American Ethnologist is a quarterly journal concerned with social and cultural anthropology in the broadest sense of the term. The journal’s articles combine ethnographic specificity with original theoretical thinking, conveying the relevance of the ethnographic imagination to the contemporary world.
As a flagship journal for social and cultural anthropology, American Ethnologist aims to disseminate work that roams across a wide variety of theoretical approaches, methods, and points of view. The editor encourages the submission of manuscripts that reflect the discipline’s intellectual and geographic diversity.
American Ethnologist is published on behalf of the American Ethnological Society, a section of the American Anthropological Association, by Wiley-Blackwell, 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA.
Latest Issue, 51.3
Articles
FORUM: CITIZENSHIP, SOLIDARITY, AND NONBELONGING
Infrastructural citizenship and geosolidarity: Making green infrastructure in petroliberal Houston
Dominic Boyer
Volumetric citizenship: Vibration, constraint, and respiratory topologies in Thailand
Eli Elinoff
“So that we may be counted”: Caste, religion, and untimely numbers in Pakistan’s national census
Ghazal Asif Farrukhi
Imagining beyond a statist imaginary
Kalpana Ram
Citizenship, agency, and the problem of sovereignty
Rebecca Bryant
Citizenship beyond solidarity and belonging: Commoning and sociability
Ayşe Çağlar
Citizenship thinking—with, against, and bypassing the state
Sian Lazar
Spaces and challenges of citizenship
Heide Castañeda
What does it mean to be a citizen in the contemporary moment?
Neha Vora
Editorial
BOOK REVIEWS
Gathering medicines: Nation and knowledge in China’s mountain south
Shao-hua Liu
Being dead otherwise
Shunsuke Nozawa
Gendered fortunes: Divination, precarity, and affect in postsecular Turkey
Tatiana Rabinovich
Zar: Spirit possession, music, and healing rituals in Egypt
Meaningless citizenship: Iraqi refugees and the welfare state
Zachary Sheldon
From a trickle to a torrent: Education, migration, and social change in a Himalayan valley of Nepal
Native agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Jason Younker