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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras. Jon Horne Carter. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. 368 pp.104
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology. Samuel J.Redman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 328 pp.38
Issue Information34
Policing race, ethnicity and culture: Ethnographic perspectives across Europe By JanBeek, ThomasBierschenk, AnnalenaKolloch, and BerndMeyer, eds. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 352 pp.29
Anthropology and complicated people29
Citizens in uniform18
The stigma matrix: Gender, globalization, and the agency of Pakistan's frontline women By FauziaHusain. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 306 pp.17
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. 216
Translating the social in complex technology development16
Extracting the future: Lithium in an era of energy transition By MarkGoodale. Oakland: University of California Press, 2025. 304 pp.13
Ice geographies: The colonial politics of race and Indigeneity in the Arctic By Jen RoseSmith. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 304 pp.13
Education as identity13
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Issue Information11
Containment and conversion11
Involuntary consent: The illusion of choice in Japan's adult video industry By Akiko Takeyama. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 252 pp.11
Revolution squared: Tahrir, political possibilities, and counterrevolution in Egypt By Atef Shahat Said. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 360 pp.10
Cemetery citizens: Reclaiming the past and working for justice in American burial grounds By AdamRosenblatt. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 286 pp.10
The indebted woman: Kinship, sexuality, and capitalism By Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar, and G. Venkatasubramanian. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 248 pp.9
Ebola and COVID: Further questions9
Passport island: The market for EU citizenship in Cyprus By TheodorosRakopoulos. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 262 pp.9
Fighting to breathe: Race, toxicity, and the rise of youth activism in Baltimore By NicoleFabricant. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 266 pp.8
Reflections on unheroic fieldwork8
The fluvial imagination: On Lesotho's water‐export economy By Colin Hoag. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 224 pp.8
The confessional community8
From the White House to Zimbabwe8
Value and its vehicles7
Reparando mundos: Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos By MaríaEugenia Ulfe and XimenaMálaga Sabogal. Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP, 2021. 261 pp.7
Without the state: Self‐organization and political activism in Ukraine By EmilyChannell‐Justice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. 302 pp.7
Multisituated: Ethnography as diasporic practice By KaushikSunder Rajan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 272 pp.7
Women's “timepass”6
Becoming malleable6
Cliché anthropologists and the interactive probing of aspirations under market expansion6
Editors’ note6
From the “spectacle” to “all for show”6
All that was not her By ToddMeyers. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 232 pp.6
Running out: In search of water on the High Plains By LucasBessire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 264 pp.5
An imperial meantime5
Queer debt5
Zar: Spirit possession, music, and healing rituals in Egypt By Hager ElHadidi. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2016. 180 pp.5
A queer footnote5
American afterlives: Reinventing death in the 21st centuryShannonLee Dawdy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 272 pp.5
Issue Information5
A vicarious scar5
Sci‐fi chips and sickled cells4
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
Editors’ note4
Ethnography at its edges4
Rescaling hospitality4
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
Making peace with nature: Ecological encounters along the Korean DMZ By Eleana J.Kim. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 224 pp.4
Rubbish sick and the dancing devil4
Anthropology at sea4
Suspect others: Spirit mediums, self‐knowledge, and race in multiethnic Suriname By StuartStrange. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 281 pp.4
Moral atmospheres: Islam and media in a Pakistani marketplace By Timothy P. A.Cooper. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 288 pp.4
Resistant ecologies and the bi'a beyond methodological nationalism4
Unmasked: COVID, community, and the case of Okoboji By EmilyMendenhall. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022. 312 pp.3
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
Catalonia's human towers: Castells, cultural politics, and the struggle toward the heights By MariannVaczi. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023. 282 pp.3
Deep ethnography3
Entrepreneurial activism3
Citizenship thinking—with, against, and bypassing the state3
If books fail, try beauty: Educated womanhood in the new East Africa By Brooke Schwartz Bocast. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 205 pp.3
Theory as ethics3
Cement and displacement3
Multiple interfaces3
Patchwork ethnography3
Gendered fortunes: Divination, precarity, and affect in postsecular Turkey By Zeynep K. Korkman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 276 pp.3
Placing practice in Thamel, Kathmandu3
“I randomize, therefore I think”3
Native agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs By Valerie Lambert. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 376 pp.3
Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone By Tania MurrayLi and PujoSemedi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 256 pp.3
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Humanitarian contradictions3
Police, provocation, politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul By DenizYonucu. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 222 pp.3
A ritual geology: Gold and subterranean knowledge in Savanna West Africa By Robyn d'Avignon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 304 pp.3
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Colonizing Kashmir: State‐building under Indian occupation By HafsaKanjwal. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 366 pp.3
Birding under fire3
Devenir autre: Hétérogénéité et plasticité du soi [Becoming other: Heterogeneity and plasticity of the self] By DavidBerliner. Paris: La Découverte, 2022. 174 pp.2
Anthropological authorship in the age of generative AI2
The “salt” of life2
