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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What are psychiatric medications for? Poramin Tangopasvilaisakul argues that "psychiatric drugs blur the line between medical effects and side effects, or between what happens inside the body and within relationships. [...]

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

June Hee Kwon’s interspecies ethnography explores how Jeju citrus farmers and trees are bound together in a shared waithood, as people invest in long-term cultivation without knowing whether their efforts will pay off in the future.

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Through a granular and embodied ethnography in Taiwan, Shi Yeu Nga observes how the gut supplement industry is built on promises of a better future, starting with the gut. Read the piece in the AES Special Collection, Promised Futures: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In working with scientists in the Arctic, Hanna Oosterveen reflects on how different visions of the future are negotiated among members of the environmental research community. Read the piece in the AES Special Collection, Promised Futures: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Through his observation of pottery-making in Crete, Emanuele Prezioso comments on futurity. He argues that, as much as it draws on past traditions, pottery is inherently oriented toward the future through ‘the crafting of the possible’.

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

In her account of a Chinese town renewed to attract returning migrants, Teresa Irigoyen-Lopez articulates what happens when the promised future does not resonate with those to whom it is promised.

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

By following a migrant's journey after she receives refugee status in the UK, Hannah Morgan shows that bureaucratic anxieties about the future do not disappear when an aspired future is attained.

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

In his work on South Africa’s Gauteng Province, Loren B. Landau shows how people become trapped by failed promised futures and unrealized expectations. Access the piece in the AES Special Collection, Promised Futures: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In his ethnography of Baptists in Texas, Thomas Long delineates the role of exclusion in promises of a singular future grounded in conservative theology. Access the piece in the AES Special Collection, Promised Futures: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Through his study of plastic building facades in Bolivia, Isaac Silver connects the anthropology of the future with that of plastic. He follows how globally circulating plastic becomes the material through which Aymara traders project abundant futures.

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

In their "day trip to utopia" in a former East German model socialist city, Paul Basu and Jonas Tinius reflect on how abandoned visions of the future endure in the material remnants of today. Access their piece in the AES Special Collection, Promised Futures: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Lindsay A. Bell conducts a sensitive ethnography of a Cold War-era high-rise in Hay River, Canada, through which she explores how people live with the architectural remnants of extractive and promissory pasts.

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Deana Jovanović examines how a return to Yugoslav-era greatness is promised in a Serbian mining town. She argues that performative and populist promises are central to sustaining political power while helping people navigate precarious futures.

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

NEW Special Collection: Promised Futures AES presents a collection of essays that attends to the temporal politics of what futures are promised, by whom, and at what cost?

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

📢📢📢 New Article Alert 📢📢📢 Jianmin Shao's 'The geobiopolitics of trans medicine: Kinship, recalibrated care, and difference-making amid China-US tensions' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View. Access here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

📢📢📢 New Article Alert 📢📢📢 Emrah Yıldız's 'Outsmarting sanctions: Experiments with fictitious commodities across Iran and Turkey' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View, as part of the 'Property and Other Fictions' Forum: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

📢📢📢 New Article Alert 📢📢📢 Inés Escobar González's 'When property becomes rent' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View. The piece is part of the 'Property and Other Fictions' Forum. Access here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

📢📢📢 New Article Alert 📢📢📢 Cheryl Mattingly's 'Surprise and the singular plural: A critical phenomenology of disability worlds' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

📢📢📢 New Interview Alert 📢📢📢 From the Cold War to the manosphere: Toxic masculinities, women's rights, and today's gender wars—AE interviews Greg Downey and Kristen R. Ghodsee Find it in AE 53.1 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

📚📚📚New Book Review📚📚📚 Andrea Muehlebach reviews // "Justice in the balance: Democracy, rule of law, and the European Court of Human Rights" // By Jessica Greenberg, Stanford University Press, 2025 Find it here in AE 53.1 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Emanuela Nadia Borghi's "Embodying Trauma, Listening to Hope" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Maryam Fouad's "Awful Anthropology" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Deborah A. Boehm's "Hard To See" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Meghna Roy's "Blending Art and Science" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Hassan F. Virk "Life, Still Life, and Death in Northern Pakistan" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Lucas Rozell, Emily Reynolds, and Kathryn E. Goldfarb's "Living Archives" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Chiara Pussetti "The Bird’s Lament" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Oriol Pascual Pérez's "El Afecto en la Experiencia Etnográfica de la Muerte" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Karina Hoření's "The Past is a Möbius Strip: Ghosts in Post-Displacement Central Europe" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Hanna Dosenko's "For Kostya: Brother, Friend, Warrior" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Read Salwa Tareen's introduction to the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection. The online collection explores 'what it means to witness and record heartbreaking anthropology.' Access here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Darcy Tetreault’s “Mining and eco-territorial struggles in Mexico”-- now in the Anthropology of Free Trade Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

AES 2025 Online Content Highlights! Access the exclusive essays, interviews, and collections here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED to January 15. The American Ethnological Society Spring Conference, themed EXPERIMENT, will be at the University of Victoria, B.C. from May 1-3, 2026.

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Read Alejandra González Jiménez’s Introduction to the Anthropology of Free Trade Special Collection. The online collection ‘captures the local while simultaneously situating it across transnational scales and tracing historical and geographical interconnections’. #AnthroSky #Ethnography

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

At the AAAs in NOLA, Ken Guest passed the AES President baton to Carole McGranahan. Here he is with Carole & Kate McCaffrey, the outgoing AES Treasurer. Ken was the longest-serving AES Board member: he served first as a councilor, then Treasurer, President-elect, and finally, President.

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Alexandra Délano Alonso's "Organizing Against Immigration Enforcement and Beyond" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Julie Kleinman's "Resisting the War on Migrants in Senegal" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum's "Complicating Cross-border Mobility in Ghana" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

📢📢📢 New Issue of AE Journal is Out 📢📢📢 From research articles on Ottoman objects and sci-fi chips to a forum on infectious disease and interviews on current affairs, Issue 52.4 of American Ethnologist is now available. Access here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481425...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

New Special Collection Out! The online collection, edited by Salwa Tareen, Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori and Hosanna Fukuzawa, explores 'what it means to witness and record heartbreaking anthropology.' Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Nicki Kindersley, Mawal Marko Gatkuoth and Manal Abdulaziz Mudir's "Disaster Capitalism in South Sudan" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Marthe Achtnich's "A Necroeconomy of Mobility" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Erick Moreno Superlano's "Reterritorializing Venezuela’s Moral Geography in the US" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Ahlam Chemlali and Gabriella Sanchez's "Geographies of Containment: Tunisia and Mexico in the Age of Externalization" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Wendy Vogt's "Outsiders among Outsiders in a Migrant Chokepoint" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Luigi Achilli’s 'Criminal Governance at Europe’s Externalized Frontier' -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Read Anna Simone Reumert, Wendy Vogt and Charlie Piot's introduction into their Special Collection, Bordering and the War on Migration. The online collection examines how communities around the world are affected by the criminalization of their mobility and how they respond to it.

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

New Special Collection Out! The online collection, edited by Alejandra González Jiménez, focuses on the North American Free Trade Agreement and gives glimpses into worlds engendered by, or indirectly shaped by it. Read here: americanethnologist.org/.../anthropo...

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

📢📢📢 New Interview Alert! 📢📢📢 AE interviews Khiara M. Bridges and Angel M. Foster about abortion access and reproductive justice #AnthroSky Read it here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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