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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Unruly speech: Displacement and the politics of transgression By SaskiaWitteborn. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 250 pp.45
How to make a wetland: Water and moral ecology in Turkey By CaterinaScaramelli. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 240 pp.24
A possible perfection19
Anti‐colonial friendship16
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Waste worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's infrastructures of disposability By JacobDoherty. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 288 pp.13
Fat in four cultures—a global ethnography of weight By CindiSturtzSreetharan, AlexandraBrewis, JessicaHardin, SarahTrainer, and AmberWutich. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 236 pp.13
Corrigendum13
Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras. Jon Horne Carter. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. 368 pp.12
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology. Samuel J.Redman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 328 pp.12
Religion and Daily Life in the Mountains of Iran: Theology, Saints, People. ErikaFriedl. London: I. B. Tauris, 2020. 200 pp.11
A view from another side, or, not just another quit‐lit essay10
Anthropology as spiritual discipline10
Economic Life in the Real World: Logic, Emotion and Ethics. CharlesStafford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 210 pp.10
Anthropology unbound9
Bordering practices9
Issue Information8
Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey. Salih CanAçıksöz. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 272 pp.8
Placing practice in Thamel, Kathmandu7
To be real: Truth and racial authenticity in African American standup comedy By LanitaJacobs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 224 pp.7
Violent masculinities7
Why do I write anthropology? Why do you?6
Editors’ note6
Containment and conversion6
After servitude: Elusive property and the ethics of kinship in Bolivia By MareikeWinchell. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 352 pp.6
“I randomize, therefore I think”6
The cancer within: Reproduction, cultural transformation, and health care in Romania By ChristinaPop. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022. 229 pp.5
Undocumented motherhood: Conversations on love, trauma, and border crossing By ElizabethFarfán‐Santos. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. 176 pp.5
I was never alone or oporniki: An ethnographic play on disability in Russia By CassandraHartblay. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 218 pp.5
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. 25
Ethics as ecology, ecology as ethics5
Beware the bad shepherd4
Refusing aid4
Reconsidering the vignette as method4
Making noise in urban Taiwan4
Pig‐feast democracy4
Terror capitalism: Uyghur dispossession and masculinity in a Chinese city By DarrenByler. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 296 pp.4
The “salt” of life4
Chemical heroes: Pharmacological supersoldiers in the US military By Andrew Bickford. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 320 pp.4
Guardians of the forest or evil spirits?4
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.4
Policing race, ethnicity and culture: Ethnographic perspectives across Europe By JanBeek, ThomasBierschenk, AnnalenaKolloch, and BerndMeyer, eds. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 352 pp.4
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.4
“What even the cowherds and women know”4
Education as identity3
Citizenship thinking—with, against, and bypassing the state3
Digital unsettling: Decoloniality and dispossession in the age of social media By Sahana Udupa and Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan. New York: New York University Press, 2023. 264 pp.3
Watching fracking3
What does it mean to be a citizen in the contemporary moment?3
The determined indeterminacy of white supremacy3
Rights refused: Grassroots activism and state violence in Myanmar By Elliott Prasse‐Freeman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 366 pp.3
Citizen labor3
Native agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs By Valerie Lambert. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 376 pp.3
The “fascist” and the “potato beetle”3
Editors’ note3
A filtered life: Social media on a college campus By Nicole Taylor and Mimi Nichter. New York: Routledge, 2022. 210 pp.3
Issue Information3
Egg providers in eGoli2
Translating the social in complex technology development2
Homemaking as sensemaking2
Editors’ note2
Zainab's traffic: Moving saints, selves, and others across borders By EmrahYıldız. Oakland: University of California Press, 2024. 191 pp.2
The movement for reproductive justice: Empowering women of color through social activism By Patricia Zavella. New York: New York University Press, 2020. 299 pp.2
Hypeful worlds2
Emplacing capital2
Productive leisure on the farm2
Falshfasad2
Building socialism: The afterlife of East German architecture in urban Vietnam By Christina Schwenkel. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 432 pp.2
Anthropology and complicated people2
Citizens in uniform2
Making Global MBAs: The Culture of Business and the Business of Culture. AndrewOrta. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 256 pp.2
Consultation is the new C‐word2
Inside a jaguar's jaws1
Mediating Catholicism: Religion and media in global Catholic imaginaries Edited by Eric Hoenes delPinal, Marc RoscoeLoustau, and KristinNorget. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 245 pp.1
Issue Information1
Food allergy advocacy: Parenting and the politics of care By Danya Glabau. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 296 pp.1
“So that we may be counted”1
Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts.FrédéricKeck. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 256 pp.1
Weighing the future: Race, science, and pregnancy trials in the postgenomic era By NataliValdez. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 284 pp.1
The confessional community1
Feeling the (post)colonial1
