2012 Annual Meeting

TRANSGRESSING RESEARCH RELATIONSHIPS: MOVING DANGEROUSLY OR EXPLORING ALTERNATIVE MODES OF FEMINIST PRACTICE?

CITIZENSHIP AGAINST THE GRAIN
AESTHETICS, POLITICS, AND RELIGION: THE ROLE OF (PERFORMING) ARTS IN THE ARAB UPRISINGS
Bad Boys: Articulating Defiant Citizenships In Amsterdam

The Street As a Stage: Music and Islamic Activism In the Moroccan Arab Spring
Aesthetics, Politics, and Religion: The Role of (performing) Arts In the Arab Uprising. An Introduction

EMBEDDED ANTHROPOLOGY: TRAVERSING THE ACADEMY OUTSIDE OF THE DISCIPLINE

EMBEDDED ANTHROPOLOGY: TRAVERSING THE ACADEMY OUTSIDE OF THE DISCIPLINE

TIME AND THE OTHER: POLITICS OF CULTURAL OTHERS, STUDY “ABROAD,” AND GOING HOME (EVENTUALLY)
Contradictory Concepts of Time On a Study Abroad Program In South India
Learning Different Culture Through Immersion: Compartmentalized Time, (Im)Mobility, and Cultural Others In Study Abroad

Chop Suey and Refried Beans: Transnational Food Identity Among Mexicans and Guatemalan Restaurant Workers

Mitigating Risk While Supporting Livelihoods:  An Examination of Migration and Agricultural Endeavors In Eastern Guatemala

THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF BUDDHISM AND THE BUDDHISM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: CROSSING THE BORDERS BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE
DISRUPTIVE SUBJECTS: PROTEST, CITIZENSHIP, AND BELONGING
CROSSINGS FROM PAST TO PRESENT: STOCKING SYMPOSIUM IN THE HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE
Spectacular Compassion As Necropolitics: State-Led Mourning After the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake
Sacred Speakers, Profane Land: Individualist Christians, Dividualist Villages, and the Translation of the Guhu-Samane Language
The Phantom, the Sovereign, and the Militant: Theopolitics and Post-Communism

ISLAM/RELIGION IN THE NEOLIBERAL AGE: CONFLICTS AND AFFINITIES
Exploring Cultural Philosophy: Another Way of Knowing
Charity and the New Neo-Moral Order: Neoliberalism and Charitable Citizenship In Contemporary Turkey

Crisis On the Mountain and In the City: Roj-TV and the Kurdish Community In Europe

CROSSING BORDERS, BREAKING BOUNDARIES: FORGING TRANSNATIONAL INDIGENEITIES IN THE 21st CENTURY

ETHICS PRACTICUM:  A PRACTICAL CONVERSATION

Making Breath Visible: Polarized Care In Late Industrialism
Local Experiences with Fertility Preservation Technologies: Comparing the Cases of the United States, Puerto Rico, and Argentina

CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY AND ANTHROPOLOGY: CROSSING MULTIPLE BORDERS AND SCALES

THE ROLE OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN DISASTER JAPAN: RESPONSES TO THE 3/11 EARTHQUAKE AND THE FUKUSHIMA ACCIDENT

Water In Rural Bangladesh: Governance and Social Issues

CERAMIC ECOLOGY XXVI: CURRENT CERAMIC RESEARCH 2012
Five Decades of Classic Teotihuacan Period Ceramic Studies: Where We Were, Where We Are, and Where We Need to Go

GENDER, CITIZENSHIP AND KINSHIP
“Women Parks”: Engendering Urban Spaces and Social Life In Iran

THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION
ECOBIOPOLITICS TODAY II: ECOBIOPOLITICS OF HEALTH
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AND BEYOND: IN CELEBRATION OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF EUROPE
THINK Technoecobiopolitics: Reflecting On the Emerging Political Ecology of IBM's "Smarter Planet" Mission
The Cultural Politics of Family, Revisited: Mixtec Women Re-Imagining Family and Progress In Neoliberal Mexico

