2012 Annual Meeting

POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF SCANDINAVIA AFTER 22/7
The Cultural Logic of Contestation In Nordic Predatory Identities

BORDERLINE INTIMACIES: SINO-XENO ENCOUNTERS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND INNER ASIA
Fieldwork In a Mirror Cabinet

THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY IN EDUCATION: ADVANCING NEW ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES FOR STUDYING EDUCATION POLICY WORLDS
GRAENSEOVERSKRIDENDE: OVERSTEPPING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IN GLOBALIZING SCANDINAVIAN STATES.
INTEREST GROUP FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF PUBLIC POLICY (IGAPP) ROUNDTABLE. “STUDYING POLICY: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN ANTHROPOLOGY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE”
ANTHROPOLOGICAL TEMPORALITIES: METHODS AND ONTOLOGY OF MULTI-TEMPORAL ETHNOGRAPHY
THE ROLE OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN DISASTER JAPAN: RESPONSES TO THE 3/11 EARTHQUAKE AND THE FUKUSHIMA ACCIDENT
BORDERLINE INTIMACIES: SINO-XENO ENCOUNTERS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND INNER ASIA
Fish Scales and Time Scales: Rethinking Non-Human Temporalities Through Salmon Bodily Forms
Contested Property Claims In Danish Cooperative Housing
Sacrificing the Jinn - An Ethnographic Film Project about Islamic Exorcisms and Psychiatric Healthcare In Denmark
Walking the Fine Line Between Shared Knowledge and Unshared Belief: Teaching Religion to All In Danish Schools
Visualizing Cultural Epidemics
Puppets, Masks and Other Material Anchors In Hopi Indian Religion
Fieldwork or 'event-Work'?
Statuing the Other: When Fraught Sino-Mozambican Relations Are Cast In Iron

IRONIC, LUCKY, ENLIGHTENING, CUTE: RELIGIOUS TOYS, GAMES AND SOUVENIRS
DE-CENTERING CHINA: THE SOUTHWEST AS THE CORE.
AROUND ANTHROPOLOGY: EMPATHY, AFFECT AND INTERSUBJECTIVITY
Lashihai: Changing Environmental Protection of An Alpine Lake and Wetland
Leprosy and Socialist Hygienic Modernity in Southwest China
Choices Under Constraint: Maternal Request for Cesarean Sections In Taiwan
The Psychological-Cultural Complex of Nüshu In Southern China: Writing Emotion and Experiencing Intersubjectivity

ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES OF INCARCERATION AND ACTIVISM IN THE ERA OF MASS INCARCERATION

Creating Third Spaces: Mayan Immigrant Youth, Their Parents, and the Dynamics of Identity Construction In US Schools

TEACHING BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES: ANTHROPOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION
ASSOCIATION OF BLACK ANTHROPOLOGISTS (ABA) AWARDS CEREMONY
ASSOCIATION OF BLACK ANTHROPOLOGISTS (ABA) AWARDS RECEPTION
Crafting Citizenship: Interrogating the "American-Ness" of the American Dream

Caught In the Borderlands: Torture Experienced, Expressed, and Remembered by Eritrean Asylum Seekers In Israel

Reconceptualizing "Modern" Buddhism: Ritual and Rationality In Transnational Tibetan Religion
Healing and the Globalization of Witchcraft In Benin

Population Growth and Migration: Challenges for Rangeland Management by Altiplano Pastoralists

CONSTRUCTING, DECONSTRUCTING, AND RECONSTRUCTING SOCIAL IDENTITY: 2,000 YEARS OF MONUMENTALITY IN TEOTIHUACAN AND CHOLULA
Nature of Changing Monuments and the Social Implications In the Ancient City of Teotihuacan
Symbolism, Materialization, and Procurement: An Analysis of Obsidian Artifacts From Teotihuacan Monuments

THE SUBSISTENCE ETHICS IN EAST ASIA
Protecting Local Food Markets: Responses to Nuclear Disaster and Free Trade In Japan

Navigating European Fish Politics and Power In the Community Pond: Ireland’s Political Struggles Expand Into the Global Ocean

Maternal Mortality In the Context of Conflict

BIRTH, RESISTANCE AND THE RE-FORMATION OF MOTHERHOOD IDENTITIES IN THE UNITED STATES: TRANSGRESSING BORDER ZONES

Communicating Culture: Material Creations of the Western Wendat Diaspora In the Seventeenth Century

