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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe by FabioMattioliStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 297 pp.55
Leaving traces: Fairy houses, kindness stones, and constructed heritage36
A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador By ChristopherKrupa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 318 pp.30
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic29
You Are Going to Get Us Killed: Fugitive Archival Practice and the Carceral State28
Shadow worlding: Chasing light in Yogyakarta21
A thousand tiny cuts: Mobility and security across the Bangladesh‐India borderland By SahanaGhosh. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023. 296 pp.19
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The house is coming from inside the call17
Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population: An epistolary review essay17
Can women hunt? Yes. Did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.16
De‐Naturalizing the Novice: A Critique of the Theory of Language Socialization15
Stable condition: Traumatic injury, coma, and vital traffic in a Mumbai hospital ward15
The forever war, foregone14
What makes a “good” forensic anthropologist?14
Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh By KasiaPaprocki, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 270 pp.14
Slaughterhouse tours in Denmark: Affective nationalism in the making of citizen‐consumers and the industrial slaughter of happy pigs14
A croquis for the stenourbanite14
Generous peer review13
The sustainability myth: Environmental gentrification and the politics of justice By MelissaChecker. New York: NYU Press, 2020. 280 pp.13
Multimodal Ambivalence and the Struggle against Techno‐Supremacies12
Catholicism and Taki Onqoy in the Early Colonial Period: Colonial Entanglements of Church Interments at Iglesiachayoq (Chicha‐Soras Valley, Ayacucho, Peru)12
Cartographic archives: Excavating the subterranean with a camera12
Life in an age of death: War and the river in Bosnia and Herzegovina11
Truth before transition: Reimagining anthropology as restorative justice10
A forgetful ethnography: Memory, memoir, and brain injuries10
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Relations: An Anthropological Account by MarilynStrathernDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 274 pp.9
From rhetoric to reality: Why we need an anthropology of higher education policy9
Knowing Animals: Multispecies Ethnography and the Scope of Anthropology9
Queering pregnancy9
“I have no proof, but …”9
Water sharing is a distressing form of reciprocity: Shame, upset, anger, and conflict over water in twenty cross‐cultural sites8
Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh by Lamia KarimMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 272 pp.8
The geopower of kaolin clay: Toward a political geology of archaeological ceramics8
Welcoming the foreigner: Notes on the possibility of multispecies hospitality8
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria8
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
Silenced resentments and regrets: Aging in a changing Kibbutz7
Whither book reviews?6
The echo of the world: The castaway, the Garabandal apparitions, and the crisis of presence6
Heritages of (de)colonialism: Reflections from the Pacific Northwest Coast, Canada6
Does a decolonized anthropology require reinterpreting the past?6
The Worst of Anthro Job Ads for 20216
FandangObon: Amplification, counter‐publics, and fugitive spaces of belonging in Los Angeles6
Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability By JacobDoherty. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 288 pp.5
Toward an anthropology that cares: Lessons from the Academic Carework project5
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
Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors5
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Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology by Redman, Samuel J.Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2022. 314pp.5
There's more to anthropology's past than most of us know5
Liberating trails and travel routes in Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en Territories from the tyrannies of heritage resource management regimes5
Hometown Prison: Whiteness, Safety, and Prison Work in Upstate New York State4
Fragile Resonance: Caring for Older Family Members in Japan and England, by JasonDanely, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 249 pp.4
Writing in community: Relationship building and accountability in knowledge production4
Jan Vansina (1929–2017)4
Fire, ice, and flood4
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Bitter Shade: The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness By Michael R.Dove. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. 291 pp.4
The anthropological and the consequential4
The quest for a good life: Incense seeing and the porous and dividual hoping person in North China4
Sampling as ethnographic method/remixing Gulu City4
Comments on a found text: “Return to Acirema: Fragments regarding twenty‐first‐century Nacirema culture”4
Textures of Black sound and affect: Life and death in New Orleans4
Archaeology in 2022: Counter‐myths for hopeful futures4
Pumayuyus4
Beyond the normative: Ambiguity in the making of a South Indian Sufi4
Amelia Louise Susman Schultz (1915–2021)4
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A Rabbi of One's Own? Navigating Religious Authority and Ethical Freedom in Everyday Judaism4
Anthropology‐as‐theology: Violent endings and the permanence of new beginnings4
Banker, pastor, teef: Christian financial elites and vernaculars of accountability in Ghana4
Introduction: Modalities of planetary health and justice4
Calling names: Humoring caste and caste‐ing humor3
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The varieties of sonic experience: “Quiet” versus “not‐noise” in a Ghanaian harvest festival3
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
Living ruins: Native engagements with past materialities in contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes Edited by PhilippeErikson and ValentinaVapnarsky. Louisville: University of Colorado Press3
In Mourning: Sociocultural Anthropology in 20203
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
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic3
When do no harm becomes harm done: Re‐centering ethics in anthropology3
Paul Edward Farmer (1959–2022)3
Embracing the Anaconda: A Chronicle of Atacameño Life and Mining in the Andes by AnitaCarrascoLondon: Lexington Books, 2020. 171 pp.3
