Articles

FORUM: What Good Is Anthropology? Celebrating 50 Years of American Ethnologist

Applied anthropology, injustice, and the ethics of intervention
Lenore Manderson

Anthropology’s comparative value(s)
Rena Lederman

Anthropology as spiritual discipline
T. M. Luhrmann

Seeing our world in 16:9 aspect ratio: An Indigenous film journey
Charles Menzies (hagwil hayetsk)

Anthropology is good
Tim Ingold

Anthropology at sea: Displacement as ethnographic praxis
Jatin Dua

Toward anthropologies of the metaverse
Tom Boellstorff

Anthropology and complicated people
Alexander Edmonds

To write or not to write?: Toward a hesitant anthropology
Sophie Chao

Ethnography and ethical life
Michael Lambek

Becoming malleable: How orienting to disability, communication, and the senses further commits anthropology to its moral project
Michele Friedner,  Matthew Wolf-Meyer

A queer footnote: The anthropology of containment
Benjamin Hegarty

The smugness of privilege
Don Kulick

Why do I write anthropology? Why do you?: A manifesto for prioritizing passion and poetry as we scale up for social justice
Alma Gottlieb

A decolonial birth for anthropology
Bhrigupati Singh

What good is anthropology?: Care work in a “useless” discipline
Nolwazi Mkhwanazi

Privileged observers and colonial continuities: Institutional economies of expert knowledge in anthropology and international development
Maia Green

Translating the social in complex technology development
Melissa Cefkin

Patchwork ethnography
Gökçe Günel, Chika Watanabe

Anthropology’s good beyond the discipline
Lara Deeb,  Jessica Winegar

Four challenges from anthropology’s current meta
Alex Golub

The maturing of anthropology
Daniel Miller

A view from another side, or, not just another quit-lit essay
Lori A. Allen

Anthropology unbound: A vision for a flourishing, inclusive, and accessible future
Saira A. Mehmood

Ethnography vs. zombie methodologies: What anthropology can teach psychology about nonreproducibility
Greg Downey

Editorial

Editors’ note: Celebrating 50 years of American Ethnologist

by Susanna Trnka,  Jesse Hession Grayman,  L. L. Wynn

BOOK REVIEWS

Ethnographic thinking: Anthropology as product and prescription
Emanuel Moss