{"title":"From the “spectacle” to “all for show”","authors":"Everett Zhang","doi":"10.1111/amet.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145241960","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":"Residual governance: How South Africa foretells planetary futures By GabrielleHecht. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 288 pp.","authors":"Helen Macdonald","doi":"10.1111/amet.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145188453","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":"Ebola and COVID: Further questions","authors":"Kristin Doughty","doi":"10.1111/amet.70025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145188451","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":"Sci‐fi chips and sickled cells","authors":"Rebekah Ciribassi","doi":"10.1111/amet.70018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70018","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past two decades in Tanzania, families have increasingly navigated the expanding prioritization of sickle cell disease within a broader pan‐African turn toward genomic medicine. Those diagnosed are compelled to reckon with kinship through genetic risk. At the same time, beyond the clinic, inherited naming practices—deeply embodied and temporally recursive—persist as powerful means of relating across generations. Building on a conversation with the physician‐poet Manka, who likens inherited names to “sci‐fi chips,” I develop a theory of technologies of inheritance: material‐semiotic forms that anchor and activate intergenerational ties. Juxtaposed stories of names and genes trace how Tanzanians traverse overlapping, often incommensurable logics of heritability. Technologies of inheritance offer an analytic for understanding kinship as fluid, flexible, and ontologically multiple.","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145188450","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":"Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado By AndrewOfstehage. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2025. 234 pp.","authors":"Joost Jongerden","doi":"10.1111/amet.70021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"114 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145188454","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":"Unstable ground: The lives, deaths, and afterlives of gold in South Africa By Rosalind C.Morris. New York: Columbia University Press, 2025. 656 pp.","authors":"Nicholas Bainton","doi":"10.1111/amet.70026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145188455","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":"Fraternal critique: The politics of the Muslim community in France By KirstenWesselhoeft. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. 218 pp.","authors":"Sharif Gemie","doi":"10.1111/amet.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"195 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145116350","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}