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NEW CURATED COLLECTION ON RITUAL
Edited by Kevin Carrico
"This curated collection presents five cases of ritual for readers’ consideration and reflection. We hope that these examples, which combine careful attention to both the common features and unique social circumstances of each, might encourage a reconsideration of the locus of this “old-fashioned” category of anthropological inquiry within contemporary scholarly work."
Engage with article supplemental material, author commentary, and featured discussion. All five CA articles are freely available through February 1st.
The Songs of the Siren: Engineering National Time on Israeli Radio
Danny Kaplan
Cultural Anthropology, May 2009, Vol. 24, No. 2: 313-345.
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The Maoist Shaman and the Madman: Ritual Bricolage, Failed Ritual, and Failed Ritual Theory
Emily Chao
Cultural Anthropology, November 1999, Vol. 14, No. 4: 505-534.
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Discipline and the Arts of Domination: Rituals of Respect in Chimborazo, Ecuador
Barry J. Lyons
Cultural Anthropology, February 2005, Vol. 20, No. 1: 97-127.
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The Theft of Carnaval: National Spectacle and Racial Politics in Rio de Janeiro
Robin E. Sheriff
Cultural Anthropology, February 1999, Vol. 14, No. 1: 3-28.
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Queer Pilgrimage: The San Francisco Homeland and Identity Tourism
Cymene Howe
Cultural Anthropology, February 2001, Vol. 16, No. 1: 35-61.
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ANNOUNCING SCA's SPRING MEETING: "LIFE AND DEATH: A CONVERSATION"
**Submission deadline January 15, 2012**
Life and death have long played a central role in anthropology’s efforts to define the human. Recent developments in the experience of both, however, suggest reconfigurations in these essential thresholds of being and a corresponding need to reexamine the analytic assumptions brought to bear on them. Alongside the emergence of new forms of biological science, medical technology and expertise, a concern for life pervades both international political discourse and the rhetoric of international moralism. Both individual bodies and figures of mass death feature prominently in political stagecraft, while calculations of risk define and measure life conditions. In addition to recognizing the emergence of humanitarianism, human rights, and ecology as key secular domains central to the construction of valued life, we ask participants to rethink classic topics in politics, ethics, kinship and religion around this concern for being and nonbeing. What phenomena mark an era that rediscovers economy in terms of precariousness, and sanctions state torture in the name of security? What new ghosts might it produce? How have these changes unsettled kinship, generations, and human horizons of the future by reconfiguring relations between the living and the dead or the young and the old?
For more information, visit http://sca.culanth.org/meetings/sca/2012/intro.html
To submit a proposal, visit http://www.aaanet.org/customcf/cfp/sca/
Editors' Statement
Anne Allison and Charlie Piot
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 511-513.
WATER
Lonely Drinking Fountains and Comforting Coolers: Paradoxes of Water Value and Ironies of Water Use
Martha Kaplan
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 514-541.
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Pressure: The PoliTechnics of Water Supply in Mumbai
Nikhil Anand
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 542-564.
Supplemental Material **With Interview**
Water Flowing North of the Border: Export Agriculture and Water Politics in a Rural Community in Baja California
Christian Zlolniski
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 565-588.
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Black Goo: Forceful Encounters with Matter in Europe's Muddy Margins
Stuart McLean
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 589-619.
Supplemental Material **With Interview**
SECULARISM
Introduction
Charles Hirschkind and Matthew Scherer
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 620.
Landmarks in the Critical Study of Secularism
Matthew Scherer
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 621-632.
Is There a Secular Body?
Charles Hirschkind
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 633-647.
Some Theses on Secularism
William E. Connolley
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 648-656.
Thinking About the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics
Talal Asad
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 657-675.
LOVE
For Love or Money
Michael Hardt
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 676-682.
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A Properly Political Concept of Love: 3 Approaches in Ten Pages
Lauren Berlant
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 683-691.
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Love and the Little Line
Lawrence Cohen
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 692-696.
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Cultural Anthropology Playlists
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 697-706.
NEW HOT SPOTS FORUM
BEYOND THE "GREEK CRISIS": HISTORIES, RHETORICS, POLITICS
This forum focuses on the debt crisis in Greece (the 2010 EU/IMF “bailout” and subsequent austerity measures), as well as the various challenges that have been posed to the violence of neoliberal “adjustment.” The brief articles presented here have been solicited from observer-participants in the debates and protests, but also in the intimacies and banalities, defining everyday life in crisis Greece. The outlines of the crisis are widely known. Indeed, Greek society and its travails have never before been so visible to the global media eye. The aim of this forum is not so much to fill in this familiar outline of crisis with ethnographic detail as to trouble its parameters.
