OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cultural 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
	62
The Massacre and Martyr(dom)s of Oak Creek	33
	32
The Dying Home: “Bad Deaths” and Spatial Inscriptions of Mourning in a Favela	28
	26
Isha’s Wait	19
A Wild Boar Chase: Ecology of Harm and Half-Life Politics in Coastal Fukushima	18
The Substitute and the Excuse	17
The End of Intimacy	14
	14
Through the Body of the Midwife	14
Infrastructural Decay	13
Place, Time, and Affect: Changing Landscapes around a New Guinea Mining Area	10
Dissonance: Cartooning in Iran, Humor, and the Study of Things That Don’t Match	10
Not Built to Last: Military Occupation and Ruination under Settler Colonialism	10
Malicious Game	9
Circulating Objects, Changing Scales	9
Life before Vegetables: Nutrition, Cash, and Subjunctive Health in Samoa	8
Gaining Voice through Injury	7
Blessed Acts of Oblivion	7
Good Bureaucrats and God: The Ethical Labor of the Public	7
“As if I Were an Illegal”	6
Citing Black Women: From Citational Refusal to Recognition	6
When Ethics Can't Be Found: Evaluative Gaps in Ordinary Life	5
From Hoping to Expecting: Cochlear Implantation and Habilitation in India	5

	5
National Reconciliation in the Age of New Social Media	5
Plants, Pathogens, and the Politics of Care: Xylella fastidiosa and the Intra-active Breakdown of Mallorca’s Almond Ecology	5
Black Feminist Citational Praxis and Disciplinary Belonging	5
Effective Cynicism	4
No Stone Unturned	4
	4
“Life is a Gamble”	4
Refusing the God Trick: Engaging Black Women’s Knowledge	4
Deciphering a Non-meal	4
Virtuous Indecisiveness	3
Be Kind: Negotiating Ethical Proximities in Aotearoa/New Zealand during COVID-19	3
Bureaucraft	3
The Ordinariness of Ethics and the Extraordinariness of Revolution	3
Quantifying Vulnerability	3
Legal Care and Friction in Family Detention	3
Utopias of Oil	3
Becoming-After: The Lives and Politics of Quinine’s Remains	3
Multiscale Home: Shifting Landscapes and Living-in-Movement in Haiti	3
Evoking Eternity	2
Governing by Proximity: State Performance and Migrant Citizenship on the India-Pakistan Border	2
The Meme Radar	2
Religious Afterlives of a Revolution	2
Care and Scale: Decorrelative Ethics in Algorithmic Recommendation	2
Of Feral and Obedient Cows	2
Opening Editorial	2
Life in Traffic: Riddling Field Notes on the Political Economy of “Sex” and Nature	2
Economy of Favors	2
Work without Labor: Life in the Surround of a Rural Prison Town	2
The Weightless State	2
Corporations and States	2
Oikography: Ethnographies of House-ing in Critical Times	2
	2
Intercorporeal Togetherness: On Russian Blind Activists’ Technology of Disability Inclusion	2
Archives at the Margins: Toward a Liberatory Pedagogy in Anthropology	2
Orders of Protection	1
Anti-Blackness and Moral Repair	1
The Pandemic Imaginerie: Infectious Bodies and Military-Police Theater in Australia	1
On Chainsaws and Acoustic Violence: Sound and Deforestation in Ajusco-Chichinautzin, Mexico	1
Erratum for "Resisting Alternative Images"	1
The Paradox of Humanitarian Recognition	1
The Immune Home: Domestic Enclaves, Diffuse Protections	1
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The Bioeconomics of Domesticating Zoonoses	1
“Too Much” Sand, Not Water: A Geostory of Himalayan Riverine Sediments as “Problem”	1
(Re)Writing Anthropology and Raising Our Voices from the Academic Margins	1
Predatory Fleas, Sterile Flies, and the Settlers	1
Bioeconomy and Migrants’ Lives in Libya	1
Vital Labors: Transacting Oocytes across Borders in the Post-Soviet Space	1
Habilitating Bodyminds, Caring for Potential	1

The Multiply Produced Film: Collaboration, Ethnography, and Feminist Epistemology	1
EU-Driven Border Control in Niger: From Migrants to Gold, Drugs, and Rare Animals	1