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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Captivity, Kinship, and Black Masculine Care Work under Domestic Warfare49
Obstetric Racism: Naming and Identifying a Way Out of Black Women's Adverse Medical Experiences41
The Beetle or the Bug? Multispecies Politics in a West Papuan Oil Palm Plantation38
Decolonizing US anthropology37
Water sharing is a distressing form of reciprocity: Shame, upset, anger, and conflict over water in twenty cross‐cultural sites24
Anthropology and ableism23
Where Have All the Anthros Gone? The Shift in California Indian Studies from Research “on” to Research “with, for, and by” Indigenous Peoples21
Between privileges and precariousness: Remaking whiteness in China's teaching English as a second language industry20
A Rabbi of One's Own? Navigating Religious Authority and Ethical Freedom in Everyday Judaism19
Making Better Numbers through Bioethnographic Collaboration18
Adopting a Root: Documenting Ecological and Cultural Signatures of Plant Translocations in Northwestern North America18
Knowing Animals: Multispecies Ethnography and the Scope of Anthropology17
Resistance and Care in the Time of COVID‐19: Archaeology in 202017
Learning How Not to Know: Pragmatism, (In)expertise, and the Training of American Helping Professionals15
You Are Going to Get Us Killed: Fugitive Archival Practice and the Carceral State13
Promising resilience: Systems and survival after forestry's ends13
Arranged Marriage Often Subverts Offspring Mate Choice: An HRAF‐Based Study13
Analyzing asymmetries and praxis in aDNA research: A bioanthropological critique12
Citizen‐Suspect: Navigating Surveillance and Policing in Urban Kenya12
Nonsovereign Racecraft: How Colonialism, Debt, and Disaster are Transforming Puerto Rican Racial Subjectivities12
Multimodal Ambivalence: A Manifesto for Producing in S@!#t Times12
The Limits of Resilience: Managing Waste in the Racialized Anthropocene11
Making Friends, Building Roads: Chinese Entrepreneurship and the Search for Reliability in Angola11
Scripting the Conviction: Power and Resistance in the Management of Criminal Stigma11
Objects Don't Have Desires: Toward an Anthropology of Technology beyond Anthropomorphism10
Teawords: Experiments with Quality in Indian Tea Production10
Decolonizing Visual Anthropology: Locating Transnational Diasporic Queers‐of‐Color Voices in Ethnographic Cinema9
The eye and the other: Language and ethics in deaf Nepal9
Archaeology in 2021: Repatriation, reclamation, and reckoning with historical trauma9
Anthropology‐as‐theology: Violent endings and the permanence of new beginnings9
Woman the hunter: The archaeological evidence8
Economy of Blood: The Persecuted Church and the Racialization of American Copts8
The Biology of Racism8
The Interlocutor Slot: Citing, Crediting, Cotheorizing, and the Problem of Ethnographic Expertise7
A conversation on redefining ethical considerations in forensic anthropology7
Disposable kin: Shifting registers of belonging in global care economies7
Energizing partnerships in research‐to‐policy projects7
De‐Naturalizing the Novice: A Critique of the Theory of Language Socialization7
Barriers to entry and success in forensic anthropology6
Woman the hunter: The physiological evidence6
Belief correlations with parental vaccine hesitancy: Results from a national survey6
“We share the same ancestry”: US Kurdish diasporas and the aspirational and ascriptive practices of race6
Beneficiaries of Forest Carbon: Precarious Inclusion in the Brazilian Amazon6
The Value of Forensic Anthropology in Undergraduate Anthropology Programs6
Behind the Scenes of Hollywood: An Archaeology of Reproductive Oppression at the Intersections6
Blowing up “the World” in World Anthropologies5
Discrimination as a Moderator of the Effects of Acculturation and Cultural Values on Mental Health Among Pregnant and Postpartum Latina Women5
Ecosystem duties, green infrastructure, and environmental injustice in Los Angeles5
Communication as Care across Borders: Forging and Co‐Opting Relationships of Obligation in Transnational Salvadoran Families5
There's more to anthropology's past than most of us know5
Affective silences: Violence, heteropatriarchy, intergenerationality5
What makes a “good” forensic anthropologist?5