Image Credit: Yiannis Biliris, "Photos from the Riots." via greekriots.com
The Past is Made By Walking: Labor Activism and Historical Production in Postcolonial Guadeloupe
Yarimar Bonilla
Cultural Anthropology August 2011, Vol. 26, No. 3: 313-339
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“Somehow it Happened”: Violence, Culpability, and the Hindu Nationalist Community
Ruchi Chaturvedi
Cultural Anthropology August 2011, Vol. 26, No. 3: 340-362
Supplemental Material **With Interview**
The Modernity of Manual Reproduction: Soviet Propaganda and the Creative Life of Ideology
Sonja Luehrmann
Cultural Anthropology August 2011, Vol. 26, No. 3: 363-388
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Motivated Markets: Instruments and Ideologies of Clean Energy in the United Kingdom
Joshua Reno
Cultural Anthropology August 2011, Vol. 26, No. 3: 389-413
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Articulating Potentiality: Notes on the Delineation of the Blank Figure in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Mette N. Svendsen
Cultural Anthropology August 2011, Vol. 26, No. 3: 414-437
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Making Pigs Local: Discerning the Sensory Character of Place
Brad Weiss
Cultural Anthropology August 2011, Vol. 26, No. 3: 438-461
Supplemental Material **With Interview**
Sincerity Versus Self-Expression: Modern Creative Agency and the Materiality of Semiotic Forms
Eitan Wilf
Cultural Anthropology August 2011, Vol. 26, No. 3: 462-484
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HOT SPOTS
CA Editors: Anne Allison and Charlie Piot
Guest Editor: David Slater
We're starting a new forum on the CA website to report on current "hot spots" in the world from the perspective of anthropologists—and others—on the scene. Our first is Japan in the wake of 3.11—the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear reactor incident that has devastated the northeast of the country and infected the entire country (and beyond) with the threat of radiation. We invited David Slater, an anthropologist and professor at Sophia University in Tokyo, to be the guest editor and he has assembled short entries (500 – 700 words) along with images, websites, and statistics from fifteen scholars/activists/students directly involved with the crisis. Our next "hot spot" will be on post-revolution Egypt to be posted sometime in August. We are open to suggestions of all kinds for future "hot spots." Please contact us directly (aaa@duke.edu, cpiot@duke.edu) with proposals that should include the name of a guest editor, theme of the hot spot, and a list of possible contributors.
(Above image: Mourners in protective suits, "Sad Homecoming" Japan Today).
Cultural Anthropology has just launched its first virtual issue of 2011: Anthropology and Youth, edited by Amanda Snellinger, Roseann Liu, and Elizabeth Lewis.
The issue, which includes five essays previously published in CA, will be freely available for sixty days through the Wiley-Blackwell website . Each of the five essays is supplemented with a webpage that provides digital material related to the essay. All five authors provide new commentary on their work, as well as the anthropology of youth. The issue is highlighted with commentary by Deborah Durham.
Symptoms of Another Life: Time, Possibility, and Domestic Relations in Chile's Credit Economy
Clara Han
Cultural Anthropology February 2011, Vol. 26, No. 1: 7–32
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Violence, Just in Time: War and Work in Contemporary West Africa
Daniel Hoffman
Cultural Anthropology February 2011, Vol. 26, No. 1: 34-57
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On Affective Labor in Post-Fordist Italy
Andrea Muehlebach
Cultural Anthropology February 2011, Vol. 26, No. 1: 59-82
Supplemental Material **WITH AUTHOR INTERVIEW**
Tales From Albarado: The Materiality of Pyramid Schemes in Postsocialist Albania
Smoki Musaraj
Cultural Anthropology February 2011, Vol. 26, No. 1: 84-110
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Making Time for the Children: Self-Temporalization and the Cultivation of the Antisuicidal Subject in South India
Jocelyn Lim Chua
Cultural Anthropology February 2011, Vol. 26, No. 1: 112-137
Supplemental Material **WITH AUTHOR INTERVIEW**
VIRTUAL ISSUE: COSMOPOLITANISM
Check out our latest virtual issue on cosmopolitanism! Edited by Aalok Khandekar and Tim Murphy, our Cosmopolitanism issue features essays by Marisol de la Cadena, David Novak, Deepa Reddy, Öykü Potuoğlu-Cook, Michael Fischer, and Chris Kelty. Also check out the conversation with the authors, which provides new insights on the essays and thoughts on the importance and relevance of cosmopolitics.
