{"title":"Economies of care: Market women in the highlands of Papua New Guinea By OliviaBarnett‐Naghshineh. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 248 pp.","authors":"Robert J. Foster","doi":"10.1111/amet.70064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70064","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147506645","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 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}
{"title":"Gender and global politics","authors":"Susanna Trnka","doi":"10.1111/amet.70053","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 1","pages":"7-8"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146056049","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":"Property, capitalism, and the value-shaping power of states","authors":"Michael Polson","doi":"10.1111/amet.70058","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 1","pages":"66-67"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146048646","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":"Outsmarting sanctions","authors":"Emrah Yıldız","doi":"10.1111/amet.70050","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70050","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 2012 the UN Security Council and the European Union bolstered US economic sanctions on Iran, disembedding the country's economy from financial markets. Since then, the sanctions have radically devalued Iran's currency, leading Iranians to seek a viable standard of value elsewhere. They have done so through <i>ghachagh</i> (fugitive) configurations of exchange, in which they practice a cross-border trade in “fictitious commodities” (money, land, and labor). In some cases their efforts culminate in the purchase of a “passport apartment” in Turkey, where nonnational homebuyers are expedited to citizenship. Sanctions might have dysregulated Iranians’ money, yet in aiming to isolate Iran's economy, they had the opposite effect: they pulled Iran, more than ever, into a regionally networked economy. Here, cross-border traffic emerges as a form of experimentation in mitigating sanctions. In this context, fugitive exchange rewrites the fictions of fictitious commodities, transforming the very terms of value, mobility, and security.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 1","pages":"34-44"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/amet.70050","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146042605","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}
{"title":"Ethnographies of globalization","authors":"Guillermo de la Peña","doi":"10.1111/amet.70059","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70059","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 1","pages":"74-75"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146042601","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}