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Kinds of Anthropologists Selected AbstractsTHIRTY CANS OF BEEF STEW AND A THONG: ANTHROPOLOGIST AS ACADEMIC, ADMINISTRATOR, AND ACTIVIST IN THE U.S.,MEXICO BORDER REGIONANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2009Konane M. MartínezArticle first published online: 13 JUL 200 This article explores the role of the anthropologist working with immigrant communities in the U.S.,Mexico Border Region. As an anthropologist, I have had to negotiate my role as an academic, administrator, and activist. The article examines these three roles by analyzing the experience of the anthropologist with immigrant communities and agencies over the past nine years and during the southern California wildfires of 2007. While in many ways the three roles are categorically distinct, they are also connected and work to inform each other. The position of an applied anthropologist in the U.S.,Mexico border has allowed for development of practical and applied solutions to help improve the wellbeing of immigrant communities. This form of applied, practical, yet academically grounded work has the potential to elevate the anthropology of immigration beyond that of traditional researcher. [source] RESOURCE GUIDE FOR ANTHROPOLOGISTS WORKING IN FAITH-BASED DEVELOPMENTANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2010Keri Vacanti Brondo Although faith-based organizations (FBOs) historically have played an important role in the provision of social services, the recent expansion of funding opportunities to support their work in tandem with the neoliberal imperative to privatize social services delivery have propelled a newfound scholarly focus on their activities. This resource guide provides a brief overview of both the expansion of funding sources generated from the United States and selections of anthropological research engagement with FBOs worldwide. [source] GENERATING THEORY, TOURISM, AND "WORLD HERITAGE" IN INDONESIA: ETHICAL QUANDARIES FOR ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN AN ERA OF TOURIST MANIADANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2005KATHLEEN M. ADAMS This article is broadly concerned with the unique ethical quandaries anthropologists face when conducting research in touristic milieus, as well as the ethical dilemmas that ensue once we have left the field and are engaged in constructing theoretically informed portraits of the communities we researched. Specifically, drawing on experiences in two contrasting Indonesian field settings (Tana Toraja and Alor), I explore the ways in which contemporary anthropological theories about culture, identity, and identity politics can collide with local perceptions and local tourism-generating aspirations, placing researchers in potentially problematic ethical terrain. [source] ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN THE TOURISM WORKPLACEANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2005VALENE L. SMITH Anthropology and tourism melded at a symposium at the 1974 American Anthropological Association meeting in Mexico City, believed to be the first social science discussion of tourism in the Western Hemisphere. Tourism has increased dramatically to become one of the world's largest industries, and anthropology has also extended its interests in theory and methodology. Few articles have linked career options for anthropologists to the tourism workplace. Our disciplinary strengths in heritage conservation, economic development,especially among indigenous cultures,and conflict resolution, as well as our cross-cultural orientation, lead to employment with governments, NGOs, visitor and convention bureaus, and management. Regrettably, many industry employers are unfamiliar with our professional skills; a job search in the tourism workplace may become a personal quest, often bolstered by a sales pitch and with bilingualism as a major asset. [source] Review of: Trail of Bones: More Cases from the Files of a Forensic AnthropologistJOURNAL OF FORENSIC SCIENCES, Issue 2 2006Douglas H. Ubelaker Ph.D. [source] Response to Csilla Dallos's Review of Karl Marx, AnthropologistJOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, Issue 2 2010Thomas C. PattersonArticle first published online: 12 APR 2010 No abstract is available for this article. [source] FROM THE EDITOR: How to Get an Article Accepted at American Anthropologist (or Anywhere), Part 2AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 3 2010Tom Boellstorff Editor-in-Chief First page of article [source] Erratum: For: "Descent with Modification: Bioanthropological Identities in 2009" by Julienne Rutherford, in American Anthropologist 112(2)AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 3 2010Article first published online: 23 AUG 2010 No abstract is available for this article. [source] Anthropologist as Prognosticator: Gillian Tett and the Credit Derivatives MarketAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 1 2010Michael G. Powell No abstract is available for this article. [source] Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human by Tom BoellstorffAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 4 2009THOMAS M. MALABY No abstract is available for this article. [source] The Next Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist Is ,AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 3 2009TOM BOELLSTORFF Editor-in-Chief No abstract is available for this article. [source] Edward P. Dozier: The Paradox of the American Indian AnthropologistAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 1 2009CATHERINE S. FOWLER No abstract is available for this article. [source] How to Get