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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Snow Leopards, Checkpoints, and Roads: Negotiating Selective Legibility in Hemis National Park, India	13
Circulations: Place, Movement, Belonging	8
The Ocean in the School: Pacific Islander Students Transforming Their University	6
The ‘Good’ Neoliberalism: E-Commerce Entrepreneurship and the Search for a Good Life in China	6
Nancy Munn in Central Australia: Gendering the Field and How What Matters and Who Matters Changed	6
Heritage Tourism: From Problems to Possibilities	6
Labour of Devotion: Material Construction and Charisma of Saintly Monks in the Myanmar–Thai Border Region	5
Reproducing Life in Conditions of Abandonment in Oceania	5
Disposable People as Infrastructure? The Livelihood Trials and Tactics of Three-Wheeler Delivery Drivers on Hanoi’s Streets, Vietnam	5
‘Slowly, Steadily, Carefully’: Imagining a Better Tomorrow through Shinji Yamashita’s Public Anthropology	5
Professional Women, Nation-Making, and the Negotiation of Difference at Boarding Schools in Bougainville and Solomon Islands	5
On Face and Face-Work in Iran: From Etic Theories to Emic Practices	4
Encountering Universals in Cambodia and Indonesia—Translations Across Historical Multiplicity	3
A High Price to Pay: Weddings and Waithood in Cambodia	3
‘I am the Bridge’: Brokering Health, Development and Peace in Myanmar’s Kayin State	3
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
Personifying Progress: Negotiating Autonomy, Obligation and Intergenerational Aspirations in the Philippines	2
Mediating Response-ability in Planning: The Elusiveness of the Cambodia Waste Management Report	2
From Nuclear Colonialism to COVID-19 Scepticism: Navigating Political Suffering in French Polynesia	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
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
Making Kin and Population: Counting Life in the Wake of Abandonment in Timor-Leste	2

The Mockery of Animals Among the Rotenese of Eastern Indonesia	2
Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition	1
Raciolinguistic Disposability: The Experience of Filipino Teachers in China Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labour Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims	1
Unveiling Swearing: Some Football Supporter Rituals in Indonesia	1
Creative Peacebuilding and Resistance in Indonesia	1
The Gendered Slow Violence of Global Environmental Governance in Suau, Papua New Guinea	1
Post-Colonial Welcome?	1
Laughing the Pain Away: UnderstandingSambatPractice among Javanese Youth	1
Gendered Migration, Gendered Morality: South Korean Men in Intimate Relationships with Filipinas in the Philippines	1
Transitions and Intersections between Communalism and Possessive Individualism in Rural Fiji: Repercussions for Responding to Climate Change	1
TikTok and the New Public Ethnographer	1
Artivism in Maluku	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
(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
Child-Soldiering: A Nuanced View Through the Eyes of a Gorkha Youth in Kachin State, Myanmar	1
A Road, a Border, and Development in New Guinea	1
Multiple Developments: Intergenerational Aspiration and Contested Childhoods in a Delhi NGO	0
Seizing the Opportunity in Pu’er Tea Business: Ethnicised Tea Femininity and Tai Lue Female Entrepreneurs in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China	0
Recognising Shinji Yamashita, Dynamic Ethnographer Par Excellence: A Prologue	0
Imploding Fictions: Following the Object Through the Ethnographic Novel	0
Counterterrorism, Civil Society Organisations and Peacebuilding: The Role of Non-State Actors in Deradicalisation in Bima, Indonesia	0
Afterword. Relations, Refusal, Reticulation	0
Beyond Sedentary Bias: An Ethnographic Reflection of Deforestation in Seram, Eastern Indonesia	0
A Long Way Home	0
Cutting Cosmos: Masculinity and Spectacular Events Among the Bugkalot	0
Gendering Transnational Business Spaces: Cross-Border Burmese Women Jadeite Traders in Yunnan, China	0
Middle-aged Women and Intergenerational Aspirations in Dehradun, India: Mobility as Social Achievement During Post-active Motherhood	0
Making Money, Missing Home: Reflections on Timorese Informal Labour Migration to Britain	0
Permeating Plantations. Rethinking Violence and Ecologies in West Papua	0
Entanglement of Values: Examining the Phenomenon of Pesantren Producing Films in the Post- Reformasi Era	0
Social Capital and Sport Organisations	0
Desire, Obligation and Familial Love: Mothers, Daughters, and Communication Technology in the Tongan Diaspora	0
KOENTJARANINGRAT MEMORIAL LECTURE: Koentjaraningrat's Legacy and Contemporary Anthropology in Indonesia	0
Diaspora Space-Time: Transformations of a Chinese Emigrant Community	0
Ceasefire City: Militarism, Capitalism, and Urbanism in Dimapur	0
The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects	0
Roots and Routes: Funeral Practices and Land-based Identities in the Yunnan-Tibetan Borderlands	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
‘A Garuda in my Heart, a Tiger in my Stomach’: Brokering an Informal Economic Border Enclave in the Borneo Highlands	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
The Flickering Flame of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Support: Burned Down, but Not Out	0
Between Smart Images and Fast Trucks: Digital Surveillance and Obscured Labour in Hyderabad, India	0
