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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Thought Collectives, Fascism, and Truth31
Comparison through Collaboration28
Who Cares? Therapeutic Practices and the Making of Noncommunicable Diseases in Zanzibar24
“If God Is with Us, Who Can Be against Us?”24
Mobs and Megaprojects23
Archaeology as Cultural Heritage in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq22
Dreaming of Robots and War without Humans20
How to Avoid the Trick?20
Front Cover18
Poetry in Pursuit of Activist Anthropology18
Queering Kumbh Mela17
DeKeynesianizing Citizenship15
The Price of Wealth: Scarcity and Abundance in an Unequal World13
Comment on Schuster 202513
House, Household, and Home12
Domesticities through the Looking Glass :The Archeology of the Homed and the Unhomed12
Closeted Labor11
The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java11
Considering the Whole Environment in the Arctic Past10
The Evolution of Gender Dimorphism in the Human Voice10
Struggling to Uplift Divine Sparks10
Collective Loneliness9
How to “Get By” in a Crisis9
Databasing Violence8
Of Care and Patio Praxis8
Rushing Around8
Hinged Dialogues and Heteroglossic Silence7
Front Matter7
To Connect but to Converse7
When Smoking Pipes Grow Fins7
Being in Work7
Political Incarnation as Living Archive7
Front Cover6
Being Seen like a State6
A Cultural Tensor6
From Haunted Houses to Housed Hauntings6
Front Matter6
Doing Collaboration Otherwise6
The Return of the Slave Master5
A New Big Data Methodology for Anthropology?: Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism through Big Data5
Imperial Abandonment5
Looting Made Legal5
The Sheepdog Who Cried Wolf4
Questioning the Weirdness of Pedagogy :Learning Without Lessons: Pedagogy in Indigenous Communities4
The Populist Slipper4
Moorings4
Early Monumentality, Ritual, and Political Complexity4
The Wood for the Trees4
Habits of Maintenance4
To the Readers of Current Anthropology4
Front Matter4
Front Matter4
Fish Drought4
From Pages to Praxis: How Real Black Shaped My Thinking on Ethnography and Race3
A Question of Interest?3
Front Matter3
Portuguese Saudade, the Trajectories of Longing and Desire3
Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Superstition and Paranoia3
The Judeo-Arabic Debates3
The Aerial Subarctic3
Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing3
The Language of Teotihuacan Writing3
Maritime Piracy and the Ambiguous Art of Existential Arbitrage3
Fence Me In3
Dreams of a Transcultural Chamorro3
Petrous Fever3
“My Culture Made Me Do It”3
Infrastructural Mediation and Vulnerability in Nepal-Malaysia Labor Migration3
Front Cover3
Cathedrals in the Blood3
More than “Information in the Head”3
Anchoring Anthropological Categories in Simple, Translatable Words3
The Earliest Taphonomic Evidence of Rabbit Exploitation by Humans in the Northwestern Mediterranean at Terra Amata (Nice, France)3
Misinterpretations of Shimao Research and Chinese Archaeology3
Front Matter2
Involuntary Consent2
The Katechon and the Messias2
Footprints2
Beyond “Good Politics, Unspecified”2
Quantities of Qualia2
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Tradition2
Ethnographic Betrayals2
Front Matter2
Time with No Time2
Inspirational Hauntings and a Fearless Spirit of Resistance2
Belief-Inclusive Research2
A Comment on Alvi and Werth 20242
Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century2
Tensors in Ethnography2
Front Matter2
Persistence on a Perilous Coast2
Shimao and the Archaeology of the Highland Longshan Society1
Landscape of Loess, Millets, and Boar1
Front Matter1
“We Are All Hypocrites Here”1
Reply to Menéndez et al.1
Reply from Jaffe, Campbell, and Shelach-Lavi1
Weathering the Hegemons1
Electrifying Sovereignty1
Chinese Archaeology: Unilinear or Multilinear?1
Studying California’s Deep History1
The Racial Policies of De-development in the Middle East1
The Entrepreneurial Catch1
To the Readers of Current Anthropology1
Millennial Pre-Columbian Pigment Mining in the Atacama Desert Coast (Northern Chile)1
Real Sincere: Letter to a Black Ethnographer1
Captures of Protest1
Angel1
Comment on Chong 20251
Weathering Anti-Blackness1
The Affective Politics of Sound1
Populism’s Crowds1
Infrastructures of (Im)mobility: Human and Mineral Entanglements and Offshore Detention1
Front Cover1
Viral Entanglements1
Flooded City1
Fit to Protect1
Balance Sheet Aesthetics and the Racial Contours of Cost1
Conversion as Refusal1
Anthropology, Development, and Beyond1
Front Matter1
Five Limits to Current Autoethnography1
Tracking Mortgage Pathways in Zagreb1
Fugitive Hong Kong1
Iru: The Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve1
Comment on Ralph 20251
Bringing Class Back1
La Cité1
An Ecology of Mind Approach to Far-Right Publics in Brazil1
Front Cover1
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Weapons of the Snake1
