OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Asia Pacific Journal of 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The Tsunami of Pesticide Use for Rice Production on Java and Its Consequences	10
The ‘Good’ Neoliberalism: E-Commerce Entrepreneurship and the Search for a Good Life in China	7
Reproduction, Sexual Culture and Colonialism among Kamoro People in West Papua	6
Distilling Culture into Commodity? The Emergent Homemade Alcohol Trade and Gendered Livelihoods in Upland Northern Vietnam	6
Smoking and the City: A Travelogue in Yuxi	5
Friendship as Liveliness, Friendship as Discipline: Un(der)employed Young People’s Peer-to-Peer Relations and the Reproduction of Everyday Village Life in Rural Indonesia	5
Personifying Progress: Negotiating Autonomy, Obligation and Intergenerational Aspirations in the Philippines	5
Mining and Masculinity in Indonesia	4
Intergenerational Aspirations Across the Life Course in Asia	4
Residual Governmentality: Pesticide Policing in Neo-socialist China	4
Burning Wet Waste: Environmental Particularity, Material Specificity, and the Universality of Infrastructure	3
Being Atheist in the Religious Harmony State of Indonesia	3
Creative Peacebuilding and Resistance in Indonesia	3
Infertility, Pooled Reproduction and Distributed Agency Among the Big Nambas of Malakula, Vanuatu	3
‘It’s All About Education’: Middle-class, High-caste Women’s Aspirations of Choice, Freedom and Modernity in Urban Nepal	3
Performing Purlapa: Projecting Warlpiri Identity in a Globalised World	3
Tenuous Connectivity: Time, Citizenship, and Infrastructure in a Papua New Guinea Telecommunications Network	3
The Value of Ethnographic Research on Music: An Introduction	3
Artivism in Maluku	2
Is Custom a Tool for Remedying or Reinforcing Social Inequalities? New Strategies for Dialogue and Peace in Maluku, Indonesia	2
A High Price to Pay: Weddings and Waithood in Cambodia	2
Reproducing Life in Conditions of Abandonment in Oceania	2
Hospital Births and Frontier Obstetrics in Urban West Papua	2
Work Security and Other Challenges for Street Vendors in Guwahati City, Assam	2
Products of Protest? The Creative Protest Potential of Zines on Bali	2

Disposable People as Infrastructure? The Livelihood Trials and Tactics of Three-Wheeler Delivery Drivers on Hanoi’s Streets, Vietnam	2
Multiple Developments: Intergenerational Aspiration and Contested Childhoods in a Delhi NGO	2
Making Sense of Serodiscordance: Pathways and Aftermaths of HIV Testing among Couples with Mixed HIV Status in Papua New Guinea	2
Eudaimonic Wellbeing in Southeastern Myanmar’s Contested Moral Landscape	2
Counterterrorism, Civil Society Organisations and Peacebuilding: The Role of Non-State Actors in Deradicalisation in Bima, Indonesia	2
Middle-aged Women and Intergenerational Aspirations in Dehradun, India: Mobility as Social Achievement During Post-active Motherhood	1
The Flickering Flame of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Support: Burned Down, but Not Out	1
Making Kin and Population: Counting Life in the Wake of Abandonment in Timor-Leste	1
Obituary: Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018)	1
On Face and Face-Work in Iran: From Etic Theories to Emic Practices	1
Engaging with a Genre in Decline: Teochew Opera in Western Sydney	1
Child-Soldiering: A Nuanced View Through the Eyes of a Gorkha Youth in Kachin State, Myanmar	1
Self-Reliance and Comfort in Old Age: Productive Ageing Among People with Disabilities in Rural China	1
TikTok and the New Public Ethnographer	1
Making Money, Missing Home: Reflections on Timorese Informal Labour Migration to Britain	1
Iconicities of Immersion After Voices of the Rainforest	1
(Re)building Interethnic Relations Through Sharecropping in Post-Conflict Maluku	1
Between Smart Images and Fast Trucks: Digital Surveillance and Obscured Labour in Hyderabad, India	1
Sampling Ceremony: Hip-hop Workshops and Intergenerational Cultural Production in the Central Australian Desert	1
Gendered Migration, Gendered Morality: South Korean Men in Intimate Relationships with Filipinas in the Philippines	1