an Article Accepted at American Anthropologist (or Anywhere)AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 3 2008TOM BOELLSTORFF EDITOR-IN-CHIEF No abstract is available for this article. [source] American Anthropologist Behind the ScenesAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 1 2008NEHA VORA Editorial Assistant No abstract is available for this article. [source] Boas, Foucault, and the "Native Anthropologist": Notes toward a Neo-Boasian AnthropologyAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 3 2004MATTI BUNZL This article proposes the possibility of a neo-Boasian anthropology conceived at the intersection of Foucauldian genealogy, Boasian historicism, and the epistemic rethinking of the discipline's Self/Other binary. Shifting from a perspective of posing the ethnographic object as Other toward a Boasian conception of the past as the principal site of inquiry, the piece thus advocates an anthropological project grounded in the history of the present. This conception, it is argued, can overcome several of the dilemmas currently facing the discipline, the awkward status of "native anthropology" foremost among them. [source] Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human by Tom BoellstorffAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 4 2009DEBBORA BATTAGLIA No abstract is available for this article. [source] Sex, Sexuality, and the AnthropologistAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 1 2001Harriet Lyons Sex, Sexuality, and the Anthropologist. Fran Markowitz and Michael Ashkenazi. eds. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999. 248 pp., references, index. [source] In the Circle of the Dance: Notes of an Outsider in Nepal/ An Anthropologist in Japan: Glimpses of Life in the FieldAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 3 2000Janet K. Fair In the Circle of the Dance: Notes of an Outsider in Nepal. Katharine Bjork Guneratne. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999. viii. 225 pp., map, photographs, glossary. An Anthropologist in Japan: Glimpses of Life in the Field. Joy Hendry. London: Routledge, 1999. vii +167 pp., photographs, index. [source] Knowledge, Skill, and the Inculcation of the Anthropologist: Reflections on Learning to Sew in the FieldANTHROPOLOGY OF WORK REVIEW, Issue 3 2008Rebecca Prentice Abstract This article explores employment as a mode of participant observation, by analyzing the complex relationship between skill acquisition, embodiment, and anthropological analysis. It highlights the importance of thinking critically about the body, including the ethnographer's own body in the field. I describe working in a garment factory and learning to sew as part of my doctoral research on the garment industry in Trinidad, West Indies. I argue that disciplining the body into a particular craft is also a process of incorporating (or "taking into the body") the ideologies of work that structure skill's meaning and practice. By describing my own difficulties "disembodying" what I learned in the field (in order to intellectualize the experience) I show how learning practical skills and enacting them everyday can be both a vigorous and perilous form of ethnographic research. [source] But Sometimes Labor Migration Is About More Than Labor Migration: Complementary Perspectives of an Educational AnthropologistCITY & SOCIETY, Issue 1 2007EDMUND T. HAMANNArticle first published online: 28 JUN 200 First page of article [source] DISLOCATING SOUNDS: The Deterritorialization of Indonesian Indie PopCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2009BRENT LUVAAS ABSTRACT Anthropologists often read the localization or hybridization of cultural forms as a kind of default mode of resistance against the forces of global capitalism, a means through which marginalized ethnic groups maintain regional distinctiveness in the face of an emergent transnational order. But then what are we to make of musical acts like Mocca and The Upstairs, Indonesian "indie" groups who consciously delocalize their music, who go out of their way, in fact, to avoid any references to who they are or where they come from? In this essay, I argue that Indonesian "indie pop," a self-consciously antimainstream genre drawing from a diverse range of international influences, constitutes a set of strategic practices of aesthetic deterritorialization for middle-class Indonesian youth. Such bands, I demonstrate, assemble sounds from a variety of international genres, creating linkages with international youth cultures in other places and times, while distancing themselves from those expressions associated with colonial and nationalist conceptions of ethnicity, working-class and rural sensibilities, and the hegemonic categorical schema of the international music industry. They are part of a new wave of Indonesian musicians stepping onto the global stage "on their own terms" and insisting on being taken seriously as international, not just Indonesian, artists, and in the process, they have made indie music into a powerful tool of reflexive place making, a means of redefining the very meaning of locality vis-à-vis the international youth cultural movements they witness from afar. [source] Remembering What One Knows and the Construction of the Past: A Comparison of Cultural Consensus Theory and Cultural Schema TheoryETHOS, Issue 3 2000Professor Linda C. Garro Cultural consensus theory and cultural models theory present distinct perspectives about the nature of individual and cultural knowledge. Anthropologists have not really explored the implications of these differences, nor have they examined these differing perspectives in situations where both are