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This year, the Anthropology News website garnered more than 328,000 views from 274,000 readers! We’d like to thank all of the authors, editors, and readers who helped us produce and share this work.

Below is a list of the most-read AN pieces published in 2025, but be sure to visit our website to see all of the incredible pieces that have come out over the past year!

An Anthropology Winter or Strategic Renewal?
Matt Artz

“Nothing to See Here:” On Life at Russia’s Feral Frontier
Rusana Novikova

Illegibility and Immobility in the Social Lives of Muslim Migrants in Japan
John Ostermiller

The Persistent Myth of the Nuclear Family
Kent Johnson

Oases of Care: Elderly Women, Plants, and Life in the “Unpromising” Villages
Aliaksandra Shrubok

And here is our most-viewed comic, from Bernard Perley
Going Native: Invisibility

Authors

Sean Mallin

Cite as

Mallin, Sean. 2025. “Top AN Articles of 2025.” Anthropology News website, December 8, 2025.