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The article presents a list of volumes that have been published through the American Anthropological Association's publication "Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association" including "Alternative Approaches to Lithic Analysis," "Powers of Observation: Alternative Views in Archeology," and "Lords of the Southeast: Social Inequality and the Native Elites of Southeastern North America."

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The article presents the author's comments as an anthropologist of tourism based in Japan on three papers addressing the anthropologies of tourism including a paper on the possibility of Ibero-American anthropologies of tourism, the Mexican way of studying tourism, and a paper on the anthropology of tourism in China.

The article presents the author's comments on papers in the special section of the journal that discuss the anthropologies of tourism. Topics discussed include tourism studies, the essays seeming primarily framed by political economic issues, and the larger discussion of tourism or research on tourism.

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The author reflects on mentoring as developmental environment in the field of anthropology. Topics include experience in a stunted developmental environment, the cross-pollination of the author's gender discrimination work with her study of reproductive health disparities and the author's effort of modifying the environment to generate new developmental trajectories.

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C-BLAAC provided the space for students to reflect on the animus that has emerged to create faculty positions in predominantly white departments, specifically for the study of Blackness in its multiple iterations. The formation of C-BLAAC was an act of student self-determination that combatted the student/faculty hierarchy that is at once possessive and dehumanizing, wherein I student i indexes the half-formed thinker who awaits the authoritative guidance of I faculty i . Irrespective of how much scholars revise syllabi and core curricula, there will be no liberation if the professional benchmarks and liberal logics that infuse our departments continue to grind marginalized students into polarized ends of racialized hyperbole: fast-rising meteors, on the one hand, and forgotten students who may or may not complete the PhD at all, on the other. Relations of power within academic departments - those that separate faculty from student or that separate a first-generation PhD from a student who has generationally been there before - are based on opacity. [Extracted from the article]

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It does not follow, however, that the anthropology of half a century ago and more impedes the work of current anthropology. "Decolonizing US Anthropology", by Akhil Gupta and Jessie Stoolman, is motivated by the "renewed calls for a racial reckoning in US anthropology" by members of a younger generation of anthropologists. I suggest, on the contrary, that today's anthropologists can stand on the basis of the newer discipline that has developed over the preceding several generations, and it is not necessary to expend so much labor on reinterpreting and rethinking US anthropology's past. [Extracted from the article]

Gupta and Stoolman enhance this tradition of historical critique by asking why the founding generations of US anthropology "[failed] to move from a liberal antiracism to a decolonizing project." While Gupta and Stoolman do not quite address this point in a direct manner, responses to present-day defenses of the founding generation that are premised on the utility of ethnographic conservation can be found in the reflexive writing of post-WWII action anthropologists mentioned above. My response will attend to two aspects of Gupta and Stoolman's piece: the historical factors that prevented the development of a decolonizing anthropology following WWII and the politics of contemporary departments of anthropology. Though situated within the current politics of racial reckoning, Akhil Gupta and Jessie Stoolman's "Decolonizing US Anthropology" addresses a multitude of issues that are equal parts past and present. [Extracted from the article]

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The article features the Insaniyyat, an association of Palestinian anthropologists. Topics discussed include the origin of the name, Insaniyyat, how the organization coalesced Palestinian academics to fight the fragmentation and dissipation of political will in the homeland, admission as a member of the World Council of Anthropological Association and total membership and conferences organized.

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However, Heizer (1978, 14-15) declares an end to the old-style ethnography and an uncertain future for cultural anthropology because of the passing of the older generation of California Indians. Many California tribes in this body of early anthropological literature are described as being extinct, especially those along the coast of California under the influence of the Spanish missions (Field 1999; Kroeber and Heizer 1970; Panich 2013). US Government officials in the land-claims cases from 1946 to 1959 use Kroeber's (1925) I Handbook of the Indians of California i and other early anthropological works that are viewed as definitive research on California Indian peoples despite insufficiencies and outsider perspectives (Shipek 1989). I am the only California Indian tenure-track professor on campus - maybe the only one in Berkeley's history so far - and one of only eight California Indian tenure-track professors in the entire UC system. [Extracted from the article]

The article deals with the intellectual, ethical and career path problems of anthropologists in China, in response to a paper by Gordon Matthews about East Asian anthropology. Topics discussed the influence of Western model of anthropology on Chinese anthropology, the role of technological and economic factors in decolonizing anthropology in East Asia, and the use of the English language. The initiative of Chinese anthropologists to create an identity is mentioned.

