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“Magical math hand‐waving” American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Jon Schubert
Political risk forecasting is an industry that provides specialized analysis to a range of clients, including insurance companies, extractive industries, governments, defense ministries, and NGOs. Risk forecasters aim to help their clients mitigate risks by anticipating political developments that could threaten their investments and assets, especially in the “emerging markets” of the Global South
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An imperial meantime American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Vivian Solana
On November 13, 2020, the Sahrawi movement for national liberation, known as the Polisario Front, resumed its armed struggle against Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara. With this decision, the movement put an end to a 29‐year‐long peace process throughout which the implementation of international law had been indefinitely deferred. During this cease‐fire, the Polisario used humanitarian aid to
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Vital decomposition: Soil practitioners + life politics By Kristina M. Lyons. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 218 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Meghan L. Morris
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“Strange” affinities American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Muneeza Rizvi
British Muslim volunteers in Syria have been variously cast as humanitarians, activists, and—under the suspicious gaze of the war on terror—disguised militants. Yet many volunteers frame their efforts as attempts at iṣlāḥ (reform, repair, rectification). What is the ethicopolitical life of iṣlāḥ, a multivalent concept in the Islamic tradition, in a landscape marked by war and international relief efforts
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The movement for reproductive justice: Empowering women of color through social activism By Patricia Zavella. New York: New York University Press, 2020. 299 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Jill Morrison
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If books fail, try beauty: Educated womanhood in the new East Africa By Brooke Schwartz Bocast. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 205 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Rebecca Warne Peters
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The trauma mantras: A memoir of prose poems By Adrie Kusserow. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 176 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Karen Coen Flynn, Donald W. Goodrich
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Peasant politics of the twenty‐first century: Transnational social movements and agrarian change By Marc Edelman. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. 356 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Walter E. Little
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Shopping with Allah: Muslim pilgrimage, gender and consumption in a globalised world By ViolaThimm. London: UCL Press, 2023. 287 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Mirjam Lücking
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A witch's hand: Curing, killing, kinship, and colonialism among the Lujere of New Guinea By William E. Mitchell. Chicago: Hau Books, 2024. 567 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 David Lipset
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The border within: Vietnamese migrants transforming ethnic nationalism in Berlin By Phi Hong Su. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 216 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Stan Nadel
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A thousand steps to parliament: Constructing electable women in Mongolia By Manduhai Buyandelger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 288 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Baasanjav Terbish
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The made‐up state: Technology, trans femininity, and citizenship in Indonesia By Benjamin Hegarty. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 198 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Ferdiansyah Thajib
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Indifference: On the praxis of interspecies being By Naisargi Davé. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 208 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Susan Haris
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The work of repair: Capacity after colonialism in the timber plantations of South Africa By Thomas Cousins. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023. 314 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Agata A. Konczal
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Futures after progress: Hope and doubt in late industrial Baltimore By Chloe Ahmann. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2024. 366 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Joshua O. Reno
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Fighting to breathe: Race, toxicity, and the rise of youth activism in Baltimore By NicoleFabricant. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 266 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Joseph O. Baker
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Revolution of things: The Islamism and post‐Islamism of objects in Tehran By Kusha Sefat. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. 184 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Alireza Doostdar
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The fluvial imagination: On Lesotho's water‐export economy By Colin Hoag. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 224 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Emily McKee
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Quinoa: Food politics and agrarian life in the Andean highlands By Linda Seligmann. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2023. 201 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Guillermo Salas Carreño
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Involuntary consent: The illusion of choice in Japan's adult video industry By Akiko Takeyama. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 252 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Robert C. Marshall
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Remembering the tatas: Domestic women and slavery in Tetouan (19th–20th centuries) By Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste. Leiden: Brill, 2024. 444 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Marta Domínguez Díaz
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Rights refused: Grassroots activism and state violence in Myanmar By Elliott Prasse‐Freeman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 366 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Geoffrey Rathgeb Aung
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Editors’ note American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Susanna Trnka, Jesse Hession Grayman, L. L. Wynn
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Imagining beyond a statist imaginary American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Kalpana Ram
The chilling infiltration by technologies of state power that make up modern governance is brought home by each of the articles in AE’s “Citizenship, Solidarity, and Nonbelonging” forum. In reflecting on them, I pose the question: Can we move beyond descriptions of human agency entirely within the cracks and fissures of state governance? Or can we develop a richer futural imagination that goes beyond
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The determined indeterminacy of white supremacy American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Elana Resnick
Contemporary white supremacy often takes hold through strategies of racial disavowal. One strategy that political parties and regular citizens in Bulgaria use is what I call determined indeterminacy. Determined indeterminacy is a collective, institutionalized method of denying the ubiquitous systemic racism that undergirds social life. It allows people to naturalize white supremacy and render it adaptably
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Citizenship beyond solidarity and belonging American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Ayşe Çağlar
The authors in this forum highlight collective action that gives way to new scripts of citizenship. This collective action also opens new spaces of common life, where people can perform the politics of being with others. I ask whether the concepts of commoning and sociability, rather than the language of solidarity and belonging, would be more suitable to capture the dynamics of contemporary citizenship
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Spaces and challenges of citizenship American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Heide Castañeda
This commentary engages the articles in the “Citizenship, Solidarity, and Nonbelonging” forum by discussing three points: citizen participation in and challenges to bureaucratic practices; the spatialities of citizenship and belonging; and the potentials for co‐optation of civic mobilization vis‐à‐vis the privatization of state responsibilities. It concludes that citizen mobilizations can effectively
