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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
The AES is pleased to announce five additional recipients of the Graduate Student Research Grant for 2020. The additional grantees were selected from the original pool of applicants. The AES [...]
Yesterday Riche Barnes and the Association of Black Anthropologists posted the “ABA Statement Against Police Violence and Anti-Black Racism,” on the AAA online community forum. In the statement, Barnes details [...]
The AES small grants competition, now in its third year, received many excellent proposals, and the committee was challenged to select from a pool of worthy projects. The award of [...]
Editorial Collaboration and genre by STACY LEIGH PIGG and MICHAEL J. HATHAWAY @Ferguson: Still Here in the Afterlives of Black Death, Defiance, and Joy Introduction: Still here [...]
The Senior Book Prize is awarded biennially for a book by a senior scholar. The prize goes to a work that speaks to contemporary social issues with relevance beyond the [...]
Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic the deadlines and research timelines have been modified in red: (modified March 11, 2020) The American Ethnological Society (AES) announces a small grant competition [...]
Over the past few days, we have been closely following the potential impact of the global COVID-19 outbreak on Borders/Bridges, the AES/APLA joint spring conference in Austin, Texas. Several of [...]
Editorial From the editor: Editors’ note Open access article by STACY LEIGH PIGG and MICHAEL J. HATHAWAY Articles Emptiness: Capitalism without people in the Latvian countryside Open [...]
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