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In the post-Cold War era, as civil wars and failed states have threatened people around the world, essays in Cultural Anthropology have examined the concepts, tropes, practices, and institutions of humanitarianism, the forms it has taken, and its cultural effects on its recipients as well as it providers. As global politics have become more perilous, and non-governmental organizations and bureaucracies of relief have multiplied, these essays have taken up some of the most complex questions of citizenship, displacement, and ethico-political responsibilities.

The "New Economy" and globalization have emerged as important empirical focuses for Cultural Anthropology. See, for example Anna Tsing's essay, "The Global Situation" (2000). Branding and value creation have also been important in understanding these issues, see, for example William Mazzarella's award winning, "'Very Bombay': Contending with the Global in an Indian Advertising Agency," and the special issue devoted to value creation introduced by Paul K. Eiss and David Pedersen's, "Introduction: Values of Value" (2002, 2003).

Over the last twenty years Cultural Anthropology has published a range of articles focused on media in different cultural contexts, and on media and cultural production. Authors have queried how transformations in media technology have changed the way media is conceived, produced and circulated, and the way developments in media have contributed or run parallel to political-economic developments and social re-alignments.

George Lipsitz, Learning from New Orleans: The Social Warrant of Hostile Privatism and Competitive Consumer Citizenship

Cultural Anthropology August 2006, Vol. 21, No. 3: 451-468

George Lipsitz, Op-Ed: New Orleans - One Year After Katrina