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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 16h

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Sharif Gemie reviews // “Fraternal critique: The politics of the Muslim community in France” // By Kirsten Wesselhoeft, University of Chicago Press, 2025

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 16h

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Pascale Boucicaut reviews // “Hoarding New Guinea” // By Rainer F. Buschmann, University of Nebraska Press, 2023

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 2d

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Asmus Rungby reviews // “Enchanted modernities: Ancestral vitalizations in the upper Mekong” // By Micah Morton, University of Wisconsin Press, 2025.

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 4d

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Pandemic, paternalism, and the (im)possibilities of citizenship in China
A netnography

By Zhiying Ma, Yaochu Bi, and Naiyu Jiang

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 4d

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 4d

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Meghan Rose Donnelly reviews // “Affect ethnography: Exploring performance and narrative in the creation of unstories” // By Cristiana Giordano and Greg Pierotti, @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2024.

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 5d

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Sci-fi chips and sickled cells
Names and genes as technologies of inheritance in Tanzania

By Rebekah Ciribassi

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 6d

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Hannah Brown reviews // “In the time of Ebola: Youth, family, and emergency in Sierra Leone” // By Jonah Lipton, Cornell University Press, 2024

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 6d

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Sci-fi chips and sickled cells
Names and genes as technologies of inheritance in Tanzania

By Rebekah Ciribassi #AnthroSky #Anthropology

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 6d

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Ivan Kalmar reviews // “We have never been woke: The cultural contradictions of a new elite” // By Musa al-Gharbi @princetonupress.bsky.social, 2024

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 6d

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Robert Moore reviews // “The copy generic: How the nonspecific makes our social worlds” // By Scott MacLochlainn,
University of Chicago Press, 2022

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 6d

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Caroline MacLean reviews // “Father time: A natural history of men and babies” // By Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, @princetonupress.bsky.social 2024

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 16d

"EXPERIMENT"--- the theme for the next American Ethnological Society conference in May 2026! For more information check out the official flyer at sway.cloud.microsoft/TTgqspETqroD... and of course, stay tuned to our website and social media for further details. See you there!

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Welcome to the conference information page for the 2026 Spring Conference of the American Ethnological Society.

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 10d

New Special Collection Out!

The online collection, edited by Anna Simone Reumert, Wendy Vogt and Charlie Piot, examines how communities around the world are affected by the criminalization of their mobility and how they respond to it.

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Crown Center for Middle East Studies @mes-crown.bsky.social · 14d

Anna Simone Reumert, Neubauer Junior Research Fellow, co-edited the latest online issue on borders & migration from
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Bordering and the War on Migration - American Ethnological Society

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 16d

Conference location: Uni. of Victoria in British Columbia (CA)
Dates: May 1-3, 2026
Submission deadline: Dec. 15, 2025
For inquiries, contact the organizers at [email protected]

American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 16d

"EXPERIMENT"--- the theme for the next American Ethnological Society conference in May 2026! For more information check out the official flyer at sway.cloud.microsoft/TTgqspETqroD... and of course, stay tuned to our website and social media for further details. See you there!

Created using Microsoft Sway

Welcome to the conference information page for the 2026 Spring Conference of the American Ethnological Society.

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · Aug 2

In light of this and other disturbing Trump administration policies targeting academics with diverse viewpoints--like, for example, student protesters--we thought the time was ripe to ask some anthropologists about contemporary threats to academic freedom.

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · Aug 2

Our first reaction was: When is American Ethnologist going to get one of those letters?! 😉 After all, anthropologists have been grappling with questions of bias and viewpoint diversity since… forever. We have a LOT to say about that. We haven’t gotten a letter (yet), but…

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · Aug 2

April 2025: NEJM, JAMA, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Chest all got vaguely threatening letters from U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr., asking whether they “accept articles…from competing viewpoints” and hinting that editorial decisions may be scrutinised under “relevant fraud regulations.”

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · Aug 2

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Struggles for academic freedom (part 1)
AE interviews Hayal Akarsu and Heath Cabot on the fight against threats to free speech in Europe and beyond

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SAPIENS Magazine @sapiens.org · 22d

“Mistrust can disrupt and harm labor relationships and even generate violent outcomes. But Indonesia’s on-demand economy has taught us that mistrust is more complicated.”

Read more: www.sapiens.org/culture/indo...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · Aug 16

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · Aug 16

📢📢📢 New Editorial Alert 📢📢📢

American Ethnologist editors lift the lid on the ‘black box’ of journal submission...

An Editorial Insight: Be wary of making ungrounded “what I call” assertions of novelty. A much better strategy is to trace where your ideas have come from.

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 27d

In this interview, Tanya Jakimow expands on her recent article about elections, examining how elections produced discarded candidates and the role they can fill in democratic communities, as well as the ambivalent effects of gender quotas: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Discarded Candidates: An Interview with Dr. Tanya Jakimow

In her article “Discarded Candidates: Waste as Metaphor in Local Government Elections in Australia (and Elsewhere),” Tanya Jakimow explores Austr...

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