Crystal Abidin, Vanessa Díaz, L. L. Wynn, Jesse Hession Grayman, Susanna Trnka
{"title":"Influence from the margins","authors":"Crystal Abidin, Vanessa Díaz, L. L. Wynn, Jesse Hession Grayman, Susanna Trnka","doi":"10.1111/amet.70088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70088","url":null,"abstract":"Shortly after Super Bowl LX, in which Bad Bunny headlined the most‐watched halftime show in Super Bowl history, the editors of <jats:italic>American Ethnologist</jats:italic> sat down to interview anthropologists Crystal Abidin (author of books including <jats:italic>TikTok and Youth Cultures</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Child Influencers: How Children Become Entangled with Social Media Fame</jats:italic> ) and Vanessa Díaz (author of the books <jats:italic>Manufacturing Celebrity</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance</jats:italic> ). The wide‐ranging discussion covered the changing structures of celebrity promotion, including Hollywood paparazzi and J‐pop and K‐pop fan clubs, genres of parasociality and shifting social media trends, the rise of influencers and new pathways to achieving and marketing celebrity, and the performances of child influencers. Even though they work in different regions of the world and study different celebrity industries, both Díaz and Abidin focus on what and who are made invisible in the production of celebrity, and the ways that pop culture icons from minority groups have achieved global mainstream success by coding forms of critique and political commentary within catchy tunes.","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"22 1","pages":"183-191"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285732","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":"What is an author?","authors":"Susanna Trnka","doi":"10.1111/amet.70082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70082","url":null,"abstract":"How is artificial intelligence altering our understandings of academic authorship? While the uptake of AI might appear to require a radical revisioning of our notions of authorship, in fact, it highlights long‐standing notions of collective and individual authorial responsibility, as demonstrated through the first human engagements with the ELIZA computer program. Pitched in the 1960s as AI capable of engaging in psychoanalytic interviews, ELIZA illuminates the necessary give‐and‐take between authors and their interlocutors. Employing M. M. Bakhtin's notion of answerability, I suggest, enables us to examine the dual sides of authorship that ELIZA and more recent forms of AI reveal: as engagement in a call‐and‐response (between author and audience) and as a form of accountability. Drawing from my experiences as the editor‐in‐chief of <jats:italic>American Ethnologist</jats:italic> , I examine AI's impact on the collective and individualized nature of academic authorship today.","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"27 1","pages":"148-154"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285731","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":"Agrarian counterpoint","authors":"Javier Lezaun, Lina Pinto‐García","doi":"10.1111/amet.70089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70089","url":null,"abstract":"In Colombia's northeastern borderlands, agrarian economies shape how disease risk and stigma are understood and managed. As shown in ethnographic fieldwork in and around the Catatumbo region, cutaneous leishmaniasis—a sandfly‐transmitted disease that produces chronic skin lesions—appears in two radically different guises across adjacent territories. In coca‐growing areas, the disease is driven underground and treated as a marker of criminality. In coffee‐growing areas, it appears as an occupational hazard that calls for professional attention and minor but impactful attempts at environmental sanitation. This contrast defines a structural “counterpoint” between coca and coffee, commodities that encode alternative versions of Colombia's agro‐political identity and shape narratives of legitimacy and illegality. Comparing labor conditions, ecological dynamics, and public health responses, we show how the visible symptoms of suffering caused by the disease become more or less conspicuous depending on the social value attributed to different kinds of agricultural work.","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147752610","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":"Anthropological authorship in the age of generative AI","authors":"Susanna Trnka, L. L. Wynn, Jesse Hession Grayman","doi":"10.1111/amet.70087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70087","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147695415","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":"Enacting AI disclosure in scholarly publishing","authors":"Marcel LaFlamme, Natalie Meyers","doi":"10.1111/amet.70084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70084","url":null,"abstract":"Anthropologists and other scholarly authors are increasingly expected to disclose and describe their use of generative AI. In this commentary, we sketch emerging practices of AI disclosure and attribution, consider how these practices might be adapted to address anthropology's distinctive epistemic and ethical commitments, and recommend strategies for AI disclosure that build on existing norms in anthropological publishing. Looking beyond publishers’ policies, we also examine how the expectation to disclose AI use is being codified across scales and sectors, contextualizing anthropologists’ decision‐making with respect to relevant trends in other regulatory and professional domains.","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147695416","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}
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