Emanuela Nadia Borghi's "Embodying Trauma, Listening to Hope" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Maryam Fouad's "Awful Anthropology" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Deborah A. Boehm's "Hard To See" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Meghna Roy's "Blending Art and Science" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Hassan F. Virk "Life, Still Life, and Death in Northern Pakistan" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Lucas Rozell, Emily Reynolds, and Kathryn E. Goldfarb's "Living Archives" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Chiara Pussetti "The Bird’s Lament" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Oriol Pascual Pérez's "El Afecto en la Experiencia Etnográfica de la Muerte" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Karina Hoření's "The Past is a Möbius Strip: Ghosts in Post-Displacement Central Europe" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Hanna Dosenko's "For Kostya: Brother, Friend, Warrior" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Read Salwa Tareen's introduction to the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection. The online collection explores 'what it means to witness and record heartbreaking anthropology.' Access here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Darcy Tetreault’s “Mining and eco-territorial struggles in Mexico”-- now in the Anthropology of Free Trade Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

AES 2025 Online Content Highlights! Access the exclusive essays, interviews, and collections here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED to January 15. The American Ethnological Society Spring Conference, themed EXPERIMENT, will be at the University of Victoria, B.C. from May 1-3, 2026.

Read Alejandra González Jiménez’s Introduction to the Anthropology of Free Trade Special Collection. The online collection ‘captures the local while simultaneously situating it across transnational scales and tracing historical and geographical interconnections’. #AnthroSky #Ethnography

At the AAAs in NOLA, Ken Guest passed the AES President baton to Carole McGranahan. Here he is with Carole & Kate McCaffrey, the outgoing AES Treasurer. Ken was the longest-serving AES Board member: he served first as a councilor, then Treasurer, President-elect, and finally, President.

"EXPERIMENT"--- the theme for the next American Ethnological Society conference in May 2026! For more information check out the official flyer at sway.cloud.microsoft/TTgqspETqroD... and of course, stay tuned to our website and social media for further details. See you there!

Alexandra Délano Alonso's "Organizing Against Immigration Enforcement and Beyond" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Julie Kleinman's "Resisting the War on Migrants in Senegal" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum's "Complicating Cross-border Mobility in Ghana" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

📢📢📢 New Issue of AE Journal is Out 📢📢📢 From research articles on Ottoman objects and sci-fi chips to a forum on infectious disease and interviews on current affairs, Issue 52.4 of American Ethnologist is now available. Access here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481425...

New Special Collection Out! The online collection, edited by Salwa Tareen, Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori and Hosanna Fukuzawa, explores 'what it means to witness and record heartbreaking anthropology.' Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Nicki Kindersley, Mawal Marko Gatkuoth and Manal Abdulaziz Mudir's "Disaster Capitalism in South Sudan" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Marthe Achtnich's "A Necroeconomy of Mobility" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Erick Moreno Superlano's "Reterritorializing Venezuela’s Moral Geography in the US" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Ahlam Chemlali and Gabriella Sanchez's "Geographies of Containment: Tunisia and Mexico in the Age of Externalization" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Wendy Vogt's "Outsiders among Outsiders in a Migrant Chokepoint" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Luigi Achilli’s 'Criminal Governance at Europe’s Externalized Frontier' -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Read Anna Simone Reumert, Wendy Vogt and Charlie Piot's introduction into their Special Collection, Bordering and the War on Migration. The online collection examines how communities around the world are affected by the criminalization of their mobility and how they respond to it.

A collection of essays on the Anthropology of Free Trade, by @amethno.bsky.social 👇

New Special Collection Out! The online collection, edited by Alejandra González Jiménez, focuses on the North American Free Trade Agreement and gives glimpses into worlds engendered by, or indirectly shaped by it. Read here: americanethnologist.org/.../anthropo...