Horizon work: At the edges of knowledge in an age of runaway climate change By AdrianaPetryna. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. 224 pp.1
Uncertainty by design: Preparing for the future with scenario technology By LimorSamimian‐Darash. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 185 pp.1
Ethnography, cacophony, and Lebanon as a zone of prestige in the anthropology of the Middle East1
The ultimate intimacy1
Editors’ note1
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
Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity. DorinneKondo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 376 pp.1
Realms unseen1
Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea. SarahBesky. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 252 pp.1
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, secularism, and the state in Lebanon By MayaMikdashi. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 288 pp.1
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.1
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.1
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Decolonizing queer experience: LGBT+ narratives from eastern Europe and Eurasia Edited by EmilyChannell‐Justice. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. 205 pp.1
Resistant ecologies1
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The borders of AIDS: Race, quarantine, and resistance By Karma R.Chávez. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 264 pp.1
What good is anthropology?1
Decolonizing anthropology1
(Un)making the manual scavenger1
Galvanizing nostalgia? Indigeneity and sovereignty in Siberia By Marjorie MandelstamBalzer. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 254 pp.1
¡Alerta! Engineering on shaky ground By ElizabethReddy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. 215 pp.1
Situating microbes1
Issue Information1
Decolonizing a discipline in distress1
Polygons1
Electrosonic statecraft1
Reflections on unheroic fieldwork1
Devenir autre: Hétérogénéité et plasticité du soi [Becoming other: Heterogeneity and plasticity of the self] By DavidBerliner. Paris: La Découverte, 2022. 174 pp.1
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.1
Issue Information1
Secular‐religious self‐improvement1
Gut anthro: An experiment in thinking with microbes By Amber Benezra. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 282 pp.1
Sensory futures: Deafness and cochlear implant infrastructures in India By Michele IlanaFriedner. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 288 pp.1
Rubbish sick and the dancing devil0
Ethnography and ethical life0
Deep ethnography0
Bosnian Refugees in Chicago: Gender, Performance, and Post‐war Economies. AnaCroegaert. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. 210 pp.0
Being dead otherwise By Anne Allison. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 256 pp.0
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Engineering vulnerability: In pursuit of climate adaptation By Sarah E.Vaughn. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 148 pp.0
Morality, religious authority, and the digital edge0
Palestinian counter‐forensics and the cruel paradox of property0
Improperty0
I was wrong when I studied Russian nuclear weapons scientists0
Shopping with Allah: Muslim pilgrimage, gender and consumption in a globalised world By ViolaThimm. London: UCL Press, 2023. 287 pp.0
Face‐to‐face with the (animal) Other0
Rescaling hospitality0
Seeing our world in 16:9 aspect ratio0
Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal. HannaGarth. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 232 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
The current economy: Electricity markets and techno‐economics By CanayÖzden‐Schilling. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 205 pp.0
The art of unnoticing0
The politics of bachaqueo0
The sexual politics of empire: Postcolonial homophobia in Haiti By Erin L.Durban. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. 234 pp.0
“Objectivity” as a bureaucratic virtue0
The violence of recognition: Adivasi indigeneity and anti‐Dalitness in India By PinkyHota. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024. 230 pp.0
A ritual geology: Gold and subterranean knowledge in Savanna West Africa By Robyn d'Avignon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 304 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
Visible critique/critical visibility0
Peasant politics of the twenty‐first century: Transnational social movements and agrarian change By Marc Edelman. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. 356 pp.0
Roses from Kenya: Labor, Environment, and the Global Trade in Cut Flowers.Megan A.Styles. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 256 pp.0
Unmasked: COVID, community, and the case of Okoboji By EmilyMendenhall. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022. 312 pp.0
The made‐up state: Technology, trans femininity, and citizenship in Indonesia By Benjamin Hegarty. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 198 pp.0
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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
Predatory economies: The Sanema and the socialist state in contemporary Amazonia By Amy Penfield. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023. 248 pp.0
“Punching is a sickness”0
Birding under fire0
Cultural loss and compensation in the anthropology of Aboriginal Australia0
Bolivia in the Age of Gas. BretGustafson. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 328 pp.0
Habitus, mobilized0
Lawful sins: Abortion rights and reproductive governance in Mexico By ElyseOna Singer. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 260 pp.0
Gathering medicines: Nation and knowledge in China's mountain south By Judith Farquhar and Lili Lai. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 304 pp.0
Entrepreneurial activism0
From decolonizing knowledge to postimperialism0
The long road0
A transit state0
The composition of worlds: Interviews with Pierre Charbonnier By PhilippeDescola. Cambridge: Polity, 2024. 200 pp.0
Keeping busy when there's nothing to do0
Futures after progress: Hope and doubt in late industrial Baltimore By Chloe Ahmann. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2024. 366 pp.0
