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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Snow Leopards, Checkpoints, and Roads: Negotiating Selective Legibility in Hemis National Park, India	11
Nancy Munn in Central Australia: Gendering the Field and How What Matters and Who Matters Changed	8
Circulations: Place, Movement, Belonging	7
Labour of Devotion: Material Construction and Charisma of Saintly Monks in the Myanmar–Thai Border Region	6
Heritage Tourism: From Problems to Possibilities	6
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
The ‘Good’ Neoliberalism: E-Commerce Entrepreneurship and the Search for a Good Life in China	5
Reproducing Life in Conditions of Abandonment in Oceania	5
‘Slowly, Steadily, Carefully’: Imagining a Better Tomorrow through Shinji Yamashita’s Public Anthropology	4
Encountering Universals in Cambodia and Indonesia—Translations Across Historical Multiplicity	3
A High Price to Pay: Weddings and Waithood in Cambodia	3
On Face and Face-Work in Iran: From Etic Theories to Emic Practices	3
Lukautim Yu Yet Gut (Take Good Care of Yourself): Moka Gomo Women Pursuing Health in Papua New Guinea	2
Tenuous Connectivity: Time, Citizenship, and Infrastructure in a Papua New Guinea Telecommunications Network	2
Mediating Response-ability in Planning: The Elusiveness of the Cambodia Waste Management Report	2
Making Kin and Population: Counting Life in the Wake of Abandonment in Timor-Leste	2
Rethinking Human Rights and Peace in Post-Independence Timor-Leste Through Local Perspectives	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
The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World	2
From Nuclear Colonialism to COVID-19 Scepticism: Navigating Political Suffering in French Polynesia	2
Work Security and Other Challenges for Street Vendors in Guwahati City, Assam	2
Le Vanuatu dans tous ses états. Histoire et anthropologie	1
The Gendered Slow Violence of Global Environmental Governance in Suau, Papua New Guinea	1

TikTok and the New Public Ethnographer	1
Managing Toxins and Making Water ‘Safe’: Consumer Buffering Practices in Contexts of Chemo-Uncertainty	1
Post-Colonial Welcome?	1
Raciolinguistic Disposability: The Experience of Filipino Teachers in China Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
‘Impoldering Indonesia’: Of Universal Water Technology and Unfinishedness in Semarang	1
A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-class Waste of Global Cities	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
Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labour Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims	1
(In)tangible Journeying and Its Transformation among the Rang from Byans, Far Western Nepal	1
A Road, a Border, and Development in New Guinea	1
Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition	1
Laughing the Pain Away: UnderstandingSambatPractice among Javanese Youth	1
Cutting Cosmos: Masculinity and Spectacular Events Among the Bugkalot	1
Beauty for Development? Betel Aesthetics and Socioeconomic Stability in Urban Solomon Islands	1
Artivism in Maluku	1
Child-Soldiering: A Nuanced View Through the Eyes of a Gorkha Youth in Kachin State, Myanmar	1
Unveiling Swearing: Some Football Supporter Rituals in Indonesia	1
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
Navigating Home in Migration: Yi Migrant Workers and Their Homemaking Experiences in Shenzhen Factories	1
Afterword. Relations, Refusal, Reticulation	1
Colonial Ghosts, the French Cemetery and Urban Renewal in Hanoi	0
Between Smart Images and Fast Trucks: Digital Surveillance and Obscured Labour in Hyderabad, India	0
Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar	0
Policing in the Time of Crisis: An Autoethnographic Reflection from the COVID-19 Frontline in Indonesia	0
Ophir	0
Dreams and Dispossession in West Papua: A Response	0
Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography	0
Learning to Dream at the End of Time	0
Edgy Ethnographic Film about Death and Religion: On Behalf of the Living	0
Hospital Births and Frontier Obstetrics in Urban West Papua	0
The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects	0
Attuning to Anthropologies Otherwise: The Curatorium Collective's Epistemic Experiments in Ethnography	0
Marshall D. Sahlins 27 December 1930–5 April 2021 A MEMOIRE	0
Sanitising Social Media and the Production of Non-political Creative Content	0
Transitory Subject: The Working Life of Indonesian Startup Founders and Professionals	0
Drawing the Sea Near: Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa	0
Passing on the Wedding Cloth: Consolidating Alliance Relations through Funeral Ceremonies among the Simalungun of North Sumatra	0
Witnessing Threatened Indigenous Papuan Lifeworlds through a Multispecies Ethnographic Lens	0
Conversion as Lateral Movement: Repetition and Ambiguity in Ifugao Pentecostalism	0
Reimagining Nativeness from a Migrant Anthropologist’s Positionality	0
Where Vecik Flows: Water, Music, and Cultural Resilience in Ravar Paiwan Sound Worlds	0
Asymmetrical Affect: ‘Comforts’ ( Sabay ) of a Chinese Hydropower Project in Northern Laos	0
Anthropology's Lost Language Syndrome	0
Clifford Sather (27 August 1938 – 25 September 2024) A Memoire	0
Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World	0
Ceasefire City: Militarism, Capitalism, and Urbanism in Dimapur	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

Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care and Precarious Migrations	0
War and the Arc of the Human Experience	0
