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Papers

(The median citation count of American Ethnologist 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
We are (not) monkeys	46
Ruins for the future	24
Wave theory	23
How many worlds are there?	16
Introduction	15
Aging in digital	13
Law, politics, and efficacy at the European Court of Human Rights	12
The art of unnoticing	11
Becoming an operating system	11
Ontologies of climate change	11
Paradoxes of white moral experience	10
Waste intimacies	9
“Nobody wants to kill”	9
The gift of hospitality and the (un)welcoming of Syrian migrants in Turkey	9
Unpayable debt	8
Theory as ethics	8
Love as understanding	8
“Objectivity” as a bureaucratic virtue	7
Governing beyond capacity	7
Tactical dissonance	7
Patchwork ethnography	7
Spectral kinship	7
Crime seen	7
“Don't gamble for money with friends”	6
Ecologies of capture in Bangladesh's Sundarbans	5

Waste's translations	5
“Only the orangutans get a life jacket”	5
Contamination in theory and protest	5
Violent masculinities	5
Trust amid “trust deficit”	5
Relational flexibility	5
Making noise in urban Taiwan	5
Palestinian counter‐forensics and the cruel paradox of property	4
Distributed humanitarianism	4
The right to public security	4
Homemaking as sensemaking	4
Trauma at home	4
Beastly identification in India	4
The self in a time of constant connectivity	4
Reversible pigs	4
Managing the “hot spots”	4
Afterword	4
Secular‐religious self‐improvement	3
Racial‐spatial politics	3
The politics of bachaqueo	3
How to Cite	3
Nothing to lose but their (block)chains	3
Watching fracking	3
A transit state	3
Disability, straight time, and the American Dream	3
Aid as pan‐Islamic solidarity in Bosnia‐Herzegovina	3
Five years later, but centuries in the making	3
Anti‐colonial friendship	3
From decolonizing knowledge to postimperialism	3
Witnessing “imperfect victims”	3
Troubling whiteness	3
Gendered disruptions in academic publishing during COVID‐19	2
Multiple interfaces	2
@Ferguson: Still here in the afterlives of Black death, defiance, and joy	2
Work, development, and refusal in urban Ethiopia	2
Refusing aid	2
Remaking the value of work	2
The politics of being a queer leader during the Ferguson uprising	2
The risk of sliding down	2
Bordering practices	2
Education as identity	2
De‐occupation as planetary politics	2
The long road	2
Provincializing bioethics	2
Conjuring criminals	2
Reconsidering the vignette as method	2
The “salt” of life	2
Emplacing capital	1
@Ferguson:	1
Intertextual politics	1

Kill your ancestors	1
Anthropology is good	1
Anthropology at sea	1
Fucking up, fixing up, and standing up (to the colonial project of gender and sexuality)	1
“You don't look American”	1
Listening to love	1
Feeling the (post)colonial	1
Negrophilia	1
Miners on the move	1
Women's “timepass”	1
Inhabiting a transforming delta	1
Saving the face of the Arabah	1
Guardians of the forest or evil spirits?	1
Experiments of the mind: From the cognitive psychology lab to the world of Facebook and Twitter By EmilyMartin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 312 pp.	1
Entrepreneurial activism	1
Face‐to‐face with the (animal) Other	1
Ethnographic thinking	1
Rescaling hospitality	1
Stock market layoffs in France	1
Reading the present from the past in Hopkins, Belize	1
Bodyland	1
Artivist Build, St. Louis	1
Decolonizing Middle East anthropology	1
Issue Information	1
Peche problems	1
Editors’ note	1
A War on People: Drug User Politics and a New Ethics of Community. Jarrett Zigon. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 216 pp.	1
Sweaty motions	1
Morality, religious authority, and the digital edge	1
Object, subject, thing	1
Catch‐all technopolitics	1
Anthropology's comparative value(s)	1
It Takes Two Generations to Forget	1
Falshfasad	1
On shame	1
Ethnography after anthropology	1
Boiling sand, metallic fire	1
Electrosonic statecraft	1
Race and the infrapolitics of public space in the time of COVID‐19	1
More‐than‐“bird”	0
Issue Information	0
Elite Malay Polygamy: Wives, Wealth and Woes in Malaysia. MiriamKoktvedgaard Zeitzen. New York: Berghahn, 2018. 268 pp.	0
#ChalkedUnarmed	0
O mundo do avesso: Verdade e política na era digital [The world inside out: Truth and politics in the digital age] By LetíciaCesarino. São Paulo: Ubu Editora, 2022. 304 pp.	0
Applied anthropology, injustice, and the ethics of intervention	0
Waste worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's infrastructures of disposability By JacobDoherty. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 288 pp.	0
Uprising of the Fools: Pilgrimage as Moral Protest in Contemporary India. VikashSingh. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. 256 pp.	0
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Polygons	0
A queer footnote	0
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology. Samuel J.Redman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 328 pp.	0
My Lens, Our Ferguson	0
Resistant ecologies	0
Multisituated: Ethnography as diasporic practice By KaushikSunder Rajan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 272 pp.	0
Economic Life in the Real World: Logic, Emotion and Ethics. CharlesStafford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 210 pp.	0
In the hands of God: How evangelical belonging transforms migrant experience in the United States By JohannaBard Richlin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. 272 pp.	0
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I was never alone or oporniki: An ethnographic play on disability in Russia By CassandraHartblay. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 218 pp.	0
The Immigrant Rights Movement: The Battle over National Citizenship. Walter J. Nicholls. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019. 296 pp.	0
