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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Snow Leopards, Checkpoints, and Roads: Negotiating Selective Legibility in Hemis National Park, India	12
The Ocean in the School: Pacific Islander Students Transforming Their University	8
Professional Women, Nation-Making, and the Negotiation of Difference at Boarding Schools in Bougainville and Solomon Islands	6
Nancy Munn in Central Australia: Gendering the Field and How What Matters and Who Matters Changed	6
Circulations: Place, Movement, Belonging	6
Heritage Tourism: From Problems to Possibilities	6
The ‘Good’ Neoliberalism: E-Commerce Entrepreneurship and the Search for a Good Life in China	5
On Face and Face-Work in Iran: From Etic Theories to Emic Practices	4
Labour of Devotion: Material Construction and Charisma of Saintly Monks in the Myanmar–Thai Border Region	4
Encountering Universals in Cambodia and Indonesia—Translations Across Historical Multiplicity	4
Reproducing Life in Conditions of Abandonment in Oceania	4
‘I am the Bridge’: Brokering Health, Development and Peace in Myanmar’s Kayin State	4
Disposable People as Infrastructure? The Livelihood Trials and Tactics of Three-Wheeler Delivery Drivers on Hanoi’s Streets, Vietnam	4
Lukautim Yu Yet Gut (Take Good Care of Yourself): Moka Gomo Women Pursuing Health in Papua New Guinea	3
A High Price to Pay: Weddings and Waithood in Cambodia	3
Documenting the Dreaming: Designs and Songs of the Present, in the Past, for the Future	3
Making Kin and Population: Counting Life in the Wake of Abandonment in Timor-Leste	2
TikTok and the New Public Ethnographer	2
The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World	2
Tenuous Connectivity: Time, Citizenship, and Infrastructure in a Papua New Guinea Telecommunications Network	2
Work Security and Other Challenges for Street Vendors in Guwahati City, Assam	2
Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labour Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims	2
Mediating Response-ability in Planning: The Elusiveness of the Cambodia Waste Management Report	2
‘Shake it and Dance': Portuguese Burgher Identity and the Performance of Káfriinha	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
Rethinking Human Rights and Peace in Post-Independence Timor-Leste Through Local Perspectives	2
From Nuclear Colonialism to COVID-19 Scepticism: Navigating Political Suffering in French Polynesia	2
Post-Colonial Welcome?	1
Gendered Migration, Gendered Morality: South Korean Men in Intimate Relationships with Filipinas in the Philippines	1
A Road, a Border, and Development in New Guinea	1
Hiding in Sight: The Eco-social Rhythms of Women’s Worlds in Small Town Nepal	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
Laughing the Pain Away: UnderstandingSambatPractice among Javanese Youth	1
Artivism in Maluku	1
Child-Soldiering: A Nuanced View Through the Eyes of a Gorkha Youth in Kachin State, Myanmar	1
Managing Toxins and Making Water ‘Safe’: Consumer Buffering Practices in Contexts of Chemo-Uncertainty	1
River Life and the Upswing of Nature	1
Afterword. Relations, Refusal, Reticulation	1
Burning Wet Waste: Environmental Particularity, Material Specificity, and the Universality of Infrastructure	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
(In)tangible Journeying and Its Transformation among the Rang from Byans, Far Western Nepal	1
Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition	1
Navigating Home in Migration: Yi Migrant Workers and Their Homemaking Experiences in Shenzhen Factories	1
Anthropology's Lost Language Syndrome	1
Cutting Cosmos: Masculinity and Spectacular Events Among the Bugkalot	1
Wearing your Moral Character on the Sleeve of your School Uniform: Ethical Becoming and Nation-building in Indonesia	0
Multiple Developments: Intergenerational Aspiration and Contested Childhoods in a Delhi NGO	0
Sanitising Social Media and the Production of Non-political Creative Content	0
Development in Spirit: Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands	0
Shopping in the Rainforest: Provisions of Uneven Living at the Sari-Sari Store	0
Desire, Obligation and Familial Love: Mothers, Daughters, and Communication Technology in the Tongan Diaspora	0
Eating at the Margins: Negotiating Food Safety and Food Security in Ho Chi Minh City’s Charities	0
Working with the Ancestors: Mana and Place in the Marquesas Islands	0
Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar	0
The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects	0
Imploding Fictions: Following the Object Through the Ethnographic Novel	0
From ‘Renunciation of Parents’ to Filial Piety: An Ethnographic Study of Chinese Catholic Clergy	0
Making Money, Missing Home: Reflections on Timorese Informal Labour Migration to Britain	0
The Value of Ethnographic Research on Music: An Introduction	0
Making Sense of Serodiscordance: Pathways and Aftermaths of HIV Testing among Couples with Mixed HIV Status in Papua New Guinea	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
Face-Veiled Women in Contemporary Indonesia Face-Veiled Women in Contemporary Indonesia Eva F. NisaLondon and New York, Routledge, 2023	0
Visual Psychological Anthropology: Capturing Complexity of Autism	0
Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted	0
Projectland – Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village	0
Valuing Hard Work: ‘Station Times’, the Pioneer Complex and Settler-Descended Graziers’ Views on Work in Cape York Peninsula	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
