{"title":"The face of peace: Government pedagogy amid disinformation in Colombia By GwenBurnyeat. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 320 pp.","authors":"Les W. Field","doi":"10.1111/amet.70065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70065","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"89 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147506638","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":"Extracting the future: Lithium in an era of energy transition By MarkGoodale. Oakland: University of California Press, 2025. 304 pp.","authors":"Javiera Barandiarán","doi":"10.1111/amet.70063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70063","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147506652","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":"Ice geographies: The colonial politics of race and Indigeneity in the Arctic By Jen RoseSmith. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 304 pp.","authors":"Sofie Sogaard","doi":"10.1111/amet.70077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70077","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147506656","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}
American EthnologistPub Date : 2026-02-11Epub Date: 2025-12-30DOI: 10.1111/amet.70047
Cheryl Mattingly
{"title":"Surprise and the singular plural","authors":"Cheryl Mattingly","doi":"10.1111/amet.70047","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70047","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Bodymind diversity, disability scholars argue, contributes to community and to ideals of human flourishing. Phenomenologists like Nancy and Arendt, meanwhile, foreground our human pluralism. But what does it mean to inhabit (and invent) a plural “we” across significant bodily difference? And why is the experience of surprise important to it? A phenomenological investigation of Ginsburg and Rapp's cultural imaginary, “disability worlds,” reveals how surprise can catalyze new forms of potentiality and community, a “we-ness” beyond sameness that Nancy calls the “singular plural.” This is evident in the experience of Andy, a child with profound intellectual and physical disabilities, whose ways of responding often unsettle expectations. His parents’ surprise during his first ski trip—a joyful, irreducible, singular event—expands their sense of what Andy's body can do and draws them into new forms of community and flourishing. Their surprise also engenders heightened critical awareness of social norms that restrict community and underestimate capacity.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 1","pages":"9-21"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/amet.70047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145893909","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}
American EthnologistPub Date : 2026-02-11Epub Date: 2025-12-30DOI: 10.1111/amet.70042
Aaron Kappeler
{"title":"Reconocimientos: A memoir of becoming By Rafael Sánchez. Edited by Rosalind C. Morris. New York: Fordham University Press, 2025. 160 pp.","authors":"Aaron Kappeler","doi":"10.1111/amet.70042","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 1","pages":"94-95"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145893908","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}