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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Conspicuous performances: ritual competition between Christian and non‐Christian Hmong in contemporary Vietnam23
Ways of Not-Knowing in Neoliberal Chile15
‘Every Person Counts’12
Changing Monsoonal Waterworlds11
Anthropologies of the far‐right and the anthropology of critique10
‘When I see what democracy is…’: bleak liberalism in a French court10
Confronting Uncertainties in Pastoral Areas9
Forum: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine8
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: 978082638
Waiting for the disappeared: waiting as a form of resilience and the limits of legal space in Turkey7
History, revisionism, neo‐nationalism7
Book Reviews7
Humour and the Plurality of Everyday Life7
Issue Information7
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: 978‐1‐78920‐653‐1.7
‘Eating with the People’6
Technomoral Governance6
Creeping racism: a cultural conception of politics6
‘What is not Counted, doesn't Count’5
Book Reviews4
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: 9781474
Upland pioneers: an introduction4
Soothsayers and horoscopes: new modes of inquiring into the future in northern Laos3
Vernacular Humanitarianisms3
Unearthing Unknowns3
Vital Matter3
Introduction: On the politics of waiting3
Field Aporias in Minho (Portugal)3
Ambivalent Precarity among Israel's Young Generation of Filmmakers3
The Okjökull Memorial and Geohuman Relations3
Vectoral Fieldsites2
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
deCesari, C.2019. Heritage and the cultural struggle for Palestine. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 288 pp. Hb. US$28.00. ISBN: 9781503609389.2
Getting things back to normal: populism, fundamentalism and liberal desire2
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: 9780520294608.2
‘De-kinning’2
Issue Information2
Mussels and Megaprojects2
On the educational mode of existence: Latour, meta‐ethnography and the social institution of education2
Blocking the Exit2
Ethnography of the right as ethical practice2
Dark finance: book conversation with Fabio Mattioli2
The Hard Way2
Reductio ad cambitas: The grammar of liberalisation in Northeast Brazil2
Depriving the far‐right unity2
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: 9780295747699.2
The potential of intangible loss: reassembling heritage and reconstructing the social in post‐disaster Japan2
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: 11
Traditional culture as a vehicle for Christian future‐making: ethnic minority elites pioneering self‐representations in northern Myanmar1
The Politics of Equivalence1
Vertigo and Urgency1
The Anti-Politics of Inclusion1
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
Democracy after ‘the end of history’: Vietnamese diasporic liberalism in Poland1
Why Urgency, Now?1
Silent Stock1
Editorial1
Martyrdom and Destiny in Time of Revolution1
Algorithmic Intimacy1
Editorial1
Religence1
Global far right and imaginative interconnectivities1
The hierarchical right1
How to kill a democracy1
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: 978‐2‐8111‐2688‐9.1
Grammars of liberalism1
Editorial1
Spatialising the far right1
Cracks in the System and Anthropology1
Syrian refugees and the politics of waiting in a Turkish border town1
Editorial1
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: 9780520304338.1
Minority sexualities, kinship and non‐autological freedom in Montenegro1
Book Reviews1
Passing It On1
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
Introduction: Auto‐Anthropocenes1
Editorial1
Managing Mass Graves in Rwanda and Burundi1
When Food Waste Goes to Work1
Corporeal moderation: digital labour as affective good1
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
Scenarios in a Time of Urgency0
The absent presence of the deportation apparatus: methodological challenges in the production of knowledge on immigration detention0
Book Reviews0
Anthropology and the postliberal challenge0
Anthropology against Borders0
Beyond ethnographic populisms and performative nationalisms: notes on the anthropology of the far right0
Minor Genealogies of Palestine0
To Fail at Scale!0
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
Reconfiguring Hell0
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
Martínez, Francisco and PatrickLaviolette (eds.) 2019. Repair, brokenness, breakthrough: ethnographic responses. New York: Berghahn Books. 327 pp. Hb.: US$135.00. ISBN: 9781‐1‐78920‐331‐8.0
Imperial Infinity, Project Futurity and Clockwork Discipline0
Vignerons and the Vines0
Liberalism in fragments: oligarchy and the liberal subject in Ukrainian news journalism0
Editorial0
Humanising fascists? Nuance as an anthropological responsibility0
Editorial0
Leapfrogging the Grid0
Inhabiting Volatile Worlds0
Reactionary education in the USA0
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
Book Reviews0
Policy as Experimentation0
Shacktopia0
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
‘Are you paying for somebody else’s?’ The value of secrecy in the uses of DNA paternity tests in the USA0
The Debate’s Conjuncture0
HadžiMuhamedović, Safet. 2018. Waiting for Elijah: time and encounter in a Bosnian landscape. Oxford: Berghahn Books. 304 pp. Hb.: £99.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐78533‐856‐4.0
