Cultural Anthropology

Spectacles of Sexuality: Televisionary Activism in Nicaragua
Cymene Howe
Cultural Anthropology Feb 2008, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 48-84.
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From the outset, Cultural Anthropology has published articles engaging with science and technology. For example, an early essay of Michael M.J. Fischer's, "Scientific Dialogue and Critical Hermeneutics" (1988). The essay by Emily Martin, "The Ethnography of Natural Selection in the 1990s" and David Hess' comments capture the critical import of these topics (1994). Also available is a special issue devoted to these intersections, introduced by Daniel A. Segal's "Editor's Note: On Anthropology and/in/of Science." (2001). See also Gary Lee Downey, Joseph Dumit, and Sarah Williams' essay, "Cyborg Anthropology" (1995).

On the Trail of Living Modified Organisms: Environmentalism Within and Against Neoliberal Order
Thomas Pearson
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2009, Vol. 24, No. 4: 712-745
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Code is Speech: Legal Tinkering, Expertise, and Protest among Free and Open Source Software Developers
Gabriella Coleman
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2009, Vol. 24, No. 3: 420-454.
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The Generic Biothreat, or, How We Became Unprepared
Andrew Lakoff
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2008, Vol. 23, No. 3: 399-428.
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Post-Pasteurian Cultures: The Microbiopolitics of Raw-Milk Cheese in the US
Heather Paxson
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2008, Vol. 23, No. 1: 15-47
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Four Genealogies for a Recombinant Anthropology of Science and Technology
Michael M.J. Fischer
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2007, Vol. 22, No. 4: 539-615.
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Over the last twenty years, Cultural Anthropology has published a range of articles on South Asia. Authors have examined how hierarchy and caste have been constructed and queried in the anthropological literature, how local and global forces have cross pollinated and take on new meanings, and changing understandings of freedom and citizenship amidst the rise of professional classes. The topical breadth of these essays is impressive, including globalization and neoliberalism, nationalism, rural political movements, dance and media.

Over the last twenty years, Cultural Anthropology has published an extraordinarily wide range of essays on Latin America. Many authors have brought innovative methodological and theoretical tools to bear on the subjects of religion, ritual, and cultural production across the region.

Versions of the Dead: Kalunga, Cuban-Kongo Materiality, and Ethnography
Todd Ramon Ochoa
Cultural Anthropology Nov 2007, Vol. 22, No. 4: 473-500.
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Suicide, Risk, and Investment in the Heart of the African Miracle
Julie Livingston
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2009, Vol. 24, No. 4: 652-680
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Cultural Anthropology has published a number of essays that trace the transformations in class, gender and identity which Japanese society has undergone in the last one hundred years. Authors have examined the shifting cultural forms and categories that Japanese people have used to define and redefine collective and personal identities during decades of rapid technological change, war, and economic growth.

Fluid Labor and Blood Money: The Economy of HIV/AIDS in Rural Central China
SHAO Jing
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4: 535-569.
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THE FACE OF MONEY: Currency, Crisis, and Remediation in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Karen Strassler
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2009, Vol. 24, No. 1: 68-103
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Editors’ Introduction to the "Coke Complex"