2016 Annual Meeting

THE NGOIZATION OF RELIGION: RITUAL, REPRESENTATION, AND DEVELOPMENT
SOCIETY FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA (SANA) BOARD MEETING
INTERSECTIONS, POLICIES, AND POLITICS: EXPLORING THE INFLUENCE OF SANDRA MORGEN
An Ambivalent Jewishness:  Half Shabbos, the Shabbos App, and Modern Orthodoxy
NGOs and Their Gods: Competing Meanings of Religion, Human Rights, & Slavery in Southeastern Ghana
Wild Man Among the Ruins and Other Monstrous Tropes
The Social Network of US Academic Anthropology

UNDERSTANDING THE MAKING OF SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE: FOSTERING CROSS SUB-DISCIPLINARY CONVERSATION ON THE POLITICS OF FORENSIC PRACTICES.
The Politics of Evidence: Spanish Forensic Exhumations and the Scientific Proof of Democracy

EVIDENCE AND PROOF: POLITICS IN PALESTINE AND ANTHROPOLOGY
THE ANTHROPOCENE AS ACCUMULATION STRATEGY
DISCOVERING WORK
POST-GENOMIC CONSTITUTIONS: LAW, SCIENCE AND THE POLITICS OF INCLUSION
SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (SMA) BOARD MEETING
Rock Art As Indigenous Counter-Archive in Eighteenth Century New Mexico

EVIDENCE OF MALFEASANCE
Evidentiary Excess, Evidentiary Deficit: Inflation Rates, Banal Illegitimacy, and Monetary Instability

AAA SECTION TREASURER'S MEETING
AMERICAN ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY (AES) BOARD MEETING
TEACHING ANTHRO
THE 2016 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: ANTHROPOLOGISTS REFLECT ON WHAT JUST HAPPENED

'Making Development Happen' for Whom? Jamaica's Urban Development Corporation as a Site of Contestation

RISKY INTIMACIES ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
‘Off of E, I Try to Pretend I’m Enjoying It’: The Role of Ecstasy (MDMA) in Managing Intimacy and Conflict in Long-Term Relationships

Reading Accidents in a Divinatory Tradition
Equity, Inequality and Biocultural Anthropology: Challenging Assumptions in Health Inequalities Research

AAA SECTION TREASURER'S MEETING
ANTHROPOLOGISTS OF COLOR IN DIVERSITY LEADERSHIP ROLES ON CAMPUS
LESSONS ON RACE, POWER, AND PRIVILEGE AT PREDOMINANTLY WHITE INSTITUTIONS CO-ORGANIZERS AUDREY ELEGBEDE, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, LA CROSSE AND JENNIFER ESPERANZA, BELOIT COLLEGE
“Where Do We Draw the Line?”: Preservice Teachers’ Constructions of Trans* and Gender-Creative Identities

National and Anti National Evidence in India

Social Justice Values in Psychodynamic Social Work: Reflections on Research

ASSOCIATION FOR AFRICANIST ANTHROPOLOGY (AFAA) BOARD MEETING
AAA SECTION TREASURER'S MEETING
Imagined Communities, Imaginative Zones:  Raising Professional Class Urbanites in Between Globalized Imaginaries, Local Communities, and Material Practices

NAPA WORKSHOP: Being the Anthropologist: Successfully Using Mixed Methods in Applied Work

LIVING AND DYING WITH WASTE INFRASTRUCTURES: AFFECTS AND PRACTICES
War Machine Waste: Reusing and Reimagining American Naval Vessels

