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How does one care for the welfare of child soldiers whose very vulnerability may undermine the Stateβs ability to wage war? In βArmy of the Vulnerable,β Edmonds explores how the British army attempts to protect its own while retaining the capacity to exercise violence.
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Promised Futures
Abstract Submissions due Aug 31, 2025
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π’ EASA President Hayal Akarsu speaks with APLAβs Heath Cabot on the global assault on academic freedom β from police on campuses π to rising precarity πΌ
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American Ethnologist editors lift the lid on the βblack boxβ of journal submission...
An Editorial Insight: Title, Abstract & Keywords are not an afterthought! Search engines rely on them and they persuade reviewers and readers to engage with your work.
Read Sam RumΓ©βs βObras politics: Elements of material populism in Ecuadorβ (2025)
View the authorβs field photos and reflections from Cuenca, Ecuador in AE 52.2:
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OF JAGUARS AND BUTTERFLIES: Metalogues on Issues in Anthropology and Philosophy by Geoffrey Lloyd and Aparecida Vilaça is now available in paperback!
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π’π’π’ New Editorial Alert π’π’π’
American Ethnologist editors lift the lid on the βblack boxβ of journal submission...
An Editorial Insight: Know your Anthro journals! Read the last few issues to get a sense of AEβs style, how theory and ethnography work together to propel the argument.
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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Our first reaction was: When is American Ethnologist going to get one of those letters?! π After all, anthropologists have been grappling with questions of bias and viewpoint diversity sinceβ¦ forever. We have a LOT to say about that. We havenβt gotten a letter (yet), butβ¦
02.08.2025 09:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0April 2025: NEJM, JAMA, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Chest all got vaguely threatening letters from U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr., asking whether they βaccept articlesβ¦from competing viewpointsβ and hinting that editorial decisions may be scrutinised under βrelevant fraud regulations.β
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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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Before the Kardashians and the rise of other influencers who became famous for extravagantly spending money, Ivoirian hype artists in Abidjan and Paris were literally throwing away money so that people would look at them.
As an archive of digital semiotics, this article also allows us reflect on how social media platforms and their usage have changed in the decade that has transpired since its publication.
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Ten years after Yarimar Bonilla and Jonathan Rosa's highly cited article, we continue to learn from their linguistic analysis of social media usage, and political protest and formation.
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π’ @amethno.bsky.social Call for Proposals β 'Promised Futures' β the temporal claims that condition human action in the present, justify exclusion, and sustain hope.
ποΈ Submissions deadline: Aug 31
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Weβre always happy to see reviews of our books! Read Karen Waltorpβs thoughts on 'An Anthropology of Crosslocations' at: doi.org/10.1111/amet....
The book itself is freely available in #openaccess via: doi.org/10.33134/HUP...
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π’ EASA President Hayal Akarsu speaks with APLAβs Heath Cabot on the global assault on academic freedom β from police on campuses π to rising precarity πΌ
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Helena Patzer reviews // βSubversive archaism: Troubling traditionalists and the politics of national heritageβ // by Michael Herzfeld @dukepress.bsky.social 2022
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I know itβs not the first ethnography of depopulation out there, but this is the first one Iβve had the pleasure to read and I think itβs a fascinating topic for more anthropologists to pursue. I canβt shake the images of creeping brushwood across the historic garden terraces of the Azores.
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Read Tim Burgerβs βHorticulture as history making: Dense action on lost land among Azorean smallholdersβ (2025)
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π’π’π’ AES Online - Call for Proposals! π’π’π’
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Nada Moumtaz reviews // βDevotion to the administrative state: Religion and social order in Egyptβ // by Mona Oraby @princetonupress.bsky.social 2024
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Revisit Aaron Ansell's article on propaganda and political communication in a small northeastern Brazilian town. First published ten years ago, Ansell's analysis on liberal and illiberal imaginings carries lessons for us today.
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Join @americananthro.bsky.social in New Orleans for the 2025 AAA Annual Meeting to explore this yearβs powerful theme: #Ghosts
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November 19β23, 2025
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Nils Zurawski reviews // Trapped: Life under security capitalism and how to escape it // by Mark Maguire and Setha Low
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