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, 49.4
Articles
Falshfasad: Infrastructure, materialism, and realism in wild-capitalist Moscow
by MICHAŁ MURAWSKI
Relational flexibility: Skills, “personality development,” and the limits of theorizing neoliberal selfhood in India
by SANJAY SRIVASTAVA
Emplacing capital: Securing commerce and citizenship in the Nigerian megacity
by VIVIAN CHENXUE LU
Keeping it in the family: The moral economy of Suboxone in southwest Virginia
by CHINA SCHERZ, JOSHUA BURRAWAY
Miners on the move: Expellable labor, flexible intimacies, and institutional recast in West African artisanal gold mines
by MATTHIEU BOLAY
Remaking the value of work: The emergence of grassroots philanthropy in China
by JIAZHI FENGJIANG
Capture-recapture: Biopolitical entanglements and the making of “key populations” in global health worlds in Malawi
by CAL (CRYSTAL) BIRUK
Nothing to lose but their (block)chains: Biometrics, techno-imaginaries, and transformations in Rohingya lives
by ELLIOTT PRASSE-FREEMAN
The art of unnoticing: Risk perception and contrived ignorance in China
by LORETTA IENG TAK LOU
Gendered disruptions in academic publishing during COVID-19: Uncovering invisible labor at an anthropology journal
by JELENA GOLUBOVIĆ, KATHLEEN INGLIS, CHEYANNE CONNELL
Ethnography at its edges: In defense of how-to abolitionism: An anthropological engagement with Mariame Kaba
by JASON SCOTT
Supplemental
Supplement to “Gendered disruptions in academic publishing during COVID-19: Uncovering invisible labor at an anthropology journal”
by JELENA GOLUBOVIĆ, KATHLEEN INGLIS, CHEYANNE CONNELL