Social Anthropology

Papers
(The median citation count of Social 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Unequal expressions: emotions and narratives of leaving and remaining in precarious academia13
Beyond Failure10
Utopian confluences: anthropological mappings of generative politics10
A lesser human? Utopian registers of urban reconfiguration in Maputo, Mozambique9
Algorithmic Intimacy9
Interstitial urban spaces: housing strategies and the use of the city by homeless asylum seekers and refugees in Trento, Italy8
Urgency and Imminence8
Organic taste and labour on Indian tea plantations*7
To Fail at Scale!7
On the educational mode of existence: Latour, meta‐ethnography and the social institution of education7
Introduction: On the politics of waiting7
Grammars of liberalism7
Liberalism in fragments: oligarchy and the liberal subject in Ukrainian news journalism6
How to kill a democracy6
Extinction Rebellion, Image events, social media and the eclipse of the earth6
A desire for normality: (early) marriage among Syrian refugees in Jordan between waiting and home‐making6
Corporeal moderation: digital labour as affective good6
Vernacular Humanitarianisms6
Humanising fascists? Nuance as an anthropological responsibility6
Syrian refugees and the politics of waiting in a Turkish border town6
Stratifying academia: ranking, oligarchy and the market‐myth in academic audit regimes6
Leapfrogging the Grid5
For an anthropological theory of praxis: dystopic utopia in Indian Maoism and the rise of the Hindu Right4
Documenting the UNESCO feast: stories of women’s ‘empowerment’ and programmatic cooking4
Controlled experiments: ethnographic notes on the intergenerational dynamics of aspirational migration and agrarian change in upland Laos4
New climate change activism: before and after the Covid‐19 pandemic4
Curious Utopias4
Confronting Uncertainties in Pastoral Areas4
Generation climate change3
Waiting for the disappeared: waiting as a form of resilience and the limits of legal space in Turkey3
The absent presence of the deportation apparatus: methodological challenges in the production of knowledge on immigration detention3
Revisiting social media as far‐right modality3
Editorial3
The neo‐nationalist ascendency: further thoughts on class, value and the return of the repressed3
Policy as Experimentation3
‘Meat is stupid’: Covid‐19 and the co‐development of climate activism3
‘Eating with the People’3
To go with the free information flow: problems and contradictions in macro‐level neoliberal theories and their translation to micro‐level business innovation strategies2
Anthropology Comes In When Translation Fails2
‘True love’ as a bureaucratic utopia: the case of bi‐national couples in Belgium2
Waiting for justice amidst the remnants: urban development, displacement and resistance in Diyarbakir2
‘Are you paying for somebody else’s?’ The value of secrecy in the uses of DNA paternity tests in the USA2
Upland pioneers: an introduction2
The Debate’s Conjuncture2
The Golden Passport ‘Russian’ Eutopia2
The limits of strategic citizenship: affective engagements with Russian passports in the context of migration from Tajikistan2
Vocation and political activism: sacrifice, stigma, love, utopia?2
The optimistic utopia: sacrifice and expectations of political transformation in the Angolan Revolutionary Movement2
Of Fascists and Dreamers2
Shacktopia2
‘Excesses’ of modernity: mundane mobilities, politics and the remaking of the urban2
State and life in Cuba: calibrating ideals and realities in a state‐socialist system for food provision2
Conspicuous performances: ritual competition between Christian and non‐Christian Hmong in contemporary Vietnam2
(Un)Doing the Colombian Armed Conflict2
A decolonial, ecofeminist ethic of care2
Pioneers of the plantation economy: militarism, dispossession and the limits of growth in the Wa State of Myanmar2
Getting things back to normal: populism, fundamentalism and liberal desire2
Traditional culture as a vehicle for Christian future‐making: ethnic minority elites pioneering self‐representations in northern Myanmar1
Pacifist utopias: humanitarianism, tragedy and complicity in the Second World War1
Terms of engagement1
Curfew ‘until further notice’: waiting and spatialisation of sovereignty in a Kurdish bordertown in Turkey1
The Properties of Self-Managed Collective Housing1
The Desire to Help1
