{"title":"Economies of gender: Masculinity, “mail order brides,” and women's labor By Julia H.Meszaros. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2025. 159 pp.","authors":"Emily Curtin","doi":"10.1111/amet.70119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70119","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124455","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 Eurabia myth: Countercolonization and masculine fragility in France By MehammedAmadeus Mack. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2025. 416 pp.","authors":"Henry Maher","doi":"10.1111/amet.70121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70121","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149003338","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":"Sonic relations: Devotion and community in Turkey's eastern borderlands By StefanWilliamson Fa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2026. 234 pp.","authors":"Akif Tahiiev","doi":"10.1111/amet.70124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70124","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148993714","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":"Irreconcilable: Indigeneity and the violence of colonial erasure in contemporary Canada By JosephWeiss. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2026. 242 pp.","authors":"William Lempert","doi":"10.1111/amet.70120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70120","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"150 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148993715","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":"Plots and deeds: Agrarian annihilation and the fight for land justice in Palestine By PaulKohlbry. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2026. 262 pp.","authors":"Lila Sharif","doi":"10.1111/amet.70123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70123","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148993713","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 : 2026-07-24Epub Date: 2026-07-05DOI: 10.1111/amet.70103
Gwen Burnyeat
{"title":"Cultura caballista","authors":"Gwen Burnyeat","doi":"10.1111/amet.70103","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70103","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The world of Colombian gaited horses, or <i>cultura caballista</i> (horse-riding culture), is often linked with <i>uribismo</i>, the right-wing identity associated with former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez. Ethnographic fieldwork in conflict-torn Antioquia reveals how horse-human practices of training, breeding, and competition cultivate orientations toward hierarchical authority, disciplined hypermasculinity, and control over land and living bodies. This occurs within histories of racialized regional identity, paramilitarism, and narco-culture. Combining the anthropology of the Right with multispecies ethnography offers insight into how right-wing identities are embodied as affective dispositions cultivated through more-than-human worlds. An ecofeminist lens shows how horse-human relations reproduce historically sedimented “logics of mastery,” intertwining classed, racialized, and gendered hierarchies with domination over nature—hierarchies structured by morally ambiguous tensions between domination and care. This analysis speaks to current debates on the rise of the Right by showing how “ordinary” right-wing identities are co-constituted with nonhuman Others through embodied practices and intimacy.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 3","pages":"296-309"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/amet.70103","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148393967","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 : 2026-07-24Epub Date: 2026-07-03DOI: 10.1111/amet.70114
L. L. Wynn
{"title":"Money and Indigenous critiques of anthropological knowledge production in Australia","authors":"L. L. Wynn","doi":"10.1111/amet.70114","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 3","pages":"263-265"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148371953","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}