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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Captivity, Kinship, and Black Masculine Care Work under Domestic Warfare	49
Obstetric Racism: Naming and Identifying a Way Out of Black Women's Adverse Medical Experiences	41
The Beetle or the Bug? Multispecies Politics in a West Papuan Oil Palm Plantation	38
Decolonizing US anthropology	37
Water sharing is a distressing form of reciprocity: Shame, upset, anger, and conflict over water in twenty cross‐cultural sites	24
Anthropology and ableism	23
Where Have All the Anthros Gone? The Shift in California Indian Studies from Research “on” to Research “with, for, and by” Indigenous Peoples	21
Between privileges and precariousness: Remaking whiteness in China's teaching English as a second language industry	20
A Rabbi of One's Own? Navigating Religious Authority and Ethical Freedom in Everyday Judaism	19
Making Better Numbers through Bioethnographic Collaboration	18
Adopting a Root: Documenting Ecological and Cultural Signatures of Plant Translocations in Northwestern North America	18
Knowing Animals: Multispecies Ethnography and the Scope of Anthropology	17
Resistance and Care in the Time of COVID‐19: Archaeology in 2020	17
Learning How Not to Know: Pragmatism, (In)expertise, and the Training of American Helping Professionals	15
You Are Going to Get Us Killed: Fugitive Archival Practice and the Carceral State	13
Promising resilience: Systems and survival after forestry's ends	13
Arranged Marriage Often Subverts Offspring Mate Choice: An HRAF‐Based Study	13
Analyzing asymmetries and praxis in aDNA research: A bioanthropological critique	12
Citizen‐Suspect: Navigating Surveillance and Policing in Urban Kenya	12
Nonsovereign Racecraft: How Colonialism, Debt, and Disaster are Transforming Puerto Rican Racial Subjectivities	12
Multimodal Ambivalence: A Manifesto for Producing in S@!#t Times	12
The Limits of Resilience: Managing Waste in the Racialized Anthropocene	11
Making Friends, Building Roads: Chinese Entrepreneurship and the Search for Reliability in Angola	11
Scripting the Conviction: Power and Resistance in the Management of Criminal Stigma	11
Objects Don't Have Desires: Toward an Anthropology of Technology beyond Anthropomorphism	10

Teawords: Experiments with Quality in Indian Tea Production	10
Decolonizing Visual Anthropology: Locating Transnational Diasporic Queers‐of‐Color Voices in Ethnographic Cinema	9
The eye and the other: Language and ethics in deaf Nepal	9
Archaeology in 2021: Repatriation, reclamation, and reckoning with historical trauma	9
Anthropology‐as‐theology: Violent endings and the permanence of new beginnings	9
Woman the hunter: The archaeological evidence	8
Economy of Blood: The Persecuted Church and the Racialization of American Copts	8
The Biology of Racism	8
The Interlocutor Slot: Citing, Crediting, Cotheorizing, and the Problem of Ethnographic Expertise	7
A conversation on redefining ethical considerations in forensic anthropology	7
Disposable kin: Shifting registers of belonging in global care economies	7
Energizing partnerships in research‐to‐policy projects	7
De‐Naturalizing the Novice: A Critique of the Theory of Language Socialization	7
Barriers to entry and success in forensic anthropology	6
Woman the hunter: The physiological evidence	6
Belief correlations with parental vaccine hesitancy: Results from a national survey	6
“We share the same ancestry”: US Kurdish diasporas and the aspirational and ascriptive practices of race	6
Beneficiaries of Forest Carbon: Precarious Inclusion in the Brazilian Amazon	6
The Value of Forensic Anthropology in Undergraduate Anthropology Programs	6
Behind the Scenes of Hollywood: An Archaeology of Reproductive Oppression at the Intersections	6
Blowing up “the World” in World Anthropologies	5
Discrimination as a Moderator of the Effects of Acculturation and Cultural Values on Mental Health Among Pregnant and Postpartum Latina Women	5
