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2018-2019 newsletter Volume 12 Contents

1 Letter from the Chair 2 Archaeology and Climate Change - Andrew Bauer 4 Taking a data-driven, deeper time view of vector borne disease - Krish Seetah 6 Anthropocene Visions - Dilshanie Perera 8 Thinking about Climate Change from Peru's War on Drugs - Allison Kendra 10 Why Study Storms as an Anthropologist? - Nataya Friedan 12 An Interview with Professor Nathan Sayre - Dean Chahim 13 What's in Your Bag? Fieldwork Methods Nuts and Bolts - Sam Holley-Klein 14 An Interview with Darryl Li - Jameelah Morris 16 Anthropologists Beyond the Academy - Torin Jones 17 Research News: Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project 18 Department News 22 PhD Letters from the Field 29 Undergraduate Fieldnotes 32 Alumni News 40 Student Achievements 41 Anthropology Faculty

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The intensity of the headlines and dramas in current news cycle makes it easy to lose sight of the scale of the slow moving but deeply consequential transformations taking place in the world. None is more urgent than the ongoing climate change. Recent reports and events indicate that the eff ects of sea level rise and global warming are generating extreme weather and aff ecting agriculture, health and livelihoods at a rate that is much faster than was predicted just a few years ago. Climate change is a truly universal process that also refl ects our deeply unequal global order: generated by centuries of intensive use of fossil fuel in the richer parts of the world, its consequences will be felt in diff erent ways, most acutely and dangerously by the very large populations in the global South who are only now beginning to enjoy a few of the benefi ts of economic development.

A number of faculty and graduate students in our department work on themes that are directly related to climate change: Andrew Bauer discusses how archaeological research can help deepen our understanding of long term human land use and adaptation to climate events; Krish Seetah discusses in his research the correlations between climate variations and historical spread of malaria; Dilshanie Perera describes how changing weather and climate patterns are experienced and discussed in rural communities in Bangladesh; Allison Kendra, looking at the world from a village in Peru, discusses how the idea of climate change as a global crisis can easily obscure other more directly politically manufactured events such as the ongoing ‘war on drugs’; Nataya Friedan discusses what the experience of a powerful cyclone in Fiji can tell us about how ordinary people relate to extreme weather events. We conclude this thematic session with an interview with Nathan Sayre, anthropologist and geogra- pher based at Berkeley, on his views on the future agendas of environmental anthropology.

We also bring Sam Holley-Klein’s account of how current dissertation writers in Anthropology recently revisited the classic questions of the relationship between ﬁ eldwork methods, ethnography data and broader theory; we bring Ja- meelah Morris’ interview with Darryl Li, anthropologist and lawyer known for his innovative work on Islamic militants. Li was a visiting professor at Stanford in the fall of 2018 where he taught classes in the Department of Anthropology and at Stanford Law. Torin Jones describes the growing job market for anthropologists in the tech sector and other industries, including a number of recent Stanford PhDs. We also get an update on Barbara Voss longstanding engagement with the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project, as well as her ongoing work in Candong village in China.

Finally, we wish to congratulate our faculty on their achievements. Most notable among them is that this year’s prestigious book awards from the Society for American Archaeology went to two of our colleagues, Lynn Meskell and Krish Seetah.

Lynn Meskel was recently named the AD White Professors-at-Large from Cornell University, a six-year term eﬀ ective July 1, 2019. This is a highly prestigious award and visiting professorship honoring scholars who have achieved high international distinction in their ﬁ elds. The other recipient in the Humanities is Bruno Latour. We also congratulate Sylvia Yanagisako, Lochlann Jain and Ian Hodder on their recent books.

The fi nal section of the newsletter contains letters from the fi eld by Shan Huang in Hong Kong; Paul Christians in Doha; Pablo Seward Delaporte in northern Chile; as well as fi eldnotes from undergraduates Janet Diaz and Cora Cliburn.

Faculty, students and staﬀ can look back at 2018/19 as another successful and productive year in the life of our department.

Thank you all.

