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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
We are (not) monkeys	45
Wave theory	27
Ruins for the future	24
How many worlds are there?	19
Patchwork ethnography	16
Law, politics, and efficacy at the European Court of Human Rights	15
Ontologies of climate change	14
The art of unnoticing	13
Aging in digital	13
Governing beyond capacity	13
The gift of hospitality and the (un)welcoming of Syrian migrants in Turkey	12
Violent masculinities	12
Becoming an operating system	11
Theory as ethics	10
Love as understanding	9
Distributed humanitarianism	9
“Don't gamble for money with friends”	8
“Objectivity” as a bureaucratic virtue	8
Reversible pigs	8
Spectral kinship	8
Relational flexibility	7
Tactical dissonance	7
Contamination in theory and protest	7
Palestinian counter‐forensics and the cruel paradox of property	6
Waste's translations	6

Homemaking as sensemaking	6
“Only the orangutans get a life jacket”	6
The self in a time of constant connectivity	6
Aid as pan‐Islamic solidarity in Bosnia‐Herzegovina	6
Making noise in urban Taiwan	6
From decolonizing knowledge to postimperialism	5
Trust amid “trust deficit”	5
A transit state	5
Ecologies of capture in Bangladesh's Sundarbans	5
Beastly identification in India	5
Nothing to lose but their (block)chains	5
De‐occupation as planetary politics	4
The politics of bachaqueo	4
Witnessing “imperfect victims”	4
Refusing aid	4
Morality, religious authority, and the digital edge	4
Rescaling hospitality	4
The right to public security	4
Education as identity	4
Managing the “hot spots”	4
Disability, straight time, and the American Dream	4
Secular‐religious self‐improvement	4
Anti‐colonial friendship	4
Reconsidering the vignette as method	3
Intertextual politics	3
Fucking up, fixing up, and standing up (to the colonial project of gender and sexuality)	3
Inhabiting a transforming delta	3
Bordering practices	3
To write or not to write?	3
Catch‐all technopolitics	3
Conjuring criminals	3
Decolonizing anthropology	3
Watching fracking	3
Remaking the value of work	3
The long road	3
Ethnography after anthropology	3
Capture‐recapture	2
Anthropology is good	2
On shame	2
Falshfasad	2
The “fascist” and the “potato beetle”	2
Comrades and spies	2
Gendered disruptions in academic publishing during COVID‐19	2
Eating pizza in prison	2
Saving the face of the Arabah	2
Miners on the move	2
Face‐to‐face with the (animal) Other	2
Provincializing bioethics	2
Private health care, cancer, and the vulnerable middle class in Kenya	2
Work, development, and refusal in urban Ethiopia	2

The “salt” of life	2
Electrosonic statecraft	1
Consultation is the new C‐word	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
A decolonial birth for anthropology	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
Ethnographic thinking	1
Cultural loss and compensation in the anthropology of Aboriginal Australia	1
Stock market layoffs in France	1
Listening to love	1
Ethical disconcertment and the politics of troublemaking	1
Bodyland	1
Boiling sand, metallic fire	1
Ethnography, cacophony, and Lebanon as a zone of prestige in the anthropology of the Middle East	1
Inside a jaguar's jaws	1
Realms unseen	1
Productive leisure on the farm	1
Placing practice in Thamel, Kathmandu	1
Object, subject, thing	1
What good is anthropology?	1
Guardians of the forest or evil spirits?	1
Kill your ancestors	1
An anti‐genealogical take on US anthropology and disciplinary reform	1
Ethnography and ethical life	1
Anthropology's comparative value(s)	1
Women's “timepass”	1
Applied anthropology, injustice, and the ethics of intervention	1
Race and the infrapolitics of public space in the time of COVID‐19	1
Reading the present from the past in Hopkins, Belize	1
Infrastructural citizenship and geosolidarity	1
(Un)making the manual scavenger	1
Issue Information	1
Citizens in uniform	1
Anthropology as spiritual discipline	1
Entrepreneurial activism	1
Feeling the (post)colonial	1
Emplacing capital	1
Sweaty motions	1
Bones of contention	1
Anthropology at sea	1
Cultivating a trauma‐informed pedagogy	1
Decolonizing Middle East anthropology	1
Peche problems	1
“You don't look American”	1
Fuzzy borders	1
Anthropology's good beyond the discipline	1
Editors’ note	1
More‐than‐“bird”	0
How to make a wetland: Water and moral ecology in Turkey By CaterinaScaramelli. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 240 pp.	0
Remembering the tatas: Domestic women and slavery in Tetouan (19th–20th centuries) By Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste. Leiden: Brill, 2024. 444 pp.	0
To be real: Truth and racial authenticity in African American standup comedy By LanitaJacobs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 224 pp.	0
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Experimenting with ethnography: A companion to analysis By AndreaBallestero and Brit RossWinthereik, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 301 pp.	0
Chemical heroes: Pharmacological supersoldiers in the US military By Andrew Bickford. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 320 pp.	0
Corrections to “Managing the ‘hot spots’: Health care, policing, and the governance of poverty in the US”	0
