“American children are hard.”
by Elise Berman
Kedem (Berman’s son) and Sylvia (Kati’s daughter), both one year old, sitting next to each other in two blue chairs. Photo by author. No one wanted to [...]
“American children are hard.”
Centering Solar, Centering Power
by Jerome Whitington
Off-grid distributed solar power generation in rural Laos, with the village pillar establishing the spiritual center of the village space. The photograph shows horizontally-arrayed solar panels in a [...]
Happy Days: Talking Marriage in China’s Rural-Urban Migrant Families
by Willy Sier
Li and her mother in Li’s bedroom. Photo by author. We met in Wuhan in 2015. Li was a recent university graduate who worked for Foxconn factory [...]
The Undersurface
by Mythri Jegathesan
Tea Plucker and Seedling Tea Bush at the Ceylon Tea Museum. Photo by author. I took this photo during the last week of 2008. I had begun [...]
Photographic “Returns” to Field Sites: Introduction
by Christina Kefala and Ipsita Dey
Photo by Yang Yu on Unsplash. Collection cover photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash. Anthropologists pride themselves on the intimacy of the ethnographic method. To family, friends, [...]
Making More-than-Human and Multispecies Theory as Praxis: An AES Reading List
Kymberley Chu
A ficus albipila (also known as an “abbey tree:) in Thamluang Khunnam Nangnon National Park, Mae Sai, Thailand. Photo by author. Humanness is no longer a noun. [...]
American Ethnologist at 50: An Interview with the AE Editorial Team
Leading up to the 50th birthday of American Ethnologist, AES editorial interns Ipsita Dey and Alexandra Dantzer have a conversation with the current editors of the journal, Susanna Trnka, [...]
Table of Contents
What do anthropologists mean when we talk about the present? In 2024 we may think we know. Even as we have turned to haunting pasts and menacing futures, our methodological [...]
Afterpresence: The Unbounded Body
by Deborah A. Thomas
We enter the kumina circle seeking fellowship, communication, and guidance, shuffling counter-clockwise to the heartbeat and tack-a-tack rhythm of the drums toward a transcendence of Western logics of personhood [...]
Weaving the Present
by Joana Nascimento
In anthropology, recent debates on precarity have helped theorize a diversity of human experiences, highlighting their nuances and complexities. However, recent discussions have often tended to foreground the novelty [...]
