American Ethnologist is a quarterly journal concerned with social and cultural anthropology in the broadest sense of the term. The journal’s articles combine ethnographic specificity with original theoretical thinking, conveying the relevance of the ethnographic imagination to the contemporary world.
As a flagship journal for social and cultural anthropology, American Ethnologist aims to disseminate work that roams across a wide variety of theoretical approaches, methods, and points of view. The editor encourages the submission of manuscripts that reflect the discipline’s intellectual and geographic diversity.
American Ethnologist is published on behalf of the American Ethnological Society, a section of the American Anthropological Association, by Wiley-Blackwell, 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA.
Latest Issue, 51.2
Articles
The situation of the interface: Pashto master copies and data migration in Sharjah
Timothy P. A. Cooper
Pig-feast democracy: Direct local elections and the making of a plural political order in West Papua
Veronika Kusumaryati
“Punching is a sickness”: Temporal work, violence, and unsettled care among men who box in Accra
Leo Hopkinson
Visible critique/critical visibility: Contemporary artists and conspicuous omission in the United Arab Emirates
Elizabeth Derderian
Birding under fire: Ecological violence and value in Iraq
Bridget Guarasci
Fiat speech, fiat infrastructure: The semiosis of anticipatory transformation in Timor-Leste’s emerging oil economy
Judith Bovensiepen
Fuzzy borders: Media, migration brokerage, and state bureaucracy
Natasha Raheja
Book Review Essays – Ethnography at Its Edges
BOOK REVIEWS
Flexible families: Nicaraguan transnational families in Costa Rica
Lynnette Arnold
The sexual politics of empire: Postcolonial homophobia in Haiti
Dasha A. Chapman
Gut anthro: An experiment in thinking with microbes
Andrea Ford
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, secularism, and the state in Lebanon
Ola Galal
Policing race, ethnicity and culture: Ethnographic perspectives across Europe
Jessica Katzenstein
Chinese village life today: Building families in an age of transition
Andrew Kipnis
Without the state: Self-organization and political activism in Ukraine
Emma Mateo
¡Alerta! Engineering on shaky ground
Lisa Messeri
Thanks for watching: An anthropological study of video sharing on YouTube
Daniel Miller
A ritual geology: Gold and subterranean knowledge in Savanna West Africa
Tom Özden-Schilling
Food allergy advocacy: Parenting and the politics of care
Matthew Pappalardo, Holly Horan
Experimenting with ethnography: A companion to analysis
Fulya Pinar
Chemical heroes: Pharmacological supersoldiers in the US military
Traben Pleasant
Fat in four cultures—a global ethnography of weight
Fernanda Baeza Scagliusi
Something in these hills: The culture of family land in southern Appalachia
William Schumann
Mafiacraft: An ethnography of deadly silence
Antonio Vesco
Genres of listening: An ethnography of psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires
Sergio E. Visacovsky