What is the Deal with the Nacirema?!?-AAA Viewer Stats and the Relevance of #Anthropology

What is the Deal with the Nacierma? Answer that question and you will have great insights into the relevance of Anthropology (and in certain parts of the world that includes archaeology) to our modern world.

A little background to that cryptic sentence- Again, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) has been very kind and shared some of their viewer statistics with me. I had asked for a breakdown of their view stats on an article by article bases for 2012. They then informed me that they have 500,000 articles in AnthroSource and that might be a little too much to request from Wiley-Blackwell. However, they did request the top 100 articles and sent me the top 195!, which gives great insights into publishing, societies, and anthropology. The full list is at the end of this post (you should probably take a brief look at it now).

The first aspect that pops out of the stats is the fact that the number one most viewed article, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema, is Open Access (get it here). Ok, maybe that does not jump out to you but if you hang in there with me it has huge implications.  The second aspect that jumps out is the number of views a single article gets- 30,000+. Yes, scholarly articles get 10,000s of views or can if they also happen to be Open Access but I digress. Academic writing can be and is of value to people outside of ivory towers.

The third aspect that jumps out is the subjects of these top viewed articles. Body Ritual Among the Nacirema  is commentary on modern (relatively modern, 1950s) American culture (North American for you Canadians feeling left out) and is satire of anthropology. To be 100% honest, I had to look up the article to see what it was about before remembering that I had read it in undergrad. The number one viewed article, in 2012, from the AAA is satire on anthropology. What does that say about Anthropology?

Don’t get too caught up with the Naacirema, satire, it’s meaning, etc. and take a look at the subjects of the next couple of top articles- immigrate groups, Muslim women, race, women, politics, #Occupy (insert term), terrorism, etc. etc. etc. It is the top issues of the world, or parts of it, today. People are looking to Anthropology for commentary on important matters in the world today, and it is locked away. Remember, I said Open Access may not be the first aspect that jumps out at you but it is important. The AAA have a very long rolling wall of OA – pre-early-1970s articles are OA. The most viewed articles are mostly hidden behind a paywall.

This has, in my opinion, several important implications. One, is that Anthropology has the potential to add meaningful insights to contemporary problems (see Living Anthropologically for a more indepth  discussion of this ). The second, NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW. When the world, and by the world I mean politicians, news organizations (CNN, Fox News, New York Times, The Economists, The Albuquerque Journal, etc.) and everyday people go to economists for answers. You know what every major economists has? I will leave the definition of ‘major’ up to you but if you look at definitions such as well regarded, highly cited, well know, etc. it doesn’t matter the answer will be the same. That answer is a blog. When economists link to Anthropology blogs they melt the servers of those anthropology blogs. The take home message is that if you want to be relevant to the world, you have to let the world in.

There is a TV show, Parks and Recreation. and it has a character named Ron Swanson. In one episode he sits down at a restaurant and says, ‘I want all your eggs and bacon’ to which the waiter responds, ‘ok’. He then stops the waiter and says, ‘No, you probably heard me say I want a lot of eggs and bacon. I said I want ALL your eggs and bacon’.

I am telling this story because I am saying make your work Open and Accessible. I am NOT saying dumb down your work. That is a horrible straw man argument that always gets brought up when someone says OA. To prove my point go read an economist blog. Done? Feel like blowing your brains out from boredom? Feel like Paul on the road to Damascus with new insights? Feel like, meh/indifferent?  You probably have one of these reactions, like everyone else. The reason is because most economists put there work out there as is, they don’t “dumb it down”.  They also don’t treat their audience like idiots, well most don’t. You can put highly technical and jargon laden work online, I may not like it but someone will. Take a look at these top anthropology articles- they tackle complex issues AND they don’t pull any punches AND people read them.  In my opinion, Anthropology can do the same and be of value to people outside the discipline.

This is a lot of information to process-

1. the top viewed anthropology article is satire on Anthropology (it’s also Open Access)
2. academic anthropology articles get 10,000s of views each
3. the top viewed articles have insights into modern problems and people can’t read them

There are also interesting implications for publishing and societies but I will leave that for another post. I will leave it to smarter people than myself to investigate the meaning and implications of these findings. So my dear readers, if you have any insights please do share them with me.

