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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
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Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras. Jon Horne Carter. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. 368 pp.35
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology. Samuel J.Redman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 328 pp.26
Policing race, ethnicity and culture: Ethnographic perspectives across Europe By JanBeek, ThomasBierschenk, AnnalenaKolloch, and BerndMeyer, eds. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 352 pp.24
Anthropology and complicated people21
The stigma matrix: Gender, globalization, and the agency of Pakistan's frontline women By FauziaHusain. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 306 pp.19
Translating the social in complex technology development18
Containment and conversion15
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. 215
Citizens in uniform11
Education as identity10
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Cemetery citizens: Reclaiming the past and working for justice in American burial grounds By AdamRosenblatt. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 286 pp.10
Guardians of the forest or evil spirits?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
Passport island: The market for EU citizenship in Cyprus By TheodorosRakopoulos. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 262 pp.9
Reflections on unheroic fieldwork9
Revolution squared: Tahrir, political possibilities, and counterrevolution in Egypt By Atef Shahat Said. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 360 pp.9
Reparando mundos: Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos By MaríaEugenia Ulfe and XimenaMálaga Sabogal. Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP, 2021. 261 pp.8
Involuntary consent: The illusion of choice in Japan's adult video industry By Akiko Takeyama. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 252 pp.8
The Shaman's Wages: Trading in Ritual on Cheju Island. KyoimYun. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 256 pp.8
The confessional community8
Ebola and COVID: Further questions8
The fluvial imagination: On Lesotho's water‐export economy By Colin Hoag. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 224 pp.7
From the White House to Zimbabwe7
Multisituated: Ethnography as diasporic practice By KaushikSunder Rajan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 272 pp.7
Fighting to breathe: Race, toxicity, and the rise of youth activism in Baltimore By NicoleFabricant. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 266 pp.7
Editors’ note6
Negotiating expendability in crisis6
Cliché anthropologists and the interactive probing of aspirations under market expansion6
Queer debt6
On shame6
Without the state: Self‐organization and political activism in Ukraine By EmilyChannell‐Justice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. 302 pp.6
An imperial meantime6
All that was not her By ToddMeyers. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 232 pp.6
A vicarious scar6
Race and the infrapolitics of public space in the time of COVID‐195
Women's “timepass”5
Suspect others: Spirit mediums, self‐knowledge, and race in multiethnic Suriname By StuartStrange. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 281 pp.5
A queer footnote5
Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub in Paris. JulieKleinman. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 224 pp.5
Running out: In search of water on the High Plains By LucasBessire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 264 pp.5
Zar: Spirit possession, music, and healing rituals in Egypt By Hager ElHadidi. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2016. 180 pp.5
Becoming malleable5
American afterlives: Reinventing death in the 21st centuryShannonLee Dawdy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 272 pp.5
Ethnography at its edges5
Editors’ note4
Making peace with nature: Ecological encounters along the Korean DMZ By Eleana J.Kim. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 224 pp.4
Anthropology at sea4
Moral atmospheres: Islam and media in a Pakistani marketplace By Timothy P. A.Cooper. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 288 pp.4
Deep ethnography4
Rubbish sick and the dancing devil4
Rescaling hospitality4
Resistant ecologies and the bi'a beyond methodological nationalism4
Sci‐fi chips and sickled cells4
A ritual geology: Gold and subterranean knowledge in Savanna West Africa By Robyn d'Avignon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 304 pp.4
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
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
Patchwork ethnography4
Humanitarian contradictions4
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The politics of bachaqueo3
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
Entrepreneurial activism3
Unmasked: COVID, community, and the case of Okoboji By EmilyMendenhall. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022. 312 pp.3
Cement and displacement3
Police, provocation, politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul By DenizYonucu. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 222 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
Gendered fortunes: Divination, precarity, and affect in postsecular Turkey By Zeynep K. Korkman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 276 pp.3
Theory as ethics3
Bosnian Refugees in Chicago: Gender, Performance, and Post‐war Economies. AnaCroegaert. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. 210 pp.3
Multiple interfaces3
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Birding under fire3
Native agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs By Valerie Lambert. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 376 pp.3
Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity. DorinneKondo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 376 pp.2
Galvanizing nostalgia? Indigeneity and sovereignty in Siberia By Marjorie MandelstamBalzer. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 254 pp.2
Productive leisure on the farm2
Emplacing capital2
Citizenship thinking—with, against, and bypassing the state2
