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{"title":"Can a lizard ride on a housefly?: Navigating uncertainty and moral life in an Accra Zongo, Ghana","authors":"Emily A. Williamson","doi":"10.1111/etho.70033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70033","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How can uncertainty become a resource for ethical life rather than a threat to it? Focusing on a Zongo community in Accra, Ghana—also known as a “traveler's camp” or “stranger's quarters”—this article examines how people use a creative form of communication called the practice of folding to sustain relationships shaped by conditions of uncertainty. I define this practice as a form of indirect communication that brings together opposing ideas, materialities, and geographies that are not typically associated with one another. Contributing to literature at the intersection of uncertainty, language, and morality, I argue that the practice of folding cultivates and sustains intersubjective uncertainty, inviting participants to keep doubt, questioning, and possibilities in active tension. It enables a particular form of ethical attunement I term an ethics of traveling-with—an obligation to continually shift perspectives in order to understand other points of view, thereby delaying or even refusing resolution. These findings offer new insights into moral life in contexts of fragility, improvisation, and interdependence, challenging the common assumption that moral striving necessarily seeks resolution, judgment, or evaluation.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"54 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.70033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148274899","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":"Divine intimacy, frustration and the madness of the city: Changing transhuman kinship in China","authors":"Keping Wu,&nbsp;Robert P. Weller","doi":"10.1111/etho.70038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.70038","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay shows the affective resonances of the collision of gods, humans, and rapidly shifting landscapes in a newly urbanized part of Suzhou, China. The first section discusses how ties to spirits are not just metaphors or projections of human kinship, but literal parts of a kinship system that invoke responsibilities of care, based on links of both affect and blood. The second turns to how such intimacy is not always pleasant, and how the closest relationships to gods often begin with sickness and suffering, and in some cases with death leading to deification. Examples of these intimacies include Amei's painful calling to be a spirit medium (and thus a god's daughter) and her niece Xiangling's death and deification as the concubine of the god who took her. The last section turns to the rapid urbanization of the area over the past two decades, which has destroyed all the local temples along with the villages they served. This dis-placement has created a new affect of frustration in the daughters of the gods, due to the interruptions of their responsibilities of care. In the case of Xiangling's mother, the frustration spiraled into madness after the urbanization process destroyed the statue of her deified daughter. Integrating Navaro-Yashin's analysis of spaces of ruin with insights from scholars working on the emotional tensions built into intimacy, we reveal how the dis-placements of rapid urbanization have transformed those intimacies to create an affective and embodied ruination.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"54 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.70038","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148274850","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":"Open wounds: Further proof that the detained-disappeared existed in this world","authors":"Kiyoshi Nakaoji","doi":"10.1111/etho.70031","DOIUrl":"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":"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":"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":"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":"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":"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":"No one should die alone: “Just holding hands” among vigil volunteers in Denmark","authors":"Lone Grøn,&nbsp;Laura Skifter Andersen","doi":"10.1111/etho.70019","DOIUrl":"10.1111/etho.70019","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A wealth of societal concerns about loneliness has surfaced in recent years, raising questions about the negative impacts of increasing social lacks. Exploring a widespread saying among Danish vigil volunteers that “No one should die alone,” we ask: What is at stake in this concern with lonely deaths? And how is relationality practiced at life's end? Inspired by Waldenfels’ responsive phenomenology, we explore the concerns and actions of the vigil volunteers as a dynamic of haunting call and hesitant response. The call is voiced in heart-wrenching images and in more clearly formulated critiques of loneliness in aging and dying processes within a transforming Danish welfare state. The response, “just holding hands,” comprises a “<i>poeisis</i> of cessation” through minute embodied and sensed acts of being with. The volunteers do not expect their response to remedy the call; they more humbly seek to patch up perceived relational lacks in contemporary Danish society.</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"53 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/etho.70019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145730387","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":"Suspicion as care: Rumor and accusation in community mental health","authors":"Julio Villa-Palomino","doi":"10.1111/etho.70024","DOIUrl":"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":"2025-12-11","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}