OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Shadow worlding: Chasing light in Yogyakarta	64
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Issue Information	28
A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador By ChristopherKrupa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 318 pp.	26
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The house is coming from inside the call	21
Can women hunt? Yes. Did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.	17
Slaughterhouse tours in Denmark: Affective nationalism in the making of citizen‐consumers and the industrial slaughter of happy pigs	17
Stable condition: Traumatic injury, coma, and vital traffic in a Mumbai hospital ward	17
Leaving traces: Fairy houses, kindness stones, and constructed heritage	16
The forever war, foregone	15
A thousand tiny cuts: Mobility and security across the Bangladesh‐India borderland By SahanaGhosh. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023. 296 pp.	15
Generous peer review	14
The Anthropology of Anxiety: An Introduction	14
What makes a “good” forensic anthropologist?	14
Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai	14
Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population: An epistolary review essay	14
Cartographic archives: Excavating the subterranean with a camera	13
A forgetful ethnography: Memory, memoir, and brain injuries	13
Queering pregnancy	12
Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire	12
Toxic Waste, Worried Communities: Building an Archaeology of Concern	12
Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh By KasiaPaprocki, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 270 pp.	11
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria	10
Truth before transition: Reimagining anthropology as restorative justice	10

From rhetoric to reality: Why we need an anthropology of higher education policy	10
The sustainability myth: Environmental gentrification and the politics of justice By MelissaChecker. New York: NYU Press, 2020. 280 pp.	10
Life in an age of death: War and the river in Bosnia and Herzegovina	10
A croquis for the stenourbanite	10
Putting Big Tech in its place: A view of the virtual from Los Angeles	9
“I have no proof, but …”	9
The Art of Remembering and Making a Way: Going There, Knowing There, and Other Curious Lessons From “The Genius of the South”	9
The echo of the world: The castaway, the Garabandal apparitions, and the crisis of presence	9
Borderland Anxiety: Negotiating Care Ethics at a Transcultural Clinic	8
Does a decolonized anthropology require reinterpreting the past?	8
Silenced resentments and regrets: Aging in a changing Kibbutz	8
Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh by Lamia KarimMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 272 pp.	8
Welcoming the foreigner: Notes on the possibility of multispecies hospitality	8
The geopower of kaolin clay: Toward a political geology of archaeological ceramics	7
An ethnography of joy: Entrepreneurship among Latinx communities in East Los Angeles	7
Water sharing is a distressing form of reciprocity: Shame, upset, anger, and conflict over water in twenty cross‐cultural sites	7
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Toward an anthropology that cares: Lessons from the Academic Carework project	6
The Worst of Anthro Job Ads for 2021	6
We Are Too Anxious: Anthropology and the Decolonial Project	6
FandangObon: Amplification, counter‐publics, and fugitive spaces of belonging in Los Angeles	6
Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors	6
Anthropology of the Hometown	6
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology by Redman, Samuel J.Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 2022. 314pp.	6
Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability By JacobDoherty. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 288 pp.	6
Whither book reviews?	6
Heritages of (de)colonialism: Reflections from the Pacific Northwest Coast, Canada	6
There's more to anthropology's past than most of us know	6
The anthropological and the consequential	6
The quest for a good life: Incense seeing and the porous and dividual hoping person in North China	5
Issue Information	5
Liberating trails and travel routes in Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en Territories from the tyrannies of heritage resource management regimes	5
Beyond the normative: Ambiguity in the making of a South Indian Sufi	5
Banker, pastor, teef: Christian financial elites and vernaculars of accountability in Ghana	5
Navigating the Bureaucratic Dimensions of Reproductive Violence on the US‐Mexico Border During the COVID‐19 Public Health Emergency	5
Introduction: Modalities of planetary health and justice	5
Pumayuyus	5
Light Leak as Method: Theorizing a Photographic Accident	5
Anthropology‐as‐theology: Violent endings and the permanence of new beginnings	5
Archaeology in 2022: Counter‐myths for hopeful futures	5
Fragile Resonance: Caring for Older Family Members in Japan and England, by JasonDanely, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 249 pp.	5
Bitter Shade: The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness By Michael R.Dove. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. 291 pp.	5
Correction to “The Violence of Collecting”	5
When do no harm becomes harm done: Re‐centering ethics in anthropology	4