Father time: A natural history of men and babies By Sarah BlafferHrdy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 432 pp.2
¡Alerta! Engineering on shaky ground By ElizabethReddy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. 215 pp.2
Inside a jaguar's jaws2
“I randomize, therefore I think”2
Devenir autre: Hétérogénéité et plasticité du soi [Becoming other: Heterogeneity and plasticity of the self] By DavidBerliner. Paris: La Découverte, 2022. 174 pp.2
Colonizing Kashmir: State‐building under Indian occupation By HafsaKanjwal. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 366 pp.2
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
Remembering the tatas: Domestic women and slavery in Tetouan (19th–20th centuries) By Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste. Leiden: Brill, 2024. 444 pp.2
Gut anthro: An experiment in thinking with microbes By Amber Benezra. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 282 pp.2
The “salt” of life2
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Placing practice in Thamel, Kathmandu2
The determined indeterminacy of white supremacy2
Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone By Tania MurrayLi and PujoSemedi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 256 pp.2
Editors’ note2
Horticulture as history making1
I was wrong about theory1
Managing the “hot spots”1
Spaces and challenges of citizenship1
Eating pizza in prison1
Norms and Illegality: Intimate Ethnographies and Politics. CristianaPanella and Walter E.Little, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 228 pp.1
Cultivating a trauma‐informed pedagogy1
Waste's translations1
Volumetric citizenship1
Applied anthropology, injustice, and the ethics of intervention1
Building on borrowed time: Rising seas and failing infrastructure in Semarang By LukasLey. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 240 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
Miners on the move1
On the humanitarian horizon1
Soda science: Making the world safe for Coca‐Cola By SusanGreenhalgh. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 354 pp.1
Seeing our world in 16:9 aspect ratio1
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
Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal. HannaGarth. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 232 pp.1
How many worlds are there?1
The feel of algorithms By MinnaRuckenstein. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 223 pp.1
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The promise of multispecies justice Edited by SophieChao, KarinBolender, and EbenKirksey. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 296 pp.1
Working women in Jordan: Education, migration, and aspiration By FidaAdely. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 207 pp.1
Experimenting with ethnography: A companion to analysis By AndreaBallestero and Brit RossWinthereik, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 301 pp.1
(Un)making the manual scavenger1
Conjuring criminals1
A book of waves By Stefan Helmreich. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 411 pp.1
A transit state1
The made‐up state: Technology, trans femininity, and citizenship in Indonesia By Benjamin Hegarty. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 198 pp.1
Creating value for objects‐in‐waiting1
Fucking up, fixing up, and standing up (to the colonial project of gender and sexuality)1
Devotion to the administrative state: Religion and social order in Egypt By MonaOraby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 328 pp.1
Improperty1
Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion. SarahMuir. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 200 pp.1
Friendship By MichaelJackson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 224 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
Anthropology with a philosophical sensibility1
After servitude: Elusive property and the ethics of kinship in Bolivia By MareikeWinchell. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 352 pp.0
Racial hydrologies0
A decolonial birth for anthropology0
Imagistic care: Growing old in a precarious world Edited by Cheryl Mattingly and Lone Grøn. New York: Fordham University Press, 2022. 272 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
The cancer within: Reproduction, cultural transformation, and health care in Romania By ChristinaPop. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022. 229 pp.0
Reading the present from the past in Hopkins, Belize0
Citizenship, agency, and the problem of sovereignty0
The news event: Popular sovereignty in the age of deep mediatization By FrancisCody. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 260 pp.0
To be real: Truth and racial authenticity in African American standup comedy By LanitaJacobs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 224 pp.0
Decolonizing Middle East anthropology0
Density and domination0
Llamas beyond the Andes: Untold histories of camelids in the modern world By MarciaStephenson. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023. 448 pp.0
Editors’ note0
Futures after progress: Hope and doubt in late industrial Baltimore By Chloe Ahmann. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2024. 366 pp.0
On epistemic aporias and the coloniality of (my) categories0
Consultation is the new C‐word0
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A ritual of indistinction0
Amazonian cosmopolitans: Navigating a shamanic cosmos, shifting Indigenous policies, and other modern projects By SuzanneOakdale. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. 262 pp.0
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Dwelling as resistance, dwelling as repair0
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Polygons0
Mafiacraft: An ethnography of deadly silence By DeborahPuccio‐Den. Chicago: Hau Books, 2021. 294 pp.0
The fraudulent family0
How to write for American Ethnologist0
Fishers who don't fish0
Working out desire: Women, sport, and self‐making in Istanbul By SertaçSehlikoglu.Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2021. 318 pp.0
Affect ethnography: Exploring performance and narrative in the creation of unstories By CristianaGiordano and GregPierotti. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 289 pp.0
In the skin of the city: Spatial transformation in Luanda By AntónioTomás. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 266 pp.0
