American Ethnologist

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Education as identity51
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. 234
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Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras. Jon Horne Carter. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. 368 pp.20
Guardians of the forest or evil spirits?18
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology. Samuel J.Redman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 328 pp.18
Anthropology and complicated people17
Policing race, ethnicity and culture: Ethnographic perspectives across Europe By JanBeek, ThomasBierschenk, AnnalenaKolloch, and BerndMeyer, eds. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 352 pp.17
Translating the social in complex technology development16
Citizens in uniform15
Containment and conversion15
Bordering practices15
The stigma matrix: Gender, globalization, and the agency of Pakistan's frontline women By FauziaHusain. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 306 pp.14
The confessional community12
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The indebted woman: Kinship, sexuality, and capitalism By Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar, and G. Venkatasubramanian. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 248 pp.9
Reflections on unheroic fieldwork8
Involuntary consent: The illusion of choice in Japan's adult video industry By Akiko Takeyama. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 252 pp.7
Passport island: The market for EU citizenship in Cyprus By TheodorosRakopoulos. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 262 pp.7
The Shaman's Wages: Trading in Ritual on Cheju Island. KyoimYun. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 256 pp.7
Revolution squared: Tahrir, political possibilities, and counterrevolution in Egypt By Atef Shahat Said. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 360 pp.7
Negotiating expendability in crisis7
All that was not her By ToddMeyers. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 232 pp.6
Queer debt6
The fluvial imagination: On Lesotho's water‐export economy By Colin Hoag. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 224 pp.6
Reparando mundos: Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos By MaríaEugenia Ulfe and XimenaMálaga Sabogal. Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP, 2021. 261 pp.6
Multisituated: Ethnography as diasporic practice By KaushikSunder Rajan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 272 pp.6
Editors’ note6
An imperial meantime5
From the White House to Zimbabwe5
Fighting to breathe: Race, toxicity, and the rise of youth activism in Baltimore By NicoleFabricant. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 266 pp.5
Race and the infrapolitics of public space in the time of COVID‐195
Becoming malleable5
Without the state: Self‐organization and political activism in Ukraine By EmilyChannell‐Justice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. 302 pp.5
Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub in Paris. JulieKleinman. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 224 pp.4
Cliché anthropologists and the interactive probing of aspirations under market expansion4
Suspect others: Spirit mediums, self‐knowledge, and race in multiethnic Suriname By StuartStrange. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 281 pp.4
L’aube s'est levée sur un mort: Violence armée et culture du pavot au Mexique [Dawn rose on a dead man: Armed violence and poppy cultivation in Mexico] By AdèleBlazquez. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2022. 334
Ethnography at its edges4
Making peace with nature: Ecological encounters along the Korean DMZ By Eleana J.Kim. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 224 pp.4
On shame4
Editors’ note4
American afterlives: Reinventing death in the 21st centuryShannonLee Dawdy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 272 pp.4
Resistant ecologies and the bi'a beyond methodological nationalism4
A vicarious scar4
A queer footnote4
From a trickle to a torrent: Education, migration, and social change in a Himalayan valley of Nepal By Geoff Childs and Namgyal Choedup. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 248 pp.4
Running out: In search of water on the High Plains By LucasBessire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 264 pp.4
Anthropology at sea4
Women's “timepass”4
The politics of bachaqueo3
Rubbish sick and the dancing devil3
Deep ethnography3
Love in the drug war: Selling sex and finding Jesus on the Mexico‐US border By SarahLuna. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 264 pp.3
Gendered fortunes: Divination, precarity, and affect in postsecular Turkey By Zeynep K. Korkman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 276 pp.3
Zar: Spirit possession, music, and healing rituals in Egypt By Hager ElHadidi. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2016. 180 pp.3
Patchwork ethnography3
Beastly identification in India3
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Humanitarian contradictions3
Rescaling hospitality3
A ritual geology: Gold and subterranean knowledge in Savanna West Africa By Robyn d'Avignon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 304 pp.3
Multiple interfaces3
Bosnian Refugees in Chicago: Gender, Performance, and Post‐war Economies. AnaCroegaert. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. 210 pp.3
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Unmasked: COVID, community, and the case of Okoboji By EmilyMendenhall. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022. 312 pp.2
Theory as ethics2
Placing practice in Thamel, Kathmandu2
The determined indeterminacy of white supremacy2
Birding under fire2
Cement and displacement2
Entrepreneurial activism2
Emplacing capital2
Citizenship thinking—with, against, and bypassing the state2
Police, provocation, politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul By DenizYonucu. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 222 pp.2
If books fail, try beauty: Educated womanhood in the new East Africa By Brooke Schwartz Bocast. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 205 pp.2
The “salt” of life2
Native agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs By Valerie Lambert. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 376 pp.2
“I randomize, therefore I think”2
