American Ethnologist

Papers
(The TQCC of American Ethnologist is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
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
Issue Information32
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
Issue Information10
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
How many worlds are there?1
Gut anthro: An experiment in thinking with microbes By Amber Benezra. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 282 pp.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
Issue Information1
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
Working women in Jordan: Education, migration, and aspiration By FidaAdely. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 207 pp.1
Productive leisure on the farm1
Building on borrowed time: Rising seas and failing infrastructure in Semarang By LukasLey. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 240 pp.1
The promise of multispecies justice Edited by SophieChao, KarinBolender, and EbenKirksey. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 296 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
Waste's translations1
Applied anthropology, injustice, and the ethics of intervention1
Editors’ note1
Experimenting with ethnography: A companion to analysis By AndreaBallestero and Brit RossWinthereik, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 301 pp.1
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