Caring labor and the affective economy in the making of the Caribbean3
“Homeless” Deities and Refugee Devotees: Hindu Temples, Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora, and Politics in the United Kingdom3
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
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic3
The Mechanics of Sovereignty: Autonomy and Interdependence across Three Cables to Iceland3
Housing as asset and payment: Construction, speculation, and financialization at the European periphery3
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic3
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
Adopting a Root: Documenting Ecological and Cultural Signatures of Plant Translocations in Northwestern North America3
Seeking clarity at a time of confusion, through world anthropologies2
David Graeber (1961–2020)2
Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia by DanielTubb Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 264 pp.2
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Sonic matters: Singing as method and the epistemology of singing across Bengali esoteric lineages2
Origami activism, inalienable collections, and crumbling concrete: Material engagements with Histories of violence2
Woman the hunter: The physiological evidence2
Objects Don't Have Desires: Toward an Anthropology of Technology beyond Anthropomorphism2
Legend of the locked doors: The sexualization of archaeological site workers in the Middle East2
Crossing at y/our own peril: Biocultural boundary crossing in anthropology2
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
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
Atomic archaeology: Italian innovation and American adventurism2
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic2
Stuck Moving: Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology By PeterBenson. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 361 pp.2
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Concrete Dreams: Practice, Value, and Built Environments in Post‐Crisis Buenos Aires by Nicholas D'Avella Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 213 pp2
Archaeology of Violence and Privilege edited by Christopher N.Matthews and Bradley D.PhillippiAlbuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020. 306 pp.2
The eye and the other: Language and ethics in deaf Nepal2
Reciprocity and intimate capital in household work: Exchanging love and care for labor rights in contemporary Buenos Aires2
Calibrating care: Family caregiving and the social weight of sympathy (tình cảm) in Vietnam2
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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
Centering Prisons: Reframing Analysis of the State, Relations of Power and Resistance2
Roy Wagner (1938–2018)2
“This cannot leave here, I'm telling you because of my trust in you”: Confessions and ethnographic intimacy in fieldwork with Colombian soldiers2
Decentering death: The war on terror and the less‐than‐lethal paradigm2
Heritage and decoloniality: Reflections from Sri Lanka—A conversation2
Loss remakes you1
Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt By JessicaBarnes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 320 pp.1
“What's going on with my China?”: Political subjectivity, scalar inquiry, and the magical power of Li Wenliang1
“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
Sorcery in Mesoamerica edited by Jeremy D.Coltman and John M. D.PohlLouisville: University Press of Colorado, 2022. 409 pp.1
Mobility and Migration in Ancient Mesoamerican Cities. M. CharlotteArnauld, ChristopherBeekman, GrégoryPereira. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2021. 377 pp.1
Managing, now becoming, refugees: Climate change and extractivism in the Republic of Nauru1
Food (inter)activism in the Marquesas, French Polynesia1
Arranged Marriage Often Subverts Offspring Mate Choice: An HRAF‐Based Study1
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The violence of collecting1
Animal work before capitalism: Sheep's reproductive labor in the ancient South Caucasus1
Anthropology after Gluckman: The Manchester School, Colonial and Postcolonial Transformations by RichardWerbnerManchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 322 pp.1
Understanding higher education policy in Florida among university students: Bound together or in savage slots?1
Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots by MaryWeismantelAustin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 246 pp.1
Dilemmas of anthropological activism, solidarity, and human rights: Lessons from Haiti1
Can anthropologists get humor? A collaborative experiment on empathetic knowing at a time of predicaments1
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Resistance and Care in the Time of COVID‐19: Archaeology in 20201
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.1
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic1
“Green peppers, tomatoes, and lemons, disunite!”: Feminist solidarity in times of wars1
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Reproducing the “white public space” in anthropology faculty searches1
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic1
A conversation on redefining ethical considerations in forensic anthropology1
Between privileges and precariousness: Remaking whiteness in China's teaching English as a second language industry1
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The end of bamboo houses in northern Laos1
Planting the future1
Spectral sonics: Field recordings from an extractive zone1
Heritage as new social engineering in China: (De)colonial avenues1
Off‐the‐record: Metapragmatic distinctions and linguistic sympathy among interpreters in a California child welfare court1
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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.1
The social life of illegality: Suspicion and surveillance against African migrants in urban India1
Where Have All the Anthros Gone? The Shift in California Indian Studies from Research “on” to Research “with, for, and by” Indigenous Peoples1
Bargaining and interdependence: Common parent‐offspring conflict resolution strategies among Chon Chuuk and their implications for suicidal behavior1
Studying hazing as an anthropologist: The impact of mandatory reporting1
Paul Rabinow (1944–2021)1
Mockery amid shooting: Laughter as an expression of expertise at a public clinic in Greater Rio de Janeiro, Brazil1
Scripting the Conviction: Power and Resistance in the Management of Criminal Stigma1
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
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
Revise and resubmit means just that. Revise. Resubmit.1
