Ethnography

Papers
(The median citation count of Ethnography 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.)
ArticleCitations
Transnational giving between Shikoku, Japan and Burma/ Myanmar: From memorializing One’s dead to humanitarianism with peace and war reflections20
The passion of aging: The representation of localism in spiritual eldercare of Naxi in Lijiang15
Matrilineal practices among muslims: An ethnographic study of the Minangkabau of West Sumatra15
Close encounters with a third leg: Including fieldwork experiences of sexual harassment as research data12
Triangulation and violence in the Caribbean: Crimes retold from a Curaçaoan juvenile detention centre8
A Chinese woman’s journey to the “west”: Ethnographic knowledge production amid ambiguous power dynamics8
Becoming ‘international’: Transgressing national identity as a ritual for class identification8
Immersive scholarship: Inhabiting and crafting storied lifeworlds through ethnographic research retreats7
“Been there, done that but also not quite:” Discoveries and limitations in an evaluative, short-term, and multi-sited ethnography of the boy scouts of America6
Snap-along ethnography: Studying visual politicization in the social media age6
Im/material and intimate relations: Considering ethnographic methodologies for already-surveilled communities6
Negotiating diasporic leisure among Zimbabwean migrants in Britain6
Concrete sectarianism: Revisiting the Lebanese civil war through Beirut’s built environment6
Firsthand practice: Resolving structure and change in Japanese regional cuisine5
Composite ethnography: Collective encounters with emergent objects in the anthropocene5
Changing the world in three minutes? A duoethnographic provocation of 3MT in neoliberal Australian universities5
Lebensraum, geopolitics and race—Palestine as a feminist issue in German-speaking academia5
Men in aprons versus men in suits: Reshaping masculinities within a Japanese nonprofit promoting fatherhood5
The ‘desired state of mind’: Emotional labor and the hidden cost of symbolic power in 911 emergency response in the U.S5
Humanitarian Sovereignty, Exceptional Muslims, and the Transnational Making of Kuwaiti Citizens4
Social participation of youth through volunteering: Case study of Centre for Peace Studies in Zagreb4
The Halfie Predicament in the Ethnography of Religion: Fieldwork with Iranian-Americana Muslim Women in Los Angeles4
Close quarters. Sailing the murky waters of an ethnography ‘at-home’4
From strangers to families?: Post-reunion kin relationships in Spanish-Nepali adoptions3
Presence from another world. An ethnography on paranormal investigation and the social interaction with ghosts3
The field site as a religious frontier: Negotiating blasphemy accusations and reflexive tensions in Pakistan3
‘Say it in Swedish!’: Babies, belonging and multilingualism in an integration initiative activity in Sweden3
BROAD DATA: Ethnographic methods in the age of interdisciplinary collaboration3
Ambiguous interventions: The social consequences of assistance in the field3
Observations from the field: On the body, gender, and Al wehdat camp in Amman, Jordan3
Interstitial position or ‘bastard’ status? Interpreters at the French National Court of Asylum3
Making mistakes in ethnography3
Love and agency in ethnographic fieldwork with children3
The activism of young muslims in Italy: Citizens ‘crossing borders’ in search of recognition2
Affective encounters with waste: The role of affects in trash activism2
Walking the streets: Embodied experiences of place making in Old Bhopal, India2
Time and the remains of war: Retazos of morgues and minefields in Colombia2
The challenges of reciprocity: Access, uncertainty, and politics2
Being crime: Youth violence and criminal identities in Bahia, Brazil2
Field notes from the margins: Rethinking ethnographic presence through interpretive transcription and online interviewing2
Sacrificial heroes: Masculinity, class, and waste picking in Iran2
America materialis: Things and meaning in a donation warehouse2
Beyond Big Brother: How to Study Tech-Driven Authoritarianism With Restricted Access to State Institutions2
Institutional adaptation of managerialism in Chinese higher education: A faculty-centered ethnographic analysis of everyday practices2
Kin, friends, philanthronationalists: “Relations” as a modality of colonial and post-colonial charity in Sri Lanka2
Autonomous care? Muslim transnational giving networks and perceptions of welfare responsibilities in India2
