Celebrating Half a Century of Excellence: American Ethnologist, 1974-2024
American Ethnological Society
Celebrating Half a Century of Excellence: American Ethnologist 1974-2024
American Ethnological Society

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About AES
The American Ethnological Society was founded in 1842. At the time, all the anthropologists in the United States could fit into one room.
AES is now a large society with an exceptional journal as well as dynamic online collections.
AES supports students through funding, awards, and opportunities for mentorship and professionalization.
AES has two book awards, organizes panels for the annual AAA meetings, and helps organize a spring conference for AES members.
Established
1842

The Relevance of Ethnography
“I hope to have encouraged others to view centers of power as lying within the horizon of ethnography, where they have been all along, latent in the very categories and experiences of difference which have traditionally inspired and informed ethnographic research.”
A Moment’s Notice: Time Politics across Cultures (1996), by Carol Greenhouse, AE Editor-in-Chief (1998–2002).
A Message from the President
I am passionate about anthropology and ethnography. What other discipline denaturalizes the values and categories of the researcher in order to understand how others organize their world?
Ethnography, which grounds theory and destabilizes what Clifford Geertz called our “commonsenseness,” is about as radical as a discipline can get. This love for our discipline drew me to AAA and AES.
We hope you will join us as members in order to continue to promote our discipline and methods.

Carolyn Rouse