Anthropology

Producing Anthropology

The American Anthropological Association Conference takes place Wednesday, December 3rd through Sunday, December 7th. In recognition of this, we have collected content spanning our Anthropology journals and books, focused around the conference theme, Producing Anthropology. Click on the buttons below to get started!

Changing World for Anthropology

A Shifting Theoretical Framework for Biological Anthropology in 2012
Adam P. Van Arsdale
American Anthropologist

Career Subjectivities in U.S. Anthropology: Gender, Practice, and Resistance
Keri Vacanti Brondo, Linda A. Bennett
American Anthropologist

Chaiqian/Demolition: Reflections on Media Practice
J.P. Sniadecki
Visual Anthropology Review

Ethnography is, Ethnography ain't
John L. Jackson Jr.
Cultural Anthropology

4 Historical narrative, mundane political time, and revolutionary moments: coexisting temporalities in the lived experience of social movements
Sian Lazar
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Medical Humanitarianism: Anthropologists Speak Out on Policy and Practice
Sharon Abramowitz, Meredith Marten, Catherine Panter-Brick
Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Technologies of truth in the anthropology of conflict: AES/APLA Presidential Address, 2013
Sally Engle Merry, Susan Bibler Coutin
American Ethnologist

The future of the enthnographic museum
Clare Harris and Michael O'Hanlon
Anthropology Today

Year in Review, Public Anthropology, 2013: Webs of Meaning, Critical Interventions
Peter Benson
American Anthropologist

Commitments and Impact of Research

2012 Public Anthropology Year in Review: Actually, Rick, Florida Could Use a Few More Anthropologists
Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz
American Anthropologist

Anthropology in the world: Limits and unity
David Shankland
Anthropology Today

Boundaries of Anthropology: Empirics and Ontological Relativism in a Field Experience with Anomalous Luminous Entities in Argentina
Diego Escolar
Anthropology and Humanism

Contemporary Biological Anthropology in 2013: Integrative, Connected, and Relevant
Katherine C. MacKinnon
American Anthropologist

Introduction: Locating an Australia-wide Anthropology
Gillian Cowlishaw and Lorraine Gibson
Oceania

Kinky Empiricism
Danilyn Rutherford
Cultural Anthropology

Long Way to the Anthropological Exhibition: The Institutionalization of Physical Anthropology in Russia
Galina Krivosheina
Centaurus

On Precariousness and the Ethical Imagination: The Year 2012 in Sociocultural Anthropology
Andrea Muehlebach
Anthropology and Humanism

Writing against identity politics: An essay on gender, race, and bureaucratic pain
Smadar Lavie
American Ethnologist

Future Goals for Research

Bringing Culture into Human Biology and Biology Back into Anthropology
Alan H. Goodman
American Anthropologist

Synonyms for Engagement: Forging an Engaged Anthropology in North Texas
Lisa Henry, Mariela Nuñez-Janes, Ann Jordan, Alicia Re Cruz
Annals of Anthropological Practice

The Future of a Discipline: Considering the Ontological/Methodological Future of the Anthropology of Consciousness, Part IV: Ontological Relativism or Ontological Relevance: An Essay in Honor of Michael Harner
Bonnie Glass-Coffin, Kiiskeentum
Anthropology of Consciousness

What Does It Mean to Be an Activist Scholar? Re-Imagining Our Responses as Anthropologists of Education to Contemporary Challenges
Katherine Schultz
Anthropology & Education Quarterly

Partnerships and Audiences for Anthropology

An anthropologist among the filmmakers – A cautionary tale: Part 1. The politics of production
Pat Caplan
Anthropology Today

Bringing Communities and the University Together: Applied Anthropology at California State University, Long Beach
Barbara LeMaster, Karen Quintiliani, Allison Hunt
Annals of Anthropological Practice

Ethnography in the Way of Theory
João Biehl
Cultural Anthropology

Mysteries reside in the humblest, everyday things: collaborative anthropology in the digital age
Michael Stewart
Social Anthropology

Special Issue: Anthropological Theologies: Engagements and Encounters
The Australian Journal of Anthropology

Special Issue: Does Cognitive Science Need Anthropology?
Edited by: Wayne D. Gray
Topics in Cognitive Science

The Forgotten Farmworkers of Apopka, Florida: Prospects for Collaborative Research and Activism to Assist African American Former Farmworkers
Nolan Kline, Rachel Newcomb
Anthropology and Humanism

The Remembering St. Petersburg Oral History Project: Youth Empowerment and Heritage Preservation Through a Community Museum
Alisha R. Winn
Transforming Anthropology

Variability in the Emergence Point of Transpersonal Experience in the Life Cycle
Edward James Dale
Anthropology of Consciousness

New and Forthcoming Books

Doing Ethnography Today: Theories, Methods, Exercises Elizabeth Campbell, Luke Eric Lassiter August 2014	A Companion to Urban Anthropology Edited by Donald M. Nonini June 2014	Language and Muslim Immigrant Childhoods: The Politics of Belonging Inmaculada Mª García-Sánchez June 2014
A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion Edited by Janice Boddy, Michael Lambek October 2013	An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, 2nd edition Kathryn A. Bard January 2015	The Pharmaceutical Studies Reader Edited by Sergio Sismondo, Jeremy A. Greene March 2015