Anthropological Quarterly

02/12/2020

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11/12/2019

And a review of it in Science:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2019/11/11/what-remains/

11/12/2019

Congratulations to great friend of the journal Sarah Wagner on the publication of an extraordinary new book:

What Remains: Bringing America's Missing Home from the Vietnam War (Harvard, 2019).

05/15/2018

Outstanding collection on the Anthropology of Cognitive Disability in the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology. Relevant to the discipline as a whole. Beautifully edited by Patrick McKearney and Tyler Zoanni.

09/27/2017

The journal is reading Holly Norton’s Guardian article on the re-examination of the skeletal remains of a powerful viking warrior assumed to be male, but found to be female once DNA and skeletal analysis was conducted. Not only does this discovery raise questions about gender roles in viking society, but also about how androcentrism and preconceived notions about gender impact scholarly research.

What Bj 581, the “Female Viking Warrior” tells us about assumed gender roles in archaeological inquiry.

04/19/2017

The George Washington University Institute for African Studies and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African-American History and Culture present “An Evening with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.”

Friday, April 21, 7:00 pm.

The event is sold-out but will be live-streamed on the following links.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/zCPF4U3hFPc

https://www.facebook.com/IAfSGWU/

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. It was established by Act of Congress in 2003, following decades of efforts to promote and highlight the contributions of A...

04/19/2017

The George Washington University Institute for African Studies, the GWU Institute for Ethnographic Research, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African-American History and Culture present “An Evening with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.”

Friday, April 21, 7:00 pm.

The event is sold-out but will be live-streamed on the following links.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/zCPF4U3hFPc

https://www.facebook.com/IAfSGWU/

Anthropological Quarterly features the highest quality peer-reviewed articles in ethnography and anthropological theory. AQ is a forum for scholars within and outside the discipline of anthropology to add their voices to contemporary public debates.

02/27/2017

SPECIAL COLLECTION: PRODUCING EBOLA: CREATING KNOWLEDGE IN AND ABOUT AN EPIDEMIC. Collection editors: Catherine Bolten and Susan Shepler

http://aq.gwu.edu/online-first.html

PRINT Subscriptions are available directly from The George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research (IFER).ch

02/14/2017

Book Discussion: Sany Mojola. Love, Money and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS (University of California Press)

The book engages the themes of gender, modernity, consumption and the transition to adulthood in a rich mixed methods study based in Kenya examining why HIV rates among young women are so much higher than those of young men.

Thursday 2/16: 4-5pm
1957 E Street NW, 6th Floor
George Washington University
Admission Free of charge

12/02/2016

The journal is reading Chloe Ahmann's Cultural Anthropology Hot Spots piece, "Curtis on the Bay: Failed Development and the Mythology of Trump."

"What the mythology of Trump forces us to reckon with is that, sometimes, disaffection expresses itself through fantasy, through development dreams, and through thinly gilded legends of an economic savior. In this light, Curtis on the Bay is an artifact of the uncomfortable idea that a vote for Trump might instead have been an act of radical optimism."

09/05/2016

The journal is reading Jennifer Brinkerhoff's new book "Institutional Reform and Diaspora Entrepreneurs: The In-Between Advantage", in which she tackles questions of diasporan entrepreneurship and social institutional reform.

Externally-promoted institutional reform, even when nominally accepted by developing country governments, often fails to deliver lasting change. Diasporans-immigrants who still feel a connection to their country of origin-may offer an In-Between Advantage for institutional reform, which links pro...

08/17/2016

The journal is watching Editorial Board member Hugh Gusterson's TEDxFoggyBottom 2016 talk titled "Who are Nuclear Scientists?" Conducting research among scientists who create and test nuclear weapons, he considers the ethical considerations inherent in the work, and the space — or lack of space — for a conversation of ethics to exist in this community. Dr. Gusterson also discusses the drastic changes of nuclear testing and research over time. Despite the signing of the Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996, the US budget for nuclear weapon research is higher than ever. How is this money being spent? What are the consequences of a changing physicality of nuclear research, and a more abstract relationship to nuclear weapons/warfare?

Most people study nuclear warfare by studying the new developments in the weapons themselves. Hugh Gusterson takes a different approach. Instead of studying the weapons, he studies the nuclear scientists who created them. He took to the TEDxFoggyBottom stage to share what he learned. Dr. Gusterson’s...