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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
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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.56
Shadow worlding: Chasing light in Yogyakarta38
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The house is coming from inside the call30
De‐Naturalizing the Novice: A Critique of the Theory of Language Socialization28
You Are Going to Get Us Killed: Fugitive Archival Practice and the Carceral State22
Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population: An epistolary review essay19
Stable condition: Traumatic injury, coma, and vital traffic in a Mumbai hospital ward19
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
Can women hunt? Yes. Did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.16
A thousand tiny cuts: Mobility and security across the Bangladesh‐India borderland By SahanaGhosh. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023. 296 pp.16
What makes a “good” forensic anthropologist?15
Generous peer review14
The forever war, foregone14
Multimodal Ambivalence and the Struggle against Techno‐Supremacies14
A forgetful ethnography: Memory, memoir, and brain injuries13
Cartographic archives: Excavating the subterranean with a camera13
A croquis for the stenourbanite12
Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh By KasiaPaprocki, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 270 pp.12
Queering pregnancy12
From rhetoric to reality: Why we need an anthropology of higher education policy12
The sustainability myth: Environmental gentrification and the politics of justice By MelissaChecker. New York: NYU Press, 2020. 280 pp.11
Life in an age of death: War and the river in Bosnia and Herzegovina10
Knowing Animals: Multispecies Ethnography and the Scope of Anthropology10
Truth before transition: Reimagining anthropology as restorative justice10
An ethnography of joy: Entrepreneurship among Latinx communities in East Los Angeles9
Does a decolonized anthropology require reinterpreting the past?9
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria9
Welcoming the foreigner: Notes on the possibility of multispecies hospitality9
Relations: An Anthropological Account by MarilynStrathernDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 274 pp.9
Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh by Lamia KarimMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 272 pp.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 ceramics7
Silenced resentments and regrets: Aging in a changing Kibbutz7
“I have no proof, but …”7
FandangObon: Amplification, counter‐publics, and fugitive spaces of belonging in Los Angeles7
Putting Big Tech in its place: A view of the virtual from Los Angeles7
Water sharing is a distressing form of reciprocity: Shame, upset, anger, and conflict over water in twenty cross‐cultural sites7
Heritages of (de)colonialism: Reflections from the Pacific Northwest Coast, Canada6
There's more to anthropology's past than most of us know6
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Toward an anthropology that cares: Lessons from the Academic Carework project6
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology by Redman, Samuel J.Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2022. 314pp.6
Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors6
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
Whither book reviews?6
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Pumayuyus5
Banker, pastor, teef: Christian financial elites and vernaculars of accountability in Ghana5
Liberating trails and travel routes in Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en Territories from the tyrannies of heritage resource management regimes5
Jan Vansina (1929–2017)5
The anthropological and the consequential5
Archaeology in 2022: Counter‐myths for hopeful futures5
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
The quest for a good life: Incense seeing and the porous and dividual hoping person in North China5
Fragile Resonance: Caring for Older Family Members in Japan and England, by JasonDanely, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 249 pp.5
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
Introduction: Modalities of planetary health and justice5
Sampling as ethnographic method/remixing Gulu City5
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When do no harm becomes harm done: Re‐centering ethics in anthropology4
Paul Edward Farmer (1959–2022)4
The Mechanics of Sovereignty: Autonomy and Interdependence across Three Cables to Iceland4
Textures of Black sound and affect: Life and death in New Orleans4
Amelia Louise Susman Schultz (1915–2021)4
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia4
Fire, ice, and flood4
Calling names: Humoring caste and caste‐ing humor4
Comments on a found text: “Return to Acirema: Fragments regarding twenty‐first‐century Nacirema culture”4
Chronic Erasure: Eradicating Heritage in Gaza and Ayodhya4
Housing as asset and payment: Construction, speculation, and financialization at the European periphery4
Beyond dystopia: Regenerative cultures and ethics among European climate activists4
The varieties of sonic experience: “Quiet” versus “not‐noise” in a Ghanaian harvest festival4
Embracing the Anaconda: A Chronicle of Atacameño Life and Mining in the Andes by AnitaCarrascoLondon: Lexington Books, 2020. 171 pp.3
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
Centering Prisons: Reframing Analysis of the State, Relations of Power and Resistance3
Reciprocity and intimate capital in household work: Exchanging love and care for labor rights in contemporary Buenos Aires3
Calibrating care: Family caregiving and the social weight of sympathy (tình cảm) in Vietnam3
In Mourning: Sociocultural Anthropology in 20203
David Graeber (1961–2020)3
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
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
Atomic archaeology: Italian innovation and American adventurism3
Seeking clarity at a time of confusion, through world anthropologies3
Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia by DanielTubb Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 264 pp.3
