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, 52.3

BOOK REVIEW ESSAY 


Ethnography at Its Edges

BOOK REVIEWS


Making place for Muslims in contemporary India By Kalyani Devaki MenonIthaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022196 pp.
Irfan Ahmad

Friendship By Michael JacksonPhiladelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023224 pp
Magnus Course

Between care and criminality: Marriage, citizenship, and family in Australian social welfare By Helena ZeweriNew Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2024225 pp.
Ishani Dasgupta

Llamas beyond the Andes: Untold histories of camelids in the modern world By Marcia StephensonAustin: University of Texas Press, 2023448 pp.
Julien Dugnoille

Re-membering culture: Erasure and renewal in Hmong American education By Bic NgoMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024248 pp.
Ron Eyerman

Diplomacy and lobbying during Turkey’s Europeanisation: The private life of politics By Bilge FiratManchester: Manchester University Press, 2019224 pp.
Florence Faucher

The cactus hunters: Desire and extinction in the illicit succulent trade By Jared D. MarguliesMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023392 pp.
Ruth Goldstein

Soda science: Making the world safe for Coca-Cola By Susan GreenhalghChicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024354 pp.
Daniel Lee Kleinman

Capitalist colonial: Thai migrant workers in Israeli agriculture By Matan KaminerStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024269 pp.
Claudia Liebelt

Devotion to the administrative state: Religion and social order in Egypt By Mona OrabyPrinceton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024328 pp.
Nada Moumtaz

Subversive archaism: Troubling traditionalists and the politics of national heritage By Michael HerzfeldDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022256 pp.
Helena Patzer

Moral atmospheres: Islam and media in a Pakistani marketplace By Timothy P. A. CooperNew York: Columbia University Press, 2024288 pp.
Amina Yaqin

Trapped: Life under security capitalism and how to escape it By Mark Maguire and Setha LowStanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024182 pp.
Nils Zurawski