...Anand Pandian This essay arises from anthropological fieldwork on the making of south Indian popular cinema. Ethnographic attention is lent to a series of cinematic situations to further relay the intertwining of cinematic and anthropological imagination. The essay is composed as a montage...

... anthropological theory and, in turn, within the realms it investigates), this article considers the temporal qualities of scientific longing within a highly experimental and, thus, anticipatory branch of research set on transforming human bodies through processes of interspecies hybridity. © 2011 Duke...

...Alex Lubin; Les W. Field; Melanie K. Yazzie; Jakob Schiller In May 2011, the Anthropology Department and the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico offered a class entitled “Technologies of Settler-Colonialism in Israel-Palestine.” This field school was designed...

.... And Muñoz’s interest in the disorderly histories of wildness placed him in conversation with an eclectic array of theoretical currents from new materialism to object-oriented ontology, from animal studies to new animism, from diasporic anthropology to new postidentity theories of self and other. Muñoz...

...Eun Kyung Min The two most dominant twentieth-century theorizations about the exchange of daughters are Freudian psychoanalysis, which theorizes the psychic, libidinal exchange performed by the daughter of the mother for the father, and Lévi-Straussian anthropology, which theorizes the exchange...

..., of the inner dynamism and instability generated by the pull between culture defined, in Arnoldian terms, as the highest, disinterested “cultural” achievements of a civilization's elites, and its contrary anthropological definition as a “whole way of life.” This ethnographic expansion of the range of culture...

...Fady Joudah Medical anthropology poem. Copyright © Duke University Press 2017 poetry That syphilis leads to deafness isn’t enough for Beethoven to have died of it. There’s Baudelaire and Nietzsche’s tempo, or did Emily Dickinson suffer from seizures? Did Muhammad? If so...

...Fady Joudah Medical anthropology poem. Copyright © Duke University Press 2017 poetry professor who ran the anatomy department and was a preacher’s son. You were an ex-preacher yourself, abandoned the cloth after you divorced your wife and married your lover. Thank you for your hands...

... of anthropology at Princeton Uni- versity. He teaches medical anthropology and the anthropology of sci- ence and technology. Currently he is working on two book projects: “Sub- jectivity Transformed” (with Byron Good and Arthur Kleinman) and “Vita: Life in a Dead...

... Research, University of Amsterdam. Her research interests deal with the versatile articulations of media technologies, body, space, and ethics applied to the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Brazil. In the past she has pursued interests in physical anthropology, museum studies, and material culture...

... . Berlant Lauren . 2011 . Cruel Optimism . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Biehl João . 2005 . Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment . Berkeley : University of California Press . Biehl João Locke Joshua . 2010 . “ Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming...

... Contributors Kamran Asdar Ali is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Planning the Family in Egypt: New Bodies, New Selves (2002). He is the coeditor of Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa (forthcoming) with Martina...

... 2009 Contributors Rania Astrinaki is a lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University, Athens. She has published articles, mainly in Greek, on violence, state, and gender in Mountain Crete, and an extensive...

..., and Science (NYU Press). Claudia Fonseca is professor of anthropology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Her research interests include family organiza- tion and gender relations in Brazilian working-class populations, with spe- cial emphasis on human rights issues and international...

..., and Science (NYU Press). Claudia Fonseca is professor of anthropology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Her research interests include family organiza- tion and gender relations in Brazilian working-class populations, with spe- cial emphasis on human rights issues and international...

... simulacros (Biblos), and Voice-Overs: Translation and Latin American Literature, coedited with Marcy Schwartz (SUNY). He is one of three general editors of the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures (Routledge). O. Hugo Benavides is assistant professor of anthropology...

... in anthro- pology and in East Asian languages and civilizations. From 2000 to 2005 he was director of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm. He now teaches anthropology at Cornell University. His publications include articles on the indigenous people of Southwest China and Southeast Asia...

...: The Transnational Turn in American Studies” (Interventions, 2005), “Globalization as Narrative: Three Critiques” (Review of Educa- tion/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies, 2002), and “Cold War American Culture in the Age of Three Worlds” (Minnesota Review, 2002). Rosalind C. Morris is professor of anthropology...

... and the Palestinianization of the globe. Naveeda Khan is assistant professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She is editor of the forthcoming collection Beyond Crisis: A Critical Look at Pakistan (Routledge India), and is working on a book manuscript, “The Passage of a Promise: Mosques, Sectarianism...

... majority.18 In sociological and anthropological studies, the dispossession of Mid- dle Eastern Jews of their culture has been justified by the concept of “the inevitable march of Western progress”—that is, those who have been liv...