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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Building the American Supersoldier35
Archaeology as Cultural Heritage in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq26
Thought Collectives, Fascism, and Truth25
“If God Is with Us, Who Can Be against Us?”24
Front Cover24
Comparison through Collaboration22
How to Avoid the Trick?17
Considering the Whole Environment in the Arctic Past16
DeKeynesianizing Citizenship16
Domesticities through the Looking Glass :The Archeology of the Homed and the Unhomed16
House, Household, and Home16
Dreaming of Robots and War without Humans16
Comment on Schuster 202515
The Price of Wealth: Scarcity and Abundance in an Unequal World14
How to “Get By” in a Crisis14
The Evolution of Gender Dimorphism in the Human Voice14
Queering Kumbh Mela13
Poetry in Pursuit of Activist Anthropology13
Front Cover13
Databasing Violence12
The Code of Pangolins12
Hinged Dialogues and Heteroglossic Silence12
Collective Loneliness12
Being Seen like a State12
Of Care and Patio Praxis12
From Haunted Houses to Housed Hauntings11
To Connect but to Converse11
Prehistoric Fermentation, Delayed-Return Economies, and the Adoption of Pottery Technology10
Front Matter10
When Smoking Pipes Grow Fins10
From Immunity to Collaboration9
A Palimpsest Theory of Objects9
Visual Displays in Space Station Culture9
Front Matter8
A Cultural Tensor8
Front Matter7
Front Matter7
Looting Made Legal7
Front Cover7
Early Monumentality, Ritual, and Political Complexity7
Front Matter7
To the Readers of Current Anthropology7
Fish Drought6
The Wood for the Trees6
Context Specificity of “Market Integration” among the Matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China6
Relational Economies of Reciprocal Gifting6
Front Matter6
Moorings6
Habits of Maintenance6
Challenging Translations: Law, Social Science, and Fassin’s Critique of Punishment5
Questioning the Weirdness of Pedagogy :Learning Without Lessons: Pedagogy in Indigenous Communities5
Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Superstition and Paranoia5
Front Cover5
Fence Me In4
Maritime Piracy and the Ambiguous Art of Existential Arbitrage4
The Language of Teotihuacan Writing4
Trapped Present, or the Capture(d) Affects of Imprisonment4
Petrous Fever4
Front Matter4
Portuguese Saudade, the Trajectories of Longing and Desire4
Reduction, Generation, and Truth4
The Earliest Taphonomic Evidence of Rabbit Exploitation by Humans in the Northwestern Mediterranean at Terra Amata (Nice, France)4
Dreams of a Transcultural Chamorro4
“My Culture Made Me Do It”3
Misinterpretations of Shimao Research and Chinese Archaeology3
“Affective Publics”3
From Pages to Praxis: How Real Black Shaped My Thinking on Ethnography and Race3
Belief-Inclusive Research3
The Aerial Subarctic3
Bleeding Languages3
Front Matter3
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Tradition3
Infrastructural Mediation and Vulnerability in Nepal-Malaysia Labor Migration3
Involuntary Consent3
Shimao and the Archaeology of the Highland Longshan Society2
Inspirational Hauntings and a Fearless Spirit of Resistance2
Front Matter2
Quantities of Qualia2
Taste-Shaping-Natures2
Living Machines Go Wild2
Infrastructures of (Im)mobility: Human and Mineral Entanglements and Offshore Detention2
Weathering Anti-Blackness2
To the Readers of Current Anthropology2
A Comment on Alvi and Werth 20242
The Katechon and the Messias2
Footprints2
Ethnographic Betrayals2
La Cité2
Bringing Class Back2
Viral Entanglements2
Tracking Mortgage Pathways in Zagreb2
Cultured Milk2
Tensors in Ethnography2
Chinese Archaeology: Unilinear or Multilinear?2
Introduction to Multireview with Karina Biondi and Elizabeth Mertz2
Comment on Ralph 20252
Weapons of the Snake1
Fugitive Hong Kong1
“We Are All Hypocrites Here”1
Reply from Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi1
Reply to Menéndez et al.1
A Chronicle of Life in Lockdown1
Grande Hotel Beira1
Variation in the Structure and Role of Religious Institutions1
Front Cover1
Fit to Protect1
Always a Trace1
Millennial Pre-Columbian Pigment Mining in the Atacama Desert Coast (Northern Chile)1
Comment on Chong 20251
Aquifer Aporias1
Angel1
Flooded City1
Front Matter1
Balance Sheet Aesthetics and the Racial Contours of Cost1
Repatriation as Pedagogy1
Front Cover1
The Subject of the Underground1
To the Readers of Current Anthropology1
Econography1
Shimao and the Rise of States in China1
Landscape of Loess, Millets, and Boar1
The Racial Policies of De-development in the Middle East1
Front Matter1
Real Sincere: Letter to a Black Ethnographer1
The Affective Politics of Sound1
Racializing Aesthetics1
Anthropology, Development, and Beyond1
The Entrepreneurial Catch1
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Magic and Empiricism in Early Chinese Rainmaking0
Is Mnemonics an End in Itself? Sensory Mnemonic Learning of the Qur’ān in Southwestern Morocco0
Grappling with the Legacies of Anthro-Cast0
Direct Effects of Bipedalism on Early Hominin Fetuses Stimulated Later Musical and Linguistic Evolution0
