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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Conspicuous performances: ritual competition between Christian and non‐Christian Hmong in contemporary Vietnam26
Changing Monsoonal Waterworlds13
Ways of Not-Knowing in Neoliberal Chile12
‘Every Person Counts’12
Forum: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine11
Issue Information10
Humour and the Plurality of Everyday Life10
Book Reviews10
Confronting Uncertainties in Pastoral Areas10
Technomoral Governance8
‘Eating with the People’7
‘What is not Counted, doesn't Count’7
Waiting for the disappeared: waiting as a form of resilience and the limits of legal space in Turkey7
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: 978082637
Book Reviews6
Introduction: On the politics of waiting5
Upland pioneers: an introduction5
Unearthing Unknowns5
The Okjökull Memorial and Geohuman Relations4
Vernacular Humanitarianisms4
Field Aporias in Minho (Portugal)3
‘De-kinning’3
Vital Matter3
The potential of intangible loss: reassembling heritage and reconstructing the social in post‐disaster Japan3
Soothsayers and horoscopes: new modes of inquiring into the future in northern Laos3
Ambivalent Precarity among Israel's Young Generation of Filmmakers3
Mussels and Megaprojects3
When Food Waste Goes to Work2
Vertigo and Urgency2
On the educational mode of existence: Latour, meta‐ethnography and the social institution of education2
The Politics of Equivalence2
Algorithmic Intimacy2
Editorial2
Traditional culture as a vehicle for Christian future‐making: ethnic minority elites pioneering self‐representations in northern Myanmar2
The Hard Way2
Blocking the Exit2
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: 9780520304338.2
Syrian refugees and the politics of waiting in a Turkish border town2
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: 12
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: 978‐1‐4780‐0286‐4.2
Religence2
Vectoral Fieldsites2
Editorial2
Silent Stock1
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: 9781477320297.1
The Debate’s Conjuncture1
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: 9781789205619.1
Suspicion and Evidence1
Encountering Compassion1
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$115.51
Corporeal moderation: digital labour as affective good1
The Anti-Politics of Inclusion1
Editorial1
Passing It On1
Clashing Scales and Accelerated Change1
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: 9781789207248.1
Minor Genealogies of Palestine1
Martyrdom and Destiny in Time of Revolution1
Book Reviews1
Managing Mass Graves in Rwanda and Burundi1
Cracks in the System and Anthropology1
Introduction: Auto‐Anthropocenes1
Concerns, Considerations and Conceptions of Kinship1
Of Fascists and Dreamers1
Hmong Christian elites as political and development brokers: competition, cooperation and mimesis in Vietnam’s highlands1
Book Reviews1
Editorial1
Why Urgency, Now?1
‘Before others’: construction pioneers in the uplands of northwestern Laos0
Editorial0
Remaining Kin over Time0
‘Utopian Confluences’0
Scenarios in a Time of Urgency0
The Ends of Consent0
Editorial0
Landmine Clearance, or the Promise of a Project without End0
‘Leave No One Behind’0
Building Legacies0
Henley, Paul. 2020. L’aventure du Réel. Jean Rouch et la Pratique du Cinéma Ethnographique. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes. 518 pp. Broché: €30.00, ISBN: 97827535791250
Laziness and Stinginess0
Anthropology Comes In When Translation Fails0
Projects as an Iterative Pursuit0
Essence in excess: heritage and the problem of potentiality0
Ode to the Literature Review0
Controlled experiments: ethnographic notes on the intergenerational dynamics of aspirational migration and agrarian change in upland Laos0
Curious Utopias0
(Un)Doing the Colombian Armed Conflict0
Coronavirus Verity0
Ethical Endeavours0
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
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
Deportability and spirituality in a hostile environment: an intersubjective perspective0
Rhythming Volatilities0
Religious Nationalism, Strategic Detachment and the Politics of Vernacular Humanitarianism in Post-War Sri Lanka0
Vital Bodies0
