Opinion columns published online at http://www.anthropology-news.org in December 2011

Abstract:

J DRIVE:“"Đổi Mới and Public Discourses of Sexual Violence: Feminist Anthropologist Huong Thu Nguyen” by Ritu G Khanduri

IMMIGRATION MATTERS:“A Brief Foray into Histories of Forced Migration” by Fethi Keles

MEDIA NOTES:“A Stand against the Criminalization of Drugs” by Claudio Lomnitz and Valentina Glockner Kenneth Routon is contributing editor of the Media Notes column in Anthropology News.

PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES IN BIOANTHROPOLOGY:“(Embarking on) the Journey is the Destination: How a brief but Formative Peace Corps Experience Nurtured Scholarship” by Misty A Weitzel

ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR:“Deploying the Language of the Public Sector” by Sarah Ono, Heather Schacht Reisinger, and Samantha Solimeo

CRITICAL CONSUMERISM:“Occupy Oakland Strike(s) Up Several Conversations” by Kelly ErnstFriedman

ARCHEOLOGY IN NORTH AMERICA:“Archaeology and Other Anthropologies” by Robert Muckle

LANGUAGE AND CULTURE:“A Vocabulary for Studying Language, Culture and History” by Leila Monaghan Leila Monaghan, Jacqueline Messing, Richard Senghas are contributing editors of the Language and Culture column in Anthropology News.

MULTIMEDIA MATTERS:“From Highrise to Soccer Rallies: Cameras, Art and Anthropology” by Nathalie Boucher and Martin Lamotte

NOTES FROM THE FIELD:“Extraction from Immersion” by Kristina Baines douglas c reeser is contributing editor of the Notes from the Field column in Anthropology News.

Keywords:

feminism, migration, narcotic, Peace Corps, language, applied anthropology, occupy movement, consumerism, archaeology