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Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Anthropology is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Political Economy of Attention	23
The Evolution of Human Infancy: Why It Helps to Be Helpless	20
Rethinking the Landscape: Emerging Approaches to Archaeological Remote Sensing	19
Intersectional Ecologies: Reimagining Anthropology and Environment	19
Current Digital Archaeology	17
Syndemics: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Complex Epidemic Events Like COVID-19	17
Retranslating Resilience Theory in Archaeology	15
Water Needs, Water Insecurity, and Human Biology	12
Desiring Bureaucracy	12
Political Theology/Theopolitics: The Thresholds and Vulnerabilities of Sovereignty	11
Postcolonial Semiotics	10
Prehistory of Kinship	9
Touch and Social Interaction	9
The Human Sleep Paradox: The Unexpected Sleeping Habits ofHomo sapiens	9
The Ecoimmunology of Health and Disease: The Hygiene Hypothesis and Plasticity in Human Immune Function	8
The Necropolitics of Language Oppression	8
The Earliest South African Hominids	8
African American Archaeology, for Now	8
Financialization and the Household	8
Human Evolution in Asia: Taking Stock and Looking Forward	8
The Anthropology of Being Haunted: On the Emergence of an Anthropological Hauntology	7
Race and Racism in Archaeologies of Chinese American Communities	7
Rethinking Neandertals	6
Transgressing Time: Archaeological Evidence in/of the Anthropocene	6
Conversation and Culture	5

The Semiotics of Cooperation	5
Intimacy and the Politics of Love	5
Global Health Interventions: The Military, the Magic Bullet, the Deterministic Model—and Intervention Otherwise	5
Multimodality: Reshaping Anthropology	5
Recent Research on the Archaeology of War and Violence	5
Rethinking Indigeneity: Scholarship at the Intersection of Native American Studies and Anthropology	5
Food Insecurity, Nutritional Inequality, and Maternal–Child Health: A Role for Biocultural Scholarship in Filling Knowledge Gaps	5
Constructed Languages	4
The Archaeology of Settler Colonialism in North America	4
Feminism in the House of Anthropology	4
Religious Orthodoxies: Provocations from the Jewish and Christian Margins	4
Language and the Military: Necropolitical Legitimation, Embodied Semiotics, and Ineffable Suffering	4
Biolegality: How Biology and Law Redefine Sociality	3
Human Bodies in Extreme Environments	3
Biocultural Lactation: Integrated Approaches to Studying Lactation Within and Beyond Anthropology	3
Slippage: An Anthropology of Shamanism	3
Disappointment	3
Gut Microbial Intersections with Human Ecology and Evolution	3
The Carceral State: An American Story	3
The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past	3
Archaeoprimatology: TheLongue DuréeInterface Between Humans and Nonhuman Primates	3
Reconceptualizing Archaeological Perspectives on Long-Term Political Change	3
Peirce and Archaeology: Recent Approaches	2
Critical University Studies	2
A Linguistic Anthropology of Images	2
Decolonizing Museums: Toward a Paradigm Shift	2
SARS-CoV-2 Is Not Special, but the Pandemic Is: The Ecology, Evolution, Policy, and Future of the Deadliest Pandemic in Living Memory	2
White Supremacy and the Making of Anthropology	2
Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: The Looping Effects of Persons and Social Worlds	2
Remarking the Unmarked: An Anthropology of Masculinity Redux	2
The Laboratory of Scientific Racism: India and the Origins of Anthropology	2
Pidgins and Creoles: Debates and Issues	2
Security Regimes: Transnational and Imperial Entanglements	2
What Makes Inventions Become Traditions?	2