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
Douglas A. Feldman (1947–2020)1
NFTs as skeuomorphs: Weaponized sameness and fascist utopias1
Parenting and the production of ethnographic knowledge1
Marshall David Sahlins (1930–2021)1
Against Methodological Essentialism, Fragmentation, and Instrumentalism in Times of COVID‐191
Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone By Tania MurrayLi and PujoSemedi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 256 pp.1
Biocarceral citizenship: Criminalizing through care in postapartheid South Africa1
On special sections1
Nancy D. Munn (April 13, 1931–January 20, 2020)0
Steven Gregory (1953–2021)0
Genocide‐time: Political violence reckoning in Rwanda0
A Sense of Momentary Presence: Using Instagram to Document Consumer Culture's Ambivalences0
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A semiotics of argan phytodiplomacy0
Vibrant modalities: Indigenous modes of being and survival in the sixth extinction0
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The Beetle or the Bug? Multispecies Politics in a West Papuan Oil Palm Plantation0
Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt By RaniaKassab Sweis. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 208 pp.0
“But we met expectations! Why us?”: Threats to anthropology and learning from the program cut at UNC Greensboro0
The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make by J. Lorand MatoryDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 384 pp.0
The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time by HughRafflesNew York: Pantheon Books, 2020. 374 pp.0
Jill Susanna Dubisch (1943–2023)0
Response to “Can women hunt? Yes, did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.”0
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, Film Industries, Modularity by Ramyar D.Rossoukh and Steven C.Caton, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 288 pp.0
“Is your investigation from a professional perspective, or as a woman?”0
The psychology and social dynamics of fetal sex prognostication in China: Evidence from historical data0
“I've never told anyone that before …”0
Strategic generosity among local patrons: Place belonging and ethnic exclusion in a transforming lower‐income neighborhood of Tel Aviv0
Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil by Heather F.RollerStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 360 pp.0
Disposable kin: Shifting registers of belonging in global care economies0
Economy of Blood: The Persecuted Church and the Racialization of American Copts0
Trowels in the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism edited by Christopher P.BartonGainesville: University Press of Florida, 2021. 266 pp.0
Political Campaigns, Voter Outreach, and American Democracy: Socializing Effective Participation and Citizen Agency in the United States0
Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore By NicoleFabricant. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 266 pp.0
Pocodisco: The sonic performativity of grief, grievance, and joy in diaspora0
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Ex‐gay activism and the reification of sexual identity in law0
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 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
The importance of professional organizations as disciplinary leaders and the need for meaningful ethical codes in anthropology0
Adventures in “belief”: Hearing an old concept in a new key0
Linguistic taboo, ideology, and erasure: Reproducing homophobia as norm and lesbianism as stigma in women's football in Turkey0
Property in transition: Legal fantasies, land “reforms,” and contracting peace in Colombia0
In lieu of “keywords”: Toward an anthropology of rapport0
Fear the Native woman: Femininity, food, and power in the sixteenth‐century North Carolina Piedmont0
Contemporary art, Amerindian rock art heritage, and decolonization in the Guadeloupean archipelago0
Jane Isabel Guyer (1943–2024)0
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“I'm telling you this because I love you”0
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Reflections on the weaponization of “civil” discourse and the silencing of dissent in higher education: An example from Florida0
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
Aspirational architecture and AK‐47s: Fragmented violence in Liberia from settlement to the contemporary0
Implementing an antiracist framework in forensic anthropology: Our responsibility in professional organizations and as scientists0
On deadlines0
The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea by Hannah AppelDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 344 pp.0
The Sovereign Street: Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia by Carwil Bjork‐JamesTucson: Arizona University Press, 2020. 305 pp.0
Introduction: Silent Reverberations: Potentialities of Attuned Listening0
Multimodal Ambivalence: A Manifesto for Producing in S@!#t Times0
Knowing‐through‐Performing0
Technological sovereignty in agroecology: Harnessing GIS and drones for socially just food systemsDrones and geographical information technologies in agroecology and organic farming: Contributions 0
Evolving payoff currencies through the construction of causal theories0
A Simpler Life: Synthetic Biological Experiments by TaliaDan‐CohenIthaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 174 pp.0
Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru By JuliaCaroline Morris. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 308 pp.0
Porous becomings: Anthropological engagements with Michel Serres By AndreasBandak, Daniel M.Knight, Durham: Duke University Press. 2024. 344 pp.0
“You have harmed us”: Stories of violence, narratives of hope among the Port Gamble S'Klallam0
Anthropology and the misery of writing0
Weathered remains: Bioarchaeology, identity, and the landscape0
Making Friends, Building Roads: Chinese Entrepreneurship and the Search for Reliability in Angola0
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere by Paulette F. C.SteevesLincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 326 pp.0
Intimate ethnography: What's it good for?0
The Value of Forensic Anthropology in Undergraduate Anthropology Programs0
Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma by Péter BertaToronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. 372 pp.0
Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility By Jessica M.Smith. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. 298 pp.0
“We're tired of this Weber guy!”—Force experts, police reforms, and the violence of standardization0
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