Embracing the Anaconda: A Chronicle of Atacameño Life and Mining in the Andes by AnitaCarrascoLondon: Lexington Books, 2020. 171 pp.	4
Chronic Erasure: Eradicating Heritage in Gaza and Ayodhya	4
Writing in community: Relationship building and accountability in knowledge production	4
Comments on a found text: “Return to Acirema: Fragments regarding twenty‐first‐century Nacirema culture”	4
The varieties of sonic experience: “Quiet” versus “not‐noise” in a Ghanaian harvest festival	4
Calling names: Humoring caste and caste‐ing humor	4

Paul Edward Farmer (1959–2022)	4
Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia	4
Amelia Louise Susman Schultz (1915–2021)	4
Jan Vansina (1929–2017)	4
Beyond dystopia: Regenerative cultures and ethics among European climate activists	4
Introduction	4
Housing as asset and payment: Construction, speculation, and financialization at the European periphery	4
Issue Information	4
Textures of Black sound and affect: Life and death in New Orleans	4
Sampling as ethnographic method/remixing Gulu City	4
Fire, ice, and flood	4
Anti‐Bodies, Anti‐Body: A Black Feminist Call and Response: Introduction	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
Living ruins: Native engagements with past materialities in contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes Edited by PhilippeErikson and ValentinaVapnarsky. Louisville: University of Colorado Press	3
Issue Information	3
Sonic matters: Singing as method and the epistemology of singing across Bengali esoteric lineages	3
Issue Information	3
Caring labor and the affective economy in the making of the Caribbean	3
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
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
Atomic archaeology: Italian innovation and American adventurism	3
Surviving in an age of transparency: Emancipatory transparency‐making in food governance in Italy	3
Seeking clarity at a time of confusion, through world anthropologies	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
Reciprocity and intimate capital in household work: Exchanging love and care for labor rights in contemporary Buenos Aires	3
David Graeber (1961–2020)	3
Trade Networks and Consumer Practices in Amedeka, Ghana: Negotiating “Nkudzedze” From the Late 19th to Mid‐20th Centuries	3
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
The Problem of Resilience and the Politics of Precarity	2
On the Compositional Relationship of Text and Image in Graphic Anthropology: The Promise of “Sequential” and “Unrestrained” Perspectives for Unsettling Representation	2
Politics of Resilience and Materialism in Archaeological Explanation	2
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‐J	2
A conversation on redefining ethical considerations in forensic anthropology	2
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The social life of illegality: Suspicion and surveillance against African migrants in urban India	2
Parenting and the production of ethnographic knowledge	2
Artistic Interlude: A Personal Reflection on Visual Storytelling and Harm	2
Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone By Tania MurrayLi and PujoSemedi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 256 pp.	2
Legend of the locked doors: The sexualization of archaeological site workers in the Middle East	2
Roy Wagner (1938–2018)	2
Black Anti‐Bodies at Play	2
Origami activism, inalienable collections, and crumbling concrete: Material engagements with Histories of violence	2
Calibrating care: Family caregiving and the social weight of sympathy (tình cảm) in Vietnam	2
Decentering death: The war on terror and the less‐than‐lethal paradigm	2
Archaeology of Violence and Privilege edited by Christopher N.Matthews and Bradley D.PhillippiAlbuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020. 306 pp.	2
Planting the future	2
Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt By JessicaBarnes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 320 pp.	2
Heritage as new social engineering in China: (De)colonial avenues	2
Can anthropologists get humor? A collaborative experiment on empathetic knowing at a time of predicaments	2
The eye and the other: Language and ethics in deaf Nepal	2
Loss remakes you	2
Stuck Moving: Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology By PeterBenson. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 361 pp.	2
Heritage and decoloniality: Reflections from Sri Lanka—A conversation	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
Beyond “Lessons From the Past”: Archaeology and Environmental Crisis	2
Old Bones in New Databases: Historical Insights Into Race, Statistics, and Ancestry Estimation in Anthropology	2
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Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots by MaryWeismantelAustin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 246 pp.	2
Woman the hunter: The physiological evidence	2
Off‐the‐record: Metapragmatic distinctions and linguistic sympathy among interpreters in a California child welfare court	2
“This cannot leave here, I'm telling you because of my trust in you”: Confessions and ethnographic intimacy in fieldwork with Colombian soldiers	2
Understanding higher education policy in Florida among university students: Bound together or in savage slots?	2
Crossing at y/our own peril: Biocultural boundary crossing in anthropology	2
NFTs as skeuomorphs: Weaponized sameness and fascist utopias	2