{"title":"Resistance as negotiation: Making states and tribes in the margins of modern India By Uday Chandra. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 340 pp.","authors":"Sara Roncaglia","doi":"10.1111/amet.13410","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13410","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 2","pages":"261-263"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143819137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The avatar faculty: Ecstatic transformations in religion and video games By Jeffrey G. Snodgrass. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 280 pp.","authors":"Lars de Wildt","doi":"10.1111/amet.13413","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13413","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 2","pages":"266-267"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143819134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Of jaguars and butterflies: Metalogues on issues in anthropology and philosophy By Geoffrey Lloyd and Aparecida Vilaça. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2023. 140 pp.","authors":"Lewis Daly","doi":"10.1111/amet.13412","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13412","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 2","pages":"257-258"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143819139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Amazonian cosmopolitans: Navigating a shamanic cosmos, shifting Indigenous policies, and other modern projects By Suzanne Oakdale. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. 262 pp.","authors":"Chloe Nahum-Claudel","doi":"10.1111/amet.13408","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13408","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 2","pages":"251-252"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143819136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conceiving Christian America: Embryo adoption and reproductive politics By Risa Cromer. New York: New York University Press, 2023. 320 pp.","authors":"Claire Wendland","doi":"10.1111/amet.13409","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13409","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 2","pages":"264-265"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143819213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uncommon cause: Living for environmental justice in Kerala By John Mathias. Oakland: University of California Press, 2024. 276 pp.","authors":"Thanzeel Nazer","doi":"10.1111/amet.13411","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13411","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 2","pages":"259-260"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143819138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
From the 1990s to 2020, human rights activism in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara emerged through a process of familiarization before serving a new purpose: as a nonviolent instrument in the broader struggle for Sahrawi self-determination. Over the last decade, this practice has intensified with the rise of digital video as a means of documenting street protests. In the process, human rights activism has become a kind of “sousveillance”: a tactic in which people seek to counteract surveillance by making state violence visible. By conceptualizing human rights activism as a form of sousveillance, researchers can bring into focus the entanglement of multiple kinds of monitoring: Moroccan state surveillance, transnational human rights sousveillance, and UN oversight. Furthermore, tracing the relationship between human rights activism and transnational fields of “veillance” shows the importance of surveillance studies for an anthropology of human rights.
{"title":"Observed participation","authors":"Mark Drury","doi":"10.1111/amet.13401","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13401","url":null,"abstract":"<p>From the 1990s to 2020, human rights activism in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara emerged through a process of familiarization before serving a new purpose: as a nonviolent instrument in the broader struggle for Sahrawi self-determination. Over the last decade, this practice has intensified with the rise of digital video as a means of documenting street protests. In the process, human rights activism has become a kind of “sousveillance”: a tactic in which people seek to counteract surveillance by making state violence visible. By conceptualizing human rights activism as a form of sousveillance, researchers can bring into focus the entanglement of multiple kinds of monitoring: Moroccan state surveillance, transnational human rights sousveillance, and UN oversight. Furthermore, tracing the relationship between human rights activism and transnational fields of “veillance” shows the importance of surveillance studies for an anthropology of human rights.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 2","pages":"171-182"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143813450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Depopulation has become a landmark transformation across different rural areas, one that is often accompanied by collective experiences of abandonment, crisis, and deprivation. On the Azores archipelago, Portugal, people encounter demographic decline as a disorienting loss of familiarity with their environment and especially their horticultural plots. Azorean depopulation, then, is best framed as a spatial phenomenon. Islanders describe their gradually overgrowing land as laden with historical representations, moral principles, and modes of selfhood. At the same time, they lament that it is already lost. Activities in decline-affected gardens, such as growing, tending, and harvesting crops, are tinged by this historical consciousness and are hence particularly “dense” in meaning. Since horticulturalists know that their land is lost, yet continue to cultivate it, their efforts concretely effect a shared historical condition of deterioration.
{"title":"Horticulture as history making","authors":"Tim Burger","doi":"10.1111/amet.13404","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13404","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Depopulation has become a landmark transformation across different rural areas, one that is often accompanied by collective experiences of abandonment, crisis, and deprivation. On the Azores archipelago, Portugal, people encounter demographic decline as a disorienting loss of familiarity with their environment and especially their horticultural plots. Azorean depopulation, then, is best framed as a spatial phenomenon. Islanders describe their gradually overgrowing land as laden with historical representations, moral principles, and modes of selfhood. At the same time, they lament that it is already lost. Activities in decline-affected gardens, such as growing, tending, and harvesting crops, are tinged by this historical consciousness and are hence particularly “dense” in meaning. Since horticulturalists know that their land is lost, yet continue to cultivate it, their efforts concretely effect a shared historical condition of deterioration.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 2","pages":"195-207"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/amet.13404","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143775545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Materiality tends to play only a marginal role in mainstream theorizations of populism. In Ecuador, however, where populism has been described as the norm rather than the exception, obras (public works) are a crucial element of politics. They are framed as the gifts of leaders to the people, shaping people's lifeworlds and embedding leaders in physical landscapes. Populism thereby becomes inherently material, as obras enact the categories of “the leader” and “the people” and create personalistic-charismatic links between them. At the same time, obras politics is highly risky, given the populist Manicheanism entangled with construction projects. Any flaw encountered in the implementation of obras risks delegitimizing their initiator as incapable or corrupt. Meanwhile, “the people” of any obra materialize in divergent, competitive ways. Obras thus become infrastructural to populism, both in their variously spectacular forms and in their unpredictable mediations of everyday lives and citizen-state relations.
{"title":"Obras politics","authors":"Sam Rumé","doi":"10.1111/amet.13402","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13402","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Materiality tends to play only a marginal role in mainstream theorizations of populism. In Ecuador, however, where populism has been described as the norm rather than the exception, <i>obras</i> (public works) are a crucial element of politics. They are framed as the gifts of leaders to the people, shaping people's lifeworlds and embedding leaders in physical landscapes. Populism thereby becomes inherently material, as obras enact the categories of “the leader” and “the people” and create personalistic-charismatic links between them. At the same time, obras politics is highly risky, given the populist Manicheanism entangled with construction projects. Any flaw encountered in the implementation of obras risks delegitimizing their initiator as incapable or corrupt. Meanwhile, “the people” of any obra materialize in divergent, competitive ways. Obras thus become infrastructural to populism, both in their variously spectacular forms and in their unpredictable mediations of everyday lives and citizen-state relations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 2","pages":"183-194"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/amet.13402","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143861511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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