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

Editorial

BOOK REVIEWS


Rights refused: Grassroots activism and state violence in Myanmar By Elliott Prasse-FreemanStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023366 pp.
Geoffrey Rathgeb Aung

Fighting to breathe: Race, toxicity, and the rise of youth activism in Baltimore By Nicole FabricantOakland: University of California Press, 2023266 pp.
Joseph O. Baker

Creating a shared moral community: The building of a mosque congregation in London By Judy ShuttleworthLondon: Routledge, 2023190 pp.
John R. Bowen

Remembering the tatas: Domestic women and slavery in Tetouan (19th–20th centuries) By Josep Lluís Mateo DiesteLeiden: Brill, 2024444 pp.
Marta Domínguez Díaz

Revolution of things: The Islamism and post-Islamism of objects in Tehran By Kusha SefatPrinceton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023184 pp.
Alireza Doostdar

Predatory economies: The Sanema and the socialist state in contemporary Amazonia By Amy PenfieldAustin: University of Texas Press, 2023248 pp.
Amelia Fiske

The trauma mantras: A memoir of prose poems By Adrie KusserowDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024176 pp.
Karen Coen Flynn Donald W. Goodrich

Nuclear ghost: Atomic livelihoods in Fukushima’s gray zone By Ryo MorimotoOakland: University California of Press, 2023356 pp.
Tomoki Fukui

Indifference: On the praxis of interspecies being By Naisargi DavéDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023208 pp.
Susan Haris

The work of repair: Capacity after colonialism in the timber plantations of South Africa By Thomas CousinsNew York: Fordham University Press, 2023314 pp.
Agata A. Konczal

Building socialism: The afterlife of East German architecture in urban Vietnam By Christina SchwenkelDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020432 pp.
Sandra Kurfürst

A witch’s hand: Curing, killing, kinship, and colonialism among the Lujere of New Guinea By William E. MitchellChicago: Hau Books, 2024567 pp.
David Lipset

Peasant politics of the twenty-first century: Transnational social movements and agrarian change By Marc EdelmanIthaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024356 pp.
Walter E. Little

Shopping with Allah: Muslim pilgrimage, gender and consumption in a globalised world By Viola ThimmLondon: UCL Press, 2023287 pp.
Mirjam Lücking

Involuntary consent: The illusion of choice in Japan’s adult video industry By Akiko TakeyamaStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023252 pp.
Robert C. Marshall

The fluvial imagination: On Lesotho’s water-export economy By Colin HoagOakland: University of California Press, 2022224 pp.
Emily McKee

Vital decomposition: Soil practitioners + life politics By Kristina M. LyonsDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020218 pp.
Meghan L. Morris

The movement for reproductive justice: Empowering women of color through social activism By Patricia ZavellaNew York: New York University Press, 2020299 pp.
Jill Morrison

The border within: Vietnamese migrants transforming ethnic nationalism in Berlin By Phi Hong SuStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022216 pp.
Stan Nadel