The borders of AIDS: Race, quarantine, and resistance By Karma R.Chávez. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 264 pp.	0
Terror capitalism: Uyghur dispossession and masculinity in a Chinese city By DarrenByler. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 296 pp.	0
Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea. SarahBesky. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 252 pp.	0
Realms unseen	0
Norms and Illegality: Intimate Ethnographies and Politics. CristianaPanella and Walter E.Little, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 228 pp.	0
The cancer within: Reproduction, cultural transformation, and health care in Romania By ChristinaPop. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022. 229 pp.	0
Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts.FrédéricKeck. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 256 pp.	0
Chemical heroes: Pharmacological supersoldiers in the US military By Andrew Bickford. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 320 pp.	0
The Value of Aesthetics: Oaxacan Woodcarvers in Global Economies of Culture. Alanna Cant. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019. 196 pp.	0
What good is anthropology?	0
Unruly speech: Displacement and the politics of transgression By SaskiaWitteborn. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 250 pp.	0
Scholarship, Money, and Prose: Behind the Scenes at an Academic Journal. Michael Chibnik. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 210 pp.	0
Ethics as ecology, ecology as ethics	0
The confessional community	0
Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures. NedaAtanasoski and KalindiVora. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 256 pp.	0
Building on borrowed time: Rising seas and failing infrastructure in Semarang By LukasLey. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 240 pp.	0
A view from another side, or, not just another quit‐lit essay	0
The ultimate intimacy	0
Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War. SidharthanMaunaguru. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 202 pp.	0
Gut anthro: An experiment in thinking with microbes By Amber Benezra. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 282 pp.	0

Translating the social in complex technology development	0
Creative Urbanity: An Italian Middle Class in the Shade of Revitalization. EmanuelaGuano. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. 248 pp.	0
Image: Howard Barry, For Ahmaud, 2020. Mixed media.	0
Why do I write anthropology? Why do you?	0
Mediating Catholicism: Religion and media in global Catholic imaginaries Edited by Eric Hoenes delPinal, Marc RoscoeLoustau, and KristinNorget. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 245 pp.	0
Genres of listening: An ethnography of psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires By Xochitl Marsilli‐Vargas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 248 pp.	0
Consultation is the new C‐word	0
Upstream: Trust Lands and Power on the Feather River. Beth RoseMiddleton Manning. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018. 256 pp.	0
Image: Howard Barry, Slow Down, 2018. Mixed media.	0
Galvanizing nostalgia? Indigeneity and sovereignty in Siberia By Marjorie MandelstamBalzer. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 254 pp.	0
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Placing practice in Thamel, Kathmandu	0
Ethnography at its edges	0
To be real: Truth and racial authenticity in African American standup comedy By LanitaJacobs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 224 pp.	0
(Un)making the manual scavenger	0
Horizon work: At the edges of knowledge in an age of runaway climate change By AdrianaPetryna. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. 224 pp.	0
Keeping it in the family	0
Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras. Jon Horne Carter. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. 368 pp.	0
Homely Atmospheres and Lighting Technologies in Denmark: Living with Light. MikkelBille. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. 192 pp.	0
Ethnography, cacophony, and Lebanon as a zone of prestige in the anthropology of the Middle East	0
Reparando mundos: Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos By MaríaEugenia Ulfe and XimenaMálaga Sabogal. Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP, 2021. 261 pp.	0
Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid. William D. Lopez. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. 232 pp.	0
Divided Peoples: Policy, Activism, and Indigenous Identities on the U.S.‐Mexico Border. Christina Leza. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019. 240 pp.	0
Sensory futures: Deafness and cochlear implant infrastructures in India By Michele IlanaFriedner. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 288 pp.	0
The promise of multispecies justice Edited by SophieChao, KarinBolender, and EbenKirksey. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 296 pp.	0
The “fascist” and the “potato beetle”	0
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Undocumented motherhood: Conversations on love, trauma, and border crossing By ElizabethFarfán‐Santos. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. 176 pp.	0
No Go World: How Fear Is Redrawing Our Maps and Infecting Our Politics. Ruben Andersson. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 360 pp.	0
Policing race, ethnicity and culture: Ethnographic perspectives across Europe By JanBeek, ThomasBierschenk, AnnalenaKolloch, and BerndMeyer, eds. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 352 pp.	0
Negotiating expendability in crisis	0
Editors’ note	0
Situating microbes	0
Pig‐feast democracy	0
Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico. Hugo Cerón‐Anaya. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 232 pp.	0
