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Promoting rich ethnography and relevant, cutting-edge theory in cultural anthropology since 1842.

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AES is a section of the American Anthropological Association.

Research Snapshots
 
Fijian youth play rugby everyday, training for elusive overseas recruitment, 2016. (Photographer and Anthropologist: Daniel Guinness.)
What happens to old scientific data? One Swedish researcher's solution, 2017. (Photographer and Anthropologist: Alison Cool.)
New England knitting mill in time of precarity, 2016. (Photographer: Dennis Mitchell. Anthropologist: Caitrin Lynch.)
Girl in Niger, 2013. (Photographer and Anthropologist: Ali Heller.)
Residents of an IDP camp in Republic of Georgia confronting pervasive boredom and inactivity, 2008. (Photographer: Hannah Mintek. Anthropologist: Elizabeth Dunn.)
Street art in Yogyakarta, Indonesia praising interfaith “friendliness and harmony.” (Photographer and Anthropologist: Carla Jones.)
Read American Ethnologist

May 2019 — Volume 46 | Issue 2
Latest News

Jun 21, 2019

Winners of 2019 AES Graduate Student Research Grant announced

Feb 03, 2019

AES Editorial Intern Program: Call for Applications 2019

Jan 30, 2019

CFP: AES Small Grants Competition 2019

Meetings

AES 2019: Ethnographic Futures
March 14-16, 2019
St. Louis, MO