Rapping our reality: Young people approaching the Haitian future in the subjunctive2
The gaze in tourism settings: An ethnographical approach above and beyond the theory of the tourist gaze2
Fostering contemplative ethnographers: A tale of fieldwork ethics, vulnerability, and trauma in neoliberal academia2
‘We have something in common … it’s true’: Reflections on the politics and practice of solidarities in and through ethnographic co-research2
Learning to (depoliticize) critique: Critical knowledge and the formation of elite habitus in a predominantly White institution2
Chop money life: Joblessness, unretirement, and dependence among transport workers in urban Ghana2
“We are simply being pressed out, slowly but surely” - Unhoused peoples’ experience with exclusionary design2
“Why should we have to eat the chicken’s butt?” - Everyday consumption, deservingness and inclusion in rural Hungary2
Scholarly engagements in times of catastrophe1
The communitarian stigma: Stigmatization as a mechanism of institutional racism in France1
Echoes of liminality: Hidden transcripts and subtle resistance in Bhojpuri-speaking women’s Kajari folksongs1
‘Why study cinema?’ experiences of crisis and future making in the Portuguese film production sector1
New forms of home blindness: Rethinking fieldwork methods in digitalized environments1
Tales from the (disrupted) field: Contemplating interruptions, disruptions, and ethnography amidst a pandemic1
Danger on my mind: Dangerous imaginaries and their effect on epistemologies1
Of devotion and disgust: Method, belief and power in anthropological research on religion1
Walking with bread in Cairo: Ethnographic collaboration between a researcher and a research assistant1
Elites, bodies, and gender: Women’s appearance as class distinction1
Turning newcomers into locals: Kinship practices and belonging in low-income neighborhoods in Finland1
Tangier heat: On migrant vulnerability and social thermology1
Of human bondage: Tales of migrant fishermen in Thailand1
Sovereignty, policing and legitimacy: Minorities and the state of exception in a democratic polity1
The rule of the anus? Queer imaginaries of power in central Africa1
The construction of the anamnestic-political field or the possibility of ethnography1
I am anthropologist – But where is the field? On fieldwork, intimacy, and home1
Creative moves: Embedding hip-hop cultural practice in Bolivia1
Toward a non-individualistic analysis of neoliberalism: the stay-fit maternity trend in Taiwan1
Ruination in the ring: Habitus in the making of a professional “opponent”1
Security and heritage in the making of urban futures: A new research avenue1
“Don’t take too many pictures”: Discomfort as urban ethnographic method in Rajarhat1
Who moved my challah? Evolving practices and innovations in traditional Jewish bread1
Being invited. Ethics in participant-researcher relationships1
The sakan shababiyy, or the world improvised: Displacement and masculine domestic space in Lebanon1
Escaping the house of secrets: Auto-ethnographic reflections on the complexities of field exit1
Resisting the future: Preparedness, degradation, and “inquietude” among survivalists in contemporary France1
Crime as culture revisited: Being young, poor and delinquent in Lisbon, Portugal1
All-encompassing ethnographies: Strategies for feminist and equity-oriented institutional research1
Online workouts and fitness instructors’ physical autonomy in times of the Covid-19 pandemic1
Teaching Myanmar students under the Gaokao policy in a borderland school: Teachers’ challenges and agency1
White privilege: grey zones. Portuguese migrants in Angola1
Jala Role: Normative Practice of Collaborative Ethnography in a Hostile Research Frontier, South Omo, Ethiopia1
The unspoken experiences of ethnography: Overcoming boundaries of (un)accepted behaviours1
The religious experience of homeless people who use drugs in the city of Porto – Portugal1
Chinese rural left-behind elderly: Their individualization, descending familism and difficulties0
Studying ‘closed’ workplaces: ‘Embedded-actualised’ ethnography and reflections on ‘embeddedness’ from the remote UK oilfields0
Memeing a conspiracy theory: On the biopolitical compression of the great replacement conspiracy theories0
Tales from the field: Giving voice to my digital self0
Bodily ethnography: Some epistemological challenges of participation0
Putting our bodies on the line: Corporeal ethnography and metamorphosis0
