| Rank | Article Title | Author(s) | Journal | Vol./Issue |
| 1 | Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others | Lila Abu-Lughod | American Anthropologist | 104.3 |
| 2 | How to Get an Article Accepted at American Anthropologist (or Anywhere) | Tom Boellstorff | American Anthropologist | 110.3 |
| 3 | Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality | James Ferguson | American Ethnologist | 29.4 |
| 4 | On Recognition, Caring, and Dementia | Janelle S. Taylor | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 22.4 |
| 5 | Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: A Political Perspective on Culture and Terrorism | Mahmood Mamdani | American Anthropologist | 104.3 |
| 6 | Acceptance and Rejection | Tom Boellstorff | American Anthropologist | 110.4 |
| 7 | Working for the Federal Government: Anthropology Careers | Shirley J. Fiske | NAPA Bulletin | 29 |
| 8 | China's One-Child Policy and the Empowerment of Urban Daughters | Vanessa L. Fong | American Anthropologist | 104.4 |
| 9 | Child Soldiers, International Humanitarian Law, and the Globalization of Childhood | David M. Rosen | American Anthropologist | 109.2 |
| 10 | Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle | Sally Engle Merry | American Anthropologist | 108.1 |
| 11 | The End(s) of Ethnography : Social/Cultural Anthropology's Signature Form of Producing Knowledge in Transition | George E. Marcus | Cultural Anthropology | 23.1 |
| 12 | What Can Critical Medical Anthropology Contribute to Global Health? | James Pfeiffer, Mark Nichter | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 22.4 |
| 13 | Spiritual Economies: Islam and Neoliberalism in Contemporary Indonesia | Daromir Rudnyckyj | Cultural Anthropology | 24.1 |
| 14 | Seeing Like an Oil Company: Space, Security, and Global Capital in Neoliberal Africa | James Ferguson | American Anthropologist | 107.3 |
| 15 | From Health to Human Rights: Female Genital Cutting and the Politics of Intervention | Bettina Shell-Duncan | American Anthropologist | 110.2 |
| 16 | Genital Cutting and Western Discourses on Sexuality | Kirsten Bell | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 19.2 |
| 17 | Bruner's Search for Meaning: A Conversation between Psychology and Anthropology | Cheryl Mattingly, Nancy C. Lutkehaus, C. Jason Throop | Ethos | 36.1 |
| 18 | Filial Nationalism Among Chinese Teenagers with Global Identities | Vanessa Fong | American Ethnologist | 31.4 |
| 19 | What's Burmese about Burmese Rap? Why Some Expressive Forms Go Global | Ward Keeler | American Ethnologist | 36.1 |
| 20 | Health Identities and Subjectivities | Susan Reynolds Whyte | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 23.1 |
| 21 | Culture and Rights after Culture and Rights | Jane K. Cowan | American Anthropologist | 108.1 |
| 22 | A Preliminary Assessment of Social and Economic Impacts Associated with Hurricane Katrina | John S. Petterson, Laura D. Stanley, Edward Glazier, James Phillipp | American Anthropologist | 108.4 |
| 23 | El Campo: Faciality and Structural Violence in Farm Labor Camps | Peter Benson | Cultural Anthropology | 23.4 |
| 24 | Fashions and Fundamentalisms in Fin-De-Siecle Yemen: Chador Barbie and Islamic Socks | Anne Meneley | Cultural Anthropology | 22.2 |
| 25 | Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival | Saba Mahmood | Cultural Anthropology | 16.2 |