Cheers.

Access	Article Title	Author	Publication	Issue	Page
30309	Body Ritual among the Nacirema	Horace Miner	American Anthropologist	Vol. 58, No. 3, Jun., 1956	503
16519	The Political Topography of Spanish and English: The View from a New York Puerto Rican Neighborhood	Bonnie Urciuoli	American Ethnologist	Vol. 18, No. 2, May, 1991	295
15159	Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others	Lila Abu-Lughod	American Anthropologist	Vol. 104, No. 3, Sep., 2002	783
10908	“Race” and the Construction of Human Identity	Audrey Smedley	American Anthropologist	Vol. 100, No. 3, Sep., 1998	690
7808	The Oedipus Complex, Antigone, and Electra: The Woman as Hero and Victim	Dorothy Willner	American Anthropologist	Vol. 84, No. 1, Mar., 1982	58
7291	Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference	Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson	Cultural Anthropology	Vol. 7, No. 1, Feb., 1992	6
5825	Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation	39	American Ethnologist	2	3039
5676	The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology	Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Margaret M. Lock	Medical Anthropology Quarterly	Vol. 1, No. 1, Mar., 1987	6
5186	Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: A Political Perspective on Culture and Terrorism	Mahmood Mamdani	American Anthropologist	Vol. 104, No. 3, Sep., 2002	766
4733	The Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power Through Bedouin Women	Lila Abu-Lughod	American Ethnologist	Vol. 17, No. 1, Feb., 1990	41
4314	Behind the Model-Minority Stereotype: Voices of High- and Low-Achieving Asian American Students	Stacey J. Lee	Anthropology & Education Quarterly	Vol. 25, No. 4, Dec., 1994	413
4253	China’s One-Child Policy and the Empowerment of Urban Daughters	Vanessa L. Fong	American Anthropologist	Vol. 104, No. 4, Dec., 2002	1098
4243	The Evolution of Human Origins	Carol Ward	American Anthropologist	Vol. 105, No. 1, Mar., 2003	77
4011	The Maasai and the Lion King: Authenticity, Nationalism, and Globalization in African Tourism	Edward M. Bruner	American Ethnologist	Vol. 28, No. 4, Nov., 2001	881
3881	Approaches to Multicultural Education in the United States: Some Concepts and Assumptions	Margaret Alison Gibson	Anthropology & Education Quarterly	Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring, 1984	94
3857	Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival	Saba Mahmood	Cultural Anthropology	Vol. 16, No. 2, May, 2001	202
3708	Diasporas	James Clifford	Cultural Anthropology	Vol. 9, No. 3, Aug., 1994	302
3644	Students’ Resistance in the Classroom	Bracha Alpert	Anthropology & Education Quarterly	Vol. 22, No. 4, Dec., 1991	350
3550	Hierarchies of Choice: The Social Construction of Rank in Jane Austen	Richard Handler and Daniel A. Segal	American Ethnologist	Vol. 12, No. 4, Nov., 1985	691
3460	Campus Sustainable Food Projects: Critique and Engagement	113	American Anthropologist	1	841
3406	War, Factionalism, and the State in Afghanistan	Nazif M. Shahrani	American Anthropologist	Vol. 104, No. 3, Sep., 2002	715
3401	The Occupy Movement in Žižek’s hometown: Direct democracy and a politics of becoming	39	American Ethnologist	2	1956
3354	On Happiness	114	American Anthropologist	1	1331
3345	The Collapse of the Classic Maya: A Case for the Role of Water Control	Lisa J. Lucero	American Anthropologist	Vol. 104, No. 3, Sep., 2002	814
3232	Medicalization of Racial Features: Asian American Women and Cosmetic Surgery	Eugenia Kaw	Medical Anthropology Quarterly	Vol. 7, No. 1, Mar., 1993	74
