OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of History and Anthropology 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The East German intelligentsia and the chronotopes of a lost utopia	11
Introduction to premodern war and religions: comparison, issues and results	6
Medicinal rule and the interdependent duality of power between ntemi (chief) and ngole (queen): A historical ethnographic work on Sukuma c	6
Expulsions: Knowledge, temporality, and materiality in Africa	5
Siting Islamic feminism: The Indonesian Congress of Women Islamic Scholars and the challenge of challenging patriarchal authority	4
Pastoralism’s distributive ruse: Extractivism, financialization, Indigenous labour and a rightful share in Northern Australia	4
The dredger	4
To the future guests of Lesvos: Hospitality and history among Syrian refugees in Greece	4
From uncanny to sensible pasts: Temporal reorderings in Syrian documentaries	4
Nationalism and knowledge: Othering and the disciplin(e)ing of anthropology in India	3
Expelled from public memory: Cato Manor and the segregation of memory in South Africa	3
Person and relation as categories: Mauss’ legacy	3
Violence and warfare in Medieval Western Islam	3
Racial violence and historicity in the U.S. Criminal justice system	3
Religion and war: A synthesis	3
A book forum on Timothy P. A. Cooper’s Moral Atmospheres (Columbia University Press, 2024)	3
Documents, education, and aesthetics: Exploring processes of subjectification among community health workers in Peru	3
‘A laboratory habit of mind’: Exhibit making and nineteenth century experimental anthropology at the United States National Museum	3
Being bad during Ramadan: Temporality, historicity and the refusal of coevalness in the anthropology of Islam	2
Fence and friction at Tiwanaku (Bolivia): An archaeological ethnography of heritage, indigeneity and rights	2
Gaming empire: Confidence tricksters and the reinvention of self in the 1930s	2
Syrian futures: Percolation, temporality and historical experience in the plural	2
Good enough sovereignty, or on land as property and territory in Latvia	2
Cooperative segregation and the culture of co-existence at an integrated religious shrine	2
Interethnic relations in Toro: Some issues	2

Generative exhaustions: Thresholds of long-term uncertainty and stink bug infestation in Georgia’s contested borderland	2
Parliamentary sovereignty as history: constitutional chronotopes and democracy in fractured Britain	2
Axel Sommerfelt in the history of social anthropology	2
Beyond state absence - clientelised statehood in a Colombian conflict region	2
(Un)Earthing violence: Ecologies of remembering, forgetting and reckoning	2
Imaginative landscapes of Islamist politics: An introduction to takhayyul	2
Uncanny advocates. Conversion and Islamic-Buddhist encounters in New Order Indonesia (1965–1998)	2
Field archaeology and foreign assistance during the decade of development in Iran and Turkey	2
An archaeology of interruption: Expulsion and hiatus in Southern Africa’s long past	2
Silence and history: Epistemic framings of the distant past in rural Mongolia	1
Hyper-familiarity in profound uncertainty: how Syrian youth in Jordan work towards non-existent futures	1
Sacred violence and spirited resistance: on war and religion in African history	1
Alexander and Ashoka compared: Two distinct models of sacred kingship in antiquity	1
‘Spectacles of Whataboutery’: Hindutva regimes of historicity and the reinterpretation of Indian Constitutional Law	1
The Martial Temple in the Song	1
Pseudolaw, failure, and alternative temporality	1
Conversations about ‘History’	1
Shattering event: The sensory mechanics of infrastructural breakdown in Kolyma, Russia	1
Statement of Removal	1
Amerindian war and religion in the Eastern Woodlands of North America, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries	1
Creating community: Burials, cooperation and exclusion in the Amhara eder ( iddir )	1
Adjusting scales: Jewish trading networks in and beyond Afghanistan, 1950-present-day	1
The travelled landscape of Benjamin Harrison and the imagined eolithic world of the Kentish Weald	1
Overlooking whiteness? Discourses of race and primitiveness in accounts of the Ainu by Benjamin Douglas Howard and Henry Savage Landor (1893)	1
The village and May Day celebrations in 1970s communist Czechoslovakia: Social events between a tool of the regime and a community holiday	1
Post-colonial caste, Ambedkar, and the politics of counter-narrative	1
Settling land, unsettling people: Living with and contesting land, social change and grand schemes in rural central Jordan	1