Forest lost: Producing green capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon By Maron E.Greenleaf. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 304 pp.0
Repetitions of history0
Performing control0
Probing arts and emergent forms of life By Michael M. J. Fischer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 336 pp.0
Novelistic account, ethnographic accountability0
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
To write or not to write?0
Between dreams and ghosts: Indian migration and Middle Eastern oil By AndreaWright. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 288 pp.0
The copy generic: How the nonspecific makes our social worlds By ScottMacLochlainn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 232 pp.0
Privileged observers and colonial continuities0
I was never alone or oporniki: An ethnographic play on disability in Russia By CassandraHartblay. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 218 pp.0
Relational flexibility0
Hoarding New Guinea: Writing colonial ethnographic collection histories for postcolonial futures By Rainer F.Buschmann. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. 265 pp.0
Making place for Muslims in contemporary India By Kalyani DevakiMenon. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 196 pp.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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Bodyland0
In the shadow of the palms: More‐than‐human becomings in West Papua By SophieChao. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 336 pp.0
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More‐than‐“bird”0
The sexual politics of empire: Postcolonial homophobia in Haiti By Erin L.Durban. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. 234 pp.0
“The agenda is to wipe out critical thought”—Struggles for academic freedom (part 2)0
Beware the bad shepherd0
Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro‐Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism. Richard M.Shain. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2018. 214 pp.0
Fiat speech, fiat infrastructure0
Reconsidering the vignette as method0
Hailing the state: Indian democracy between elections By Lisa Mitchell. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 320 pp.0
Tear gas in orbit0
Re‐membering culture: Erasure and renewal in Hmong American education By BicNgo. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. 248 pp.0
Sensory futures: Deafness and cochlear implant infrastructures in India By Michele IlanaFriedner. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 288 pp.0
Contamination in theory and protest0
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
Anthropological humanitarianism0
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Work, development, and refusal in urban Ethiopia0
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The violence of democracy: Interparty conflict in South Asia By RuchiChaturvedi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 250 pp.0
Falshfasad0
Ethnography and ethical life0
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
Editors’ note0
Imagining beyond a statist imaginary0
Resistance as negotiation: Making states and tribes in the margins of modern India By UdayChandra. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 340 pp.0
De‐occupation as planetary politics0
Witnessing “imperfect victims”0
Religious authority in the urban mosque0
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Visible critique/critical visibility0
Pandemic, paternalism, and the (im)possibilities of citizenship in China0
Why do I write anthropology? Why do you?0
A sovereign atmosphere0
Residual governance: How South Africa foretells planetary futures By GabrielleHecht. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 288 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
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
Corrigendum0
Capitalist colonial: Thai migrant workers in Israeli agriculture By MatanKaminer. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 269 pp.0
Asylum and extraction in the Republic of Nauru By Julia CarolineMorris. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 318 pp.0
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The composition of worlds: Interviews with Pierre Charbonnier By PhilippeDescola. Cambridge: Polity, 2024. 200 pp.0
Egg providers in eGoli0
Composing violence: The limits of exposure and the making of minorities By MoyukhChatterjee. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 184 pp.0
Peche problems0
Capture‐recapture0
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Listening to love0
Four challenges from anthropology's current meta0
Lawful sins: Abortion rights and reproductive governance in Mexico By ElyseOna Singer. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 260 pp.0
Anthropology as spiritual discipline0
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
“The world hates the truth”0
Editors’ note0
I was wrong when I studied Russian nuclear weapons scientists0
The right to public security0
We have never been woke: The cultural contradictions of a new elite By Musaal‐Gharbi. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 280 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
Ethical disconcertment and the politics of troublemaking0
Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea. SarahBesky. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 252 pp.0
The king of martyrs0
Migrant Conversions: Transforming Connections between Peru and South Korea. EricaVogel. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 186 pp.0
Waste worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's infrastructures of disposability By JacobDoherty. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 288 pp.0
The art of unnoticing0
Face‐to‐face with the (animal) Other0
Flexible families: Nicaraguan transnational families in Costa Rica By CaitlinFouratt. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022. 181 pp.0
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Fraternal critique: The politics of the Muslim community in France By KirstenWesselhoeft. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. 218 pp.0
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