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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Snow Leopards, Checkpoints, and Roads: Negotiating Selective Legibility in Hemis National Park, India	11
Circulations: Place, Movement, Belonging	8
Nancy Munn in Central Australia: Gendering the Field and How What Matters and Who Matters Changed	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
Professional Women, Nation-Making, and the Negotiation of Difference at Boarding Schools in Bougainville and Solomon Islands	5
Reproducing Life in Conditions of Abandonment in Oceania	4
The ‘Good’ Neoliberalism: E-Commerce Entrepreneurship and the Search for a Good Life in China	4
Disposable People as Infrastructure? The Livelihood Trials and Tactics of Three-Wheeler Delivery Drivers on Hanoi’s Streets, Vietnam	4
‘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
On Face and Face-Work in Iran: From Etic Theories to Emic Practices	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
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
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
(In)tangible Journeying and Its Transformation among the Rang from Byans, Far Western Nepal	2
A High Price to Pay: Weddings and Waithood in Cambodia	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
Unveiling Swearing: Some Football Supporter Rituals in Indonesia	2
Co-Creating Anthropology: Relational Knowledge and Collaborative Practice in China	1
Laughing the Pain Away: UnderstandingSambatPractice among Javanese Youth	1

Navigating Home in Migration: Yi Migrant Workers and Their Homemaking Experiences in Shenzhen Factories	1
Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition	1
Oil Palm’s Grey Horizons	1
Managing Toxins and Making Water ‘Safe’: Consumer Buffering Practices in Contexts of Chemo-Uncertainty	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
Artistic Methods for Sustaining Meaning and Community in Troubled Times: Anna Hickey-Moody’s Interfaith Childhoods Project	1
Raciolinguistic Disposability: The Experience of Filipino Teachers in China Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
‘Forest is Our Mother and Tiger is Our Uncle’: Ethnographic Insights from Indian Sundarbans on More-than-Human Kinship and Traditional Ecological Wisdom	1
TikTok and the New Public Ethnographer	1
The Gendered Slow Violence of Global Environmental Governance in Suau, Papua New Guinea	1
Le Vanuatu dans tous ses états. Histoire et anthropologie	1
Modernist and Other Circulations: Review of Handman 2025	1
River Life and the Upswing of Nature	1
‘Impoldering Indonesia’: Of Universal Water Technology and Unfinishedness in Semarang	1
Cutting Cosmos: Masculinity and Spectacular Events Among the Bugkalot	1
The Paradoxes of Routes/Roots	1
Child-Soldiering: A Nuanced View Through the Eyes of a Gorkha Youth in Kachin State, Myanmar	1
Hiding in Sight: The Eco-social Rhythms of Women’s Worlds in Small Town Nepal	1
Entanglement of Values: Examining the Phenomenon of Pesantren Producing Films in the Post- Reformasi Era	0
Mennonites: From America to Indonesia	0
Anthropology's Lost Language Syndrome	0
Difference and Care in Lisa Palmer’s Collaborative Engagements with Timor Leste	0
Clifford Sather (27 August 1938 – 25 September 2024) A Memoire	0
Drawing the Sea Near: Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa	0
Visual Abstracts and Reproductive Abandonment	0
Tok Pisin and Nation-Making	0
Introduction—Building Infrastructural Lives: Mobile and Creative Livelihoods in India and Vietnam	0
Imploding Fictions: Following the Object Through the Ethnographic Novel	0
Shopping in the Rainforest: Provisions of Uneven Living at the Sari-Sari Store	0
Attuning to Anthropologies Otherwise: The Curatorium Collective's Epistemic Experiments in Ethnography	0
Bhutan: The Unremembered Nation Bhutan: The Unremembered Nation K arma U ra Oxford, Oxford Universi	0
On the Way to Heaven: Memorial Benches, State Integration, and the Coming of Religion Among the Kulung Rai (Nepal)	0
Between Smart Images and Fast Trucks: Digital Surveillance and Obscured Labour in Hyderabad, India	0
‘The Doll Wants to Breathe’: Russian-Speaking Migrant Women’s Practice of Wearing Japanese Kimonos	0
Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar	0
Learning to Dream at the End of Time	0
Dreams and Dispossession in West Papua: A Response	0
A Cosmology of Interconnection	0
Being Muslim in Indonesia: Religiosity, Politics and Cultural Diversity in Bima	0
Reproduction, Sexual Culture and Colonialism among Kamoro People in West Papua	0
Edgy Ethnographic Film about Death and Religion: On Behalf of the Living	0
Digital Circulations and Sacred-Boundary Contestations at the Cham Temple of the Mother Goddess in Vietnam	0
Eating at the Margins: Negotiating Food Safety and Food Security in Ho Chi Minh City’s Charities	0
A Mining Theme Park—Cultural Competition and the Politics of Identity Claims in an Indonesian Mining Town	0
Collage and Reintegration: The Works of Leang Seckon as Mortuary Objects	0
Transitory Subject: The Working Life of Indonesian Startup Founders and Professionals	0
Paradigm Conflict: Village Health Volunteers and Public Health in Thailand	0
Public Anthropology in Japan Revisited: Translation, Localisation, and Distribution	0
Beauty for Development? Betel Aesthetics and Socioeconomic Stability in Urban Solomon Islands	0

The Flickering Flame of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Support: Burned Down, but Not Out	0
