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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Snow Leopards, Checkpoints, and Roads: Negotiating Selective Legibility in Hemis National Park, India	8
Nancy Munn in Central Australia: Gendering the Field and How What Matters and Who Matters Changed	6
The ‘Good’ Neoliberalism: E-Commerce Entrepreneurship and the Search for a Good Life in China	6
Circulations: Place, Movement, Belonging	6
Heritage Tourism: From Problems to Possibilities	6
Reproducing Life in Conditions of Abandonment in Oceania	5
‘Slowly, Steadily, Carefully’: Imagining a Better Tomorrow through Shinji Yamashita’s Public Anthropology	5
Disposable People as Infrastructure? The Livelihood Trials and Tactics of Three-Wheeler Delivery Drivers on Hanoi’s Streets, Vietnam	5
Professional Women, Nation-Making, and the Negotiation of Difference at Boarding Schools in Bougainville and Solomon Islands	5
Labour of Devotion: Material Construction and Charisma of Saintly Monks in the Myanmar–Thai Border Region	5
Encountering Universals in Cambodia and Indonesia—Translations Across Historical Multiplicity	4
On Face and Face-Work in Iran: From Etic Theories to Emic Practices	3
‘I am the Bridge’: Brokering Health, Development and Peace in Myanmar’s Kayin State	3
Lukautim Yu Yet Gut (Take Good Care of Yourself): Moka Gomo Women Pursuing Health in Papua New Guinea	3
Rethinking Human Rights and Peace in Post-Independence Timor-Leste Through Local Perspectives	3
A High Price to Pay: Weddings and Waithood in Cambodia	3
Tenuous Connectivity: Time, Citizenship, and Infrastructure in a Papua New Guinea Telecommunications Network	2
The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World	2
Work Security and Other Challenges for Street Vendors in Guwahati City, Assam	2
Infertility, Pooled Reproduction and Distributed Agency Among the Big Nambas of Malakula, Vanuatu	2
The Mockery of Animals Among the Rotenese of Eastern Indonesia	2
Making Kin and Population: Counting Life in the Wake of Abandonment in Timor-Leste	2
From Nuclear Colonialism to COVID-19 Scepticism: Navigating Political Suffering in French Polynesia	2
Mediating Response-ability in Planning: The Elusiveness of the Cambodia Waste Management Report	2
Personifying Progress: Negotiating Autonomy, Obligation and Intergenerational Aspirations in the Philippines	2

Hiding in Sight: The Eco-social Rhythms of Women’s Worlds in Small Town Nepal	1
Oil Palm’s Grey Horizons	1
River Life and the Upswing of Nature	1
(In)tangible Journeying and Its Transformation among the Rang from Byans, Far Western Nepal	1
Managing Toxins and Making Water ‘Safe’: Consumer Buffering Practices in Contexts of Chemo-Uncertainty	1
Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labour Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims	1
Post-Colonial Welcome?	1
Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition	1
The Gendered Slow Violence of Global Environmental Governance in Suau, Papua New Guinea	1
Unveiling Swearing: Some Football Supporter Rituals in Indonesia	1
Creative Peacebuilding and Resistance in Indonesia	1
Transitions and Intersections between Communalism and Possessive Individualism in Rural Fiji: Repercussions for Responding to Climate Change	1
A Road, a Border, and Development in New Guinea	1
Laughing the Pain Away: UnderstandingSambatPractice among Javanese Youth	1
Child-Soldiering: A Nuanced View Through the Eyes of a Gorkha Youth in Kachin State, Myanmar	1
TikTok and the New Public Ethnographer	1
Artivism in Maluku	1
Infrastructure Meets Infrapolitics: Emic Negotiation of State and Market Inputs in Upland Northern Vietnam	0
Generational Difference, the Category Pemuda and the Several Paradoxes of Becoming Indonesian for Nuaulu in the Moluccan Islands	0
Anthropology's Lost Language Syndrome	0
Being Muslim in Indonesia: Religiosity, Politics and Cultural Diversity in Bima	0
Drawing the Sea Near: Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa	0
Mining and Masculinity in Indonesia	0