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Surviving in an age of transparency: Emancipatory transparency‐making in food governance in Italy3
Adopting a Root: Documenting Ecological and Cultural Signatures of Plant Translocations in Northwestern North America3
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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.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
Origami activism, inalienable collections, and crumbling concrete: Material engagements with Histories of violence3
Sonic matters: Singing as method and the epistemology of singing across Bengali esoteric lineages3
Living ruins: Native engagements with past materialities in contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes Edited by PhilippeErikson and ValentinaVapnarsky. Louisville: University of Colorado Press3
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
Decentering death: The war on terror and the less‐than‐lethal paradigm2
The eye and the other: Language and ethics in deaf Nepal2
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
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Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt By JessicaBarnes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 320 pp.2
Parenting and the production of ethnographic knowledge2
Off‐the‐record: Metapragmatic distinctions and linguistic sympathy among interpreters in a California child welfare court2
“This cannot leave here, I'm telling you because of my trust in you”: Confessions and ethnographic intimacy in fieldwork with Colombian soldiers2
Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain by David M CarballoNew York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 351 pp.2
Legend of the locked doors: The sexualization of archaeological site workers in the Middle East2
Heritage and decoloniality: Reflections from Sri Lanka—A conversation2
Understanding higher education policy in Florida among university students: Bound together or in savage slots?2
NFTs as skeuomorphs: Weaponized sameness and fascist utopias2
Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots by MaryWeismantelAustin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 246 pp.2
Woman the hunter: The physiological evidence2
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
Crossing at y/our own peril: Biocultural boundary crossing in anthropology2
Stuck Moving: Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology By PeterBenson. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 361 pp.2
Roy Wagner (1938–2018)2
Objects Don't Have Desires: Toward an Anthropology of Technology beyond Anthropomorphism2
Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone By Tania MurrayLi and PujoSemedi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 256 pp.2
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Biocarceral citizenship: Criminalizing through care in postapartheid South Africa2
Heritage as new social engineering in China: (De)colonial avenues2
Archaeology of Violence and Privilege edited by Christopher N.Matthews and Bradley D.PhillippiAlbuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020. 306 pp.2
Introduction: Mother Tongue as Global Politics1
Between privileges and precariousness: Remaking whiteness in China's teaching English as a second language industry1
Studying hazing as an anthropologist: The impact of mandatory reporting1
Risk and its others: Toward an anthropology of “protection” in rural Mongolia1
Toward an Ethnography of God1
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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
“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
Arranged Marriage Often Subverts Offspring Mate Choice: An HRAF‐Based Study1
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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
Scripting the Conviction: Power and Resistance in the Management of Criminal Stigma1
“Green peppers, tomatoes, and lemons, disunite!”: Feminist solidarity in times of wars1
Mockery amid shooting: Laughter as an expression of expertise at a public clinic in Greater Rio de Janeiro, Brazil1
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
Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by CameliaDewan, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 210 pp.1
The violence of collecting1
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Spectral sonics: Field recordings from an extractive zone1
On special sections1
Where Have All the Anthros Gone? The Shift in California Indian Studies from Research “on” to Research “with, for, and by” Indigenous Peoples1
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
“What's going on with my China?”: Political subjectivity, scalar inquiry, and the magical power of Li Wenliang1
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
Flower Worlds: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest edited by Michael D.Mathiowetz and Andrew D.Turner1
The shop floor conditions of anthropology's past and present1
Bargaining and interdependence: Common parent‐offspring conflict resolution strategies among Chon Chuuk and their implications for suicidal behavior1
Reproducing the “white public space” in anthropology faculty searches1
Douglas A. Feldman (1947–2020)1
Resistance and Care in the Time of COVID‐19: Archaeology in 20201
Marshall David Sahlins (1930–2021)1
Paul Rabinow (1944–2021)1
Managing, now becoming, refugees: Climate change and extractivism in the Republic of Nauru1
Anthropology after Gluckman: The Manchester School, Colonial and Postcolonial Transformations by RichardWerbnerManchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 322 pp.1
Revise and resubmit means just that. Revise. Resubmit.1
Against Methodological Essentialism, Fragmentation, and Instrumentalism in Times of COVID‐191
Mobility and Migration in Ancient Mesoamerican Cities. M. CharlotteArnauld, ChristopherBeekman, GrégoryPereira. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2021. 377 pp.1
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.1
Drawing the Sea Near: Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa by C. Anne ClausMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 256 pages.1