Burning Wet Waste: Environmental Particularity, Material Specificity, and the Universality of Infrastructure	0
Face-Veiled Women in Contemporary Indonesia Face-Veiled Women in Contemporary Indonesia Eva F. NisaLondon and New York, Routledge, 2023	0
Valuing Hard Work: ‘Station Times’, the Pioneer Complex and Settler-Descended Graziers’ Views on Work in Cape York Peninsula	0
What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make	0
Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care and Precarious Migrations	0
Seizing the Opportunity in Pu’er Tea Business: Ethnicised Tea Femininity and Tai Lue Female Entrepreneurs in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China	0
Ceasefire City: Militarism, Capitalism, and Urbanism in Dimapur	0
Punk Worlding: An Alternative Framework for Anarcho-Punk Culture in Indonesia	0
EPILOGUE: Translating Universals and the Making of the Local	0
Projectland – Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village	0
Hospital Births and Frontier Obstetrics in Urban West Papua	0
Diaspora Space-Time: Transformations of a Chinese Emigrant Community	0
Beyond Human Migration: Cross-Border Ethnography of Tsunami, Debris, and Marine Species from 3.11 Tohoku, Japan	0
Recognising Shinji Yamashita, Dynamic Ethnographer Par Excellence: A Prologue	0
Sounds of Aotearoa New Zealand	0
Marriage Migration, Intercultural Families and Global Intimacies	0
Ophir	0
Generational Difference, the Category Pemuda and the Several Paradoxes of Becoming Indonesian for Nuaulu in the Moluccan Islands	0
The Snow Leopard: Whose Fault?	0
(Re)building Interethnic Relations Through Sharecropping in Post-Conflict Maluku	0
Development in Spirit: Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands	0
Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted	0
Response: The Starting Points for Circulations	0
An Unfinished Film: Unfinishedness as a Condition	0
KOENTJARANINGRAT MEMORIAL LECTURE: Koentjaraningrat's Legacy and Contemporary Anthropology in Indonesia	0
Love Across Class	0
Epilogue: Journeying With One of Japan’s Leading Anthropologists	0
Infrastructure Meets Infrapolitics: Emic Negotiation of State and Market Inputs in Upland Northern Vietnam	0
Translating Genocide, the Politics of Memory, and (In)Commensurabilities in Post-conflict Cambodia	0
Afterword. Relations, Refusal, Reticulation	0
A Thousand Fires	0
Making Money, Missing Home: Reflections on Timorese Informal Labour Migration to Britain	0
Asymmetrical Affect: ‘Comforts’ ( Sabay ) of a Chinese Hydropower Project in Northern Laos	0
Translating Sustainability at an Indonesian Fishing Port	0
Conversion as Lateral Movement: Repetition and Ambiguity in Ifugao Pentecostalism	0
Despised Tok Pisin Could Have Fast Tracked the Decolonisation and Nation Building of Papua New Guinea	0
Beyond Sedentary Bias: An Ethnographic Reflection of Deforestation in Seram, Eastern Indonesia	0
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border	0
Death of the One Who Knows	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
War and the Arc of the Human Experience	0
Reluctant Compliance and Collaborative Fiscal Disobedience: How Hmong Consumers Evade Value-Added Tax in Vietnam’s Northern Uplands	0
Roots and Routes: Funeral Practices and Land-based Identities in the Yunnan-Tibetan Borderlands	0
Paths of Care: Following the Ismaili Right Path through Caring for Roads and Walkers in the Karakoram Mountains, Pakistan	0
Passing on the Wedding Cloth: Consolidating Alliance Relations through Funeral Ceremonies among the Simalungun of North Sumatra	0
Marshall D. Sahlins 27 December 1930–5 April 2021 A MEMOIRE	0
Embodied Connections: Gender, Race, and Reproduction in Oceania	0
Social Capital and Sport Organisations	0
Policing in the Time of Crisis: An Autoethnographic Reflection from the COVID-19 Frontline in Indonesia	0
Wearing your Moral Character on the Sleeve of your School Uniform: Ethical Becoming and Nation-building in Indonesia	0
‘This Vaccine is Not for Us’: Christianity, Colonialism, Conspiracies, and COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs in Papua New Guinea	0
Visual Psychological Anthropology: Capturing Complexity of Autism	0
Paths Not Taken: On Negative Wayfaring in Ladakh	0
Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia: Democracy and the Quest for an Inclusive Public Ethics	0
Gendering Transnational Business Spaces: Cross-Border Burmese Women Jadeite Traders in Yunnan, China	0
Where Vecik Flows: Water, Music, and Cultural Resilience in Ravar Paiwan Sound Worlds	0
Speculative Ethnography in the Multiverse: Caroline E. Schuster’s Forecasts and Chronotopes of Disaster in the Critical Graphic Narrative	0
Permeating Plantations. Rethinking Violence and Ecologies in West Papua	0
Search for Sustainability: The Transformation of Japanese Perceptions of Bali in the Twenty-First Century	0
From ‘Renunciation of Parents’ to Filial Piety: An Ethnographic Study of Chinese Catholic Clergy	0
What Do Modernist Imaginaries of Circulation Do, and Where Do They Come From?	0
Ol Sing Blong Plantesen: South Sea Island Spirituals from the Queensland Canefields and Beyond	0
Witnessing Threatened Indigenous Papuan Lifeworlds through a Multispecies Ethnographic Lens	0
A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-class Waste of Global Cities	0
Reimagining Nativeness from a Migrant Anthropologist’s Positionality	0
The Story of Abu-abu and the Theory of Dispossession from Below	0