ANTHROPOLOGY OF VERSUS ANTHROPOLOGY FOR BUSINESS: EXPLORING THE BORDERS AND CROSSOVERS BETWEEN AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF BUSINESS AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONSULTANCY

COMMITTEE ON PRACTICING APPLIED AND PUBLIC INTEREST ANTHROPOLOGY (COPAPIA) BUSINESS MEETING
COMMITTEE ON MINORITY ISSUES IN ANTHROPOLOGY (CMIA) BUSINESS MEETING
NAPA/AAA CAREERS EXPO WELCOME BRUNCH
AAA/COPAA CAREER EXPO CLOSING RECEPTION
DEPARTMENT CHAIRS AND REPRESENTATIVES BREAKFAST
Anthropology Graduates: From Student to Career (registration required)
GRADUATE SCHOOL FAIR
GRADUATE SCHOOL FAIR RECEPTION

AAA NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE
AAA COMMITTEE ON ETHICS BUSINESS MEETING
AAA EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
ANTHROPOLOGICAL COMMUNICATION COMMITTEE (ACC)
AAA ASSOCIATION OPERATIONS COMMITTEE (AOC)
TASK FORCE ON LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
SECTION ASSEMBLY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
PUBLISHING IN ANTHROPOLOGY NEWS ONLINE WORLD
AAA SECTION TREASURER'S MEETING
AAA GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE TASK FORCE MEETING
RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE (RDC) MEETING
COMMITTEE ON GENDER EQUITY IN ANTHROPOLOGY (CoGEA)
AAA ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING
AAA ANNUAL AWARDS CEREMONY
SECTION PRESIDENTS ORIENTATION
AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST EDITORIAL BOARD BREAKFAST
AAA FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC POLICY ANNUAL MEETING
SECTION ASSEMBLY MEETING
AAA STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE CAUCUS
COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (CHR)
AAA ANTHROPOLOGICAL COMMUNICATION COMMITTEE (AAAACC) SUBCOMMITTEE ON MEDIA FOR INTRADISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION
TASK FORCE ON RACE AND RACISM
NEW EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER ORIENTATION
COMMITTEE ON THE FUTURE OF PRINT AND ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING (CFPEP) MEETING
ANTHROPOLOGY NEWS EDITORS' AND COLUMNISTS' BREAKFAST
AAA DONOR RECEPTION
2013 EXECUTIVE PROGRAM COMMITTEE RECEPTION
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE Smithsonian’s MIGRATION PROJECT

MEDICINE IS A BORDERLAND
Hospitalists: Crossing Borders within Healthcare Institutions

AN UNDISCIPLINED STUDY OF SUDAN
Exorcism Death In Virginia: On the Misrepresentation of Korean Shamans
Zootherapeutic Beliefs and Practices Along the Nile River In Northern Sudan
The Meroitic Language and Contemporary Nubian Linguistics In An Anthropological Context
Contested Values of Land Use In the Periphery of the Makira Protected Area, Northeastern Madagascar

Northern Sudan and Paleoanthropology: Historical Perspectives, Preliminary Survey Results, and Future Potential

Bolon Yokte’ K’uh and Maya Eclipse Prediction: Understanding Tortuguero Monument 6 within the Context of Maya Deep Time Calculations

MAKING SENSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE: GLOBAL AND LOCAL DISCOURSES
#GAYSEXNOW
UNDERSTANDING MILITARISM: CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
POLICY ON BULLYING AND SEXUALITY EDUCATION
ETHNOGRAPHIES OF U.S. EMPIRE
PUNISHMENT AND THE STATE: IMPRISONMENT, TRANSGRESSIONS, SCAPEGOATS AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
THE (IN)EQUALITIES OF GLOBAL HEALTH: E-HEALTH AND TELEMEDICINE THROUGH THE LENS OF CRITICAL MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Farming Nsima: Investigating Food Security and Diet Diversity Among Farmers Practicing Conventional Agriculture and Permaculture In Central Malawi
Base Nation: Military Bases Overseas and the Foundations of Militarism
Reconciliation and Permanent War In Honduras
The Digital Story:  Giving Voice to Unheard Washington
Viewing Online Porn As A Collective Queer Social Practice
Stories of  Transformation:  Tribal Communities’ Experiences of Environmental Change  In the Louisiana Bayou
Lady Blade Takes On the Cholitas: Nation Vs Gender In Bolivian Lucha Libre:
K'iche' Mayan Families In New England: The Second Generation
Tamterey – the Language of Slavery In the Saharan Salt Mines
Performing Propriety: Planning and Resistance In Rural New Mexico
“If I Had the Means I Would Go Back to exile”: Analysis of Burundian Returnees’ Ideas of Place and Belonging

