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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility By Jessica M.Smith. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. 298 pp.41
A lab unearthed: Plotting the grounds for future fields38
Sounding eeeeeee: Stretching phyto vibrancy beyond anthropology37
What makes a “good” forensic anthropologist?24
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Studying hazing as an anthropologist: The impact of mandatory reporting22
Helsinki in Zion: Hospital ethics committees and political gatekeeping in Israel/Palestine21
Museum Matters: Making and Unmaking Mexico's National Collections edited by MirunaAchim, SusanDeans‐Smith and SandraRozental, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021. 312 pp.20
Shxwelí li te shxwelítemelh xíts'etáwtxw: The museum's confinement of Indigenous kin19
Meaning or presence? Ways of knowing of the Sámi yoik19
“Our blood is becoming white”: Race, religion, and Siddi becoming in Hyderabad, India18
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.17
Can women hunt? Yes. Did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.15
Polyphonic readings of a Luso‐Brazilian sobrado13
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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 Press13
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.12
The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea by Hannah AppelDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 344 pp.12
Leith P. Mullings (1945–2020)12
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Mobility and Migration in Ancient Mesoamerican Cities. M. CharlotteArnauld, ChristopherBeekman, GrégoryPereira. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2021. 377 pp.11
Rituals of Care: Karmic Politics in an Aging Thailand By Felicity AulinoIthaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. 210 pp.11
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The limits of bodies: Gatherings and the problem of collective presence10
Saving Animals: Multispecies Ecologies of Rescue and Care by Elan AbrellMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 260 pp9
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.9
A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador By ChristopherKrupa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 318 pp.9
Steven Gregory (1953–2021)9
Shadow worlding: Chasing light in Yogyakarta9
Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore By NicoleFabricant. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 266 pp.8
Embracing the Anaconda: A Chronicle of Atacameño Life and Mining in the Andes by AnitaCarrascoLondon: Lexington Books, 2020. 171 pp.8
Leaving traces: Fairy houses, kindness stones, and constructed heritage8
Archaeologies of the Heart edited by KishaSupernant, Jane EvaBaxter, NatashaLyons, and Sonya AtalayCham, Switzerland: Springer, 2020. 281 pp.7
Breach: A portolan of multimodal practice7
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The forever war, foregone6
Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe by FabioMattioliStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 297 pp.6
At home in my enemy's house: Israeli activists negotiating ethical values through ritualized Palestinian hospitality6
Segregation made them neighbors: An archaeology of racialization in Boise, Idaho By William A.White III, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. 234 pp.6
On special sections6
Stable condition: Traumatic injury, coma, and vital traffic in a Mumbai hospital ward5
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Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil by Heather F.RollerStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 360 pp.5
Silence at the end of life: Multivocality at the edges of narrative possibility5
Revise and resubmit means just that. Revise. Resubmit.5
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Enemy – Stranger – Neighbor: The Image of the Other in Moche Culture by Janusz Z.WołoszynOxford: Archaeopress, 2021. 200 pp.5
Caring labor and the affective economy in the making of the Caribbean5
De‐Naturalizing the Novice: A Critique of the Theory of Language Socialization4
Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population: An epistolary review essay4
On Listening and Telling Anew: Possibilities for Archaeologies of Survivance4
You Are Going to Get Us Killed: Fugitive Archival Practice and the Carceral State4
The Carbon Calculation: Global Climate Policy, Forests, and Transnational Governance in Brazil and MozambiqueBy RaquelRodrigues Machaqueiro. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2023. 324 pp.4
Where Have All the Anthros Gone? The Shift in California Indian Studies from Research “on” to Research “with, for, and by” Indigenous Peoples4
Supporting the use of genetic genealogy in restoring family narratives following the transatlantic slave trade4
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Reproducing the “white public space” in anthropology faculty searches4
In Mourning: Sociocultural Anthropology in 20204
Genocide‐time: Political violence reckoning in Rwanda4
Introduction: Silent Reverberations: Potentialities of Attuned Listening4
Resistance and Care in the Time of COVID‐19: Archaeology in 20204
The Biology of Racism4
Political Campaigns, Voter Outreach, and American Democracy: Socializing Effective Participation and Citizen Agency in the United States4
Michael Silverstein (1945–2020)4
