Anthropological Airwaves Season 3-ish Teaser
Anthropological Airwaves will be back soon for Season 3-ish with the theme "Crossover." Check out the teaser here.
The Limits of Official Statistics
In this post, Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein reflects on official statistics, common misunderstandings, and the COVID-19 numbers we're all becoming increasingly familiar with. She calls on readers to become more knowledgeable about what official statistics can and can't do and to question the epistemic priority that so many people reflexively give to numbers by paying attention to what is not included.
Review of The Healer and the Psychiatrist (2019) directed by Mike Poltorak
Samuele Collu reviews the film The Healer and the Psychiatrist (2019), directed by Mike Poltorak
Multimodal Anthropologies Section Competition
The new associate editors of the Multimodal Anthropologies section outline their vision and announce a call for submissions.
Call for Applicants: Contributing Editor Program
We are seeking applications for contributing editors! The deadline for submission is January 4, 2021.
American Anthropologist Booth Schedule for Raising Our Voices
Come meet our editor-in-chief and associate editors at the journal's Raising Our Voices booth!
Commentaries on “The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn”
These commentaries respond to Ryan Cecil Jobson’s year-in-review essay, questioning the unitary“we” held to stand in for anthropological practitioners from a variety of vantage points, imaging new horizons for the discipline, and insisting that anthropology contribute to real-time material, affective, and ideological transformations.
A Critical Approach to Expert Witness Reports: Limits, Possibilities, and Horizons
Sandra Odeth Gerardo Pérez interviews Christopher Loperena and Mariana Mora about their special section on cultural expertise in the September issue.
Special Section: Multimodal Ethnography in/of/as Postcards
This special section includes seven reflections on multimodal research on postcards, building on Mascha Gugganig and Sophie Schor's essay "Multimodal Ethnography in/of/as Postcards"
September 2020 Issue Out Now!
This issue features eight research articles, a lecture from Lynn Meskell, an interview with Ruth Behar, a special section on cultural expertise, a vital topics forum on chronic disease, and more!
Tripod: Performance, Media, Cybernetics
This post includes supplementary material for Jennifer Cool's recent essay "Tripod: Performance, Media, Cybernetics."
The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn? Considerations and Reflections
In this piece, Lucia Cantero interviews Ryan Jobson and Kamari Clarke about Jobson's year-in-review essay, "The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn."
June 2020 Issue Out Now!
This issue features three research articles, year-in-review articles, a special section on face and race, and more!
Covid, Twitter, and Critique: An Interview with Carlo Caduff
In this post in our COVID-19 series, Yarimar Bonilla interviews Carlo Caduff about the politics of lockdowns, barriers to pandemic preparedness, and affective and critical responses to COVID-19.
Material Transformations of Memory
In this post in our COVID-19 series, the authors undertake a contemporary archaeology of the material changes being seen in the public spaces of Tromsø, Norway, highlighting the discrepancies between everyday practices and government policies.
No Borders in the Time of COVID-19
In this post in our COVID-19 series, Miriam Ticktin argues that we should use the pandemic to rethink political borders and our connections with each other.
Lives That Matter and Others That Don’t: Thoughts from Europe about this New Pandemic
In this post in our COVID-19 series, Veronica Gomez-Temesio reflects on Europes response to the disease and the politics of triage in light of her research on Ebola in Guinea.
COVID-19, Crystal Balls, and the Epidemic Imagination
In this post in our COVID-19 series, Jean Segata describes the epistemic intelligences associated with COVID-19 in Brazil, based on his work on scientists and policymakers combating mosquito-borne diseases.
Topologies of the Mask
In this post in our COVID-19 series, Chuan Hao (Alex) Chen urges us to think critically about the surfaces of masks.
An Interview with the Editor of American Anthropologist about the March 2020 Cover Controversy
Yarimar Bonilla and editor-in-chief Deborah Thomas discuss the March 2020 cover controversy.
Statement about March 2020 Cover
Statement from the editors about the March 2020 cover featuring Margaret Mead.
Ethnography and the Self: Teaching Food Studies in Strange Times
In this post, Kelly Alexander discusses teaching food studies during COVID-19.
Courage amid Catastrophe: A Conversation between Juno Salazar Parreñas and Greg Beckett
In this conversation, Juno Salazar Parreñas and Greg Beckett discuss shared themes of their work, including survival, vulnerability, uncertainty, and ethnography as a therapeutic practice for grief.
Special Section: Face and Race
This special section seeks to denaturalize the face as a neutral abstraction and to focus on the relations through which it comes about and the relations it generates, as well as empirically engage with the many ways the face appears in scientific and other practices.
Disease and Pandemics
This virtual issue, prompted by the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic, examines a range of issues, from cultural conceptions of illness and the biomedical aspects of transmission to ethnographic insights from the front lines of treatment and the economic, political, and racial inequalities that shape the trajectories of disease.
“Everything is Permitted”: Trump, White Supremacy, Fascism
In this commentary, Nicholas De Genova examines Trump, facism, and the "ethos of civil war" that defines contemporary US politics.
Forum on “Anthropology and the Riddle of White Supremacy”
This forum features responses to Junaid Rana's article “Anthropology and the Riddle of White Supremacy” by Mark Anderson, Zareena Grewal, Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj, and Ghassan Hage.
From the Editor: Rights, Gifts, Repair
Read the introduction to the March 2020 issue from editor-in-chief Deborah Thomas.