Top Journal Articles of 2024

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This year, AAA journals published more than 600 articles, garnering almost 2 million views! We’d like to thank all of the authors, reviewers, editors, and readers who helped us produce and share this work. Below is a list of the most-read article from each journal in 2024, but be sure to visit each journal’s homepage on AnthroSource to see all of the incredible pieces they’ve published over the past year!

American Anthropologist

Ethnographic methods: Training norms and practices and the future of American anthropology

Rosalyn Negrón, Amber Wutich, H. Russell Bernard, Alexandra Brewis, Alissa Ruth, Katherine Mayfour, Barbara Piperata, Melissa Beresford, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Pardis Mahdavi, Jessica Hardin, Rebecca Zarger, Krista Harper, James Holland Jones, Clarence C. Gravlee, Bryan Brayboy

American Ethnologist

Pig-feast democracy: Direct local elections and the making of a plural political order in West Papua

Veronika Kusumaryati

Annals of Anthropological Practice

Deep hanging out, mixed methods toolkit, or something else? Current ethnographic practices in US anthropology

Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Michael G. Lacy, Amber Wutich, H. Russell Bernard, Kathryn S. Oths, Melissa Beresford, Shawna Bendeck, Julia R. Branstrator, H. J. François Dengah II, Robin G. Nelson, Alissa Ruth, Seth I. Sagstetter, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Katya Xinyi Zhao

Anthropology & Education Quarterly

Dilemmas of vulnerability in Indian education NGOs: Neoliberal subjectivity, emotions, and class-based employment hierarchies in Delhi

Rich Thornton

Anthropology & Humanism

Israeli democracy threatened under right-wing extremists: A “native anthropologist’s” perspective from 2023

Moshe Shokeid

Anthropology of Consciousness

“Psychedelics are no magic pill”: The narrative and embodied dimensions of psychedelic integration in Denmark

Sidsel Marie

Anthropology of Work Review

The commodification of care: Does paying for elder care matter?

Cati Coe

Archaeological Papers of the AAA

Intensification does not require modification: Tropical swidden and the Maya

Anabel Ford

City & Society

Prosthetic species: Security dogs and the more-than-human sensing of urban danger

Rivke Jaffe

Cultural Anthropology

Anti-Blackness and moral repair: The curse of Ham, biblical kinship, and the limits of liberalism

Justin Lee Haruyama

Deciphering a non-meal: Pantawid-Gutom and the everyday negotiation of hunger in the Philippines

Gideon Lasco, Jhaki Mendoza

Culture, Agriculture, Food, and Environment

Digital tools for local farmers: Thinking with spreadsheets in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

Andrew Flachs, Ankita Raturi, Megan Low, Valerie Miller, Juliet Norton, Celeste Redmond, Haley Thomas

Economic Anthropology

The hidden strength of small business: Social networks and wet market vendors in China

Shuru Zhong, Cynthia Werner

Ethos

Colonial trauma: Terrains of disappearance, traumatic reflexivity, and historicizing countertransference

Nichola Khan

Feminist Anthropology

Sterilizing body-territories: Understanding contemporary cases of forced sterilization in the United States and China

Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago

General Anthropology

Native lives matter: Re-prioritizing anthropology (and everything else) in an age of technological genocide

David S. Lowry

Journal for the Anthropology of North America

The agency of “doing something”: Ethnographic research on subject positions at predominantly White institutions

Chenyu Wang, Chaise LaDousa

Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology

“They study for six years. We study for generations”: Renegotiating birth, power, and interculturalidad in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Alexandra J. Reichert

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

Metapolitical seduction: Women’s language and white nationalism

Catherine Tebaldi

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

A pandemic of metrics

Vincanne Adams, Clare Chandler, Ann H. Kelly, Julie Livingston

Museum Anthropology

Making kin is more than metaphor: Implications of responsibilities toward Indigenous knowledge and artistic traditions for museums

Gwyneira Isaac, Klint Burgio-Ericson, Lea McChesney, Adriana Greci Green, Karen Kahe Charley, Kelly Church, Renee Wasson Dillard

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Beyond retributive and restorative justice: In search of mercy with Jordan’s Bedouin

Geoffrey Hughes

Visual Anthropology Review

Higher truths and so-called lies: Documentary’s animated authenticity

Meghanne Barker