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.
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{"title":"The promise of piety: Islam and the politics of moral order in Pakistan By Arsalan Khan. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. 240 pp.","authors":"Saad Lakhani","doi":"10.1111/amet.70043","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 1","pages":"98-99"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"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 Rafael Sánchez. Edited by Rosalind C. Morris. New York: Fordham University Press, 2025. 160 pp.","authors":"Aaron Kappeler","doi":"10.1111/amet.70042","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 1","pages":"94-95"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"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 Elisa Morales. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. 308 pp.","authors":"Paula Saravia","doi":"10.1111/amet.70046","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 1","pages":"111-112"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"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 Jessica Greenberg. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. 256 pp.","authors":"Andrea Muehlebach","doi":"10.1111/amet.70044","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 1","pages":"106-107"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"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}
Greg Downey, Kristen R. Ghodsee, Susanna Trnka, L. L. Wynn, Jesse Hession Grayman
Since the end of the Cold War and the rise of new right-wing political movements across Europe, the US, and elsewhere, gender has taken on heightened political and social significance. To better understand this phenomenon, AE’s editors interview two specialists on contemporary gender: Greg Downey, a psychological anthropologist, and Kristen R. Ghodsee, an ethnographer and historian of socialist and postsocialist women's struggle for equal rights. Herein, they discuss the rise of the manosphere, the American trad-wife movement and its eastern European counterpart, and what both of these have to do with economic-political upheavals and the rise of militarization in the US and Europe.
自冷战结束以来，随着欧洲、美国和其他地区新右翼政治运动的兴起，性别在政治和社会方面的重要性日益凸显。为了更好地理解这一现象，美国社会杂志的编辑采访了两位当代性别专家：心理人类学家格雷格·唐尼（Greg Downey）和研究社会主义和后社会主义妇女争取平等权利斗争的民族志学家克里斯汀·r·戈德西（Kristen R. Ghodsee）。在这里，他们讨论了庄园的兴起，美国的贸易夫人运动及其东欧同行，以及这两者与美国和欧洲的经济政治动荡和军事化的兴起有什么关系。
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{"title":"On the turtle's back: Stories the Lenape told their grandchildren By Camilla Townsend and Nicky Kay Michael. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2023. 250 pp.","authors":"Karelle Hall","doi":"10.1111/amet.70033","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 1","pages":"92-93"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"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":"Refusing sustainability: Race and environmentalism in a changing Europe By Elana Resnick. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. 296 pp.","authors":"Daniel Sosna","doi":"10.1111/amet.70041","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 1","pages":"115-116"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145786057","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 Mariann Vaczi. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023. 282 pp.","authors":"Josep Martí","doi":"10.1111/amet.70035","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 1","pages":"100-101"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"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}
{"title":"The children of Solaga: Indigenous belonging across the US-Mexico border By Daina Sanchez. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. 202 pp.","authors":"Heidy Sarabia","doi":"10.1111/amet.70039","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145785794","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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