THE ARAB SPRING: POLITICAL SUBJECTIVITIES, IDEOLOGY,  AND THE FUTURE
"Shahrazad, Tell Me a Story:" the Egyptian Uprising In Films
Struggling Against Precariousness: A Laborers' Tale of Rural Transformation and New Worker's Struggles

Making Sense: Affective Evidence In Postwar Lebanese Documentary

“Treat the Wound, Not the Weapon”: Knowledge, War Surgery and the Depoliticization of Iraqi Bodies
Moral Leisure Geographies In Sectarian Beirut

Tahrir Square- the Rebirth of Egyptian Youth
Skyscapes of Abdeen: The Lifeworlds of Pigeon Fanciers In Cairo

Kinship On the Margins of the State: Marriage and Citizenship In Kuwait
Kinship on the Margins of the State: Marriage and Citizenship in Kuwiat

Three Histories, Two Communities, One Solution

Learn and Earn Recycling School In the Garbage Neighborhood In Cairo

Doing Family, Challenging “Blood”: The Moral Temporalities of Family-Making

RELIGION AND MASCULINITY: CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND GENDERED REALITIES
HOW TRANSNATIONAL MIGRANTS DECIDE WHERE TO RAISE THEIR CHILDREN
ACCIDENTAL POLITICS
How Chinese Transnational Migrants Make Childbearing and Childrearing Decisions
“Poor Kids Are Doing Better At school”: Discourses about Relationships Between Socioeconomic Status and adolescents’ Academic Achievement In China and South Korea
Wounds of Encounters: Accident As Politics In Bangladesh
Exploring the Collections and Relations of A.C. Haddon At the Smithsonian

Death and Funerals In the Kingdom of Meroe: Revisiting Egyptian Traditions At the Edge of the Classical World

CHILDREN AND YOUTH NAVIGATING BORDERS AND HORIZONS OF UNCERTAIN LIFE EVENTS – ORGANIZED BY ACYIG
The End of Social Navigation? the Use of Khat In a Ugandan Rural Post-Conflict Setting

THE TECHNOLOGIZED CALL: SUBJECTS OF RESPONSIBILITY IN MASS-MEDIATED RELIGIONS AND CULTURES

Nearly Neighbors: Japanese-American Family Life On the Eve of Internment

Globalization and Zinacantán: Debates Present and Past
Globalizing Masculinity: Post-NAFTA Wrestling and the Televisual Traffic of Gender Across the U.S. / Mexico Border

Ethnography of Communication and History: A Case Study

FEMINISM IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY LATIN AMERICA:  CROSSING THE BORDERS OF POLITICS AND ACTIVISM
Post Revolutionary Feminism In Nicaragua: The Lost Generation

Being-In-Miles and Putting Death In Its Place: Hear That Lonesome Whippoorwill?

KEEPIN' IT REAL: EXPLORING DISCURSIVE REPRESENTATIONS OF AUTHENTICITY
Wandering Lost Through the Landscape of Valaiyar Migration Stories
Not Voting for the Past: Indigenous Participation In Postwar Guatemalan Elections and the Return of the Military
Latin@ Immigrants' Social Networks In the New Latino South: From “Búscalo tú, trabájalo tú, consíguelo tú” to Community Building In Hightown

CULTURAL TRANSMISSION STUDIES: TREE AND NETWORK MODELS OF MICRO- AND MACROEVOLUTION
The Challenge of Tree-Thinking and Network-Thinking: Conceptual Issues Across Biological and Cultural Domains

LATINO PUBLIC POLITICS: NEGOTIATING BELONGING THROUGH LANGUAGE, IDENTITY, ADVOCACY, AND LEARNING
Moral Mobility: Negotiating Migration’s Double Bind
One Heart: Nationalism, Militarism and Contested Commonalities In Eritrea

Anthropology Graduates: From Student to Career (registration required)

