Recently added articles from Anthropological Quarterly:
Kids at the Crossroads: Global Childhood and the State
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract The papers here examine the global circulation of both ideologies and practices that underlie the notion of "childhood," as well as the circulation or migration of children themselves. We ask what are the implications of the global circulation of constructions and practices of ...
"For My Children:" Constructing Family and Navigating the State in the U.S.-Mexico Transnation
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract Transnational children-ranging from infants to teenagers-reside in, and migrate to and from, both Mexico and the United States. This paper considers this understudied population, the youngest members of Mexican migrant communities, to understand shifting configurations of ...
Irish Babies, African Mothers: Rites of Passage and Rights in Citizenship in Post-Millennial Ireland
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract In June 2004, Ireland underwent a dramatic transformation when the citizenry passed a national referendum limiting access to citizenship by birth in unprecedented ways. At issue was Ireland's transition from a country characterized by emigration to one of net immigration. Among ...
New Barbarians at the Gates of Paris? Prosecuting Undocumented Minors in the Juvenile Court-The Problem of the 'Petits Roumains'
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract This article centers on the unaccompanied, undocumented minors who are arrested and subject to prosecution for non-violent offenses at the Paris juvenile court in disproportionate numbers. It illustrates the processes whereby public authorities distinguish between the criminal ...
The International Smuggling of Children: Coyotes, Snakeheads, and the Politics of Compassion
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract Each year, over 100,000 children are apprehended entering the United States unaccompanied by parents or legal guardians, and without valid immigration documents. As many as 8,000 of these children are placed in an elaborate system of border patrol detention centers, shelter ...
On Challenges, Dilemmas, and Opportunities in Studying Trafficked Children
Oct 01, 2008; ... The following commentary stems from a recently completed research project, supported by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), to examine the experiences of children, mostly girls, trafficked to the United States for sexual and labor exploitation and analyze their prospects for reintegration ...
Consuming Childhood: "Lost" and "Ideal" Childhoods as a Motivation for Migration
Oct 01, 2008; ... In the introduction to her well-known edited volume, Children and the Politics of Culture, published in 1995, Sharon Stephens argued that fears of a "crisis" in childhood emerged in the 1970s and 1980s with a new, and more penetrating, phase of global capitalism. Media images suddenly brought ...
New Horizons: Youth at the Millennium
Oct 01, 2008; ... New Horizons: Youth at the Millennium Anne Allison, Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 332 pp. Vanessa L. Fong, Only Hope: Coming of Age Under China's One-Child Policy. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, ...
Child Soldiers in Africa
Oct 01, 2008; ... Child Soldiers in Africa Alcinda Honwana. Child Soldiers in Africa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, 199 pp. Alcinda Honwana's Child Soldiers in Africa documents the precarious position of youth in armed political conflicts in Africa and elsewhere. Using ...
Pillars of the Nation: Child Citizens and Ugandan National Development
Oct 01, 2008; ... Pillars of the Nation: Child Citizens and Ugandan National Development Kristen E. Cheney. Pillars of the Nation: Child Citizens and Ugandan National Development. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007, 288 pp. Kristen E. Cheney's Pillars of the Nation: Child Citizens and ...
Feeding Nayaka Children and English Readers: A Bifocal Ethnography of Parental Feeding in "The Giving Environment"
Jul 01, 2008; ... Abstract In this article I examine relational child feeding in the Nayaka forest-world and problematize the concept of "nurturing" which interferes with understanding it. Several essentialist and individualist antecedents of "nurturing," I suggest, conflate child feeding with a one-way, ...
Setting Themselves Apart: Education, Capabilities, and Sexuality Among Samburu Women in Kenya
Jul 01, 2008; ... Abstract Formal education for girls among the pastoralist Samburu of northern Kenya imparts new knowledge and skills, but also inculcates ideas and attitudes that clash with conventional understandings of female capabilities, sexuality, and gender roles. As a result, formal education has ...
Producing Cosmopolitanism at the Borderlands: Lonely Planeteers and "Local" Cosmopolitans in Southwest China
Jul 01, 2008; ... Abstract While recent ethnographic research has complicated our understanding of the "cosmopolitan," assumptions persist that those who are cosmopolitan must be metropolitan, mobile, consumers. Ethnic minority café owners in the borderland town of Dali, Yunnan, located in the himalayan ...
If They Touch One of Us, They Touch All of Us: Cooperativism as a Counterlogic to Neoliberal Capitalism
Jul 01, 2008; ... Abstract Through an ethnographic examination of the BAUEN, a workers' cooperative and part of the recuperated businesses movement, this article considers the emergence of a logic of cooperativism in Argentina in recent years. In analyzing this idea of cooperativism, I distinguish three ...
Taming Islam: Studying Religion in Secular Turkey
Jul 01, 2008; ... It is hard to overemphasize how politically sensitive religious education is in Turkish society. The debate over religious education, along with a few other touchstone issues, reveals much about how official conceptions of religion clash with the beliefs and practices of many religiously ...
Governing Gaza
Jul 01, 2008; ... Ilana Feldman, Governing Gaza. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. 344 pp. As the scholarly literature on the history of twentieth century Palestine becomes more expansive, emerging themes pertaining to this embattled land have begun to be broached in perceptive ways. Yet, very few ...
Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia
Jul 01, 2008; ... Norman E. Whitten Jr. & Dorothea Scott Whitten, Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008. 336 pp. Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia represents the culmination of four decades of collaborative research by ...
The Humanity Game: Art, Islam, and the War on Terror
Jul 01, 2008; ... Abstract This essay examines the connections between art and politics in Middle East arts events in the U.S. since 9/11/2001. It critiques the universalist assumptions about humanity and the agentive capacity of art to build bridges of understanding in contexts of so-called ...
Research Note: Issues of Production vs. Reproduction/Maintenance Revisited: Towards an Understanding of Arizona's Immigration Policies
Jul 01, 2008; ... The subject of international immigration has been a topic in which anthropologists have historically shown great interest. Especially since the 1970s and 1980s anthropologists in the United States have studied the dynamics of immigration and the patterns of adaptation of immigrants from around ...
Violence and Hope in a U.S.-Mexico Border Town
Jul 01, 2008; ... Jody Glittenberg, Violence and Hope in a U.S.-Mexico Border Town. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2008. 171 pp. The small Arizona town of "Esperanza," just forty-five miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, is scarred by violence and inequality. 10-year-old Oscar was an accidental victim of a ...