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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras. Jon Horne Carter. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. 368 pp.100
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology. Samuel J.Redman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 328 pp.38
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Anthropology and complicated people28
Policing race, ethnicity and culture: Ethnographic perspectives across Europe By JanBeek, ThomasBierschenk, AnnalenaKolloch, and BerndMeyer, eds. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 352 pp.27
Containment and conversion18
Translating the social in complex technology development16
The stigma matrix: Gender, globalization, and the agency of Pakistan's frontline women By FauziaHusain. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 306 pp.16
Citizens in uniform16
Ice geographies: The colonial politics of race and Indigeneity in the Arctic By Jen RoseSmith. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 304 pp.13
Extracting the future: Lithium in an era of energy transition By MarkGoodale. Oakland: University of California Press, 2025. 304 pp.13
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. 213
Education as identity12
Involuntary consent: The illusion of choice in Japan's adult video industry By Akiko Takeyama. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 252 pp.11
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Revolution squared: Tahrir, political possibilities, and counterrevolution in Egypt By Atef Shahat Said. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 360 pp.11
The confessional community10
Cemetery citizens: Reclaiming the past and working for justice in American burial grounds By AdamRosenblatt. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 286 pp.10
Ebola and COVID: Further questions9
Passport island: The market for EU citizenship in Cyprus By TheodorosRakopoulos. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 262 pp.9
The indebted woman: Kinship, sexuality, and capitalism By Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar, and G. Venkatasubramanian. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 248 pp.9
Multisituated: Ethnography as diasporic practice By KaushikSunder Rajan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 272 pp.8
From the White House to Zimbabwe8
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
Women's “timepass”7
From the “spectacle” to “all for show”7
Queer debt7
Reparando mundos: Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos By MaríaEugenia Ulfe and XimenaMálaga Sabogal. Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP, 2021. 261 pp.7
Cliché anthropologists and the interactive probing of aspirations under market expansion6
A queer footnote6
Editors’ note6
Becoming malleable6
Without the state: Self‐organization and political activism in Ukraine By EmilyChannell‐Justice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. 302 pp.6
All that was not her By ToddMeyers. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 232 pp.6
Zar: Spirit possession, music, and healing rituals in Egypt By Hager ElHadidi. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2016. 180 pp.5
A vicarious scar5
Ethnography at its edges5
American afterlives: Reinventing death in the 21st centuryShannonLee Dawdy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 272 pp.5
An imperial meantime5
Running out: In search of water on the High Plains By LucasBessire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 264 pp.5
Value and its vehicles5
Making peace with nature: Ecological encounters along the Korean DMZ By Eleana J.Kim. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 224 pp.4
Editors’ note4
Anthropology at sea4
Resistant ecologies and the bi'a beyond methodological nationalism4
Suspect others: Spirit mediums, self‐knowledge, and race in multiethnic Suriname By StuartStrange. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 281 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
Sci‐fi chips and sickled cells4
Patchwork ethnography4
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
Moral atmospheres: Islam and media in a Pakistani marketplace By Timothy P. A.Cooper. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 288 pp.4
Rescaling hospitality4
Rubbish sick and the dancing devil4
Cement and displacement3
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
A ritual geology: Gold and subterranean knowledge in Savanna West Africa By Robyn d'Avignon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 304 pp.3
Gendered fortunes: Divination, precarity, and affect in postsecular Turkey By Zeynep K. Korkman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 276 pp.3
Entrepreneurial activism3
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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Catalonia's human towers: Castells, cultural politics, and the struggle toward the heights By MariannVaczi. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023. 282 pp.3
Police, provocation, politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul By DenizYonucu. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 222 pp.3
Multiple interfaces3
Birding under fire3
Colonizing Kashmir: State‐building under Indian occupation By HafsaKanjwal. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 366 pp.3
Placing practice in Thamel, Kathmandu3
Unmasked: COVID, community, and the case of Okoboji By EmilyMendenhall. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022. 312 pp.3
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Humanitarian contradictions3
Deep ethnography3
Theory as ethics3
Native agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs By Valerie Lambert. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 376 pp.3
“I randomize, therefore I think”3
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
(Un)making the manual scavenger2
The geobiopolitics of trans medicine2
Experimenting with ethnography: A companion to analysis By AndreaBallestero and Brit RossWinthereik, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 301 pp.2
Galvanizing nostalgia? Indigeneity and sovereignty in Siberia By Marjorie MandelstamBalzer. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 254 pp.2
Citizenship thinking—with, against, and bypassing the state2
The “salt” of life2
Remembering the tatas: Domestic women and slavery in Tetouan (19th–20th centuries) By Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste. Leiden: Brill, 2024. 444 pp.2
Friendship By MichaelJackson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 224 pp.2
Editors’ note2
Opposition by imitation: The economics of Italian anti‐Mafia activism By ChristinaJerne. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2025. 248 pp.2
Gut anthro: An experiment in thinking with microbes By Amber Benezra. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 282 pp.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
The determined indeterminacy of white supremacy2
¡Alerta! Engineering on shaky ground By ElizabethReddy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. 215 pp.2
Miners on the move2
Conflicted: Making news from global war By IsaacBlacksin. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 330 pp.2
Inside a jaguar's jaws2
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
Emplacing capital2
Productive leisure on the farm2
Anthropological authorship in the age of generative AI2
Father time: A natural history of men and babies By Sarah BlafferHrdy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 432 pp.2
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Army of the vulnerable1
Seeing our world in 16:9 aspect ratio1
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Improperty1
Wild and wonderful: An ethnography of English naturalists By VanessaManceron. Translated by Michael Taylor. Chicago: Hau, 2025. 239 pp.1
Volumetric citizenship1
On the humanitarian horizon1
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
Outsmarting sanctions1
When property becomes rent1
The children of Solaga: Indigenous belonging across the US‐Mexico border By DainaSanchez. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. 202 pp.1
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
I was wrong about theory1
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
The feel of algorithms By MinnaRuckenstein. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 223 pp.1
Creating value for objects‐in‐waiting1
A book of waves By Stefan Helmreich. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 411 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
Seen but not meant1
Anthropology with a philosophical sensibility1
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Surprise and the singular plural1
Soda science: Making the world safe for Coca‐Cola By SusanGreenhalgh. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 354 pp.1
Spaces and challenges of citizenship1
Fucking up, fixing up, and standing up (to the colonial project of gender and sexuality)1
Influence from the margins1
Horticulture as history making1
Applied anthropology, injustice, and the ethics of intervention1
Devotion to the administrative state: Religion and social order in Egypt By MonaOraby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 328 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
Gender and global politics1
Cultivating a trauma‐informed pedagogy1
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