Framing Complexity in Formative Mesoamerica Edited by LisaDeLance and Gary M.Feinman. Denver: University Press of Colorado, 2022. 336 pp.4
Citizen‐Suspect: Navigating Surveillance and Policing in Urban Kenya4
Border assemblages between surveillance and spectacle: What was Moria and what comes after?3
Ecosystem duties, green infrastructure, and environmental injustice in Los Angeles3
Between Gender and Kinship: Mediating Rights and Relations in North Indian NGOs3
Surviving in an age of transparency: Emancipatory transparency‐making in food governance in Italy3
Food (inter)activism in the Marquesas, French Polynesia3
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A thousand tiny cuts: Mobility and security across the Bangladesh‐India borderland By SahanaGhosh. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023. 296 pp.3
Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China by Kimberly Chong Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 264 pp.3
Making Better Numbers through Bioethnographic Collaboration3
Between privileges and precariousness: Remaking whiteness in China's teaching English as a second language industry3
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic3
Intersectional justice denied: Racist warring masculinity, negative peace, and violence in post‐peace accords El Salvador3
When decolonization is hijacked3
A fablab at the periphery: Decentering innovation from São Paulo3
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic3
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic3
Scripting the Conviction: Power and Resistance in the Management of Criminal Stigma3
Risky Appearances, Skillful Performances: Female Islamic Preachers and Professional Style in Malaysia3
Against Methodological Essentialism, Fragmentation, and Instrumentalism in Times of COVID‐193
Ecologies of mistrust: Fish, fishermen, and the multispecies ethics of ethnographic authority3
Fatalism Knowledge and Inquiry in African American Family Stories of Death Premonition3
“Our planet: Too big to fail”: The semiotics of capitalist responses to climate change3
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.3
A Pirouette with the Twist of a Wheelchair: Embodied Translation and the Creation of Kinesthetic Commensurability3
Primate Research and Conservation in the Anthropocene edited by AlisonBehie, JulieTeichroeb, and NicholasMaloneCambridge Series in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge Univer3
Economy of Blood: The Persecuted Church and the Racialization of American Copts3
Knowing by DEAF‐listening: Epistemologies and ontologies revealed in song‐signing3
A Mystery in the Archives: The Historiography of Denial, Henrietta Schmerler's Rape and Murder, and Anthropology's Project of Prevention2
Truth before transition: Reimagining anthropology as restorative justice2
How Social Science Got Better: Overcoming Bias with More Evidence, Diversity, and Self‐Reflection By MattGrossmann. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 316 pp.2
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Cutting through and going along: A comment on knowing by singing2
Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 1: Introduction Edited by IgorKrupnik. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2022. 931 pp.2
The Archaeology of Removal in North America edited by TerranceWeikGainesville: University Press of Florida, 2019. 205 pp.2
Pocodisco: The sonic performativity of grief, grievance, and joy in diaspora2
Mockery amid shooting: Laughter as an expression of expertise at a public clinic in Greater Rio de Janeiro, Brazil2
Where language does not live2
The house is coming from inside the call2
Disposing of Modernity: The Archaeology of Garbage and Consumerism during Chicago's 1893 World's Fair by Rebecca S.GraffGainesville: University Press of Florida, 2020. 220 pp.2
Disposable kin: Shifting registers of belonging in global care economies2
Capitalist inequality and power, migration, and urbanity: A biographical interview with Nina Glick Schiller2
Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt By RaniaKassab Sweis. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 208 pp.2
Ex‐gay activism and the reification of sexual identity in law2
Coastal Lives: Nature, Capital, and the Struggle for Artisanal Fisheries in Peru by Maximilian Viatori and Héctor BombiellaTucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019. 228 pp.2
The sustainability myth: Environmental gentrification and the politics of justice By MelissaChecker. New York: NYU Press, 2020. 280 pp.2
“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 of2
Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia by DanielTubb Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 264 pp.2
Slaughterhouse tours in Denmark: Affective nationalism in the making of citizen‐consumers and the industrial slaughter of happy pigs2
Multimodal Ambivalence: A Manifesto for Producing in S@!#t Times2
Obstetric Racism: Naming and Identifying a Way Out of Black Women's Adverse Medical Experiences2
Gucci and the waqf: Inalienability in Beirut's postwar reconstruction2
Reconstructing Sovereignty on Ancient Mesoamerica's Southern Pacific Coast2
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic2
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Sonic matters: Singing as method and the epistemology of singing across Bengali esoteric lineages2
Seeking clarity at a time of confusion, through world anthropologies1
Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by CameliaDewan, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 210 pp.1