Xenophilia In Cape Town, South Africa: New Potentials for Race Relations

QUEERING BORDERS: SEXUALITY, MIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP
THE THINGS THAT THEY CARRY:  SIGNS, SIGNIFICANCE, AND SEMIOSIS ACROSS BORDERS
ENERGOPOWER AND BIOPOWER IN A TIME OF TRANSITIONS
(IM)POSSIBILITIES OF JUSTICE:  RETHINKING SEXUAL VIOLENCE, LAW, AND THE POLITICS OF VISIBILITY IN THE AMERICAS
WHY UNIONS SHOULD MATTER TO ANTHROPOLOGY
TRANSPARENCY, OCCLUDED: ETHNOGRAPHY IN AND BEYOND NEOLIBERALISM
COMMITTEE ON LABOR RELATIONS (CLR) COMMITTEE MEETING
ATTENTIONAL ECONOMIES OF WAR
DOES ANYBODY HAVE A PLAN? ON PLANNING SPACES, TEMPORALITIES AND SELVES
The Contemporary Temporalization of Contemporary Temporalization: Toward a Second-Order Ecology of Scenario Planning
Cuba, Haiti, and the Apolitical Revolutionaries: Cuban Medical Aid In Port-Au-Prince
In Praise of Useless Design
Energopower: An Introduction
Energy Sovereignty, Climatological Altruism and the End of Oil
The Paradigm Shift of Holistic Obstetricians: Brazil's "Good Guys and Girls"
Sippin’ Purple Drank In Hueston and Harlem: Trans-Modal Textures That Shape Borders Between Hip Hop "scenes”
Barspoons and Jiggers: Interactionary Expertise within Craft Bartending
Pious Ecumenical Islam?: Hizb Ut-Tahrir In Central Asia and Beyond
The Partially Examined Semi-Life: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Bioart Expertise
See How the Blood De Run: Creole Women, Sexual Violence, and the Politics of Silence On the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua
Resituating Awareness: Practices of Attention In Unmanned Aviation
Disclosure and (In)Visibility: Acoustic Navigation of the Gender/Sexuality Border In Houston Transmen
Negotiating Corporate Boundaries: Responsible and Sustainable Business in Ireland
Gender, Academic Blogging, and Virtual Ethnography
The Good Husbander: Traditionalism and Ethics In the Contemporary American West
"Que Bonito!": The Transposition of U.S. Queer of Color Photographic Calendars and Affect Among Lesbicas Negras In Salvador-Bahia
Our Sea of Protected Areas: The Cook Islands Marine Park and the Emergence of Large-Scale Marine Spatial Planning In the Pacific and Beyond
Social Categorization and Levels of Awareness: A Cross-Disciplinary Study

Crossing Cultural Borders to Return to One's Roots: African-Caribbeans' Search for Healing From and Meaning of Schizophrenia

Cryo-Micropolitics: Encounters During a Neurosuspension

SPACE AND RELATIONSHIPS: RETHINKING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Satellite Paleoecology In Oaxaca, Mexico: Hyperspectra Satellite Imagery and the Study of Ancient Human-Environmental Interactions

BARE BONES: CIVIL WAR AND MEMORY POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY SPAIN
Spirit and Matter In Nigerian Politics:  the Aesthetic and Rhetoric of Political Sense
Towards An Evenemential Anthropology: Moments of Engagement In An Anthropological History of Colonialism

Accessing Mexican Medical Care: The Dilemma of Difference

Tourism As Border Crossing: Amphur Fang As a Nexus of Thai Identity

TRANSPARENCY, OCCLUDED: ETHNOGRAPHY IN AND BEYOND NEOLIBERALISM
THE JOURNAL FOR UNDERGRADUATE ETHNOGRAPHY
Participant
Papering Over the State: Anticipating Property Regularization In Rural Amazonia

Morocco: Disrupting the Arab Spring
Engaging Culture: Collaborative Ethnography As a Model for Service-Learning

Addressing Socio-Political Impediments to Health Care Access for Diverse Latin American Immigrants

Hierarchical Relations In Inter-Ethnic Interactions Between Native Andeans and Bilingual Health Workers

BEYOND REPATRIATION: FORGING COLLABORATION AMONG INDIGENOUS AND NON-INDIGENOUS MUSEUMS AND COMMUNITIES

SOCIETY FOR CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (SCA) INTERN PROGRAM MEETING

Inverted Heresy and the Rhetoric of True Islam: Java’s Nine Saints In Contemporary Popular Literature

MULTISPECIES INTRA-ACTIONS
Multispecies Intra-Actions

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

Secularism, Islamism and the Politics of Culture In Contemporary Morocco

PATRONAGE AND THE TERRITORIALIZATION OF NEOLIBERAL RULE: ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNMENTALITIES IN THE CONTRACT STATE
Replacing Patronage? Neoliberal Forestry and the Liberation of Environmental Subjects In Kenya

