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, 52.2

BOOK REVIEWS


Brown saviors and their others: Race, caste, labor, and the global politics of help in India By Arjun ShankarDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023336 pp.
Ishita Banerjee-Dube

Antiblackness By Jung Moon-Kie and João H. Costa Vargas, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021392 pp.
Roger Baumann

A blessing and a curse: Oil, politics, and morality in Bolivarian Venezuela By Matt WildeStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023236 pp.
Amy Cooper

Working women in Jordan: Education, migration, and aspiration By Fida AdelyChicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024207 pp.
Susan MacDougall

Wombs of empire: Population discourses and biopolitics in modern Japan By Sujin LeeStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023258 pp.
Vera Mackie

The violence of democracy: Interparty conflict in South Asia By Ruchi ChaturvediDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023250 pp.
Luisa Steur

Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian occupation By Hafsa KanjwalStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023366 pp.
Sandhya Fuchs

The stigma matrix: Gender, globalization, and the agency of Pakistan’s frontline women By Fauzia HusainStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024306 pp.
Sahana Ghosh

Between dreams and ghosts: Indian migration and Middle Eastern oil By Andrea WrightStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021288 pp.
Nidhi Mahajan

Amazonian cosmopolitans: Navigating a shamanic cosmos, shifting Indigenous policies, and other modern projects By Suzanne OakdaleLincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022262 pp.
Chloe Nahum-Claudel

Onscreen/offscreen By Constantine V. NakassisToronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022400 pp.
Sandhya Krittika Narayanan

Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia’s oil palm zone By Tania Murray Li and Pujo SemediDurham, NC: Duke University Press. 256 pp.
Stuart Earle Strange

Of jaguars and butterflies: Metalogues on issues in anthropology and philosophy By Geoffrey Lloyd and Aparecida VilaçaOxford: Berghahn Books, 2023140 pp.
Lewis Daly

Uncommon cause: Living for environmental justice in Kerala By John MathiasOakland: University of California Press, 2024276 pp.
Thanzeel Nazer

Resistance as negotiation: Making states and tribes in the margins of modern India By Uday ChandraStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024340 pp.
Sara Roncaglia

Conceiving Christian America: Embryo adoption and reproductive politics By Risa CromerNew York: New York University Press, 2023320 pp.
Claire Wendland

The avatar faculty: Ecstatic transformations in religion and video games By Jeffrey G. SnodgrassOakland: University of California Press, 2023280 pp.
Lars de Wildt

The inspiration machine: Computational creativity in poetry and jazz By Eitan Y. WilfChicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023261 pp.
Ritwik Banerji