Ecosystem duties, green infrastructure, and environmental injustice in Los Angeles	5
Communication as Care across Borders: Forging and Co‐Opting Relationships of Obligation in Transnational Salvadoran Families	5
There's more to anthropology's past than most of us know	5
Affective silences: Violence, heteropatriarchy, intergenerationality	5
What makes a “good” forensic anthropologist?	5
“Nature” and territories as victims: Decolonizing Colombia's transitional justice process	5
The Dynamics of Maya State Process: An Integrated Perspective from the San Lucas Neighborhood of Copán, Honduras	5
Between Gender and Kinship: Mediating Rights and Relations in North Indian NGOs	5
Familiar Pixels: Imag(in)ing the Dead and the Political in Israel/Palestine	4
Crossing at y/our own peril: Biocultural boundary crossing in anthropology	4
Temporalities of Resettlement: Date‐Waiting for an American Future in a Bhutanese Refugee Camp in Nepal	4
Catholicism and Taki Onqoy in the Early Colonial Period: Colonial Entanglements of Church Interments at Iglesiachayoq (Chicha‐Soras Valley, Ayacucho, Peru)	4
Border assemblages between surveillance and spectacle: What was Moria and what comes after?	4
Silence at the end of life: Multivocality at the edges of narrative possibility	4
Managing, now becoming, refugees: Climate change and extractivism in the Republic of Nauru	4
Let Us Become Pyrophytes (Fire‐Lovers)	4
The sounds of silence: Thai meditative practice for personal and political change	4
Atomic archaeology: Italian innovation and American adventurism	4
Reconstructing Sovereignty on Ancient Mesoamerica's Southern Pacific Coast	4
Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population: An epistolary review essay	4
Leveraging anthropological expertise to respond to the COVID‐19 global mental health syndemic	4
Nalangkulurru, the Spirit Beings, and the Black‐Nosed Python: Ontological Self‐Determination and Yanyuwa Law in Northern Australia's Gulf Country	4
Life in an age of death: War and the river in Bosnia and Herzegovina	4
Reciprocity and intimate capital in household work: Exchanging love and care for labor rights in contemporary Buenos Aires	4
Risky Appearances, Skillful Performances: Female Islamic Preachers and Professional Style in Malaysia	4
Introduction: Silent Reverberations: Potentialities of Attuned Listening	4
Ecologies of mistrust: Fish, fishermen, and the multispecies ethics of ethnographic authority	3
Bargaining and interdependence: Common parent‐offspring conflict resolution strategies among Chon Chuuk and their implications for suicidal behavior	3

In Mourning: Sociocultural Anthropology in 2020	3
The quest for a good life: Incense seeing and the porous and dividual hoping person in North China	3
Ethnography and quantification: Insights from epidemiology for Indigenous health equity	3
The importance of professional organizations as disciplinary leaders and the need for meaningful ethical codes in anthropology	3
Capitalist Transformation and Settler Colonialism: Theorizing the Interface	3
Does a decolonized anthropology require reinterpreting the past?	3
A Black exit interview from anthropology	3
Centering Prisons: Reframing Analysis of the State, Relations of Power and Resistance	3
On the Possibility of Radical, Rigorous Generosity as an Editorial Ethos	3
A fablab at the periphery: Decentering innovation from São Paulo	3
The Mechanics of Sovereignty: Autonomy and Interdependence across Three Cables to Iceland	3
Against Methodological Essentialism, Fragmentation, and Instrumentalism in Times of COVID‐19	3
The Role of Anthropology in Climate Change Research and Policy in Bhutan: Reflections from a Carbon‐Negative Country	3
Hometown Prison: Whiteness, Safety, and Prison Work in Upstate New York State	3
Archaeology in 2022: Counter‐myths for hopeful futures	3
NFTs as skeuomorphs: Weaponized sameness and fascist utopias	3
Disciplinary Futures and Reorienting Research: A Reply to Jobson and Rosenzweig on Doing Anthropology in the Age of COVID	3