“Nature” and territories as victims: Decolonizing Colombia's transitional justice process5
The Dynamics of Maya State Process: An Integrated Perspective from the San Lucas Neighborhood of Copán, Honduras5
Between Gender and Kinship: Mediating Rights and Relations in North Indian NGOs5
Familiar Pixels: Imag(in)ing the Dead and the Political in Israel/Palestine4
Crossing at y/our own peril: Biocultural boundary crossing in anthropology4
Temporalities of Resettlement: Date‐Waiting for an American Future in a Bhutanese Refugee Camp in Nepal4
Catholicism and Taki Onqoy in the Early Colonial Period: Colonial Entanglements of Church Interments at Iglesiachayoq (Chicha‐Soras Valley, Ayacucho, Peru)4
Border assemblages between surveillance and spectacle: What was Moria and what comes after?4
Silence at the end of life: Multivocality at the edges of narrative possibility4
Managing, now becoming, refugees: Climate change and extractivism in the Republic of Nauru4
Let Us Become Pyrophytes (Fire‐Lovers)4
The sounds of silence: Thai meditative practice for personal and political change4
Atomic archaeology: Italian innovation and American adventurism4
Reconstructing Sovereignty on Ancient Mesoamerica's Southern Pacific Coast4
Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population: An epistolary review essay4
Leveraging anthropological expertise to respond to the COVID‐19 global mental health syndemic4
Nalangkulurru, the Spirit Beings, and the Black‐Nosed Python: Ontological Self‐Determination and Yanyuwa Law in Northern Australia's Gulf Country4
Life in an age of death: War and the river in Bosnia and Herzegovina4
Reciprocity and intimate capital in household work: Exchanging love and care for labor rights in contemporary Buenos Aires4
Risky Appearances, Skillful Performances: Female Islamic Preachers and Professional Style in Malaysia4
Introduction: Silent Reverberations: Potentialities of Attuned Listening4
Ecologies of mistrust: Fish, fishermen, and the multispecies ethics of ethnographic authority3
The psychology and social dynamics of fetal sex prognostication in China: Evidence from historical data3
The Overseen and Unseen: Agribusiness Plantations, Indigenous Labor, and Land Struggle in Brazil3
In Mourning: Sociocultural Anthropology in 20203
The Uncertain Present and the Multimodal Future3
Broken gods: Collaborative filmmaking in troubled times3
Off‐the‐record: Metapragmatic distinctions and linguistic sympathy among interpreters in a California child welfare court3
Fieldwork confessionals3
A Black exit interview from anthropology3
Centering Prisons: Reframing Analysis of the State, Relations of Power and Resistance3
On the Possibility of Radical, Rigorous Generosity as an Editorial Ethos3
A fablab at the periphery: Decentering innovation from São Paulo3
Bargaining and interdependence: Common parent‐offspring conflict resolution strategies among Chon Chuuk and their implications for suicidal behavior3
Against Methodological Essentialism, Fragmentation, and Instrumentalism in Times of COVID‐193
The quest for a good life: Incense seeing and the porous and dividual hoping person in North China3
Ethnography and quantification: Insights from epidemiology for Indigenous health equity3
The importance of professional organizations as disciplinary leaders and the need for meaningful ethical codes in anthropology3
Capitalist Transformation and Settler Colonialism: Theorizing the Interface3
Does a decolonized anthropology require reinterpreting the past?3
Of Athens, crises, and other medicines3
Implementing an antiracist framework in forensic anthropology: Our responsibility in professional organizations and as scientists3
Sonic matters: Singing as method and the epistemology of singing across Bengali esoteric lineages3
A Pirouette with the Twist of a Wheelchair: Embodied Translation and the Creation of Kinesthetic Commensurability3
The Mechanics of Sovereignty: Autonomy and Interdependence across Three Cables to Iceland3
The Role of Anthropology in Climate Change Research and Policy in Bhutan: Reflections from a Carbon‐Negative Country3
“Dancing on the Brink of the World”: Seeing Indigenous Dance and Resilience in the Archaeology of Colonial California3
Hometown Prison: Whiteness, Safety, and Prison Work in Upstate New York State3
Archaeology in 2022: Counter‐myths for hopeful futures3
