Volume 52 | Issue 3 | August 2025

EDITORIAL

How to write for American Ethnologist: A glimpse into the black box of publishing
Susanna Trnka, Jesse Hession Grayman, L. L. Wynn, Pablo Morales

INTERVIEWS

Struggles for academic freedom (part 1): AE interviews Hayal Akarsu and Heath Cabot on the fight against threats to free speech in Europe and beyond
Hayal Akarsu, Heath Cabot, Susanna Trnka, Jesse Hession Grayman, L. L. Wynn

“The agenda is to wipe out critical thought”—Struggles for academic freedom (part 2): AE interviews Eve Darian-Smith and Virginia R. Dominguez
Eve Darian-Smith, Virginia R. Dominguez, Susanna Trnka, Jesse Hession Grayman, L. L. Wynn

RESEARCH ARTICLES

“I am the noise”: Spectacular capital, influencers, and the economy of attention in coupé-décalé music
Sasha Newell, Léo Montaz

“The world hates the truth”: Moral artifice in Beninese moviemaking
Brian C. Smithson

Army of the vulnerable: Raising it, fighting with it, caring for it in postimperial Britain
Alexander Edmonds

BOOK REVIEW ESSAY

BOOK REVIEWS

Making place for Muslims in contemporary India By Kalyani Devaki Menon. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 196 pp.
Irfan Ahmad

Friendship By Michael Jackson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 224 pp
Magnus Course

Between care and criminality: Marriage, citizenship, and family in Australian social welfare By Helena Zeweri. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2024. 225 pp.
Ishani Dasgupta

Llamas beyond the Andes: Untold histories of camelids in the modern world By Marcia Stephenson. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023. 448 pp.
Julien Dugnoille

Re-membering culture: Erasure and renewal in Hmong American education By Bic Ngo. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. 248 pp.
Ron Eyerman

Diplomacy and lobbying during Turkey’s Europeanisation: The private life of politics By Bilge Firat. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. 224 pp.
Florence Faucher

The cactus hunters: Desire and extinction in the illicit succulent trade By Jared D. Margulies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 392 pp.
Ruth Goldstein

Gringo love: Stories of sex tourism in Brazil By Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan. Adapted by William Flynn. Illustrated by Débora Santos. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 200 pp. Light in dark times: The human search for meaning By Alisse Waterston. Illustrated by Charlotte Corden. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 160 pp. The King of Bangkok By Claudio Sopranzetti, Sara Fabbri, and Chiara Natalucci. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 160 pp.
Carol Hendrickson

Histories of anthropology: Interactions between centers and peripheries in the making of anthropological discourses Edited by Gabriella D’Agostino and Vincenzo Matera. 2nd ed. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. 676 pp.
Michael Herzfeld

Forest lost: Producing green capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon By Maron E. Greenleaf. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 304 pp.
Jeffrey Hoelle

Why would I be married here? Marriage migration and dispossession in neoliberal India By Reena Kukreja. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 312 pp.
Navjotpal Kaur

Soda science: Making the world safe for Coca-Cola By Susan Greenhalgh. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 354 pp.
Daniel Lee Kleinman

The news event: Popular sovereignty in the age of deep mediatization By Francis Cody. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 260 pp.
Rajan Kurai Krishnan

Capitalist colonial: Thai migrant workers in Israeli agriculture By Matan Kaminer. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 269 pp.
Claudia Liebelt

The moulids of Egypt: Egyptian saint’s day festivals By J. W. McPherson. Edited by Russell McGuirk. London: Gingko, 2023. 397 pp.
Amira Mittermaier

Devotion to the administrative state: Religion and social order in Egypt By Mona Oraby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 328 pp.
Nada Moumtaz

Subversive archaism: Troubling traditionalists and the politics of national heritage By Michael Herzfeld. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 256 pp.
Helena Patzer

A war of colors: Graffiti and street art in postwar Beirut By Nadine A. Sinno. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024. 320 pp.
Lara Sabra

Gods in the world: Placemaking and healing in the Himalayas By Aftab S. Jassal. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 272 pp.
Asaf Sharabi

Cemetery citizens: Reclaiming the past and working for justice in American burial grounds By Adam Rosenblatt. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 286 pp.
Richard Veit

An anthropology of crosslocations By Sarah Green, Samuli Lähteenaho, Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki, Carl Rommel, Joseph J. Viscomi, Laia Soto Bermant, and Patricia Scalco. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 2024. 284 pp.
Karen Waltorp

Sonic icons: Relations, recognition, and revival in a Syriac world By Sarah Bakker Kellog. New York: Fordham University Press, 2025. 304 pp.
Marta Woźniak-Bobińska

Moral atmospheres: Islam and media in a Pakistani marketplace By Timothy P. A. Cooper. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 288 pp.
Amina Yaqin

Trapped: Life under security capitalism and how to escape it By Mark Maguire and Setha Low. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 182 pp.
Nils Zurawski