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{"title":"Open wounds: Further proof that the detained-disappeared existed in this world","authors":"Kiyoshi Nakaoji","doi":"10.1111/etho.70031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70031","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This theoretical and ethnographic paper examines how the finding of accurate reports about what happened to the detained-disappeared supports the psychological stability of the families of the missing. Drawing on a number of Winnicott's theories (the transitional object, transitional phenomena, and a sense of aliveness), alongside my field research in Chile, I will consider how the absence of a corpse, a death without ritual, and a mourning process without cultural support has affected the families of the detained-disappeared. Furthermore, I will contemplate how receiving an accurate report of events has helped families to come to terms with their loss. I hypothesize that texts can have the function of a transitional object in the process of recognizing the death of loved one. If the truth can be substituted by the written word, the void left by the disappearance has the chance to be filled. In this study, fieldwork was conducted at the Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared in Santiago, through which 52 families were interviewed. Research was also undertaken in Parral where the German colony <i>Colonia Dignidad</i> has had a strong influence on the community since its creation in 1961 to the present day.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147568069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Learning not to help in Nanjing and London–Cultural elaboration of empathy in childhood","authors":"Anni Kajanus","doi":"10.1111/etho.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Helping is one of the key features of human sociality. The ethnographic record is pervaded by accounts of people doing things with and for each other from an early age. Developmental psychology has shown that by the time children begin to walk and talk, they already display helpful behavior in many situations. These findings suggest that the propensity to help is biologically based, rather than directly taught. While doing research on children's cooperation in Nanjing, China, and London, UK, it became clear to me that school-aged children were socialized into <i>not helping</i>, rather than helping. This raises the question: what are some of the cultural and psychological processes shaping this core human behavior? To address this, I bring together three levels of culturally grounded analysis: helping behaviors, the cognition of empathy, and its emotional underpinnings. Drawing on cultural ontologies of personhood, I show that in London, children are expected to be generally helpful, but not at a great cost to themselves, while in Nanjing, there is less emphasis on general helpfulness, but highly costly helping is expected in particular relationships.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.70027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147566116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review of Global Perspectives on Parental Acceptance and Rejection","authors":"Muhammad Mussaffa Butt","doi":"10.1111/etho.70029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147564258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in the Democratic Republic of Congo By Rachel Marie Niehuus, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 216 pp.","authors":"Nikhil Pandhi","doi":"10.1111/etho.70032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147563943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lost futures and “starting from zero”: Affective experiences of downward social mobility among refugees and asylum seekers in Spain","authors":"Jacqueline Wagner","doi":"10.1111/etho.70026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70026","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how refugees and asylum seekers from the upper and upper-middle classes in their countries of origin contended with the prospect of downward social mobility in Madrid, Spain. Notably, downward social mobility involved losing not only material resources but also social status, opportunities, and imagined futures. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at an official refugee and asylum seeker reception center in Madrid, I argue that this process of coming to terms with their new socioeconomic positions represents an experience distinct from acculturation or integration, and I assert that it comes with its own unique set of affective experiences, including feelings of distress, injured pride, threats to identity, and disruption to existing life plans. Furthermore, the pace of downward mobility impacted the dynamics of loss for refugees and asylum seekers. This has implications for broader psychological anthropological examinations of how people grapple with change and upheaval in their lives.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147566118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Some reflections from my wonderful career in Psychological Anthropology","authors":"Thomas S. Weisner","doi":"10.1111/etho.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70028","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Our &lt;i&gt;Ethos&lt;/i&gt; editors have launched an occasional section with contributions by SPA members for a brief commentary; I appreciate the invitation. The editors suggested informal reflections on some of the traditions of Psychological Anthropology that I have experienced and value in my career. There are many traditions worth sustaining, and celebrating them is one of my goals—a blend of my advocacy of and for our field, and some advice for the field in the context of describing some of my own experiences and career. This is not the place for lengthy summaries of research findings or theory debates, but there are some references if readers want to look further (Weisner, &lt;span&gt;2018a&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Psychological Anthropology benefits from its core bioecocultural theory and conceptual framework. Psychological Anthropology combines culture and mind, and encompasses the whole person, from our biology and evolutionary past to childhood and how we acquire cultural information and social competence, to our shared cultural models and unique experiences, and our health and well-being. Psychological Anthropology is holistic; includes culture, mind, brain, and experience; it includes the local contexts in the communities and lives we study; is comparative and cross-cultural; includes mixed methods; asks about learning and the &lt;i&gt;acquisition&lt;/i&gt; and organization of cultural knowledge; continues to contribute to many empirical topics; and more (Weisner, &lt;span&gt;1997&lt;/span&gt;). My reflections about Psychological Anthropology are based on these strengths and definition of our field, firmly based on the social sciences. Although there is great diversity in what we practice as part of Psychological Anthropology, these are core strengths deserving of celebration and continued support.