{"title":"A sovereign atmosphere","authors":"Malavika Reddy","doi":"10.1111/amet.13414","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13414","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 2018 and 2019, the Bureau of the Royal Household sponsored a festival in Bangkok called Love and Warmth at Winter's End. Framed as a gift to the Thai people from the then uncrowned King Vajiralongkorn, the free event immersed visitors in vintage imagery and experiences sympathetic to royal absolutism, recruiting visitors to experience as pleasant a past era in which the Thai king's power was absolute. Through an analysis of what visitors described as the festival's fun, Thai atmosphere, I develop a political theory of atmospheres, wherein sovereignty can be understood as a claim to constituting the social through a seemingly immaterial (“fun,” “Thai,” in this case) atmosphere enveloping its members.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 2","pages":"208-218"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143841229","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":"From the White House to Zimbabwe","authors":"Susanna Trnka, Jesse Hession Grayman, L. L. Wynn","doi":"10.1111/amet.13406","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13406","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 2","pages":"149"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143841231","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":"Evidencing terror","authors":"Onur Arslan","doi":"10.1111/amet.13405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13405","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Since the 2016 attempted coup in Turkey, more than 215,000 people have been investigated for allegedly using ByLock, an encrypted-message app. According to government officials and courts, the app was used exclusively by Fethullah Gülen's network, which the Turkish state classifies as a terrorist organization. Legal experts transformed ByLock data into vehicles of suspicion that could “testify” to past and future terrorism actions. They did so by combining counterterror doctrine and cultural narratives with digital and legal practices, including data extraction, analysis, legal writing, and courtroom confrontations. I call these practices <i>evidencing terror</i>, a technolegal method that, in setting up suspicion as an element of digital evidence, wields an extensive visceral and political force that suspends people's civil rights. By transforming digital “memories” into endless sources of punitive action, practices of evidencing terror crystallize a new authoritarian politics, one that rests on the intimidation of both state bureaucrats and marginalized communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 2","pages":"219-230"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/amet.13405","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143861537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resistance as negotiation: Making states and tribes in the margins of modern India By Uday Chandra. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 340 pp.","authors":"Sara Roncaglia","doi":"10.1111/amet.13410","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13410","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 2","pages":"261-263"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143819137","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 avatar faculty: Ecstatic transformations in religion and video games By Jeffrey G. Snodgrass. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 280 pp.","authors":"Lars de Wildt","doi":"10.1111/amet.13413","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13413","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 2","pages":"266-267"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143819134","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":"Of jaguars and butterflies: Metalogues on issues in anthropology and philosophy By Geoffrey Lloyd and Aparecida Vilaça. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2023. 140 pp.","authors":"Lewis Daly","doi":"10.1111/amet.13412","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13412","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 2","pages":"257-258"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143819139","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":"Conceiving Christian America: Embryo adoption and reproductive politics By Risa Cromer. New York: New York University Press, 2023. 320 pp.","authors":"Claire Wendland","doi":"10.1111/amet.13409","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13409","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 2","pages":"264-265"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143819213","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":"Amazonian cosmopolitans: Navigating a shamanic cosmos, shifting Indigenous policies, and other modern projects By Suzanne Oakdale. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. 262 pp.","authors":"Chloe Nahum-Claudel","doi":"10.1111/amet.13408","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13408","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 2","pages":"251-252"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143819136","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}