Current Anthropology

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Anthropology 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
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Early Cypriot Prehistory26
Building the American Supersoldier25
Thought Collectives, Fascism, and Truth22
Archaeology as Cultural Heritage in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq22
“If God Is with Us, Who Can Be against Us?”21
How to Avoid the Trick?17
Comparison through Collaboration17
Dreaming of Robots and War without Humans16
Domesticities through the Looking Glass :The Archeology of the Homed and the Unhomed16
Collective Loneliness15
Considering the Whole Environment in the Arctic Past15
House, Household, and Home14
How to “Get By” in a Crisis14
Poetry in Pursuit of Activist Anthropology14
Queering Kumbh Mela13
Of Care and Patio Praxis12
The Evolution of Gender Dimorphism in the Human Voice12
The Code of Pangolins12
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The Price of Wealth: Scarcity and Abundance in an Unequal World12
Being Seen like a State11
Hinged Dialogues and Heteroglossic Silence11
To Connect but to Converse11
From Haunted Houses to Housed Hauntings10
From Immunity to Collaboration9
A Palimpsest Theory of Objects9
Prehistoric Fermentation, Delayed-Return Economies, and the Adoption of Pottery Technology9
Visual Displays in Space Station Culture9
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When Smoking Pipes Grow Fins9
Looting Made Legal7
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A Cultural Tensor7
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To the Readers of Current Anthropology7
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Early Monumentality, Ritual, and Political Complexity6
Context Specificity of “Market Integration” among the Matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China6
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Habits of Maintenance5
Questioning the Weirdness of Pedagogy :Learning Without Lessons: Pedagogy in Indigenous Communities5
The Wood for the Trees5
Moorings5
Relational Economies of Reciprocal Gifting5
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Dreams of a Transcultural Chamorro4
Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Superstition and Paranoia4
Trapped Present, or the Capture(d) Affects of Imprisonment4
Portuguese Saudade, the Trajectories of Longing and Desire4
Challenging Translations: Law, Social Science, and Fassin’s Critique of Punishment4
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Fence Me In4
Maya’s Story4
Reduction, Generation, and Truth3
Bleeding Languages3
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Tradition3
The Aerial Subarctic3
Involuntary Consent3
Maritime Piracy and the Ambiguous Art of Existential Arbitrage3
“My Culture Made Me Do It”3
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Belief-Inclusive Research3
The Earliest Taphonomic Evidence of Rabbit Exploitation by Humans in the Northwestern Mediterranean at Terra Amata (Nice, France)3
Petrous Fever3
Misinterpretations of Shimao Research and Chinese Archaeology3
“Affective Publics”3
Footprints2
Tensors in Ethnography2
Inspirational Hauntings and a Fearless Spirit of Resistance2
Introduction to Multireview with Karina Biondi and Elizabeth Mertz2
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Bringing Class Back2
Viral Entanglements2
Cultured Milk2
Ethnographic Betrayals2
Chinese Archaeology: Unilinear or Multilinear?2
La Cité2
Shimao and the Archaeology of the Highland Longshan Society2
Weathering Anti-Blackness2
Quantities of Qualia2
Living Machines Go Wild2
The Katechon and the Messias2
Taste-Shaping-Natures2
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To the Readers of Current Anthropology2
Infrastructures of (Im)mobility: Human and Mineral Entanglements and Offshore Detention2
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Abolitionist “Flesh Made Fierce”: Anti-Black Contours of “Progressive” Knowledge, Discipline, and Solidarity1
Shimao and the Rise of States in China1
Reply from Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi1
Flooded City1
Variation in the Structure and Role of Religious Institutions1
The Affective Politics of Sound1
Racializing Aesthetics1
Review of Fabricating Transnational Capitalism1
The Entrepreneurial Catch1
The Subject of the Underground1
Tracking Mortgage Pathways in Zagreb1
Landscape of Loess, Millets, and Boar1
“We Are All Hypocrites Here”1
Reply to Menéndez et al.1
Grande Hotel Beira1
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Repatriation as Pedagogy1
Fit to Protect1
Always a Trace1
A Chronicle of Life in Lockdown1
Fugitive Hong Kong1
Angel1
The Racial Policies of De-development in the Middle East1
Aquifer Aporias1
Balance Sheet Aesthetics and the Racial Contours of Cost1
Medicine and Kingship1
Anthropology, Development, and Beyond1
Econography1
To the Readers of Current Anthropology1
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The Punishment Theories Do, or How to Do Punishment with Theories (Fassin’sThe Will to Punish)0
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Review of Decolonizing Anthropology: An Introduction, by Soumhya Venkatesan, Cambridge: Polity, 20240
Barbed Wire in an Agrarian Borderland0
The Intimacy of Occupation0
Toward a Global Ecology of Fermented Foods0
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“Who Morality Epp?”0
The Work of Impossibility in Brazil0
The Costs of Magical Thinking and Hypervigilance0
War as an Environment: Domesticity, Bitterness, and Multispecies Attachments to Life0
