Cultural Anthropology, publishes ethnographic writing informed by a wide array of theoretical perspectives, innovative in form and content, and focused on both traditional and emerging topics. It also welcomes essays concerned with theoretical issues, with ethnographic methods and research design in historical perspective, and with ways cultural analysis can address broader public audiences and interests.

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Erratum to Cultural Anthropology 23.2 (June 2008)

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Cultural Anthropology Aug 2008, Vol. 23, No. 3: iii-iii.

THE GENERIC BIOTHREAT, OR, HOW WE BECAME UNPREPARED

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customerservice@anthrosource.net (ANDREW LAKOFF)
Cultural Anthropology Aug 2008, Vol. 23, No. 3: 399-428. This essay concerns the current intersection of national security and public health in the United States. It argues that over the course of the past three decades, a new way of thinking about and acting on the threat of infectious disease has coalesced: ...

CONSUMING CLASS: Multilevel Marketers in Neoliberal Mexico

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customerservice@anthrosource.net (PETER S CAHN)
Cultural Anthropology Aug 2008, Vol. 23, No. 3: 429-452. Since the 1980s, Mexican leaders have followed other Latin American countries in pursuing neoliberal economic policies designed to stimulate foreign investment, reduce public spending, and promote free trade. Recent studies of indigenous movements and ...

GETTING BY THE OCCUPATION: How Violence Became Normal during the Second Palestinian Intifada

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customerservice@anthrosource.net (LORI ALLEN)
Cultural Anthropology Aug 2008, Vol. 23, No. 3: 453-487. The second Palestinian intifada against Israeli occupation, which began in September 2000, saw Palestinian areas repeatedly invaded and shelled by Israeli forces. A long history of war and targeted cities is told along the thoroughfares of Palestinian ...

WATCHING U.S. TELEVISION FROM THE PALESTINIAN STREET: The Media, the State, and Representational Interventions

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customerservice@anthrosource.net (AMAHL BISHARA)
Cultural Anthropology Aug 2008, Vol. 23, No. 3: 488-530. This article tracks contests of representation among the Palestinian Authority (PA), the U.S. news media, and the Palestinian public regarding the funeral of PA President Yasser Arafat and subsequent presidential elections. It is popularly assumed that ...

THE HUMANITARIAN POLITICS OF TESTIMONY: Subjectification through Trauma in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict

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customerservice@anthrosource.net (DIDIER FASSIN)
Cultural Anthropology Aug 2008, Vol. 23, No. 3: 531-558. The witness has become a key figure of our time, whether as the survivor testifying to what he has lived through or as the third party telling what he has seen or heard. Publicly bearing witness of suffering and injustice is precisely what departs the ...

ANTHROPOLOGY OF/IN CIRCULATION: The Future of Open Access and Scholarly Societies

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customerservice@anthrosource.net (CHRISTOPHER M KELTY et al)
Cultural Anthropology Aug 2008, Vol. 23, No. 3: 559-588. In a conversation format, seven anthropologists with extensive expertise in new digital technologies, intellectual property, and journal publishing discuss issues related to open access, the anthropology of information circulation, and the future of ...