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, 53.1

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BOOK REVIEWS

Kathmandu: A reader Edited by Benjamin LinderKathmandu: Martin Chautari, 2024484 pp.
Jana Fortier

On the turtle’s back: Stories the Lenape told their grandchildren By Camilla Townsend and Nicky Kay MichaelNew Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2023250 pp.
Karelle Hall

Reconocimientos: A memoir of becoming By Rafael Sánchez. Edited by Rosalind C. MorrisNew York: Fordham University Press, 2025160 pp.
Aaron Kappeler

Seductive spirits: Deliverance, demons, and sexual worldmaking in Ghanaian Pentecostalism By Nathanael J. HomewoodStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024292 pp.
Chammah J. Kaunda

The promise of piety: Islam and the politics of moral order in Pakistan By Arsalan KhanIthaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024240 pp.
Saad Lakhani

Catalonia’s human towers: Castells, cultural politics, and the struggle toward the heights By Mariann VacziBloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023282 pp.
Josep Martí