Fuzzy borders	0
A possible perfection	0
All that was not her By ToddMeyers. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 232 pp.	0
Beware the bad shepherd	0
Inside a jaguar's jaws	0
Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War. KristenGhodsee. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 328 pp.	0
Ethical disconcertment and the politics of troublemaking	0
Anthropology and complicated people	0
Social Movements: The Structure of Collective Mobilization. PaulAlmeida. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 240 pp.	0
Food allergy advocacy: Parenting and the politics of care By Danya Glabau. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 296 pp.	0
Editors’ note	0
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O Antropoceno: Sobre modos de compor mundos [The Anthropocene: On ways of composing worlds] Edited by StelioMarras and RenzoTaddei. Belo Horizonte: Fino Traço Editora, 2022. 310 pp.	0
Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey. Salih CanAçıksöz. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 272 pp.	0
Photo: A protester at Market St. and Tucker, St. Louis, July 8, 2019. (Lindy Drew)	0
We better pull this wire now	0
Decolonizing a discipline in distress	0
Becoming malleable	0
Corrigendum	0
Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US‐Mexico Border. IevaJusionyte. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. 296 pp.	0
The Gray Zone: Sovereignty, Human Smuggling, and Undercover Police Investigation in Europe. GregoryFeldman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019. 240 pp.	0
Decolonizing queer experience: LGBT+ narratives from eastern Europe and Eurasia Edited by EmilyChannell‐Justice. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. 205 pp.	0
The maturing of anthropology	0
Containment and conversion	0
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Weighing the future: Race, science, and pregnancy trials in the postgenomic era By NataliValdez. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 284 pp.	0
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Religion and Daily Life in the Mountains of Iran: Theology, Saints, People. ErikaFriedl. London: I. B. Tauris, 2020. 200 pp.	0
Part 3: Troubling the future:Whiteness and Black youth	0
Devenir autre: Hétérogénéité et plasticité du soi [Becoming other: Heterogeneity and plasticity of the self] By DavidBerliner. Paris: La Découverte, 2022. 174 pp.	0
Fencing in democracy: Border walls, necrocitizenship, and the security state By MiguelDíaz‐Barriga and Margaret E.Dorsey. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 200 pp.	0
Working out desire: Women, sport, and self‐making in Istanbul By SertaçSehlikoglu.Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2021. 318 pp.	0
Navigating Miscarriage: Social, Medical and Conceptual Perspectives. Susie Kilshaw and Katie Borg, eds. New York: Berghahn, 2020. 252 pp.	0
Mutant Neoliberalism: Market Rule and Political Rupture. William Callison and Zachary Manfredi, eds. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. 320 pp.	0
Uncertainty by design: Preparing for the future with scenario technology By LimorSamimian‐Darash. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 185 pp.	0
Black food matters: Racial justice in the wake of food justice By HannaGarth and Ashanté M.Reese, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 312 pp.	0
Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity. DorinneKondo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 376 pp.	0
Making Global MBAs: The Culture of Business and the Business of Culture. AndrewOrta. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 256 pp.	0
Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma. Péter Berta. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. 390 pp.	0
Sboi i polomki: Etnograficheskoe issledovanie truda fabrichnykh rabochikh [Failures and breakdowns: An ethnographic study of the labor of factory workers] By OlgaPinchuk. Moscow: Common Place, 2021. 2	0
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Fat in four cultures—a global ethnography of weight By CindiSturtzSreetharan, AlexandraBrewis, JessicaHardin, SarahTrainer, and AmberWutich. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 236 pp.	0
The Shaman's Wages: Trading in Ritual on Cheju Island. KyoimYun. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 256 pp.	0
After servitude: Elusive property and the ethics of kinship in Bolivia By MareikeWinchell. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 352 pp.	0
Anthropology's good beyond the discipline	0
How to make a wetland: Water and moral ecology in Turkey By CaterinaScaramelli. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 240 pp.	0
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¡Alerta! Engineering on shaky ground By ElizabethReddy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. 215 pp.	0
Citizens in uniform	0
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“I randomize, therefore I think”	0
Health in ruins: The capitalist destruction of medical care at a Colombian maternity hospital By César ErnestoAbadía‐Barrero. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 312 pp.	0
Creativity on Demand: The Dilemmas of Innovation in an Accelerated Age. Eitan Y.Wilf. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 240 pp.	0
Facing the flames	0
Anthropology unbound	0
Mental Disorder: Anthropological Insights. NicholaKhan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. 144 pp.	0
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, secularism, and the state in Lebanon By MayaMikdashi. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 288 pp.	0
Anthropology as spiritual discipline	0
Decolonizing anthropology	0