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New Issue, Vol. 16.3 | Winter 2026 | Thunderstorms A special section on (post-)truth, a debate on neo-racial anthropology, articles from hoarding in Japan to mammoth de-extinction, Duerr in translation, & symposia on Descola and Waterston journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ha…

Special Section: The Politics of (Post-)Truth Sovereignist “pseudolaw,” red-pill stories, far-right voters, Czech conspiritualists. Editors Heike Drotbohm & Olaf Zenker propose “good-enough truths” and “minimal commensurability” for polarized times. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/fu…

Editorial: Thunderstorms Joyce’s thunder words, Lévi-Strauss’s Nambikwara, and AI as a “shatteringly simplifying” invention. Louisa Lombard holds onto the ethnographer’s affordances: disagreement, skepticism, wonder. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/fu…

Andrew McDowell "Kantala comes, and I cannot do it." At a Mumbai TB clinic, one woman's word for exhaustion opens onto an entire assemblage of care. McDowell traces how emotions are distributed across clinics, drugs, and policy. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…

Stephen Pax Leonard Why convert? Leonard's self-ethnography of becoming Russian Orthodox finds transcendence not in doctrine but in sound: chanted Church Slavonic, semi-intelligible, works as a "sonic portal" to the divine. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…

Anastasia Badder Can you "do interfaith" without talking? At Luxembourg's annual interfaith run, runners wager that running side by side beats dialogue. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…

Emile Tsékénis In the Cameroon Grassfields, every person has an alter ego, a subterranean "snake of the backwater." Tsékénis on birth rites that re-enact the silent traumas of slavery and forced labor, and produce melancholic subjects. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…

Francesco Fanoli In Dakar's wrestling stables, làmb wrestlers must embody heroic masculinity to win fighting contracts — then gleefully parody it in training. Fanoli shows how play, as much as discipline, makes gendered subjectivities. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…

"Relationships are hard enough without interference from the Home Office." How do you represent people who do not want to be identified? Catherine Donaldson, Ethnoproduction: Scripted ethnography using a cast and crew journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…

Book Symposium: How Is It Between Us? by Jarrett Zigon Contributors to this symposium focus on the word "between": as long as we phrase it that way, there is a relation — and from relations, new things get made. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10… haubooks.org/zigon_how_is_it…

Special Section: Transforming Care Care, like "the state," is a special kind of concept — used in non-conceptual ways in everyday life as much as in academic debate. This section situates care practices as forms of engagement in and with time. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…

Forum: The Future of the Ethnography of the State: Essays in Tribute to James C. Scott What comes after "seeing like a state"? Contributors were asked to sketch promising directions in the future ethnography of the state. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…

Rogério Brittes W. Pires How to describe people who inhabit several worlds at once? Pires pairs the bakru spirits of Suriname and Guyana with the Saamaka concept konde — "village," "country," "land," "world" — to rethink ontology. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…