Thomas Blom Hansen Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor in South Asian Studies Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology

VOLUME 12| 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER 1 Arrchaeologychaeology andand Cllimateimate Chhangeange by Andrew Bauer, Anthropology Assistant Professor

2 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 12 As the theme of this year’s newsle er suggests, cli- thesize global archaeological and paleoecological data mate change is an increasingly recognized social, po- on environmental modifi ca ons throughout the Holo- li cal, and environmental problem. Once imagined as a cene. specter in the far away future, poli cal rhetoric in the As interdisciplinary research collabora ons on rela on- United States can now be heard linking elevated global ships between human ac vi es and Earth’s systemic temperatures to localized extreme weather. For in- func oning develop, archaeologists are also par cu- stance, the spring of 2019’s record se ng precipita on larly well suited to contribute to framing the results of in the Midwest also precipitated calls among poli cians such research to the public. As a discipline, archaeology on the campaign trail in Iowa for increasing renew- has long been concerned with how its historical claims able energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. intersect with present day poli cs (e.g., iden ty, heri- In fact, in 2015 the highly divided United States Sen- tage, na onalism, etc.) and risk perpetua ng, contem- ate went on record acknowledging that it is “the sense porary ideological constructs. Thus, as a wide range of of the Senate climate change is real and not a hoax.”1 scien sts and scholars are beginning to write human Yet concerns over climate change’s underlying causes history in an era of anthropogenic climate change, ar- and dangers and the alloca on of responsibility for chaeologists have provided cri cal interven ons about mi ga ng its eff ects remain highly poli cized in public how humans and climate change are narra vized and discussion. In this contemporary context, anthropologi- represented in this literature. For instance, my collab- cal archaeology— a discipline that has long inves gated ora ve new book, Climate Without Nature: A CriƟ cal the history of human-environmental rela onships— is Anthropology of the Anthropocene, stresses that the uniquely posi oned in mul ple ways to contribute to common usage of the geological designa on “Anthro- both scholarly and public understandings of anthropo- pocene” to describe the current period of intense an- genic climate change. thropogenic eff ects on the earth system might actually Climate scien sts, for instance, now recognize a need work against developing broader and more inclusive to comprehend the long-term history of human land support for policies to combat ongoing climate change. use in order to improve paleoclimate models. Because The book points out that the Anthropocene framework there are signifi cant feedbacks between land use and obscures social diff erences in responsibility for climate- climate (e.g., as trees sequester carbon, rice fi elds and change and, by downplaying the role of humans in en- livestock emit methane, soils absorb or refl ect solar vironmental produc on during a prior period, repro- radia on, etc.) archaeologists are now par cipa ng in duces an ideology of Nature that allows climate change several interdisciplinary ini a ves directed at be er ac- deniers to easily maintain coun ng for the impacts of human land use on climate their posi on that humans in prehistoric periods, including empirically evalua ng do not aff ect climate. In evidence for deforesta on, the expansion of irriga on mul ple ways, anthropo- agriculture, and slash-and-burn agriculture over the logical archaeology has last 10,000 years. For example, I have been involved in a signifi cant part to play The Past Global Changes (PAGES) LandUse 6k2 working in changing scien fi c un- group, which, with a view to these ends, aims to syn- derstandings of long-term anthropogenic climate 1 “Climate change is real and not a hoax, Senate over- change and how those whelmingly decides”. LA Times,1/21/2015. understandings become 2 h p://www.pastglobalchanges.org/prod- signifi cant to the current ucts/12456 context.

VOLUME 12| 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER 3 Fig. 1: Local slaughter practice in a small-scale commercial enterprise termed a Slab (Kimana, Kenya). Taking a data-driven, deeper time view of vector borne disease by Krish Seetah, Anthropology Assistant Professor Predic ng how higher temperatures, ever, underpinning the contemporary ing Mauri us and Venice as historic expanding urbaniza on and agricul- context is up to 500 years of ac vity cases. A new, modern, study loca on ture, and increased human mobility laying the groundwork for modern ag- is currently under development in Zim- will impact the ways in which vector riculture, consumerism and migra on, babwe. Malaria threatens 3.5 billion borne diseases (VBD) aff ect human not to men on, historic introduc on people in ~97 countries, killing up to 1 popula ons is a challenging task. There of the vectors and pathogens. Finding million people per year, 90% of which is increasing evidence that the emer- ways to be er understand how these live in Africa; children under fi ve suff er gence of new VDBs in local se ngs parameters infl uence transmission is the highest morbidity. Climate, rainfall, is actually driven by human factors – essen al for policy to control disease. land use, and socio-economic behavior trade, agricultural, mobility – as much all interconnect to aff ect transmission. My own research focuses on two as by climate, or features rela ng to However, we do not know how these main case studies that explore VBD in the pathogens themselves. Par cularly factors interact to exacerbate or mi - northern and southern hemisphere where new diseases are concerned, gate outbreaks. We expect malaria to contexts, but predominantly focused over the past 50 years the introduc on become a greater threat due to global on the Southwestern Indian Ocean of pathogens is closely correlated with warming yet lack the tools to predict and East Africa. The fi rst studies the travel and commercial enterprise; how- when/where malaria might appear longer-term impacts of malaria, us-

