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American Ethnologist Template

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About the American Ethnologist format

American Ethnologist is a peer-reviewed journal published by Wiley, covering Anthropological Studies and Insights, Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies, Indigenous Studies and Ecology.

PublisherWiley
Reference styleAuthor–year (Chicago)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." American Ethnologist 12 (3): 45–58.

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Publishes research inAnthropological Studies and Insights Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies Indigenous Studies and Ecology Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies African history and culture analysis
ISSN0094-0496
Citation impact (2-yr)0.38
h-index177
i10-index1,998
Total citations160,493
Article processing charge$3,090
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Chicago
Journal websiteanthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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Papers published in American Ethnologist per year

149
2014
143
2015
168
2016
176
2017
139
2018
141
2019
126
2020
66
2021
65
2022
147
2023
133
2024
113
2025

Citation impact of American Ethnologist by publication year

3.1K
2014
3K
2015
2.7K
2016
2.2K
2017
790
2018
883
2019
393
2020
582
2021
355
2022
670
2023
98
2024
14
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in American Ethnologist

Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality

James Ferguson, Akhil Gupta · 1 Nov 2002

In this exploratory article, we ask how states come to be understood as entities with particular spatial characteristics, and how changing relations between practices of government and national territories may be challenging long‐established modes of state spatiality. In the first part of this article, we seek to identify two principles that are key to state…

2,636 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
the romance of resistance: tracing transformations of power through Bedouin women

Lila Abu‐Lughod · 1 Feb 1990

Resistance has become in recent years a popular focus for work in the human sciences. Despite the theoretical sophistication of many anthropological and historical studies of everyday resistance, there remains a tendency to romanticize it. I argue instead that resistance should be used as a diagnostic of power, and I show what the forms of…

2,293 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Occult economies and the violence of abstraction: notes from the South African postcolony

Jean Comaroff, John Comaroff · 1 May 1999

Postcolonial South Africa, like other postrevolutionary societies, appears to have witnessed a dramatic rise in occult economies: in the deployment, real or imagined, of magical means for material ends. These embrace a wide range of phenomena, from "ritual murder," the sale of body parts, and the putative production of zombies to pyramid schemes and other…

1,525 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

American Ethnologist template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the American Ethnologist format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the American Ethnologist template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official Wiley format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does American Ethnologist use?
American Ethnologist uses Author–year (Chicago) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." American Ethnologist 12 (3): 45–58.
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American Ethnologist is a multidisciplinary journal published by Wiley. DocuGuru's American Ethnologist template matches Wiley's official submission format.
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