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American Anthropologist is the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association.

The journal advances research on humankind in all its aspects. It encompasses archaeological, biological, sociocultural, and linguistic research, including work by practicing anthropologists and anthropologists outside the academy. It also furthers the professional interests of anthropologists by disseminating anthropological knowledge, and illuminating its relevance to global human problems.

Editor-in-Chief

Elizabeth J. Chin
ArtCenter College of Design (USA)
aa-eic@americananthro.org

Managing Editor

Julian Gantt
aa_managingeditor@americananthro.org


Associate Editors

Archaeology
Uzma Z. Rizvi (Pratt Institute, USA) | aearch.aa@gmail.com
Kisha Supernant (University of Alberta, Canada) | aearch.aa@gmail.com

Biological Anthropology
Sean Tallman (Boston University, USA) | tallman@bu.edu

Cultural Anthropology
Laurian R. Bowles (Davidson College, USA) | labowles@davidson.edu
Girish Daswani (University of Toronto, Canada) | girish.daswani@utoronto.ca
Maurice Rafael Magaña (UC Davis, USA) | mrmagana@ucdavis.edu
Rumya S. Putcha (University of Georgia, USA) | rsputcha@uga.edu

Linguistic Anthropology
Kristina Wirtz (Western Michigan University, USA) | kristina.wirtz@wmich.edu

Multimodal Anthropologies 
Patricia Alvarez Astacio (Brandeis University, USA) | palvarez@brandeis.edu
Arjun I. Shankar (Georgetown University, USA) | as4679@georgetown.edu

Public Anthropologies 
Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein (Knology, USA) | aa.publicanthro@gmail.com
Maura Finkelstein (Independent Scholar) | aa.publicanthro@gmail.com

World Anthropologies 
Jing Xu (University of Washington, USA) | xuj83@uw.edu
Yang Zhan (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) | yzhan@polyu.edu.hk

Book Reviews 
Andrew Brandel (University of Chicago, USA) | abrandel@uchicago.edu

Obituaries 
Ira Bashkow (University of Virginia, USA) | bashkow@virginia.edu

Online Content
Armanc Yildiz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) | ayildiz@g.harvard.edu

Editorial Intern
Elizabeth Lee-Wong

Editorial Board

Judith Anderson (Borough of Manhattan Community College, USA)
Fabíola Andréa Silva (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Yasmeen Arif (Shiv Nadar University, India)
Lee Baker (Duke University, USA)
Cristiana Bastos (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Jada Benn Torres (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Josh Berson (Independent Scholar)
Leigh Campoamor (Independent Scholar)
Kristen Cheney (University of Victoria, Canada)
Dána-Ain Davis (Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center, USA)
Jade d’Alpoim Guedes (UC San Diego and Scripps College, USA)
Carlina de la Cova (University of South Carolina, USA)
Nalika Gajaweera (University of Southern California, USA)
Yannis Hamilakis (Brown University, USA)
Giles Harrison-Conwill (Google)
Daniel Hruschka (Arizona State University, USA)
Yongjia Liang (Zhejiang University, China)
Pardis Mahdavi (Arizona State University, USA)
Karen Nakamura (UC Berkeley, USA)
Katie A. Nelson (Inver Hills Community College, USA)
Anand Pandian (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Bernard Perley (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Anne Pyburn (Indiana University, USA)
Ashanté Reese (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Thurka Sangaramoorthy (American University, USA)
Shalini Shankar (Northwestern University, USA)
Merrill Singer (University of Connecticut, USA)
Krystal A. Smalls (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA)
Elisa Sobo (San Diego State University, USA)
Samantha L. Solimeo (US Department of Veterans Affairs and University of Iowa, USA)
Marcio Teixeira-Bastos (State University of São Paulo, Brazil)
António Tomás (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Gabriela Vargas-Cetina (Universidad Autonoma de Yucatàn, Mexico)
Erica Williams (Spelman College, USA)

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