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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras. Jon Horne Carter. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. 368 pp.39
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology. Samuel J.Redman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. 328 pp.35
Policing race, ethnicity and culture: Ethnographic perspectives across Europe By JanBeek, ThomasBierschenk, AnnalenaKolloch, and BerndMeyer, eds. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 352 pp.24
Bordering practices20
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. 218
Translating the social in complex technology development18
The stigma matrix: Gender, globalization, and the agency of Pakistan's frontline women By FauziaHusain. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 306 pp.18
Containment and conversion16
Education as identity15
Citizens in uniform12
Anthropology and complicated people10
Guardians of the forest or evil spirits?10
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The indebted woman: Kinship, sexuality, and capitalism By Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar, and G. Venkatasubramanian. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 248 pp.9
Involuntary consent: The illusion of choice in Japan's adult video industry By Akiko Takeyama. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 252 pp.8
Passport island: The market for EU citizenship in Cyprus By TheodorosRakopoulos. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 262 pp.8
The confessional community8
Reflections on unheroic fieldwork8
Cemetery citizens: Reclaiming the past and working for justice in American burial grounds By AdamRosenblatt. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 286 pp.8
Revolution squared: Tahrir, political possibilities, and counterrevolution in Egypt By Atef Shahat Said. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 360 pp.8
Race and the infrapolitics of public space in the time of COVID‐197
Multisituated: Ethnography as diasporic practice By KaushikSunder Rajan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 272 pp.7
The fluvial imagination: On Lesotho's water‐export economy By Colin Hoag. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 224 pp.7
The Shaman's Wages: Trading in Ritual on Cheju Island. KyoimYun. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 256 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
Reparando mundos: Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos By MaríaEugenia Ulfe and XimenaMálaga Sabogal. Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP, 2021. 261 pp.7
All that was not her By ToddMeyers. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 232 pp.6
A vicarious scar6
From the White House to Zimbabwe6
Negotiating expendability in crisis6
Cliché anthropologists and the interactive probing of aspirations under market expansion6
On shame6
Without the state: Self‐organization and political activism in Ukraine By EmilyChannell‐Justice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. 302 pp.6
Women's “timepass”5
A queer footnote5
An imperial meantime5
Patchwork ethnography5
Queer debt5
Becoming malleable5
Resistant ecologies and the bi'a beyond methodological nationalism5
Running out: In search of water on the High Plains By LucasBessire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 264 pp.5
Editors’ note5
Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub in Paris. JulieKleinman. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 224 pp.5
Zar: Spirit possession, music, and healing rituals in Egypt By Hager ElHadidi. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2016. 180 pp.5
American afterlives: Reinventing death in the 21st centuryShannonLee Dawdy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. 272 pp.5
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
Humanitarian contradictions4
Ethnography at its edges4
Rubbish sick and the dancing devil4
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
Deep 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
Anthropology at sea4
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
Rescaling hospitality4
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Police, provocation, politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul By DenizYonucu. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 222 pp.3
The politics of bachaqueo3
Unmasked: COVID, community, and the case of Okoboji By EmilyMendenhall. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022. 312 pp.3
Theory as ethics3
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
Cement and displacement3
Gendered fortunes: Divination, precarity, and affect in postsecular Turkey By Zeynep K. Korkman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 276 pp.3
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Multiple interfaces3
Bosnian Refugees in Chicago: Gender, Performance, and Post‐war Economies. AnaCroegaert. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. 210 pp.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
Birding under fire3
Native agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs By Valerie Lambert. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 376 pp.2
The determined indeterminacy of white supremacy2
Devenir autre: Hétérogénéité et plasticité du soi [Becoming other: Heterogeneity and plasticity of the self] By DavidBerliner. Paris: La Découverte, 2022. 174 pp.2
Editors’ note2
Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity. DorinneKondo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. 376 pp.2
Emplacing capital2
Productive leisure on the farm2
The “salt” of life2
Galvanizing nostalgia? Indigeneity and sovereignty in Siberia By Marjorie MandelstamBalzer. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. 254 pp.2
¡Alerta! Engineering on shaky ground By ElizabethReddy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. 215 pp.2
Gut anthro: An experiment in thinking with microbes By Amber Benezra. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 282 pp.2
“I randomize, therefore I think”2
Colonizing Kashmir: State‐building under Indian occupation By HafsaKanjwal. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 366 pp.2
Citizenship thinking—with, against, and bypassing the state2
Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone By Tania MurrayLi and PujoSemedi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 256 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
Remembering the tatas: Domestic women and slavery in Tetouan (19th–20th centuries) By Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste. Leiden: Brill, 2024. 444 pp.2
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Placing practice in Thamel, Kathmandu2
Entrepreneurial activism2
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
The feel of algorithms By MinnaRuckenstein. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 223 pp.1
How many worlds are there?1
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On the humanitarian horizon1
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
(Un)making the manual scavenger1
Norms and Illegality: Intimate Ethnographies and Politics. CristianaPanella and Walter E.Little, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 228 pp.1
Fucking up, fixing up, and standing up (to the colonial project of gender and sexuality)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
I was wrong about theory1
Devotion to the administrative state: Religion and social order in Egypt By MonaOraby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 328 pp.1
Improperty1
Waste's translations1
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
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Anthropology with a philosophical sensibility1
A book of waves By Stefan Helmreich. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 411 pp.1
Horticulture as history making1
Managing the “hot spots”1
Spaces and challenges of citizenship1
Eating pizza in prison1
Cultivating a trauma‐informed pedagogy1
Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion. SarahMuir. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 200 pp.1
Volumetric citizenship1
Conjuring criminals1
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
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
Applied anthropology, injustice, and the ethics of intervention1
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