Without the state: Self‐organization and political activism in Ukraine By EmilyChannell‐Justice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. 302 pp.	0
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
Situating microbes	0
Reparando mundos: Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos By MaríaEugenia Ulfe and XimenaMálaga Sabogal. Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP, 2021. 261 pp.	0
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology. Samuel J.Redman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 328 pp.	0
Gut anthro: An experiment in thinking with microbes By Amber Benezra. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 282 pp.	0
The promise of multispecies justice Edited by SophieChao, KarinBolender, and EbenKirksey. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 296 pp.	0
Economic Life in the Real World: Logic, Emotion and Ethics. CharlesStafford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 210 pp.	0
The Immigrant Rights Movement: The Battle over National Citizenship. Walter J. Nicholls. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019. 296 pp.	0
Issue Information	0
Negotiating expendability in crisis	0
I was never alone or oporniki: An ethnographic play on disability in Russia By CassandraHartblay. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 218 pp.	0
Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea. SarahBesky. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 252 pp.	0
Making Global MBAs: The Culture of Business and the Business of Culture. AndrewOrta. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 256 pp.	0
Undocumented motherhood: Conversations on love, trauma, and border crossing By ElizabethFarfán‐Santos. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. 176 pp.	0
Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts.FrédéricKeck. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 256 pp.	0
Anthropology and complicated people	0
Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico. Hugo Cerón‐Anaya. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 232 pp.	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
Egg providers in eGoli	0
All that was not her By ToddMeyers. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 232 pp.	0
Editors’ note	0
Galvanizing nostalgia? Indigeneity and sovereignty in Siberia By Marjorie MandelstamBalzer. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 254 pp.	0
Containment and conversion	0
Refugees Welcome? Difference and Diversity in a Changing Germany. Jan‐JonathanBockandSharonMacdonald, eds. New York: Berghahn, 2019. 358 pp.	0

Beware the bad shepherd	0
Weighing the future: Race, science, and pregnancy trials in the postgenomic era By NataliValdez. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 284 pp.	0
Passport entanglements: Protection, care, and precarious migrations By Nicole Constable. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 260 pp.	0
The determined indeterminacy of white supremacy	0
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Waste worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's infrastructures of disposability By JacobDoherty. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 288 pp.	0
Relations: An Anthropological Account. MarilynStrathern. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 288 pp.	0
Native agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs By Valerie Lambert. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 376 pp.	0
Creating a shared moral community: The building of a mosque congregation in London By Judy Shuttleworth. London: Routledge, 2023. 190 pp.	0
Why do I write anthropology? Why do you?	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
A queer footnote	0
Unruly speech: Displacement and the politics of transgression By SaskiaWitteborn. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 250 pp.	0
Involuntary consent: The illusion of choice in Japan's adult video industry By Akiko Takeyama. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 252 pp.	0
Sensory futures: Deafness and cochlear implant infrastructures in India By Michele IlanaFriedner. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 288 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
Pig‐feast democracy	0
“So that we may be counted”	0
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Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey. Salih CanAçıksöz. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 272 pp.	0
Food allergy advocacy: Parenting and the politics of care By Danya Glabau. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 296 pp.	0
Working out desire: Women, sport, and self‐making in Istanbul By SertaçSehlikoglu.Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2021. 318 pp.	0
Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras. Jon Horne Carter. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. 368 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
Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma. Péter Berta. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. 390 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
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The confessional community	0