Of Athens, crises, and other medicines	3
Implementing an antiracist framework in forensic anthropology: Our responsibility in professional organizations and as scientists	3
Sonic matters: Singing as method and the epistemology of singing across Bengali esoteric lineages	3
A Pirouette with the Twist of a Wheelchair: Embodied Translation and the Creation of Kinesthetic Commensurability	3
The psychology and social dynamics of fetal sex prognostication in China: Evidence from historical data	3
“Dancing on the Brink of the World”: Seeing Indigenous Dance and Resilience in the Archaeology of Colonial California	3
The Overseen and Unseen: Agribusiness Plantations, Indigenous Labor, and Land Struggle in Brazil	3
The Uncertain Present and the Multimodal Future	3
Broken gods: Collaborative filmmaking in troubled times	3
Off‐the‐record: Metapragmatic distinctions and linguistic sympathy among interpreters in a California child welfare court	3
Fieldwork confessionals	3
Silenced resentments and regrets: Aging in a changing Kibbutz	3
Anthropology of proprioception: Endurance and collectivity on unstable grounds in postrevolutionary Cairo	3
Intersectional justice denied: Racist warring masculinity, negative peace, and violence in post‐peace accords El Salvador	3
The varieties of sonic experience: “Quiet” versus “not‐noise” in a Ghanaian harvest festival	2
Introduction	2
WITNESSING	2
Gang Graffiti as Totemism	2
Anthropology and the misery of writing	2
Becoming politicians: Indigenous pageants as training sites for public life	2
Digital Infrastructures of the Internet Outrage Machine: An Autoethnography of Targeted Faculty Harassment	2
In lieu of “keywords”: Toward an anthropology of rapport	2
Cooperative Bodies: Bioarchaeologists Address Nonranked Societies	2
Multimodal Ambivalence and the Struggle against Techno‐Supremacies	2
Linguistic taboo, ideology, and erasure: Reproducing homophobia as norm and lesbianism as stigma in women's football in Turkey	2
Amelia Louise Susman Schultz (1915–2021)	2
Knowing by DEAF‐listening: Epistemologies and ontologies revealed in song‐signing	2
How does a protest last? Rituals of visibility, disappearances under custody, and the Saturday Mothers in Turkey	2
Black Lives Matter and Museums in 2020: A Personal and Professional Perspective	2
I am an ordinary citizen: Human rights discourse and the limits of human rights law	2
Skilling race: Affective labor and “white” pedagogies in the Chilean service economy	2
The Labor of Building a Community: Exploring the Divergent Trajectories of Complex Sites in Copper Age Iberia	2
The intimacy of the gift in the economy of sex work	2
Welcoming the foreigner: Notes on the possibility of multispecies hospitality	2
Origami activism, inalienable collections, and crumbling concrete: Material engagements with Histories of violence	2
Anthropology in the Consulting Room: An Interview with Salma Siddique by Virginia R. Dominguez	2
Anthropology and the Pragmatics of Climate Knowledge in Brazil	2
Incommunicable: Decolonizing perspectives on language and health	2
Charismatic Christianity's Hard Cultural Forms and the Local Patterning of the Divine Voice in Ghana	2
Beyond dystopia: Regenerative cultures and ethics among European climate activists	2
Sampling as ethnographic method/remixing Gulu City	2
The violence of collecting	2
Bioarchaeology of Prehistoric Central Thailand: A Heterarchical View	2
The anthropological and the consequential	2
Risk factors for the occurrence of sexual misconduct during archaeological and anthropological fieldwork	2
Unnaming Buildings: On (Not) Honoring Ancestors and Losing Our Memory	2
“Homeless” Deities and Refugee Devotees: Hindu Temples, Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora, and Politics in the United Kingdom	2
Adventures in “belief”: Hearing an old concept in a new key	2
Surviving in an age of transparency: Emancipatory transparency‐making in food governance in Italy	2