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This year, our journals published almost 800 articles, garnering more than 2.1 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 published in each journal in 2025, but be sure to visit each journal’s homepage to see all of the incredible pieces that have come out over the past year!

American Anthropologist

Writing in community: Relationship building and accountability in knowledge production

Jordi Armani Rivera Prince, Emily M. Blackwood, Madeleine Landrum, Emily B. P. Milton, Elizabeth L. Rodgers, Monica Barnes, Elizabeth Chin, Christa Craven, Kristina Douglass, María José Figuerero Torres, María A. Gutiérrez, Sarah Herr, Lisa Hodgetts, Kirk A. Maasch, Kylie E. Quave, Danilyn Rutherford, Daniel H. Sandweiss

American Ethnologist

I was wrong when I studied Russian nuclear weapons scientists

Hugh Gusterson

Annals of Anthropological Practice

Intersectionality

Alejandro Echeverria

Anthropology & Education Quarterly

Affirming children’s dignity in their affective flow in play-based science inquiry

Christine Lee, Tessaly Jen, Sarah Lee, D. Teo Keifert, Noel Enyedy

Anthropology & Humanism

Getting ethnographic “wrongs” right: Continuity, reflexivity, and possibility in fieldwork dilemmas

Dylan H. O’Brien

Anthropology of Consciousness

Reports of non-physical beings assisting in reiki sessions

Helané Wahbeh, Beth Glick, Juliette Gallo, Garret Yount

Anthropology of Work Review

“Activism was a survival strategy”: Chronic illness and the power of endometriosis activism as work

Anika König, Caroline Meier zu Biesen

City & Society

The disappearance of urban horses and the rise of homelessness and mental illness

Vincent Laliberté

Cultural Anthropology

Religious afterlives of a revolution

Amira Mittermaier

Culture, Agriculture, Food, and Environment

Developing the Heirloom Gardens Oral History Project

Hanna Garth, Tessa Desmond, Kimberly Jackson, Gloria Wade Gayles, Holly Smith, Bonnetta Adeeb, E. Fatimah Hassan, Christian Keeve, JahAsia Jacobs, Ayluonne Tereszkiewicz, Justice Madden

Economic Anthropology

Designing “Korean” kimchi: Speculative configuration of distance and commodity value in the Chinese kimchi industry

Heangjin Park

Ethos

Is multiculturalism as American as apple pie? A survey of attitudes toward ethnic and religious diversity in the United States

Séamus A. Power, Crystal Shackleford, Friedolin Merhout, Richard A. Shweder

Feminist Anthropology

Fieldwork in transition: Rethinking anxieties, solidarities, and ontologies amid compounding forms of distress

Megan A. Carney

General Anthropology

Russian late-liberalism: Notes hierarchy, responsibility, and legally ownerless dogs

Xenia Cherkaev

Journal for the Anthropology of North America

The tentacles of surveillance: Cephalopods and United States satellite intelligence

Andrew Bickford

Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology

Popularizing autogestión: Punk, Zapatismo, and anarchist ethics in Mexico City

Livia K. Stone

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

“And it just becomes queer slang”: Race, linguistic innovation, and appropriation within trans communities in the US South

Archie Crowley

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Transforming medical anthropology: Community, praxis, and the Black Feminist Health Science Studies Collaboratory

Adeola Oni-Orisan, Sheyda M. Aboii, Ugo Felicia Edu

Museum Anthropology

De-hoarding the museum: Repatriation and the “loss” of collections

Krystiana L. Krupa

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Property and the matter of belonging

LaShandra Sullivan, Meghan Morris, Gregory Duff Morton, Lee Cabatingan

Visual Anthropology Review

Voicing silences in the colonial photographic archive

Paul Basu