American Anthropologist

Papers
(The TQCC of American Anthropologist is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn: Sociocultural Anthropology in 2019222
Obstetric Racism: Naming and Identifying a Way Out of Black Women's Adverse Medical Experiences34
Why Pacific Islanders Stopped Worrying about the Apocalypse and Started Fighting Climate Change32
Tentacular Faces: Race and the Return of the Phenotype in Forensic Identification32
The Beetle or the Bug? Multispecies Politics in a West Papuan Oil Palm Plantation31
Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work: Class and Gender in North American Academic Communities31
Decolonizing US anthropology28
Desiring Bollywood: Re‐Staging Racism, Exploring Difference23
Chronic Disaster: Reimagining Noncommunicable Chronic Disease21
Anthropology and ableism19
Where Have All the Anthros Gone? The Shift in California Indian Studies from Research “on” to Research “with, for, and by” Indigenous Peoples19
Captivity, Kinship, and Black Masculine Care Work under Domestic Warfare17
Imperialism, Internationalism, and Archaeology in the Un/Making of the Middle East17
Water sharing is a distressing form of reciprocity: Shame, upset, anger, and conflict over water in twenty cross‐cultural sites17
The Face of the Mexican: Race, Nation, and Criminal Identification in Mexico16
A Rabbi of One's Own? Navigating Religious Authority and Ethical Freedom in Everyday Judaism15
Resistance and Care in the Time of COVID‐19: Archaeology in 202015
Adopting a Root: Documenting Ecological and Cultural Signatures of Plant Translocations in Northwestern North America14
Learning How Not to Know: Pragmatism, (In)expertise, and the Training of American Helping Professionals14
Between privileges and precariousness: Remaking whiteness in China's teaching English as a second language industry14
Knowing Animals: Multispecies Ethnography and the Scope of Anthropology13
You Are Going to Get Us Killed: Fugitive Archival Practice and the Carceral State13
Promising resilience: Systems and survival after forestry's ends12
Arranged Marriage Often Subverts Offspring Mate Choice: An HRAF‐Based Study11
Confronting the Present: Archaeology in 201911
Making Better Numbers through Bioethnographic Collaboration11
The Limits of Resilience: Managing Waste in the Racialized Anthropocene10
Using and Refusing the Law: Indigenous Struggles and Legal Strategies after Neoliberal Multiculturalism10
Analyzing asymmetries and praxis in aDNA research: A bioanthropological critique10
Teawords: Experiments with Quality in Indian Tea Production10
Making Friends, Building Roads: Chinese Entrepreneurship and the Search for Reliability in Angola10
Citizen‐Suspect: Navigating Surveillance and Policing in Urban Kenya10
Scripting the Conviction: Power and Resistance in the Management of Criminal Stigma10
Human Energy Expenditure in Anthropology and Beyond9
Cultural Expertise? Anthropologist as Witness in Defense of Indigenous and Afro‐Descendant Rights9
Karma Masters: The Ethical Wound, Hauntological Choreography, and Complex Personhood in Thailand9
Multimodal Ambivalence: A Manifesto for Producing in S@!#t Times9
Nonsovereign Racecraft: How Colonialism, Debt, and Disaster are Transforming Puerto Rican Racial Subjectivities9
Objects Don't Have Desires: Toward an Anthropology of Technology beyond Anthropomorphism8
Between Will and Thought: Individualism and Social Responsiveness in Amazonian Child Rearing8
Anthropology‐as‐theology: Violent endings and the permanence of new beginnings8
Encountering the Face—Unraveling Race8
Decolonizing Visual Anthropology: Locating Transnational Diasporic Queers‐of‐Color Voices in Ethnographic Cinema7
The Biology of Racism7
New Directions in Maritime and Fisheries Anthropology7
Elephants, Hunters, and Others: Integrating Biological Anthropology and Multispecies Ethnography in a Conservation Zone7
The Interlocutor Slot: Citing, Crediting, Cotheorizing, and the Problem of Ethnographic Expertise7
Toward Reflexivity in the Anthropology of Expertise and Law6
Revolutionary Fossils, Ancient Biomolecules, and Reflections in Ethics and Decolonization: Paleoanthropology in 20196
Disposable kin: Shifting registers of belonging in global care economies6
Woman the hunter: The archaeological evidence6
Behind the Scenes of Hollywood: An Archaeology of Reproductive Oppression at the Intersections6
Economy of Blood: The Persecuted Church and the Racialization of American Copts6
A conversation on redefining ethical considerations in forensic anthropology6
Beneficiaries of Forest Carbon: Precarious Inclusion in the Brazilian Amazon6
Code Work: Thinking with the System in México6
“We share the same ancestry”: US Kurdish diasporas and the aspirational and ascriptive practices of race5
