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#	Title	Journal	Year	Citations
1	Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography	Annual Review of Anthropology	1995	5,419
2	Poetics and Performances as Critical Perspectives on Language and Social Life	Annual Review of Anthropology	1990	2,263
3	Migrant “Illegality” and Deportability in Everyday Life	Annual Review of Anthropology	2002	2,206
4	The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure	Annual Review of Anthropology	2013	2,073
5	Language style as audience design	Language in Society	1984	1,880
6	A classification of illocutionary acts	Language in Society	1976	1,608
7	Language and Agency	Annual Review of Anthropology	2001	1,307
8	Language and woman's place	Language in Society	1973	1,229
9	Variation and the indexical field¹	Journal of Sociolinguistics	2008	1,217
10	Think Practically and Look Locally: Language and Gender as Community-Based Practice	Annual Review of Anthropology	1992	1,200
11	Refugees and Exile: From "Refugee Studies" to the National Order of Things	Annual Review of Anthropology	1995	1,189
12	Language Ideology	Annual Review of Anthropology	1994	1,109
13	Parks and Peoples: The Social Impact of Protected Areas	Annual Review of Anthropology	2006	1,073
14	Epistemics in Action: Action Formation and Territories of Knowledge	Research on Language and Social Interaction	2012	1,060
15	The Local and the Global: The Anthropology of Globalization and Transnationalism	Annual Review of Anthropology	1995	1,058
16	Three Waves of Variation Study: The Emergence of Meaning in the Study of Sociolinguistic Variation	Annual Review of Anthropology	2012	1,001
17	What no bedtime story means: Narrative skills at home and school	Language in Society	1982	984
18	The Anthropology of Emotions	Annual Review of Anthropology	1986	960
19	Stance, Alignment, and Affiliation During Storytelling: When Nodding Is a Token of Affiliation	Research on Language and Social Interaction	2008	881
20	The Cultural Anthropology of Time: A Critical Essay	Annual Review of Anthropology	1992	878
21	Sex, covert prestige and linguistic change in the urban British English of Norwich	Language in Society	1972	865
22	Voice, Footing, Enregisterment	Journal of Linguistic Anthropology	2005	836
23	The Social Brain: Mind, Language, and Society in Evolutionary Perspective	Annual Review of Anthropology	2003	808
24	Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power	Journal of Linguistic Anthropology	1992	795
25	NARRATING THE SELF	Annual Review of Anthropology	1996	757
26	DOING GOOD? The Politics and Antipolitics of NGO Practices	Annual Review of Anthropology	1997	745
27	“Sharing time”: Children's narrative styles and differential access to literacy	Language in Society	1981	739
28	Overlapping talk and the organization of turn-taking for conversation	Language in Society	2000	736
29	The Anthropology of Food and Eating	Annual Review of Anthropology	2002	734
30	On the syntax of sentences-in-progress	Language in Society	1991	720
31	Language Socialization	Annual Review of Anthropology	1986	719
32	Unsettling race and language: Toward a raciolinguistic perspective	Language in Society	2017	718
33	The Problem of Informant Accuracy: The Validity of Retrospective Data	Annual Review of Anthropology	1984	710
34	Some principles of linguistic methodology	Language in Society	1972	661
35	Globalization, the new economy, and the commodification of language and identity	Journal of Sociolinguistics	2003	649
36	Language ideologies and the consequences of standardization	Journal of Sociolinguistics	2001	646
37	A Class Act: Anthropology and the Race to Nation Across Ethnic Terrain	Annual Review of Anthropology	1989	619
38	Mobilizing Response	Research on Language and Social Interaction	2010	605
39	The Globalization of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity	Annual Review of Anthropology	2004	604
40	The Epistemic Engine: Sequence Organization and Territories of Knowledge	Research on Language and Social Interaction	2012	594
41	Biological Changes in Human Populations with Agriculture	Annual Review of Anthropology	1995	579
42	Social Status and Health in Humans and Other Animals	Annual Review of Anthropology	2004	579
43	The organization of turns at formal talk in the classroom	Language in Society	1978	573
44	Life History Traits in Humans: Theory and Empirical Studies	Annual Review of Anthropology	1999	554
45	ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON HAZARDS AND DISASTERS	Annual Review of Anthropology	1996	553
46	The Commodification of Language	Annual Review of Anthropology	2010	553
47	Constructing Social Identity: A Language Socialization Perspective	Research on Language and Social Interaction	1993	550
48	Reflections on Quantification in the Study of Conversation	Research on Language and Social Interaction	1993	547
49	Maddening States	Annual Review of Anthropology	2003	543
50	The Anthropology of Money	Annual Review of Anthropology	2006	540