plausible alternatives. Through an analysis of patterns in how individuals diagnosed with diabetes and living in an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) community talked about diabetes and the judgments they made about the relevancy of culturally plausible illness causes, I find, for this data set at least, that cultural models theory provides a better fit. Nevertheless, cultural consensus analysis played a critical role in this determination. Some ideas about the nature of collective memory are examined in light of my findings. [source] Signaling, solidarity, and the sacred: The evolution of religious behaviorEVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 6 2003Richard Sosis Abstract Anthropologists have repeatedly noted that there has been little theoretical progress in the anthropology of religion over the past fifty years.1,7 By the 1960s, Geertz2 had pronounced the field dead. Recently, however, evolutionary researchers have turned their attention toward understanding the selective pressures that have shaped the human capacity for religious thoughts and behaviors, and appear to be resurrecting this long-dormant but important area of research.8,19 This work, which focuses on ultimate evolutionary explanations, is being complemented by advances in neuropsychology and a growing interest among neuroscientists in how ritual, trance, meditation, and other altered states affect brain functioning and development.20,26 This latter research is providing critical insights into the evolution of the proximate mechanisms responsible for religious behavior. Here we review these literatures and examine both the proximate mechanisms and ultimate evolutionary processes essential for developing a comprehensive evolutionary explanation of religion. [source] Historical Anthropology of Modern IndiaHISTORY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 3 2007Saurabh Dube The last three decades have seen acute interchanges between history and anthropology in theoretical and empirical studies. Scholarship on South Asia has reflected these patterns, but it has also reworked such tendencies. Here, significant writings of the 1960s and 1970s brought together processes of history and patterns of culture as part of mutual fields of analysis and description. These emphases have been critically developed more recently. Anthropologists and historians have rethought theory and method, in order not only to crucially conjoin but to explore anew the ,archive' and the ,field'. The blending has produced ,historical anthropology': writings that approach and explain in new ways elaborations of caste and community, colonialism and empire, nation and nationalism, domination and resistance, law and politics, myth and kingship, environment and ethnicity, and state and modernity , in the past and the present. Work in historical anthropology focuses on practice, process, and power, and often combines perspectives from gender, postcolonial, and subaltern studies. [source] Percentage of Body Recovered and Its Effect on Identification Rates and Cause and Manner of Death Determination,JOURNAL OF FORENSIC SCIENCES, Issue 3 2007Debra A. Komar Ph.D. ABSTRACT: Anthropologists frequently encounter cases in which only partial human remains are recovered. This study reports how the percentage of the body recovered affects identification (ID) rates and cause and manner of death determination. A total of 773 cases involving anthropology consults were drawn from the New Mexico medical examiner's office (1974,2006). Results indicate a significant correlation between body percent recovered and ID rates, which ranged from 89% for complete bodies to 56% when less than half the body was present. Similar patterns were evident in cause/manner determination, which were the highest (83% and 79%, respectively) in complete bodies but declined to 40% when less than half the body was found. The absence of a skull also negatively impacted ID and ruling rates. Findings are compared with general autopsy ID rates (94,96%) and cause/manner determination rates (96,99%) as well as prior published rates for individual casework and mass death events. [source] Thinking Inside the Box: A Historian Among the AnthropologistsLAW & SOCIETY REVIEW, Issue 4 2004Kunal Parker First page of article [source] Thick Prescriptions: Toward an Interpretation of Pharmaceutical Sales PracticesMEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY QUARTERLY, Issue 3 2004MICHAEL J. OLDANI Anthropologists of medicine and science are increasingly studying all aspects of pharmaceutical industry practices,from research and development to the marketing of prescription drugs. This article ethnographically explores one particular stage in the life cycle of pharmaceuticals: sales and marketing. Drawing on a range of sources,investigative journalism, medical ethics, and autoethnography,the author examines the day-to-day activities of pharmaceutical salespersons, or drug reps, during the 1990s. He describes in detail the pharmaceutical gift cycle, a three-way exchange network between doctors, salespersons, and patients and how this process of exchange is currently in a state of involution. This gift economy exists to generate prescriptions (scripts) and can mask and/or perpetuate risks and side effects for patients. With implications of pharmaceutical industry practices impacting everything from the personal-psychological to the global political economy, medical anthropologists can play a lead role in the emerging scholarly discourse concerned with critical pharmaceutical studies. [source] Names That Show Time: Turkish Jews as "Strangers" and the Semiotics of ReclassificationAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 3 2010Marcy Brink-Danan ABSTRACT, In this article, I discuss the anthropological value of focusing on ontological processes in which seemingly local, native, or indigenous people are reclassified as foreigners. Building on theories of language and time, I show, through the ethnographic example of Jewish naming in Istanbul, how names come to signify foreignness. I also explore naming as a process through which the subjects of reclassification themselves understand present-day ontologies as historically informed and context dependent. By studying moments of categorical reassignment, I detail the social semiotic processes that drive the classification of signs as indices of belonging or exclusion. Anthropologists increasingly study military, juridical, and economic ontologies that reorder, relocate, and restrict human (and nonhuman) groups. I illuminate a quieter space, that of naming, through which classifications are made and undone. ÖZET, Bu makalede, yerel, yöreye ait ve do,ma büyüme yerli ki,ilerin yabanc, olarak yeniden s,n,fland,r,lmas,n,n görüldü,ü varl,ksal (ontolojik) süreçlere odaklanman,n antropolojik de,erini tart,,aca,,m. Çal,,may, dil ve zaman kuramlar,üzerine kurarak, ,stanbul Musevilerinin adland,r,lmas,n, konu alan etnografik bir örnekleme arac,l,,, ile, isimlerin nas,l bir yabanc,l,k anlam, yüklendi,ini göstermeyi umuyorum. Ayn, zamanda, yeniden s,n,fland,rmaya mazur kalanlar,n kendilerinin güncel ontolojileri tarihsel olarak belirlenmi, ve ba,lama dayal, olarak kavrayageldikleri süreçleri de ara,t,r,yorum. Kategorilerin yeniden tayin edildi,i belirli anlar, irdeleyerek, göstergelerin s,n,fland,r,lmas,n, aidiyet ve d,,lama endeksine dönü,türen toplumsal göstergebilimsel süreçleri ayr,nt,land,r,yorum. Antropologlar gün geçtikçe insan (ve insan olmayan) gruplar, tekrar düzene sokan, yerinden eden ya da k,s,tlayan askeri, hukuksal ve ekonomik ontolojilerin üzerine e,iliyorlar. Bense daha sessiz sedas,z bir mekana e,ilerek, s,n,fland,rmalar,n in,a edilip tekrar bozuldu,u isimlendirme alan,na ,,,k tutmaya çal,,,yorum. RÉSUMÉ, Cet article interroge, d'un point de vue anthropologique, le bien-fondé des processus ontologiques par lesquels des populations dites locales, natives ou autochtones sont (re-)catégorisées comme étrangères. A travers l'exemple ethnographique des noms juifs à Istanbul, et en m'appuyant sur les théories du langage et du temps, je montre comment les noms en viennent à signifier "étranger." J'explore également la nomination en tant que processus à travers lequel les sujets de cette reclassification eux-mêmes perçoivent ces schémas de catégorisation comme déterminés par une histoire et dépendants d'un contexte. En étudiant certains moments de réassignation fondamentaux, je précise les processus sémiotiques sociaux qui conduisent à la classification de signes comme indices d'appartenance ou d'exclusion. Les anthropologues étudient de plus en plus les ontologies militaires, juridiques et économiques qui réordonnent, resituent et restreignent des groupes humains (et nonhumains). Mon étude met en lumière les mécanismes d'un espace plus discret, celui de la nomination, à travers lequel des classifications sont faites et défaites. [source] PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY: The 2009 UN Climate Talks: Alternate Media and Participation from AnthropologistsAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 3 2010Edward M. Maclin ABSTRACT, The United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen during December of 2009 were surrounded by numerous side events. Some anthropologists and other social scientists at these events used the Web as a technology for reporting on activities as they occurred. The success of alternate publishing fora is difficult to gauge, but these weblogs reflect some of the difficulties faced by lone researchers in observing and reporting on large-scale meetings. Some geographers, in contrast, came to Copenhagen as part of an effort organized through the Association of American Geographers. Such a planned and collaborative process may be useful for anthropologists at future meetings. [source] Resolving the Anti-Antievolutionism Dilemma: A Brief for Relational Evolutionary Thinking in AnthropologyAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2009Emily Schultz ABSTRACT Anthropologists often disagree about whether, or in what ways, anthropology is "evolutionary." Anthropologists defending accounts of primate or human biological development and evolution that conflict with mainstream "neo-Darwinian" thinking have sometimes been called "creationists" or have been accused of being "antiscience." As a result, many cultural anthropologists struggle with an "anti-antievolutionism" dilemma: they are more comfortable opposing the critics of evolutionary biology, broadly conceived, than they are defending mainstream evolutionary views with which they disagree. Evolutionary theory, however, comes in many forms. Relational evolutionary approaches such as Developmental Systems Theory, niche construction, and autopoiesis,natural drift augment mainstream evolutionary thinking in ways that should prove attractive to many anthropologists who wish to affirm evolution but are dissatisfied with current "neo-Darwinian" hegemony. Relational evolutionary thinking moves evolutionary discussion away from reductionism and sterile nature,nurture debates and promises to enable fresh approaches to a range of problems across the subfields of anthropology. [Keywords: evolutionary anthropology, Developmental Systems Theory, niche construction, autopoeisis, natural drift] [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||