Galvanizing nostalgia? Indigeneity and sovereignty in Siberia By Marjorie MandelstamBalzer. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 254 pp.1
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Inside a jaguar's jaws1
On the humanitarian horizon1
Improperty1
Fucking up, fixing up, and standing up (to the colonial project of gender and sexuality)1
Anthropology with a philosophical sensibility1
Remembering the tatas: Domestic women and slavery in Tetouan (19th–20th centuries) By Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste. Leiden: Brill, 2024. 444 pp.1
(Un)making the manual scavenger1
Disability, straight time, and the American Dream1
Gut anthro: An experiment in thinking with microbes By Amber Benezra. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 282 pp.1
How many worlds are there?1
Colonizing Kashmir: State‐building under Indian occupation By HafsaKanjwal. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 366 pp.1
Conjuring criminals1
Devenir autre: Hétérogénéité et plasticité du soi [Becoming other: Heterogeneity and plasticity of the self] By DavidBerliner. Paris: La Découverte, 2022. 174 pp.1
Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone By Tania MurrayLi and PujoSemedi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 256 pp.1
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Ageing with smartphones in urban China: From the cultural to the digital revolution in Shanghai By Xinyuan Wang. London: UCL Press, 2023. 291 pp.1
Horticulture as history making1
A book of waves By Stefan Helmreich. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 411 pp.1
¡Alerta! Engineering on shaky ground By ElizabethReddy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. 215 pp.1
Productive leisure on the farm1
Working women in Jordan: Education, migration, and aspiration By FidaAdely. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 207 pp.1
The promise of multispecies justice Edited by SophieChao, KarinBolender, and EbenKirksey. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 296 pp.1
Building on borrowed time: Rising seas and failing infrastructure in Semarang By LukasLey. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 240 pp.1
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.1
Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion. SarahMuir. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 200 pp.1
Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity. DorinneKondo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 376 pp.1
Norms and Illegality: Intimate Ethnographies and Politics. CristianaPanella and Walter E.Little, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 228 pp.1
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.1
I was wrong about theory1
Volumetric citizenship1
Cultivating a trauma‐informed pedagogy1
Miners on the move1
The feel of algorithms By MinnaRuckenstein. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 223 pp.1
Applied anthropology, injustice, and the ethics of intervention1
Waste's translations1
Editors’ note1
Experimenting with ethnography: A companion to analysis By AndreaBallestero and Brit RossWinthereik, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 301 pp.1
Mafiacraft: An ethnography of deadly silence By DeborahPuccio‐Den. Chicago: Hau Books, 2021. 294 pp.0
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In the skin of the city: Spatial transformation in Luanda By AntónioTomás. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 266 pp.0
Resistance as negotiation: Making states and tribes in the margins of modern India By UdayChandra. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 340 pp.0
Imagistic care: Growing old in a precarious world Edited by Cheryl Mattingly and Lone Grøn. New York: Fordham University Press, 2022. 272 pp.0
Decolonizing ethnography: Undocumented immigrants and new directions in social science By Carolina AlonsoBejarano, LuciaLópez Juárez, Mirian A. MijangosGarcía, and Daniel M.Goldstein. Durham, NC: Duke0
To be real: Truth and racial authenticity in African American standup comedy By LanitaJacobs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 224 pp.0
Dwelling as resistance, dwelling as repair0
The sexual politics of empire: Postcolonial homophobia in Haiti By Erin L.Durban. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. 234 pp.0
Face‐to‐face with the (animal) Other0
Editors’ note0
Fishers who don't fish0
Keeping busy when there's nothing to do0
Morality, religious authority, and the digital edge0
Waste worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's infrastructures of disposability By JacobDoherty. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 288 pp.0
Peche problems0
The king of martyrs0
Corrections to “Managing the ‘hot spots’: Health care, policing, and the governance of poverty in the US”0
After servitude: Elusive property and the ethics of kinship in Bolivia By MareikeWinchell. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 352 pp.0
Reconsidering the vignette as method0
Anthropological humanitarianism0
Bones of contention0
Secular‐religious self‐improvement0
Obras politics0
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Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections By Lisa Mitchell. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 320 pp.0
Gendered disruptions in academic publishing during COVID‐190
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Polygons0
A ritual of indistinction0
Being dead otherwise By Anne Allison. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 256 pp.0
Futures after progress: Hope and doubt in late industrial Baltimore By Chloe Ahmann. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2024. 366 pp.0
Ritual as image0
The fraudulent family0
Editors’ note0
Embodying Black religions in Africa and its diasporas By YolandaCovington‐Ward and Jeannette S.Jouili, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 352 pp.0
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Resistant ecologies0
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Migrant Conversions: Transforming Connections between Peru and South Korea. EricaVogel. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 186 pp.0
Chinese village life today: Building families in an age of transition By Gonçalo Santos. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 320 pp.0
Citizenship, agency, and the problem of sovereignty0
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Refugees Welcome? Difference and Diversity in a Changing Germany. Jan‐JonathanBockandSharonMacdonald, eds. New York: Berghahn, 2019. 358 pp.0