Decolonizing US anthropology: A view from India1
The presence of abandonment: Left to live at the borderland of Lampedusa1
Adventures in “belief”: Hearing an old concept in a new key1
Seeing (or perceiving) difference in multiracial Singapore: Habits of looking in a raciolinguistic image economy1
Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis by JodiRiosIthaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. 294 pp.1
Catholicism and Taki Onqoy in the Early Colonial Period: Colonial Entanglements of Church Interments at Iglesiachayoq (Chicha‐Soras Valley, Ayacucho, Peru)1
Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood by VanessaDíazDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 310 pp.1
The Sovereign Street: Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia by Carwil Bjork‐JamesTucson: Arizona University Press, 2020. 305 pp.1
Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh By KasiaPaprocki, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 270 pp.1
Tales from Albarado: Ponzi Logics of Accumulation in Postsocialist Albania by Smoki MusarajIthaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. 216 pages.1
Implementing an antiracist framework in forensic anthropology: Our responsibility in professional organizations and as scientists1
Flower Worlds: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest edited by Michael D.Mathiowetz and Andrew D.Turner1
Immobile Global: Christian Globalism at Home in the United States1
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.1
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic1
Living Tangier: Migration, Race, and Illegality in a Moroccan City by Abdelmajid Hannoum Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 272 pp.1
Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy by GabrieleKochStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 230 pp.1
A semiotics of argan phytodiplomacy1
A Simpler Life: Synthetic Biological Experiments by TaliaDan‐CohenIthaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 174 pp.1
Generous peer review1
“Homeless” Deities and Refugee Devotees: Hindu Temples, Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora, and Politics in the United Kingdom1
Centering Prisons: Reframing Analysis of the State, Relations of Power and Resistance1
Multimodal Ambivalence and the Struggle against Techno‐Supremacies1
Publishing: It's complicated1
Affective silences: Violence, heteropatriarchy, intergenerationality1
Belief correlations with parental vaccine hesitancy: Results from a national survey1
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A croquis for the stenourbanite1
Nancy D. Munn (April 13, 1931–January 20, 2020)1
Anthropology of proprioception: Endurance and collectivity on unstable grounds in postrevolutionary Cairo1
Scammer's Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica by Jovan Scott LewisMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 248 pp.1
Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela by Robert SametChicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 244 pp.1
The Fabric of Resistance: Textile Workshops and the Rise of Rebellious Landscapes in Colonial Peru by DiHuTuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2022. 248 pp.1
A Sense of Momentary Presence: Using Instagram to Document Consumer Culture's Ambivalences1
Atomic archaeology: Italian innovation and American adventurism1
Audrey Smedley (1930–2020)1
David Graeber (1961–2020)1
Calibrating care: Family caregiving and the social weight of sympathy (tình cảm) in Vietnam1
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.1
“You have harmed us”: Stories of violence, narratives of hope among the Port Gamble S'Klallam1
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Made in Baja: The Lives of Farmworkers and Growers behind Mexico's Transnational Agricultural Boom by Christian Zlolniski Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 256 pp.1
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Delia's Return: The Detention and Deportation of an Unaccompanied Child1
“I know I shouldn't say this, but…”1
Sorcery in Mesoamerica edited by Jeremy D.Coltman and John M. D.PohlLouisville: University Press of Colorado, 2022. 409 pp.1
“I confess, I hardly know what to say …”1
Trowels in the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism edited by Christopher P.BartonGainesville: University Press of Florida, 2021. 266 pp.1
On the Possibility of Radical, Rigorous Generosity as an Editorial Ethos1
Review of Max D.Price. Evolution of a Taboo: Pigs and People in the Ancient Near East. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2021, 336 Pages. ISBN: Hardcover 9780197543276, Ebook 9780197543276.1
Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco by Savannah Shange Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 212 pp.1
Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas by RadhikaGovindrajanChicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 220 pp.1
Paul Rabinow (1944–2021)1
Sally Engle Merry (1944–2020)1
The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make by J. Lorand MatoryDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 384 pp.0
The Limits of Resilience: Managing Waste in the Racialized Anthropocene0
“I've never told anyone that before …”0
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic0
Woman the hunter: The archaeological evidence0
The problem of criminal charisma: State authority and the politics of narcocultura in Mexico's drug war0
Heritage as liberation0
