| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | From Immigrant to Transmigrant: Theorizing Transnational Migration | Anthropological Quarterly | 1995 | 1,241 |
| 2 | Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach | Anthropological Quarterly | 1976 | 336 |
| 3 | Victimcy, Girlfriending, Soldiering: Tactic Agency in a Young Woman's Social Navigation of the Liberian War Zone | Anthropological Quarterly | 2005 | 325 |
| 4 | Introduction: Resource Materialities | Anthropological Quarterly | 2014 | 294 |
| 5 | Negative Heritage and Past Mastering in Archaeology | Anthropological Quarterly | 2002 | 284 |
| 6 | Class and Cosmopolitan Striving: Mothers' Management of English Education in South Korea | Anthropological Quarterly | 2004 | 263 |
| 7 | Risk and Culture | Anthropological Quarterly | 1983 | 258 |
| 8 | Pharmaceuticalization: AIDS Treatment and Global Health Politics | Anthropological Quarterly | 2007 | 252 |
| 9 | Feminism, the Taliban, and Politics of Counter-Insurgency | Anthropological Quarterly | 2002 | 242 |
| 10 | Introduction: Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology and the Opacity of Other Minds | Anthropological Quarterly | 2008 | 239 |
| 11 | Youth and the Social Imagination in Africa: Introduction to Parts 1 and 2 | Anthropological Quarterly | 2000 | 233 |
| 12 | Ownership and Political Ecology | Anthropological Quarterly | 1972 | 229 |
| 13 | The Specter of Orientalism in Europe: From Exotic Other to Stigmatized Brother | Anthropological Quarterly | 2006 | 218 |
| 14 | Energopower: An Introduction | Anthropological Quarterly | 2014 | 210 |
| 15 | Sociology in Question | Anthropological Quarterly | 1995 | 177 |
| 16 | The Palestinian Peasant as National Signifier | Anthropological Quarterly | 1990 | 174 |
| 17 | Blurring Boundaries: Recognizing Knowledge-Practices in the Study of Social Movements | Anthropological Quarterly | 2008 | 170 |
| 18 | Unnatural Emotions: Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll and Their Challenge to Western Theory | Anthropological Quarterly | 1988 | 169 |
| 19 | The Abuses of Memory: Reflections on the Memory Boom in Anthropology | Anthropological Quarterly | 2005 | 169 |
| 20 | Japanese Mothers and Obentōs: The Lunch-Box as Ideological State Apparatus | Anthropological Quarterly | 1991 | 157 |
| 21 | Questions in Cross-Linguistic Medical Encounters: The Role of the Hospital Interpreter | Anthropological Quarterly | 2001 | 148 |
| 22 | The Political Agnosticism of Free and Open Source Software and the Inadvertent Politics of Contrast | Anthropological Quarterly | 2004 | 137 |
| 23 | Of Men and Meadows: Strategies of Alpine Land Use | Anthropological Quarterly | 1972 | 129 |
| 24 | The Return to the Family: Welfare, State, and Politics of the Family in Turkey | Anthropological Quarterly | 2012 | 127 |
| 25 | Anthropology and Theology: An Awkward Relationship? | Anthropological Quarterly | 2006 | 124 |
| 26 | Female Drug Smugglers on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Gender, Crime, and Empowerment | Anthropological Quarterly | 2008 | 120 |
| 27 | The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Time | Anthropological Quarterly | 1984 | 119 |
| 28 | Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture | Anthropological Quarterly | 1980 | 118 |
| 29 | Ethnography Two Decades After Writing Culture: From the Experimental to the Baroque | Anthropological Quarterly | 2007 | 115 |
| 30 | Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec | Anthropological Quarterly | 1990 | 113 |
| 31 | Genetics, Identity, and the Anthropology of Essentialism | Anthropological Quarterly | 2002 | 111 |
| 32 | Technologies of Servitude: Governmentality and Indonesian Transnational Labor Migration | Anthropological Quarterly | 2004 | 110 |
| 33 | States of Conservation: Protection, Politics, and Pacting within UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee | Anthropological Quarterly | 2014 | 110 |
| 34 | Cracking Down on Diaspora: Arab Detroit and America's "War on Terror" | Anthropological Quarterly | 2003 | 106 |
| 35 | On Pastness: A Reconsideration of Materiality in Archaeological Object Authenticity | Anthropological Quarterly | 2013 | 105 |
| 36 | The Position of Women: Appearance and Reality | Anthropological Quarterly | 1967 | 104 |
| 37 | Fear of a Black Nation: Local Rappers, Transnational Crossings, and State Power in Contemporary Cuba | Anthropological Quarterly | 2003 | 104 |
| 38 | AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame | Anthropological Quarterly | 1994 | 100 |
| 39 | Lovelorn Farangs: The Correspondence between Foreign Men and Thai Girls | Anthropological Quarterly | 1986 | 96 |
| 40 | Social Movements and Collective Identity: | Anthropological Quarterly | 2008 | 93 |
| 41 | Walt Disney World: Bounded Ritual Space and the Playful Pilgrimage Center | Anthropological Quarterly | 1980 | 90 |
| 42 | Auto/Ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social | Anthropological Quarterly | 1998 | 90 |
| 43 | Ordinary Refugees: Social Precarity and Soul in 21st Century Japan | Anthropological Quarterly | 2012 | 90 |
| 44 | Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture | Anthropological Quarterly | 1997 | 89 |
| 45 | The Riddle of the Third Sector: Civil Society, International Aid, and NGOs in Russia | Anthropological Quarterly | 2004 | 87 |
| 46 | Reverberations: Disability and the New Kinship Imaginary | Anthropological Quarterly | 2011 | 87 |
| 47 | Anthropocenic Ecoauthority: The Winds of Oaxaca | Anthropological Quarterly | 2014 | 86 |
| 48 | Cultural Anthropology: A Contemporary Perspective | Anthropological Quarterly | 1981 | 82 |
| 49 | Exit Strategy: Profit, Cosmology, and the Future of Humans in Space | Anthropological Quarterly | 2012 | 82 |
| 50 | Introduction: Meaning-Making in Social Movements | Anthropological Quarterly | 2008 | 78 |
