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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Conspicuous performances: ritual competition between Christian and non‐Christian Hmong in contemporary Vietnam27
Changing Monsoonal Waterworlds13
‘Every Person Counts’12
Ways of Not-Knowing in Neoliberal Chile11
Confronting Uncertainties in Pastoral Areas10
Issue Information10
Forum: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine10
Humour and the Plurality of Everyday Life10
Book Reviews9
Technomoral Governance7
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
‘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
‘Eating with the People’6
Book Reviews5
Unearthing Unknowns5
‘When I Grow Up, I Want to Peel Potatoes’5
Introduction: On the politics of waiting4
Upland pioneers: an introduction4
Vernacular Humanitarianisms3
Field Aporias in Minho (Portugal)3
‘De-kinning’3
Spirits of the Savannah3
Mussels and Megaprojects3
Vital Matter3
Soothsayers and horoscopes: new modes of inquiring into the future in northern Laos3
The Okjökull Memorial and Geohuman Relations3
Ambivalent Precarity among Israel's Young Generation of Filmmakers3
The Politics of Equivalence2
Editorial2
The potential of intangible loss: reassembling heritage and reconstructing the social in post‐disaster Japan2
On the educational mode of existence: Latour, meta‐ethnography and the social institution of education2
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
Traditional culture as a vehicle for Christian future‐making: ethnic minority elites pioneering self‐representations in northern Myanmar2
Vertigo and Urgency2
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
Religence2
Syrian refugees and the politics of waiting in a Turkish border town2
Blocking the Exit2
The Hard Way2
Afterword2
Editorial1
Corporeal moderation: digital labour as affective good1
Managing Mass Graves in Rwanda and Burundi1
Editorial1
Book Reviews1
The Debate’s Conjuncture1
Hmong Christian elites as political and development brokers: competition, cooperation and mimesis in Vietnam’s highlands1
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
The Anti-Politics of Inclusion1
Cracks in the System and Anthropology1
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
Algorithmic Intimacy1
Editorial1
Martyrdom and Destiny in Time of Revolution1
Encountering Compassion1
Introduction: Auto‐Anthropocenes1
Concerns, Considerations and Conceptions of Kinship1
Silent Stock1
‘The Piñones are Waiting for You’1
When Food Waste Goes to Work1
Why Urgency, Now?1
Minor Genealogies of Palestine1
In memory of Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962–2024)1
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
Curfew ‘until further notice’: waiting and spatialisation of sovereignty in a Kurdish bordertown in Turkey0
Reality, Realism and the Future0
Searching for an ‘Authentic Encounter’0
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
Becoming Time-Bound0
Reconfiguring Hell0
The Desire to Help0
Urgency and Imminence0
Deportability and spirituality in a hostile environment: an intersubjective perspective0
‘Utopian Confluences’0
Imagining Himalayan Glacial Futures0
Afterword0
Editorial0
Building Legacies0
Inhabiting Volatile Worlds0
0
Forum: ‘Utopian Confluences’0
Keeping the Snout in the Plough Furrow0
Reviews0
Suspicion and Evidence0
Projects and Project Temporalities0
The Properties of Self-Managed Collective Housing0
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
Issue Information0
Ode to the Literature Review0
Stratifying academia: ranking, oligarchy and the market‐myth in academic audit regimes0
Revisiting the Untranslatable0
Controlled experiments: ethnographic notes on the intergenerational dynamics of aspirational migration and agrarian change in upland Laos0
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
Introduction0
Beyond (Un)Stable0
Rhythming Volatilities0
Religious Nationalism, Strategic Detachment and the Politics of Vernacular Humanitarianism in Post-War Sri Lanka0
Waiting for the Inevitable0
Editorial0
Editorial0
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
Editorial0
Unhinged0
Smallness and Small-device Heuristics0
Book Reviews0
Infrastructural stripping and ‘recycling’ of copper: producing the state in an industrial town in Serbia0
Vignerons and the Vines0
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
The Hau of the Article and Dividual Authors0
‘Before others’: construction pioneers in the uplands of northwestern Laos0
Afterword0
Engaged Lingering0
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
Editorial0
The Golden Passport ‘Russian’ Eutopia0
Growing Up in the Face of Change0
Policy as Experimentation0
We Just Want to Know How it was Calculated0
Editorial0
Essence in excess: heritage and the problem of potentiality0
Phong pioneers: exploring the sociopolitics of mythology in upland Laos0
The Sound of Difference0
Anthropologies in/of the Black Mediterranean0
Of Fascists and Dreamers0
To Fail at Scale!0
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
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
Bodies of and against austerity: gendered dispossession, agency and struggles for worth in Portugal0
Wright, Susan, StephenCarney, John BenedictoKrejsler, Gritt BykærholmNielsen and Jakob WilliamsØrberg. 2020. Enacting the university. Danish university reform in an ethnographic perspective. Dordrecht0
Imperial Infinity, Project Futurity and Clockwork Discipline0
Xikrin Children and the Bacajá River0
Book Reviews0
Editorial0
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
Technomoral Politics in Conservative Britain0
Editorial0
‘Not as single spies’: a review of European Social Anthropology 20200
Vital Bodies0
Of Ice and Meteorites0
Projects as an Iterative Pursuit0
Regnier, Denis. 2021. Slavery and essentialism in highland Madagascar: ethnography, history, cognition. New York: Routledge. 208 pp. Hb: US$115.00. ISBN: 9781350102477.0
Book Reviews0
Valued Volatility0
Chasing Rotten Ice0
Beyond Failure0
Ethical Endeavours0
Book Reviews0
Algorithmic Governance, Public Participation and Trust0
Automating Morality0
The absent presence of the deportation apparatus: methodological challenges in the production of knowledge on immigration detention0
Anthropology against Borders0
Anthropology Comes In When Translation Fails0
Book Reviews0
Waiting for justice amidst the remnants: urban development, displacement and resistance in Diyarbakir0
Remaining Kin over Time0
Situating the Investigation on Clandestine Graves in Mexico0
Learning through Freedom0
‘Leave No One Behind’0
From Scottish Independence, to Brexit, and Back Again0
Book Reviews0
Landmine Clearance, or the Promise of a Project without End0
The Ends of Consent0
Clashing Scales and Accelerated Change0
Laziness and Stinginess0
Shacktopia0
Curious Utopias0
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
Kinning and De-kinning0
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
(Un)Doing the Colombian Armed Conflict0
Coronavirus Verity0
Book Reviews0
Scenarios in a Time of Urgency0
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Safe and sound: listening to Guns N’ Roses in the car0
Militancy and Martyrs’ Ghostly Whispers0
Editorial0
Power and transcendence: a comment on upland pioneers0
Leapfrogging the Grid0
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
Book Reviews0
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