Analysis of an Early Neolithic Modified Human Tooth from Isorella, Cascina Bocche (Brescia, Northern Italy)0
Comment on Baviskar 20250
Front Cover0
We Are NotIkumen, We Are Self-Reliant Househusbands0
Erratum0
The Impact of Contact and Colonization on Indigenous Worldviews, Rock Art, and the History of Southern Africa0
Exploring Contemporary Pastoral Variability through Stable Isotope Analysis in the Turkana Basin, Kenya0
The Problem with “Solutions”: Apolitical Optimism in the Sustainable Energy Industry0
Technological Totemism0
New Adventures in Racial Sincerity: Twenty Years of Real Black by John L. Jackson Jr.0
Witchcraft and Patriarchy0
To the Readers of Current Anthropology0
A Posthumanist Approach to the Origins of Rice Agriculture in Southern China0
Front Cover0
The Problem of Liquidity0
Multiunionism, Union Bureaucracy, and Untruth in Collective Ethical Self-Making0
Why Do Humans Hunt Cooperatively?0
Appearance and Origin0
Before, During, and After Gender0
Generosity as Ethics0
Front Cover0
Front Cover0
Who Were the Hyksos?0
Eating the Last Cannibal0
Review of Decolonizing Anthropology: An Introduction, by Soumhya Venkatesan, Cambridge: Polity, 20240
Niche Expansion and the Natural History of Human-Cat Kinship0
Front Matter0
Conditional Cash Transfers and the Produced Poor in Indonesia0
The Precariat That Can Speak0
Innovating the Cuban Kitchen0
The Pleasures of Making0
As If You Were Brothers0
Resistant Breathing0
Front Matter0
Magic and Empiricism in Early Chinese Rainmaking0
The Embarrassment of Heritage Alienability0
Grappling with the Legacies of Anthro-Cast0
Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place0
Front Matter0
To the Readers of Current Anthropology0
Money, Currency, and Heterodox Macroeconomics for Archaeology0
Real Time in Rearview0
Time Is Breaking “after” Roe0
Front Cover0
It Goes with(out) Saying0
Wandering Waste0
Deciphering Sands and Stones0
War as an Environment: Domesticity, Bitterness, and Multispecies Attachments to Life0
Uncertainty, Bewilderment Aversion, and the Problem of Physician Suicide0
Front Matter0
Contemporaneous Prehistories: Chronotypes from the Island of Flores0
A Link in Global Agrifood Chains0
Make Shift0
Front Matter0
In Search of an American Dream0
How Is Space Culturally Transformed? Religious and Aesthetic Creativity in Walled Spaces0
Climate Niche Modeling Reveals the Fate of Pioneering Late Pleistocene Populations in Northern Europe0
Front Matter0
Anthropology’s Democracy Problem0
Irritation, Cooperation, and Human Relationships0
Sensational Ensembles0
What If Anthropology Were a Spiritual Exercise?0
Being Vigilant about Sacred Cows: On Belief and Violence in India0
A Framework for Incorporating Diverse Gender Identities into Forensic Anthropology Casework and Theory0
Parents, Caregivers, and Peers0
How to Analyze Your Data without Lying about God0
Direct Effects of Bipedalism on Early Hominin Fetuses Stimulated Later Musical and Linguistic Evolution0
The Imposition of the Holy Cross over the Chakana0
Is Mnemonics an End in Itself? Sensory Mnemonic Learning of the Qur’ān in Southwestern Morocco0
Insurgent Archivings0
At the Edges of Liberal Care0
Mesoamerica in a Bowl0
Anthropology and Inheritance0
Review of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Paul Scharre, New York: W. W. Norton, 20230
“Who Morality Epp?”0
The Gendering of Anthropological Theory since 20000
The Wager of Popular Address0
An Anthropologist at Davos0
Grappling with Exposure in Mexico City0
Front Cover0
A Comment on Alvi and Werth 20240
Comment on Elyachar 20250
Prospects of an Anthropology of Understanding0
The Debts of Others0
Populism, Enjoyment, and the Competition for Partisan Visibility in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua0
Futurities Rethought0
Engaging Dirt0
Following Signs of Sentiment0
Economic Citizenship at the Intersection of Nation, Class, and Gender0
Front Cover0
Front Matter0
Realizing Traditional Values through Overseas Education0
Populism: Anthropological Approaches0
Plantation Liberalism0
Rewild Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer0
Racial Optics of Escalation0
Modalities and Criteria of Shared Memory0
Reconciling Historic Hospital Records with a Contemporary Skeletal Data Set0
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Trees versus People0
Phoning Home0
Front Matter0
Reflections of Movement0
Public Wealth, Public Enemies, and the Right to Existence0
The Making of the “Brown Savior”0
The Anthropology of Biocultural Environments0
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Comment on Trisal 20250
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Checking Facts by a Bot0
The Naysayers’ Science?0
Cultural Literacy as Mission and Product0
Unearthing the Racial Landscape in New Orleans0
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