Editors’ note2
¡Alerta! Engineering on shaky ground By ElizabethReddy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. 215 pp.2
(Un)making the manual scavenger2
Opposition by imitation: The economics of Italian anti‐Mafia activism By ChristinaJerne. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2025. 248 pp.2
Naked fieldnotes: A rough guide to ethnographic writing By DenielleElliott and Matthew J.Wolf‐Meyer, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. 384 pp.2
The determined indeterminacy of white supremacy2
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.2
Conflicted: Making news from global war By IsaacBlacksin. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 330 pp.2
Friendship By MichaelJackson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 224 pp.2
Father time: A natural history of men and babies By Sarah BlafferHrdy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 432 pp.2
Remembering the tatas: Domestic women and slavery in Tetouan (19th–20th centuries) By Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste. Leiden: Brill, 2024. 444 pp.2
Galvanizing nostalgia? Indigeneity and sovereignty in Siberia By Marjorie MandelstamBalzer. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 254 pp.2
The ends of research: Indigenous and settler science after the War in the Woods By TomÖzden‐Schilling. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 320 pp.2
Productive leisure on the farm2
Inside a jaguar's jaws2
Emplacing capital2
The geobiopolitics of trans medicine2
Gut anthro: An experiment in thinking with microbes By Amber Benezra. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 282 pp.2
Miners on the move2
The children of Solaga: Indigenous belonging across the US‐Mexico border By DainaSanchez. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. 202 pp.1
Soda science: Making the world safe for Coca‐Cola By SusanGreenhalgh. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 354 pp.1
Surprise and the singular plural1
I was wrong about theory1
Cultivating a trauma‐informed pedagogy1
Improperty1
Volumetric citizenship1
Applied anthropology, injustice, and the ethics of intervention1
Working women in Jordan: Education, migration, and aspiration By FidaAdely. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 207 pp.1
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
The promise of multispecies justice Edited by SophieChao, KarinBolender, and EbenKirksey. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 296 pp.1
When property becomes rent1
Army of the vulnerable1
Creating value for objects‐in‐waiting1
Issue Information1
Influence from the margins1
Spaces and challenges of citizenship1
The feel of algorithms By MinnaRuckenstein. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 223 pp.1
A book of waves By Stefan Helmreich. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 411 pp.1
Devotion to the administrative state: Religion and social order in Egypt By MonaOraby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 328 pp.1
Building on borrowed time: Rising seas and failing infrastructure in Semarang By LukasLey. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 240 pp.1
Experimenting with ethnography: A companion to analysis By AndreaBallestero and Brit RossWinthereik, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 301 pp.1
Seen but not meant1
Outsmarting sanctions1
Diplomacy and lobbying during Turkey's Europeanisation: The private life of politics By BilgeFirat. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. 224 pp.1
The made‐up state: Technology, trans femininity, and citizenship in Indonesia By Benjamin Hegarty. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 198 pp.1
Gathering medicines: Nation and knowledge in China's mountain south By Judith Farquhar and Lili Lai. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 304 pp.1
Wild and wonderful: An ethnography of English naturalists By VanessaManceron. Translated by Michael Taylor. Chicago: Hau, 2025. 239 pp.1
Horticulture as history making1
Anthropology with a philosophical sensibility1
Gender and global politics1
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
Fucking up, fixing up, and standing up (to the colonial project of gender and sexuality)1
On the humanitarian horizon1
What property did next, and other stories0
Pathways to utopia: Time and transformation in the Landless Workers Movement of Brazil By Alex UngprateebFlynn. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2025. 243 pp.0
Ethnography and ethical life0
A ritual of indistinction0
“The world hates the truth”0
After servitude: Elusive property and the ethics of kinship in Bolivia By MareikeWinchell. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 352 pp.0
Work, development, and refusal in urban Ethiopia0
Ethnographies of globalization0
Beware the bad shepherd0
Flexible families: Nicaraguan transnational families in Costa Rica By CaitlinFouratt. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022. 181 pp.0
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I was wrong when I studied Russian nuclear weapons scientists0
Corrigendum0
Chinese village life today: Building families in an age of transition By Gonçalo Santos. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 320 pp.0
Lawful sins: Abortion rights and reproductive governance in Mexico By ElyseOna Singer. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 260 pp.0
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Waste worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's infrastructures of disposability By JacobDoherty. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 288 pp.0
Cultural loss and compensation in the anthropology of Aboriginal Australia0
Re‐membering culture: Erasure and renewal in Hmong American education By BicNgo. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. 248 pp.0
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“The agenda is to wipe out critical thought”—Struggles for academic freedom (part 2)0
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Capture‐recapture0
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
Racial hydrologies0
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Working out desire: Women, sport, and self‐making in Istanbul By SertaçSehlikoglu.Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2021. 318 pp.0
Egg providers in eGoli0
An anthropology of crosslocations By SarahGreen, SamuliLähteenaho, PhaedraDouzina‐Bakalaki, CarlRommel, Joseph J.Viscomi, Laia SotoBermant, and PatriciaScalco. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 2020
Property, capitalism, and the value‐shaping power of states0
Repetitions of history0
