2012 Annual Meeting

Them and Us: Language As Frontier In Global Heavy Metal

FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD: CROSSING THE BORDERS OF THE UN/KNOWN
Beyond/Beneath/Boundaries: Landscapes of Fear, Dissolution, and Union In Early Medieval Iceland
“the Heddle Rods Are Blood-Soaked Spears”: Life, Death, Fate and Female Embodiment Through Weaving In Viking Age and Medieval Iceland

Learning In Museum 2.0: A Critical Approach Through An Ethnographic Attention to the Senses

THE EMERGENT POST-COMMUNIST LEFT IN EASTERN EUROPE AND BEYOND: PRACTICES, IDEOLOGIES, GROUPS

AAA NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE
RECLAIMING AND RENEGOTIATING IDENTITIES: BORDER CROSSING AND SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION AMONG MINORITIZED LANGUAGE SPEAKERS
Constructing Divides Already Crossed: Broadband and Its Uses
Get to the Point! Screening Decimalisation, Money, and the (Im)Mediation of Number
From Unremarkable to Endangered: Negotiating Discourses of Discovery and Development In Northern Okinawa
The Political Ecology of Sign Languages: Guatemalan Indigenous Knowledge Vs. Western Science

Disability Movement (and its Multiple Meanings) In Ghana
Between Iconic Nomenclature and Moral Symbols:  Changing Popular Interpretations of Torajan Carving Motifs

Environmental Anthropology/Environmental Buddhism: A Story of Dependent Co-Arising
Migrant Bodies and the Materialization of Belonging In Sweden
Race, Osteoporosis, and the Cultural Representation of Illness: How Do Racialized Approaches to Skeletal Health "Get Under the Skin"?

THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF FINANCE POLICY: AN IGAPP ROUNDTABLE
NAPA Workshop On Project Management (registration required)

CREATIVE PRAXIS AND PRODUCTIVE TENSION AT THE INTERSECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND EVALUATION
Evaluation “Products”: Using Anthropological Methods In Creating Accessible Data

Reflections From the Field: Using the Anthropological Lens to Improve Social Services

The Fame of Social Sharing: Lessons from an Anthropology of Value

Education of the Excluded: The Educational Paths of Chinese Migrant Children

The Mother of God and the Language of Thieves: Marian Devotionalism, Abortion, and the Morality of the Second Economy At the Şumuleu Ciuc Pilgrimage Site, Harghita County, Romania

Navigating Adolescence Through Social Change In Fiji: Ambition, Demoralization, Social Adversity, and Resilience
Maternicide and the Politics of Nation Building: The Indigenous Woman’s Body In Rural Guatemala
Medical Interpreting:  Crossing Language Borders In Diverse Institutional Contexts

Culinary Assimilation: The Politics and Pleasures of School Lunch In Postwar Hawai`I

