VOLUME 39 | ISSUE 1 (FEB 2012)

Crowds in Tahrir Square react with joy to the announcement that President Mubarak will step down from the position, February 11, 2011

Crowds in Tahrir Square react with joy to the announcement that President Mubarak will step down from the position, February 11, 2011. Credit: Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times/Polaris

Volume 39, Issue 1 (February 2012) marks the beginning of Angelique Haugerud’s three-year term as editor of American Ethnologist. See Message From the New Editor. See ARTICLES and BOOK REVIEWS.

Egypt’s 2011 Revolt
Look beyond the headlines about Egypt’s 2011 uprising and find out what anthropologists who have worked there for years say about it. See Egypt photos.
AES Presidential Address 2011 — Jane Collins.
Theorizing Wisconsin’s 2011 Protests: Community-based unionism confronts accumulation by dispossession. See Wisconsin photos.
Also in this issue: Research articles by

Related: Cultural Anthropology’s February 2012 Hot Spot forum
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt. Co-edited by Julia Elyachar and Jessica Winegar.