issue
I visualize multiple “crossings” when I reflect on the articles
in this issue of American Ethnologist and on the groupings I have created (“Crossings—Artistic,
Aural, Digital,” “(Un)Employment and Its Compromises,” “Religious Work and
Ethical Labor,” “Visions and Critiques”). As usual, I have
resisted pairing articles by geographic region or even going for the most obvious
pairings. Less immediate connections between articles invite readers to cross
into less familiar territory and experience the surprises. In this issue, for
example, I chose not to pair Sally Price’s and Kamari Maxine Clarke’s
articles, although both analyze particular cultural processes taking place in
the African diaspora in the Americas. Likewise, I resisted pairing Jennifer
Johnson-Hanks’s article with Daniel Mains’s article, although both
examine fascinating socioeconomic decisions made by many young urbanites in
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American Ethnologist Vol. 34, No. 5 (Oxtember, 2007) has been released. AES members should have received a copy in the mail.
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AESonline.org visitors may read the foreword, abstracts, table of contents, and all book reviews (full text) here.
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 American Ethnologist Vol. 34, No. 4 (November, 2007) has been released. AES members should have received a copy in the mail.
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In this issue...
Crossings
(Un)Employment and its Compromises
Religious Work and Ethical Labor
Visions and Critiques
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Book reviews online soon!
 American Ethnologist Vol. 34, No. 3 (August, 2007) has been released. AES members should have received a copy in the mail.
AnthroSource subscribers (AAA members & subscribing institutions) will soon be able to read the entire issue here. AESonline.org visitors may read the foreword, abstracts, table of contents, and all book reviews (full text) here.
"Doing Anthropology in Sound"
Steven Feld and Donald Brenneis
Special web supplement to:
American Ethnologist 31:4 - November 2004 Links to Sound Recordings, Web Resources, and Writings Discussed in the Article
Using these links you can listen to sample tracks from most of the field recordings and soundscape projects discussed in "Doing Anthropology in Sound." You can also learn more about these various projects, and order many of these recordings for yourself, as well as read writings by some of the recordists and scholars mentioned in "Doing Anthropology in Sound." read more »
Editor's Foreword
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American Ethnologist
Volume 30, Issue 1
Foreword
Virginia R. Dominguez
On Fear and State Violence
Darker than midnight: Fear, vulnerability, and terror making in urban
Burma (Myanmar)
Monique Skidmore
The Burmese military State constructs fear and vulnerability among its
citizenry through the strategic use of political violence. Fear is inherently
temporal and, unlike despair, requires that one have the ability to envisage
alternatives to a future of complete domination. Burmese people strive not to
express fear, and the anthropologist’s articulation of fear contrasts
with the silence that fear engenders among them. In this article I reflect on
strategies for the ethical collection of experiences of fear in situations where
suppressing or denying fear is the most common survival strategy.
[Burma, Myanmar, violence, fear, state construction of affect, vulnerability,
time]
“In our own hands”: Lynching, justice, and the law in Bolivia
Daniel M. Goldstein
Vigilantes in the marginal communities of a Bolivian city take the law
into their own hands both to police their communities against crime and as a
way of expressing their dissatisfaction with the state and its official policing
and justice systems. In this article, I examine an incident of vigilante violence
(lynching) in one such Bolivian barrio to explore the ways in which vigilantism
acts as amoral complaint against state inadequacy, challenging state legitimacy
and redefining ideas about justice, citizenship, and law in the process. I also
analyze the range of discourses that surrounds lynching in contemporary Bolivian
society, exploring the interpretive conflict that results as barrio residents
attempt to counter official representations of the meaning of vigilantism in
their community.
[violence, vigilantism, legal anthropology, citizenship, Bolivia, the Andes]
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Editor's Foreword
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American Ethnologist
Volume 30, issue 2
Foreword
Virginia R. Dominguez
Unplanned Persons and Gendered
Children
Planned births,
unplanned persons: "Population" in the making of Chinese modernity
Susan
Greenhalgh
In this article I suggest that "population" operates as a capacious
domain of modern power, with its own imaginaries, discourses, bureaucratic apparatuses,
and social effects. Taking China, home to the world's largest population, as
my ethnographic case, I examine the role of "birth planning," China's
distinctive Marxist-Leninist-Maoist approach to population control, in the construction
of "Chinese socialist modernity." I trace the historical, political,
and bureaucratic process by which the state's planned birth project, designed
to create a modern, planned population, produced not only a large group of planned
persons but also a huge outcast group of unplanned, "black" persons
who, as legal nonpersons, exist on the margins of society, lacking citizenship
rights and state benefits. With its gargantuan population and fearsome birth
planning program, China offers striking evidence of the social power of governmental
projects on population control--to create new classifications of social life,
new types of personhood, and new forms of social and political exclusion.
[population, modernity, personhood, China]
Children and the gendered politics of globalization: In remembrance
of Sharon Stevens
Liisa Malkki and Emily Martin
Written to honour the memory of Sharon Stephens as an exceptional anthropologist,
this article focusses on her groundbreaking work of critically theorizing children
and childhoods in relation to the politics of late capitalism and structures
of modernity. Stephens' research into the contested category of childhood is
here linked specifically to the location and uses of the figure of "the
child" in the gendered politics of globalization.
[children, childhood, globalization, gender, late capitalism, modernity,
Cold War", national security" discourses]
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Editor's Foreward
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