RESEARCH ARTICLE
Forum: Spectacle and Governance of Infectious Disease 

Pandemic, paternalism, and the (im)possibilities of citizenship in China: A netnography
Zhiying Ma, Yaochu Bi, Naiyu Jiang

Seen but not meant: Apprehending spectacle in the time of Ebola in Sierra Leone
Raphael Frankfurter

CRITICAL COMMENTARY
Forum: Spectacle and Governance of Infectious Disease 

Contesting pandemic imaginaries and epidemic-response spectacle
Christos Lynteris

Infectious disease as epistemic challenge
Andrew McDowell

Ebola and COVID: Further questions
Kristin Doughty

Repetitions of history
Christian Sorace

How to make anthropological sense of the voidness and realness of epidemic governance
Jonah Lipton

A mesocosmology of the next pandemic
Stefan Ecks

From the “spectacle” to “all for show”: Where is care?
Everett Zhang

RESEARCH ARTICLES

The space-age hotel: Ruination and negative value in the former East Germany
Samantha Maurer Fox

Hiding in plain site: Ottoman objects and the crafting of alternative Muslim citizenship in Istanbul
Christopher Houston, Banu Senay

INTERVIEW

In the wake of the Dobbs decision: AE interviews Khiara M. Bridges and Angel M. Foster about abortion access and reproductive justice
Khiara M. Bridges, Angel M. Foster, L. L. Wynn, Susanna Trnka, Jesse Hession Grayman

BOOK REVIEW ESSAY 

Ethnography at Its Edges
Sovereignty, non-sovereignty, and law in the Caribbean
Brent Crosson

BOOK REVIEWS

Unstable ground: The lives, deaths, and afterlives of gold in South Africa By Rosalind C. Morris. New York: Columbia University Press, 2025. 656 pp.
Nicholas Bainton

Hoarding New Guinea: Writing colonial ethnographic collection histories for postcolonial futures By Rainer F. Buschmann. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. 265 pp.
Pascale Boucicaut

In the time of Ebola: Youth, family, and emergency in Sierra Leone By Jonah Lipton. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. 162 pp.
Hannah Brown

Fragile hope: Seeking justice for hate crimes in India By Sandhya Fuchs. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 358 pp.
Laura Brueck

Affect ethnography: Exploring performance and narrative in the creation of unstories By Cristiana Giordano and Greg Pierotti. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 289 pp.
Meghan Rose Donnelly

Fraternal critique: The politics of the Muslim community in France By Kirsten Wesselhoeft. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. 218 pp.
Sharif Gemie

Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado By Andrew Ofstehage. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2025. 234 pp.
Joost Jongerden

We have never been woke: The cultural contradictions of a new elite By Musa al-Gharbi. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 280 pp.
Ivan Kalmar

Residual governance: How South Africa foretells planetary futures By Gabrielle Hecht. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 288 pp.
Helen Macdonald

Father time: A natural history of men and babies By Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 432 pp.
Caroline MacLean

The copy generic: How the nonspecific makes our social worlds By Scott MacLochlainn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 232 pp.
Robert Moore

Enchanted modernities: Ancestral vitalizations in the upper Mekong By Micah Morton. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2025. 278 pp.
Asmus Rungby

Brazil’s sex wars: The aesthetics of queer activism in São Paulo By Joseph Jay Sosa. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024. 224 pp.
Cara Snyder