AAA EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING
CONSUMING CITIES: CHANGING CONSUMERISMS AND THE URBAN PROCESS
FROM ETHNOGRAPHIC SURVEILLANCE TO CULTIVATED KINSHIP: METHODOLOGICAL TENSIONS AND RESEARCH POSSIBILITIES WITH IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXT
ANTHROPOLOGICAL COMMUNICATION COMMITTEE (ACC)
SENSING THE POLITICAL: MATERIALITY, AESTHETICS, AND EMBODIMENT
ANTHROPOLOGY OF SECURITY/ SECURITY IN ANTHROPOLOGY
CIVIC LEARNING THAT CROSSES BORDERS: CRITICAL INQUIRY WITH YOUTH ACROSS SETTINGS AND MODALITIES
CREATIVITY ACROSS SEMIOTIC BORDERS
AFFECT, DESIRE, AND ASPIRATIONS IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY
EVOLUTIONARY INSIGHTS INTO CHILDHOOD, PARENTING, AND COOPERATION
THE VIOLENCE OF EMBODIED BORDER-CROSSING
CROSSING FROM ABANDONMENT TO HOPE: TRANSFORMATIONS IN PRACTICES OF CARE
ANTHROPOLOGIES OF JUSTICE: A POLICY ROUND TABLE
DISRUPTIVE SUBJECTS: PROTEST, CITIZENSHIP, AND BELONGING
ENDURING IN THE VERGE: BEING WITH OTHERS IN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE SOCIAL
GLOBALIZATION'S CHILDREN: BECOMING CITIZENS BETWEEN AND BEYOND NATIONS
STIGMA, GRIEVANCE, AND EMPOWERMENT: THE LABOR MOVEMENT AT THE BOUNDARIES
REMOTE AND EDGY: NEW TAKES ON OLD ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEMES
Indurable Sociality: Precarious Life In Common and the Temporal Boundaries of the Social
Sites of Disruption: The Politics of Body and Memory In Jewish Buenos Aires
Sexceptionalism: Law, Religion, and French Sovereignty
Space, Sovereignty, and Ecopolitics At the ‘Doorway to the Amazon’
Generosity without Debt, Part 2:  Need-Based Transfers In a Risk-Pooling Game
Generosity without Debt, Part 1:  Computational Models of Risk Pooling Through Need-Based Transfers
Social Learning Strategies of Cultural Evolution When Observed Payoff Is Uncertain
Why Evolutionary Psychology Cannot Be True
"We Eat Meat Every Day:" Ecology and Economy of Dietary Change Among Oaxacan Migrants From Mexico to New Jersey
Laughter Amid Existential Anxiety: Thinking with Ivan In a Cancer Ward
Earning Your Living In a Sea of Change
La Carta De Responsabilidad: The Problem of Departure
Accidental Humanitarianism and Its Politics: Migrant Deaths and Rescue Practices In the Arizona-Mexico Border
Manliness, Affect Management, and the City: Bracketed Intimacies In An Urban Bodybuilding Gym
The Body Sovereign?: Some Thoughts On Knowing and the Body In the Athabascan Oil Sands
Research Meets Pedagogy Meets Action: Untangling the Methods, Claims and Purposes of Youth Participatory Action Research
Rewriting the Script: Palestinian American Youth and the Narrative Quest for Inclusion
What's So Normal about Privatized Public Sex?: The Power of Located Accountabilities In Considering Grindr
“Do You Want Peace Now or Peace Here?”: Making and Unmaking of Peace Among Jewish Settlers and Palestinians In the Occupied West Bank
"It Makes My Heart Sore": Pilfering and Paternalism On a South African Border Farm
Unruliness As Grievance Procedure: Vietnamese Workers In 1980s State-Socialist Czechoslovakia
Mapping Bodies, Mapping Cities: Queer Geographies of Desire In Mexico City
Displays of Personal Adornment and Body Art by Nineteenth Century Lakota (Sioux) Tribes: A Costly Signaling Model
Sowing the Seeds of Change: An Anthropological Perspective of Food Movements & Eating As a Form of Social Resistance

Comedy, Satire, Sincerity? Activisms and the Cultural Politics of Wealth In America

ANTHROPOLOGIES OF JUSTICE: A POLICY ROUND TABLE
Revisiting Andeanism. Anthropology, Cultural Politics and Politics of Memory In Post-Conflict Peru

RESEARCH FRONTIERS IN THE STUDY OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN AFRICA - ORGANIZED BY ACYIG
Keeping Their Children by Sending Them ‘Home’: The Transnational Parenting Strategies of Ghanaian Migrants

HEATING UP: VIOLENCE, VOLATILITY, AND HISTORICAL SUBJECTIVITY IN U.N. BIOSPHERE RESERVES
The Clandestination of Men: Threat and Secrecy In the Mananara-Nord Biosphere Reserve, Madagascar

Understanding Chinese and Taiwanese Immigrant Family Educational Experiences: Toward a Thorough Cultural Analysis of Their College-Preparation Process

Relational Leverage In the Reentry of Mentally Disordered Offenders

ACTIVISMS
DEBATING THE FUTURE OF FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGIES: A GLOBAL CONVERSATION
Justice Through Remembrance: Community Mobilization In the Wake of South Africa’s Decade of Dissent
Generosity without Debt, Part 1:  Computational Models of Risk Pooling Through Need-Based Transfers
Imagining the ‘Domestic’: Rethinking National Boundaries Through Engagements with Paid Domestic Employment
Reduced Emissions From Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) As Global Governmentality In Vietnam

SENSING THE POLITICAL: MATERIALITY, AESTHETICS, AND EMBODIMENT
Theorizing the Sensuous Political: Intersubjectivity and Everyday Progressive Politics In Marseille