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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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Doing Fieldwork Without Knowing It	44
Publics, Polls, Protest: Public Representation as Sociopolitical Practice	44
Primates in Fragmented Habitats	39
The Carceral State: An American Story	32
Aesthetics in Styles and Variation: A Fresh Flavor	29
Applications of Primate Genetics for Conservation and Management	27
Reconceptualizing Archaeological Perspectives on Long-Term Political Change	27
Early Hominin Paleoenvironments and Habitat Heterogeneity	26
Intimacy and the Politics of Love	24
African American Archaeology, for Now	23
Cultural-Environmental Systems and the Archaeology of Climate Change and Social Complexity: Midwest and Southeast United States	22
Intersectional Ecologies: Reimagining Anthropology and Environment	20
SARS-CoV-2 Is Not Special, but the Pandemic Is: The Ecology, Evolution, Policy, and Future of the Deadliest Pandemic in Living Memory	19
Social Movements, Power, and Mediated Visibility	18
Constructed Languages	18
Gut Microbial Intersections with Human Ecology and Evolution	17
The Human Sleep Paradox: The Unexpected Sleeping Habits ofHomo sapiens	15
South Asian Language Practices: Mother Tongue, Medium, and Media	15
Peirce and Archaeology: Recent Approaches	14
Disappointment	14
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The Earliest South African Hominids	13
Slippage: An Anthropology of Shamanism	12
Biocultural Lactation: Integrated Approaches to Studying Lactation Within and Beyond Anthropology	12
Water Needs, Water Insecurity, and Human Biology	12

Naming and Namelessness	11
The Archaeology of Early Cities: “What Is the City but the People?”	11
Syndemics: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Complex Epidemic Events Like COVID-19	11
Bridging the Gap: Integrating Knowledge from the Study of Social Network Analysis and Infectious Disease Dynamics in Human and Nonhuman Primates	11
Health Disparities Among Indigenous Peoples: Exploring the Roles of Evolutionary and Developmental Mismatch on Cardiometabolic Health	11
Concrete Times	10
Steps to an Ecology of Algorithms	9
Language and Education: Ideologies of Correctness	9
Modalities of Free Speech	9
Toward an Anthropology of Self-Care	9
The Work of Boundaries: Critical Cartographies and the Archaeological Record of the Relatively Recent Past	9
Remarking the Unmarked: An Anthropology of Masculinity Redux	8
The Evolution of Human Infancy: Why It Helps to Be Helpless	8
The Great Pirahã Brouhaha: Linguistic Diversity and Cognitive Universality	7
White Supremacy and the Making of Anthropology	7
Extinct Primates and What They Can Tell Us About Future Extinctions	7
Postcolonial Semiotics	7
The Invisible Labor and Ethics of Interpreting	7
Slaving and Slave Trading in Africa	7
Prehistory of Kinship	7
Critical University Studies	7
Biological Normalcy	7
Thinking in Between Disciplines	6
Wound Culture	6
Music, Language, Aurality: Latin American and Caribbean Resoundings	5
The Spanish Civil War and Its Aftermath	5
Current Digital Archaeology	5
Human Bodies in Extreme Environments	5
Is a Psychotic Anthropology Possible? Or How to Have Inclusive Anthropologies of Subjectivity and Personhood	5
Rethinking Neandertals	4
Anthropology of and from the Ocean	4
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Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: The Looping Effects of Persons and Social Worlds	4
Rethinking the Landscape: Emerging Approaches to Archaeological Remote Sensing	4
Multimodality: Reshaping Anthropology	4
Bad Mouths: Taboo and Transgressive Language	4
Native American and Indigenous Language Practices and Politics	3
Proxy Evidence: Epistemological Considerations for Isotope Analysis in Bioarchaeology and Zooarchaeology	3
Acknowledging Inspirations in a Lifetime of Shifting and Pivoting Standpoints to Construct the Past	3
Interdisciplinarity and Positionality	3
Law, Anthropology, and Their Languages	3
Sex Work, Antitrafficking, and Mobility	3
Feminism in the House of Anthropology	3
Early Maya Monumentalism	3
Human Evolution in Asia: Taking Stock and Looking Forward	3