Cultural Anthropology

Virtual Issue: Security

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Cosmopolitanism, Remediation, and the Ghost World of Bollywood
David Novak
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2010, Vol. 25, No. 1: 40-72
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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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Essays in Cultural Anthropology have sought to make sense of health and illness both at the level of individual experience and perception and at the level of institutionalized systems. Often, the goal is social theoretical analysis of the significance of modern medicine.

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Links to related CA sublists: Engendering Structures; Feminisms; Initimacies; Kinship; Masculinities; Que(e)ries;  Re:production.

As security becomes an increasingly explicit preoccupation within capitalist practice, state ideology, and claims to personal safety, the following section retraces some of the ways in which Cultural Anthropology has explored the topic of "security."

Cultural Anthropology's contribution to studies of the Caucasus represent the emergent nature of understandings with regard to this region. Situated betwixt larger sovereign regions and entities—Russia in the North, Turkey in the South and West, and the greater Near East to the Southeast—the Caucasus has been the subject of imaginary tales, speculation, and shifting alliances. It is in fact a diverse area, split by various peoples, issues, and interests.

Over the years, Cultural Anthropology has published a wide range of essays that deal with the related themes of narrative, discourse, and rhetoric. Addressing subjects as seemingly far-flung as conspiracy theories, folklore, discursive regimes, and the constitution of publics, this body of work investigates the relation between modes of story-telling and the politics of everyday life and interrogates the changing social and technological conditions that mediate linguistic communication.