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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Archaeology as Cultural Heritage in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq26
The Problem with “Solutions”: Apolitical Optimism in the Sustainable Energy Industry24
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Hydraulic Hospitality and the Waters of New York City Restaurants22
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Aesthetics of the Unfamiliar21
Quantifying Surplus and Sustainability in the Archaeological Record at the Carthaginian-Roman Urban Mound of Zita, Tripolitania18
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Abolitionist “Flesh Made Fierce”: Anti-Black Contours of “Progressive” Knowledge, Discipline, and Solidarity18
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In Search of an American Dream16
Maritime Piracy and the Ambiguous Art of Existential Arbitrage16
Centering Black Food Cultures in Anthropology and Beyond15
Building the American Supersoldier15
Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Superstition and Paranoia14
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Fence Me In14
Returning Life in Tanzania13
Memory, Place, and Identity13
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Early Cypriot Prehistory13
A Chronicle of Life in Lockdown13
Grande Hotel Beira12
Trapped Present, or the Capture(d) Affects of Imprisonment11
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Radical Habitus11
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Variation in the Structure and Role of Religious Institutions11
Barbed Wire in an Agrarian Borderland11
We Are NotIkumen, We Are Self-Reliant Househusbands10
Contemporaneous Prehistories: Chronotypes from the Island of Flores10
The Imposition of the Holy Cross over the Chakana10
Challenging Translations: Law, Social Science, and Fassin’s Critique of Punishment10
The Affective Politics of Sound9
Comparison through Collaboration9
Economic Citizenship at the Intersection of Nation, Class, and Gender9
Uncertainty, Bewilderment Aversion, and the Problem of Physician Suicide9
“If God Is with Us, Who Can Be against Us?”9
Indian Gaming Zones as Oppositional Subculture8
Dreams of a Transcultural Chamorro8
Portuguese Saudade, the Trajectories of Longing and Desire8
Thought Collectives, Fascism, and Truth8
Altered Vision8
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Cultures of Fermentation: Living with Microbes7
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Reduction, Generation, and Truth7
Real Time in Rearview7
The Feel of Climate Change6
Missing Microbes and Other Gendered Microbiopolitics in Bovine Fermentation6
Petrous Fever6
Belief-Inclusive Research6
It Goes with(out) Saying6
To the Readers of Current Anthropology6
“My Culture Made Me Do It”5
Misinterpretations of Shimao Research and Chinese Archaeology5
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To the Readers of Current Anthropology5
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Tradition5
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Dreaming of Robots and War without Humans5
Journey to Amerika4
Unearthing the Racial Landscape in New Orleans4
Bleeding Languages4
The Intimacy of Occupation4
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Rewild Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer4
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1237, or Dying Elsewhere4
Hierarchy as a Democratic Value in India3
How to Avoid the Trick?3
Queering Kumbh Mela3
Involuntary Consent3
The Subject of the Underground3
Intersections of Taste, Race, and Class3
Shamanic Ritual and Ancient Circumpolar Migrations3
At the Edges of Liberal Care3
How to “Get By” in a Crisis3
Always a Trace3
The Making of the “Brown Savior”3
House, Household, and Home3
Just out of Reach2
Wandering Waste2
The Entrepreneurial Catch2
Fit to Protect2
The Work of Impossibility in Brazil2
Ontologies and Worlds2
The “Lost Parts of Us”2
Futurities Rethought2
The Evolution of Gender Dimorphism in the Human Voice2
“Affective Publics”2
Toward a Global Ecology of Fermented Foods2
Epidemic Errors in Understanding Masculinity, Maleness, and Violence2
Racializing Aesthetics2
Econography2
Who Were the Hyksos?1
Review of Ban Chiang, Northeast Thailand, Volumes 2A, 2B, and 2C1
Of Care and Patio Praxis1
The Indian’s White Man1
Review of Fabricating Transnational Capitalism1
Taste-Shaping-Natures1
War as an Environment: Domesticity, Bitterness, and Multispecies Attachments to Life1
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The Male Malady of Globalization1
Mesoamerica in a Bowl1
Repatriation as Pedagogy1
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The Punishment Theories Do, or How to Do Punishment with Theories (Fassin’sThe Will to Punish)1
Seeking Prehistoric Fermented Food in Japan and Korea1
Erratum1
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Tymlat, Close1
Cultured Milk1
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Poetry in Pursuit of Activist Anthropology1
Against Primordialism1
A Comment on Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi 20221
Authenticity and Anthropophagy in Kayapó Film Production1
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Cultures of Fermentation1