NFTs as skeuomorphs: Weaponized sameness and fascist utopias3
Disciplinary Futures and Reorienting Research: A Reply to Jobson and Rosenzweig on Doing Anthropology in the Age of COVID3
Silenced resentments and regrets: Aging in a changing Kibbutz3
Anthropology of proprioception: Endurance and collectivity on unstable grounds in postrevolutionary Cairo3
Intersectional justice denied: Racist warring masculinity, negative peace, and violence in post‐peace accords El Salvador3
Beyond dystopia: Regenerative cultures and ethics among European climate activists2
Sampling as ethnographic method/remixing Gulu City2
The violence of collecting2
Bioarchaeology of Prehistoric Central Thailand: A Heterarchical View2
The anthropological and the consequential2
Risk factors for the occurrence of sexual misconduct during archaeological and anthropological fieldwork2
Unnaming Buildings: On (Not) Honoring Ancestors and Losing Our Memory2
“Homeless” Deities and Refugee Devotees: Hindu Temples, Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora, and Politics in the United Kingdom2
Adventures in “belief”: Hearing an old concept in a new key2
Surviving in an age of transparency: Emancipatory transparency‐making in food governance in Italy2
The varieties of sonic experience: “Quiet” versus “not‐noise” in a Ghanaian harvest festival2
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Gang Graffiti as Totemism2
Anthropology and the misery of writing2
Becoming politicians: Indigenous pageants as training sites for public life2
Digital Infrastructures of the Internet Outrage Machine: An Autoethnography of Targeted Faculty Harassment2
In lieu of “keywords”: Toward an anthropology of rapport2
Cooperative Bodies: Bioarchaeologists Address Nonranked Societies2
Multimodal Ambivalence and the Struggle against Techno‐Supremacies2
Linguistic taboo, ideology, and erasure: Reproducing homophobia as norm and lesbianism as stigma in women's football in Turkey2
Amelia Louise Susman Schultz (1915–2021)2
Knowing by DEAF‐listening: Epistemologies and ontologies revealed in song‐signing2
How does a protest last? Rituals of visibility, disappearances under custody, and the Saturday Mothers in Turkey2
Black Lives Matter and Museums in 2020: A Personal and Professional Perspective2
I am an ordinary citizen: Human rights discourse and the limits of human rights law2
Skilling race: Affective labor and “white” pedagogies in the Chilean service economy2
The Labor of Building a Community: Exploring the Divergent Trajectories of Complex Sites in Copper Age Iberia2
The intimacy of the gift in the economy of sex work2
Welcoming the foreigner: Notes on the possibility of multispecies hospitality2
Origami activism, inalienable collections, and crumbling concrete: Material engagements with Histories of violence2
Anthropology in the Consulting Room: An Interview with Salma Siddique by Virginia R. Dominguez2
Anthropology and the Pragmatics of Climate Knowledge in Brazil2
Incommunicable: Decolonizing perspectives on language and health2
Charismatic Christianity's Hard Cultural Forms and the Local Patterning of the Divine Voice in Ghana2
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Year without End: Primatology in 20201
We Are Not Alone: William King and the Naming of the Neanderthals1
Legend of the locked doors: The sexualization of archaeological site workers in the Middle East1
Moving materialities: Oceanic epistemologies and embodied knowledge production in Pentecostal women's health mentorship in Samoa1
Multimodal archives of transborder belonging: Murals, social media, and racialized geographies in Los Angeles1
Liberating trails and travel routes in Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en Territories from the tyrannies of heritage resource management regimes1
Fragile connections: Community computer networks, human infrastructures, and the consequences of their breakdown in Havana1
Insecure infrastructures: The affects and effects of violence in Mexico's food system1
Delia's Return: The Detention and Deportation of an Unaccompanied Child1
Another “education by stone”: An archaeological case study in Brazil's environmental law1
Sally Engle Merry (1944–2020)1
On publishing good work1
Why Insaniyyat? A Society for Palestinian Anthropologists1
Supporting the use of genetic genealogy in restoring family narratives following the transatlantic slave trade1