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border	0
From ‘Renunciation of Parents’ to Filial Piety: An Ethnographic Study of Chinese Catholic Clergy	0

Wearing your Moral Character on the Sleeve of your School Uniform: Ethical Becoming and Nation-building in Indonesia	0
Edgy Ethnographic Film about Death and Religion: On Behalf of the Living	0
Speculative Ethnography in the Multiverse: Caroline E. Schuster’s Forecasts and Chronotopes of Disaster in the Critical Graphic Narrative	0
Eating at the Margins: Negotiating Food Safety and Food Security in Ho Chi Minh City’s Charities	0
Translating Genocide, the Politics of Memory, and (In)Commensurabilities in Post-conflict Cambodia	0
Collage and Reintegration: The Works of Leang Seckon as Mortuary Objects	0
Sojourn in Paradise: The Experiences of Foreign Students in North Korea	0
Performing Peace: The Evolving Roles of Security Groups in Indonesia	0
Navigating Home in Migration: Yi Migrant Workers and Their Homemaking Experiences in Shenzhen Factories	0
Passing on the Wedding Cloth: Consolidating Alliance Relations through Funeral Ceremonies among the Simalungun of North Sumatra	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
Witnessing Threatened Indigenous Papuan Lifeworlds through a Multispecies Ethnographic Lens	0
Anthropology's Lost Language Syndrome	0
Attuning to Anthropologies Otherwise: The Curatorium Collective's Epistemic Experiments in Ethnography	0
Drawing the Sea Near: Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa	0
Mining and Masculinity in Indonesia	0
On the Way to Heaven: Memorial Benches, State Integration, and the Coming of Religion Among the Kulung Rai (Nepal)	0
Colonial Ghosts, the French Cemetery and Urban Renewal in Hanoi	0
Is Custom a Tool for Remedying or Reinforcing Social Inequalities? New Strategies for Dialogue and Peace in Maluku, Indonesia	0
Burning Wet Waste: Environmental Particularity, Material Specificity, and the Universality of Infrastructure	0
Sounds of Aotearoa New Zealand	0
Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted	0
David Charles Hyndman (1947–2021)	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
Generational Difference, the Category Pemuda and the Several Paradoxes of Becoming Indonesian for Nuaulu in the Moluccan Islands	0
Visual Psychological Anthropology: Capturing Complexity of Autism	0
A Mining Theme Park—Cultural Competition and the Politics of Identity Claims in an Indonesian Mining Town	0
EPILOGUE: Translating Universals and the Making of the Local	0
Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care and Precarious Migrations	0
War and the Arc of the Human Experience	0
Transitory Subject: The Working Life of Indonesian Startup Founders and Professionals	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
Paths Not Taken: On Negative Wayfaring in Ladakh	0
Marshall D. Sahlins 27 December 1930–5 April 2021 A MEMOIRE	0
Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia: Democracy and the Quest for an Inclusive Public Ethics	0
Reimagining Nativeness from a Migrant Anthropologist’s Positionality	0
The Snow Leopard: Whose Fault?	0
Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography	0
Dreams and Dispossession in West Papua: A Response	0
Love Across Class	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
Sanitising Social Media and the Production of Non-political Creative Content	0
Clifford Sather (27 August 1938 – 25 September 2024) A Memoire	0
‘Impoldering Indonesia’: Of Universal Water Technology and Unfinishedness in Semarang	0
‘It’s All About Education’: Middle-class, High-caste Women’s Aspirations of Choice, Freedom and Modernity in Urban Nepal	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
Ophir	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
Intergenerational Aspirations Across the Life Course in Asia	0
A Cosmology of Interconnection	0
Face-Veiled Women in Contemporary Indonesia Face-Veiled Women in Contemporary Indonesia Eva F. NisaLondon and New York, Routledge, 2023	0
The Story of Abu-abu and the Theory of Dispossession from Below	0
Learning to Dream at the End of Time	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
A Thousand Fires	0
Embodied Connections: Gender, Race, and Reproduction in Oceania	0
Difference and Care in Lisa Palmer’s Collaborative Engagements with Timor Leste	0
Projectland – Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village	0
(Re)building Interethnic Relations Through Sharecropping in Post-Conflict Maluku	0
The Tsunami of Pesticide Use for Rice Production on Java and Its Consequences	0
Death of the One Who Knows	0
Eudaimonic Wellbeing in Southeastern Myanmar’s Contested Moral Landscape	0
Making Sense of Serodiscordance: Pathways and Aftermaths of HIV Testing among Couples with Mixed HIV Status in Papua New Guinea	0
Reluctant Compliance and Collaborative Fiscal Disobedience: How Hmong Consumers Evade Value-Added Tax in Vietnam’s Northern Uplands	0
Weed-Eating Pigs: Cultural Keystone Species, Interiority and Traditional Village Protection in Central China	0
Translating Sustainability at an Indonesian Fishing Port	0
Marriage Migration, Intercultural Families and Global Intimacies	0
Trending Graphics	0
Infrastructure Meets Infrapolitics: Emic Negotiation of State and Market Inputs in Upland Northern Vietnam	0
Hospital Births and Frontier Obstetrics in Urban West Papua	0
Being Muslim in Indonesia: Religiosity, Politics and Cultural Diversity in Bima	0
Shopping in the Rainforest: Provisions of Uneven Living at the Sari-Sari Store	0