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Papers

(The TQCC of Anthropological Theory is 3. 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
The great transformation: The Durkheimian sociology of religion from Émile Durkheim to Henri Hubert	12
Outline of a theory of breakage	11
The misperception of the environment: A critical evaluation of the work of Tim Ingold and an alternative guide to the use of the senses in anthropological theory	10
Over the ruins of subjects: A critique of subjectivism in anthropological discourse	10
Identity perplexity, stigma, and social critique: Critical phenomenology with an errant twist	8
Political violence, pedagogy, and the politics of world-making: Reflections on Mahmood Mamdani's Neither Settler nor Native	8
Corporate sovereignty: Negotiating permissive power for profit in Southern Africa	7
The irony of development: Critique, complicity, cynicism	7
The camp, the zone, and sovereign sediments: Querying paradigms through the politics of Made-in-Italy agribusiness operations	6
Renewing an ‘Armenian’ neighbourhood: Recursive dispossession and the history of extractive sovereignty in Turkey	5
The recognition of presence: Sharing in world society; a short introduction to the section	4
Value moves in multiple ways: Ethical values, the anthropology of Christianity, and an example of women and movement	4
Common difference: Conceptualising simultaneity and racial sincerity in Jewish-Muslim relations in the United Kingdom	4
Calibrating home, hospitality and reciprocity in migration	4
The ‘onto-logics’ of perspectival multi-naturalism: A realist critique	4
On the surprising queerness of norms: Anthropology with Canguilhem, Foucault, and Butler	4
Theorizing ethnographically: No shares without acknowledgement	3
Corridors of countersovereignty: Insurgency, smuggling, and post-nation-state politics in Turkey's Kurdish highlands	3
Ingold, hermeneutics, and hylomorphic animism	3
The ontological turn revisited: Theoretical decline. Why cannot ontologists fulfil their promise?	3
Towards a pragmatist anthropology: Objectivity, relativism, ethnocentrism, and intropathy	3
Rethinking prevention as a reactive force to contain dangerous classes	3
Decolonising the political: Presence, law and obligation	3
Authenticity and decolonization: On the subversive authenticity of Indigenous resurgence	3