📢📢📢 New Interview Alert! 📢📢📢 AE interviews Khiara M. Bridges and Angel M. Foster about abortion access and reproductive justice #AnthroSky Read it here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Attending #AAA2025 this year? Join @culanth.bsky.social and Society for Visual Anthropology for a reception on Thursday evening (11/20)-- there will be art, music, and food!

📢📢New Article Alert!📢📢 Are there any objects outside politics? Houston and Senay examine artistic practitioners' search for a Turkish past uncontaminated by the ideologies of the conservative Justice and Development Party. #AnthroSky Read it here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢📢📢 New Article Alert! 📢📢📢 Samantha Maurer Fox writes on Hotel Lunik, a socialist spaceship lodging long since frozen mid-flight by post-Cold War speculative finance in Eisenhüttenstadt, the first planned city of the GDR. #AnthroSky Find it here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚 Cara Snyder reviews // "Brazil's sex wars: The aesthetics of queer activism in São Paulo" // By Joseph Jay Sosa, University of Texas Press, 2024 Find it here in AE 52.4 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢📢📢 New Article Alert! 📢📢📢 How did Sierra Leoneans read the humanitarian spectacle of the ebola response? Raphael Frankfurter tracks rumors, violence, and militarization, showing how sociality and care kept working "beneath" the spectacle. #AnthroSky Find it here (Open Access) via Early View:

📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚 Laura Brueck reviews // "Fragile hope: Seeking justice for hate crimes in India" // By Sandhya Fuchs, @stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024 Find it here in AE 52.4 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚 Helen Macdonald reviews // "Residual governance: How South Africa foretells planetary futures" // By Gabrielle Hecht, @dukepress.bsky.social, 2023 Find it here in AE 52.4 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚 Joost Jongerden reviews // “Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado” // By Andrew Ofstehage, @cornellupress.bsky.social, 2025 Find it here in AE 52.4 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We're pleased to share this interview celebrating our 25th anniversary AE article! Samiri Hernández Hiraldoy interviews Jorge Duany about his article, “Nation on the Move: The Construction of Cultural Identities in Puerto Rico and the Diaspora.” #anthrosky americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

📚📚📚 New Book Review Essay 📚📚📚 Brent Crosson reviews // “A Region among States: Law and Non-sovereignty in the Caribbean” // By Lee Cabatingan, University of Chicago Press, 2023 Find it here in AE 52.4 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚 Nicholas Bainton reviews // "Unstable ground: The lives, deaths, and afterlives of gold in South Africa" // By Rosalind C. Morris, Columbia University Press, 2025 Find it here in AE 52.4 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What do COVID and Ebola have in common (other than being pandemics)? A new AE forum features top anthropological theorists of infectious disease and the nation debating viruses and spectacle anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚 Sharif Gemie reviews // “Fraternal critique: The politics of the Muslim community in France” // By Kirsten Wesselhoeft, University of Chicago Press, 2025 Find it here in AE 52.4 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚 Pascale Boucicaut reviews // “Hoarding New Guinea” // By Rainer F. Buschmann, University of Nebraska Press, 2023 Find it here in AE 52.4 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚 Asmus Rungby reviews // “Enchanted modernities: Ancestral vitalizations in the upper Mekong” // By Micah Morton, University of Wisconsin Press, 2025. Find it here in AE 52.4 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢📢📢New Forum Alert! 📢📢📢 Pandemic, paternalism, and the (im)possibilities of citizenship in China A netnography By Zhiying Ma, Yaochu Bi, and Naiyu Jiang Find it here (Open Access) via Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚 Meghan Rose Donnelly reviews // “Affect ethnography: Exploring performance and narrative in the creation of unstories” // By Cristiana Giordano and Greg Pierotti, @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2024.

📢📢📢New Article Alert! 📢📢📢 Sci-fi chips and sickled cells Names and genes as technologies of inheritance in Tanzania By Rebekah Ciribassi Find it here (Open Access) via Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...