Stable condition: Traumatic injury, coma, and vital traffic in a Mumbai hospital ward1
The Worst of Anthro Job Ads for 20211
Studying hazing as an anthropologist: The impact of mandatory reporting1
Animal work before capitalism: Sheep's reproductive labor in the ancient South Caucasus1
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Decentering death: The war on terror and the less‐than‐lethal paradigm1
Beyond the normative: Ambiguity in the making of a South Indian Sufi1
Landscapes of forgetting and structural silence in the American Southeast1
Jaimie Pearl Bloom (James F. Weiner) (1950–2020)1
Slow partying and supportive napping, how lichen will be known1
Why Heterarchy? A View from the Tiwanaku State's (AD 500–1100) Labor Force1
How to read a case: Ethnographic lawyering, conspiracy, and the origins of Al Qaeda1
Tracing a genealogy of ideas, seeing, and not seeing bias: Legacies in science and society of Charles Seligman's biocultural theory of Africa (Hamitic hypothesis) and Ashley Montagu's on race1
Pearls before swine flu: Crisis and the politics of resilience in Cabo Pulmo, BCS, Mexico1
Can there be a Godly ethnography? Islamic anthropology, epistemic decolonization, and the ethnographic stance1
Seeing (or perceiving) difference in multiracial Singapore: Habits of looking in a raciolinguistic image economy1
Strategic generosity among local patrons: Place belonging and ethnic exclusion in a transforming lower‐income neighborhood of Tel Aviv1
Living Tangier: Migration, Race, and Illegality in a Moroccan City by Abdelmajid Hannoum Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 272 pp.1
A Mystery in the Archives: The Historiography of Denial, Henrietta Schmerler's Rape and Murder, and Anthropology's Project of Prevention1
On Listening and Telling Anew: Possibilities for Archaeologies of Survivance1
Evolving payoff currencies through the construction of causal theories1
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“What's going on with my China?”: Political subjectivity, scalar inquiry, and the magical power of Li Wenliang1
Ethnographic methods: Training norms and practices and the future of American anthropology1
Defense against dark anthropology1
Multimodal Extractivism1
Tracing the structural consequences of colonialism in rural Yucatán, Mexico1
Property in transition: Legal fantasies, land “reforms,” and contracting peace in Colombia1
Burn to harvest, burn to sabotage: Between fire and water on a sugar plantation in Madagascar1
Beyond the dead zone: The meanings of loving violence in Highland Mexico1
Australia's First Nations1
Under Pressure: Diamond Mining and Everyday Life in Northern Canada By Lindsay A.Bell. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. 188 pp.1
I'm Not OK but I'm Doing the Best I Can and I Bet You're Not OK Either but I Believe You're Doing the Best You Can1
“No justice in birth”: Maternal vanishing, VBAC, and reconstitutive practice in Central Florida1
Bioarchaeological Approaches to Understanding Conflict and Collaboration: The Circulation of Violence as a Heterarchical Structure1
A hubris of firsts1
Sorcery in Mesoamerica edited by Jeremy D.Coltman and John M. D.PohlLouisville: University Press of Colorado, 2022. 409 pp.1
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death, and Art by Rebecca WraggSykesLondon: Bloomsbury Sigma, 2020. 400 pp.1
Immobile Global: Christian Globalism at Home in the United States1
What Are Exhibitions For? An Anthropological Approach by Inge Daniels, with photography by SusanAndrews London: Bloomsbury, 2019. 231 pp.1
Political Campaigns, Voter Outreach, and American Democracy: Socializing Effective Participation and Citizen Agency in the United States1
Heritage as liberation1
The limits of bodies: Gatherings and the problem of collective presence1
Housing as asset and payment: Construction, speculation, and financialization at the European periphery1
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic1
Blood for bread: Necro‐labor, nonsovereign bodies, and the state of exception in Rojhelat1
Saving Animals: Multispecies Ecologies of Rescue and Care by Elan AbrellMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 260 pp0
Rituals of Care: Karmic Politics in an Aging Thailand By Felicity AulinoIthaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. 210 pp.0