DIALECTICS OF TERRORISM: SITES OF TERROR, IMAGINED MONSTERS, AND 'REAL' BAD GUYS
AT THE BORDERS OF PRAYER AND POETRY: AESTHETIC TURNS AND ETHICAL PRACTICE
RELIGIOUS MEDIATIONS AND RELATIONAL TRANSGRESSIONS
(DE)MATERIALIZING KINSHIP: RELATIONAL BORDERS AND TROUBLED CROSSINGS
COINING CURRENCIES: (RE)NEGOTIATING MONEY AND VALUE IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES
SELF, SUBJECT, AND SOCIETY: VIETNAM IN TRANSITION
HARVARD ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT RECEPTION
RE-ASSSESSING ETHNOGRAPHIC CLASSICS:  "OF 2 MINDS: THE GROWING DISCORD IN AMERICAN PSYCHIATRY" BY TANYA M. LUHRMANN
MAGDALENA DE CAO VIEJO: ARCHAEOLOGY & HISTORY IN EARLY COLONIAL PERU
ANTHROPOLOGY AND LITERARY ENGAGEMENTS: CROSSING BORDERS OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE WRITING
RED CROSS, RED CRESCENT, BLUE HELMETS: MEDICAL HUMANITARIANISM IN STATES OF EMERGENCY
ANTHROPOLOGIES OF JUSTICE: A POLICY ROUND TABLE
POLITICS OF THE 'PRECARIAT'
THE SUBSISTENCE ETHICS IN EAST ASIA
URBAN MOBILITIES: RHYTHMS, PACES, AND THE CITY
ANDEAN FRONTIERS, TEMPORAL BORDERS, ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERIPHERIES: THINKING IN THE MARGINS WITH FRANK SALOMON
THE SHIFTING BORDERS OF ISLAMIC TRADITIONS
STATE INTERVENTIONS AS BOUNDARY OBJECTS: OFFICIAL CATEGORIES AND CONTESTING PUBLICS IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA
MAKING SPACE PUBLIC IN AN AGE OF PRIVATIZATION: REPORTS FROM THE 21st CENTURY CITY
A Primate Perspective On the Evolution of Human Life History
Serendipitous Sculpture: Ethnography Does As Ethnography Goes
A Tribute to Sister President: HBCUs and Their Anthropological Legacies
Technologies of Representation: A Brief Reflection On Gang Violence
“Conversion” Narratives In the Socialization of Islamists and Liberal Muslims In Indonesia
Visualizing Trauma and the Psychiatric Imaginary In Postconflict Aceh
The Art of Wandering In the City: An Ethnographic Study of Itinerant Musicians and Street Peddlers In Kathmandu, Nepal
Circulation and Accumulation: Struggles for Power on the Mapuche Borderland
Maternicide and the Politics of Nation Building: The Indigenous Woman’s Body In Rural Guatemala
The Problem of Transcendence In Mediation: Santeria Ritual Videos and Multiple Mediations
In the Ashes of Genetically Modified Food, a Blue Rose: The Entanglement of Transgenic Life In Japan
Searching for Safe Food In Post-Fukushima Japan
Between Gentrification and Inclusion: "Urban Renovation" In Contemporary Bogotá, Colombia
“Poor Kids Are Doing Better At school”: Discourses about Relationships Between Socioeconomic Status and adolescents’ Academic Achievement In China and South Korea
CultureLab’: Blurring Boundaries Between Museum/Storage/Laboratory/Classroom At the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University
Historic Preservation As Gentrification: The Politics of Urban (Re)Development In the Lilong Neighborhoods In Shanghai
The Social Life of a Heroin Treatment: Tracing a “Licit” Drug from the Clinic to the Prisons
The Impact of Colonization: Population Health In the Early Colonial Reducción of Magdalena De Cao Viejo In Peru
Archaeology and History At Magdalena De Cao
Humanitarianism In Strong State Settings: Reflections On Work In Aceh, Indonesia
Humanitarian Encounters by Email In Post-Tsunami and Post-Conflict Aceh, Indonesia
The Indigenous of Cao and the Cao Canal In the Colonial Administrative Records
Biopassports for Border Control: The UK Human Provenance Project
Chinese Employers In Newcastle: A Mixed Story of Class, State and Globalization
Vignettes of Gay Sex Life From a Rio De Janeiro Favela: An Ethnographic Striptease
Gare Du Nord, a Contact Zone In Theory and Practice: Architectures of Exchange and Exception
From Cellar to Megamosque: New Swedish Sacred Spaces and the Right to Build
Shantytown Memories and the Precarious Past
“We Will Not Be Moving to Your Transit Camp Today”: Precarious Politics and Forced Evictions In Democratic South Africa
What Masks Reveal: Pet Players’ Interspecies Imagination and the Materialization of Affect
Badiu Dystopia: Urbanization and the Meaning of Blackness In Cape Verde
Reckoning Kinship Through Debt Forgiveness: microfinance and mortuary practice on the Paraguayan frontier
"Coming to Look Alike": Materializing Affinity In Japanese Foster and Adoptive Care
Is the Informal Economy a General-Purpose Machine?
Learning to Grow up: Adolescence, Maturity, and Schooling In Contemporary Rural China
Batres’ Legacy: The Teotihuacan Sun Pyramid As Central Place In the Centennial of Mexican Independence, and the Archaeology of State In Mexico
The Riot Refigured: Narrative Practice and the ‘Political’ Event At a Border Zone In the Middle of Paris
Negotiating Global Health Policy and Indigenous Rights: The Changing Roles of Maya Midwives In Guatemala
The Fast and the Idle: Paces and Sociality Among Motorcycle Taxi Drivers In Bangkok
Isolation As the Politics of Time: Cultural Sovereignty In Buddhist Siberia
Self and Subsistence In Vietnamese Hospital Environments
The Living Dead: Official Martyr Status, Obligation and the Afghan State
Delinking ‘Backwardness’ From Ritual Stigma: State Classification of Backward Classes and Muslim Politics of Representation
Causes, Categories, Case Studies: State-Sponsored Treatment and Research In the Production of the Bhopal Gas Survivor
Mediated Legalities and the Boundary Between the Village and the Forest
"Can You Just Tell Me, Is He Innocent or Guilty?"
The Raid by the Law: Responses to Imminent State Regulation In China’s Psycho-Boom
All Roads Lead to (and from) Cholula: Pilgrimage and Departure In the Mapa De Cuauhtinchan #2
Female Voice In Limbo
Moving Squarely to Design: Using Anthropology’s Tools to Understand, Then Improve, the College-Going Pathway for All
Medical Interpreting:  Crossing Language Borders In Diverse Institutional Contexts