3146	Making War at Home in the United States: Militarization and the Current Crisis	Catherine Lutz	American Anthropologist	Vol. 104, No. 3, Sep., 2002	723
3117	Beyond Theology: Toward an Anthropology of “Fundamentalism”	Judith Nagata	American Anthropologist	Vol. 103, No. 2, Jun., 2001	481
3088	Homogeneity of Personality Characteristics: A Comparison between Old Order Amish and Non-Amish	Joe Wittmer	American Anthropologist	Vol. 72, No. 5, Oct., 1970	1063
3052	Introduction: Expanding the Discourse on “Race”	Faye V. Harrison	American Anthropologist	Vol. 100, No. 3, Sep., 1998	609
3035	THE SCOPE OF LINGUISTICS	49	American Anthropologist	4	371
3034	A New Look at Navajo Social Organization	Gary Witherspoon	American Anthropologist	Vol. 72, No. 1, Feb., 1970	55
3017	What Is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?	Paul Kay and Willett Kempton	American Anthropologist	Vol. 86, No. 1, Mar., 1984	65
2976	Gender, Language, and Modernity: Toward an Effective History of Japanese Women’s Language	Miyako Inoue	American Ethnologist	Vol. 29, No. 2, May, 2002	392
2963	FEELING HISTORICAL	27	Cultural Anthropology	3	594
2954	Metasignaling and Language Origins	Greg Urban	American Anthropologist	Vol. 104, No. 1, Mar., 2002	233
2950	Anthropology in the 20th Century and beyond	Ward H. Goodenough	American Anthropologist	Vol. 104, No. 2, Jun., 2002	423
2945	The Ecological Basis for Aztec Sacrifice	Michael Harner	American Ethnologist	Vol. 4, No. 1, Feb., 1977	117
2925	The Global Situation	Anna Tsing	Cultural Anthropology	Vol. 15, No. 3, Aug., 2000	327
2918	Cultural Logics of Belonging and Movement: Transnationalism, Naturalization, and U.S. Immigration Politics	Susan Bibler Coutin	American Ethnologist	Vol. 30, No. 4, Nov., 2003	508
2834	The Classification of Values: A Method and Illustration*	58	American Anthropologist	2	399
2783	The “Childhood Obesity Epidemic”:	24	Medical Anthropology Quarterly	1	2754
2772	Kinship and Deep History: Exploring Connections between Culture Areas, Genes, and Languages	Doug Jones	American Anthropologist	Vol. 105, No. 3, Sep., 2003	501
2706	Blurred Boundaries: The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics, and the Imagined State	Akhil Gupta	American Ethnologist	Vol. 22, No. 2, May, 1995	375
2705	WRITING CULTURE AT 25: SPECIAL EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION	27	Cultural Anthropology	3	674
2688	Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality	James Ferguson and Akhil Gupta	American Ethnologist	Vol. 29, No. 4, Nov., 2002	981
2673	Language, Race, and White Public Space	Jane H. Hill	American Anthropologist	Vol. 100, No. 3, Sep., 1998	680
2667	Elaborated and Restricted Codes: Their Social Origins and Some Consequences	66	American Anthropologist	6_PART2	1927
2667	Learning to Work: The Hidden Curriculum of the Classroom	Margaret LeCompte	Anthropology & Education Quarterly	Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring, 1978	22
2643	The Edge and the Center: Gated Communities and the Discourse of Urban Fear	Setha M. Low	American Anthropologist	Vol. 103, No. 1, Mar., 2001	45
2635	Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in 20th-Century Colonical Cultures	Ann L. Stoler	American Ethnologist	Vol. 16, No. 4, Nov., 1989	634
2456	A Critique of Recent Models for the Improvement of Education in Developing Countries	John H. Chilcott	Anthropology & Education Quarterly	Vol. 18, No. 3, Sep., 1987	241