Minority sexualities, kinship and non‐autological freedom in Montenegro1
Reductio ad cambitas: The grammar of liberalisation in Northeast Brazil1
Martínez, Francisco and PatrickLaviolette (eds.) 2019. Repair, brokenness, breakthrough: ethnographic responses. New York: Berghahn Books. 327 pp. Hb.: US$135.00. ISBN: 9781‐1‐78920‐331‐8.1
Beyond (Un)Stable1
The potential of intangible loss: reassembling heritage and reconstructing the social in post‐disaster Japan1
White climate, white energy: a time for movement reflection?1
Religious Nationalism, Strategic Detachment and the Politics of Vernacular Humanitarianism in Post-War Sri Lanka1
From Scottish Independence, to Brexit, and Back Again1
Liberalism in the breach1
Armytage, Rosita. 2020. Big capital in an unequal world: the micropolitics of wealth in Pakistan. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books. 206 pp. Hb.: US$120.00/£89.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐78920‐616‐6.1
Creeping racism: a cultural conception of politics1
The Anti-Politics of Inclusion1
Introduction: Auto‐Anthropocenes1
Corporeal performance in contemporary ethnonationalist movements: the changing body politic of Basque and Catalan secessionism1
‘When I see what democracy is…’: bleak liberalism in a French court1
‘Before others’: construction pioneers in the uplands of northwestern Laos1
Democracy after ‘the end of history’: Vietnamese diasporic liberalism in Poland1
Spatialising the far right1
Soothsayers and horoscopes: new modes of inquiring into the future in northern Laos1
What kinds of activism do regenerative cultures fuel and how might we research them?1
Ambiguous entanglements: infrastructure, memory and identity in indigenous Evenki communities along the Baikal–Amur Mainline1
Conspiracies are about identities not ideas1
Hmong Christian elites as political and development brokers: competition, cooperation and mimesis in Vietnam’s highlands1
Promising pipelines and hydrocarbon nationalism: the sociality of unbuilt infrastructure in indigenous Siberia1
Global far right and imaginative interconnectivities1
Ruined beings: ontology in post‐socialist driving1
A pandemic can do what a movement cannot1
Once upon a time in Utopia: Bergson, temporality and the remaking of social movement futures1
Forum: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine1
The Hard Way1
Vignerons and the Vines1
Reckoning with ‘humanising fascists’ and other requisites of an anthropology of the far right1
Vertigo and Urgency1
Hinojosa, Servando Z. 2020. Maya bonesetters: manual healers in a changing Guatemala. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 256 pp. Hb.: US$29.95. ISBN: 9781477320297.0
Martyrdom and Destiny in Time of Revolution0
Dzenovska, Dace. 2018. School of Europeanness: tolerance and other lessons in political liberalism in Latvia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 467 pp. Hb.: US$114.00. ISBN: 9781501716850.0
Depriving the far‐right unity0
Environmental activism and the ‘political right’0
Bad parrhesia: the limits of cynicism in the public sphere0
Hodges, Adam. 2019. When words trump politics: resisting a hostile regime of language. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 200 pp. Pb.: US$14.00. ISBN: 9781503610798.0
Placing anthropology at the forefront: studying far‐right transformism0
Gal, Susan and Judith T.Irvine. 2019. Signs of difference: language and ideology in social life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 319 pp. Pb.: £19.99. ISBN: 9781108741293.0
Now what? Repositioning anthropology vis‐à‐vis climate change activism0
Hetherington, Kregg. 2020. The government of beans: regulating life in the age of monocrops. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 296 pp. Hb: US$104.95. ISBN: 978‐1‐4780‐0606‐0.0
Editorial0
Book Reviews0
Unearthing Unknowns0
The Sound of Difference0
Editorial0
Ballestero, Andrea. 2019. A future history of water. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 248 pp. Pb.: US$25.95. ISBN: 9781478003892.0
Crowder, Jerome W., MikeFortun, RachelBesara and LindsayPoirier (eds.) 2020. Anthropological data in the digital age: new possibilities, new challenges. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 270 pp. Hb.: €99.99. 0
Suspicion and Evidence0
Editorial0
Infrastructural stripping and ‘recycling’ of copper: producing the state in an industrial town in Serbia0