Archaeology in 2021: Repatriation, reclamation, and reckoning with historical trauma0
Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt By JessicaBarnes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 320 pp.0
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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 race0
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Bridging worlds: An interview with Ethiopian American archaeologist Helina Woldekiros0
Frederick K. Errington (1941–2021)0
Beyond the dead zone: The meanings of loving violence in Highland Mexico0
A poetics of living rebellion: Sociocultural anthropology in 20210
Anthropology and the misery of writing0
Maya Gods of War by KarenBassie‐SweetLouisville: University Press of Colorado, 2021. 324 pp.0
Hometown Prison: Whiteness, Safety, and Prison Work in Upstate New York State0
Liberating trails and travel routes in Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en Territories from the tyrannies of heritage resource management regimes0
Leveraging anthropological expertise to respond to the COVID‐19 global mental health syndemic0
Out of the ordinary: Everyday life and the “carnival of Mussolini”0
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Soledad directed by Lisa Molomot, based on essays by Shefali Milczarek‐Desai Newburgh, NY: New Day Films, 2019.​0
Anthropology‐as‐theology: Violent endings and the permanence of new beginnings0
Banker, pastor, teef: Christian financial elites and vernaculars of accountability in Ghana0
Off‐the‐record: Metapragmatic distinctions and linguistic sympathy among interpreters in a California child welfare court0
Moving materialities: Oceanic epistemologies and embodied knowledge production in Pentecostal women's health mentorship in Samoa0
Beneficiaries of Forest Carbon: Precarious Inclusion in the Brazilian Amazon0
Boundary objects and collaboration in a planetary health project in Boruca Indigenous Territory, Costa Rica0
Boarding school voices: Carlisle Indian students speak By ArnoldKrupat, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 351 pp.0
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic0
NFTs as skeuomorphs: Weaponized sameness and fascist utopias0
Pitch Black: How design entrepreneurs are rethinking race in post‐Katrina schools0
Evolving payoff currencies through the construction of causal theories0
Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity by Ramyar D.Rossoukh and Steven C.Caton, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 288 pp.0
Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession by ThomasHendriksDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 320 pp.0
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The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia by TeoBallvéIthaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. 228 pp.0
Under Pressure: Diamond Mining and Everyday Life in Northern Canada By Lindsay A.Bell. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. 188 pp.0
Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru By JuliaCaroline Morris. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 308 pp.0
Fear the Native woman: Femininity, food, and power in the sixteenth‐century North Carolina Piedmont0
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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 Mexic0
A conversation on redefining ethical considerations in forensic anthropology0
Managing, now becoming, refugees: Climate change and extractivism in the Republic of Nauru0
Becoming politicians: Indigenous pageants as training sites for public life0
Ethnography and quantification: Insights from epidemiology for Indigenous health equity0
Planting the future0
Gang Graffiti as Totemism0
Woman the hunter: The physiological evidence0
Proving injustice: Smuggler killings, impunity work, and vernacular counterforensics in Turkey's Kurdish borderlands0
“Nature” and territories as victims: Decolonizing Colombia's transitional justice process0
Introduction: Modalities of planetary health and justice0
Ethnographic methods: Training norms and practices and the future of American anthropology0
It's just a font0
Insecure infrastructures: The affects and effects of violence in Mexico's food system0
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology by Redman, Samuel J.Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2022. 314pp.0
“We're tired of this Weber guy!”—Force experts, police reforms, and the violence of standardization0
At the Limits of CureBharat JayramVenkatDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 304 pp.0
Skilling race: Affective labor and “white” pedagogies in the Chilean service economy0
“Was it worth it?”0
Rethinking the study of governance from the Christian AmericasThe Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil by Maria JosédeAbreuDurham, NC: Duke University 0
Anthropology after Gluckman: The Manchester School, Colonial and Postcolonial Transformations by RichardWerbnerManchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 322 pp.0
We Are Not Alone: William King and the Naming of the Neanderthals0
The anthropological and the consequential0
The violence of collecting0
Bitter Shade: The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness By Michael R.Dove. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. 291 pp.0
Making Friends, Building Roads: Chinese Entrepreneurship and the Search for Reliability in Angola0
Property in transition: Legal fantasies, land “reforms,” and contracting peace in Colombia0
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