American Ethnologist

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The 3.4k papers published in American Ethnologist in the last decades have received a total of 74.7k indexed citations. Papers published in American Ethnologist usually cover Sociology and Political Science (1.2k papers), Anthropology (957 papers) and Political Science and International Relations (639 papers) specifically the topics of Anthropological Studies and Insights (682 papers), Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (219 papers) and Geographies of human-animal interactions (130 papers). The most active scholars publishing in American Ethnologist are Akhil Gupta, Lila Abu‐Lughod, João Biehl, Arjun Appadurai, Richard Handler, James Ferguson, Judith T. Irvine, Jeffrey S. Juris, Linda Stone and Susan Bibler Coutin.

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American Ethnologist

2.4k papers receiving 48.8k citations

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Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Gover... 1990 2026 2002 2014 1.2k
  1. Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality (2002)
  2. blurred boundaries: the discourse of corruption, the culture of politics, and the imagined state (1995)
  3. the romance of resistance: tracing transformations of power through Bedouin women (1990)
  4. Life of the mind: The interface of psychopharmaceuticals, domestic economies, and social abandonment (2004)
  5. Routes: Travel and Translation In the Late Twentieth Century (1998)
  6. Occult economies and the violence of abstraction: notes from the South African postcolony (1999)
  7. #Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States (2015)
  8. Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation (2012)
  9. gastro‐politics in Hindu South Asia (1981)
  10. Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America (2002)
  11. Representing the “European refugee crisis” in Germany and beyond: Deservingness and difference, life and death (2016)
  12. is homo hierarchicus? (1986)
  13. making empire respectable: the politics of race and sexual morality in 20th‐century colonial cultures (1989)
  14. Where ethics and politics meet (2006)
  15. language variation and cultural hegemony: toward an integration of sociolinguistic and social theory (1985)
  16. Body paint, feathers, and vcrs: aesthetics and authenticity in Amazonian activism (1997)
  17. discourse genres in a theory of practice (1987)
  18. the substance of kinship and the heat of the hearth: feeding, personhood, and relatedness among Malays in Pulau Langkawi (1995)
  19. Anthropology and the development encounter: the making and marketing of development anthropology (1991)
  20. Timepass: Youth, class, and time among unemployed young men in India (2010)
  21. culture, genuine and spurious: the politics of Indianness in the Vaupés, Colombia (1995)
  22. making kin: kinship theory and Zumbagua adoptions (1995)
  23. convicted by the holy spirit: the rhetoric of fundamental Baptist conversion (1987)
  24. cultural politics in an age of statistics: numbers, nations, and the making of Basque identity (1993)
  25. the “real” Haitian Creole: ideology, metalinguistics, and orthographic choice (1994)
  26. The biopolitics of hospitality in Greece: Humanitarianism and the management of refugees (2012)
  27. the cultural politics of blackness in Colombia (1995)
  28. Bartók's funeral: representations of Europe in Hungarian political rhetoric (1991)
  29. A world without innocence (2017)
  30. Greek Cypriot Narratives of History and Collective Identity: Nationalism as a Contested Process (1998)
  31. Concepts of the person among the Gurungs of Nepal (1989)

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