2450	Processes of State Formation in the Inca Heartland (Cuzco, Peru)	Brian S. Bauer and R. Alan Covey	American Anthropologist	Vol. 104, No. 3, Sep., 2002	846
2448	Healing with Plant Intelligence: A Report from Ayahuasca	23	Anthropology of Consciousness	1	724
2445	“Thus Are Our Bodies, Thus Was Our Custom”: Mortuary Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society	Beth A. Conklin	American Ethnologist	Vol. 22, No. 1, Feb., 1995	75
2442	Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications	24	American Ethnologist	1	15094
2437	National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity among Scholars and Refugees	Liisa Malkki	Cultural Anthropology	Vol. 7, No. 1, Feb., 1992	24
2422	How Native Is a “Native” Anthropologist?	Kirin Narayan	American Anthropologist	Vol. 95, No. 3, Sep., 1993	671
2413	The Idea of Power and the Power of Ideas: A Review Essay	Stanley R. Barrett, Sean Stokholm and Jeanette Burke	American Anthropologist	Vol. 103, No. 2, Jun., 2001	468
2412	The Misrepresentation of Anthropology and Its Consequences	Herbert S. Lewis	American Anthropologist	Vol. 100, No. 3, Sep., 1998	716
2410	Education: Keystone of Apartheid	Walton R. Johnson	Anthropology & Education Quarterly	Vol. 13, No. 3, Autumn, 1982	214
2376	Nomads of South Persia: The Basseri Tribe of the Khamseh Confederacy. Fredrik Barth	64	American Anthropologist	3	539
2349	PROPERTY MARKS OF ALASKAN ESKIMO	1	American Anthropologist	4	19
2344	Living the “revolution” in an Egyptian village: Moral action in a national space	39	American Ethnologist	1	1644
2340	“What’s in Your Lunch Box Today?”: Health, Respectability, and Ethnicity in the Primary Classroom	22	Journal of Linguistic Anthropology	1	428
2298	ETHNOGRAPHY IN LATE INDUSTRIALISM	27	Cultural Anthropology	3	466
2284	Beyond Language: The Many Dimensions of an ESL Program	Gisela Ernst	Anthropology & Education Quarterly	Vol. 25, No. 3, Sep., 1994	317
2278	What a Dog Can Do: Children with Autism and Therapy Dogs in Social Interaction	38	Ethos	1	2305
2268	No longer a bargain: Women, masculinity, and the Egyptian uprising	39	American Ethnologist	1	1379
2267	Anthropology and the Development Encounter: The Making and Marketing of Development Anthropology	Arturo Escobar	American Ethnologist	Vol. 18, No. 4, Nov., 1991	658
2259	EXCELENTE ZONA SOCIAL	27	Cultural Anthropology	3	380
2240	Myth and History: A General Model and Its Application to the Bible	Karin R. Andriolo	American Anthropologist	Vol. 83, No. 2, Jun., 1981	261
2199	THAILAND—A LOOSELY STRUCTURED SOCIAL SYSTEM	52	American Anthropologist	2	1329
2171	ANTHROPOLOGY AND FICTION: An Interview with Amitav Ghosh	27	Cultural Anthropology	3	411
2164	ENERGY AND THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURE	45	American Anthropologist	3	651
2154	Rape and Rape Avoidance in Ethno-National Conflicts: Sexual Violence in Liminalized States	Robert M. Hayden	American Anthropologist	Vol. 102, No. 1, Mar., 2000	27
2132	The Methods of Ethnology	Franz Boas	American Anthropologist	Vol. 22, No. 4, Oct. – Dec., 1920	311
2126	Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology	Thomas J. Csordas	Ethos	Vol. 18, No. 1, Mar., 1990	5
2092	Ethnically Correct Dolls: Toying with the Race Industry	Elizabeth Chin	American Anthropologist	Vol. 101, No. 2, Jun., 1999	305
2088	Christianity and Colonialism in South Africa	Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff	American Ethnologist	Vol. 13, No. 1, Feb., 1986	1
2049	Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction: Notes from the South African Postcolony	Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff	American Ethnologist	Vol. 26, No. 2, May, 1999	279
