The Sharon Stephens Prize Announcement
The Sharon Stephens Prize is awarded biennially for a junior scholar’s first book. The prize goes to a work that speaks to contemporary social issues with relevance beyond the discipline [...]
CFP: AES Small Grant Competition
CFP & FAQs FOR 2021 The American Ethnological Society (AES) announces a small grant competition for students who are in the first or second year of a PhD program in [...]
2020 AES Senior Book Prize Winners
The 2020 Senior Book Prize award committee presents the prize to Deborah Thomas for Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair, and to J. Lorand Matory [...]
AE Editor Nomination Call
The American Ethnological Society (AES), a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the position of Editor(s) of its journal, American Ethnologist. The four-year term [...]
2020 AES Business Meeting
We invite you to attend the 2020 AES Business Meeting, which will be held via zoom on December 14, 2020 from 2:00-3:00 PM (EST). We will include a preview of [...]
Volume 47 | Issue 4 | November 2020
Articles Wave theory Cash, crowds, and caste in Indian elections by FRANCIS CODY Trust amid “trust deficit” War, credit, and improvidence in Kashmir by ADITI SARAF Tactical dissonance Insurgent [...]
AES at Raising Our Voices
by Jacqueline Solway, Naveeda Khan, and Shanti Parikh AES programming seeks to address the current moment and its challenges. A Look Back to Look Forward, by Jacqueline Solway I left the 2019 joint [...]
AES at AAA 2020 (Raising our Voices)
With our annual meeting cancelled because of the pandemic, AAA has generated an online event, Raising Our Voices! (ROV) that aims to give anthropologists and our interlocutors a space to [...]
Passing of Sally Engle Merry
All at AES are sad to learn of the passing of Sally Engle Merry, past president of AES (2011-2013), and Professor Emerita of Anthropology at NYU, where she was also [...]
Volume 47 | Issue 3 | August 2020
Articles Unpayable Debt: gender, and sex in financialized India by ISABELLE GUÉRIN and SANTOSH KUMAR Waste intimacies: Caste and the unevenness of life in urban Pakistan by WAQAS H. [...]