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Citizenship, agency, and the problem of sovereignty American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Rebecca Bryant
This commentary asks what would change about the analyses in AE’s “Citizenship, Solidarity, and Nonbelonging” forum if the state were not assumed as the background. Using research on unrecognized states and their citizens, the commentary urges a return to the problem of sovereignty that takes seriously the desires that sovereignty evokes. Doing so, it argues, can help us understand the shape that political
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Citizenship thinking—with, against, and bypassing the state American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Sian Lazar
This short commentary argues for the utility of a suitably expansive idea of citizenship, one that opens complex terrains for analysis: where citizens work with, against, and alongside the state, and where state power is enabled and sidestepped through multiple embodied processes. I consider the nature of the citizen‐state encounter in each article in AE’s “Citizenship, Solidarity, and Nonbelonging”
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Volumetric citizenship American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Eli Elinoff
In Thailand, the volatile period from 2019 to 2023 was marked by changing material and political atmospheres. Air pollution, the COVID‐19 pandemic, and government restrictions on speech transformed how Thai citizens breathed and how they related to the monarchy. Understanding this period as a history of breath reconceptualizes the citizen‐body as volumetric, recasting politics as an intermaterial practice
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Refusals of noncitizenship American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Peter Nyers
This commentary explores the politics of refusal as it plays out in struggles for citizenship. Refusals of noncitizenship involve a dialectic of negation and affirmation. They are at once acts of protest against an injustice or wrong, while also generative of new forms of political subjectivity and community. The refusals of noncitizenship found in the articles of this special forum involve acts of
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The current economy: Electricity markets and techno‐economics By CanayÖzden‐Schilling. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. 205 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Dean Chahim
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What does it mean to be a citizen in the contemporary moment? American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Neha Vora
This commentary on the set of articles for the “Citizenship, Solidarity, and Nonbelonging” forum considers ways that relationships between states and residents are being reconfigured in the wake of environmental, technological, and economic changes. It also questions the concept of liberal citizenship as a framework for understanding contemporary political subjectivity.
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Corrections to “Managing the ‘hot spots’: Health care, policing, and the governance of poverty in the US” American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-25
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Being dead otherwise By Anne Allison. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 256 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Shunsuke Nozawa
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A history of false hope: Investigative commissions in Palestine By LoriAllen. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 432 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Hilla Dayan
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Gendered fortunes: Divination, precarity, and affect in postsecular Turkey By Zeynep K. Korkman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 276 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Tatiana Rabinovich
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Meaningless citizenship: Iraqi refugees and the welfare state By Sally WesleyBonet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 256 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Zachary Sheldon
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Zar: Spirit possession, music, and healing rituals in Egypt By Hager ElHadidi. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2016. 180 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 John Schaefer
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A book of waves By Stefan Helmreich. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 411 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Ignacio Farías, Brett Mommersteeg
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The feel of algorithms By MinnaRuckenstein. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 223 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Spencer Kaplan
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Composing violence: The limits of exposure and the making of minorities By MoyukhChatterjee. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 184 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Suvir Kaul
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Passport entanglements: Protection, care, and precarious migrations By Nicole Constable. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 260 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Mahmoud Keshavarz
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A filtered life: Social media on a college campus By Nicole Taylor and Mimi Nichter. New York: Routledge, 2022. 210 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Patricia G. Lange
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Native agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs By Valerie Lambert. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 376 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Jason Younker
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Productive leisure on the farm American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Camille Frazier
In the context of deepening national concern about the future of farming in India, professionals in Bengaluru's (Bangalore's) booming information technology and related industries are purchasing agricultural land at the edges of the city and farming in their free time. These “techie farmers” invest their money and time in cultivation either (1) to generate idealized agrarian traditions and aesthetics
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Ritual as image American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Aarti Sethi
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the central Indian cotton belt, I examine two historical moments: (1) the expansion of agrarian capitalism and absorption of market logics into the peasant household in the colonial period; and (2) changes in seed technology and gendered labor required for cultivating hybrid cotton in the postcolonial era. Through these transformations, cotton farmers have maintained
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A ritual geology: Gold and subterranean knowledge in Savanna West Africa By Robyn d'Avignon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 304 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Tom Özden‐Schilling
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Gut anthro: An experiment in thinking with microbes By Amber Benezra. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 282 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Andrea Ford
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Birding under fire American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Bridget Guarasci
Birding for nature conservation becomes violent in war when foreign states and industry use it to extract value from countries like Iraq. In wartime Iraq, birding became a pathway to multinational resource extraction by producing “eco-value,” a form of economic value for species life and, by extension, the ecosystems they inhabit. Iraqi marshland conservationists, including private contractors, produced
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Something in these hills: The culture of family land in southern Appalachia By John M. Coggeshall. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 238 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 William Schumann
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Genres of listening: An ethnography of psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires By Xochitl Marsilli‐Vargas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 248 pp. American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Sergio E. Visacovsky
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The situation of the interface American Ethnologist (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Timothy P. A. Cooper
A master copy is an artifact whose quality or value carries over to the copies it engenders. In the United Arab Emirates, home to a marketplace trade in Pashto-language film and music, master copy also refers to the context of the artifact's accessibility; it describes a print made from a medium—such as a celluloid film, an audiocassette, or a vinyl record—considered to hold the earliest or highest-quality