Entanglement of Values: Examining the Phenomenon of Pesantren Producing Films in the Post- Reformasi Era	1
Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography	1
Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labour Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims	1
Trending Graphics	1
A Movie for Your Ears	1
Documenting the Dreaming: Designs and Songs of the Present, in the Past, for the Future	1
Lukautim Yu Yet Gut (Take Good Care of Yourself): Moka Gomo Women Pursuing Health in Papua New Guinea	1
A Road, a Border, and Development in New Guinea	1
The (un)Changing Karma: Pollution Beliefs, Social Stratification and Reincarnisation in Bhutan	1
Transitions and Intersections between Communalism and Possessive Individualism in Rural Fiji: Repercussions for Responding to Climate Change	1
Beyond Sedentary Bias: An Ethnographic Reflection of Deforestation in Seram, Eastern Indonesia	0
The Value of Listening, and Really Listening …	0
Voices of the Rainforest and Gifts that Keep on Giving	0
River Life and the Upswing of Nature	0
Reimagining Nativeness from a Migrant Anthropologist’s Positionality	0
Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion	0
Mediating Response-ability in Planning: The Elusiveness of the Cambodia Waste Management Report	0
Anthropology's Lost Language Syndrome	0
Professional Women, Nation-Making, and the Negotiation of Difference at Boarding Schools in Bougainville and Solomon Islands	0
Weed-Eating Pigs: Cultural Keystone Species, Interiority and Traditional Village Protection in Central China	0
Beauty for Development? Betel Aesthetics and Socioeconomic Stability in Urban Solomon Islands	0
Shopping in the Rainforest: Provisions of Uneven Living at the Sari-Sari Store	0
On a Boulder in the River	0
Post-Colonial Welcome?	0
Analysing Indigenous Knowledge Woven in Cultural Texts	0
Working with the Ancestors: Mana and Place in the Marquesas Islands	0
Managing Toxins and Making Water ‘Safe’: Consumer Buffering Practices in Contexts of Chemo-Uncertainty	0
War and the Arc of the Human Experience	0
Edgy Ethnographic Film about Death and Religion: On Behalf of the Living	0
Sanitising Social Media and the Production of Non-political Creative Content	0

Indonesian Women Bloggers: The Role of Bahasa Gaul in Negotiating Public/Private Connections	0
KOENTJARANINGRAT MEMORIAL LECTURE: Koentjaraningrat's Legacy and Contemporary Anthropology in Indonesia	0
Diaspora Space-Time: Transformations of a Chinese Emigrant Community	0
“God is Samoan”: Dialogues between Culture and Theology in the Pacific	0
A Long Way Home	0
The Snow Leopard: Whose Fault?	0
Marshall D. Sahlins 27 December 1930–5 April 2021 A MEMOIRE	0
A Mining Theme Park—Cultural Competition and the Politics of Identity Claims in an Indonesian Mining Town	0
The Ocean in the School: Pacific Islander Students Transforming Their University	0
Visual Abstracts and Reproductive Abandonment	0
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border	0
‘A Garuda in my Heart, a Tiger in my Stomach’: Brokering an Informal Economic Border Enclave in the Borneo Highlands	0
Ceasefire City: Militarism, Capitalism, and Urbanism in Dimapur	0
Visual Psychological Anthropology: Capturing Complexity of Autism	0
Social Capital and Sport Organisations	0
Infrastructure Meets Infrapolitics: Emic Negotiation of State and Market Inputs in Upland Northern Vietnam	0
A Thousand Fires	0
Development in Spirit: Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands	0
On the Acoustemology of a Day in the Life of Bosavi	0
Bhutan: The Unremembered Nation Bhutan: The Unremembered Nation K arma U ra Oxford, Oxford Universi	0
Ol Sing Blong Plantesen: South Sea Island Spirituals from the Queensland Canefields and Beyond	0
Mekong Dreaming: Life and Death along a Changing River	0
The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World	0
Cutting Cosmos: Masculinity and Spectacular Events Among the Bugkalot	0
What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make	0
Ophir	0
Performing Peace: The Evolving Roles of Security Groups in Indonesia	0
