
Studying hazing as an anthropologist: The impact of mandatory reporting1
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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
Exposure: Racialized Birth Trauma and Epigenetic Inheritance1
Reproducing the “white public space” in anthropology faculty searches1
Biocarceral citizenship: Criminalizing through care in postapartheid South Africa1
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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
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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
Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by CameliaDewan, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 210 pp.1
Animal work before capitalism: Sheep's reproductive labor in the ancient South Caucasus1
Spectral sonics: Field recordings from an extractive zone1
Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas by RadhikaGovindrajanChicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 220 pp.1
Food (inter)activism in the Marquesas, French Polynesia1
The violence of collecting1
Introduction: Mother Tongue as Global Politics1
Managing, now becoming, refugees: Climate change and extractivism in the Republic of Nauru1
Between privileges and precariousness: Remaking whiteness in China's teaching English as a second language industry1
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Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt By JessicaBarnes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 320 pp.1
On special sections1
Revise and resubmit means just that. Revise. Resubmit.1
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
Sorcery in Mesoamerica edited by Jeremy D.Coltman and John M. D.PohlLouisville: University Press of Colorado, 2022. 409 pp.1
“What's going on with my China?”: Political subjectivity, scalar inquiry, and the magical power of Li Wenliang1
A Tyranny Against Itself: Intimate Partner Violence in the Margins of Bogotá1
The end of bamboo houses in northern Laos1
This Language Is Mine: US College Students Navigating Contradictions of “Mother Tongue” and Heritage Language1
(M)other Tongue Aspirations: Negotiating Banjara Language, Identity, and Education Policy in Rural India1
Toward an Ethnography of God1
Breach: A portolan of multimodal practice0
Adventures in “belief”: Hearing an old concept in a new key0
The Difference of Black ALS Anti‐Bodies for Survival0
The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse: Coast Miwok Resilience and Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial California by Tsim D.SchneiderTucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021. 232 pp.0
Introduction: On Vanishing Fieldsites0
“Eliminate Anthropology”: Attitudes toward social science in the public discourse0
Against Natural Resources: Engaging With Indigenous Knowledge to Imagine the Past and the Future of the Amazon0
Climate the Antagonist0
The importance of professional organizations as disciplinary leaders and the need for meaningful ethical codes in anthropology0
“You have harmed us”: Stories of violence, narratives of hope among the Port Gamble S'Klallam0
Linguistic taboo, ideology, and erasure: Reproducing homophobia as norm and lesbianism as stigma in women's football in Turkey0
Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru By JuliaCaroline Morris. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 308 pp.0
Life at the Margins of the State: Comparative Landscapes from the Old and New Worlds edited by Alicia M. Boswell and Kyle A. KnabbLouisville: University Press of Colorado, 2022. 266 pp.0
Fear the Native woman: Femininity, food, and power in the sixteenth‐century North Carolina Piedmont0
Weathered remains: Bioarchaeology, identity, and the landscape0
Aspirational architecture and AK‐47s: Fragmented violence in Liberia from settlement to the contemporary0
Property in transition: Legal fantasies, land “reforms,” and contracting peace in Colombia0
“It comes down to dealing with people”: A conversation with Brennen Ferguson, Haudenosaunee Confederacy0
Intimate ethnography: What's it good for?0
Vibrant modalities: Indigenous modes of being and survival in the sixth extinction0
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
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Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore By NicoleFabricant. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 266 pp.0
Introduction: Silent Reverberations: Potentialities of Attuned Listening0
Ex‐gay activism and the reification of sexual identity in law0
Knowing‐through‐Performing0
Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt By RaniaKassab Sweis. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 208 pp.0
“We're tired of this Weber guy!”—Force experts, police reforms, and the violence of standardization0
Disposable kin: Shifting registers of belonging in global care economies0
The Polyglot: Plurilingual Wonders, “Mother Tongue” Hegemony, and Totalizing Images in and of Singapore0
“The Statistical View Is Not the Moral View”: Disposable Medical Plastics as Toxic Infrastructure0
Unsettling Production: Affective Geographies of Contested Commodities in Sápmi0
Anthropology and the misery of writing0
Nancy D. Munn (April 13, 1931–January 20, 2020)0
Everyday Life in the Spectacular City: Making Home in Dubai0
Strategic generosity among local patrons: Place belonging and ethnic exclusion in a transforming lower‐income neighborhood of Tel Aviv0
Reflections on the weaponization of “civil” discourse and the silencing of dissent in higher education: An example from Florida0
Evolving payoff currencies through the construction of causal theories0
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
Learning to Love Rats: A Postwar Ecology in a Cambodian Minefield0
Contemporary art, Amerindian rock art heritage, and decolonization in the Guadeloupean archipelago0
The psychology and social dynamics of fetal sex prognostication in China: Evidence from historical data0
On deadlines0
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Black Anti‐Bodies Versus Resistive Antibody in a Feminist Infrastructure of Care0
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Steven Gregory (1953–2021)0
Implementing an antiracist framework in forensic anthropology: Our responsibility in professional organizations and as scientists0
“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
“Is your investigation from a professional perspective, or as a woman?”0
Pocodisco: The sonic performativity of grief, grievance, and joy in diaspora0
Battle in the Clouds0
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“I'm telling you this because I love you”0
“I've never told anyone that before …”0
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Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity by Ramyar D.Rossoukh and Steven C.Caton, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 288 pp.0
Jill Susanna Dubisch (1943–2023)0
Jane Isabel Guyer (1943–2024)0
Response to “Can women hunt? Yes, did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.”0
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In lieu of “keywords”: Toward an anthropology of rapport0
The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea by Hannah AppelDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 344 pp.0
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