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, 53.1

BOOK REVIEWS

Kathmandu: A reader 
Edited by Benjamin LinderKathmandu: Martin Chautari, 2024484 pp.

Review by Jana Fortier

On the turtle’s back: Stories the Lenape told their grandchildren
By Camilla Townsend and Nicky Kay Michael. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2023. 250 pp.
Review by Karelle Hall

Reconocimientos: A memoir of becoming
By Rafael Sánchez. Edited by Rosalind C. MorrisNew York: Fordham University Press, 2025160 pp.
Review by Aaron Kappeler

Seductive spirits: Deliverance, demons, and sexual worldmaking in Ghanaian Pentecostalism 
By Nathanael J. HomewoodStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024292 pp.

Review by Chammah J. Kaunda

The promise of piety: Islam and the politics of moral order in Pakistan
By Arsalan KhanIthaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024240 pp.

Review by Saad Lakhani

Catalonia’s human towers: Castells, cultural politics, and the struggle toward the heights 
By Mariann VacziBloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023282 pp.

Review by Josep Martí

The personal life of debt: Coercion, subjectivity and inequality in Britain 
By Ryan DaveyBristol: Bristol University Press, 2025224 pp.

Review by Marek Mikuš

Conflicted: Making news from global war 
By Isaac BlacksinStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024330 pp.
Review by Seyed Saeid Mir Mohammadi

Justice in the balance: Democracy, rule of law, and the European Court of Human Rights 
By Jessica GreenbergStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025256 pp.
Review by Andrea Muehlebach

Copyright consciousness: Musical creativity and intellectual property in Turkey 
By Dave FossumMiddletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2025296 pp.
Review by Fulya Pinar

The children of Solaga: Indigenous belonging across the US-Mexico border 
By Daina SanchezStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025202 pp.
Review by Heidy Sarabia

Decolonizing medicine: Indigenous politics and the practice of care in Bolivia 
By Gabriela Elisa MoralesStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025308 pp.
Review by Paula Saravia

Living right: Far-right youth activists in contemporary Europe 
By Agnieszka PasiekaPrinceton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024277 pp.
Review by Nitzan Shoshan

Refusing sustainability: Race and environmentalism in a changing Europe 
By Elana ResnickStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025296 pp.
Review by Daniel Sosna