Revisiting the Untranslatable0
Controlled experiments: ethnographic notes on the intergenerational dynamics of aspirational migration and agrarian change in upland Laos0
Chasing Rotten Ice0
We Just Want to Know How it was Calculated0
Bad parrhesia: the limits of cynicism in the public sphere0
Ethical Endeavours0
Projects and Project Temporalities0
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
American far right ideologies have spread to Europe0
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Editorial0
Editorial0
Beyond (Un)Stable0
Of Fascists and Dreamers0
Automating Morality0
Beyond Failure0
‘Excesses’ of modernity: mundane mobilities, politics and the remaking of the urban0
Deportability and spirituality in a hostile environment: an intersubjective perspective0
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
Situating the Investigation on Clandestine Graves in Mexico0
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
Phong pioneers: exploring the sociopolitics of mythology in upland Laos0
The Hau of the Article and Dividual Authors0
Curious Utopias0
Book Reviews0
Projects as an Iterative Pursuit0
Power and transcendence: a comment on upland pioneers0
Encountering Compassion0
From Scottish Independence, to Brexit, and Back Again0
Regnier, Denis. 2021. Slavery and essentialism in highland Madagascar: ethnography, history, cognition. New York: Routledge. 208 pp. Hb: US$115.00. ISBN: 9781350102477.0
Reckoning with ‘humanising fascists’ and other requisites of an anthropology of the far right0
Valued Volatility0
Laziness and Stinginess0
Waiting for justice amidst the remnants: urban development, displacement and resistance in Diyarbakir0
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
Introduction0
Editorial0
‘Before others’: construction pioneers in the uplands of northwestern Laos0
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
Coronavirus Verity0
Book Reviews0
Reviews0
Kinning and De-kinning0
Militancy and Martyrs’ Ghostly Whispers0
Keeping the Snout in the Plough Furrow0
Wright, Susan, StephenCarney, John BenedictoKrejsler, Gritt BykærholmNielsen and Jakob WilliamsØrberg. 2020. Enacting the university. Danish university reform in an ethnographic perspective. Dordrecht0
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
Issue Information0
Concerns, Considerations and Conceptions of Kinship0
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
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
The Properties of Self-Managed Collective Housing0
Editorial0
Essence in excess: heritage and the problem of potentiality0
Editorial0
Infrastructural stripping and ‘recycling’ of copper: producing the state in an industrial town in Serbia0
Forum on the new far right: introduction0
Anthropology Comes In When Translation Fails0
The Golden Passport ‘Russian’ Eutopia0
The Sound of Difference0
Becoming Time-Bound0
Engaged Lingering0
Anthropologies in/of the Black Mediterranean0
Suspicion and Evidence0
Interstitial urban spaces: housing strategies and the use of the city by homeless asylum seekers and refugees in Trento, Italy0
Book Reviews0
Terms of engagement0
The ethnography of populism and the predicament of class0
Ambiguous entanglements: infrastructure, memory and identity in indigenous Evenki communities along the Baikal–Amur Mainline0
Editorial0
Curfew ‘until further notice’: waiting and spatialisation of sovereignty in a Kurdish bordertown in Turkey0
Forum: ‘Utopian Confluences’0
Book Reviews0
Liberalism in the breach0
‘Leave No One Behind’0
Imagining Himalayan Glacial Futures0
Revisiting social media as far‐right modality0
Hmong Christian elites as political and development brokers: competition, cooperation and mimesis in Vietnam’s highlands0
Landmine Clearance, or the Promise of a Project without End0
‘Not as single spies’: a review of European Social Anthropology 20200
Searching for an ‘Authentic Encounter’0
Waiting for the Inevitable0
Religious Nationalism, Strategic Detachment and the Politics of Vernacular Humanitarianism in Post-War Sri Lanka0
Algorithmic Governance, Public Participation and Trust0
Placing anthropology at the forefront: studying far‐right transformism0
(Un)Doing the Colombian Armed Conflict0
Afterword0
Urgency and Imminence0
Of Ice and Meteorites0
Safe and sound: listening to Guns N’ Roses in the car0
Rhythming Volatilities0
Ode to the Literature Review0
Smallness and Small-device Heuristics0
The neo‐nationalist ascendency: further thoughts on class, value and the return of the repressed0
The Desire to Help0
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
Technomoral Politics in Conservative Britain0
Editorial0
Conspiracies are about identities not ideas0
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
Reality, Realism and the Future0
Bodies of and against austerity: gendered dispossession, agency and struggles for worth in Portugal0
The Ends of Consent0
‘Utopian Confluences’0
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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
Book Reviews0
Vital Bodies0
Stratifying academia: ranking, oligarchy and the market‐myth in academic audit regimes0
Building Legacies0
Developing statizens: biometric technologies and digital identification0
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Afterword0
Clashing Scales and Accelerated Change0
Remaining Kin over Time0
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