2048	The UN Security Council, Indifference, and Genocide in Rwanda	Michael N. Barnett	Cultural Anthropology	Vol. 12, No. 4, Nov., 1997	551
2041	How Culture Misdirects Multiculturalism	Murray L. Wax	Anthropology & Education Quarterly	Vol. 24, No. 2, Jun., 1993	99
2032	The Profession of the Color Blind: Sociocultural Anthropology and Racism in the 21st Century	Eugenia Shanklin	American Anthropologist	Vol. 100, No. 3, Sep., 1998	669
2026	The Culture of Poverty: An Adjustive Dimension	Seymour Parker and Robert J. Kleiner	American Anthropologist	Vol. 72, No. 3, Jun., 1970	516
2010	The Substance of Kinship and the Heat of the Hearth: Feeding, Personhood, and Relatedness among Malays in Pulau Langkawi	Janet Carsten	American Ethnologist	Vol. 22, No. 2, May, 1995	223
2009	Distinguished Lecture: Facing Power – Old Insights, New Questions	Eric R. Wolf	American Anthropologist	Vol. 92, No. 3, Sep., 1990	586
2000	Culture, Scarcity, and Maternal Thinking: Maternal Detachment and Infant Survival in a Brazilian Shantytown	Nancy Scheper-Hughes	Ethos	Vol. 13, No. 4, Winter, 1985	291
1993	Supply-Side Sushi: Commodity, Market, and the Global City	Theodore C. Bestor	American Anthropologist	Vol. 103, No. 1, Mar., 2001	76
1988	From Aesthetics to Psychology: Notes on Vygotsky’s “Psychology of Art”	Marcelo Guimaraes Lima	Anthropology & Education Quarterly	Vol. 26, No. 4, Dec., 1995	410
1961	The Nature of Deference and Demeanor	Erving Goffman	American Anthropologist	Vol. 58, No. 3, Jun., 1956	473
1955	How to Get an Article Accepted at American Anthropologist (or Anywhere)	110	American Anthropologist	3	468
1949	ETHNOGRAPHY IS, ETHNOGRAPHY AIN’T	27	Cultural Anthropology	3	648
1934	The Whole Universe Is My Cathedral: A Contemporary Navajo Spiritual Synthesis	David H. Begay and Nancy C. Maryboy	Medical Anthropology Quarterly	Vol. 14, No. 4, Dec., 2000	498
1933	Strength and vulnerability after Egypt’s Arab Spring uprisings	39	American Ethnologist	1	1397
1909	Organ Wars: The Battle for Body Parts	Donald Joralemon	Medical Anthropology Quarterly	Vol. 9, No. 3, Sep., 1995	335
1901	A Note on Regional Variation in Navajo Kinship Terminology	Stanley A. Freed and Ruth S. Freed	American Anthropologist	Vol. 72, No. 6, Dec., 1970	1439
1899	The privilege of revolution: Gender, class, space, and affect in Egypt	39	American Ethnologist	1	1276
1893	THE KINSHIP SYSTEM OF THE CONTEMPORARY UNITED STATES	45	American Anthropologist	1	555
1890	Colonialism, Nationalism, and Colonialized Women: The Contest in India	Partha Chatterjee	American Ethnologist	Vol. 16, No. 4, Nov., 1989	622
1886	Female-Selective Abortion in Asia: Patterns, Policies, and Debates	Barbara D. Miller	American Anthropologist	Vol. 103, No. 4, Dec., 2001	1083
1884	Machos and Sluts: Gender, Sexuality, and Violence among a Cohort of Puerto Rican Adolescents	Marysol W. Asencio	Medical Anthropology Quarterly	Vol. 13, No. 1, Mar., 1999	107
1883	“Strong Women” and “Pretty Girls”: Self-Provisioning, Gender, and Class Identity in Rural Galicia (Spain)	Sharon R. Roseman	American Anthropologist	Vol. 104, No. 1, Mar., 2002	22
1863	Students’ Multiple Worlds: Negotiating the Boundaries of Family, Peer, and School Cultures	Patricia Phelan, Ann Locke Davidson and Hanh Thanh Cao	Anthropology & Education Quarterly	Vol. 22, No. 3, Sep., 1991	224
1855	Cultural Darwinism and Language	Roy D’Andrade	American Anthropologist	Vol. 104, No. 1, Mar., 2002	223
1852	PRECARITY’S FORMS	27	Cultural Anthropology	3	389