TRANSCENDING BORDERS BETWEEN HOMES AND SCHOOLS: EXPLORING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND COLLABORATION IN CULTURALLY DIVERSE CONTEXTS
RE-ASSESSING “BORDERS,” “BORDERLANDS, AND CROSSINGS:” LATINA/O PERSPECTIVES
ETHNOGRAPHIES OF PLACE AND SPACE: CULTURE, POLITICS, AND IDENTITY IN URBAN MEXICO
Text Analysis: Systematic Methods for Analyzing Qualitative Data (registration required)
PUBLIC BORDERS, PRIVATE CROSSINGS I: ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES TO MAPPING NEOLIBERALISM, GLOBALIZATION, AND CORPORATIZATION IN SCHOOLS
PRECARIEDAD AND THIRD WAY NEOLIBERALISM IN LATIN AMERICA
COMMITTEE ON MINORITY ISSUES IN ANTHROPOLOGY (CMIA) BUSINESS MEETING
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' RIGHTS AND NATURAL RESOURCE EXTRACTION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA:  AN INTERNATIONAL LIVE STREAMING DISCUSSION
CROSSING GEOGRAPHIC AND CONCEPTUAL BORDERS: LANGUAGE AND LITERACY PRACTICES AMONG REFUGEE/IMMIGRANT FAMILIES
HEALING BORDER CROSSERS(INGS): NURTURING XICANA SACRED SPACES AS DECOLONIZING PRACTICE
CERAMIC ECOLOGY XXVI: CURRENT CERAMIC RESEARCH 2012
ANCIENT PERMEABLE CROSSINGS AND MODERN BOUNDED BORDERS: THE MATERIALITY OF RELIGIOUS COSMOGRAPHIES
OVERLAPPING BODIES
Flexible Illegality: State Construction and Erasure of Migrant Transgression
Heteroglossic Practices In the Digital Borderlands: Complexities In the Use of Spanish In Online Domains
Secular Enlightenment: Exploring the Creative Space Between Science & Religion
Deutero-Learning and  Saving to Save and Trusting Mutual Trust:A Transborder Cultural Expansion
The Dilemma of the Iranian Shahids and the "Arab Spring"
Personhood, Materiality, and Performance In Western Apache Discourse
Tlicho Discourses of Respecting the Caribou in Northern Canada
Crossing Permeable Boundaries: Maya Cave/Cenote Sinkholes and Their Multi-Faceted Earth Lords
Indigenous Language Policy As Democratic Practices:Dialogue and Hope At the Intersection of Colonialism, Language Revitalization, and Identity Development
Generosity without Debt, Part 2:  Need-Based Transfers In a Risk-Pooling Game
“Does Losing $50 At An Indian Casino Show the Richness of Your American Indian Experience?”: Examining the Borders and Boundaries Created by University Course Advertising Iconography 
Seeking Borders and Crossings In Critical Indigenous Frameworks and Research
Generosity without Debt, Part 1:  Computational Models of Risk Pooling Through Need-Based Transfers
Rules, Norms, and Injustice: Perceptions of Justice In Water Institutions In Four Cultures
Politics At the Borderlands: A Discursivee Approach Toward State-Based Legislative Attacks On Immigration
Fertile Ground: Planting the Seeds of Community Learning
Changes to Hohokam Red-On-Buff Pottery Recipes Through Time: An Analysis of Clay Mixing and Clay Papules
Ceramic Dating: A Review of Techniques, with a Special Focus On Rehydroxylation
The Use of Navajo English In Promoting Heritage Language Revitalization
The Origins of Contingent Reciprocity
Gendered Space, Livelihoods, and Telenovelas In Mazatlán, Mexico
Community Complicity and Schooled Regimes: Finding the Wiggle Room to Define Success Through Linguistic Diversity In Singapore
Institutional Exclusion, Life History, and Social Investment: A Challenge to the Pathogen Stress Hypothesis In the United States
The Discursive Management of Stake and Interest In the Toyota Recall Hearings
Peace without Reconciliation?: Looking for New Modes of Coexistence In the Aftermath of Communal Violence In Eastern Indonesia
Tourist Typologies - Analyzing the Inroads to Ayahuasca Tourism
Walking to Magdalena: Personhood and Place In Tohono O’odham Oral Narratives
How Do Men and Women of Color Respond to a Legacy of Constrained Reproduction?: Discourses of Reproductive Worthiness In the United States
“Chips or Carrots? We Eat Whatever We Can afford”: Coping with Food Insecurity Risk and the Specter of Chronic Disease Among Low-Income Latinos
Tethered, Feathered and Flayed: What Is Sacrificed In Western Ritual Theory?
La Frontera/ta Synora: Parallels and Contrasts In Response to International Undocumented Border Crossing

The Creation of Ancestral Bundles: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Ancient Maya Ritual Materiality
Omission and Action, Friends and Strangers: An Experimental and Comparative Exploration of Variation In Action-Omission Bias
Institutional Exclusion, Life History, and Social Investment: A Challenge to the Pathogen Stress Hypothesis In the United States
Obesity and Food Insecurity In Highland Guatemala

Adaption to Climate Change In the Nepal Himalaya:Food Security and Transcending Borders

From the Looters’ Cast-off Pile to the Center of Research; 15^th Cen. Sacred Bundles From Craig Mound At Spiro, Oklahoma

ACTING OUT: YOUTH PERFORMANCE IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA.