4 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 12 As the human costs of these examples illustrate, we need new data resources and new ways to understand VBDs in order to mi gate future impacts. Working with a large team of colleagues, both at Stanford and interna onally, our approach innova vely harnesses the vast, data-rich evidence from historic epidemics. We draw on archival, skeletal (Fig. 2 & 3), artefac- tual and climate evidence. These data are used to train algorithms to recognize pa erns in transmission over me, seeking to disentangle the complexity of outbreaks to iden fy trig- gers. This knowledge is cri cal. Billions Fig. 2: Image of the Bois Marchand Cemetery, established in 1868 to deal with a massive of dollars have been spent on eradi- malaria epidemic which resulted in 41,000 deaths, representing 10% of the population ca on programs, only for the disease (Terre Rouge, Mauritius). to re-emerge. Our models have the poten al to guide 21st century public health interven ons by providing evi- based on land-use and demographic fying the incep on, transmission, and dence on the way climate, land cover factors. With a warming climate, great- escala on to epidemic propor ons, of change, and migra on pa erns infl u- er levels of resistance to pes cides and a VBD. The deeper- me context is key ence transmission, helping to fi ne-tune drugs, and limited vaccine effi cacy, we as developments such as long-distance policy, and targe ng where funding are poised to see shi ing zones of in- transporta on of domes c animals, should be directed. fec on to new areas. Indeed, despite the introduc on of new breeds (that decades-long eff orts at eradica on, are less resistant to RVF), centralized No recent pandemic has been pre- prevalence is on the increase. A sec- slaughter in aba oirs – factors that dicted; one poten al solu on to our ond case study revolves around a much were ins tu onalized following Bri sh current inability to know where VDBs more recently emerged VDB, Ri Valley coloniza on – could provide vital clues in par cular will next emerge or shi Fever (RVF), and my work concentrates to the apparent sudden emergence of may lie in be er assessment, and un- on evidence from Kenya. RVF can have RVF in Kenya in the 1930s. derstanding, of historic disease. catastrophic impacts on livestock, decima ng herds of domes c livestock through spontaneous abor- on. The socio-economic impacts can be highly damaging at the local and na onal scale. Humans cases arise from exposure to diseased animal products, or directly as a consequence of slaughter (Fig. 1). RVF is endemic throughout Africa, and recently caused outbreaks in the Middle East, resul ng in animal and human deaths. RVF was apparently fi rst recognized in 1931, and as such, off ers a unique- Fig. 3: Cribera orbitalis, an potential osteological marker of anaemia (that could indicate ly appropriate test case for iden - malaria) from an adult individual recovered from a post-emancipation slave cemetery (Le Morne, Mauritius; credit: Dr. Jonathan Santana).

VOLUME 12| 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER 5 Anthropocene Vision by Dilshanie Perera, PhD Candidate

