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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Building the American Supersoldier32
Archaeology as Cultural Heritage in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq26
Thought Collectives, Fascism, and Truth26
“If God Is with Us, Who Can Be against Us?”24
Early Cypriot Prehistory23
Comparison through Collaboration22
Front Cover18
How to Avoid the Trick?17
Considering the Whole Environment in the Arctic Past16
House, Household, and Home16
Domesticities through the Looking Glass :The Archeology of the Homed and the Unhomed16
Collective Loneliness16
Dreaming of Robots and War without Humans16
The Price of Wealth: Scarcity and Abundance in an Unequal World15
How to “Get By” in a Crisis14
DeKeynesianizing Citizenship14
Poetry in Pursuit of Activist Anthropology13
Of Care and Patio Praxis12
Front Cover12
The Code of Pangolins12
Queering Kumbh Mela12
Hinged Dialogues and Heteroglossic Silence12
The Evolution of Gender Dimorphism in the Human Voice12
To Connect but to Converse11
Being Seen like a State11
From Haunted Houses to Housed Hauntings11
Visual Displays in Space Station Culture10
When Smoking Pipes Grow Fins10
From Immunity to Collaboration9
Prehistoric Fermentation, Delayed-Return Economies, and the Adoption of Pottery Technology9
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A Cultural Tensor9
A Palimpsest Theory of Objects9
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Early Monumentality, Ritual, and Political Complexity7
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Looting Made Legal7
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Questioning the Weirdness of Pedagogy :Learning Without Lessons: Pedagogy in Indigenous Communities6
Moorings6
To the Readers of Current Anthropology6
Context Specificity of “Market Integration” among the Matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China6
Maya’s Story5
Relational Economies of Reciprocal Gifting5
Habits of Maintenance5
Fish Drought5
The Wood for the Trees5
Front Cover4
Trapped Present, or the Capture(d) Affects of Imprisonment4
Reduction, Generation, and Truth4
The Earliest Taphonomic Evidence of Rabbit Exploitation by Humans in the Northwestern Mediterranean at Terra Amata (Nice, France)4
Cognitive and Evolutionary Foundations of Superstition and Paranoia4
Fence Me In4
Front Matter4
Maritime Piracy and the Ambiguous Art of Existential Arbitrage4
Challenging Translations: Law, Social Science, and Fassin’s Critique of Punishment4
Dreams of a Transcultural Chamorro4
Portuguese Saudade, the Trajectories of Longing and Desire4
Front Cover3
“My Culture Made Me Do It”3
Misinterpretations of Shimao Research and Chinese Archaeology3
Footprints3
Ethnographic Betrayals3
Petrous Fever3
Belief-Inclusive Research3
Front Matter3
Quantities of Qualia3
Inspirational Hauntings and a Fearless Spirit of Resistance3
“Affective Publics”3
Involuntary Consent3
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Tradition3
Bleeding Languages3
Tensors in Ethnography3
The Aerial Subarctic3
The Katechon and the Messias2
Living Machines Go Wild2
Shimao and the Archaeology of the Highland Longshan Society2
Infrastructures of (Im)mobility: Human and Mineral Entanglements and Offshore Detention2
The Racial Policies of De-development in the Middle East2
La Cité2
Flooded City2
Taste-Shaping-Natures2
Bringing Class Back2
Chinese Archaeology: Unilinear or Multilinear?2
Viral Entanglements2
Weathering Anti-Blackness2
Reply to Menéndez et al.2
Tracking Mortgage Pathways in Zagreb2
Cultured Milk2
Front Matter2
Introduction to Multireview with Karina Biondi and Elizabeth Mertz2
Front Matter2
Angel2
To the Readers of Current Anthropology2
Always a Trace1
Elevated1
Review of Fabricating Transnational Capitalism1
The Entrepreneurial Catch1
The Subject of the Underground1
Variation in the Structure and Role of Religious Institutions1
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
To the Readers of Current Anthropology1
Anthropology, Democracy, and Authoritarianism1
Medicine and Kingship1
Racializing Aesthetics1
Fit to Protect1
Balance Sheet Aesthetics and the Racial Contours of Cost1
Grande Hotel Beira1
“We Are All Hypocrites Here”1
Front Matter1
Landscape of Loess, Millets, and Boar1
Econography1
The Material Creativity of Affective Artifacts in the Dutch Colonial World1
Front Cover1
Anthropology, Development, and Beyond1
Repatriation as Pedagogy1
The Affective Politics of Sound1
A Chronicle of Life in Lockdown1
Fugitive Hong Kong1
Aquifer Aporias1
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The Nectar of Life0
Contemporaneous Prehistories: Chronotypes from the Island of Flores0
Public Wealth, Public Enemies, and the Right to Existence0
The Problem with “Solutions”: Apolitical Optimism in the Sustainable Energy Industry0
Hydraulic Hospitality and the Waters of New York City Restaurants0
Appearance and Origin0
Being Vigilant about Sacred Cows: On Belief and Violence in India0
The Naysayers’ Science?0
Direct Effects of Bipedalism on Early Hominin Fetuses Stimulated Later Musical and Linguistic Evolution0