NEW INTERVIEW WITH CHRIS GARCES
Check out Robert Samet's recent interview with Chris Garces, author of "The Cross Politics of Ecuador's Penal State" (August 2010), which covers prison protests, neoliberalism, and sacrifice. Want to read more? Get a free copy of the essay here!
SCA's CULTURAL HORIZON PRIZE AWARDED TO NANCY RIES
Check out SCA's event schedule at the AAA Meetings!
SPECIAL ISSUE ON MULTISPECIES ETHNOGRAPHY OUT NOW!
The Emergence of Multispecies Ethnography
S. Eben Kirksey and Stefan Helmreich
Cultural Anthropology November 2010, Vol. 25, No. 4: 545-576.
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Fingeryeyes: Impressions of Cup Corals
Eva Hayward
Cultural Anthropology November 2010, Vol. 25, No. 4: 577-599.
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Naturalcultural Encounters in Bali: Monkeys, Temples, Tourists, and Ethnoprimatology
Agustin Fuentes
Cultural Anthropology November 2010, Vol. 25, No. 4: 600-624.
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Viral Clouds: Becoming H5N1 in Indonesia
Celia Lowe
Cultural Anthropology November 2010, Vol. 25, No. 4: 625-649.
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Ecologies of Empire: On the New Uses of the Honeybee
Jake Kosek
Cultural Anthropology November 2010, Vol. 25, No. 4: 650-678.
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In Cultural Anthropology's latest Virtual Issue, Ashley Carse brings together essays, author interviews, and commentary from Stefan Helmreich, as well as other supplemental material, to account for the ways in which "cultural anthropologists have engaged water in recent years and to suggest exciting future directions."
THE EMERGENCE OF MULTISPECIES ETHNOGRAPHY
Visit the latest section of Cultural Anthropology online! "The Emergence of Multispecies Ethnography" features information about the upcoming events at the AAA Meetings, CFPs, and a new video segment with Donna Haraway. Check back periodically for more updates!
Prendas-Ngangas-Enquisos: Turbulence and the Influence of the Dead in Cuban Kongo Material Culture
Todd Ramón Ochoa
Cultural Anthropology August 2010, Vol. 25, No. 3: 387-420
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"They Come in Peasants and Leave Citizens": Urban Villages and the Making of Shenzhen, China
Jonathan Bach
Cultural Anthropology August 2010, Vol. 25, No. 3: 421-458
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The Cross Politics of Ecuador's Penal State
Chris Garces
Cultural Anthropology August 2010, Vol. 25, No. 3: 459-496
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The Rhythmic Beat of the Revolution in Iran
Michael M.J. Fischer
Cultural Anthropology August 2010, Vol. 25, No. 3: 497-543
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NEW INTERVIEW WITH DAMANI PARTRIDGE
CA intern Susanne Unger interviews Damani Partridge about his research on racial politics, citizenship, and cultural production in Germany. Check out "We Were Dancing in the Club, Not on the Berlin Wall: Black Bodies, Street Bureaucrats, and Exclusionary Incorporation" (2008) and supplemental material for more on Partridge's work.
SUPPLEMENTAL PAGE ON "CYBORG VIOLENCE"
Anne Allison's 2001 essay, "Cyborg Violence: Bursting Borders and Bodies with Queer Machines" now has a supplemental page! Created by Tim Murphy, the page includes a number of videos, questions for class discussion, and an interview with Anne Allison on how "cyborg violence" has changed in the last decade. Not to be missed!
NEW INTERVIEW WITH DOMINIC BOYER AND ALEXEI YURCHAK
Read Jessica Lockrem's interview with Dominc Boyer and Alexei Yurachek on their new essay, "American Stiob: Or, What Late-Socialist Aesthetics of Parody Reveal About Contemporary Political Cultural in the West" published in the May 2010 issue of Cultural Anthropology. And check out the essay's supplemental page for videos, links, resources, and more.