The personal life of debt: Coercion, subjectivity and inequality in Britain By RyanDavey. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2025. 224 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
Polygons0
Reading the present from the past in Hopkins, Belize0
Privileged observers and colonial continuities0
Composing violence: The limits of exposure and the making of minorities By MoyukhChatterjee. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 184 pp.0
More‐than‐“bird”0
Fraternal critique: The politics of the Muslim community in France By KirstenWesselhoeft. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. 218 pp.0
Why do I write anthropology? Why do you?0
Appropriation, Indigenous knowledge, and generative AI0
Imagistic care: Growing old in a precarious world Edited by Cheryl Mattingly and Lone Grøn. New York: Fordham University Press, 2022. 272 pp.0
To write or not to write?0
Decolonizing Middle East anthropology0
Gringo love: Stories of sex tourism in Brazil By Marie‐EveCarrier‐Moisan. Adapted by WilliamFlynn. Illustrated by DéboraSantos. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 200 pp.Light in dark times: 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
A sovereign atmosphere0
The cage of days: Time and temporal experience in prison By K. C.Carceral and Michael G.Flaherty. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 320 pp.0
To be real: Truth and racial authenticity in African American standup comedy By LanitaJacobs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 224 pp.0
Imagining beyond a statist imaginary0
Dwelling as resistance, dwelling as repair0
Editors’ note0
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
Capitalist colonial: Thai migrant workers in Israeli agriculture By MatanKaminer. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 269 pp.0
In the shadow of the palms: More‐than‐human becomings in West Papua By SophieChao. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 336 pp.0
Four challenges from anthropology's current meta0
Editors’ note0
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
Sweaty motions0
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Anthropology as spiritual discipline0
Justice in the balance: Democracy, rule of law, and the European Court of Human Rights By JessicaGreenberg. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. 256 pp.0
Fiat speech, fiat infrastructure0
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Novelistic account, ethnographic accountability0
Asylum and extraction in the Republic of Nauru By Julia CarolineMorris. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 318 pp.0
How to write for American Ethnologist0
The king of martyrs0
Ethical disconcertment and the politics of troublemaking0
Falshfasad0
In the skin of the city: Spatial transformation in Luanda By AntónioTomás. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 266 pp.0
Probing arts and emergent forms of life By Michael M. J. Fischer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 336 pp.0
AI as pharmakon0
Copyright consciousness: Musical creativity and intellectual property in Turkey By DaveFossum. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2025. 296 pp.0
Pandemic, paternalism, and the (im)possibilities of citizenship in China0
Affect ethnography: Exploring performance and narrative in the creation of unstories By CristianaGiordano and GregPierotti. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 289 pp.0
Decolonizing medicine: Indigenous politics and the practice of care in Bolivia By Gabriela ElisaMorales. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. 308 pp.0
Speculative lives under broken economies0
Reconsidering the vignette as method0
Fishers who don't fish0
Making place for Muslims in contemporary India By Kalyani DevakiMenon. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 196 pp.0
Dissident peace: Autonomous struggles and the state in Colombia By AnthonyDest. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. 264 pp.0
Between dreams and ghosts: Indian migration and Middle Eastern oil By AndreaWright. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 288 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
Mafiacraft: An ethnography of deadly silence By DeborahPuccio‐Den. Chicago: Hau Books, 2021. 294 pp.0
The copy generic: How the nonspecific makes our social worlds By ScottMacLochlainn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 232 pp.0
Consultation is the new C‐word0
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Futures after progress: Hope and doubt in late industrial Baltimore By Chloe Ahmann. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2024. 366 pp.0
How to make a wetland: Water and moral ecology in Turkey By CaterinaScaramelli. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 240 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
Amazonian cosmopolitans: Navigating a shamanic cosmos, shifting Indigenous policies, and other modern projects By SuzanneOakdale. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. 262 pp.0
Tear gas in orbit0
On account of doomsday0
Llamas beyond the Andes: Untold histories of camelids in the modern world By MarciaStephenson. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023. 448 pp.0
“I am the noise”0
On epistemic aporias and the coloniality of (my) categories0
Sensory futures: Deafness and cochlear implant infrastructures in India By Michele IlanaFriedner. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 288 pp.0
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
Performing control0
The sexual politics of empire: Postcolonial homophobia in Haiti By Erin L.Durban. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. 234 pp.0
Editors’ note0
The news event: Popular sovereignty in the age of deep mediatization By FrancisCody. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 260 pp.0
Citizenship, agency, and the problem of sovereignty0
We have never been woke: The cultural contradictions of a new elite By Musaal‐Gharbi. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 280 pp.0
The space‐age hotel0
The fraudulent family0
Property, precarity, and the politics of crisis0
Seductive spirits: Deliverance, demons, and sexual worldmaking in Ghanaian Pentecostalism By Nathanael J.Homewood. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 292 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
Anthropological humanitarianism0
Relational flexibility0
Saving animals: Multispecies ecologies of rescue and care By ElanAbrell. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 272 pp.0
Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections By Lisa Mitchell. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 320 pp.0
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