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, 53.2
RESEARCH ARTICLES
COMMENTARY
Appropriation, Indigenous knowledge, and generative AI (æ Open Access)
AFTERWORD
BOOK REVIEW ESSAY
BOOK REVIEWS
Extracting the future: Lithium in an era of energy transition
By Mark Goodale. Oakland: University of California Press, 2025. 304 pp.
Review by Javiera Barandiarán
The cage of days: Time and temporal experience in prison
By K. C. Carceral and Michael G. Flaherty. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 320 pp.
Review by Katrine Duus
The face of peace: Government pedagogy amid disinformation in Colombia
By Gwen Burnyeat. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 320 pp.
Review by Les W. Field
Economies of care: Market women in the highlands of Papua New Guinea
By Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 248 pp.
Review by Robert J. Foster
Against abandonment: Repertoires of solidarity in South Korean protest
By Jennifer Jihye Chun and Ju Hui Judy Han. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. 306 pp.
Review by Yoonkyung Lee
Wild and wonderful: An ethnography of English naturalists
By Vanessa Manceron. Translated by Michael Taylor. Chicago: Hau, 2025. 239 pp.
Review by Jared D. Margulies
Making Levantine cuisine: Modern foodways of the eastern Mediterranean
Edited by Anny Gaul, Graham Auman Pitts, and Vicki Valosik. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022. 288 pp.
Review by Emma McDonell
Faithful transformations: Islamic self-help in contemporary Singapore
By Nurhaizatul Jamil. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2025. 264 pp.
Review by Maznah Mohamad
Opposition by imitation: The economics of Italian anti-Mafia activism
By Christina Jerne. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2025. 248 pp.
Review by Deborah Puccio-Den
Collateral damages: Tracing the debts and displacements of the Iraq War
By Nadia El-Shaarawi. Oakland: University of California Press, 2025. 256 pp.
Review by Younes Saramifar
Genomics with care: Minding the double binds of science
By Mike Fortun. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 360 pp.
Review by Victor Secco
Ice geographies: The colonial politics of race and Indigeneity in the Arctic
By Jen Rose Smith. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 304 pp.
Review by Sofie Sogaard
Reclaiming diasporic identity: Transnational continuity and national fragmentation in the Hmong diaspora
By Sangmi Lee. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2024. 280pp.
Review by Mai See Thao
Dissident peace: Autonomous struggles and the state in Colombia
By Anthony Dest. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. 264 pp.
Review by David Vásquez-Hurtado
Something between us: The everyday walls of American life, and how to take them down
By Anand Pandian. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. 304 pp.
Review by Chris Walley
Bittersweet sounds of passage: Balinese gamelan angklung cremation music
By Ellen Koskoff. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2025. 193 pp.
Review by Dustin Wiebe