any people living in southern Bangladesh have experi- Menced an embankment cleft in two by the swell of water and a river rushing into where it shouldn’t be, vest that would be a quarter of what But this reading tends to obscure the with fl oodwaters lapping at treetops it had been previously. At the time, histories that have made coastal Ban- and rooftops. A ruptured embank- area residents from three surround- gladesh susceptible to these kinds of ment is an event that necessitates ing villages were displaced onto the catastrophes in the fi rst place. paved elevated roadway that encir- new modes of sustenance and surviv- The images of fl oods, and climate dis- cled the polder. They would be there al. It draws a crowd. People of all ages course in general, oscillate between for months. When I returned in 2017, gather on either side. It is something Bangladesh’s present and the world’s residents explained that the degree of that villagers bring NGO workers and catastrophic future, thereby sidelining recovery, or lack of it, was tied to the local politicians to bear witness to, in a multitude of pasts. It is worthwhile to investments of local government of- hopes that they see the devastation pause to examine how the present has fi cials. The politicians’ affi liations gov- that unfolds with waterlogging at this come to be situated the way it is, and erned the speed of distributing aid and scale. Here, environment and ecology what histories undergird it. In examin- making improvements in the villages are inextricable from people, homes, ing the pasts evidenced in the image over which they had jurisdiction. villages, and work. In recent years, of the eroded embankment, questions these major inundations have become Photographs of eroded embankments arise. How have these embankments unmoored from the temporality of the in rural Bangladesh circulate in global built in the 1960s been maintained? monsoon, making them more diffi cult news media, forming an iconic picture Where has money for embankment to anticipate. Many fear that the ef- of Bangladesh’s predicament in an era restoration projects gone? In what fects of climate change will exacerbate of climate change. The image of pres- ways is the precariousness of rural vil- these fl oods. ent-day disaster in Bangladesh is sup- lagers reproduced such that some fi nd In August 2015, I accompanied friends posed to portend the future for a vari- themselves perennially at the water’s and activists from a community rights ous places around the world, where edge? Where does money allocated to group to the site of an embankment environmental excess, in the form of disaster relief go? Despite the state’s breach in southwest Bangladesh. The fl oods or droughts or skyrocketing highlighting of climate change eff ects scale of the damage was staggering. temperature, may become the norm. in Bangladesh, what actions for in situ Though we didn’t know it then, the These images travel away from the lo- habitability are being undertaken and rice paddy fi elds would be underwater cality of the embankment, hailing an who do they benefi t? What past infor over a year, and the soil would re- audience that is likely comfortably po- justices threaten to be repeated, only cover only gradually, producing a har- sitioned elsewhere. Pictures like these now with additional challenges given a serve as a warning of losses to come. warming world?

6 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 12 acknowledge and account for these s unfolding extractions as foundational to the contemporary predicament of climate change. In explaining his vision for Bangla- desh’s climate future to me, the spokesperson characterized the accumulated consequences of bad weather in Bangladesh as a potential good. Bangladeshis have “a long tradition of livelihoods and lifestyles adapting to diff erent situations….our entire culture is adapted to this condition [of climate change],” he explained. He sees Bangladeshis as having a “comparative advantage” and particular expertise when it comes to dealing with unstable ecologies and understanding climate change through fi rsthand experience. This knowledge is some- able to achieve certain benchmarks of thing he characterizes as “a global progress that the “developing” world public resource to sell or to give to the never will because of the environmen- rest of the world.” While these propos- tal mandates within this new global als made by spokespeople to the IPCC paradigm of impeding catastrophe. seem to address the past occupations For him, climate reparations would be and accumulated histories of violence, A popular spokesperson for climate the fi rst step in beginning to address they actually end up reproducing a change adaptation in Bangladesh the culpability of polluting countries logic that erases the material, social, once told me that his country was liv- and the inequalities of development. and political consequences of the ex- ing on “borrowed time.” As someone What this version of history does not tractions and dispossessions that pre- who regularly represents Bangladesh explicitly include is how “develop- ceded climate discourse but ultimately at the international IPCC meetings, he ment” occurred in the Global North shaped the realities of the present. campaigns globally for climate repara- not only through carbon emissions, tions for places uniquely threatened Climate change, a slippery hyperob- but through multiple, centuries-long with sea level rise. His disclosure was ject (Morton 2013), off ers totalizing ca- extractions from what is now referred expressed as a lament, to emphasize tastrophe without direct culpability. It to as the “developing” world. the urgency of the eff ects of climate absolves as much as it absorbs: knowl- change. Borrowed time represents a In A Billion Black Anthropocenes or edge becomes commodity; accumu- present that is already mortgaged out None, Kathryn Yusoff writes, “If the lated precarity becomes saleable; to a near-term calamity that is inevi- Anthropocene proclaims a sudden future visions become extensions of table. This is largely how the coming concern with the exposures of en- capitalist presents. Meanwhile, those climate catastrophe is framed when vironmental harm to white liberal who stand at the embankment’s edge those on an international stage speak communities, it does so in the wake have to calculate where to get their about the particular vulnerability of of histories which these harms have next meal, and how to maintain any Bangladesh. The deltaic nation is held been knowingly exported to black and sense of normalcy in extraordinary up as an exemplar not only for what is brown communities under the rubric of circumstances. The view from the em- to come, but also for being a site where civilization, progress, modernization, bankment sees the need for collective adaptation measures can be tested. and capitalism. The Anthropocene repair and demands state action now, might seem to off er a dystopian future urging a diff erent vision for dealing This spokesperson, a Bangladeshi sci- that laments the end of the world, but with the imminent and unfolding chal- entist, demands climate reparations imperialism and ongoing (settler) co- lenges of climate change in Bangla- for Bangladesh and similarly pre- lonialisms have been ending worlds for desh. Justice in the present sets up the carious countries as something that as long as they have been in existence” conditions for justice in the future. should be allocated from the Global (2018: xiii). Any discussion of climate North to the Global South. In his for- change and the Anthropocene must mulation, the “developed” world was

