Submitted to Anthropology News for inclusion in the February, 2008 issue by Fran Rothstein, Contributing Editor (submitted December 12, 2007– 599 words)

Among the many exciting sessions and events sponsored by the AES in Washington, the panel at the Business Meeting entitled “Anthropologists and War: Non-Participation in Counterinsurgency” with anthropologists Marshall Sahlins, Catherine Lutz, David Price and Roberto Gonzalez as moderator was one of the most important and very well-attended panels.
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The American Ethnological Society awarded its biannual book prizes at the AES business meeting on Thursday, November 29th 2007, during the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, DC. The Sharon Stephens Prize is given for a junior scholar's first book, while the Senior Book Prize recognizes a book by a senior scholar.

The awards go to works that speak to contemporary social issues with relevance beyond the discipline and beyond the academy. Ethnographies and critical works in contemporary theory - single-authored or multi-authored but not edited collections - are eligible.

This year's recipient of the Senior Book Prize is Lila Abu-Lughod, for Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt (University of Chicago Press, 2005).
The two recipients chosen for the Sharon Stephens First Book Award are Charles Hirschkind, for The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counter Publics (Columbia University Press, 2006) and Julia Elyachar, for Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development and the State in Cairo (Duke University Press, 2005).

The Senior Book Prize Committee was chaired by Carla Freeman and included Donna Goldstein and Ken Guest.

The Junior Book Prize Committee was chaired by Jacqueline Solway and included Richard Handler and Rosemary Coombe.  read more »

American Ethnologist Vol. 34, No. 2 (May, 2007) has been released. AES members should have received a copy in the mail.

AnthroSource subscribers (AAA members & subscribing institutions) can read the entire issue here.

AESonline.org visitors may read the foreword, abstracts, table of contents, and all book reviews (full text) here.

The Board of the AES is pleased to welcome incoming Treasurer Linda Green and incoming Councilor Jackie Solway, whose terms will begin at the conclusion of the 2006 AAA meetings.

Frances Rothstein has served throughout 2006 as the Acting Secretary of AES.

The Board expresses gratitude to outgoing Treasurer Hugh Gusterson and outgoing Councilor Mayfair Yang.

For more information about and news from the AES Board, please click here.

The board of the AES is pleased to announce that Donald L. Donham has accepted the editorship of American Ethnologist. His three-year term as editor, renewable for a fourth year, will begin in July, 2007.

Donald L. Donham is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He is a past Fellow at th e Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has written three books, the latest of which is Marxist Modern: An Ethnographic History of the Ethiopian Revolution (California, 1999). In addition, Dohnam is co-editor of three collections, the last (with Edna G. Bay) entitled States of Violence: Politics, Youth, and Memory in Contemporary Africa (Virginia, forthcoming). He has written on issues of social theory and time, politics of the economy, narrative as analytical device, sexuality, and violence. He is interested in the methodological dilemmas posed by ethnographic attempts to illuminate world projects like capitalism, empire, and modernity.

For more about Donald L. Donham, please: click here

Announcement: 2005 Book & Paper Awards
includes junior & senior book prizes awarded at AAA '05
& Elsie Clews Parsons prize awarded at AES '05  read more »

AES Board changes . . . Ida Susser is now President, David Nugent is now President-Elect, and Carla Freeman has joined the board as a Councillor. The AES board gratefully acknowledges the service of outgoing President Catherine Lutz, outgoing Secretary Ralph Litzinger, and outgoing Councilor Ken George. Click here to see the complete board membership following AAA 2005.  read more »

Accessing American Ethnologist through anthrosource
Members of the AAA enjoy free access to the anthrosoruce archive of all AAA journals, including American Ethnologist (vol. 1-31, including the most recent issues). Click here to go directly to the AE archive on anthrosource (you will need to log in using your AAA member ID). To learn more about anthrosource, click here. (Institutional and individual subscriptions are available).

Accessing American Ethnologist through JSTOR

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