1846	A Model for Academic Success: The School and Home Environment of East Asian Students	Barbara Schneider and Yongsook Lee	Anthropology & Education Quarterly	Vol. 21, No. 4, Dec., 1990	358
1817	Reflections on secularism, democracy, and politics in Egypt	39	American Ethnologist	1	1178
1816	PLAYLISTS: Books to Teach With	27	Cultural Anthropology	3	319
1813	Female Genital Surgeries: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable	Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer	Medical Anthropology Quarterly	Vol. 13, No. 1, Mar., 1999	79
1813	On Key Symbols	Sherry B. Ortner	American Anthropologist	Vol. 75, No. 5, Oct., 1973	1338
1809	Weighty subjects: The biopolitics of the U.S. war on fat	39	American Ethnologist	3	1533
1806	The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes	Don Kulick	American Anthropologist	Vol. 99, No. 3, Sep., 1997	574
1796	Reconstructing Self and Society: Javanese Muslim Women and “The Veil”	Suzanne Brenner	American Ethnologist	Vol. 23, No. 4, Nov., 1996	673
1755	WITCHCRAFT, BUREAUCRAFT, AND THE SOCIAL LIFE OF (US)AID IN HAITI	27	Cultural Anthropology	1	1240
1747	Revitalization Movements	Anthony F. C. Wallace	American Anthropologist	Vol. 58, No. 2, Apr., 1956	264
1744	Commentary: Democracy, temporalities of capitalism, and dilemmas of inclusion in Occupy movements	39	American Ethnologist	2	1142
1743	The Sociodrama of Presidential Politics: Rhetoric, Ritual, and Power in the Era of Teledemocracy	James R. McLeod	American Anthropologist	Vol. 101, No. 2, Jun., 1999	359
1740	Like Water for Chocolate: Feasting and Political Ritual among the Late Classic Maya at Xunantunich, Belize	Lisa J. LeCount	American Anthropologist	Vol. 103, No. 4, Dec., 2001	935
1739	Death in Technological Time: Locating the End of Meaningful Life	Margaret Lock	Medical Anthropology Quarterly	Vol. 10, No. 4, Dec., 1996	575
1726	Womb as Oasis: The Symbolic Context of Pharaonic Circumcision in Rural Northern Sudan	Janice Boddy	American Ethnologist	Vol. 9, No. 4, Nov., 1982	682
1722	Rethinking the Role of Diagnosis in Navajo Religious Healing	Derek Milne and Wilson Howard	Medical Anthropology Quarterly	Vol. 14, No. 4, Dec., 2000	543
1712	Social Economic Status and Educational Achievement: A Review Article	George Clement Bond	Anthropology & Education Quarterly	Vol. 12, No. 4, Winter, 1981	227
1710	School Ethnography: A Multilevel Approach	John U. Ogbu	Anthropology & Education Quarterly	Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring, 1981	3
1696	On African Origins: Creolization and Connaissance in Haitian Vodou	Andrew Apter	American Ethnologist	Vol. 29, No. 2, May, 2002	233
1684	Professional Vision	Charles Goodwin	American Anthropologist	Vol. 96, No. 3, Sep., 1994	606
1684	Touring Ancient Times: The Present and Presented Past in Contemporary Peru	Helaine Silverman	American Anthropologist	Vol. 104, No. 3, Sep., 2002	881
1674	Shonto Revisited: Measures of Social and Economic Change in a Navajo Community, 1955-1971	William Y. Adams and Lorraine T. Ruffing	American Anthropologist	Vol. 79, No. 1, Mar., 1977	58
1671	Female Genital Cutting: A Harmless Practice?	Gerry Mackie	Medical Anthropology Quarterly	Vol. 17, No. 2, Jun., 2003	135
1670	From Types to Populations: A Century of Race, Physical Anthropology, and the American Anthropological Association	Rachel Caspari	American Anthropologist	Vol. 105, No. 1, Mar., 2003	65
1657	Beyond the Taboo: Imaging Incest	Anna Meigs and Kathleen Barlow	American Anthropologist	Vol. 104, No. 1, Mar., 2002	38