‘Shake it and Dance': Portuguese Burgher Identity and the Performance of Káfriinha	0
Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea	0
Face-Veiled Women in Contemporary Indonesia Face-Veiled Women in Contemporary Indonesia Eva F. NisaLondon and New York, Routledge, 2023	0
Marriage Migration, Intercultural Families and Global Intimacies	0
From ‘Renunciation of Parents’ to Filial Piety: An Ethnographic Study of Chinese Catholic Clergy	0
Snow Leopards, Checkpoints, and Roads: Negotiating Selective Legibility in Hemis National Park, India	0
Collage and Reintegration: The Works of Leang Seckon as Mortuary Objects	0
Paradigm Conflict: Village Health Volunteers and Public Health in Thailand	0
Eating at the Margins: Negotiating Food Safety and Food Security in Ho Chi Minh City’s Charities	0
Hidden Letters Hidden Letters Violet Du Feng & Zhao Qing (directors)Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas, Jean Tsien, & Su Kim (producers)Fish+Bear PicturesDuration: 86 minut	0
The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects	0
Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-Growth Society	0
‘I am the Bridge’: Brokering Health, Development and Peace in Myanmar’s Kayin State	0
Colonial Ghosts, the French Cemetery and Urban Renewal in Hanoi	0
Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World	0
Difference and Care in Lisa Palmer’s Collaborative Engagements with Timor Leste	0
Death of the One Who Knows	0
Generational Difference, the Category Pemuda and the Several Paradoxes of Becoming Indonesian for Nuaulu in the Moluccan Islands	0
Heritage Tourism: From Problems to Possibilities	0
From a Trickle to a Torrent: Education, Migration, and Social Change in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal	0
Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past	0
Speculative Ethnography in the Multiverse: Caroline E. Schuster’s Forecasts and Chronotopes of Disaster in the Critical Graphic Narrative	0
Laughing the Pain Away: Understanding Sambat Practice among Javanese Youth	0
Afterword. Relations, Refusal, Reticulation	0
Punk Worlding: An Alternative Framework for Anarcho-Punk Culture in Indonesia	0
Rethinking Human Rights and Peace in Post-Independence Timor-Leste Through Local Perspectives	0
Drawing the Sea Near: Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa	0
Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care and Precarious Migrations	0
Sensing the Acoustics of a New Guinea Rainforest	0
Sounds of Aotearoa New Zealand	0
Desire, Obligation and Familial Love: Mothers, Daughters, and Communication Technology in the Tongan Diaspora	0
A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-class Waste of Global Cities	0
Sojourn in Paradise: The Experiences of Foreign Students in North Korea	0
Gendering Transnational Business Spaces: Cross-Border Burmese Women Jadeite Traders in Yunnan, China	0
Mosques and Imams: Everyday Islam in Eastern Indonesia	0
David Charles Hyndman (1947–2021)	0
Introduction—Building Infrastructural Lives: Mobile and Creative Livelihoods in India and Vietnam	0
Navigating Home in Migration: Yi Migrant Workers and Their Homemaking Experiences in Shenzhen Factories	0
Being Muslim in Indonesia: Religiosity, Politics and Cultural Diversity in Bima	0
Night March: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerillas	0
Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar Ken MacleanOakland, University of	0
Imploding Fictions: Following the Object Through the Ethnographic Novel	0
Projectland – Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village	0
Obituary: James F. Weiner / Jaimie Pearl Bloom (1950–2020)	0
Statement of Removal	0
Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition	0
Labour of Devotion: Material Construction and Charisma of Saintly Monks in the Myanmar–Thai Border Region	0
Steve Feld and the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies	0
Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted	0
Valuing Hard Work: ‘Station Times’, the Pioneer Complex and Settler-Descended Graziers’ Views on Work in Cape York Peninsula	0