TECHNOLOGIES OF CARING IN MEDICAL SETTINGS

THE WORK OF MEASUREMENT: METROLOGY AND THE MATTER OF POLITICS
“Thank God We’re Not a Nigerians”: Digital Mediation and Changing Modes of Language-Use In Ghanaian Hiplife Music
Consuming Citizenship: The Strange Life of the Prepaid Water Meter In Mumbai
Coping with Insecurity In the Hypersegregated US Inner City: Ethnographic Notes From Puerto Rican Philadelphia
Labor and Precariousness In China's Porcelain Capital

HEALTH TRAVELS: CUBAN HEALTH(CARE) ON THE ISLAND AND AROUND THE WORLD
Cuban Internacionalistas, Sports, and the Health of the “Socialist Body” In Cuba and Africa

The Hidden Costs of In-Patient Telemedicine Programs: An Ethnographic Economic Evaluation

Beyond Native America:  UC Berkeley Anthropology and the Philippines, 1901-60

ANTHROPOLOGY OF SECURITY/ SECURITY IN ANTHROPOLOGY
Re-Conceptualizing Security: Analytic Mapping of Anthropological Discourses on Security
A Yātrā As Virtuality: The Interiority of ‘Pilgrimage’ In the Western Himalaya

CREATIVITY ACROSS SEMIOTIC BORDERS
‘Play It Again, Sam’: The Semiotic Mediation of Creativity In a U.S. Collegiate Jazz Music Program
The Blind Spot In Anthropological Pedagogy: Readdressing Blindness and Gender
Mediations of Moralities:Inter-Subjectivity In Israeli Soldiers' Narratives of the Palestinian Uprising
The (In)Visibility of Angels: Practice, Experience and Cosmology In An Israeli Channeling Course

National Conflicts-Feminist Convergences: Palestinian-Jewish Cooperation In Training Volunteers for a Rape Crisis Center In Taibeh

Blurring In-Vivo/ In-Vitro Boundaries: The Extension of the Body In IVF Clinics In India

THE VIEW FROM GRASSROOTS TO GRIDS: THE AAA GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE TASK FORCE PRESENTS INSIGHTS ON CLIMATE CHANGE FROM BELOW
From Nature Conservation to Climate Governance: The Political Ecology of the German North Sea Coastline