The observer observed: Ethnographic discomforts and (a)symmetrical relationships in a digital ethnography0
Dimensions of time and comparative analysis in surrogacy research0
‘Bed-space’ housing in Dubai: African migrants, ambivalence towards authorities and gender differences0
Transnational Giving and Evolving Religious, Ethnic and Political Formations in the Global South0
Ethnography, 2025: The housekeeping year0
The conviction of the inevitable: Collapsism and collective action in contemporary rural France0
Cleaning up shaʿbi: Music and class-cultural divides in cairo0
Slow violence, depoliticisation and hope: Cultural landscapes of schooling in Wentworth, South Africa0
Energy and the ethnography of everyday life: A methodology for a world that matters0
Ethnography of the kitchen: The Women’s House, a space for feminist alliance and intercultural encounter0
Playing ethnographically, living well together: Collaborative ethnography as speculative experiment0
Walking sensorially through the landscapes of a galaxy far, far away0
The Māori precariat: Excerpts from urban ethnography on precarity in Auckland city0
From the street to the drug consumption room. Injected drug use across consumption environments0
From stigma to inclusion: Ethnographic studies in social pedagogy0
Performing political stories of the self: Subverting identities in the city of Goma, DR Congo0
The power of ethnographic toolkit in understanding transnational culture0
Hybrid ethnography: Access, positioning, and data assembly0
Corrigendum to “Transnational Giving and Evolving Religious, Ethnic and Political Formations in the Global South”0
Ethnic fragmentation: An ethnographic study of the Uluan community of South Sumatra, Indonesia0
Living in the frame of structural violence: Institutional regulations and daily life in Lleida, Spain0
Turning around the camera: Self-portraits of an anthropologist on Instagram0
‘The game is on!’ Eventness at a distance at a livestream concert during lockdown0
Dis/closures of positionality: An auto-ethnographic exploration of the political-epistemological implications of doing research on inclusion and exclusion in Europe0
‘Military timescapes’: The corporeal experience of time in an Israel defense forces reserve combat unit0
Constructing responsibility: Infrastructural harm, citizen oversight and the politics of publics0
Carceral ethnography in a time of pandemic: Examining migrant detention and deportation during COVID-190
Suspicious compassion: On affect and state power in the Dutch asylum procedure0
Animals in anthropology: From objects of ethnography to ethnographic subjects?0
From the presence of absence to the absence of presence: Violence and the practical consequences of nostalgia in Guatemala City0
Re-name the Streets. Toponymic Struggles and Civic Belonging in Murcia (Spain) and Johannesburg (South Africa)0
When fieldwork is forbidden: Ontological dilemmas, subjectivity and moral imperatives as constraints in the field0
Kickboxing with Bourdieu: Heterodoxy, hysteresis and the disruption of “race thinking”0
Time and space/body and face: Meeting ethnography in the pluriverse0
Reconsidering recipocity and capitalism0
Alone and unaware: An ethnography of unidentified and unacknowledged youth loneliness0
On board the quarantine-ship as “floating hotspot”: Creeping externalization practices in the Mediterranean Sea0
Yusuke’s story: Journey, precarity, and coming of age in care0
How time is experienced and conceptualised when conducting ethnography mapping NEET interventions in education settings0
The “ farmily” that changed me: An ethnography and autoethnography of small-scale farming and Agrarian worldviews in Australia0
Ethnographic research of outer space: Challenges and opportunities0
Extra-terrestrial landings: An ethnographic account of doing ethnography0
The birth of Baokuan: Human-machine “gambling games” between villages and algorithms0
Im/mobility and privilege during COVID-19: Reprography of commercial surrogacy in India0
A tour into untouched land: Enacting wilderness through relational engagements0
Dikopelo ritual and performance: The embodiment of place0
Local–translocal–postlocal: Emerging affordances for multi-sited ethnography0
Entangled knowledge: Journalism, ethnography, and the risks of representation0
‘Then we decided not to tell the adults’. Fieldwork among children in an international school0
No one is self-made: Evolving iterations of giving and shaping of transnational Kamma caste subjectivities0
Witchcraft as a case of ethnographic murk: Impasse of knowledge, harshness of experience0