YES, WE’RE OPEN! NEW EVIDENCE, ACCIDENTS, AND DISCOVERIES THROUGH COLLABORATIVE ETHNOGRAPHY OF PLACE-MAKING IN BROOKLYN
ARTICULATING DIFFERENCES, GENERATING POSTSOCIALISM: WOMEN AND CLASS AFTER MAO
PRIZE-WINNING ETHNOGRAPHY AS EVIDENCE OF NEW DIRECTIONS IN EUROPEANIST ANTHROPOLOGY
SOCIETY FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF EUROPE (SAE) BOARD MEETING
KEYWORDS FOR IMAGING STUDIES IN MEDICINE AND LIFE SCIENCES
CAFE EUROPA: SAE 2016 GRADUATE PAPER COMPETITION
SOCIETY FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF EUROPE (SAE) BUSINESS MEETING
POWER AND INTEGRATION: THE POLITICS OF ENERGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE IN EUROPE
RE-IMAGINING LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE
OFFSHORE ECONOMIES: NEW MARKETS, NEW PRESSURES, NEW QUESTIONS
CHALLENGING ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE 21st CENTURY: REFLECTIONS ON METHOD, PRACTICE, AND THEORY
Language Revitalization in an Embattled Veneto, Northern Italy
Is Drinking Tea a Dietary Adaptation? Tea, Iron, and Infection Among Children in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Race and the Politics of Educational Exclusion: Explaining the Persistence of Disproportionate Disciplinary Practices in an Urban School District
“It Sucks to be a Boy on His Period”: Language Ideologies, “Women’S” Health, & Trans* Communities
Integrative Currents? Electrifying Turkey-EU Relations in Time of Blackout
Engendering Aixin: Philanthropy and Gendered Practices of Compassion in Postsocialist China
Steel Walls to Divide US: Experiencing the U.S. Border Wall in Ambos Nogales
On Constructing Failure: Youth Analyses from Swat Valley, Pakistan
Gendered Movement: Changes in Ceramic Technology at Cerro De Trincheras, Sonora, Mexico
Monuments, Memorializations, and Ethnicity at Saratoga and Gettysburg
Being Both inside and Outside the EU: Ignoring, Praising and Criticizing the European Union to Promote National Independence in Greenland

EVIDENCE AND PROOF: POLITICS IN PALESTINE AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Knowledge Makes Itself Known: Will, Choice, and Action in Indigenous Plains Peoples' Ontologies

FACING CLIMATE CHANGE: RISK, RESILIENCE, AND RESPONSE
Revising Ceramic Chronology at El Peru-Waka’
Has the Town Has Been Taken?: Scattered, Torn, and Radioactive Remains of Property and Place
Oral Histories of Ecological and Economic Change in Franklin City, and Greenbackville, Virginia

Oral Histories of Ecological and Economic Change in Franklin City, and Greenbackville, Virginia
“Don’t Want to Bother Them with My Troubles”: Home-Delivered Meals and Social Marginalization

ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE PUBLIC: A WENNER-GREN 75th ANNIVERSARY PANEL

THE EVIDENCE OF POWER: LAW, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND VISIBILITY
The Evidence of Betrayal: Law, Accountability, and the Ethics of State Building in Postsocialist Poland

EVIDENCE AND DISCOVERY IN EVOLUTIONARY DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH
Regional Effects of Demographic Transition: The Interrelationship Between Education and Wealth on Fertility Decisions
The Role of Media Exposure on Fertility Decline in Bolivia
Secondary and Tertiary Interhousehold Food Distributions: Investigation of Evolutionary Hypotheses in a Stochastic Environment

THE DIALECTICS OF POWER AND POINTS OF ESCAPE: REFUGEES, UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANTS, AND SURVIVORS
Disarming a Weaponized Desert: An Intimate and Engaged Ethnography of the Migrant Trail