Footprints1
Between Guerrilla Warfare and Media Warfare0
Scaling of Hunter-Gatherer Camp Size and Human Sociality0
A Cultural Tensor0
Quantities of Qualia0
Parents, Caregivers, and Peers0
The Time of Agony0
Ethnographic Betrayals0
An Imagined Past?0
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Time Is Breaking “after” Roe0
Subprime Empire0
Evolutionary and Life History Insights into Masculinity and Warfare0
Making and Marking Maleness and Valorizing Violence0
Shimao and the Rise of States in China0
Unseeing the Past0
Ritual, Labor Mobilization, and Monumental Construction in Small-Scale Societies0
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Aquifer Aporias0
When the Winds Run with the Earth0
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Eating the Last Cannibal0
Insurgent Archivings0
The Fiscal Economy of Good Government0
A Link in Global Agrifood Chains0
Composing Complexity in the Eastern Woodlands0
Magic and Empiricism in Early Chinese Rainmaking0
To the Readers of Current Anthropology0
Imperial Terroir0
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From Immunity to Collaboration0
A Daring Quest for the Kairos: Reflections on Graeber and Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything0
“We Are All Hypocrites Here”0
Conditional Cash Transfers and the Produced Poor in Indonesia0
Mixing Beats, Pop-Locking, Graffiti Art, and Digitally Reimagined Masculinity in Delhi, India0
Infrastructures of (Im)mobility: Human and Mineral Entanglements and Offshore Detention0
Targeted Hunting of Ebony Langurs in Early to Mid-Holocene Southern Java0
Sing with Me, Sing, Brother, of América0
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Reply from Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi0
Anthropology and Inheritance0
Intimate States0
Flooded City0
Review of A War on People: Drug User Politics and a New Ethics of Community0
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Make Shift0
“We Wouldn’t Change Him for the World, but We’d Change the World for Him”0
From Food to Grave Good0
Being Vigilant about Sacred Cows: On Belief and Violence in India0
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A Posthumanist Approach to the Origins of Rice Agriculture in Southern China0
Moorings0
Elevated0
The Nectar of Life0
Dizzy Rhythms0
Is Mnemonics an End in Itself? Sensory Mnemonic Learning of the Qur’ān in Southwestern Morocco0
Cultural Disruption Suggested by Dates of Late Holocene Burials, Southwestern Cape, South Africa0
Generosity as Ethics0
Archaeology of the Perishable0
Why Do Humans Hunt Cooperatively?0
Predigestion as an Evolutionary Impetus for Human Use of Fermented Food0
An Anthropologist at Davos0
Fermentation in Post-antibiotic Worlds0
The Costs of Magical Thinking and Hypervigilance0
Current Anthropology Visual Anthropology Competition0
Sources of Ambivalence, Contagion, and Sympathy0
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Early Monumentality, Ritual, and Political Complexity0
Enacting Culture0
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Climate Transformation, Racial De/Formation, Guyana0
Review of Work, Love, and Learning in Utopia0
Juries and Prosecutors in an Era of Mass Incarceration0
Enduring Cycles0
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Reflections of Movement0
The Indigenous Sublime0
On Synecdoche0
Prison Rebellions, Black Radical Consciousness, and Counterinsurgency0
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Resistant Breathing0
Sensational Ensembles0
Cultural Literacy as Mission and Product0
Introduction to Multireview with Karina Biondi and Elizabeth Mertz0
Preserving the Microbial Commons0
The Racial Policies of De-development in the Middle East0
Value in Context0
To the Readers of Current Anthropology0
BaYaka Adolescent Boys Nominate Accessible Adult Men as Preferred Spear Hunting Models0
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Shimao and the Archaeology of the Highland Longshan Society0
Climate Niche Modeling Reveals the Fate of Pioneering Late Pleistocene Populations in Northern Europe0
Tensors in Ethnography0
Precarious Writings0
Retooling US Settler-Colonialism:0
Bamboo Shoot in Our Blood0
Landscape of Loess, Millets, and Boar0
Context Specificity of “Market Integration” among the Matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China0
Soldiers, Masculinities, and Violence0
Tracking Mortgage Pathways in Zagreb0
Relational Economies of Reciprocal Gifting0
Brain Development and Physical Aggression0
The Animal Inside0
How to Analyze Your Data without Lying about God0
Maya’s Story0
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Toward an Anthropological Understanding of Masculinities, Maleness, and Violence0
Appearance and Origin0
“Masterless Men”0
Viral Entanglements0
Magic, Explanations, and Evil0
Evolution without Inheritance0
Refusing Rohingya0
Early Pacific Encounters and Masculinity0
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Money, Currency, and Heterodox Macroeconomics for Archaeology0
As the Statues Fall0
Stuck with Irony0
Phoning Home0
Modalities and Criteria of Shared Memory0
Fugitive Hong Kong0
Spaced-Out States0
Inside a Residential Girls’ Madrasa in India0
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