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, 51.1
Articles
FORUM: What Good Is Anthropology? Celebrating 50 Years of American Ethnologist
Applied anthropology, injustice, and the ethics of intervention
Anthropology’s comparative value(s)
Anthropology as spiritual discipline
Seeing our world in 16:9 aspect ratio: An Indigenous film journey
Anthropology at sea: Displacement as ethnographic praxis
Toward anthropologies of the metaverse
Anthropology and complicated people
To write or not to write?: Toward a hesitant anthropology
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A queer footnote: The anthropology of containment
A decolonial birth for anthropology
What good is anthropology?: Care work in a “useless” discipline
Translating the social in complex technology development
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Anthropology’s good beyond the discipline
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Four challenges from anthropology’s current meta
A view from another side, or, not just another quit-lit essay
Anthropology unbound: A vision for a flourishing, inclusive, and accessible future
Editorial
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