American Stiob: Or, What Late-Socialist Aesthetics of Parody Reveal about Contemporary Political Culture in the West
Dominic Boyer and Alexei Yurchak
Cultural Anthropology May 2010, Vol. 25, No. 2: 179-221
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The Double Bind of American Indian Need-Based Sovereignty
Jessica Cattelino
Cultural Anthropology May 2010, Vol. 25, No. 2: 235-263
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Remains: to be Seen. Third Encounter between State and "Customary" in Northern Mozambique
Juan Obarrio
Cultural Anthropology May 2010, Vol. 25, No. 2: 263-300
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The Emergence of Indigeneity: Public Intellectuals and an Indigenous Space in Southwest China
Michael Hathaway
Cultural Anthropology May 2010, Vol. 25, No. 2: 301-333
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Indigeneous Cosmopolitics in the Andes: Conceptual Reflections beyond "Politics"
Marisol de la Cadena
Cultural Anthropology May 2010, Vol. 25, No. 2: 334-370
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VIRTUAL ISSUE: BUSINESS CULTURES
In response to the increasing encounters between global commodities and local markets, the recent economic crisis that has affected millions globally, the collapse of major financial institutions, and the escalating volatility of the corporate landscape, this Virtual Issue brings together five essays published by Cultural Anthropology which critically examine the theme of “business cultures.”
Five essays will be freely available from April 26th thru July 1st. Access the issue here.
ISSUE 25.1 IS NOW AVAILABLE
Branding the Mahatma: The Untimely Provocation of Gandhian Publicity
William Mazzarella
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2010, Vol. 25, No. 1: 1-39
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Cosmopolitanism, Remediation, and the Ghost of Bollywood
David Novak
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2010, Vol. 25, No. 1:40-72
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Physical Training, Ethical Discipline, and Creative Violence: Zones of Self-Mastery in the Hindu Nationalist Movement
Arafaat A. Valiani
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2010, Vol. 25, No. 1: 73-99
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Flexible Citizenship in Dubai: Neoliberal Subjectivity in the Emerging 'City-Corporation'
Ahmed Kanna
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2010, Vol. 25, No. 1: 100-129
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The Antisocial Profile: Deception and Intimacy in Greek Psychiatry
Elizabeth Anne Davis
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2010, Vol. 25, No. 1: 130-164
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CA Announces its Virtual Issue on Kinships
In response to the often-deafening debates concerning the marriage equality movement in the US, clandestine polygamous marriages in Italy, transnational adoptions, and expanding global access to medicalized reproduction, this Virtual Issue draws together five recent essays to be published by Cultural Anthropology which critically examine the topic of kinships. Through an array of methodological, theoretical, and textual approaches, the essays in this issue focus attention on less familiar, though equally instructive, practices, and imaginaries of kinship. We offer these essays as a challenge to reflect on the perpetual motion of the politics of kinship, as well as an invitiation to explore the rich archive on the topic to be found in Cultural Anthropology.
CA Announces its Virtual Issue on Security
From terrorism to swine flu, to the current economic crisis, issues of security, broadly defined and experienced, seem to be taking front and centre stage in our contemporary moment. In light of this, Cultural Anthropology has decided to focus a special virtual issue on the theme of "security" - http://culanth.org/?q=node/258
The virtual issue spotlights five articles from Cultural Anthropology's contemporary archives that we feel theorize, broaden, and understand "security" through their diverse ethnographic settings and approaches. Moreover, these featured articles illustrate that anthropology as a discipline has always been, at least tangentially, concerned with issues of and relating to security. Taken together, the articles illustrate that "security," as much as it is currently a buzz word, must be unpacked and related to its various applications and articulations in specific contexts and histories. With that in mind, the featured authors in this issue have been asked to share their thoughts and insights into this ever-emerging field of study. Some of their thoughts are shared on this page. We provide a link where their full answers can be found with a forum section for further discussion. We highly encourage you to visit this section and add your own questions and comments - http://culanth.org/?q=node/259
CA Congratulates Michael Fischer for Receiving the 2009 GAD Award
Cultural Anthropology is pleased to announce that Michael Fischer's 2007 essay, “Four Genealogies for a Recombinant Anthropology of Science and Technology” has received the 2009 GAD Award for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship.
The General Anthropology Division of the American Anthropological Association has long supported innovative scholarship that transcends boundaries between the various fields of anthropology. The GAD Award for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship is awarded annually to peer-reviewed journal article that published in the preceding three years that demonstrates exemplary cross-field scholarship from any theoretical or methodological perspective, including applied research that encompasses two or more subfields of anthropology, or that is interdisciplinary in nature.
The Award will be presented at the beginning of the GAD Business Meeting and Distinguished Lecture at the AAA meetings on Friday from 12:15-1:30 PM. To learn more about the GAD Award, visit: http://www.aaanet.org/sections/gad/GenAnthDivAwards.html
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