Recently added articles from Anthropological Quarterly:
Support Groups, Marriage, and the Management of Ambiguity among HIV-Positive Women in Northern Nigeria
Apr 01, 2009; ... Abstract In the context of the African HIV epidemic, support groups are not simply spaces for discussions of social and health well-being; neither are they institutions functioning solely to cultivate self-responsible and economically empowered patients. HIV-positive women in northern ...
The Wedding Banquet Revisited: "Contract Marriages" Between Korean Gays and Lesbians
Apr 01, 2009; ... Abstract This paper examines how Korean gays and lesbians negotiate South Korea's heteronormative system anchored in the heterosexual and patriarchal family through marriages of convenience ("contract marriages"). Korean gays and lesbians pursue contract marriages in order to fulfill ...
The "Transparency" of Christian Proselytizing in Kyrgyzstan
Apr 01, 2009; ... Abstract To make an object transparent implies that its internal features become better visible. It also means that the surface of that same object becomes less discernable. I apply this analogy to argue that the current preoccupation with transparency allows certain ideological ...
Medical Schismogenics: Compliance and "Culture" in Caribbean Biomedicine
Apr 01, 2009; ... Abstract As biomedicine turns increasingly toward chronic diseases, compliance or adherence with pharmaceutical regimens has become a major focus. This article explores the specters created by the diagnostics of non-compliance, focusing on asthma in the eastern Caribbean country of ...
The Other as Brother: Nation-Building and Ethnic Ambivalence in Early Jewish-Israeli Anthropology
Apr 01, 2009; ... Abstract Most depictions of "peripheral," nation-states' anthropologies assume that the anthropology's Other is a given, pre-defined subordinated group. Using the beginnings of Israeli anthropology (1960s-1970s) as our case study, we explore instead how while appropriating academic ...