{"title":"Native agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs By Valerie Lambert. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 376 pp.","authors":"Jason Younker","doi":"10.1111/amet.13293","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13293","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 3","pages":"478-479"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140910623","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":"Meaningless citizenship: Iraqi refugees and the welfare state By Sally Wesley Bonet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 256 pp.","authors":"Zachary Sheldon","doi":"10.1111/amet.13283","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13283","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 3","pages":"474-475"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140910654","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":"Zar: Spirit possession, music, and healing rituals in Egypt By Hager El Hadidi. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2016. 180 pp.","authors":"John Schaefer","doi":"10.1111/amet.13290","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13290","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 3","pages":"472-473"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140910626","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":"A history of false hope: Investigative commissions in Palestine By Lori Allen. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. 432 pp.","authors":"Hilla Dayan","doi":"10.1111/amet.13291","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13291","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 3","pages":"454-455"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140910656","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":"A book of waves By Stefan Helmreich. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 411 pp.","authors":"Ignacio Farías, Brett Mommersteeg","doi":"10.1111/amet.13294","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13294","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 3","pages":"456-457"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140910653","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":"A filtered life: Social media on a college campus By Nicole Taylor and Mimi Nichter. New York: Routledge, 2022. 210 pp.","authors":"Patricia G. Lange","doi":"10.1111/amet.13282","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13282","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 3","pages":"464-465"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140910621","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":"Composing violence: The limits of exposure and the making of minorities By Moyukh Chatterjee. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 184 pp.","authors":"Suvir Kaul","doi":"10.1111/amet.13287","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13287","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 3","pages":"462-463"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140910638","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 a trickle to a torrent: Education, migration, and social change in a Himalayan valley of Nepal By Geoff Childs and Namgyal Choedup. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. 248 pp.","authors":"Mark Turin","doi":"10.1111/amet.13285","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13285","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 3","pages":"476-477"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140910655","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":"Productive leisure on the farm","authors":"Camille Frazier","doi":"10.1111/amet.13281","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13281","url":null,"abstract":"<p>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 or (2) to prove that with the right approach, agriculture can be economically and ecologically viable. Techie farmers’ weekends spent on the farm are a form of what I call “productive leisure”: the act of engaging in leisure activities that are positioned as productive alternatives to other forms of work and play. Yet techie farmers’ experiments in cultivating self and society remain anchored in and further entrench the inequalities that make agriculture a precarious livelihood strategy for some and a productive leisure activity for others.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 4","pages":"540-551"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140622838","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":"Ritual as image","authors":"Aarti Sethi","doi":"10.1111/amet.13280","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13280","url":null,"abstract":"<p>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 a harvest ritual in the fields. Through a comparison of contemporary and historical versions of this ritual, a new theory of ritual emerges, one that displaces the primacy of the linguistic sign, instead considering the semiotic force of the image. Ritual, in this rendering, is not only a material archive of social history but also an aesthetic and creative practice through which women farmers sacralize their own labor. Amid transforming regimes of cash-crop agriculture, the ritual situates regimes of cotton growing in the bodily and affective labor of the female farming body.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 2","pages":"207-220"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140533217","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}