51	Is Sybil there? the structure of some American English directives	Language in Society	1976	534
52	Narrative as self-portrait: Sociolinguistic constructions of identity	Language in Society	1996	530
53	Social Anthropology of Technology	Annual Review of Anthropology	1992	529
54	Language Socialization: Reproduction and Continuity, Transformation and Change	Annual Review of Anthropology	2002	528
55	The things we do with words: Ilongot speech acts and speech act theory in philosophy	Language in Society	1982	526
56	Representations of International Tourism in the Social Sciences: Sun, Sex, Sights, Savings, and Servility	Annual Review of Anthropology	1989	522
57	Cultivating the Body: Anthropology and Epistemologies of Bodily Practice and Knowledge	Annual Review of Anthropology	1993	522
58	Contingency and Action: A Comparison of Two Forms of Requesting	Research on Language and Social Interaction	2008	522
59	The epistemics of social relations: Owning grandchildren	Language in Society	2006	521
60	Constituting and maintaining activities across sequences:And-prefacing as a feature of question design	Language in Society	1994	519
61	Ethnographies as Texts	Annual Review of Anthropology	1982	518
62	The Politics of Space, Time and Substance: State Formation, Nationalism, and Ethnicity	Annual Review of Anthropology	1994	515
63	Toward an Ecology of Materials	Annual Review of Anthropology	2012	514
64	The Upper Paleolithic Revolution	Annual Review of Anthropology	2002	503
65	Theories of Culture	Annual Review of Anthropology	1974	498
66	LINGUISTIC, CULTURAL, AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY	Annual Review of Anthropology	2005	494
67	Ecological Anthropology	Annual Review of Anthropology	1980	486
68	Who's got the floor?	Language in Society	1981	486
69	Geometric Morphometrics	Annual Review of Anthropology	2007	480
70	Critical Discourse Analysis	Annual Review of Anthropology	2000	476
71	Language and Political Economy	Annual Review of Anthropology	1989	475
72	Radical Worlds: The Anthropology of Incommensurability and Inconceivability	Annual Review of Anthropology	2001	473
73	Return Migration	Annual Review of Anthropology	1980	472
74	Sociolinguistic nostalgia and the authentication of identity	Journal of Sociolinguistics	2003	466
75	Multiple Temporalities of Language and Body in Interaction: Challenges for Transcribing Multimodality	Research on Language and Social Interaction	2018	466
76	Complaints About Transgressions and Misconduct	Research on Language and Social Interaction	1998	464
77	Oh-prefaced responses to inquiry	Language in Society	1998	462
78	Policing Borders, Producing Boundaries. The Governmentality of Immigration in Dark Times	Annual Review of Anthropology	2011	462
79	New Ecology and the Social Sciences: What Prospects for a Fruitful Engagement?	Annual Review of Anthropology	1999	460
80	English as a lingua franca: A threat to multilingualism?	Journal of Sociolinguistics	2003	460
81	Sustainable Governance of Common-Pool Resources: Context, Methods, and Politics	Annual Review of Anthropology	2003	460
82	RACE AND ETHNICITY IN PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH: Models to Explain Health Disparities	Annual Review of Anthropology	2005	460
83	The Anthropologies of Illness and Sickness	Annual Review of Anthropology	1982	450
84	“Why be normal?”: Language and identity practices in a community of nerd girls	Language in Society	1999	443
85	Resource Wars: The Anthropology of Mining	Annual Review of Anthropology	2003	440
86	Documents and Bureaucracy	Annual Review of Anthropology	2012	439
87	Challenges of multimodality: Language and the body in social interaction	Journal of Sociolinguistics	2016	439
88	A Bioarchaeological Perspective on the History of Violence	Annual Review of Anthropology	2001	432
89	Neoliberalism as language policy	Language in Society	2013	425
90	Contact, the feature pool and the speech community: The emergence of Multicultural London English	Journal of Sociolinguistics	2011	419
91	Variation in Human Body Size and Shape	Annual Review of Anthropology	2002	418
92	Complex Adaptive Systems	Annual Review of Anthropology	2003	418
93	Mobility/Sedentism: Concepts, Archaeological Measures, and Effects	Annual Review of Anthropology	1992	413
94	Family and Household: The Analysis of Domestic Groups	Annual Review of Anthropology	1979	412
95	The Human Adaptation for Culture	Annual Review of Anthropology	1999	411
96	Selecting next speaker: The context-sensitive operation of a context-free organization	Language in Society	2003	411
97	Deontic Authority in Interaction: The Right to Announce, Propose, and Decide	Research on Language and Social Interaction	2012	410
98	Simultaneity and Bivalency as Strategies in Bilingualism	Journal of Linguistic Anthropology	1998	409
99	Accommodating the elderly: Invoking and extending a theory	Language in Society	1988	406
100	SWOT ANALYSIS: A THEORETICAL REVIEW	Journal of International Social Research	2017	406

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