The Shaman's Wages: Trading in Ritual on Cheju Island. KyoimYun. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 256 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
No Go World: How Fear Is Redrawing Our Maps and Infecting Our Politics. Ruben Andersson. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 360 pp.	0
Editors’ note	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
Rights refused: Grassroots activism and state violence in Myanmar By Elliott Prasse‐Freeman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 366 pp.	0
Issue Information	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
Decolonizing a discipline in distress	0
Building socialism: The afterlife of East German architecture in urban Vietnam By Christina Schwenkel. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 432 pp.	0
Beijing from Below: Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital's Center. HarrietEvans. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 288 pp.	0
After servitude: Elusive property and the ethics of kinship in Bolivia By MareikeWinchell. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 352 pp.	0
Decolonizing queer experience: LGBT+ narratives from eastern Europe and Eurasia Edited by EmilyChannell‐Justice. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. 205 pp.	0
Queer debt	0
A filtered life: Social media on a college campus By Nicole Taylor and Mimi Nichter. New York: Routledge, 2022. 210 pp.	0
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“I randomize, therefore I think”	0
Resistant ecologies	0
Composing violence: The limits of exposure and the making of minorities By MoyukhChatterjee. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 184 pp.	0
Citizenship thinking—with, against, and bypassing the state	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
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
Citizen labor	0
Revolution squared: Tahrir, political possibilities, and counterrevolution in Egypt By Atef Shahat Said. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 360 pp.	0
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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
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A possible perfection	0
The ultimate intimacy	0
Uncertainty by design: Preparing for the future with scenario technology By LimorSamimian‐Darash. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 185 pp.	0
The situation of the interface	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
¡Alerta! Engineering on shaky ground By ElizabethReddy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. 215 pp.	0
Multisituated: Ethnography as diasporic practice By KaushikSunder Rajan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 272 pp.	0
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Sextarianism: Sovereignty, secularism, and the state in Lebanon By MayaMikdashi. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 288 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
Mutant Neoliberalism: Market Rule and Political Rupture. William Callison and Zachary Manfredi, eds. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. 320 pp.	0
The borders of AIDS: Race, quarantine, and resistance By Karma R.Chávez. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 264 pp.	0
Norms and Illegality: Intimate Ethnographies and Politics. CristianaPanella and Walter E.Little, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 228 pp.	0
Navigating Miscarriage: Social, Medical and Conceptual Perspectives. Susie Kilshaw and Katie Borg, eds. New York: Berghahn, 2020. 252 pp.	0
Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity. DorinneKondo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 376 pp.	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
Terror capitalism: Uyghur dispossession and masculinity in a Chinese city By DarrenByler. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 296 pp.	0
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Translating the social in complex technology development	0
The Value of Aesthetics: Oaxacan Woodcarvers in Global Economies of Culture. Alanna Cant. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019. 196 pp.	0
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Hypeful worlds	0
Scholarship, Money, and Prose: Behind the Scenes at an Academic Journal. Michael Chibnik. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 210 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
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
The movement for reproductive justice: Empowering women of color through social activism By Patricia Zavella. New York: New York University Press, 2020. 299 pp.	0
Pacific Climate Cultures: Living Climate Change in Oceania.TonyCrook and PeterRudiak‐Gould, eds. Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. 196 pp.Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change: Pacific Island Countr	0
Ethics as ecology, ecology as ethics	0
Polygons	0
Racial hydrologies	0
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Corrigendum	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
Keeping it in the family	0
What does it mean to be a citizen in the contemporary moment?	0
Facing the flames	0
Anthropology unbound	0