“Our planet: Too big to fail”: The semiotics of capitalist responses to climate change0
Framing Complexity in Formative Mesoamerica Edited by LisaDeLance and Gary M.Feinman. Denver: University Press of Colorado, 2022. 336 pp.0
Leith P. Mullings (1945–2020)0
Living ruins: Native engagements with past materialities in contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes Edited by PhilippeErikson and ValentinaVapnarsky. Louisville: University of Colorado Press0
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“Our blood is becoming white”: Race, religion, and Siddi becoming in Hyderabad, India0
Enemy – Stranger – Neighbor: The Image of the Other in Moche Culture by Janusz Z.WołoszynOxford: Archaeopress, 2021. 200 pp.0
Museum Matters: Making and Unmaking Mexico's National Collections edited by MirunaAchim, SusanDeans‐Smith and SandraRozental, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021. 312 pp.0
The forever war, foregone0
Sounding eeeeeee: Stretching phyto vibrancy beyond anthropology0
Archaeologies of the Heart edited by KishaSupernant, Jane EvaBaxter, NatashaLyons, and Sonya AtalayCham, Switzerland: Springer, 2020. 281 pp.0
Embracing the Anaconda: A Chronicle of Atacameño Life and Mining in the Andes by AnitaCarrascoLondon: Lexington Books, 2020. 171 pp.0
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Leaving traces: Fairy houses, kindness stones, and constructed heritage0
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.0
Steven Gregory (1953–2021)0
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Alliance Rises in the West: Labor, Race, and Solidarity in Industrial California by Charlotte K. SunseriLincoln: University of Nebraska Press and the Society for Historical Archaeology, 2020. 174 pp.0
Genocide‐time: Political violence reckoning in Rwanda0
Polyphonic readings of a Luso‐Brazilian sobrado0
Can women hunt? Yes. Did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.0
Revise and resubmit means just that. Revise. Resubmit.0
Shxwelí li te shxwelítemelh xíts'etáwtxw: The museum's confinement of Indigenous kin0
On special sections0
Helsinki in Zion: Hospital ethics committees and political gatekeeping in Israel/Palestine0
Segregation made them neighbors: An archaeology of racialization in Boise, Idaho By William A.White III, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. 234 pp.0
A lab unearthed: Plotting the grounds for future fields0
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“Why Do You Behave Like That?”: Anthropological Inroads into Leadership in Kenya0
Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore By NicoleFabricant. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 266 pp.0
Shadow worlding: Chasing light in Yogyakarta0
Mobility and Migration in Ancient Mesoamerican Cities. M. CharlotteArnauld, ChristopherBeekman, GrégoryPereira. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2021. 377 pp.0
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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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Michael Silverstein (1945–2020)0
Disrupting the patrón: Indigenous land rights and the fight for environmental justice in Paraguay's Chaco By Joel E.Correia. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023. 236 pp.0
Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil by Heather F.RollerStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 360 pp.0
Meaning or presence? Ways of knowing of the Sámi yoik0
At home in my enemy's house: Israeli activists negotiating ethical values through ritualized Palestinian hospitality0
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Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe by FabioMattioliStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 297 pp.0
Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility By Jessica M.Smith. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. 298 pp.0
Breach: A portolan of multimodal practice0
Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm by AlexBlanchetteDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 320 pp.0
A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador By ChristopherKrupa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 318 pp.0
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