American Ethnologist Journal

AES is delighted to announce the 2024 Elsie Clews Parsons Prize winner, Naomi Zucker, currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, for the essay “Bringin...

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“Hope springs eternal,” 60-year-old Mr. Peters told me when I asked him how he felt when he went to bed in the evenings. “I live in hope,” he added with a smile, “every evening I think:...

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An uncountable number of innocent people have been jailed during this government’s time … Do you understand? This is the situation of the government policy. This is why those who do oppositi...

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Velu and I watched the lights of the power plant flick on about an hour before sunset. With our backs rested to the sides of his boat, we saw red lights mingle with yellow ones, adding touches of...

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One of the telescopes in South Africa, image included with SALT’s permission. © Southern African Large Telescope. Words are in the world and of the world (Barad and Gandorfer 2021, 33). Words ...

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The photo shows the inside of a restaurant with vibrant tiled walls. Photo by Pexels, Pixabay. “We don’t want incense sticks, thank you,” the woman at the reception table had said when Bibe...

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In late 2023, my friend and longtime resident of the Indonesian coastal city Semarang, Pak Puji, sent me a cellphone video displaying the spread of the water hyacinth on his neighborhood’s rive...

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Hasnapur’s post office is a modest complex which also houses an Aadhaar (national identification number) registration center. Although the latter opens at 9 AM, applicants are advised to begin ...

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Nothing seems to be enough. Biodiversity is plummeting, pollution is ever on the rise, and global warming is a visceral presence. Efforts taken so far to mitigate or adapt appear to be too little...

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How do people live in a world that is characterized by crisis, uncertainty, and a profound sense of not-knowing? How do people act, socially and politically, amidst conditions not of their choosi...

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