American EthnologistPub Date : 2026-07-24Epub Date: 2026-07-03DOI: 10.1111/amet.70102
Tijo Salverda, Ben Eyre, Lorraine Nencel, Erella Grassiani, Marina de Regt, Lise Woensdregt, Haiyue Shan
{"title":"Thinking through payment in fieldwork","authors":"Tijo Salverda, Ben Eyre, Lorraine Nencel, Erella Grassiani, Marina de Regt, Lise Woensdregt, Haiyue Shan","doi":"10.1111/amet.70102","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70102","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ethnographic research has long illuminated diverse economic relations. Yet ethnographers have said little about an economic relation that they themselves often rely on: payment in fieldwork. Indeed, the particularities of monetary exchange between ethnographers and their interlocutors often remain hidden—or taboo. This is so even though thinking through reciprocity is increasingly important in discussions of anthropological research ethics and the discipline's colonial legacies. Traditionally, fieldwork relies on long-term, intimate relationships that are often idealized, suggesting that money might taint ethnographic interactions. Yet, for anthropologists, it is our job to pay attention to taboos and unpack them. Here, we aim to advance critical discussion on payment in fieldwork and its implications. Given that ethnographic knowledge is always contextual, such discussion should be integral to equitable ethnographic research practices, creating theoretical space to engage with research participants’ expectations of payment.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 3","pages":"236-248"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/amet.70102","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148371943","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.70104
Diane Austin
{"title":"What do we owe one another?","authors":"Diane Austin","doi":"10.1111/amet.70104","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 3","pages":"266-267"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148371945","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.70107
David Griffith
{"title":"A kingdom for a horse","authors":"David Griffith","doi":"10.1111/amet.70107","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 3","pages":"261-262"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148371946","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: 2026-06-15DOI: 10.1111/amet.70097
Ieva Jusionyte, Godfrey Maringira, Susanna Trnka, L. L. Wynn, Jesse Hession Grayman
{"title":"Guns and gun violence (part 1)—global perspectives","authors":"Ieva Jusionyte, Godfrey Maringira, Susanna Trnka, L. L. Wynn, Jesse Hession Grayman","doi":"10.1111/amet.70097","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70097","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Gun violence is widespread around the globe, but the messages conveyed by its various manifestations, as well as by guns themselves, are deeply specific, both socially and historically. In this interview, Ieva Jusionyte and Godfrey Maringira discuss their research on gun violence in the US, Mexico, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Recalling their own experiences with firearms—carrying them, firing them, and being threatened by them—they tell us how these experiences have shaped their approaches to researching some of the most ethically troubling dynamics of contemporary life.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 3","pages":"320-326"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148385886","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":"Medina by the bay: Scenes of Muslim study and survival By MaryamKashani. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 328 pp.","authors":"Shabana Mir","doi":"10.1111/amet.70098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70098","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285665","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":"Delta futures: Time, territory, and capture on a climate frontier By JasonCons. Oakland: University of California Press, 2025. 210 pp.","authors":"Janwillem Liebrand","doi":"10.1111/amet.70094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70094","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285676","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":"Carnalities: The art of living in Latinidad By MarianaOrtega. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2025. 336 pp.","authors":"Domitilla Olivieri","doi":"10.1111/amet.70096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285677","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":"Pathways to utopia: Time and transformation in the Landless Workers Movement of Brazil By Alex UngprateebFlynn. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2025. 243 pp.","authors":"Anthony Pahnke","doi":"10.1111/amet.70092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70092","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285679","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":"Naked fieldnotes: A rough guide to ethnographic writing By DenielleElliott and Matthew J.Wolf‐Meyer, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. 384 pp.","authors":"Larissa Schindler","doi":"10.1111/amet.70091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70091","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285681","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}