{"title":"Agrarian counterpoint","authors":"Javier Lezaun, Lina Pinto‐García","doi":"10.1111/amet.70089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70089","url":null,"abstract":"In Colombia's northeastern borderlands, agrarian economies shape how disease risk and stigma are understood and managed. As shown in ethnographic fieldwork in and around the Catatumbo region, cutaneous leishmaniasis—a sandfly‐transmitted disease that produces chronic skin lesions—appears in two radically different guises across adjacent territories. In coca‐growing areas, the disease is driven underground and treated as a marker of criminality. In coffee‐growing areas, it appears as an occupational hazard that calls for professional attention and minor but impactful attempts at environmental sanitation. This contrast defines a structural “counterpoint” between coca and coffee, commodities that encode alternative versions of Colombia's agro‐political identity and shape narratives of legitimacy and illegality. Comparing labor conditions, ecological dynamics, and public health responses, we show how the visible symptoms of suffering caused by the disease become more or less conspicuous depending on the social value attributed to different kinds of agricultural work.","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147752610","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":"Anthropological authorship in the age of generative AI","authors":"Susanna Trnka, L. L. Wynn, Jesse Hession Grayman","doi":"10.1111/amet.70087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70087","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147695415","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":"Enacting AI disclosure in scholarly publishing","authors":"Marcel LaFlamme, Natalie Meyers","doi":"10.1111/amet.70084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70084","url":null,"abstract":"Anthropologists and other scholarly authors are increasingly expected to disclose and describe their use of generative AI. In this commentary, we sketch emerging practices of AI disclosure and attribution, consider how these practices might be adapted to address anthropology's distinctive epistemic and ethical commitments, and recommend strategies for AI disclosure that build on existing norms in anthropological publishing. Looking beyond publishers’ policies, we also examine how the expectation to disclose AI use is being codified across scales and sectors, contextualizing anthropologists’ decision‐making with respect to relevant trends in other regulatory and professional domains.","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147695416","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":"Appropriation, Indigenous knowledge, and generative AI","authors":"Charles Menzies","doi":"10.1111/amet.70081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70081","url":null,"abstract":"This commentary examines the relationship between First Nations’ knowledge, AI, and cultural appropriation from the perspective of an Indigenous scholar and journal editor. The author highlights the potential conflicts between who controls AI and First Nations sovereignty. For this author, the question of who controls a technology is more important than its inherent nature.","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147695417","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":"AI as guru or conjurer?","authors":"Jaap Timmer, Anna‐Karina Hermkens","doi":"10.1111/amet.70083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70083","url":null,"abstract":"This commentary examines how artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes scholarly authorship through Fredrik Barth's figures of the guru and the conjurer. The guru instructs within moral and scholarly frameworks, while the conjurer mystifies through spectacle. AI embodies both roles: promoted by publishers like Wiley as a guru offering clarity and scope, it performs more like a conjurer, producing dazzling outputs that obscure their origins and evade critical debate. Examining an AI‐generated submission to <jats:italic>The Australian Journal of Anthropology</jats:italic> ( <jats:italic>TAJA</jats:italic> ), we use these figures as heuristic tools to highlight contrasting modes of knowledge transmission. By collapsing them, AI creates a new opposition, guru‐conjurer versus educator, in which authority rests on performance rather than reflexive pedagogy, and the desire for guidance eclipses critical engagement. Such systems bypass the intellectual struggle with concepts central to scholarship. When normalized by major publishers, AI‐driven spectacle reshapes expectations of authorship, expertise, and knowledge itself.","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147695418","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":"Toward Indigenous fire relations in California","authors":"Ghaleb Attrache, Tony Marks‐Block","doi":"10.1111/amet.70074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147518780","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":"On account of doomsday","authors":"Max Jack","doi":"10.1111/amet.70080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70080","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, Berlin has emerged as an epicenter of climate activism in Germany. There, a range of groups have mobilized in opposition to the role of the German state and the EU in accelerating the climate crisis. Many activists now see conventional political responses as exhausted and have turned to increasingly radical forms of civil disobedience. Street blockades in particular have become a favored tactic. These interventions in public space draw attention to the lives and conditions of those most affected by climate change. Yet they unfold amid police violence and verbal abuse from bystanders, experiences that generate both trauma and solidarity. In these contested spaces of listening, activists forge cathartic and conflictual forms of collective endurance as they struggle with the feeling that the world is falling apart.","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147518820","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":"On recognizing the handiwork of AI","authors":"Nick Seaver","doi":"10.1111/amet.70062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70062","url":null,"abstract":"As AI‐generated images and texts proliferate, people have developed techniques for identifying them using clues like misshapen hands in images or distinctive words in text. This commentary situates these emerging practices within what Carlo Ginzburg called the “conjectural paradigm”: a mode of knowing that links contemporary AI detection to older traditions of medical symptomatology, art historical connoisseurship, and detective work. Yet unlike the stable or slowly evolving clues of earlier conjectural practices, the signifiers of AI involvement are rapidly shifting. This instability has consequences not only for how texts are read but also for how they are written. Authors now navigate a landscape of suspicion where their words may be misrecognized as machine generated. Rather than resolving into stable literacies, our efforts to recognize AI’s handiwork reveal the deeper uncertainties of authorship and interpretation.","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147518778","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":"Bittersweet sounds of passage: Balinese gamelan angklung cremation music By EllenKoskoff. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2025. 193 pp.","authors":"Dustin Wiebe","doi":"10.1111/amet.70078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147506648","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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