{"title":"On account of doomsday","authors":"Max Jack","doi":"10.1111/amet.70080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70080","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, Berlin has emerged as an epicenter of climate activism in Germany. There, a range of groups have mobilized in opposition to the role of the German state and the EU in accelerating the climate crisis. Many activists now see conventional political responses as exhausted and have turned to increasingly radical forms of civil disobedience. Street blockades in particular have become a favored tactic. These interventions in public space draw attention to the lives and conditions of those most affected by climate change. Yet they unfold amid police violence and verbal abuse from bystanders, experiences that generate both trauma and solidarity. In these contested spaces of listening, activists forge cathartic and conflictual forms of collective endurance as they struggle with the feeling that the world is falling apart.","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147518820","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":"On recognizing the handiwork of AI","authors":"Nick Seaver","doi":"10.1111/amet.70062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70062","url":null,"abstract":"As AI‐generated images and texts proliferate, people have developed techniques for identifying them using clues like misshapen hands in images or distinctive words in text. This commentary situates these emerging practices within what Carlo Ginzburg called the “conjectural paradigm”: a mode of knowing that links contemporary AI detection to older traditions of medical symptomatology, art historical connoisseurship, and detective work. Yet unlike the stable or slowly evolving clues of earlier conjectural practices, the signifiers of AI involvement are rapidly shifting. This instability has consequences not only for how texts are read but also for how they are written. Authors now navigate a landscape of suspicion where their words may be misrecognized as machine generated. Rather than resolving into stable literacies, our efforts to recognize AI’s handiwork reveal the deeper uncertainties of authorship and interpretation.","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147518778","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":"Bittersweet sounds of passage: Balinese gamelan angklung cremation music By EllenKoskoff. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2025. 193 pp.","authors":"Dustin Wiebe","doi":"10.1111/amet.70078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147506648","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":"Something between us: The everyday walls of American life, and how to take them down By AnandPandian. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. 304 pp.","authors":"Chris Walley","doi":"10.1111/amet.70076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147507846","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 cage of days: Time and temporal experience in prison By K. C.Carceral and Michael G.Flaherty. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 320 pp.","authors":"Katrine Duus","doi":"10.1111/amet.70066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70066","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147506640","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":"Collateral damages: Tracing the debts and displacements of the Iraq War By NadiaEl‐Shaarawi. Oakland: University of California Press, 2025. 256 pp.","authors":"Younes Saramifar","doi":"10.1111/amet.70069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70069","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147506649","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":"Opposition by imitation: The economics of Italian anti‐Mafia activism By ChristinaJerne. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2025. 248 pp.","authors":"Deborah Puccio‐Den","doi":"10.1111/amet.70067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70067","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"405 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147506651","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":"Against abandonment: Repertoires of solidarity in South Korean protest By Jennifer JihyeChun and Ju Hui JudyHan. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. 306 pp.","authors":"Yoonkyung Lee","doi":"10.1111/amet.70073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"190 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147506639","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}