{"title":"Becoming climate sentinels","authors":"Sumin Myung","doi":"10.1111/amet.70143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70143","url":null,"abstract":"In South Korea, forest scientists refashion themselves as “climate sentinels” as they confront subtle yet disquieting shifts in plant seasonality brought about by climate change. Unlike traditional sentinels, who watch for external threats from a frontier, climate sentinels face ecological anomalies and surprises—such as untimely flowering—that have permeated everyday spaces. To register such ecological perplexities, they engage in technoscientific entrainments: deliberate, disciplinary, and laborious coordinations of human observers, trees, protocols, institutions, and modular devices into a shared rhythm of attention. These experimental processes redistribute the traditional embodied technique of <jats:italic>mokch’ŭk</jats:italic> (eye observation) across nationwide phenological observation networks while reanimating the ecological significance of plant seasonality. For these sentinels, confronting climate change requires attending not only to satellites and heavily computed models but also to the distributed, more‐than‐human experiments through which ecological perplexities are made sensible on the ground.","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149172493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To flirt, or not to flirt, that is the ethnographic question","authors":"Katarzyna Wojnicka","doi":"10.1111/amet.70139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70139","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149093242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monsters of finance","authors":"Caroline E. Schuster","doi":"10.1111/amet.70141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70141","url":null,"abstract":"An anthropology of horror can serve as a vernacular critique of financial speculation. Drawing on fieldwork in San Pedro, Paraguay, I track horror across three registers: <jats:italic>pombero</jats:italic> tricksters; <jats:italic>plata yvyguy</jats:italic> (buried money) as a founding myth of postwar finance; and obligations binding sesame farmers to monsters, <jats:italic>patrones</jats:italic> , and creditors. Horror—a critical ontology and distinctive wonder—arises when obligation becomes undecidable: when one cannot tell whether the forces manipulating time and the future are persons who stand in relation, or how far the liability extends. Paraguay has produced this condition twice, first under the Stroessner dictatorship (1954–89), with its network of civilian informants, and later under climate finance running through the same clientelist orders. As Martha Blache's 1982 study of Guarani folklore helps us understand, finance bears rather than subsumes the moral arrangements of prestation, and horror is a native theorization of speculation rather than a response to an external capitalist threat.","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149130308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Courtney Addison, Sameena Mulla, Susanna Trnka, L. L. Wynn, Jesse Hession Grayman
{"title":"The politics of evidence making","authors":"Courtney Addison, Sameena Mulla, Susanna Trnka, L. L. Wynn, Jesse Hession Grayman","doi":"10.1111/amet.70128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70128","url":null,"abstract":"What is evidence, and how is it constituted across different scientific, legal, political and social domains? Courts, medical clinics, scientific enterprises, public constituencies, as well as academic journals, come to define, adjudicate, and thus constitute evidence through a variety of openly and covertly political processes, as Sameena Mulla and Courtney Addison discuss. Reflecting on fieldwork they have conducted on a range of topics—including sexual assault intervention, forensic evidence collection, court sentencing, genomic medicine, and conservation—they suggest what kinds of questions anthropologists might want to ask in thinking through not only the nature of evidence making but also its impact on social communities. They also highlight what is at stake in the shaping and contestation of evidence, including justice, social cohesion and environmental futures.","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149093408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The power of reflexivity and the uneasiness it provokes","authors":"Maddalena Gretel Cammelli","doi":"10.1111/amet.70129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149093371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The possibilities and perils of flirting in the field","authors":"Catie Gressier","doi":"10.1111/amet.70134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“I got caught in my own trap”","authors":"Anna Jochymek","doi":"10.1111/amet.70117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70117","url":null,"abstract":"For women ethnographers, research involving predominantly male far‐right activists can involve many challenges—ethical, methodological, and emotional. Drawing on interviews and long‐term participant observation, I reflect on my fieldwork with Polish far‐right activists in the UK. In particular, I consider how this work demanded that I continually negotiate methodological access, gendered power, emotional self‐management, and my opposition to my interlocutors’ politics. In this critical self‐reflection, three key questions emerge: (1) How can researchers cultivate empathy and navigate professional regard for far‐right activists without compromising their ethical stance? (2) What are the ethical and methodological implications of using flirtation as a strategy in the field? (3) How can third‐wave feminist understandings of agency shape the emotional experience and practices of ethnographic fieldwork in male‐dominated far‐right milieus?","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"197 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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