EMANCIPATORY FRAMES IN CROSS-CULTURAL LEARNING: ANTHROPOLOGISTS, INTERCULTURALISTS, ESTRANGEMENT

ASSOCIATION FOR FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGY (AFA) BUSINESS MEETING
DISCOVERING THE CULTURE OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR: THE INFLUENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF STEPHEN F. GUDEMAN PART ONE
Mis/Recognition in Israel’s Mental Health Settings : The Interplay of the Political and the Therapeutic
Caring for the Mother: Evolutionary Foundations of Doula Support and Its Contemporary Role in Northeastern U.S. Hospital Settings
Returning Identities to “Nature:” Technology, Biology, and Transcendence in French Secular Understandings of Race and Sex
Ethnographic Inquiry in a Quantitative World
Affective Inscriptions: Managing Bereavement by Framing a Moral Death through Written Object-Signs in Vietnam
The Reconfiguration of Islamic Gender Discourse through Female Religious Authority: The Case of Rifaiyye Sufi Order in Turkey
Listening to the Politics of Survival in Post-3.11 Japan
“Therefore I Am Made Indifferent”: Morality and Agency Among University Students in China
Understanding Precarity in the Face of Urban Transformation: A Case of Urban Displacement of Doormen in Istanbul
Continuity amid Crisis in Masculinity: The Boda-Boda of Gulu Town

PARTICIPATORY DESIGN RESEARCH: ANTHROPOLOGICAL EVIDENCE AND THE STUDY OF LEARNING IN SOCIAL CHANGE MAKING

“Dangerous, Important Work.” -- the Effects of Anti-Abortion Attacks on Clinic Workers’ Sense of Safety, Identity and Institutional Memory.
Through the Lens of Exploitation: Landscapes of Care for Survivors of Human Trafficking
Structures of Risk: Lived Experiences with HIV/HCV Syndemics in the Boston Area

The Impact of Stigma on Access to Mental Health Care Services Among Rural Veterans

AAA SECTION TREASURER'S MEETING
ECOLOGIES, ENVIRONMENTS AND RIGHTS
CAFE EUROPA: "EAST TO THE RIGHT, WEST TO THE LEFT". ROUNDTABLE WITH KRISTEN GHODSEE
AAA SECTION ASSEMBLY MEETING
SOCIETY FOR HUMANISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY (SHA) BOARD MEETING
CONVERTING CITIZENS, CONVERTING KIN: NEW ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES
SOCIETY FOR HUMANISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY (SHA) MEMBER'S MEETING AND AWARDS CEREMONY
CONFRONTING INEQUALITY: METHODS, EVIDENCE, POWER
Literary Ethnography: Interrogating the Boundaries Between Fiction and ‘Faction’
On the Sovereignty of Erased Islands

Voice Lessons:  Identity and Voice Loss in Singers’ Lives

COLLECTIVITY IN TIMES OF POLITICAL PRECARITY
TERRITORY, KNOWLEDGE, MOTION: MATERIALS AND POLITICS ON THE MOVE
PROBLEMATIZING SCALE, CONSTITUTING NEW REGIONS AND REGIONALISMS IN ANTHROPOLOGY
Being Single: Gendered Identities, Class Mobilities, and Personhoods in Flux
“I’d Chain Myself to the Cage!”: Law, Chimpanzees, and Postcolonial Care in Cameroon
Imagining Sustainable Infrastructure: European Perceptions in the Green Bond Market
A Clash of Homely Imaginations: The Marriage House in Post-Reform China
The Political Economy of Plants:  the Place of Botanical Things in Mintz's Anthropology
Long Day’s Journey into Night: The Twilight of Academic Adolescence in the Shadow of Precarity
Of Model Plants and Players: Quinoa Conservation and the Politics of Experimental Games in Southern Peru
Reconfiguring Visions of Inevitable Maternity: Incorporating Infertility into Understandings of Womanhood
Ephemeral Collectivity of Political Captives: Courtroom As a Space of Action in Turkey
From the Lecture Hall to the Bars? on Promoting Anthropology through Lectures and Digital Media You Can Take Outside of the Classroom
Wardens of the “Cloud”: Indexical Masculinity and the Linguistic Circuits of ‘Professional Vision’ in the Data Center