Koko ~ Kaka In the American Indigenous Languages, the Amerind Hypothesis, and the Dravidian Kinship System

Koko ~ Kaka In the American Indigenous Languages, the Amerind Hypothesis, and the Dravidian Kinship System

ON THE BORDERS OF THE IMAGE: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON VISUAL ETHICS

DEVELOPING THE HIMALAYA: PEOPLE, PROJECTS, POLITICS
River Engineering and Water Debates Across the Indian Himalayas

Marked Goods: Propaganda, Boycotts, and Patriotic Identity In Revolutionary Period Southeastern, CT

Integral Theory of Mind: Non-Duality, Perspectives, Development

THE EDGES OF SEX AND HIV IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA: CULTURE, RIGHT

COMMUNAL PEACE AND CONFLICT IN INDONESIA: NAVIGATING INTER-RELIGIOUS BOUNDARIES
COUNCIL FOR MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY (CMA) BOARD MEETING
MANA: TRANSLATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF A CLASSIC CONCEPT IN ANTHROPOLOGY
COUNCIL FOR MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY (CMA) BUSINESS MEETING
MORE THAN WORDS: AT THE BOUNDARIES OF LANGUAGE
LOVE AND WAR: PAPERS IN HONOR OF MARGARET TRAWICK'S ETHNOGRAPHIC PRACTICE
YOUNG TRANSNATIONAL MIGRANTS AS SERVICE WORKERS
HAVE MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS BECOME THE HANDMAIDENS OF PUBLIC HEALTH?
COUNCIL FOR MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY (CMA) RECEPTION
The Face of Ethnography In Literary Mirrors: Learning From Anton Chekhov
Applied Anthropology and Natural Resource Extraction: Three Perspectives On Practice
Tracing the Translation of Mana In Fiji
Negotiating Temporal Rhythms and Chronic Illness - Applied Anthropology
The Language of Kinship
Kin and Skins: The Dynamics of Kinship, Sections and Subsections In Australia
Seizing the Moment: Towards Sexual Citizenship In Papua New Guinea
 the Enslaved Smoker and Other Public Health Tropes: The Need to Reclaim An Anthropological Perspective On ‘risk behaviours’
Positive Sex, Positive Prevention: HIV, Relational Personhood, and Participation In National Identity-Making
Anthropology and the Relative Autonomy of Museums and Their Collections
Town Matters: Making Place In Central Australia
Kiriwina Converts: Christian Dividual Personhood and Agency In the Trobriands
Exploring Networked Governance of Torture In Papua-Indonesia
Young Consumers Being Consumed: Economies of Affect Amongst Chinese Migrants In Tokyo, Japan
Risks, Opportunities and Neoliberal Governance: Japanese Precarious Workers In a Chinese It Industry Base
The Superintendent’s Window: On Anthropology, Drawing, and the Refusal of Intercultural Analysis
The Inscription of Birth: Free Antenatal Care for Shan Migrant Women and Issues of Legibility
Mimesis and Alterity Revisited
Design Features of Language Revisited

Design Features of Language Revisited

OF NATIONAL BODIES, BORDERS, AND MEDICAL NATIONS: RETHINKING THE BODY POLITIC
CROSSING BORDERS IN THE NAME OF SCIENTIFIC EXCELLENCE: THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL (ERC) AND ITS FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ANTHROPOLOGISTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
FROM "STONE-AGE" TO "REAL-TIME": TEMPORALITIES AND MOBILITIES IN AND BEYOND PAPUA
Overcoming Retrospective Provincialism: Language Skills and PhD Programs for Anthropology's Transnational Future
Alternate Imaginaries: Tibetan Medicine, Ethical Bodies, and the Modern Nation
Papua As An Islamic Frontier? Multiple Muslim Imaginaries

Fabricating the State: An ethnographic study of the Everyday State In a Watershed Project In Eastern India
Conflated Inequalities: The Challenge of Understanding How Different Processes Interact to Create Educational Inequality In India