Responds to Steve Fuller's comments on am article in the June 1998 issue of the `American Anthropologist,' on the authorization of science studies. Questions discussed in the original paper; Use of `anti-science' as a political weapon against work; Undisciplined science studies; Heterodox anthropologies; Anthropology and science studies.

Presents a commentary on the paper written by anthropologist Paul Shankman published in the periodical `American Anthropologist' defending anthropologist Margaret Mead's claims regarding Samoan sexual customs. Background on the original report written by Mead; Mead's interpretation of the sexual mores of the Samoans; Errors in Mead's research; Confirmation of Mead's account by Lowell D. Holmes.

GRAPH Salma Siddique is an academic and clinical anthropologist in Scotland. As a practicing clinical anthropologist, I am keenly aware of client-practitioner relational ethics, the relationship between observer and observed mediating the tensions and challenges inherent in the work of therapy (Siddique 2016). Counselling and Psychotherapy Research 11 (4): 310 - 16. 23 Siddique, Salma. My concerns with AI-enabled mental health applications are the implications of working with nonhuman therapists and the possibility for oppressive, discriminatory, or biased guidance based on sexuality, age, ethnicity, or gender. [Extracted from the article]

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Modernization affects the religious lives of women in diverse and dramatic ways. On the one hand, women may find increased arenas for religious involvement, both inside and outside of traditional religious frameworks. Simultaneously, women's rituals and beliefs are often especially vulnerable to attacks from the forces of modernization. This paper focuses on the experience of elderly Jewish women of Asian origin who now live in modern Israel. The author suggests that the very nature of women's religion—domestic, personal, hidden, and flexible—explains its tenacity and creativity in the face of modernization. These findings are examined within a broad, cross-cultural context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the role of anthropology in Bhutan's climate change research and policy. Topics discussed include Bhutan as the only carbon-negative country in the world, cultural practices and languages, geopolitical location of Bhutan, carbon-emitting Indigenous cultural practices associated with livestock rearing and pastoralism, marginalization of anthropology and the emergence of anthropological research on climate change.

An essay is presented about the participation of anthropologists in collaborative, climate-related research projects, with emphasis on an ethnographic research in the northeastern regions of Brazil. Topics discussed include Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa's book "The Falling Sky," interaction between climatologists and water engineers, techno-scientific realms in meteorology and operational meteorology.

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses several articles published within the issue, including "Law, language, and a nonsovereign Caribbean," "Karma masters: The ethical wound, hauntological choreography, and complex personhood in Thailand," and "Getting creative with data: Managing relationships and quantitative proof in an Indian NGO."

The article discusses the diets of soldiers to explore the hierarchy and heterarchy in the Napoleon's Grand Army (NGA), a 19th-century state-level army. Topics discussed include hierarchy as a research paradigm in anthropology, stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of the soldier diet, different feeding strategies of NGA and dietary variation between soldiers compared to other European and contemporaneous military samples.

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The article focuses on a performance documentary of the published transcripts of Steward Brand's interview with anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, entitled "Tripod." Topics discussed include the role of anthropology in cybernetics, how "Tripod" connects anthropology, cybernetics and media through performance, and the two staged performances of the "Tripod" project.

An interview with anthropologist and historian Cláudio Costa Pinheiro is presented. Topics discussed include background on his interdisciplinary orientation, the importance of opening up the discipline for more diverse global connections, the importance of the Museu Nacional and his focus on the conditions of formation he has called "epistemological spaces."

The article focuses on protests referred to as "estallido social," a social explosion in Chile. Topics discussed include background on protests on October 6, 2019 which turned into a revolt against the government, the role of anthropology and anthropologists in the social uprising, critical analysis of knowledge in societies and lessons to be learned from other knowledges.

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The article discusses the role of journal publication in the field of anthropology. It references the article “Editorship, Value, and American Anthropology” by "American Anthropologist" (AA) editor Tom Boellstorff which appears elsewhere in the issue. Particular focus is given to the impact of digital technologies on publishing and to the relationship between publication and scholarly dialogue. The author also reflects on the potential role of transnational scholarship in AA. Other topics include the editing process and journal readership.

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The article presents the text of a speech delivered by Alex W. Barker, president of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), at the 118th annual meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia in November 2019. Topics discussed include the concept of narratio in the aspect of cosmology, myth and history interaction, the anthropological work on time, and the modernist regime of historicity.

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