Keeping the Snout in the Plough Furrow0
Ethical Endeavours0
Yan, Haiming. 2018. World Heritage craze in China. Universal discourse, national culture, and local memory. New York: Berghahn Books. 242 pp. Hb.: US$120.00. ISBN: 9781785338045.0
Wright, Susan, StephenCarney, John BenedictoKrejsler, Gritt BykærholmNielsen and Jakob WilliamsØrberg. 2020. Enacting the university. Danish university reform in an ethnographic perspective. Dordrecht0
Changing Monsoonal Waterworlds0
Reconfiguring Hell0
Book Reviews0
Editorial0
Remaining Kin over Time0
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Field Aporias in Minho (Portugal)0
Anghel, Remus Gabriel, MargitFauser and PaoloBoccagni (eds.) 2019. Transnational return and social change. Hierarchies, identities and ideas. London: Anthem Press. 206 pp. Pb.: £80.00. ISBN: 9781785270
Book Reviews0
Collinson, Paul, IainYoung, LucyAntal and HelenMacbeth (eds.) 2019. Food and sustainability in the twenty‐first century: cross‐disciplinary perspectives. New York: Berghahn Books. 227 pp. Hb. US$115.50
Kristensen, Regnar and Claudia A.Villamil. 2020. The children of Gregoria: dogme ethnography of a Mexican family. Berghahn Books: New York. 280 pp. Hb. US$149.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐78920‐653‐1.0
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Montgomery, Mary. 2019. Hired daughters: domestic workers among ordinary Moroccans. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 276 pp. Hb.: US£80.00. ISBN: 9780253041005.0
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Shange, Savannah. 2019. Progressive dystopia: abolition, antiblackness, and schooling in San Francisco. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 232 pp. Pb.: US$25.95. ISBN: 9781478006688.0
Imagining Himalayan Glacial Futures0
Editorial0
Golomski, Casey. 2018. Funeral culture: Aids, work, and cultural change in an African kingdom. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 215 pp. Pb.: US$30.00. ISBN: 978 0 253 03645 2.0
Inhabiting Volatile Worlds0
Chatterjee, Partha. 2020. I am the people. Reflections on popular sovereignty today. New York: Columbia University Press. 185 pp. Pb: US$25.00. ISBN: 9780231195492.0
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Graham, Fabian. 2020. Voices from the underworld: Chinese Hell deity worship in contemporary Singapore and Malaysia. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 259 pp. Hb.: £80.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐5261‐40570
Building Legacies0
Johnson, Andrew Alan. 2020. Mekong dreaming: life and death along a changing river. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 208 pp. Pb.: US$25.95. Ebook ISBN: 9781478012351.0
Anthropologies of the far‐right and the anthropology of critique0
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Ghertner, Asher D., HudsonMcFann and Daniel M.Goldstein (eds.) 2020. Futureproof: security aesthetics and the management of life. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 298 pp. Pb.: US$27.95. ISBN: 9781470
PennyHarvey, ChristianKrohn‐Hansen and Knut G.Nustad (eds.) 2019. Anthropos and the material. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 272 pp. Pb.: US$26.95. ISBN: 978‐1‐4780‐0286‐4.0
Why Urgency, Now?0
Editorial0
The aesthetics and multiple origin stories of climate activism0
Lyon, Stephen M.2019. Political kinship in Pakistan: descent, marriage, and government stability. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 150 pp. Hb.: US$85.00. ISBN: 9781498582179.0
Trying a sombrero0
Dark finance: book conversation with Fabio Mattioli0
Rottmann, Susan Beth. 2019. In pursuit of belonging: forging an ethical life in European‐Turkish spaces. New York: Berghahn Books. 216 pp. Hb.: US$120.00. ISBN: 97817892026994.0
Passing It On0
LeighBinford, LesleyGill and SteveStriffler (eds.) 2020. Fifty years of peasant wars in Latin America. New York: Berghahn Books. 228 pp. Hb.: US$120.00. ISBN: 9781789205619.0
Bendix, Regina F.2018. Culture and value. Tourism, heritage, and property. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 279 pp. Pb: US$40.00. ISBN: 978‐0‐253‐03566‐0.0
Anthropology against Borders0
The Politics of Equivalence0
Zharkevich, Ina. 2019. Maoist People’s War and the revolution of everyday life in Nepal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 334 pp. Hb.: £90.00. ISBN: 97811108497466.0
