the Freedom Industries facility on the Elk River spilled up to 10,000 gallons of the coal-washing chemical 4-methylcyclohexane methanol (MCHM) upriver of a West Virginia American Water intake. The spill impacted 300,000 residents of the Kanawha River Valley around the state's capital city of Charleston and affected residents' health and trust in the cleanliness of their water systems and those that manage them. I'm Afraid of That Water: A Collaborative Ethnography of a West Virginia Water Crisis (2020) takes stock of the impacts of this continually unfolding disaster through a collaboratively constructed volume that presents multivocal responses to the spill, the processes that enabled the disaster, and its outcomes.

Recent events in North America highlight the need for an engaged discipline, and collaborative anthropology offers the potential to bring theory to practice and practice to theory. The books reviewed here offer a glimpse of what is possible when anthropologists actively seek out a more inclusive research process with communities. These works-a cocreated and coauthored ethnography of an environmental disaster and two books about engaging indigenous communities in archaeological workexpand the boundaries of disciplinary methods, valuing community knowledge and working toward social justice along the way. While each of these books represents the different forms that collaborative work can take, they all reveal the ways that anthropology can empower communities to enact change. We hope you'll find them as inspiring as we do.

This paper introduces the trade and practice of cutting tonewood, wood used in the production of musical instruments, in both the Appalachian Mountains of the United States and the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. As a work of collaborative ethnography, this work combines the first-person narrative of John Preston, a tonewood cutter in West Virginia and Transylvania, and contextual framing and analysis by Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth. Through the text we explore how the production of tonewood creates global, affective connections between mountain regions and reveals unique challenges to the global forests of the Appalachian and Carpathian Mountains.

This article describes apprenticeship as an ethnographic field method, exploring the forms ethnographic apprenticeship takes, the working knowledge passed through situated practice, and the impacts that working as a craft apprentice has on the work of anthropology. I draw on my experience as an apprentice luthier in West Virginia with two musical instrument makers to show how apprenticeship is a relational process contingent on context, its efficacy in communicating affective and embodied practices essential to understanding the meaning of craft labor to practitioners, and the implications for collaboration, reciprocity, learning, and documentation within ethnographic fieldwork and the discipline of anthropology.

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