Zani, Leah. 2019. Bomb children. Life in the former battlefields of Laos. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 184 pp. Pb.: US$24.95. ISBN: 978‐1‐4780‐0485‐1.0
Editorial0
Editorial0
Henley, Paul. 2020. Beyond observation: a history of authorship in ethnographic film. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 568 pp. Hb. £85.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐5261‐3134‐8.0
Smallness and Small-device Heuristics0
Book Reviews0
Searching for an ‘Authentic Encounter’0
William C.Olsen and ThomasCsordas (eds.) 2019. Engaging evil: a moral anthropology. New York: Berghahn Books. 322 pp. Hb. US$135.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐78920‐213‐7.0
Afterword0
The Desire to Help0
Urgency and Imminence0
Imagining Himalayan Glacial Futures0
Safe and sound: listening to Guns N’ Roses in the car0
Editorial0
Forum: ‘Utopian Confluences’0
Leapfrogging the Grid0
Situating the Investigation on Clandestine Graves in Mexico0
Projects and Project Temporalities0
The Golden Passport ‘Russian’ Eutopia0
We Just Want to Know How it was Calculated0
Automating Morality0
Beyond (Un)Stable0
The Properties of Self-Managed Collective Housing0
Stratifying academia: ranking, oligarchy and the market‐myth in academic audit regimes0
Roque, Ricardo and Elizabeth G.Traube (eds.) 2019. Crossing histories and ethnographies: following colonial historicities in Timor‐Leste. New York: Berghahn, Books. 362 pp. Hb.: US$135.00. ISBN: 978170
Wright, Susan, StephenCarney, John BenedictoKrejsler, Gritt BykærholmNielsen and Jakob WilliamsØrberg. 2020. Enacting the university. Danish university reform in an ethnographic perspective. Dordrecht0
Shacktopia0
Imperial Infinity, Project Futurity and Clockwork Discipline0
Introduction0
Technomoral Politics in Conservative Britain0
Reconfiguring Hell0
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
Waiting for the Inevitable0
Editorial0
Editorial0
‘Not as single spies’: a review of European Social Anthropology 20200
Afterword0
Power and transcendence: a comment on upland pioneers0
Unhinged0
Book Reviews0
Regnier, Denis. 2021. Slavery and essentialism in highland Madagascar: ethnography, history, cognition. New York: Routledge. 208 pp. Hb: US$115.00. ISBN: 9781350102477.0
Reality, Realism and the Future0
Beyond Failure0
Vignerons and the Vines0
Algorithmic Governance, Public Participation and Trust0
Anthropology against Borders0
The Hau of the Article and Dividual Authors0
The absent presence of the deportation apparatus: methodological challenges in the production of knowledge on immigration detention0
Phong pioneers: exploring the sociopolitics of mythology in upland Laos0
Reviews0
Book Reviews0
The Sound of Difference0
Moore, Amelia. 2019. Destination Anthropocene: science and tourism in The Bahamas. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 216 pp. Pb.: US$29.95. ISBN: 9780520298934.0
From Scottish Independence, to Brexit, and Back Again0
Inhabiting Volatile Worlds0
To Fail at Scale!0
Interstitial urban spaces: housing strategies and the use of the city by homeless asylum seekers and refugees in Trento, Italy0
Issue Information0
Book Reviews0
Bodies of and against austerity: gendered dispossession, agency and struggles for worth in Portugal0
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
Kinning and De-kinning0
Ambiguous entanglements: infrastructure, memory and identity in indigenous Evenki communities along the Baikal–Amur Mainline0
Revisiting the Untranslatable0
Book Reviews0
Infrastructural stripping and ‘recycling’ of copper: producing the state in an industrial town in Serbia0
Waiting for justice amidst the remnants: urban development, displacement and resistance in Diyarbakir0
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Anthropologies in/of the Black Mediterranean0
Engaged Lingering0
Editorial0
0
Of Ice and Meteorites0
Militancy and Martyrs’ Ghostly Whispers0
Editorial0
Keeping the Snout in the Plough Furrow0
Valued Volatility0
Policy as Experimentation0
Curfew ‘until further notice’: waiting and spatialisation of sovereignty in a Kurdish bordertown in Turkey0
Chasing Rotten Ice0
Becoming Time-Bound0
Book Reviews0
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