Doing things with voices: Colombian ‘kidnap radio’ and the sound of God0
Reviews0
AmitVered and Noël B.Salazar (eds.) 2020. Pacing mobilities. Timing, intensity, tempo and duration of human movements. Oxford: Berghahn Books. 194 pp. Pb.: US$135.00. ISBN: 9781789207248.0
Ways of Not-Knowing in Neoliberal Chile0
Religence0
‘Utopian Confluences’0
Blocking the Exit0
Vectoral Fieldsites0
Kubica, Grażyna. 2020. Maria Czaplicka. Gender, shamanism, race. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, xxii + 593 pp. Hb.: US$85.00. ISBN: 00978‐1‐4962‐2261‐90
Editorial0
Ethnography of the right as ethical practice0
Jung, Yuson. 2019. Balkan blues: consumer politics after state socialism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 192 pp. Pb.: US$35.00. ISBN: 978‐0253029140.0
Vital Bodies0
Editorial0
Reality, Realism and the Future0
Afterword0
Kinning and De-kinning0
Issue Information0
Unhinged0
Bruun Jensen, Casper and AtsuroMorita (eds.) 2019. Multiple nature‐cultures, diverse anthropologies. New York: Berghahn Books. 158 pp. Pb.: US$27.95. ISBN: 9781789205398.0
Flow and flood: mobilities, life in roads and abiotic actors of the (m)ôtô ‐cene0
Hopkins, Julian. 2019. Monetising the dividual self. The emergence of the lifestyle blog and influencers in Malaysia. Anthropology of Media, vol. 8. New York: Berghahn Books. 221 pp. Hb.: US$135.00. I0
Craig, Sienna. 2020. The ends of kinship: connecting Himalayan lives between Nepal and New York. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. 304 pp. Pb.: US$30.00. ISBN: 9780295747699.0
Kavedžija, Iza. 2019. Making meaningful lives: tales from an aging Japan. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. 216 pp. US$45.00. ISBN: 9780812251364.0
Evans, Harriet. 2020. Beijing from below: stories of marginal lives in the capital’s center. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 266 pp. Hb.: US$99.95. ISBN: 978‐1‐478006879.0
Rofel, Lisa and Sylvia J.Yanagisako. 2019. Fabricating transnational capitalism: a collaborative ethnography of Italian‐Chinese global fashion. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 392 pp. Pb.: US$29.930
Malmström, Maria Frederika. 2019. The streets are talking to me: affective fragments in Sisi’s Egypt. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 192 pp. Pb.: US$29.95. ISBN: 9780520304338.0
Book Reviews0
Tanu, Danau. 2018. Growing up in transit: the politics of belonging at an international school. New York: Berghahn Books. 296 pp. Hb.: US$135.00. ISBN: 9781785334085.0
Shepherd, Christopher J.2019. Haunted houses and ghostly encounters: ethnography and animism in East Timor, 1860–1975. Asian Studies Association of Australia, Southeast Asia Publications Series. Singa0
Zaloom, Caitlin. 2019. Indebted. How families make college work at any cost. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 280 pp. Hb.: US$29.95/£25.00. ISBN: 9780691164311.0
Reactionary education in the USA0
Stout, Noelle. 2019. Dispossessed: how predatory bureaucracy foreclosed on the American middle class. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 280 pp. Hb.: US$29.95/£25.00. ISBN: 9780520291782.0
Phong pioneers: exploring the sociopolitics of mythology in upland Laos0
Safe and sound: listening to Guns N’ Roses in the car0
Developing statizens: biometric technologies and digital identification0
Waiting for the Inevitable0
Gammerl, Benno, PhilippNielsen and MargritPernau (eds.) 2019. Encounters with emotions: negotiating cultural differences since early modernity. New York: Berghahn Books. 316 pp. Hb.: US$135.00. ISBN: 0
History, revisionism, neo‐nationalism0
Deportability and spirituality in a hostile environment: an intersubjective perspective0
Van Vleet, Krista E. 2019. Hierarchies of care: girls, motherhood, and inequality in Peru. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. 230 pp. Pb.: US$26.00. ISBN: 9780252084614.0
Mothering and ‘helping out’: volunteering practices and state intervention through local and expert knowledge0
Firat, Bilge. 2019. Diplomacy and lobbying during Turkey’s Europeanisation: the private life of politics (Political Ethnography). Manchester: Manchester University Press. 224 pp. Hb. US$90.00. ISBN: 10
Anderson, Warwick, RicardoRoque and Ricardo VenturaSantos (eds.) 2019. Luso‐tropicalism and its discontents: the making and unmaking of racial exceptionalism. New York: Berghahn Books. 346 pp. Hb.: US0