Archaeology in 2021: Repatriation, reclamation, and reckoning with historical trauma5
Blowing up “the World” in World Anthropologies5
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
Fitness Fanatics: Exercise as Answer to Pending Zombie Apocalypse in Contemporary America5
Woman the hunter: The physiological evidence5
(Dis)placement of Anthropological Legal Activism, Racial Justice and the Ejido Tila, Mexico5
The eye and the other: Language and ethics in deaf Nepal5
Making Space for Embodied Voices, Diverse Bodies, and Multiple Genders in Nonconformist Friday Prayers: A Queer Feminist Ethnography of Progressive Muslims’ Performative Intercorporeality in North Ame5
The Value of Forensic Anthropology in Undergraduate Anthropology Programs5
The Violence of Racial Capitalism and South Los Angeles's Obesity “Epidemic”5
Discrimination as a Moderator of the Effects of Acculturation and Cultural Values on Mental Health Among Pregnant and Postpartum Latina Women5
De‐Naturalizing the Novice: A Critique of the Theory of Language Socialization5
Stuck in the Tearoom: Facial Reconstruction and Postapartheid Headache4
Communication as Care across Borders: Forging and Co‐Opting Relationships of Obligation in Transnational Salvadoran Families4
Familiar Pixels: Imag(in)ing the Dead and the Political in Israel/Palestine4
Tracing Complexity: The Case of Archaeology4
Belief correlations with parental vaccine hesitancy: Results from a national survey4
Affective silences: Violence, heteropatriarchy, intergenerationality4
Adjudicating Indigeneity: Anthropological Testimony in the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights4
Anthropology and Chile's Estallido Social4
Barriers to entry and success in forensic anthropology4
Taking Susto Seriously: A Critique of Behavioral Approaches to Diabetes4
Crossing at y/our own peril: Biocultural boundary crossing in anthropology4
Atomic archaeology: Italian innovation and American adventurism4
Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population: An epistolary review essay4
Anti‐Blackness as the Lynchpin of the Structured Violence of Diet‐Related Disease4
Ecosystem duties, green infrastructure, and environmental injustice in Los Angeles4
Leveraging anthropological expertise to respond to the COVID‐19 global mental health syndemic4
“Lifestyle” Disease on the Margins4
Let Us Become Pyrophytes (Fire‐Lovers)4
Energizing partnerships in research‐to‐policy projects4
Reconstructing Sovereignty on Ancient Mesoamerica's Southern Pacific Coast4
Silence at the end of life: Multivocality at the edges of narrative possibility4
The Role of Anthropology in Climate Change Research and Policy in Bhutan: Reflections from a Carbon‐Negative Country3
A Colonial‐Scientific Interface: The Construction, Viewing, and Circulation of Faces via a 1906 German Racial Atlas3
Nalangkulurru, the Spirit Beings, and the Black‐Nosed Python: Ontological Self‐Determination and Yanyuwa Law in Northern Australia's Gulf Country3
A Black exit interview from anthropology3
Anthropological Expert Work in Today's Legal Field: Between Legitimizing the State Judicial Arena and Seeking Justice for Indigenous Peoples3
Sonic matters: Singing as method and the epistemology of singing across Bengali esoteric lineages3
Catholicism and Taki Onqoy in the Early Colonial Period: Colonial Entanglements of Church Interments at Iglesiachayoq (Chicha‐Soras Valley, Ayacucho, Peru)3
Multimodal Ethnography in/of/as Postcards3
“Dancing on the Brink of the World”: Seeing Indigenous Dance and Resilience in the Archaeology of Colonial California3
A Pirouette with the Twist of a Wheelchair: Embodied Translation and the Creation of Kinesthetic Commensurability3
Bargaining and interdependence: Common parent‐offspring conflict resolution strategies among Chon Chuuk and their implications for suicidal behavior3
Unarmed Militancy: Tactical Victories, Subjectivity, and Legitimacy in Bolivian Street Protest3
The Overseen and Unseen: Agribusiness Plantations, Indigenous Labor, and Land Struggle in Brazil3
The Uncertain Present and the Multimodal Future3
Capitalist Transformation and Settler Colonialism: Theorizing the Interface3
Silenced resentments and regrets: Aging in a changing Kibbutz3
Critical Perspectives on the Microbiome3
Anthropology of proprioception: Endurance and collectivity on unstable grounds in postrevolutionary Cairo3
Implementing an antiracist framework in forensic anthropology: Our responsibility in professional organizations and as scientists3
Life in an age of death: War and the river in Bosnia and Herzegovina3
What makes a “good” forensic anthropologist?3