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I learned from and contributed to Psychological Anthropology as a very fortunate faculty member at UCLA for my career, beginning in 1971. &lt;i&gt;Ethos&lt;/i&gt; was founded with UCLA faculty Walter Goldschmidt and Douglass Price-Williams, as editors in 1973. Goldschmidt and Price-Williams described the creative “institutionalized instability” of Psychological Anthropology as an interdisciplinary field—and hoped to bring articles to &lt;i&gt;Ethos&lt;/i&gt; that explored these tensions. Psychological Anthropology was expanding in numbers and in intellectual projects, and yet our work at times was rejected by some journals with outdated criteria (such as continued confusion with early “culture and personality” studies) and we wanted a home in which to publish. The title “Journal of Psychological Anthropology” was already in use by another journal. I think “Ethos” was a reference to our holism and focus on shared cultural models of cultural communities (this was the argument made by Walter Goldschmidt at the time, as I recall), and also perhaps to the hoped-for unifying intellectual project and vision of studying culture and mind together that &lt;i&gt;Ethos&lt;/i&gt; the journal would bring.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To give a sense of","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.70028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147566117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"More than pretty boxes: How the rise of professional organizing shows us the way we work isn't working By Carrie M. Lane, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 2024. 288 pp.","authors":"Benjamin Trujillo Perez","doi":"10.1111/etho.70025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"53 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145730549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Suspicion as care: Rumor and accusation in community mental health","authors":"Julio Villa-Palomino","doi":"10.1111/etho.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines Perú’s transition from mental healthcare in psychiatric hospitals to a Community Mental Health (CMH) model. Based on 18 months of fieldwork on the outskirts of Lima, I show that one of CMH's effects has been an unexpected increase in rumors and accusations between neighbors. While mental health reforms have been characterized as a withdrawal from the state, I argue that CMH involves a series of interventions under the ethos of community care that create a new type of sociality and that bring together multiple actors who are now responsible and accountable for the care of deinstitutionalized individuals and their community. I propose the analytics of suspicion as care to evidence and analyze how residents are recruited and incorporated into CMH, and how suspicion, rumor, and accusation are conceived of as acts of care.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"53 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.70024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145719740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Orientation and atmosphere: Toward an anthropology of political subjectivity","authors":"Janis H. Jenkins","doi":"10.1111/etho.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Political subjectivity is of growing interest within anthropology. In this article, I argue that within any political ethos, the constitution of political subjectivity takes place at the nexus of orientation and atmosphere. In this formulation, orientation defines subjectivity's intentional directionality in terms of value and desire, while atmosphere defines the socioemotional space in which that orientation takes place in terms of power and position. Drawing on research that utilizes an ethnographic, feminist, phenomenological, and psychodynamic approach, the article argues that the concepts of orientation and atmosphere can be leveraged to get a better purchase on understanding political subjectivity. Empirically, I show this across an array of situations, including political violence, incivility, gendered inequity, psychotic affliction, natural disaster, and the development of political awareness. Conceptually, I show that examining processes of self and will, empathy and power, denial and repression at the nexus of orientation and atmosphere can advance the theorization of political subjectivity within psychological anthropology and allied fields.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"53 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.70023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145171935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Care, complicity, and containment: Professionals’ experiences of moral injury working in US immigration detention centers","authors":"Lauren Medina","doi":"10.1111/etho.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For the professionals who work or volunteer with detained migrants, providing care or advocacy requires navigating morally conflicting responsibilities and exposure to an environment of harm. Working in immigration detention spaces has a cost, both for the professional's mental health and for the detainees who rely on professionals’ capacity to intervene in a system of harm and neglect. Bringing together moral injury and tactics, this article examines how professionals navigate and counter the morally injurious contexts of their work. Ethnographic interviews with detention employees, case workers, forensic psychologists, and medical evaluators revealed a range of strategies and outcomes of moral injury. While professionals used tactics like moral numbing or avoidance to protect themselves and continue providing care, the withholding or lessening of care has consequences for the detainees relying on their intervention. Yet not utilizing strategies has its own cost, as professionals experience burnout, trauma, and hauntings. Just as migrants are literally “caught” as they chase the American Dream, professionals feel morally entangled in circumstances of harm. In attempting to intervene or lessen harm, care becomes a justification for and a source of moral violence in professionals' lives. Through this analysis, I argue that a framing of tactics incorporated into moral injury better captures the diversity in how professionals navigate and respond to their moral injuries in ways that can disrupt or support the continued systemic violence in immigration detention contexts. Examining the moral dimensions to professionals’ experiences and distress allows for more informed, targeted interventions to disrupt this harm and empower professionals’ efforts to provide care and advocacy within detention spaces.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"53 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145171929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}