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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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Publics, Polls, Protest: Public Representation as Sociopolitical Practice	31
Aesthetics in Styles and Variation: A Fresh Flavor	26
Doing Fieldwork Without Knowing It	26
Reconceptualizing Archaeological Perspectives on Long-Term Political Change	25
Intimacy and the Politics of Love	24
The Carceral State: An American Story	24
Applications of Primate Genetics for Conservation and Management	23
Early Hominin Paleoenvironments and Habitat Heterogeneity	20
Intersectional Ecologies: Reimagining Anthropology and Environment	18
African American Archaeology, for Now	17
Cultural-Environmental Systems and the Archaeology of Climate Change and Social Complexity: Midwest and Southeast United States	16
SARS-CoV-2 Is Not Special, but the Pandemic Is: The Ecology, Evolution, Policy, and Future of the Deadliest Pandemic in Living Memory	15
South Asian Language Practices: Mother Tongue, Medium, and Media	15
Constructed Languages	13
Gut Microbial Intersections with Human Ecology and Evolution	12
The Human Sleep Paradox: The Unexpected Sleeping Habits ofHomo sapiens	12
Social Movements, Power, and Mediated Visibility	12
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Peirce and Archaeology: Recent Approaches	11
The Earliest South African Hominids	11
Water Needs, Water Insecurity, and Human Biology	10
Disappointment	9
Slippage: An Anthropology of Shamanism	9
Health Disparities Among Indigenous Peoples: Exploring the Roles of Evolutionary and Developmental Mismatch on Cardiometabolic Health	9
Biocultural Lactation: Integrated Approaches to Studying Lactation Within and Beyond Anthropology	8

The Archaeology of Early Cities: “What Is the City but the People?”	8
Syndemics: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Complex Epidemic Events Like COVID-19	8
Concrete Times	8
Steps to an Ecology of Algorithms	7
Bridging the Gap: Integrating Knowledge from the Study of Social Network Analysis and Infectious Disease Dynamics in Human and Nonhuman Primates	7
Remarking the Unmarked: An Anthropology of Masculinity Redux	7
Language and Education: Ideologies of Correctness	7
Modalities of Free Speech	6
Toward an Anthropology of Self-Care	6
Biological Normalcy	6
The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past	6
Slaving and Slave Trading in Africa	6
The Evolution of Human Infancy: Why It Helps to Be Helpless	6
Postcolonial Semiotics	5
Prehistory of Kinship	5
The Invisible Labor and Ethics of Interpreting	5
The Great Pirahã Brouhaha: Linguistic Diversity and Cognitive Universality	5
Wound Culture	4
White Supremacy and the Making of Anthropology	4
Thinking in Between Disciplines	4
Critical University Studies	4
Music, Language, Aurality: Latin American and Caribbean Resoundings	4
Bad Mouths: Taboo and Transgressive Language	3
Human Bodies in Extreme Environments	3
Anthropology of and from the Ocean	3
Current Digital Archaeology	3
Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: The Looping Effects of Persons and Social Worlds	3
Is a Psychotic Anthropology Possible? Or How to Have Inclusive Anthropologies of Subjectivity and Personhood	3
Proxy Evidence: Epistemological Considerations for Isotope Analysis in Bioarchaeology and Zooarchaeology	2
Transgressing Time: Archaeological Evidence in/of the Anthropocene	2
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Feminism in the House of Anthropology	2
Human Evolution in Asia: Taking Stock and Looking Forward	2
Rethinking the Landscape: Emerging Approaches to Archaeological Remote Sensing	2
Rethinking Neandertals	2
Interdisciplinarity and Positionality	2
Acknowledging Inspirations in a Lifetime of Shifting and Pivoting Standpoints to Construct the Past	2
Multimodality: Reshaping Anthropology	2
Native American and Indigenous Language Practices and Politics	2