Quantifying Surplus and Sustainability in the Archaeological Record at the Carthaginian-Roman Urban Mound of Zita, Tripolitania0
An Anthropologist at Davos0
Intimate States0
The Evolution of Australian Kin Terminologies0
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Prospects of an Anthropology of Understanding0
Fermentation in Post-antibiotic Worlds0
Resistant Breathing0
Overnight Urbanization and Changing Spirits0
Subprime Empire0
Phoning Home0
Grappling with the Legacies of Anthro-Cast0
Kin-Work among Black Transit Migrants in Tapachula, Mexico0
Wandering Waste0
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Insurgent Archivings0
Why I Write?0
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Unearthing the Racial Landscape in New Orleans0
On Synecdoche0
Money, Currency, and Heterodox Macroeconomics for Archaeology0
Anthropology, Democracy, and Authoritarianism0
Economic Citizenship at the Intersection of Nation, Class, and Gender0
Checking Facts by a Bot0
Precarious Writings0
Fostering Inclusive Practices of Citation and Teamwork in Biological Anthropology0
Who Were the Hyksos?0
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The Naysayers’ Science?0
Ontologies and Worlds0
The Predictable Evolution of Letter Shapes0
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Is Mnemonics an End in Itself? Sensory Mnemonic Learning of the Qur’ān in Southwestern Morocco0
Hierarchy as a Democratic Value in India0
Review of Ban Chiang, Northeast Thailand, Volumes 2A, 2B, and 2C0
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Hydraulic Hospitality and the Waters of New York City Restaurants0
Direct Effects of Bipedalism on Early Hominin Fetuses Stimulated Later Musical and Linguistic Evolution0
Rewild Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer0
Unseeing the Past0
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Indian Gaming Zones as Oppositional Subculture0
Not So Equitable: “Digging Deep” into Access and Benefit Sharing in South Africa’s Medicinal Plant Trade :Biotraffic: Medicines and Environmental Governance in the Afterlives of Apartheid0
The Embarrassment of Heritage Alienability0
The Indian’s White Man0
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Contemporaneous Prehistories: Chronotypes from the Island of Flores0
The Anthropology of Biocultural Environments0
The Impact of Contact and Colonization on Indigenous Worldviews, Rock Art, and the History of Southern Africa0
Parents, Caregivers, and Peers0
A Link in Global Agrifood Chains0
Review of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Paul Scharre, New York: W. W. Norton, 20230
BaYaka Adolescent Boys Nominate Accessible Adult Men as Preferred Spear Hunting Models0
Climate Niche Modeling Reveals the Fate of Pioneering Late Pleistocene Populations in Northern Europe0
Appearance and Origin0
Cultural Literacy as Mission and Product0
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Uncertainty, Bewilderment Aversion, and the Problem of Physician Suicide0
Cultures of Fermentation: Living with Microbes0
Bamboo Shoot in Our Blood0
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Anthropology and Inheritance0
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Reflections of Movement0
The Time of Agony0
The Material Creativity of Affective Artifacts in the Dutch Colonial World0
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Preserving the Microbial Commons0
Generosity as Ethics0
Racial Optics of Escalation0
Time Is Breaking “after” Roe0
How to Analyze Your Data without Lying about God0
Journey to Amerika0
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The Pleasures of Making0
Conditional Cash Transfers and the Produced Poor in Indonesia0
The “Lost Parts of Us”0
The Making of the “Brown Savior”0
Mesoamerica in a Bowl0
Aesthetics of the Unfamiliar0
At the Edges of Liberal Care0
Futurities Rethought0
Radical Habitus0
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The Problem with “Solutions”: Apolitical Optimism in the Sustainable Energy Industry0
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Before, During, and After Gender0
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Riding, Ruling, and Resistance0
In Search of an American Dream0
Missing Microbes and Other Gendered Microbiopolitics in Bovine Fermentation0
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A Posthumanist Approach to the Origins of Rice Agriculture in Southern China0
Microbial Antagonism in the Trentino Alps0
Being Vigilant about Sacred Cows: On Belief and Violence in India0
Sanguma Em I Stap” (Sanguma Is Real)0
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Make Shift0
Mixing Beats, Pop-Locking, Graffiti Art, and Digitally Reimagined Masculinity in Delhi, India0
The Precariat That Can Speak0
“We Wouldn’t Change Him for the World, but We’d Change the World for Him”0
To the Readers of Current Anthropology0
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Elevated0
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Magic and Empiricism in Early Chinese Rainmaking0
Enacting Culture0
Decolonizing Production0
Seeking Prehistoric Fermented Food in Japan and Korea0
Cultures of Fermentation0
Why Do Humans Hunt Cooperatively?0
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Multiunionism, Union Bureaucracy, and Untruth in Collective Ethical Self-Making0
How Is Space Culturally Transformed? Religious and Aesthetic Creativity in Walled Spaces0
The Gendering of Anthropological Theory since 20000
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