Intersectional justice denied: Racist warring masculinity, negative peace, and violence in post‐peace accords El Salvador3
The Mechanics of Sovereignty: Autonomy and Interdependence across Three Cables to Iceland3
Risky Appearances, Skillful Performances: Female Islamic Preachers and Professional Style in Malaysia3
Managing, now becoming, refugees: Climate change and extractivism in the Republic of Nauru3
A Critical Perspective on “Diet‐Related” Diseases3
Disciplinary Futures and Reorienting Research: A Reply to Jobson and Rosenzweig on Doing Anthropology in the Age of COVID3
Earth's Data: Climate Change, Thai Carbon Markets, and the Planetary Atmosphere3
The sounds of silence: Thai meditative practice for personal and political change3
Temporalities of Resettlement: Date‐Waiting for an American Future in a Bhutanese Refugee Camp in Nepal3
Centering Prisons: Reframing Analysis of the State, Relations of Power and Resistance3
On the Possibility of Radical, Rigorous Generosity as an Editorial Ethos3
Introduction: Silent Reverberations: Potentialities of Attuned Listening3
In Mourning: Sociocultural Anthropology in 20203
Anthropology with a Southern Attitude: An Interview of Cláudio Costa Pinheiro by Vinicius Kauê Ferreira2
Bioarchaeology of Prehistoric Central Thailand: A Heterarchical View2
Gang Graffiti as Totemism2
The anthropological and the consequential2
NFTs as skeuomorphs: Weaponized sameness and fascist utopias2
WITNESSING2
Off‐the‐record: Metapragmatic distinctions and linguistic sympathy among interpreters in a California child welfare court2
Chrono‐Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: Temporal Balancing and Moralities of Time in Contemporary Urban China2
“Nature” and territories as victims: Decolonizing Colombia's transitional justice process2
History, Truth, and Reconciliation in Settler Health Care2
Of Athens, crises, and other medicines2
Predictors of Land Privatization: Cross‐Cultural Tests of Defendability and Resource Stress Theory2
Linguistic taboo, ideology, and erasure: Reproducing homophobia as norm and lesbianism as stigma in women's football in Turkey2
The Labor of Building a Community: Exploring the Divergent Trajectories of Complex Sites in Copper Age Iberia2
Charismatic Christianity's Hard Cultural Forms and the Local Patterning of the Divine Voice in Ghana2
The Spiral of Sovereignty: Enacting and Entangling the State from Haiti's Streets2
Gaming Anthropology: The Problem of External Validity and the Challenge of Interpreting Experimental Games2
Hometown Prison: Whiteness, Safety, and Prison Work in Upstate New York State2
Skilling race: Affective labor and “white” pedagogies in the Chilean service economy2
The Problem of Future‐Thinking2
Risk factors for the occurrence of sexual misconduct during archaeological and anthropological fieldwork2
Imperialist Irony2
Redefining Diabetes Risk in Mexico2
Uncertain Times: Linguistic Anthropology in 20192
There's more to anthropology's past than most of us know2
Beyond dystopia: Regenerative cultures and ethics among European climate activists2
“Homeless” Deities and Refugee Devotees: Hindu Temples, Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora, and Politics in the United Kingdom2
The quest for a good life: Incense seeing and the porous and dividual hoping person in North China2
A fablab at the periphery: Decentering innovation from São Paulo2
Border assemblages between surveillance and spectacle: What was Moria and what comes after?2
Medical Anthropology in an Era of Authoritarianism2
Broken gods: Collaborative filmmaking in troubled times2
Law, Language, and a Nonsovereign Caribbean2
Anthropology and the misery of writing2
Ethnography and quantification: Insights from epidemiology for Indigenous health equity2
In lieu of “keywords”: Toward an anthropology of rapport2
How does a protest last? Rituals of visibility, disappearances under custody, and the Saturday Mothers in Turkey2
The intimacy of the gift in the economy of sex work2
The varieties of sonic experience: “Quiet” versus “not‐noise” in a Ghanaian harvest festival2
The “Gentle and Invisible” Violence of Obesity Prevention2
Sampling as ethnographic method/remixing Gulu City2
Reconciling and Reassessing the Accumulated Copying Error Model's Population‐Level Predictions for Continuous Cultural Traits2
Researchers’ Vulnerability: The Politics of Research in Official Clinical Settings in Turkey2
Anthropology in the Consulting Room: An Interview with Salma Siddique by Virginia R. Dominguez2
The violence of collecting2
Rethinking Fatness, Rethinking Diabetes2
Reproducing Whiteness: Race, Food, and Epigenetics2
Metabolic Reflections: Blurring the Line between Trauma and Diabetes2
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