{"title":"Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado By Andrew Ofstehage. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2025. 234 pp.","authors":"Joost Jongerden","doi":"10.1111/amet.70021","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 4","pages":"511-512"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145188454","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}
Over the past two decades in Tanzania, families have increasingly navigated the expanding prioritization of sickle cell disease within a broader pan-African turn toward genomic medicine. Those diagnosed are compelled to reckon with kinship through genetic risk. At the same time, beyond the clinic, inherited naming practices—deeply embodied and temporally recursive—persist as powerful means of relating across generations. Building on a conversation with the physician-poet Manka, who likens inherited names to “sci-fi chips,” I develop a theory of technologies of inheritance: material-semiotic forms that anchor and activate intergenerational ties. Juxtaposed stories of names and genes trace how Tanzanians traverse overlapping, often incommensurable logics of heritability. Technologies of inheritance offer an analytic for understanding kinship as fluid, flexible, and ontologically multiple.
{"title":"Sci-fi chips and sickled cells","authors":"Rebekah Ciribassi","doi":"10.1111/amet.70018","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70018","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Over the past two decades in Tanzania, families have increasingly navigated the expanding prioritization of sickle cell disease within a broader pan-African turn toward genomic medicine. Those diagnosed are compelled to reckon with kinship through genetic risk. At the same time, beyond the clinic, inherited naming practices—deeply embodied and temporally recursive—persist as powerful means of relating across generations. Building on a conversation with the physician-poet Manka, who likens inherited names to “sci-fi chips,” I develop a theory of technologies of inheritance: material-semiotic forms that anchor and activate intergenerational ties. Juxtaposed stories of names and genes trace how Tanzanians traverse overlapping, often incommensurable logics of heritability. Technologies of inheritance offer an analytic for understanding kinship as fluid, flexible, and ontologically multiple.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 4","pages":"472-483"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145188450","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}
How did Chinese citizens imagine their political subjectivity under the zero-COVID regime? Our patchwork netnography of social media discussions (2020–22) analyzes how China's pandemic governance generalized and intensified “biopolitical paternalism”—a mode of rule that fused security, care, and economic rationality under the figure of a protective state. Our discursive, dynamic, and diachronic approach traces how people engaged in scalar inquiries about responsibility and community, alternately embracing, enforcing, and critiquing state power while internalizing and interrogating its neoliberal logic. As the implicit social contract—trading compliance for protection—began to fray, citizens envisioned a national community of shared suffering and challenged the regime's necropolitics. These struggles reveal how biopolitical paternalism shapes citizenship imaginaries in contested, uneven ways, with implications beyond China's pandemic moment.
{"title":"Pandemic, paternalism, and the (im)possibilities of citizenship in China","authors":"Zhiying Ma, Yaochu Bi, Naiyu Jiang","doi":"10.1111/amet.70017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How did Chinese citizens imagine their political subjectivity under the zero-COVID regime? Our patchwork netnography of social media discussions (2020–22) analyzes how China's pandemic governance generalized and intensified “biopolitical paternalism”—a mode of rule that fused security, care, and economic rationality under the figure of a protective state. Our discursive, dynamic, and diachronic approach traces how people engaged in scalar inquiries about responsibility and community, alternately embracing, enforcing, and critiquing state power while internalizing and interrogating its neoliberal logic. As the implicit social contract—trading compliance for protection—began to fray, citizens envisioned a national community of shared suffering and challenged the regime's necropolitics. These struggles reveal how biopolitical paternalism shapes citizenship imaginaries in contested, uneven ways, with implications beyond China's pandemic moment.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 4","pages":"401-413"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/amet.70017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145436514","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}
{"title":"Unstable ground: The lives, deaths, and afterlives of gold in South Africa By Rosalind C. Morris. New York: Columbia University Press, 2025. 656 pp.","authors":"Nicholas Bainton","doi":"10.1111/amet.70026","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 4","pages":"499-500"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145188455","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":"Fraternal critique: The politics of the Muslim community in France By Kirsten Wesselhoeft. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. 218 pp.","authors":"Sharif Gemie","doi":"10.1111/amet.70013","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 4","pages":"509-510"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145116350","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":"Enchanted modernities: Ancestral vitalizations in the upper Mekong By Micah Morton. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2025. 278 pp.","authors":"Asmus Rungby","doi":"10.1111/amet.70015","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 4","pages":"521-522"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145116354","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":"Hoarding New Guinea: Writing colonial ethnographic collection histories for postcolonial futures By Rainer F. Buschmann. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. 265 pp.","authors":"Pascale Boucicaut","doi":"10.1111/amet.70006","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.70006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 4","pages":"501-502"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145116349","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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