American Anthropologist

May 2019 Issue Out Now

April 18, 2019April 18, 2019American Anthropologist Issues

This issue features eight research articles, four year-in-review articles, a Vital Topics Forum on diversity in biological anthropology, twelve book reviews, and more!

Voicing the Ancestors: Readings for the Present from Anthropology’s Past

July 1, 2019July 1, 2019Vital Topics Forum

A Vital Topics Forum with contributions from Ira Bashkow, Carolyn Rouse, Grant Arndt, Arzoo Osanloo, and Rena Lederman

Knife? What Knife?

June 21, 2019De-Provincializing Development

In this post, Hannah Appel brings a decolonizing lens to SDG #17: Partnerships for the Goals.

Year in Review: In the Time of Public Anthropologies

June 13, 2019June 14, 2019Public Anthropologies

A public anthropologies year-in-review article by Sareeta Amrute and Mona Bhan!

Supplementary Material: Campoamor

June 12, 2019Supplementary Material

Supplementary material for "There’s an App for That: Telecom, Children’s Rights, and Conflicting Logics of Corporate Social Responsibility" by Leigh M. Campoamor

Supplementary Material: Susan Ellison

June 5, 2019Supplementary Material

Supplementary material for "Painted by Default: Public Shaming and Graffiti on the Homefront" by Susan Ellison.

Media Circulation of Images

April 26, 2019April 26, 2019Multimodal Anthropologies

A set of multimodal essays on the theme of "resemblance," with contributions from Sonay Ban, Jason Hopper, Bronwyn Isaacs, Cecilia Salvi, and Vaia Sigounas

Year in Review 2018

April 22, 2019April 22, 2019Year in Review

Check out the four year-in-review articles for 2018!

From the Editor: The Problem of Translation

April 22, 2019April 22, 2019From the Editor

Read the introduction to the May issue from editor-in-chief Deborah Thomas.

Anthropological Airwaves: Decolonizing Museums in Practice, Part 3

March 19, 2019March 20, 2019Podcast

In this follow-up to our two-part special feature on the 2018 Museum Ethnographer's Group conference "Decolonizing the Museum in Practice," held in April of last year, we interview Dr. Wayne Modest, director of the Research Center for Material Culture.