American Anthropologist

Papers
(The TQCC of American Anthropologist is 1. 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
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A thousand tiny cuts: Mobility and security across the Bangladesh‐India borderland By SahanaGhosh. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023. 296 pp.19
Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population: An epistolary review essay17
The house is coming from inside the call17
Can women hunt? Yes. Did women contribute much to human evolution through endurance hunting? Probably not.16
Stable condition: Traumatic injury, coma, and vital traffic in a Mumbai hospital ward15
De‐Naturalizing the Novice: A Critique of the Theory of Language Socialization15
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
The forever war, foregone14
The sustainability myth: Environmental gentrification and the politics of justice By MelissaChecker. New York: NYU Press, 2020. 280 pp.13
Generous peer review13
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
Multimodal Ambivalence and the Struggle against Techno‐Supremacies12
Life in an age of death: War and the river in Bosnia and Herzegovina11
A forgetful ethnography: Memory, memoir, and brain injuries10
Truth before transition: Reimagining anthropology as restorative justice10
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
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Relations: An Anthropological Account by MarilynStrathernDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 274 pp.9
Welcoming the foreigner: Notes on the possibility of multispecies hospitality8
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria8
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
Putting Big Tech in its place: A view of the virtual from Los Angeles7
Silenced resentments and regrets: Aging in a changing Kibbutz7
An ethnography of joy: Entrepreneurship among Latinx communities in East Los Angeles7
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
Whither book reviews?6
The echo of the world: The castaway, the Garabandal apparitions, and the crisis of presence6
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
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
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
Introduction4
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
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
Foreword4
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
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic3
When do no harm becomes harm done: Re‐centering ethics in anthropology3
Embracing the Anaconda: A Chronicle of Atacameño Life and Mining in the Andes by AnitaCarrascoLondon: Lexington Books, 2020. 171 pp.3
Paul Edward Farmer (1959–2022)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
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic3
Housing as asset and payment: Construction, speculation, and financialization at the European periphery3
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
Calling names: Humoring caste and caste‐ing humor3
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
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Living ruins: Native engagements with past materialities in contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes Edited by PhilippeErikson and ValentinaVapnarsky. Louisville: University of Colorado Press3
The varieties of sonic experience: “Quiet” versus “not‐noise” in a Ghanaian harvest festival3
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
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
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
Anthropology after Gluckman: The Manchester School, Colonial and Postcolonial Transformations by RichardWerbnerManchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 322 pp.1
Animal work before capitalism: Sheep's reproductive labor in the ancient South Caucasus1
Understanding higher education policy in Florida among university students: Bound together or in savage slots?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
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
Marshall David Sahlins (1930–2021)1
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Reproducing the “white public space” in anthropology faculty searches1
Biocarceral citizenship: Criminalizing through care in postapartheid South Africa1
A conversation on redefining ethical considerations in forensic anthropology1
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic1
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Between privileges and precariousness: Remaking whiteness in China's teaching English as a second language industry1
Planting the future1
The end of bamboo houses in northern Laos1
Heritage as new social engineering in China: (De)colonial avenues1
Spectral sonics: Field recordings from an extractive zone1
Off‐the‐record: Metapragmatic distinctions and linguistic sympathy among interpreters in a California child welfare court1
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
Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots by MaryWeismantelAustin: University of Texas Press, 2021. 246 pp.1
Scripting the Conviction: Power and Resistance in the Management of Criminal Stigma1
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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
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
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
Revise and resubmit means just that. Revise. Resubmit.1
NFTs as skeuomorphs: Weaponized sameness and fascist utopias1
Douglas A. Feldman (1947–2020)1
Parenting and the production of ethnographic knowledge1
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
On special sections1
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
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Managing, now becoming, refugees: Climate change and extractivism in the Republic of Nauru1
Mobility and Migration in Ancient Mesoamerican Cities. M. CharlotteArnauld, ChristopherBeekman, GrégoryPereira. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2021. 377 pp.1
Arranged Marriage Often Subverts Offspring Mate Choice: An HRAF‐Based Study1
Food (inter)activism in the Marquesas, French Polynesia1
The violence of collecting1
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