{"title":"Value and its vehicles","authors":"Hadas Weiss","doi":"10.1111/amet.70051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70051","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146042612","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}
For millions of working‐class Mexicans, property has turned into rent. This transformation has fundamentally dislocated social reproduction in Mexico by eroding households’ ability to envision themselves as holders of patrimony and as lasting social formations. To understand how and to what effect property turned into rent, we must look to the Partnership for Prosperity—a NAFTA‐inspired, high‐neoliberal program of financialization and expanded mortgage‐based homeownership. Its implementation trafficked in and emptied people's aspirations, hopes, and resources with its promises of a middle‐class future. Having evaded eviction during the 2007–9 financial crisis, households on North America's financial frontier must now contend with a ruptured property form, one that has enmeshed them in relations of extraction and extortion. In homeowners’ emic notion of their property as a “drug,” there emerges an opportunity to denaturalize mortgage‐based homeownership and resume the urgent work of theorizing how property is being remade in the wake of high neoliberalism.
{"title":"When property becomes rent","authors":"Inés Escobar González","doi":"10.1111/amet.70048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70048","url":null,"abstract":"For millions of working‐class Mexicans, property has turned into rent. This transformation has fundamentally dislocated social reproduction in Mexico by eroding households’ ability to envision themselves as holders of patrimony and as lasting social formations. To understand how and to what effect property turned into rent, we must look to the Partnership for Prosperity—a NAFTA‐inspired, high‐neoliberal program of financialization and expanded mortgage‐based homeownership. Its implementation trafficked in and emptied people's aspirations, hopes, and resources with its promises of a middle‐class future. Having evaded eviction during the 2007–9 financial crisis, households on North America's financial frontier must now contend with a ruptured property form, one that has enmeshed them in relations of extraction and extortion. In homeowners’ emic notion of their property as a “drug,” there emerges an opportunity to denaturalize mortgage‐based homeownership and resume the urgent work of theorizing how property is being remade in the wake of high neoliberalism.","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145986239","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}
Bodymind diversity, disability scholars argue, contributes to community and to ideals of human flourishing. Phenomenologists like Nancy and Arendt, meanwhile, foreground our human pluralism. But what does it mean to inhabit (and invent) a plural “we” across significant bodily difference? And why is the experience of surprise important to it? A phenomenological investigation of Ginsburg and Rapp's cultural imaginary, “disability worlds,” reveals how surprise can catalyze new forms of potentiality and community, a “we‐ness” beyond sameness that Nancy calls the “singular plural.” This is evident in the experience of Andy, a child with profound intellectual and physical disabilities, whose ways of responding often unsettle expectations. His parents’ surprise during his first ski trip—a joyful, irreducible, singular event—expands their sense of what Andy's body can do and draws them into new forms of community and flourishing. Their surprise also engenders heightened critical awareness of social norms that restrict community and underestimate capacity.
{"title":"Surprise and the singular plural","authors":"Cheryl Mattingly","doi":"10.1111/amet.70047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70047","url":null,"abstract":"Bodymind diversity, disability scholars argue, contributes to community and to ideals of human flourishing. Phenomenologists like Nancy and Arendt, meanwhile, foreground our human pluralism. But what does it mean to inhabit (and invent) a plural “we” across significant bodily difference? And why is the experience of surprise important to it? A phenomenological investigation of Ginsburg and Rapp's cultural imaginary, “disability worlds,” reveals how surprise can catalyze new forms of potentiality and community, a “we‐ness” beyond sameness that Nancy calls the “singular plural.” This is evident in the experience of Andy, a child with profound intellectual and physical disabilities, whose ways of responding often unsettle expectations. His parents’ surprise during his first ski trip—a joyful, irreducible, singular event—expands their sense of what Andy's body can do and draws them into new forms of community and flourishing. Their surprise also engenders heightened critical awareness of social norms that restrict community and underestimate capacity.","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145893909","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 promise of piety: Islam and the politics of moral order in Pakistan By ArsalanKhan. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. 240 pp.","authors":"Saad Lakhani","doi":"10.1111/amet.70043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145893907","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":"Reconocimientos: A memoir of becoming By RafaelSánchez. Edited by Rosalind C.Morris. New York: Fordham University Press, 2025. 160 pp.","authors":"Aaron Kappeler","doi":"10.1111/amet.70042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145893908","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":"Decolonizing medicine: Indigenous politics and the practice of care in Bolivia By Gabriela ElisaMorales. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. 308 pp.","authors":"Paula Saravia","doi":"10.1111/amet.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145893906","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":"Justice in the balance: Democracy, rule of law, and the European Court of Human Rights By JessicaGreenberg. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. 256 pp.","authors":"Andrea Muehlebach","doi":"10.1111/amet.70044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145893905","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":"On the turtle's back: Stories the Lenape told their grandchildren By CamillaTownsend and Nicky KayMichael. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2023. 250 pp.","authors":"Karelle Hall","doi":"10.1111/amet.70033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"85 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145796251","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":"Catalonia's human towers: Castells, cultural politics, and the struggle toward the heights By MariannVaczi. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023. 282 pp.","authors":"Josep Martí","doi":"10.1111/amet.70035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"179 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145785980","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}
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