1650	THE LEGACIES OF WRITING CULTURE AND THE NEAR FUTURE OF THE ETHNOGRAPHIC FORM: A Sketch	27	Cultural Anthropology	3	1631
1649	“Flowery War” in Aztec History	Frederic Hicks	American Ethnologist	Vol. 6, No. 1, Feb., 1979	87
1648	The Story Catches You and You Fall down: Tragedy, Ethnography, and “Cultural Competence”	Janelle S. Taylor	Medical Anthropology Quarterly	Vol. 17, No. 2, Jun., 2003	159
1647	Health in the African American Community: Accounting for Health Inequalities	William W. Dressler	Medical Anthropology Quarterly	Vol. 7, No. 4, Dec., 1993	325
1640	The Egyptian revolution: A triumph of poetry	39	American Ethnologist	1	854
1636	The Symbols of “Forest”: A Structural Analysis of Mbuti Culture and Social Organization	Mark S. Mosko	American Anthropologist	Vol. 89, No. 4, Dec., 1987	896
1621	The Masked Face	5	Ethos	3	125
1619	KINKY EMPIRICISM	27	Cultural Anthropology	3	455
1567	BEFORE (AND AFTER) NEOLIBERALISM: Tacit Knowledge, Secrets of the Trade, and the Public Sector in Egypt	27	Cultural Anthropology	1	1558
1562	Beyond secular and religious: An intellectual genealogy of Tahrir Square	39	American Ethnologist	1	980
1518	TWENTY‐FIVE YEARS IS A LONG TIME	27	Cultural Anthropology	3	325
1510	Sectarian conflict and family law in contemporary Egypt	39	American Ethnologist	1	968
1486	Health Identities and Subjectivities:	23	Medical Anthropology Quarterly	1	670
1485	What Can Critical Medical Anthropology Contribute to Global Health?	22	Medical Anthropology Quarterly	4	1328
1475	Regarding the Rise in Autism: Vaccine Safety Doubt, Conditions of Inquiry, and the Shape of Freedom	38	Ethos	1	769
1473	Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality	29	American Ethnologist	4	2666
1459	SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE	44	American Anthropologist	1	47
1427	THE GLOBAL UNIVERSITY, AREA STUDIES, AND THE WORLD CITIZEN: Neoliberal Geography’s Redistribution of the “World”	27	Cultural Anthropology	1	1572
1400	Child Soldiers, International Humanitarian Law, and the Globalization of Childhood	109	American Anthropologist	2	3386
1389	Ayahuasca as Antidepressant? Psychedelics and Styles of Reasoning in Psychiatry	23	Anthropology of Consciousness	1	567
1383	Baby Talk in Six Languages	66	American Anthropologist	6_PART2	1075
1368	Surfaces of Longing. Cosmopolitan Aspiration and Frustration in Egypt	24	City & Society	1	208
1364	COMPLEXITIES OF THE “TRANSACTIONAL SEX” MODEL: NON‐PROVIDING MEN, SELF‐PROVIDING WOMEN, AND HIV RISK IN RURAL MALAWI	35	Annals of Anthropological Practice	1	299
1350	Reclaiming Applied Anthropology: Its Past, Present, and Future	108	American Anthropologist	1	1254
1340	On Nature and the Human	112	American Anthropologist	4	1045
1338	“Living Cadavers” in Bangladesh: Bioviolence in the Human Organ Bazaar	26	Medical Anthropology Quarterly	1	1364
1336	From Cure to Community: Transforming Notions of Autism	38	Ethos	1	834
1331	BLACKOUTS AND PROGRESS: Privatization, Infrastructure, and a Developmentalist State in Jimma, Ethiopia	27	Cultural Anthropology	1	1568
1329	STORIES AND COSMOGONIES: Imagining Creativity Beyond “Nature” and “Culture”	24	Cultural Anthropology	2	807
1308	Direct Male Care and Hominin Evolution: Why Male–Child Interaction Is More Than a Nice Social Idea	112	American Anthropologist	1	289
1303	From Health to Human Rights: Female Genital Cutting and the Politics of Intervention	110	American Anthropologist	2	1228
1298	Insurgent Citizenship in an Era of Global Urban Peripheries	21	City & Society	2	574