SOVEREIGNTY AND REBELLION, AGENCY AND CONTEXT: MAKING SENSE OF THE HMONG DIASPORA (THROUGH ENGAGEMENTS WITH THE WORK OF NICHOLAS TAPP)
(Dys)Recognition and the Formation of Subjects Across the Scales of Time
Toward a Recognition Theory of Latin@ Teacher Identities
The Goddess of Broken Promises: Ambivalence and Transformatipn in a South Indian Village
The Ancestors Don’t Live in Hell: On a Hmong Ethnoepistemology of Believing and Other Forms of Knowing
Threads to Break; Threads to Bind: Embidoment, Ritual Among the Hmong

POST-SOCIALIST DISPOSSESSIONS: REFLECTIONS ON THE MATERIAL AND SYMBOLIC IMPACT OF NEOLIBERALISM IN FORMERLY SOCIALIST STATES
Dispossessed Pensioners: The Material and Social Impact of Romania’s Transformation to Neoliberal Capitalism upon Working-Class Retirees

ANTHROPOLOGICAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE (ACC) MEETING
AAA EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING PART 1
GLOBAL HEALTH: EVIDENCE AND DISCOVERY IN UNDERGRADUATE ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH
AAA EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING PART 2
FROM A BACK ROW: PROCESSES OF INSTITUTIONALIZATION AND THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF LIFE
ACCIDENTAL IMPACTS, UNEXPECTED TENSIONS:  ICONIZED FORMS IN PROJECTS OF LANGUAGE STANDARDIZATION
DEVELOPMENT, EMPOWERMENT, AND WOMEN AS AGENTS-OF-CHANGE
If Pigs Have Passports, Too: Documents As Institutionalizing Agents
Accidental Debt: Women, Neoliberalism, and Microfinance Catastrophes in South Asia
The Rohingya Refugee Crisis: Examining Health Care Access for Settlers in Bangladesh
Examining Health through Global Brigades in Rural Nicaragua: Neoliberal Neglect and Nepotism
Discovery of Gonoshasthya Kendra – Evidence of a Successful Primary Health Care Model

