In his work on South Africa’s Gauteng Province, Loren B. Landau shows how people become trapped by failed promised futures and unrealized expectations. Access the piece in the AES Special Collection, Promised Futures: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

In his ethnography of Baptists in Texas, Thomas Long delineates the role of exclusion in promises of a singular future grounded in conservative theology. Access the piece in the AES Special Collection, Promised Futures: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Through his study of plastic building facades in Bolivia, Isaac Silver connects the anthropology of the future with that of plastic. He follows how globally circulating plastic becomes the material through which Aymara traders project abundant futures.

In their "day trip to utopia" in a former East German model socialist city, Paul Basu and Jonas Tinius reflect on how abandoned visions of the future endure in the material remnants of today. Access their piece in the AES Special Collection, Promised Futures: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Lindsay A. Bell conducts a sensitive ethnography of a Cold War-era high-rise in Hay River, Canada, through which she explores how people live with the architectural remnants of extractive and promissory pasts.

Deana Jovanović examines how a return to Yugoslav-era greatness is promised in a Serbian mining town. She argues that performative and populist promises are central to sustaining political power while helping people navigate precarious futures.

NEW Special Collection: Promised Futures AES presents a collection of essays that attends to the temporal politics of what futures are promised, by whom, and at what cost?

Submissions for the AES Senior Book Prize are currently open! The Prize goes to a work that is deeply ethnographic and speaks to contemporary social issues with relevance beyond the discipline and beyond the academy. The deadline for submissions is April 15th, 2026.

Senior Book Prize - American Ethnological Society

The prize goes to a work that is deeply ethnographic and speaks to contemporary social issues with relevance beyond the discipline and beyond the academy.

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📢📢📢 New Editor's Note Alert 📢📢📢 Our Editor in Chief, Susanna Trnka, comments on gender and global politics in AE 53.1 editor's note. In light of current political battles over gender, she argues for anthropology’s continued relevance in understanding gender, power and contemporary politics.

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📢📢📢 New Commentary Alert 📢📢📢 Nicholas D'Avella's commentary, 'Ecologies of value: troubling great transformations', is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.

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📢📢📢 New Commentary Alert 📢📢📢 Michael Polson's 'Property, capitalism, and the value-shaping power of states' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.

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📢📢📢 New Commentary Alert 📢📢📢 Ehsan Lor Afshar's 'Property, precarity, and the politics of crisis' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.

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📢📢📢 New Commentary Alert 📢📢📢 Veit Braun's 'What does it mean to have a home?' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.

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📢📢📢 New Article Alert 📢📢📢 Jianmin Shao's 'The geobiopolitics of trans medicine: Kinship, recalibrated care, and difference-making amid China-US tensions' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View. Access here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢📢📢 New Commentary Alert 📢📢📢 Hannah Elliott's 'What property did next, and other stories' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.

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📢📢📢 New Commentary Alert 📢📢📢 Hadas Weiss's 'Value and its vehicles' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.

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📢📢📢 New Commentary Alert 📢📢📢 Mareike Winchell's 'Negative property: From accretive enclosure to im/mobility and loss' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.

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📢📢📢 New Commentary Alert 📢📢📢 Guillermo de la Peña's 'Ethnographies of globalization: Fictitious commodities, deceitful property, and the illusion of upward social mobility' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.

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Only two more days to submit to AES Online's forthcoming collection on "Audio Visual Experiments in Ethnography." Submissions due Jan. 31, 2026! #anthrosky #ethnography #anthropology More details: americanethnologist.org/news/aes-onl...

AES Online Call for Submissions: Audio Visual Experiments in Ethnography - American Ethnological Society

From the beginning of traditional fieldwork and fieldnotes in the early 20th century, the camera and audio recorder have been regular companions for the

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📢📢📢 New Article Alert 📢📢📢 Emrah Yıldız's 'Outsmarting sanctions: Experiments with fictitious commodities across Iran and Turkey' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View, as part of the 'Property and Other Fictions' Forum: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢📢📢 New Commentary Alert 📢📢📢 Wesam Adel Hassan's commentary, 'Speculative lives under broken economies', is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.

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Call for Late Breaking Sessions @ the AES Spring Conference in Victoria, BC! Late-breaking sessions address urgent global, political, environmental, and disciplinary developments shaping anthropological research and practice today. Read more here: americanethnologist.org/news/call-fo...

Call for Late-Breaking Sessions at the AES Spring Conference (May 1-3, 2026) - American Ethnological Society

Deadline: February 13, 2026

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New collection out now! "An Aesthetics for the End," edited by Naveeda Khan, is the first collection in our newly created series on Pedagogy. Read the essays here! #ethnography #anthrosky americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

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📢📢📢 New Article Alert 📢📢📢 Inés Escobar González's 'When property becomes rent' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View. The piece is part of the 'Property and Other Fictions' Forum. Access here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢📢📢 New Article Alert 📢📢📢 Cheryl Mattingly's 'Surprise and the singular plural: A critical phenomenology of disability worlds' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢📢📢 New Interview Alert 📢📢📢 From the Cold War to the manosphere: Toxic masculinities, women's rights, and today's gender wars—AE interviews Greg Downey and Kristen R. Ghodsee Find it in AE 53.1 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED to January 15. The American Ethnological Society Spring Conference, themed EXPERIMENT, will be at the University of Victoria, B.C. from May 1-3, 2026.

📚📚📚New Book Review📚📚📚 Andrea Muehlebach reviews // "Justice in the balance: Democracy, rule of law, and the European Court of Human Rights" // By Jessica Greenberg, Stanford University Press, 2025 Find it here in AE 53.1 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Emanuela Nadia Borghi's "Embodying Trauma, Listening to Hope" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

Maryam Fouad's "Awful Anthropology" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...