Dialogue

On Anthropology and US Security/Intelligence

Reflecting Back on a Year of Debate With the Ad Hoc Commission
Paul Nuti interviews Kerry Fosher, a member of the AAA Ad Hoc Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology With the US Security & Intelligence communities as the commission prepares its final report for the AAA Executive Board.

Notes on an Ethnographic Scandal: Seymour Hersh, Abu Ghraib and The Arab Mind
Laura A McNamara argues that American anthropologists should be far more empirically informed about interrogation and detention in the Global War on Terrorism.

Engendering Anthropology

Methodological Gifts in Latina/o Studies and Feminist Anthropology
Gina M Perez traces the profound influence of Puerto Rican feminist ethnographers on her development from the time she was a graduate student.

Black Feminist Anthropology for the 21st Century
Cheryl Rodriguez locates herself and others squarely in Black feminist anthropology, an area of scholarship that engages experience across race and gender.

Emotional Baggage in the Chain of Care
Martin F Manalansan IV critiques gender and migration studies that rely on conventional notions of the politics of care and notes some innovative scholarship that goes beyond received wisdom.

Language and Social Justice

Persuading by Case Helps Everyone From Losing Face: An Example for Convincing Others to Take Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice Seriously Alexandra Jaffe

In Focus

Conflict Resolution and Anthropology

Overview of Peace and Conflict Resolution Study and Practice
Mark Davidheiser provides some background to help orient readers with the different terms and approaches used within the field of conflict resolution.

Conflicts of Gendered Family Law in Puerto Rico
Yanira Aleman uses individual narratives to illustrate realities that do not fit within guiding legislative endeavors dealing with Puerto Rican family law.

Peaceful Societies Today News, Reviews and Clues Bruce Bonta

Where Knowledge Becomes Powerful in Conflict Resolution Policymaking
An anthropology of workshop culture. Christopher Timura

Conflict Resolution vs Human Rights
Although difficult, research shows it is essential to consider peace and justice together. Sally Engle Merry

Association Business

Meet the Board

The Good Problem of Inclusion: An Interview With Monica Heller
Stacy Lathrop interviews Monica Heller, who holds the linguistic seat on the AAA Executive Board.

Meet the Staff: Jennifer Steffensen, Oona Schmid

Justice for All?

Life Stories, Grassroots Activism, Theatrical Performance
Anu Yadav, an award-winning writer, educator and performer will present an excerpt from her one-woman play Capers, which was developed from the stories of families living within housing projects in SE Washington DC 's Anacostia neighborhood. Faye Harrison

RACE Are We So Different?

AAA RACE Project Wins Awards
Since its debut in January 2007, the AAA RACE project has received three national awards and one national nomination.
Mary Margaret Overbey

AAA 2006 Audit Report

Field Notes

Notes From Hollywood: Little Miss Sunshine Finds Its Way
The conclusion of a 2-part series based on a project on the independent film movement that has radically changed the American movie environment since it started in the late 1980s. Sherry Ortner

Academic Affairs

Food for Thought at Indiana University Anthropology
The anthropology department at Indiana University will begin offering a PhD in the anthropology of food beginning in the fall semester of 2007. Eduardo S Brondizio, Richard Wilk

Public Affairs

Death and Denial
A preliminary comparative study of genocide. Peter Van Arsdale, Mellissa Jessen, Nicole Hawthorne, Kellie Ramirez, Cathy Smith

Memories of a Friend in the Field: Justice for Pepe, Justice for Guatemala
Victoria Sanford contextualizes the assassination of a friend in Guatemala within the story of a country which is well on the way to having more violence in 25 years of peace than in 36 years of internal armed conflict and genocide.

Washington Wire
The American Psychological Association passed a resolution that unequivocally condemns and strictly prohibits psychologists from direct or indirect participation in a list of terrorist techniques deemed unethical; the ACLU and American Sociological Assocciation have denounced the US government's refusal to act on the visa application of social scientist Adam Habib who was denied entry to the US; and the head of the Office of Science & Technology Policy in the executive office of the US President released a memorandum outlining the administration's updated research and development priorities. Dinah Winnick

Rites of Passage

AAA Awards Exceptional Undergraduate Anthropology Teachers and Researchers
Kent Lightfoot and Elizabeth Chin are the recipients of the 2007 AAA Award for Excellence in Teaching Undergraduate Anthropology. Thomas L Leatherman

Vigil Awarded Textor Prize for His Study of Urban Gangs
James Diego Vigil has been selected as the winner of the 2007 Robert B Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory anthropology. Katherine S Newman

Magana Awarded AAA Minority Dissertation Fellowship
Rocio Magana is the recipient of the 2007' 08 AAA Minority Dissertation Fellowship to complete “Bodies on the Line: The Protection of Life, Death and Authority on the Arizona-Mexico Border.Kathleen Terry-Sharp

Christopher Fisher Wins 2007 Willey Prize
Fisher is the recipient of the 2007 Gordon R Willey prize for his article Demographic and Landscape Change in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Mexico: Abandoning the Garden.

Death Notices
This month's obituaries include those of Priscilla Alden Copeland Reining and James Larry Ross. Robert Cushman Reining, Steve Taravella
           
Career Development

Gateway to NSF

What Makes an NSF Proposal Successful?
Overall, a good NSF proposal has the virtues of traditional anthropological researchlong-term engagement, good language skills and lots of listening to one 's informants. Deborah Winslow

Profiles in Practice

From Redlining to Sub-Prime Lending: Meeting the Housing Needs of Low-Income Neighborhoods and Communities
Shirely Fiske interviews Tim Bolding, the executive directory of United Housing Inc, a non-profit dedicated to revitalizing neighborhoods through improving housing, homeownership rates and providing educational homebuyer services for mid and low-income families.

Job Placement

Meeting Calendar