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, 51.4
Articles
FORUM: HUMANITARIAN REASON AT ITS LIMITS
“Strange” affinities: Iṣlāḥ and British Muslim volunteers in the Syrian war
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An imperial meantime: The invisible violence of a humanitarian peace in Western Sahara
Man\power and violence at the thresholds of humanitarian and anthropological reason
Adia Benton
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Productive leisure on the farm: The experimental ethics of agriculture among India’s techie farmers
Camille Fraizer
Creating value for objects-in-waiting: Valuating and decolonizing art in Mumbai
Egg providers in eGoli: Operability and aspiration in South African fertility markets
Tessa Moll
“Magical math hand-waving”: The coloniality of political risk forecasting
Jon Schubert
The king of martyrs: Poetic parallelism and postcolonial publics in Oran, Algeria
Stephanie V. Love
Editorial
Editor’s Note: Humanitarian reason at its limits
Jesse Hession Grayman
BOOK REVIEWS
Rights refused: Grassroots activism and state violence in Myanmar By . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 366 pp.
Geoffrey Rathgeb Aung