Finding Zion: Spectral intimacy and state indeterminacy at an erased American cemetery	1
Introduction. Unsettling encounters: Sites, knowledge exchange, and the making of religion in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean	1
The battle of dragoon hole: Imagined histories and mythical memories	1
Pious publicity, moral ambivalence and the making of religious authority in the Tablighi Jamaat in Pakistan	1
Graduate attributes, state policy, and Islamic preaching in Indonesia	1
A warlike culture? Religion and war in the Aztec world	1
Public monuments, palliative solutions? Political geographies of memory in Goa, India	1
Material historicity: Rethinking objects through the mis/recognition of a Catholic saint	1
Past the canal: An anthropology of maritime passages	1
African archives in the Caribbean: the Yoruba tradition, cultural experts, and the unmaking of religious knowledge in twentieth-century Trinidad	1
Christianity's stamp: Of hybrids, traitors, false peace, massacres and other horrors	1
Uncirculated: The limits of the sentimental in expeditionary science	1
Anxiety of treason in a small country: ‘Russian agents’ and disturbed identities in Georgia	1
From plantations to ghettos: The longue durée of Mauritius’s former slave population	1
‘A twenty-four hour job’. Hildred and Clifford Geertz’s first foray into the field and the scholarly persona of the ethnographer	1
Excremental mobilities and minimal technopolitics: Toilets, race, and expulsion in Tanzania	1
Time against race: Aesthetic ‘merit’ and histories worth preserving on an American frontier	1
Exiles of the spiritual: Secularization and the marginalization of oneiric imaginaries among Turkish Cypriots	1
Practising (for) revolution: street mobilizations in Athens as political performatives	1
Ethnic ‘stereotypes’ in early modern Europe: Russian and Ottoman national costumes	1
‘He has not been playing the game with us’: Paul Kirchhoff in imperial Britain	0
Charting a Malay-Islamic past: An emerging transnational geography of meaning and the consolidation of an exclusivist identity in Malaysia	0
The temporality of the structure: When is settler colonialism?	0

Being Bhil: The politics of becoming indigenous in India and Pakistan	0
On stone tools and the ‘prehistoric’: The value of Tasmanian Aboriginality at the Smithsonian	0
Beyond Idi Amin: urban militarization, Africanization and materiality in Kampalans’ experiences of expulsion	0
Book forum on Joel Robbins’ Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life	0
Film cultures of conquest and domesticity: The family films of Silvino Santos and Agesilau de Araújo (1927-1929)	0
Bodies politic: Burial and reburial in fascist Italy	0
Unravelling future in displacement: Legality as an existential condition	0
Meditation matters: The politics and networks of yoga and spiritual reform between Indonesia, India and the West, 1900s–1970s	0
Visual evidence? Rethinking anthropological photography in republican China (1912–1949)	0
Walls of resistance: Underground memories and political violence in Colombia	0
Cocoa and compliance: How exemptions made mass expulsion in Ghana	0
Community as a category of empire: ‘The work of community’ among Burmese Indians in Myanmar	0
Questions of conscience in a confessional state: From ‘Freedom of conscience’ to ‘Objections of conscience’ in Malta	0
Race and the legacy of slavery in Yemen	0
US Social scientists of the 1950s in the Mezzogiorno and Ernesto de Martino: Two divergent approaches to history and development	0
Little Mecca in Canton: representations and resurgences of the graveyard of Sa’d ibn Abī Waqqās	0
The many lives of the dead: What cemeteries in Tbilisi do	0
Uncertain futures: Memory, performance and temporality among Syrian Sufis	0
People vs. peoples: sacrifice and the foundations for sovereignty in 1640’s England and contemporary northeast Syria	0
Peeking under the Asian Iron Curtain: Socialist, Persianate and anti-colonial modes of friendship between Pakistani and Tajik poets	0
Remembering through possessed treasures? Landscapes and memories of societal violence in contemporary Turkey	0
‘Ostracized by law’: The sociopolitical and juridical construction of the ‘criminal tribe’ in Colonial India	0
Potentiality in crisis: Making and living the potential in Angola’s boom and bust	0
From peasant to housewife. Feminine roles and agriculturaltraining in Franco's Spain	0
Micron engagements, macro histories: Machines and the agency of labor in a worker-owned company	0
Ingesting indenture: Lydia Cabrera, yellow blindness, Chinese bodies, and the generation of Afro-Chinese religious knowledge	0