1267	THE OTHER WHO IS ALSO ONESELF: Immunological Risk, Danger, and Recognition	27	Cultural Anthropology	1	466
1260	Wiped Out by the “Greenwave”: Environmental Gentrification and the Paradoxical Politics of Urban Sustainability	23	City & Society	2	680
1254	PIRACY, CIRCULATORY LEGITIMACY, AND NEOLIBERAL SUBJECTIVITY IN BRAZIL	27	Cultural Anthropology	1	1329
1246	Fashioning Piety: Women’s Dress, Money, and Faith among Senegalese Muslims in New York City	24	City & Society	1	960
1235	Social Class in America—A Critical Review	52	American Anthropologist	4	416
1234	Studying Up Revisited	20	PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review	1	918
1231	Instant Noodles as an Antifriction Device: Making the BOP with PPP in PNG	114	American Anthropologist	1	1433
1227	On the Varieties and Particularities of Cultural Experience	40	Ethos	1	793
1226	Special Ayahuasca Issue Introduction: Toward a Multidisciplinary Approach to Ayahuasca Studies	23	Anthropology of Consciousness	1	742
1215	Mediajourneys: Looking at People, Looking for People	28	Visual Anthropology Review	1	342
1209	The Human Terrain System and Anthropology: A Review of Ongoing Public Debates	113	American Anthropologist	1	637
1188	Complexity in Biological Anthropology in 2011: Species, Reproduction, and Sociality	114	American Anthropologist	2	966
1168	Seeing Like an Oil Company: Space, Security, and Global Capital in Neoliberal Africa	107	American Anthropologist	3	1705
1167	CODE IS SPEECH: Legal Tinkering, Expertise, and Protest among Free and Open Source Software Developers	24	Cultural Anthropology	3	853
1155	Meanings and feelings: Local interpretations of the use of violence in the Egyptian revolution	39	American Ethnologist	1	798
1143	The Art of Torture and the Place of Execution: A Forensic Narrative	35	PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review	1	515
1133	THE EMERGENCE OF MULTISPECIES ETHNOGRAPHY	25	Cultural Anthropology	4	1490
1114	Violence and Recreation: Vacationing in the Realm of Dark Tourism	34	Anthropology and Humanism	1	583
1109	Psalms and Coping with Uncertainty: Religious Israeli Women’s Responses to the 2006 Lebanon War	113	American Anthropologist	1	249
1108	Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology	40	Ethos	1	908
1104	A NEW DEFINITION OF CULTURE	42	American Anthropologist	4	119
1103	THE VIRAL INTIMACIES OF ETHNOGRAPHIC ENCOUNTERS: Prolegomenon to a Thought Experiment in the Play of Metaphors	27	Cultural Anthropology	1	425
1095	THE EARLY HISTORY OF FELT	32	American Anthropologist	1	150
1091	1 Gender, Households, and Society: An Introduction	18	Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association	1	377
1091	Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle	108	American Anthropologist	1	1593
1080	Friendship, Anthropology	37	Anthropology and Humanism	1	295
1075	Differentiating indigenous citizenship: Seeking multiplicity in rights, identity, and sovereignty in Canada	36	American Ethnologist	1	1022
1055	THE ALLURE OF THE TRANSNATIONAL: Notes on Some Aspects of the Political Economy of Water in India	22	Cultural Anthropology	4	1496
1049	The Concept of Culture*	61	American Anthropologist	2	1815
1047	A Biocultural Approach to Breastfeeding Interactions in Central Africa	114	American Anthropologist	1	738
1031	“I fell in love with Carlos the meerkat”: Engagement and detachment in human–animal relations	37	American Ethnologist	2	779
1030	MEMORANDUM FOR THE STUDY OF ACCULTURATION	38	American Anthropologist	1	2753

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