BLANK FACES
LEGACIES OF GROWTH, TRACES OF CAPITAL: BRAZIL TODAY
INTERROGATING "DEMOCRATIC" POLICING: POLICE REFORMS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
AAA SECTION TREASURER'S MEETING
Deep Displacement: Excavating the History of Forced Migration and Forced Resettlement (Part 1)
DRUGS, COLONIALITY, AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
SOCIETY FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF EUROPE (SAE) BOARD MEETING
GENDERED INTERVENTIONS: CARING THROUGH DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICAL MOBILIZATION
SOCIETY FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF EUROPE (SAE) BUSINESS MEETING
EVIDENCE IN NATIONAL SECURITY SPACES
MEDIA AS EVIDENCE AND OBJECT: POLITICS AT THE INTERSECTION OF METHOD AND ANALYSIS
DISCOVERY AND EVIDENCE IN THE POLICY LANDSCAPE: IMPLEMENTATION, TRANSLATION, AND SCALE-MAKING
THE BOUNDARIES OF BALANCE
SOVEREIGNTY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
ANTHROPOLOGY NEWS CONTRIBUTING EDITOR AND COLUMNIST MEETING
Displacement in Real Time:Contemporary Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration (Part 2)
Palestinian Refugees from Syria: The Kafala system and New Formations of Jordanian State Power
Working Against the Erasure of Evidence: Revolutionary Doctors in Egypt
How Plants Think: About Gordon Wasson, for Example
"White Slaves" in the Caribbean and the Politics of Historical Suffering
Forced Resettlement and Governmentlity in Spanish Colonial Latin America: Comparative Approaches from Peru and New Spain
Research with Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps and Basij Paramilitary Organization: Negotiating Access, Gathering Evidence, and Attempting Distance 
Dima Had to Live and then Had to Die: Sovereignty, Citizenship, and the Addict’s Right to Health in Ukraine
The 'Court Marriage' Misnomer: Litigating for Love in North India
The Land in Gorkhaland: On the Edges of Belonging in Darjeeling, India
Re-Placing the Sovereign in Food Sovereignty
Now, Later or Never: Childfree or Childless in Post-Socialist Hungary
We Can Only be Healthy If We Love Ourselves: HIV/AIDS, Queer NGOs, and Alternative Families of Care in China
When the Stakes Are High: Political Organizing and Refugee Assistance Amongst Eritrean Exiles in Bologna, Italy
Masculinity and Engagement with AIDS Care in Nigeria
A Sensorial Archaeology of Forced Migration in the Mediterranean
Militarizing the Crisis: Effects of Military Equipment on U.S. Law Enforcement
Franz Boas and the Making of “Modern Nahuatl”
The Fraught Intersection of Security and Rights: Police Reform and Favela Activism in Rio De Janeiro
Collaborating with a Primary Health Care Clinic to Improve the Services for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Coloring for Baby: Art and Therapy in a Perinatal Mood Disorder Clinic
“HIV Is My Blessing”: Sickness As Salvation Among Haitians Living with HIV in South Florida
The Gendered Racist Logic of Black Dispossession in Brazilian Cities
Holding: Growth, Permanence, and the Afterlives of Capital in Rural Brazil
The Essence of Being a Militant: Oil-Sponsored Quilombola Activism in Brazil’s Campos Basin
Compliance, Time, and the Politics of Academic Identity in Ecuador’s University Reform
Cochlear Implants and Codas:  the Impact of a Technology on a Community
Telling Stories in Times of Transformation: Anthropological Engagements with the South African Student Movement
Her Arms: Veteran Femininity after Combat Exclusion
Breastfeeding, Breast-Pumping, and Milk Sharing: Resisting Dependency through Milk Solidarity in Cabo Verde
Drinking the Bitter Root: Neoliberal Criminal Justice, Ethnic Identity, and the Role of European Capital in the Rehabilitation of Ex-Prisoners in Gulu, Northern Uganda
“We Are Very Friendly, but They Never Greet Us!”: Chinese Migrant Entrepreneurs, (Refused) Greetings and the Interpersonal Ethics of Global Inequality in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania
Thinking Beyond the State’s Risk Management Measures: Infrastructures of Care Among Poor Drug Users in Tehran
Sofia Campos Teixeira and Claudia Jones: Imagining a Conversation Between Two Black Activists on Race, Class and Gender
Among Hundred Good Virtues Filial Piety Is the First: Contemporary Moral Discourses on Filial Piety in Urban China
Anthropology, State-Craft and ‘Geo-Politics’ in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Opium for the Masses

NGO As Middlemen: An Ethnographic Study of Tuberculosis Access and Care in Southern Ghana

Extraction, Reversed? Small Business and Surprises of Scale from Africa to China

INFRASTRUCTURE AND/AS ETHICS, PART II
ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO SOCIAL WORK AND COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY
SOCIETY FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY BOARD MEETING
(RE)DISCOVERING “PERSONHOOD” IN THE ANDES: HOW EVIDENCE REVEALS SHIFTING METHODOLOGICAL GROUNDS
A VISIT TO THE CHARLES BABBAGE INSTITUTE: INTO THE CAVERNS OF COMPUTING HISTORY WITH THE COMMITTEE FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND COMPUTING (CASTAC)
SOCIETY FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY BUSINESS MEETING AND RECEPTION
The Environmental Avant-Garde: An Aesthetic-Political Analysis of Landscape Modeling in Brazilian Amazonia
Calibrating Play: Speed, Infrastructure, and Ethics in South Korea's Information Society
Underground and Far Away: Seismicity, Knowledge, and Territory in Mexican Civil Protection
The Politicization of Psychologization: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Peer Refusal!
How to Interview Rocks, Potatoes, and the Wind
Language-and-Culture Talk Among the Oglala Lakota

East of Salinas

East of Salinas

THE GENDERING OF HIV MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN AFRICA
Proximity, Place, and Performance: Cultivating Talent in Japanese Women’s Soccer
“She Told Me, ‘I’m HIV Negative’ … so, I Knew That I Was [HIV] Negative:” Stigma, Gender, and the Politics of HIV Testing in Western Kenya