American EthnologistPub Date : 2026-07-24Epub Date: 2026-06-22DOI: 10.1111/amet.70099
Natasha Fijn
{"title":"Making do: Conservation ethics and ecological care in Australia By Mardi Reardon-Smith. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. 251 pp.","authors":"Natasha Fijn","doi":"10.1111/amet.70099","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70099","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 3","pages":"335-336"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148299355","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: 2026-07-03DOI: 10.1111/amet.70110
Mwenda Ntarangwi
{"title":"To pay or not to pay? My enduring discomfort","authors":"Mwenda Ntarangwi","doi":"10.1111/amet.70110","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70110","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148371948","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: 2026-06-26DOI: 10.1111/amet.70101
Yong Yu, Wenzhao Huang, Yedong Xian
{"title":"Sexual invisibility after 70","authors":"Yong Yu, Wenzhao Huang, Yedong Xian","doi":"10.1111/amet.70101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70101","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In China, it has long been difficult for the elderly generation to talk openly about sex. In the context of late-life HIV diagnosis and treatment, this difficulty is compounded by clinical and familial practices that seek to manage the stigma of sex through avoidance. In our multisited ethnographic fieldwork in the southern region of Guangxi, we found that clinicians followed scripts in which they asked older patients about their sexual history just once and then allowed the subject to drop. Within families, HIV was translated into illness and respectability, and in community talk, condoms were conceptualized only as contraception for the young, not as a measure to prevent infection. We term this pattern <i>sexual invisibility</i>: for those 70 and older, sex is not absent, but it is difficult to sustain as a topic of care, negotiation, and prevention. Late-life intimacy persists through ordinary arrangements, yet prevention talk is delayed, softened, or displaced.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 3","pages":"310-319"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148553512","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: 2026-07-03DOI: 10.1111/amet.70108
Jason Pribilsky, Charles Springwood, Susanna Trnka, L. L. Wynn, Jesse Hession Grayman
{"title":"Guns and gun violence (part 2)—Desires and dangers of emergent firearm assemblages","authors":"Jason Pribilsky, Charles Springwood, Susanna Trnka, L. L. Wynn, Jesse Hession Grayman","doi":"10.1111/amet.70108","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70108","url":null,"abstract":"<p>According to the Small Arms Survey, there are 120.5 privately owned guns for every 100 civilians in the United States—the world's highest rate of gun ownership. What are the consequences of this? How does the vast number of guns, both concealed and openly carried, frame everyday American fears, anger, and suspicion? In this interview, Jason Pribilsky and Charles Springwood tackle these issues by examining the empirical status of gun violence, as well as which of its facets are, and are not, made readily visible to the general American public. Drawing on extensive research into how shooting survivors cope with the physical and psychological effects of bullet wounds and how guns have infiltrated American consciousness, they assess the strengths and weaknesses of anthropology's collective stance on the topic of gun use and ownership, as well as the challenges of researching these issues during the Trump administration.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 3","pages":"327-332"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148371944","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: 2026-05-28DOI: 10.1111/amet.70093
Lena Gross
{"title":"The ends of research: Indigenous and settler science after the War in the Woods By Tom Özden-Schilling. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 320 pp.","authors":"Lena Gross","doi":"10.1111/amet.70093","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70093","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 3","pages":"337-338"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285678","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: 2026-06-23DOI: 10.1111/amet.70100
Hansjörg Dilger
{"title":"Bringing artifacts (back) to life","authors":"Hansjörg Dilger","doi":"10.1111/amet.70100","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70100","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Museums’ ethnographic collections can be conceptualized as affective forces—relational intensities that emerge between human and more-than-human actors, unfold over time, and are embedded in and co-shape sociomaterial environments. Drawing on debates in the anthropology of objects and political ontology, I develop this perspective through long-term fieldwork at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, whose exhibitions are held at the Humboldt Forum, focusing on the Cameroonian deity Ngonnso and her engagements with museum staff and actors within the Nso’ community and diaspora. First, I examine how colonial acquisition and epistemic ordering produced disconnections that are now being reworked through collaborative practices and affective contestations. Second, I analyze how processes of reconnection are shaped by the ambivalent force of artifacts, linking questions of vitality and spirituality to institutional and political contexts. Attending to affect reveals these dynamics as open ended and entangled with power, offering a lens for rethinking care, restitution, and collaboration in collection-holding institutions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 3","pages":"268-282"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/amet.70100","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148313983","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.70113
Federico Pérez Fernández
{"title":"Of cables and threads","authors":"Federico Pérez Fernández","doi":"10.1111/amet.70113","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70113","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Over the past two decades, gondola lifts have become central to interventions in urban Latin America's auto-constructed peripheries. As cable car urbanism reshapes the city's edge, it raises fundamental questions about the notion of the “urban fabric” as a sociomaterial practice, an epistemology, and a site of politics. In Bogotá, the city's first aerial cable car line has been integrated into the sprawling district of Ciudad Bolívar, revealing a dialectical process of urban fabrication—a form of urban weaving, in the language of both experts and residents, that bridges technical retrofits and popular logistics. These state-community interfaces operate beyond the binaries of compromise and dissent, co-optation and participation, control and invention. At stake is an emergent politics in the seam: an interlacing of activist networks and infrastructural ecologies that recomposes modes of urban mending and care from below.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 3","pages":"283-295"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/amet.70113","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148371941","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: 2026-05-28DOI: 10.1111/amet.70095
Adriano De Francesco
{"title":"Concepts and persons By Michael Lambek. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 176 pp.","authors":"Adriano De Francesco","doi":"10.1111/amet.70095","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70095","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 3","pages":"333-334"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285680","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}