Furani, Khaled. 2019. Redeeming anthropology: a theological critique of a modern science. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Hb.: £68.99. ISBN: 9780198796435.0
Andersson, Ruben. 2019. No go world: how fear is redrawing our maps and infecting our politics. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 360 pp. Hb.: US$29.95. ISBN: 9780520294608.0
Pandian, Anand. 2019. A possible anthropology: methods for uneasy times. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 168 pp. Pb.: US$23.95. ISBN: 9781478003755.0
Concerns, Considerations and Conceptions of Kinship0
Book Reviews0
Searching for an ‘Authentic Encounter’0
The Ends of Consent0
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Dislocating contested space: resource competition, cultural technologies and migrant space in Milan’s Chinatown0
Amit, Vered and Noel B.Salazar (eds.) 2020. Pacing mobilities: timing, intensity, tempo and duration of human movements. New York: Berghahn Books. Ebook US$29.95. eISBN: 978‐1‐78920‐725‐5.0
Situating the Investigation on Clandestine Graves in Mexico0
Berg, Dag‐Erik. 2020. Dynamics of caste and law: Dalits, oppression and constitutional democracy in India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 243 pp. Hb.: £85.00. ISBN: 9781108489874.0
Editorial0
Clashing Scales and Accelerated Change0
González Varela, Sergio. 2019. Capoeira, mobility, and tourism: preserving an Afro‐Brazilian tradition in a globalized world. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 184 pp. Hb.: US$90.00. ISBN: 9781498570329.0
Forum: ‘Utopian Confluences’0
Afterword0
Engaged Lingering0
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Amico, Marta. 2020. La fabrique d’une musique touarègue. Un son du désert dans la World Music. Paris: Karthala. 320 pp. Pb.: €29.00. ISBN: 978‐2‐8111‐2688‐9.0
Scenarios in a Time of Urgency0
Kapferer, Bruce and DimitriosTheodossopoulos (eds.) 2019. Democracy’s paradox: populism and its contemporary crisis. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books. 100 pp. Pb: US$14.95/£11.95. ISBN: 9781789201550.0
Editorial0
Book Reviews0
American far right ideologies have spread to Europe0
Humour and the Plurality of Everyday Life0
Montgomery, David W. (ed.) 2018. Everyday life in the Balkans. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 442 pp. Pb.: US$42.00. ISBN: 9780253038173.0
Szakolczai, Arpad and BjørnThomassen. 2019. From anthropology to social theory: rethinking the social sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 289 pp. Hb.: US$75.46. ISBN: 9781108438384.0
Encountering Compassion0
Driessen, Miriam. 2019. Tales of hope, tastes of bitterness: Chinese road builders in Ethiopia. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 208 pp. Hb.: US$45.00. ISBN: 9789888528942.0
Armstrong, Andrew B.2019. 24 bars to kill: hip hop, aspirations, and Japan’s social margins. New York: Berghahn Books. 173 pp. Pb.: US$135.00. ISBN: 9781789202670.0
Schmidt, Mario and SandyRoss (eds.) 2020. Money counts: revisiting economic calculation. New York: Berghahn Books. 142 pp. Pb.: US$27.95. ISBN: 9781789206852.0
Martins, Rosana and MassimoCanevacci (eds.). 2018. Lusophone hip‐hop: ‘who we are’ and ‘where we are’: identity, urban culture and belonging. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing. 316 pp. Hb.: £65.00.0
deCesari, C.2019. Heritage and the cultural struggle for Palestine. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 288 pp. Hb. US$28.00. ISBN: 9781503609389.0
‘Every Person Counts’0
Barnard, Alan. 2019. Bushmen: Kalahari hunter‐gatherers and their descendants. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 218 pp. Pb.: £22.99. ISBN: 9781108406871.0
Ball, Christopher. 2018. Exchanging words: language, ritual, and relationality in Brazil’s Xingu Indigenous Park. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. 288 pp. Hb.: US$49.95. ISBN: 978082630
Essence in excess: heritage and the problem of potentiality0
Anthropology and the postliberal challenge0
Gibb, Robert, AnnabelTremlett and Julien DaneroIglesias (eds.) 2019. Learning and using languages in ethnographic research. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. 256 pp. Pb.: £29.95. ISBN: 9781788925907.0
The ethnography of populism and the predicament of class0
Book Reviews0
Editorial0
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