Queer Life and the Right to the City: A Sexual Geography of Greater Beijing

THE BOUNDARIES OF SOCIALISM: EVERYDAY LIFE UNDER POST-LATE SOCIALISM
The Salt In the Sea and the Everyday Consumption of Vietnamese Coffee
Alcohol, Worldview, and Colonization In Highland Maya Guatemala

NEW SPEAKERS: THE SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF BOUNDARY CROSSING
New Speakers: Re-Interpreting the Local

Close-up Sophiatown. Reading a Suburb and a Myth In 2012

Local Society and the Fieldworker:  A Case Study of Campaign for Protecting the Mausoleum of Fakir Lalon Shah In Bangladesh

Reflections On a Comparative Study of the Korean Experience In Osaka and the African American Experience In Chicago, 1920-1945

NGOs and the Articulation of Desires In Bodhgaya, India

Intimate Authority and Sorcery On the Mweru-Luapula Fishery, Zambia

WHY UNIONS SHOULD MATTER TO ANTHROPOLOGY
COMMITTEE ON LABOR RELATIONS (CLR) COMMITTEE MEETING
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: African Americans and the Politics of the First Black President of the United States
The Materiality of Literacy: How the Semiotic Landscape of Homes and Communities Shape the Cultural Productions of Khmer Youth
Visual Representation, Repatriation, and Commercialization: A Photo Essay On Ethnography/Photography Projects in the Upper Xingu region of Brazilian Amazonia

Problems and Prospects for Post-Secondary Ainu Indigenous Educational Programs: “Borders” and “Crossings” In Tertiary Education and Museum Internships In Hokkaido, Japan
Traditional Beliefs or Rationality?: Organ Donation From Suicides

The Shifting Meanings of Race: African Diaspora Communities In China

A Culture of Revolution: Ethnography, History, and a Chinese Community In 1946-49

THE MELODRAMATIC POLITICS OF CAPITAL IN EAST ASIA: COMMERCIAL ADVERTISING AND AFFECT
Localmotion: Japanes Trains As Melodramatic Medium In Commercial Advertising

Community Health Workers and the Creation of Indicators for Quality Care In the Domincan Republic: The Imperative for Respect

Standing Upon the Shoulders of Giants: The Benefit of a Collaborative Research Partnership

“Chips or Carrots? We Eat Whatever We Can afford”: Coping with Food Insecurity Risk and the Specter of Chronic Disease Among Low-Income Latinos

SOCIETY FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES (SAS) BOARD MEETING
Revolutionary Overreach: Land Tenure and Rural Control Under Three Successive Ethiopian Regimes
Spatial and Climatological Analysis of Livestock-Related Violence In Northwest Kenya

STEPS TOWARD AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF AFFECT
Cosmology and Sentiment in an East African Pastoral Society

Censorship Inside and Out: Thinking, Boxes and Chinese Caricatures
The Social Relations of Laser Tag: An Anthropological Inquiry
Arcata Plaza Bar Culture
Mischief Managed: An Analysis of the Online Harry Potter Community
Identity Expression Through Sharing On Online Networks
Are You Connected? Exploring Social Dance Communications
Digital Agism and Sexism: An Anthropological Examination of Communication Technologies and Their Users

Convivial Relations Between Gender Non-Conformity and the French Nation-State

Roundtable Discussion On Borders, Materiality and Signification and Luncheon with Rozita Dimova (registration required)
CONFLICT AS BORDERING DEVICE IN TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS
(Forced) Migration In Present-Day Afghanistan
Melting Borders: Greece and Macedonia Between Neoliberal Arrangements and Individual Subversions

Walls, Windows and Thai Values: The Sociocultural Significance of Architectural Boundaries and Openings In Downtown Bangkok

EMMA GOLDMAN SALON- PREREGISTRATION REQUIRED

SOCIETY FOR LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY (SLA) BOARD MEETING
TRANSRACIALIZATION: RETHINKING LANGUAGE AND RACE IN LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
“Konyo” As Shifting Racial and Linguistic Figure In the Philippines