American Anthropologist

March 2019 Issue Out Now!

February 19, 2019American Anthropologist Issues

This issue features ten research articles, a Vital Topics Forum on "What Happened to Social Facts," an editorial from our biological anthropology section editors, a special series on "Multimodal Interventions," a special book review section, and more!

Supplementary Material: Pinthongvijayakul

January 28, 2019Supplementary Material

Supplementary material for "Performing Alterity of Desire: Bodiliness and Sexuality in Spirit Mediumship in Northeast Thailand" by Visisya Pinthongvijayakul

Supplementary Material: Flachs

January 28, 2019January 28, 2019Supplementary Material

Supplementary material for "Planting and Performing: Anxiety, Aspiration, and 'Scripts' in Telangana Cotton Farming" by Andrew Flachs

Biological and Evolutionary Perspectives in American Anthropologist: An Editorial Provocation

January 25, 2019January 25, 2019

A comment—and call—from Adam P. Van Arsdale and Mary K. Shenk, associate editors of biological anthropology for the journal.

Stakeholders, Gender, and the Politics of Water

January 22, 2019January 22, 2019De-Provincializing Development

In this post, Jessica Cattelino explores gender and other inequities around water.

Supplementary Material: Das

January 17, 2019Supplementary Material

Supplementary material for "The Unsociability of Commercial Seafaring: Language Practice and Ideology in Maritime Technocracy" by Sonia N. Das.

Anthropological Airwaves: Episode 11

January 7, 2019January 8, 2019Podcast

In this episode, we speak with Professors Adia Benton of Northwestern University and Miriam Ticktin of The New School about multimodal and public anthropology through the lens of humanitarianism.

Supplementary Material: Kawa et al.

January 4, 2019Supplementary Material

Supplementary material for "The Social Network of US Academic Anthropology and Its Inequalities" by Kawa et al. The full article is free to access through the end of March.

Anthropology and Disaster Risk Reduction

December 18, 2018December 18, 2018De-Provincializing Development

In this post, Kim Fortun explores how anthropological knowledge might supplement efforts to understand and interrogate disaster vulnerability and political responsibility.