Roots and Routes: Funeral Practices and Land-based Identities in the Yunnan-Tibetan Borderlands	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
‘The Doll Wants to Breathe’: Russian-Speaking Migrant Women’s Practice of Wearing Japanese Kimonos	0
Shopping in the Rainforest: Provisions of Uneven Living at the Sari-Sari Store	0
A Long Way Home	0
KOENTJARANINGRAT MEMORIAL LECTURE: Koentjaraningrat's Legacy and Contemporary Anthropology in Indonesia	0
Marriage Migration, Intercultural Families and Global Intimacies	0
Paradigm Conflict: Village Health Volunteers and Public Health in Thailand	0
Sounds of Aotearoa New Zealand	0
(Re)building Interethnic Relations Through Sharecropping in Post-Conflict Maluku	0
Diaspora Space-Time: Transformations of a Chinese Emigrant Community	0
Reproduction, Sexual Culture and Colonialism among Kamoro People in West Papua	0
Development in Spirit: Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands	0
An Unfinished Film: Unfinishedness as a Condition	0
Eating at the Margins: Negotiating Food Safety and Food Security in Ho Chi Minh City’s Charities	0
From ‘Renunciation of Parents’ to Filial Piety: An Ethnographic Study of Chinese Catholic Clergy	0
Infrastructure Meets Infrapolitics: Emic Negotiation of State and Market Inputs in Upland Northern Vietnam	0
Search for Sustainability: The Transformation of Japanese Perceptions of Bali in the Twenty-First Century	0
Epilogue: Journeying With One of Japan’s Leading Anthropologists	0
Making Money, Missing Home: Reflections on Timorese Informal Labour Migration to Britain	0
Being Muslim in Indonesia: Religiosity, Politics and Cultural Diversity in Bima	0
Burning Wet Waste: Environmental Particularity, Material Specificity, and the Universality of Infrastructure	0
Public Anthropology in Japan Revisited: Translation, Localisation, and Distribution	0
Valuing Hard Work: ‘Station Times’, the Pioneer Complex and Settler-Descended Graziers’ Views on Work in Cape York Peninsula	0
Entanglement of Values: Examining the Phenomenon of Pesantren Producing Films in the Post- Reformasi Era	0
What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make	0
Seizing the Opportunity in Pu’er Tea Business: Ethnicised Tea Femininity and Tai Lue Female Entrepreneurs in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China	0
Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted	0
Visual Psychological Anthropology: Capturing Complexity of Autism	0
Beyond Human Migration: Cross-Border Ethnography of Tsunami, Debris, and Marine Species from 3.11 Tohoku, Japan	0
Death of the One Who Knows	0
Introduction—Building Infrastructural Lives: Mobile and Creative Livelihoods in India and Vietnam	0
Permeating Plantations. Rethinking Violence and Ecologies in West Papua	0
Reluctant Compliance and Collaborative Fiscal Disobedience: How Hmong Consumers Evade Value-Added Tax in Vietnam’s Northern Uplands	0
Recognising Shinji Yamashita, Dynamic Ethnographer Par Excellence: A Prologue	0
Gendering Transnational Business Spaces: Cross-Border Burmese Women Jadeite Traders in Yunnan, China	0
Collage and Reintegration: The Works of Leang Seckon as Mortuary Objects	0
Generational Difference, the Category Pemuda and the Several Paradoxes of Becoming Indonesian for Nuaulu in the Moluccan Islands	0
On the Way to Heaven: Memorial Benches, State Integration, and the Coming of Religion Among the Kulung Rai (Nepal)	0
A Cosmology of Interconnection	0
Wearing your Moral Character on the Sleeve of your School Uniform: Ethical Becoming and Nation-building in Indonesia	0
Projectland – Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village	0
The Snow Leopard: Whose Fault?	0
Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia: Democracy and the Quest for an Inclusive Public Ethics	0
Translating Genocide, the Politics of Memory, and (In)Commensurabilities in Post-conflict Cambodia	0
A Thousand Fires	0
Translating Sustainability at an Indonesian Fishing Port	0
Speculative Ethnography in the Multiverse: Caroline E. Schuster’s Forecasts and Chronotopes of Disaster in the Critical Graphic Narrative	0
Love Across Class	0
A Mining Theme Park—Cultural Competition and the Politics of Identity Claims in an Indonesian Mining Town	0
Trending Graphics	0
Imploding Fictions: Following the Object Through the Ethnographic Novel	0
The Flickering Flame of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Support: Burned Down, but Not Out	0
The Story of Abu-abu and the Theory of Dispossession from Below	0
Paths Not Taken: On Negative Wayfaring in Ladakh	0
Mining and Masculinity in Indonesia	0
Counterterrorism, Civil Society Organisations and Peacebuilding: The Role of Non-State Actors in Deradicalisation in Bima, Indonesia	0
Beyond Sedentary Bias: An Ethnographic Reflection of Deforestation in Seram, Eastern Indonesia	0
Face-Veiled Women in Contemporary Indonesia Face-Veiled Women in Contemporary Indonesia Eva F. NisaLondon and New York, Routledge, 2023	0
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border	0
Performing Peace: The Evolving Roles of Security Groups in Indonesia	0
Difference and Care in Lisa Palmer’s Collaborative Engagements with Timor Leste	0
Ol Sing Blong Plantesen: South Sea Island Spirituals from the Queensland Canefields and Beyond	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
Embodied Connections: Gender, Race, and Reproduction in Oceania	0
Is Custom a Tool for Remedying or Reinforcing Social Inequalities? New Strategies for Dialogue and Peace in Maluku, Indonesia	0
Social Capital and Sport Organisations	0