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Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Anthropology is 3. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Publics, Polls, Protest: Public Representation as Sociopolitical Practice	34
Aesthetics in Styles and Variation: A Fresh Flavor	27
Doing Fieldwork Without Knowing It	27
Reconceptualizing Archaeological Perspectives on Long-Term Political Change	26
The Carceral State: An American Story	26
Intimacy and the Politics of Love	25
Applications of Primate Genetics for Conservation and Management	23
Early Hominin Paleoenvironments and Habitat Heterogeneity	21
Intersectional Ecologies: Reimagining Anthropology and Environment	19
Cultural-Environmental Systems and the Archaeology of Climate Change and Social Complexity: Midwest and Southeast United States	19
SARS-CoV-2 Is Not Special, but the Pandemic Is: The Ecology, Evolution, Policy, and Future of the Deadliest Pandemic in Living Memory	17
African American Archaeology, for Now	17
Constructed Languages	17
Social Movements, Power, and Mediated Visibility	16
The Human Sleep Paradox: The Unexpected Sleeping Habits ofHomo sapiens	16
South Asian Language Practices: Mother Tongue, Medium, and Media	14
Gut Microbial Intersections with Human Ecology and Evolution	14
Peirce and Archaeology: Recent Approaches	13
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The Earliest South African Hominids	12
Disappointment	12
Health Disparities Among Indigenous Peoples: Exploring the Roles of Evolutionary and Developmental Mismatch on Cardiometabolic Health	11
Slippage: An Anthropology of Shamanism	11
Biocultural Lactation: Integrated Approaches to Studying Lactation Within and Beyond Anthropology	11
Water Needs, Water Insecurity, and Human Biology	11

The Archaeology of Early Cities: “What Is the City but the People?”	9
Syndemics: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Complex Epidemic Events Like COVID-19	9
Language and Education: Ideologies of Correctness	8
Bridging the Gap: Integrating Knowledge from the Study of Social Network Analysis and Infectious Disease Dynamics in Human and Nonhuman Primates	8
Concrete Times	8
The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past	7
Remarking the Unmarked: An Anthropology of Masculinity Redux	7
Toward an Anthropology of Self-Care	7
Modalities of Free Speech	7
Steps to an Ecology of Algorithms	7
The Evolution of Human Infancy: Why It Helps to Be Helpless	7
Biological Normalcy	6
Postcolonial Semiotics	6
Prehistory of Kinship	6
The Great Pirahã Brouhaha: Linguistic Diversity and Cognitive Universality	6
The Invisible Labor and Ethics of Interpreting	6
Slaving and Slave Trading in Africa	6
Critical University Studies	6
Wound Culture	5
Music, Language, Aurality: Latin American and Caribbean Resoundings	5
White Supremacy and the Making of Anthropology	5
Current Digital Archaeology	5
Thinking in Between Disciplines	5
Human Bodies in Extreme Environments	5
Anthropology of and from the Ocean	4
Is a Psychotic Anthropology Possible? Or How to Have Inclusive Anthropologies of Subjectivity and Personhood	4
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Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: The Looping Effects of Persons and Social Worlds	4
Multimodality: Reshaping Anthropology	4
Bad Mouths: Taboo and Transgressive Language	4
Native American and Indigenous Language Practices and Politics	3
Early Maya Monumentalism	3
Rethinking Neandertals	3
Proxy Evidence: Epistemological Considerations for Isotope Analysis in Bioarchaeology and Zooarchaeology	3
Rethinking the Landscape: Emerging Approaches to Archaeological Remote Sensing	3
Interdisciplinarity and Positionality	3