Seizing the Opportunity in Pu’er Tea Business: Ethnicised Tea Femininity and Tai Lue Female Entrepreneurs in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China	0
Reluctant Compliance and Collaborative Fiscal Disobedience: How Hmong Consumers Evade Value-Added Tax in Vietnam’s Northern Uplands	0
A Long Way Home	0

Clifford Sather (27 August 1938 – 25 September 2024) A Memoire	0
Visual Abstracts and Reproductive Abandonment	0
Generational Difference, the Category Pemuda and the Several Paradoxes of Becoming Indonesian for Nuaulu in the Moluccan Islands	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
Passing on the Wedding Cloth: Consolidating Alliance Relations through Funeral Ceremonies among the Simalungun of North Sumatra	0
Mosques and Imams: Everyday Islam in Eastern Indonesia	0
Colonial Ghosts, the French Cemetery and Urban Renewal in Hanoi	0
Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia: Democracy and the Quest for an Inclusive Public Ethics	0
Sounds of Aotearoa New Zealand	0
The Snow Leopard: Whose Fault?	0
Reimagining Nativeness from a Migrant Anthropologist’s Positionality	0
Edgy Ethnographic Film about Death and Religion: On Behalf of the Living	0
Reproduction, Sexual Culture and Colonialism among Kamoro People in West Papua	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
Mining and Masculinity in Indonesia	0
‘A Garuda in my Heart, a Tiger in my Stomach’: Brokering an Informal Economic Border Enclave in the Borneo Highlands	0
Transitory Subject: The Working Life of Indonesian Startup Founders and Professionals	0
Performing Purlapa: Projecting Warlpiri Identity in a Globalised World	0
Translating Sustainability at an Indonesian Fishing Port	0
Ol Sing Blong Plantesen: South Sea Island Spirituals from the Queensland Canefields and Beyond	0
Ceasefire City: Militarism, Capitalism, and Urbanism in Dimapur	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
Being Muslim in Indonesia: Religiosity, Politics and Cultural Diversity in Bima	0
Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World	0
War and the Arc of the Human Experience	0
Engaging with a Genre in Decline: Teochew Opera in Western Sydney	0
Death of the One Who Knows	0
Eudaimonic Wellbeing in Southeastern Myanmar’s Contested Moral Landscape	0
The Tsunami of Pesticide Use for Rice Production on Java and Its Consequences	0
Products of Protest? The Creative Protest Potential of Zines on Bali	0
Social Capital and Sport Organisations	0
‘It’s All About Education’: Middle-class, High-caste Women’s Aspirations of Choice, Freedom and Modernity in Urban Nepal	0
Collage and Reintegration: The Works of Leang Seckon as Mortuary Objects	0
Introduction—Building Infrastructural Lives: Mobile and Creative Livelihoods in India and Vietnam	0
Roots and Routes: Funeral Practices and Land-based Identities in the Yunnan-Tibetan Borderlands	0
Marriage Migration, Intercultural Families and Global Intimacies	0
On the Way to Heaven: Memorial Benches, State Integration, and the Coming of Religion Among the Kulung Rai (Nepal)	0
Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography	0
KOENTJARANINGRAT MEMORIAL LECTURE: Koentjaraningrat's Legacy and Contemporary Anthropology in Indonesia	0
(Re)building Interethnic Relations Through Sharecropping in Post-Conflict Maluku	0
Paths Not Taken: On Negative Wayfaring in Ladakh	0
Hospital Births and Frontier Obstetrics in Urban West Papua	0
Ophir	0
Middle-aged Women and Intergenerational Aspirations in Dehradun, India: Mobility as Social Achievement During Post-active Motherhood	0
A Thousand Fires	0
Love Across Class	0
A Mining Theme Park—Cultural Competition and the Politics of Identity Claims in an Indonesian Mining Town	0
Beauty for Development? Betel Aesthetics and Socioeconomic Stability in Urban Solomon Islands	0
Infrastructure Meets Infrapolitics: Emic Negotiation of State and Market Inputs in Upland Northern Vietnam	0
David Charles Hyndman (1947–2021)	0
The Flickering Flame of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Support: Burned Down, but Not Out	0
Is Custom a Tool for Remedying or Reinforcing Social Inequalities? New Strategies for Dialogue and Peace in Maluku, Indonesia	0
Sampling Ceremony: Hip-hop Workshops and Intergenerational Cultural Production in the Central Australian Desert	0
Diaspora Space-Time: Transformations of a Chinese Emigrant Community	0
Trending Graphics	0
Translating Genocide, the Politics of Memory, and (In)Commensurabilities in Post-conflict Cambodia	0
Difference and Care in Lisa Palmer’s Collaborative Engagements with Timor Leste	0
Weed-Eating Pigs: Cultural Keystone Species, Interiority and Traditional Village Protection in Central China	0
Counterterrorism, Civil Society Organisations and Peacebuilding: The Role of Non-State Actors in Deradicalisation in Bima, Indonesia	0
Drawing the Sea Near: Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa	0
Paths of Care: Following the Ismaili Right Path through Caring for Roads and Walkers in the Karakoram Mountains, Pakistan	0
Beyond Sedentary Bias: An Ethnographic Reflection of Deforestation in Seram, Eastern Indonesia	0
Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care and Precarious Migrations	0
Paradigm Conflict: Village Health Volunteers and Public Health in Thailand	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
Between Smart Images and Fast Trucks: Digital Surveillance and Obscured Labour in Hyderabad, India	0
Intergenerational Aspirations Across the Life Course in Asia	0
Speculative Ethnography in the Multiverse: Caroline E. Schuster’s Forecasts and Chronotopes of Disaster in the Critical Graphic Narrative	0
EPILOGUE: Translating Universals and the Making of the Local	0