‘People don’t fall for it any longer’: Reflections on ‘the system’, entrepreneurialism, and autonomy among young adults in Amsterdam’s Southeast district0
A relational approach to the ethnographic study of power in the context of the city of London0
Understanding integration at a UK medical school: An ethnographic exploration0
The researcher wears gucci: Reflexive considerations of dress and embodiment in ethnographic research0
The Independence Day as a nationalist ritual: Framework of the March of Independence in Poland0
“It almost seems as if, in the forest, the city has disappeared”: Walking ethnography in an urban wilderness0
Risky business? Parenting children of deployed Danish soldiers0
Choosing not to help: The ethical challenge of beneficence for clinicians conducting ethnographic research0
Geschierian magic: Belonging beyond autochthony. A special issue in honour of Peter Geschiere0
Trusts on the monsoon winds: Parsi transnational religious philanthropy0
Towards a politics of collaborative worldmaking: ethics, epistemologies and mutual positionalities in conflict research0
Ethnographic (dis) locations: An approach for studying marginalisation in the context of socio-economic change0
Ethnographic experiences of participating in a correctional officer training program: An exploration of values, ethics, and role conflict0
Places of belonging: Rethinking coexistence from oriental barbershops in a Finnish city0
Emotion and othering in a contaminated community0
Construction of normality in the gecekondu settlement: Experience of place, social pressure, and tactics0
Effort in absence: Technologically mediated aesthetic experiences of the culture industries’ routine workers0
The fleeting moment and the long haul in urban panhandling0
Gore kinship: The cultural economies of killing in an ethnography of invasive pufferfish in Crete0
Long-term holistic ethnography for new digital worlds0
Changing bodily practices in interspecies communities with dairy cows and white lions: Methodological challenges in co-constructing meaning0
Ethnography in the plural: Experimenting with collective ethnography in research on politics and politicians in Brazil0
Fair Trade in an unfair market: economic competitiveness and workers’ rights in Costa Rica’s banana industry0
Drawing beyond silence: Exploring present realities and imagined futures of Karen encamped refugee youths0
Methodological and ethical challenges of the ‘family map’ technique in researching LGBTQ+ families: Insights from the field0
‘Troubled lads’ . Schools between pathologization, lads’ culture and social suffering in Rome0
A uniform front?: Power and front-line worker variation in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya0
National differentiation and imagined authenticity: The Hmong New Year in multicultural Laos and the United States0
Camera and catharsis: Handling an open wound in emotionally contaminated research0
Ritualization and emotional resilience in times of crisis: Insights from a diary study of Romanian Orthodox Easter during the first COVID-19 lockdown0
Que Dieu facilite l’aventure!”. Ivorian women confronting border regulations and intimate relationships on European adventures0
‘A debt never dies’: Navigating trust and betrayal in southeastern Nigeria0
Cruising Boston and Providence: The roles of place and desire for reflexive queer research(ers)0
Methodological issues in African youth languages research0
Disrupting sense of place in a northern English city: The assemblage of everyday encounter0
Design ethnography: A view from an industrial think tank0
The interpretation of relationships: Fieldwork as boundary-negotiation0
Personal and social attributes influencing the use of residential shared spaces: An autoethnographic study0
Giving and belonging: Religious networks of Sub-Saharan African Muslims in Guangzhou, China0
White people’s colorblind racial identity work in music-related contexts0
Contested knowledges: Negotiating the epistemic politics of engaged activist ethnography0
In honorary of Peter Geschiere, articulation of reproduction: Parents, daughters, and education in north Cameroonian society0
In the name of the (God) father: The unnameable name0
“Unsure whether it feels like home anymore”: Unsettled feelings amongst former panel-block residents in Moscow and Berlin0
The embodiment of fear: Reproductive health and migrant women’s choices, in Verona, Italy0
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