{"title":"Working musicians: Labor and creativity in film and television production By Timothy Taylor. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 264 pp.","authors":"Michael L. Siciliano","doi":"10.1111/amet.13368","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13368","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 1","pages":"136-138"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142594736","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":"Religion and transnational citizenship in the African diaspora: Akan London By Mattia Fumanti. London: Routledge, 2023. 195 pp.","authors":"Antonio Montañés Jimenez","doi":"10.1111/amet.13359","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13359","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 1","pages":"114-115"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142594729","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":"A tyranny against itself: Intimate partner violence on the margins of Bogotá By John I. B. Bhadra-Heintz. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 258 pp.","authors":"Signe Svallfors","doi":"10.1111/amet.13371","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13371","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 1","pages":"141-142"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142594738","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":"Revolution squared: Tahrir, political possibilities, and counterrevolution in Egypt By Atef Shahat Said. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 360 pp.","authors":"Dena Qaddumi","doi":"10.1111/amet.13339","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13339","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 4","pages":"645-646"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142328656","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":"Hypeful worlds","authors":"Tom Neumark","doi":"10.1111/amet.13351","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13351","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Contemporary technoscience is rife with <i>hype</i>—inflated claims that rapidly propagate in favor of the next “new thing.” While scholars often strive to debunk and dispel hype, Tanzanian technologists working in health care face a different challenge: navigating hype. As these technologists embark on new projects in machine learning and other forms of AI, contending with hype becomes crucial. These actors operate on the margins of global technoscientific worlds, aiming to create novel African futures that promote technological sovereignty. To do so, they must grapple with hype and its political economy. For anthropologists, merely transforming these technologists’ experiences into an ethnographic object won't teach us much; a much more illuminating task is to examine how their work can provoke us to refine and transform our own knowledge practices. This is especially important because their innovations can seem both inspiring and dispiriting, both entrenched in and opposed to the troublesome technological global order.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 4","pages":"527-539"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/amet.13351","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142321516","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":"Manpower and violence at the thresholds of humanitarian and anthropological reason","authors":"Adia Benton","doi":"10.1111/amet.13354","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13354","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 4","pages":"519-521"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142325604","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":"Creating value for objects-in-waiting","authors":"Olga Kanzaki Sooudi","doi":"10.1111/amet.13352","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13352","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In much anthropological reflection on value creation through objects, value is conceptualized as created in circulation. Yet objects’ social lives are punctuated by periods of waiting as much as they are by movement. Waiting can thus be theorized and examined as a critical pause in the circulation of objects, one that enables their value transformation and creation via social actors, institutions, and valuation processes. Demonstrating this can be accomplished ethnographically by following the consignment, exhibition, and sale of a group of objects—in this case by the artist Maqbool Fida Husain via a Mumbai art gallery. As objects wait, the art world turns around them, setting valuation and other value-making processes in motion. This moment of waiting is precisely when our methodological and analytical gaze should turn to the object's social relations and to the collective activities of the art world.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 4","pages":"552-567"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/amet.13352","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142325602","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}