VOLUME 12| 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER 7 School mural in the Huallaga Valley that places these factors in conversa on: climate change and environmental responsibility, Peru's war on drugs and internal conﬂ ict, inter-/na onal poli cs, being a good ci zen (represented by sports), and Incan societal commandments. Thinking about Climate Change from Peru's War on Drugs by Allison Kendra, PhD Candidate

We sit around Evelyn’s kitchen table, the evening’s pace eryone in the room understands the implica ons of these se led into warm conversa on. It is Luz’s birthday, le overs uproo ngs – everyone in the room has had their coca taken from dinner are s ll on the table, and she is s ll beaming too, everyone in the room has been through this before. from the happy birthday chorus we’d sung just before she DEVIDA (Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo y Vida sin blew out the candles and made a wish for her 34th year. We Drogas), the Peruvian governmental an -drugs offi ce, oper- are catching up on our lives and recent happenings, the con- ates war on drugs-funded programs known as “alterna ve versa on pingponging back and forth, moved along by quick- development”, which encourage farmers to switch from the footed jokes and follows of laughter. There is a pause – Luz illicit cul va on of coca, the leaf crop used to make cocaine, turns to me and tells me, carefully, that they took her coca. to the licit cul va on of export-oriented crops such as cacao They took it?, I ask, processing what she must mean. Sí, yes, and coff ee. They also fund the special police force respon- she says, ya no tengo nada, I have none le . All of the coca sible for removing coca, an important fi rst segment of their plants I had, they’re gone, they pulled them up. Her steady larger an -drug crop opera ons. The Huallaga Valley, where eye contact and posture, s ll and leaning slightly forward, Luz and I discuss her coca’s eradica on, was once one of the convey the weight of her statements, though she smiles largest sites of coca produc on in the world, and is famous slightly and her eyes crinkle in response to my surprise. Ev- for being a ‘miracle’ of success in the war on drugs’ eff orts