Sweaty motions0
Meaningless citizenship: Iraqi refugees and the welfare state By Sally WesleyBonet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 256 pp.0
I was wrong when I studied Russian nuclear weapons scientists0
Flexible families: Nicaraguan transnational families in Costa Rica By CaitlinFouratt. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022. 181 pp.0
Density and domination0
There's a disco ball between us: A theory of Black gay life By JafariAllen. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 440 pp.0
Why do I write anthropology? Why do you?0
Contamination in theory and protest0
Reversible pigs0
The composition of worlds: Interviews with Pierre Charbonnier By PhilippeDescola. Cambridge: Polity, 2024. 200 pp.0
Beware the bad shepherd0
Consultation is the new C‐word0
Aid as pan‐Islamic solidarity in Bosnia‐Herzegovina0
Amazonian cosmopolitans: Navigating a shamanic cosmos, shifting Indigenous policies, and other modern projects By SuzanneOakdale. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. 262 pp.0
Religious authority in the urban mosque0
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.0
Composing violence: The limits of exposure and the making of minorities By MoyukhChatterjee. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 184 pp.0
Novelistic account, ethnographic accountability0
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Editors’ note0
Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea. SarahBesky. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 252 pp.0
Reading the present from the past in Hopkins, Belize0
The art of unnoticing0
Governing beyond capacity0
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Sensory futures: Deafness and cochlear implant infrastructures in India By Michele IlanaFriedner. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 288 pp.0
A sovereign atmosphere0
The gift of hospitality and the (un)welcoming of Syrian migrants in Turkey0
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Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro‐Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism. Richard M.Shain. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2018. 214 pp.0
The current economy: Electricity markets and techno‐economics By CanayÖzden‐Schilling. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 205 pp.0
Witnessing “imperfect victims”0
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Ecologies of capture in Bangladesh's Sundarbans0
Between dreams and ghosts: Indian migration and Middle Eastern oil By AndreaWright. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 288 pp.0
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The violence of democracy: Interparty conflict in South Asia By RuchiChaturvedi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 250 pp.0
Performing control0
Asylum and extraction in the Republic of Nauru By Julia CarolineMorris. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 318 pp.0
How to make a wetland: Water and moral ecology in Turkey By CaterinaScaramelli. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 240 pp.0
The new science of the enchanted universe: An anthropology of most of humanity By MarshallSahlins. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. 208 pp.0
Something in these hills: The culture of family land in southern Appalachia By John M. Coggeshall. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 238 pp.0
Visible critique/critical visibility0
The cancer within: Reproduction, cultural transformation, and health care in Romania By ChristinaPop. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022. 229 pp.0
Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan. AllisonAlexy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 248 pp.The Relationship People: Mediating Love and Mar0
In the shadow of the palms: More‐than‐human becomings in West Papua By SophieChao. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 336 pp.0
A decolonial birth for anthropology0
Corrigendum0
Tear gas in orbit0
Fiat speech, fiat infrastructure0
To write or not to write?0
Egg providers in eGoli0
Racial hydrologies0
Capture‐recapture0
Intertextual politics0
Anthropology as spiritual discipline0
More‐than‐“bird”0
Ethnography vs. zombie methodologies0
Lawful sins: Abortion rights and reproductive governance in Mexico By ElyseOna Singer. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 260 pp.0
De‐occupation as planetary politics0
Anti‐colonial friendship0
Work, development, and refusal in urban Ethiopia0
Cultural loss and compensation in the anthropology of Aboriginal Australia0
Probing arts and emergent forms of life By Michael M. J. Fischer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 336 pp.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
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Relational flexibility0
Imagining beyond a statist imaginary0
Scholarship, Money, and Prose: Behind the Scenes at an Academic Journal. Michael Chibnik. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 210 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
Bodyland0
Remaking the value of work0
Working out desire: Women, sport, and self‐making in Istanbul By SertaçSehlikoglu.Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2021. 318 pp.0
Listening to love0
Decolonizing Middle East anthropology0
Thanks for watching: An anthropological study of video sharing on YouTube By Patricia G.Lange. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2019. 362 pp.0
Becoming an operating system0
A thousand steps to parliament: Constructing electable women in Mongolia By Manduhai Buyandelger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 288 pp.0
The right to public security0
Four challenges from anthropology's current meta0
Enduring polygamy: Plural marriage and social change in an African metropolis By Bruce Whitehouse. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2023. 221 pp.0
Ethical disconcertment and the politics of troublemaking0
Ethnography and ethical life0
Saving animals: Multispecies ecologies of rescue and care By ElanAbrell. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 272 pp.0
Eating besides ourselves: Thresholds of foods and bodies By Heather Paxson and Marianne Elisabeth Lien, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 248 pp.0
Privileged observers and colonial continuities0
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