OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of History and Anthropology 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The East German intelligentsia and the chronotopes of a lost utopia	11
Introduction to premodern war and religions: comparison, issues and results	7
Medicinal rule and the interdependent duality of power between ntemi (chief) and ngole (queen): A historical ethnographic work on Sukuma c	7
From uncanny to sensible pasts: Temporal reorderings in Syrian documentaries	6
Expulsions: Knowledge, temporality, and materiality in Africa	6
Pastoralism’s distributive ruse: Extractivism, financialization, Indigenous labour and a rightful share in Northern Australia	4
Siting Islamic feminism: The Indonesian Congress of Women Islamic Scholars and the challenge of challenging patriarchal authority	4
To the future guests of Lesvos: Hospitality and history among Syrian refugees in Greece	4
The dredger	4
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
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
Beyond state absence - clientelised statehood in a Colombian conflict region	2
Interethnic relations in Toro: Some issues	2
Being bad during Ramadan: Temporality, historicity and the refusal of coevalness in the anthropology of Islam	2
An archaeology of interruption: Expulsion and hiatus in Southern Africa’s long past	2
Good enough sovereignty, or on land as property and territory in Latvia	2
Statement of Removal	2
Gaming empire: Confidence tricksters and the reinvention of self in the 1930s	2

Cooperative segregation and the culture of co-existence at an integrated religious shrine	2
Fence and friction at Tiwanaku (Bolivia): An archaeological ethnography of heritage, indigeneity and rights	2
Syrian futures: Percolation, temporality and historical experience in the plural	2
Parliamentary sovereignty as history: constitutional chronotopes and democracy in fractured Britain	2
Uncanny advocates. Conversion and Islamic-Buddhist encounters in New Order Indonesia (1965–1998)	2
Imaginative landscapes of Islamist politics: An introduction to takhayyul	2
(Un)Earthing violence: Ecologies of remembering, forgetting and reckoning	2
Generative exhaustions: Thresholds of long-term uncertainty and stink bug infestation in Georgia’s contested borderland	2
Field archaeology and foreign assistance during the decade of development in Iran and Turkey	2
Axel Sommerfelt in the history of social anthropology	2
Ethnic ‘stereotypes’ in early modern Europe: Russian and Ottoman national costumes	1
Creating community: Burials, cooperation and exclusion in the Amhara eder ( iddir )	1
Pseudolaw, failure, and alternative temporality	1
The Martial Temple in the Song	1
‘Spectacles of Whataboutery’: Hindutva regimes of historicity and the reinterpretation of Indian Constitutional Law	1
Christianity's stamp: Of hybrids, traitors, false peace, massacres and other horrors	1
Settling land, unsettling people: Living with and contesting land, social change and grand schemes in rural central Jordan	1
African archives in the Caribbean: the Yoruba tradition, cultural experts, and the unmaking of religious knowledge in twentieth-century Trinidad	1
Conversations about ‘History’	1
Excremental mobilities and minimal technopolitics: Toilets, race, and expulsion in Tanzania	1
Amerindian war and religion in the Eastern Woodlands of North America, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries	1
Walls of resistance: Underground memories and political violence in Colombia	1
A book forum on Scott MacLochlainn The Copy Generic (University of Chicago Press, 2022)	1
Post-colonial caste, Ambedkar, and the politics of counter-narrative	1
Past the canal: An anthropology of maritime passages	1
Silence and history: Epistemic framings of the distant past in rural Mongolia	1
Exiles of the spiritual: Secularization and the marginalization of oneiric imaginaries among Turkish Cypriots	1
Hyper-familiarity in profound uncertainty: how Syrian youth in Jordan work towards non-existent futures	1
The village and May Day celebrations in 1970s communist Czechoslovakia: Social events between a tool of the regime and a community holiday	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
Shattering event: The sensory mechanics of infrastructural breakdown in Kolyma, Russia	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
Introduction. Unsettling encounters: Sites, knowledge exchange, and the making of religion in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean	1
Alexander and Ashoka compared: Two distinct models of sacred kingship in antiquity	1
Present/absent futures: waiting in the aftermath of a defeated revolution	1
Public monuments, palliative solutions? Political geographies of memory in Goa, India	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
Sacred violence and spirited resistance: on war and religion in African history	1
Overlooking whiteness? Discourses of race and primitiveness in accounts of the Ainu by Benjamin Douglas Howard and Henry Savage Landor (1893)	1
Uncirculated: The limits of the sentimental in expeditionary science	1
Material historicity: Rethinking objects through the mis/recognition of a Catholic saint	1
Finding Zion: Spectral intimacy and state indeterminacy at an erased American cemetery	1
Graduate attributes, state policy, and Islamic preaching in Indonesia	1
Time against race: Aesthetic ‘merit’ and histories worth preserving on an American frontier	1
‘A twenty-four hour job’. Hildred and Clifford Geertz’s first foray into the field and the scholarly persona of the ethnographer	1
A warlike culture? Religion and war in the Aztec world	1
Temporalities, anachronism and politics in stories of the Conquest of the Americas	1

Practising (for) revolution: street mobilizations in Athens as political performatives