📢📢📢 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/...

📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚 Hannah Brown reviews // “In the time of Ebola: Youth, family, and emergency in Sierra Leone” // By Jonah Lipton, Cornell University Press, 2024 Find it here in AE 52.4 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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

📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚 Ivan Kalmar reviews // “We have never been woke: The cultural contradictions of a new elite” // By Musa al-Gharbi @princetonupress.bsky.social, 2024 Find it here in AE 52.4 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚 Robert Moore reviews // “The copy generic: How the nonspecific makes our social worlds” // By Scott MacLochlainn, University of Chicago Press, 2022 Find it here in AE 52.4 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚 Caroline MacLean reviews // “Father time: A natural history of men and babies” // By Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, @princetonupress.bsky.social 2024 Find it here in AE 52.4 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"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!

New Special Collection Out! The online collection, edited by Anna Simone Reumert, Wendy Vogt and Charlie Piot, examines how communities around the world are affected by the criminalization of their mobility and how they respond to it. Find it here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Anna Simone Reumert, Neubauer Junior Research Fellow, co-edited the latest online issue on borders & migration from @americananthro.bsky.social's @amethno.bsky.social. Check out the collection of pieces: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

"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!

In light of this and other disturbing Trump administration policies targeting academics with diverse viewpoints--like, for example, student protesters--we thought the time was ripe to ask some anthropologists about contemporary threats to academic freedom. Find it here in AE 52.3 Early View:

Our first reaction was: When is American Ethnologist going to get one of those letters?! 😉 After all, anthropologists have been grappling with questions of bias and viewpoint diversity since… forever. We have a LOT to say about that. We haven’t gotten a letter (yet), but…

April 2025: NEJM, JAMA, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Chest all got vaguely threatening letters from U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr., asking whether they “accept articles…from competing viewpoints” and hinting that editorial decisions may be scrutinised under “relevant fraud regulations.”

📢📢📢 New Interview Alert 📢📢📢 Struggles for academic freedom (part 1) AE interviews Hayal Akarsu and Heath Cabot on the fight against threats to free speech in Europe and beyond

“Mistrust can disrupt and harm labor relationships and even generate violent outcomes. But Indonesia’s on-demand economy has taught us that mistrust is more complicated.” Read more: www.sapiens.org/culture/indo...

Find it here in AE 52.3: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢📢📢 New Editorial Alert 📢📢📢 American Ethnologist editors lift the lid on the ‘black box’ of journal submission... An Editorial Insight: Be wary of making ungrounded “what I call” assertions of novelty. A much better strategy is to trace where your ideas have come from.

In this interview, Tanya Jakimow expands on her recent article about elections, examining how elections produced discarded candidates and the role they can fill in democratic communities, as well as the ambivalent effects of gender quotas: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

"To rethink citation is to rethink the very conditions under which we are allowed to know, to remember, to speak as anthropologists. Citation is not merely a scholarly apparatus; it is a declaration of allegiance. A tracing of kin..." @allegralab.bsky.social allegralaboratory.net/beyond-the-f...

📚📚📚New Book Review📚📚📚 Jeffrey Hoelle reviews // Forest lost: Producing green capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon // By Maron E. Greenleaf, @dukepress.bsky.social Find it here in AE 52.3 Early View: ⤵️ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📚📚📚New Book Review📚📚📚 Nils Zurawski reviews // Trapped: Life under security capitalism and how to escape it // by Mark Maguire and Setha Low @stanfordpress.bsky.social Find it here in AE 52.3 Early View: ⤵️ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢📢📢 New Issue Out 📢📢📢 From the economy of attention to the postimperial British army, to interviews on academic freedom, AE 52.3 offers a breadth of critical insights into the challenges of both anthropology and today. Access here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481425...

The deadline has now closed! Many thanks for your abstract submissions - we will respond to applicants by mid-September…

Kicking off the week with some editorial insights into writing and publishing, by the editors of American Ethnologist @amethno.bsky.social #Anthropology anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Last 3 days to submit abstract proposals to the AES online special collection on ‘Promised Futures’!

Read Alexander Edmonds’s ‘Army of the vulnerable’ (2025) View the author’s field photos and reflections on minor soldiers in postimperial Britain in AE 52.3: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #AEPhotoInsights #AmericanEthnologist #Ethnography #AnthroSky

📢 EASA President Hayal Akarsu speaks with APLA’s Heath Cabot on the global assault on academic freedom — from police on campuses 🚔 to rising precarity 💼 🎙️ Read the full interview via @amethno.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/Y8s8qMf

📢📢📢 New Editorial Alert 📢📢📢 American Ethnologist editors lift the lid on the ‘black box’ of journal submission... An Editorial Insight: A revise-and-resubmit decision is like a second date, and trying to revise to please every reviewer is likely to ruin the evening.

📣 Call for Mentees! EASA’s free, remote Academic Mentorship Programme returns Sept 2025–May 2026. For late-PhDs, postdocs & early-career scholars (PhD ≤8 yrs). ⏰ Apply by 31 Aug 2025 🌍 Open to EASA members 🔗 easaonline.org/jobs-calls/m...

📢📢📢 New Interview Alert 📢📢📢 “Higher education doesn’t include much applause for the current government and that’s probably what Trump wants - just applause. It’s never going to happen.”

📢📢📢 New Editorial Alert 📢📢📢 American Ethnologist editors lift the lid on the ‘black box’ of journal submission... An Editorial Insight: Be wary of making ungrounded “what I call” assertions of novelty. A much better strategy is to trace where your ideas have come from.

📢📢📢 New Article Alert 📢📢📢 Con, music, performance art, scam, all of the above? Sasha Newell and Leo Montaz analyse Ivoirian Coupé-Décalé music to show how the way to capture people’s attention amidst all the noise of modern life is… to make more noise.