Dilemmas of anthropological activism, solidarity, and human rights: Lessons from Haiti1
(M)other Tongue Aspirations: Negotiating Banjara Language, Identity, and Education Policy in Rural India1
The presence of abandonment: Left to live at the borderland of Lampedusa1
This Language Is Mine: US College Students Navigating Contradictions of “Mother Tongue” and Heritage Language1
“I confess, I hardly know what to say …”1
Animal work before capitalism: Sheep's reproductive labor in the ancient South Caucasus1
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
The end of bamboo houses in northern Laos1
Food (inter)activism in the Marquesas, French Polynesia1
Planting the future1
Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas by RadhikaGovindrajanChicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 220 pp.1
A conversation on redefining ethical considerations in forensic anthropology1
Aspirational architecture and AK‐47s: Fragmented violence in Liberia from settlement to the contemporary0
Contemporary art, Amerindian rock art heritage, and decolonization in the Guadeloupean archipelago0
Reflections on the weaponization of “civil” discourse and the silencing of dissent in higher education: An example from Florida0
On deadlines0
Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore By NicoleFabricant. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 266 pp.0
Evolving payoff currencies through the construction of causal theories0
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The importance of professional organizations as disciplinary leaders and the need for meaningful ethical codes in anthropology0
Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil by Heather F.RollerStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 360 pp.0
The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make by J. Lorand MatoryDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 384 pp.0
Intersectional justice denied: Racist warring masculinity, negative peace, and violence in post‐peace accords El Salvador0
Leith P. Mullings (1945–2020)0
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
When decolonization is hijacked0
Intimate ethnography: What's it good for?0
Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma by Péter BertaToronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. 372 pp.0
Fear the Native woman: Femininity, food, and power in the sixteenth‐century North Carolina Piedmont0
The Value of Forensic Anthropology in Undergraduate Anthropology Programs0
Hunger as more‐than‐human communicative modality on the West Papuan oil palm frontier0
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Australia's First Nations0
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
Anthropology and the misery of writing0
Tales from Albarado: Ponzi Logics of Accumulation in Postsocialist Albania by Smoki MusarajIthaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. 216 pages.0
Steven Gregory (1953–2021)0
“We're tired of this Weber guy!”—Force experts, police reforms, and the violence of standardization0
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“Is your investigation from a professional perspective, or as a woman?”0
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The Beetle or the Bug? Multispecies Politics in a West Papuan Oil Palm Plantation0
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The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time by HughRafflesNew York: Pantheon Books, 2020. 374 pp.0
Genocide‐time: Political violence reckoning in Rwanda0
Editorial Note: Chronic Erasure0
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Meaning or presence? Ways of knowing of the Sámi yoik0
“See, Your Grandma Has Two Mother Tongues…or Only One?”: Shame, Dialect, and Shifting Mother Tongues in Sicily0
I don't bite0
Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity by Ramyar D.Rossoukh and Steven C.Caton, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 288 pp.0
Knowing‐through‐Performing0
Commentary on “Unsettling the Self: Autoethnography and Related Kin”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
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
Jane Isabel Guyer (1943–2024)0
“It comes down to dealing with people”: A conversation with Brennen Ferguson, Haudenosaunee Confederacy0
Response to “Can women hunt? Yes, did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.”0
Vibrant modalities: Indigenous modes of being and survival in the sixth extinction0
The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea by Hannah AppelDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 344 pp.0
“I'm telling you this because I love you”0
Breach: A portolan of multimodal practice0
Strategic generosity among local patrons: Place belonging and ethnic exclusion in a transforming lower‐income neighborhood of Tel Aviv0
Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility By Jessica M.Smith. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. 298 pp.0
In lieu of “keywords”: Toward an anthropology of rapport0
Taking distinction practices seriously: Methodological reflections on ethnographic distance in fieldwork with marginalized people0
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere by Paulette F. C.SteevesLincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 326 pp.0
Citizen‐Suspect: Navigating Surveillance and Policing in Urban Kenya0
Knowing by DEAF‐listening: Epistemologies and ontologies revealed in song‐signing0
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The Poetics of Processing: Memory Formation, Identity, and the Handling of the Dead edited by Anna J.OsterholtzLouisville: University Press of Colorado, 2020. 264 pp.0
Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru By JuliaCaroline Morris. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 308 pp.0
Property in transition: Legal fantasies, land “reforms,” and contracting peace in Colombia0
Fieldwork confessionals0
“I've never told anyone that before …”0
Energizing partnerships in research‐to‐policy projects0
The psychology and social dynamics of fetal sex prognostication in China: Evidence from historical data0
Nothing comes without its story0
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