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, 50.2
Articles
FORUM: PASTORAL CARE IN WAR AND ITS AFTERMATHS: LEBANON
Community fashioning: Political ethics and Shi‘i clerical training in Lebanon
Resistant ecologies: The life of war in South Lebanon
Dwelling as resistance, dwelling as repair
Resistant ecologies and the bi’a beyond methodological nationalism
Ethnography, cacophony, and Lebanon as a zone of prestige in the anthropology of the Middle East
RESEARCH ARTICLES:
Reconsidering the vignette as method: Art, ethnography, and refugee studies
Deep ethnography: Violence and words in Argentina
Citizens in uniform: Roadblocks and the policing of everyday life in Zimbabwe
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Catch-all technopolitics: Water filters in New York City
Women’s “timepass”: Waiting as work, politics, and survival among Delhi’s poor
Education as identity: The scaffolding of “being educated” in eastern Uganda
Stock market layoffs in France: How finance knows when to fire industrial workers
Rescaling hospitality: Everyday displacement at the Syrian-Turkish border
Editorial
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