Performing Peace: The Evolving Roles of Security Groups in Indonesia	0
Is Custom a Tool for Remedying or Reinforcing Social Inequalities? New Strategies for Dialogue and Peace in Maluku, Indonesia	0
The Story of Abu-abu and the Theory of Dispossession from Below	0
Beyond Sedentary Bias: An Ethnographic Reflection of Deforestation in Seram, Eastern Indonesia	0
Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted	0
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border	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
Diaspora Space-Time: Transformations of a Chinese Emigrant Community	0
Visual Psychological Anthropology: Capturing Complexity of Autism	0
Passing on the Wedding Cloth: Consolidating Alliance Relations through Funeral Ceremonies among the Simalungun of North Sumatra	0
A Cosmology of Interconnection	0
Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care and Precarious Migrations	0
War and the Arc of the Human Experience	0
Intergenerational Aspirations Across the Life Course in Asia	0
KOENTJARANINGRAT MEMORIAL LECTURE: Koentjaraningrat's Legacy and Contemporary Anthropology in Indonesia	0
Punk Worlding: An Alternative Framework for Anarcho-Punk Culture in Indonesia	0
Bhutan: The Unremembered Nation Bhutan: The Unremembered Nation K arma U ra Oxford, Oxford Universi	0
Desire, Obligation and Familial Love: Mothers, Daughters, and Communication Technology in the Tongan Diaspora	0
Middle-aged Women and Intergenerational Aspirations in Dehradun, India: Mobility as Social Achievement During Post-active Motherhood	0
Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia: Democracy and the Quest for an Inclusive Public Ethics	0
Attuning to Anthropologies Otherwise: The Curatorium Collective's Epistemic Experiments in Ethnography	0
Marriage Migration, Intercultural Families and Global Intimacies	0
The Snow Leopard: Whose Fault?	0
Transitory Subject: The Working Life of Indonesian Startup Founders and Professionals	0
Difference and Care in Lisa Palmer’s Collaborative Engagements with Timor Leste	0
Love Across Class	0

Sounds of Aotearoa New Zealand	0
Weed-Eating Pigs: Cultural Keystone Species, Interiority and Traditional Village Protection in Central China	0
Development in Spirit: Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands	0
‘Impoldering Indonesia’: Of Universal Water Technology and Unfinishedness in Semarang	0
Speculative Ethnography in the Multiverse: Caroline E. Schuster’s Forecasts and Chronotopes of Disaster in the Critical Graphic Narrative	0
Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar	0
A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-class Waste of Global Cities	0
Translating Genocide, the Politics of Memory, and (In)Commensurabilities in Post-conflict Cambodia	0
Ol Sing Blong Plantesen: South Sea Island Spirituals from the Queensland Canefields and Beyond	0
Beauty for Development? Betel Aesthetics and Socioeconomic Stability in Urban Solomon Islands	0
Clifford Sather (27 August 1938 – 25 September 2024) A Memoire	0
Face-Veiled Women in Contemporary Indonesia Face-Veiled Women in Contemporary Indonesia Eva F. NisaLondon and New York, Routledge, 2023	0
Recognising Shinji Yamashita, Dynamic Ethnographer Par Excellence: A Prologue	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
Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World	0
What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make	0
Sanitising Social Media and the Production of Non-political Creative Content	0
Colonial Ghosts, the French Cemetery and Urban Renewal in Hanoi	0
Shopping in the Rainforest: Provisions of Uneven Living at the Sari-Sari Store	0
Projectland – Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village	0
On the Way to Heaven: Memorial Benches, State Integration, and the Coming of Religion Among the Kulung Rai (Nepal)	0
‘The Doll Wants to Breathe’: Russian-Speaking Migrant Women’s Practice of Wearing Japanese Kimonos	0
Death of the One Who Knows	0
Eudaimonic Wellbeing in Southeastern Myanmar’s Contested Moral Landscape	0
Paths Not Taken: On Negative Wayfaring in Ladakh	0