A perfected bank: Catholic capitalism in early twentieth-century Quebec	0
Remaking a monument: The troubled meaning of fascist remains in contemporary Spain	0
Reimagining the enlightenment: Alternate timelines and utopian futures in the Scottish independence movement	0
The rise and demise of Ashkenazi cuisine in Israel/Palestine: The marginalization of the foodways of a hegemonic ethnicity	0
The broker	0
‘Kalli in the ship’: Inughuit abduction and the shaping of Arctic knowledge	0
Messy episodes: Indigenous countersigns in Ludwig Choris’s diary and ethnographic portraits of Aleut, Kamchadal and Chukchi (1822)	0
The Khwajasara and the Malang : Gender, desire, and the path to God in modern Pakistan	0
Present/absent futures: waiting in the aftermath of a defeated revolution	0
Borderline politics: Reading Nepal-India relations as ‘energohistory’	0
An unpublished contribution toEthnic Groups and Boundaries: ‘Interethnic relations in Toro’ by Axel Sommerfelt	0
Observing Adam’s children: Missionary ethnographers and the discovery of a new world of childhood	0
Frontier friction: colonial infrastructures, Chinese (im-)mobility, and the attack on Sam Neua (NE Laos) in 1914	0
Learning at graves: The living, the dead, and questions of belonging in Islamic Java	0
Diasporic convergence, sustained transience and indifferent survival: Indian traders in China	0
The anxiety of (mis)naming: Chronotopic affects in mapping China’s geo-databases	0
‘Everywhere’ and ‘on the spot’: locality and attachments to the fallen ‘out of place’ in contemporary rural Germany	0
Climate change as landscape ruination: Exposed dams, empty reservoirs, and ecological anxiety in Catalonia	0
Of sensory infractions and anthropomorphism across Asian urban histories	0
Supreme histories and brittle democracies: Courts, law, and contested regimes of historicity	0
No place like home for metalworkers: Household-based metal production at Early Bronze Age Çukuriçi Höyük and beyond	0
More as a sin rather than a crime: clerical sexual abuse and jurisdictional pluralism	0
Temporalities, anachronism and politics in stories of the Conquest of the Americas	0
The route of Orion: Towards a deconstructive history of alien contact in Chile	0
A biographic foreword to Axel Sommerfelt’s 1967 paper – from a daughter’s point of view	0
Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’	0
The ship	0
‘In and out of time’: Towards an anthropology of the mundane experiences of modern and capitalist time	0
Thriving in modernity: Crisis and mimesis in the life-experiences of Padre Pio and Ernesto De Martino	0
The provenance and provenience of photographs: Reconnecting serial images in the Umzimkhulu district, South Africa, 1899–2023	0
Re-evaluating a tree’s ‘real worth’: The historical dispossession of ecological stewardship and its legacy for a Japanese textile tradition	0
Paths well travelled: Imaginative contours of the juridical ummah	0
Christian imagination and approaches to the Romani past: Books, storytelling, and the emergence of a Pentecostal Gitano historical consciousness	0
Austria’s post-colonial present: Missing memorialization of colonial violence	0
A book forum on Scott MacLochlainn The Copy Generic (University of Chicago Press, 2022)	0
On the nature of tradition: The Japanese notion of furusato and a historical quest for place	0
Ancestral spaces and communities of Muslim descent in China, Taiwan and the Philippines	0
Spirits and thieves, religious deviants and sexual/liberal others: Shifting idioms of danger, disruption, and crime talk in Malaysia	0
The land of forgetting: silence and resonance in Chile’s histories of political violence	0
St Adalbert as a stranger-king: The heroization and estrangement of a holy man in the Middle Ages	0
Chronotopes of law and “dark minds”: Judicial constructions of historicity in the Brazilian supreme court	0
‘Animals we’ve never seen before’: Historical wildlife management and Indigenous relations with beavers in the mainland Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Canada	0
Overlooked but Not Forgotten: The Jewish Exemption Claim and the Society of Tehran Jews	0
Through a peephole: Vladimír Karbusický, the secret police and the scholarly ethos in socialist Czechoslovakia	0
‘This stuff speaks to me’: Settler materiality, identity and nationalism among collectors of Native American material culture	0
Kārwān’s talking forest: Materiality, poetic imagination, and the metaphysics of war violence	0
The shipping container	0
The politics of Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity: Religious language, charismatic authority, and temporality in a Melanesian revival movement	0