Enacting Culture0
The Precariat That Can Speak0
The Evolution of Australian Kin Terminologies0
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Fermentation in Post-antibiotic Worlds0
Overnight Urbanization and Changing Spirits0
“We Wouldn’t Change Him for the World, but We’d Change the World for Him”0
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Preserving the Microbial Commons0
Bamboo Shoot in Our Blood0
Tymlat, Close0
Who Were the Hyksos?0
Cultures of Fermentation0
Review of Decolonizing Anthropology: An Introduction, by Soumhya Venkatesan, Cambridge: Polity, 20240
The Time of Agony0
Fostering Inclusive Practices of Citation and Teamwork in Biological Anthropology0
The Gendering of Anthropological Theory since 20000
Is Mnemonics an End in Itself? Sensory Mnemonic Learning of the Qur’ān in Southwestern Morocco0
Ontologies and Worlds0
Racial Optics of Escalation0
The “Lost Parts of Us”0
The Punishment Theories Do, or How to Do Punishment with Theories (Fassin’sThe Will to Punish)0
Rewild Your Inner Hunter-Gatherer0
Subprime Empire0
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Futurities Rethought0
Radical Habitus0
A Framework for Incorporating Diverse Gender Identities into Forensic Anthropology Casework and Theory0
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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
Conditional Cash Transfers and the Produced Poor in Indonesia0
Prospects of an Anthropology of Understanding0
Front Cover0
Parents, Caregivers, and Peers0
In Search of an American Dream0
Resistant Breathing0
Toward a Global Ecology of Fermented Foods0
“Who Morality Epp?”0
The Problem of Liquidity0
Grappling with the Legacies of Anthro-Cast0
Microbial Antagonism in the Trentino Alps0
The Anthropology of Biocultural Environments0
Phoning Home0
Insurgent Archivings0
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Quantifying Surplus and Sustainability in the Archaeological Record at the Carthaginian-Roman Urban Mound of Zita, Tripolitania0
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On Synecdoche0
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Why I Write?0
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Magic and Empiricism in Early Chinese Rainmaking0
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Money, Currency, and Heterodox Macroeconomics for Archaeology0
Climate Niche Modeling Reveals the Fate of Pioneering Late Pleistocene Populations in Northern Europe0
Time Is Breaking “after” Roe0
Precarious Writings0
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Learning from the Herd?0
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The Indian’s White Man0
Journey to Amerika0
How Is Space Culturally Transformed? Religious and Aesthetic Creativity in Walled Spaces0
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Review of Ban Chiang, Northeast Thailand, Volumes 2A, 2B, and 2C0
At the Edges of Liberal Care0
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The Making of the “Brown Savior”0
The Work of Impossibility in Brazil0
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Erratum0
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Uncertainty, Bewilderment Aversion, and the Problem of Physician Suicide0
Riding, Ruling, and Resistance0
An Anthropologist at Davos0
Intimate States0
To the Readers of Current Anthropology0
Review of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Paul Scharre, New York: W. W. Norton, 20230
Economic Citizenship at the Intersection of Nation, Class, and Gender0
Barbed Wire in an Agrarian Borderland0
A Link in Global Agrifood Chains0
Cultural Literacy as Mission and Product0
The Predictable Evolution of Letter Shapes0
The Pleasures of Making0
Mixing Beats, Pop-Locking, Graffiti Art, and Digitally Reimagined Masculinity in Delhi, India0
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Anthropology and Inheritance0
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Reflections of Movement0
The Debts of Others0
Prison Rebellions, Black Radical Consciousness, and Counterinsurgency0
Before, During, and After Gender0
Checking Facts by a Bot0
Why Do Humans Hunt Cooperatively?0
BaYaka Adolescent Boys Nominate Accessible Adult Men as Preferred Spear Hunting Models0
A Posthumanist Approach to the Origins of Rice Agriculture in Southern China0
The Impact of Contact and Colonization on Indigenous Worldviews, Rock Art, and the History of Southern Africa0
How to Analyze Your Data without Lying about God0
Intersections of Taste, Race, and Class0
Seeking Prehistoric Fermented Food in Japan and Korea0
Hierarchy as a Democratic Value in India0
War as an Environment: Domesticity, Bitterness, and Multispecies Attachments to Life0
Mesoamerica in a Bowl0
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Wandering Waste0
Aesthetics of the Unfamiliar0
The Intimacy of Occupation0
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The Costs of Magical Thinking and Hypervigilance0
The Embarrassment of Heritage Alienability0
Indian Gaming Zones as Oppositional Subculture0
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