Front Cover0
Bamboo Shoot in Our Blood0
Unearthing the Racial Landscape in New Orleans0
Comment on Baviskar 20250
An Anthropologist at Davos0
Front Matter0
Niche Expansion and the Natural History of Human-Cat Kinship0
The Gendering of Anthropological Theory since 20000
The Time of Agony0
Aesthetics of the Unfamiliar0
Front Matter0
Realizing Traditional Values through Overseas Education0
Riding, Ruling, and Resistance0
The Problem of Liquidity0
Futurities Rethought0
Front Matter0
The Costs of Magical Thinking and Hypervigilance0
A Link in Global Agrifood Chains0
Economic Citizenship at the Intersection of Nation, Class, and Gender0
Anthropology and Inheritance0
Intimate States0
Reflections of Movement0
Front Cover0
Seeking Prehistoric Fermented Food in Japan and Korea0
Make Shift0
Fermentation in Post-antibiotic Worlds0
Comment on Elyachar 20250
Before, During, and After Gender0
Multiunionism, Union Bureaucracy, and Untruth in Collective Ethical Self-Making0
Resistant Breathing0
War as an Environment: Domesticity, Bitterness, and Multispecies Attachments to Life0
Hydraulic Hospitality and the Waters of New York City Restaurants0
To the Readers of Current Anthropology0
Review of Ban Chiang, Northeast Thailand, Volumes 2A, 2B, and 2C0
The Anthropology of Biocultural Environments0
Front Cover0
Review of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Paul Scharre, New York: W. W. Norton, 20230
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How to Analyze Your Data without Lying about God0
Cultural Literacy as Mission and Product0
At the Edges of Liberal Care0
Checking Facts by a Bot0
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Missing Microbes and Other Gendered Microbiopolitics in Bovine Fermentation0
Time Is Breaking “after” Roe0
The Debts of Others0
Front Matter0
The Evolution of Australian Kin Terminologies0
The Indian’s White Man0
Technological Totemism0
The Fragility of Voice0
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Toward a Global Ecology of Fermented Foods0
Overnight Urbanization and Changing Spirits0
Appearance and Origin0
Indian Gaming Zones as Oppositional Subculture0
Rewild Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer0
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
Phoning Home0
Uncertainty, Bewilderment Aversion, and the Problem of Physician Suicide0
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Parents, Caregivers, and Peers0
Preserving the Microbial Commons0
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Contemporaneous Prehistories: Chronotypes from the Island of Flores0
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Insurgent Archivings0
Racial Optics of Escalation0
Anthroman Lives: The Emcee Epistemology of Real Black0
Review of Decolonizing Anthropology: An Introduction, by Soumhya Venkatesan, Cambridge: Polity, 20240
Comment on Trisal 20250
The Punishment Theories Do, or How to Do Punishment with Theories (Fassin’sThe Will to Punish)0
Cultures of Fermentation: Living with Microbes0
Microbial Antagonism in the Trentino Alps0
The Making of the “Brown Savior”0
The Pleasures of Making0
The Naysayers’ Science?0
Being Vigilant about Sacred Cows: On Belief and Violence in India0
The Intimacy of Occupation0
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Precarious Writings0
Front Cover0
“Who Morality Epp?”0
Cultures of Fermentation0
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Real Time in Rearview0
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BaYaka Adolescent Boys Nominate Accessible Adult Men as Preferred Spear Hunting Models0
Barbed Wire in an Agrarian Borderland0
Who Were the Hyksos?0
Mesoamerica in a Bowl0
Prospects of an Anthropology of Understanding0
Radical Habitus0
New Adventures in Racial Sincerity: Twenty Years of Real Black by John L. Jackson Jr.0
Wandering Waste0
Money, Currency, and Heterodox Macroeconomics for Archaeology0
The Predictable Evolution of Letter Shapes0
The Problem with “Solutions”: Apolitical Optimism in the Sustainable Energy Industry0
In Search of an American Dream0
Front Matter0
On Synecdoche0
Erratum0
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A Posthumanist Approach to the Origins of Rice Agriculture in Southern China0
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The Impact of Contact and Colonization on Indigenous Worldviews, Rock Art, and the History of Southern Africa0
A Framework for Incorporating Diverse Gender Identities into Forensic Anthropology Casework and Theory0
Climate Niche Modeling Reveals the Fate of Pioneering Late Pleistocene Populations in Northern Europe0
The Precariat That Can Speak0
How Is Space Culturally Transformed? Religious and Aesthetic Creativity in Walled Spaces0
We Are NotIkumen, We Are Self-Reliant Househusbands0
Why Do Humans Hunt Cooperatively?0
The Embarrassment of Heritage Alienability0
Front Cover0
Conditional Cash Transfers and the Produced Poor in Indonesia0
Public Wealth, Public Enemies, and the Right to Existence0
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