Embodied Connections: Gender, Race, and Reproduction in Oceania	0
Reluctant Compliance and Collaborative Fiscal Disobedience: How Hmong Consumers Evade Value-Added Tax in Vietnam’s Northern Uplands	0
David Charles Hyndman (1947–2021)	0
Reproduction, Sexual Culture and Colonialism among Kamoro People in West Papua	0
(Re)building Interethnic Relations Through Sharecropping in Post-Conflict Maluku	0
A Mining Theme Park—Cultural Competition and the Politics of Identity Claims in an Indonesian Mining Town	0
Ophir	0
Wearing your Moral Character on the Sleeve of your School Uniform: Ethical Becoming and Nation-building in Indonesia	0
Hospital Births and Frontier Obstetrics in Urban West Papua	0
Epilogue: Journeying With One of Japan’s Leading Anthropologists	0
Between Smart Images and Fast Trucks: Digital Surveillance and Obscured Labour in Hyderabad, India	0
Multiple Developments: Intergenerational Aspiration and Contested Childhoods in a Delhi NGO	0
Reimagining Nativeness from a Migrant Anthropologist’s Positionality	0
Raciolinguistic Disposability: The Experience of Filipino Teachers in China Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Edgy Ethnographic Film about Death and Religion: On Behalf of the Living	0
The Flickering Flame of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Support: Burned Down, but Not Out	0
Afterword. Relations, Refusal, Reticulation	0
Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography	0
A Long Way Home	0
Cutting Cosmos: Masculinity and Spectacular Events Among the Bugkalot	0
Seizing the Opportunity in Pu’er Tea Business: Ethnicised Tea Femininity and Tai Lue Female Entrepreneurs in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China	0
Trending Graphics	0
Making Money, Missing Home: Reflections on Timorese Informal Labour Migration to Britain	0
Counterterrorism, Civil Society Organisations and Peacebuilding: The Role of Non-State Actors in Deradicalisation in Bima, Indonesia	0
Entanglement of Values: Examining the Phenomenon of Pesantren Producing Films in the Post- Reformasi Era	0
Burning Wet Waste: Environmental Particularity, Material Specificity, and the Universality of Infrastructure	0
Valuing Hard Work: ‘Station Times’, the Pioneer Complex and Settler-Descended Graziers’ Views on Work in Cape York Peninsula	0
Paradigm Conflict: Village Health Volunteers and Public Health in Thailand	0
Ceasefire City: Militarism, Capitalism, and Urbanism in Dimapur	0
Imploding Fictions: Following the Object Through the Ethnographic Novel	0
‘It’s All About Education’: Middle-class, High-caste Women’s Aspirations of Choice, Freedom and Modernity in Urban Nepal	0
Products of Protest? The Creative Protest Potential of Zines on Bali	0
Introduction—Building Infrastructural Lives: Mobile and Creative Livelihoods in India and Vietnam	0
Translating Sustainability at an Indonesian Fishing Port	0
EPILOGUE: Translating Universals and the Making of the Local	0
Visual Abstracts and Reproductive Abandonment	0
Paths of Care: Following the Ismaili Right Path through Caring for Roads and Walkers in the Karakoram Mountains, Pakistan	0
Learning to Dream at the End of Time	0
Roots and Routes: Funeral Practices and Land-based Identities in the Yunnan-Tibetan Borderlands	0
Marshall D. Sahlins 27 December 1930–5 April 2021 A MEMOIRE	0
Collage and Reintegration: The Works of Leang Seckon as Mortuary Objects	0
A Thousand Fires	0
Permeating Plantations. Rethinking Violence and Ecologies in West Papua	0
From ‘Renunciation of Parents’ to Filial Piety: An Ethnographic Study of Chinese Catholic Clergy	0
Dreams and Dispossession in West Papua: A Response	0
Eating at the Margins: Negotiating Food Safety and Food Security in Ho Chi Minh City’s Charities	0
Witnessing Threatened Indigenous Papuan Lifeworlds through a Multispecies Ethnographic Lens	0
Social Capital and Sport Organisations	0
The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects	0
Navigating Home in Migration: Yi Migrant Workers and Their Homemaking Experiences in Shenzhen Factories	0