Spectral kinship0
Anxious suitcases and their contents0
Gendered disruptions in academic publishing during COVID‐190
De‐occupation as planetary politics0
Asylum and extraction in the Republic of Nauru By Julia CarolineMorris. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 318 pp.0
Issue Information0
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Cement and displacement0
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Eating pizza in prison0
The border within: Vietnamese migrants transforming ethnic nationalism in Berlin By Phi Hong  Su. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 216 pp.0
“Only the orangutans get a life jacket”0
Orphaned landscapes: Violence, visuality, and appearance in Indonesia By PatriciaSpyer. New York: Fordham University Press, 2021. 336 pp.0
Nullius: The anthropology of ownership, sovereignty, and the law in India By Kriti Kapila. Chicago: Hau Books, 2022. 207 pp.0
Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic. AmyMoran‐Thomas. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 384 pp.0
Citizenship beyond solidarity and belonging0
Managing the “hot spots”0
Chinese village life today: Building families in an age of transition By Gonçalo Santos. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. 320 pp.0
The small matter of suing Chevron By SuzanaSawyer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 416 pp.0
Bones of contention0
The mother, the politician, and the guerrilla: Women's political imagination in the Kurdish movement By Nazan Üstündağ. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023. 272 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
Kill your ancestors0
Spaces and challenges of citizenship0
The trauma mantras: A memoir of prose poems By Adrie Kusserow. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 176 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
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Vital decomposition: Soil practitioners + life politics By Kristina M. Lyons. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 218 pp.0
Citizenship, agency, and the problem of sovereignty0
The smugness of privilege0
There's a disco ball between us: A theory of Black gay life By JafariAllen. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 440 pp.0
Creating value for objects‐in‐waiting0
Fucking up, fixing up, and standing up (to the colonial project of gender and sexuality)0
Fiat speech, fiat infrastructure0
Rubber boots methods for the Anthropocene: Doing fieldwork in multispecies worlds By NilsBubandt, Astrid OberborbeckAnderson, and RachelCypher, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 40
Comrades and spies0
I was wrong about theory0
Ethnographic thinking0
Meaningless citizenship: Iraqi refugees and the welfare state By Sally WesleyBonet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 256 pp.0
The gift of hospitality and the (un)welcoming of Syrian migrants in Turkey0
Community fashioning0
Anthropology is good0
Issue Information0
Disability worlds By FayeGinsburg and RaynaRapp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 271 pp.0
A history of false hope: Investigative commissions in Palestine By LoriAllen. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 432 pp.0
Provincializing bioethics0
Saving animals: Multispecies ecologies of rescue and care By ElanAbrell. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 272 pp.0
Capture‐recapture0
Gendered fortunes: Divination, precarity, and affect in postsecular Turkey By Zeynep K. Korkman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 276 pp.0
Patchwork ethnography0
Religion and transnational citizenship in the African diaspora: Akan London By Mattia Fumanti. London: Routledge, 2023. 195 pp.0
Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affect, and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army.MariaRashid. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 288 pp.0
Intertextual politics0
On epistemic aporias and the coloniality of (my) categories0
In the skin of the city: Spatial transformation in Luanda By AntónioTomás. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 266 pp.0
Beastly identification in India0
Unsettled borders: The militarized science of surveillance on sacred Indigenous lands By Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 207 pp.0
Reversible pigs0
Performing control0
An anti‐genealogical take on US anthropology and disciplinary reform0
Ritual as image0
Imagining beyond a statist imaginary0
A thousand steps to parliament: Constructing electable women in Mongolia By Manduhai Buyandelger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 288 pp.0
Mafiacraft: An ethnography of deadly silence By DeborahPuccio‐Den. Chicago: Hau Books, 2021. 294 pp.0
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.0
Love as understanding0
Being forgotten, being remembered0
Distributed humanitarianism0
Toward anthropologies of the metaverse0
Issue Information0
A witch's hand: Curing, killing, kinship, and colonialism among the Lujere of New Guinea By William E. Mitchell. Chicago: Hau Books, 2024. 567 pp.0
Flexible families: Nicaraguan transnational families in Costa Rica By CaitlinFouratt. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022. 181 pp.0
Keep the bones alive: Missing people and the search for life in Brazil By Graham DenyerWillis. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 230 pp.0
Humanitarian contradictions0
Terror trials: Life and law in Delhi's courts By Mayur R. Suresh. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023. 272 pp.0
Corrigendum0
A decolonial birth for anthropology0
Catch‐all technopolitics0
“Magical math hand‐waving”0
Thanks for watching: An anthropological study of video sharing on YouTube By Patricia G.Lange. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2019. 362 pp.0
The king of martyrs0
The work of repair: Capacity after colonialism in the timber plantations of South Africa By Thomas Cousins. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023. 314 pp.0
Fishers who don't fish0
Remaking the value of work0
Multiple interfaces0
Density and domination0
Theory as ethics0
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