8 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 12 against drug crop produc on, both for DEVIDA and globally. where, but coca and cocaine produc on were ac vely A er over thirty years of eff orts to eliminate coca produc- encouraged by the US and other cocaine-producing or on in the region, it is on the rise again, even as eradica on -consuming countries (e.g., Germany, Japan) in the late con nues. 1800s and early 1900s, especially in the Huallaga Val- ley. This legality was dras cally overturned by the mid- The cyclical nature of coca produc on and eradica on exists 1940s, as the US and other countries moved to criminal- in part because growing coca is at once legal and illegal in ize both coca and cocaine in the crea on of a globalized present-day Peru. A limited number of people have permits war on drugs. As is evidenced here, these decisions exist to grow coca legally and sell it to ENACO (Empresa Nacional not only in rhetoric and policy – they are mobilized in de la Coca S.A.), the state-regulated legal buyer. But more prac ce. The US has been involved in various ‘cat and o en it is grown to be used as the alkaloid base for making mouse games’ in Peru, such as in ones described here cocaine – coca grown for this purpose, or, in the eyes of the (i.e., illicit drug clampdown and resurgence), since the state, any coca grown without a permit, is illegal. “Alterna ve 1950s (Gootenberg 2008). As Luz’s story makes clear, development” programs exist precisely because of this illicit/ while these eff orts have centuries of histories, they also licit ambiguity – as alterna ve development offi cials repeat- impact the lives and livelihoods of people who are liv- edly explained to me, if growing coca were defi ni vely illegal ing and dying right now. Debates around climate change in Peru, they would just put the caught growers in jail, not implore us to consider these mul ple scales. try to give them alterna ves. While these programs con nue to try to promote cacao and coff ee as alterna ve crops, the In discussing climate change and the fi gure of the hu- people opera ng them know that these crops are not yet an man, Sylvia Wynter (2015) off ers a point of connec on economically or otherwise viable coca replacement for most between these seemingly diverse histories. Speaking farmers, and that as they con nue to eradicate coca, it will about the accelera on of global temperatures a er the con nue to be replanted. 1950s, she turns our a en on to the postcolonial moment, and to the ways that newly independent coun- Drug crop eradica on and replacement is a li le-known tries were neocolonized under the guise of develop- part of the war on drugs, but it is a major part of the way ment. Instead of acknowledging the exploita on and interna onal governments intervene in drug crop-producing subjuga on that coloniza on entails, newly indepen- countries. People who depend on coca are not only stripped dent na ons were told that the problems they faced of their income, but also the me and care they invested in were caused by their underdevelopment, and that the growing, harves ng, and planning in their daily lives, and of- path for becoming ‘un-underdeveloped’ was to fol- ten are le with tough choices about how to move forward. low the lead of the countries that had colonized them Their op ons, or lack thereof, exist within overlapping struc- (Wynter and McKi rick 2015: 20). Without reducing the tural inequali es – those who can aff ord to ‘get out of coca’ complexity of these histories and their diverse methods, o en have enough economic or social capital to invest me aims and impacts, it is essen al to con nue to consider and money into other alterna ves, and land on which to do them alongside one another and the specifi ci es of our so. ethnographic engagements. Coloniza on and its a er- The extended history behind these interven ons is useful math, as well as ‘development’ agendas, are interwoven to consider in the context of contemporary climate change into Peru’s war on drugs, and into contemporary climate debates, as it exemplifi es the ways that the construc on of change debates and reali es. Thinking climate change ‘global crises’ (such as climate change or the war on drugs) from here helps reveal repea ng logics. obscures violent and colonial pasts and presents, and em- phasizes the importance of considering these moments within larger social and historical contexts. Coca has been References grown and used by indigenous peoples in Peru for thousands Gootenberg, Paul. 2008. Andean Cocaine: The Making of years. It has also been used as a tool of discrimina on and of a Global Drug. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of exploita on against indigenous peoples, both during colo- North Carolina Press. Wynter, Sylvia and Kathrine McKi rick. 2015. “Unpar- niza on and a erwards, in diff ering yet con nuous forms. alleled Catastrophe for Our Species? Or, to Give Coca, a leaf crop with mul ple benefi cial proper es, is dis- Humanness a Diff erent Future: Conversa ons.” In nct from cocaine, which was synthesized, from one alka- Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis, edited by loid found in coca, by German chemists in 1860. Coca and K. McKi rick, 9-89. Durham: Duke University Press. cocaine not only were both once fully legal in Peru and else-

VOLUME 12| 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER 9 WHYStudy Storms as an Anthropologist? by Nataya Friedan, 3rd Year PhD Student On February 20th, 2016, Cyclone Win- unrelated fl oods that hit the following band’s former boss, Barry, as he drove ston hit the Fiji archipelago. It was the December. When I went to Rakiraki through the gates in a white SUV. My strongest storm ever to make landfall in August of 2017, I was looking for a companion and I were given hard hats in the Southern Hemisphere. It wiped story of reckoning between a colonial and bright orange vests and handed off out one third of the Fijian economy. past and a less abstract experience of to a very pa ent man named Sam who One of the hardest hit areas was a climate change as storm winds brought walked us through the machinery ex- small town called Rakiraki on the a con nuously churning colonial sugar plaining the scale and func on of each Northeastern coast of the largest is- mill and mono-crop economy to a halt. part. land, Vi Levu. The town of Rakiraki Of course, what I found was not quite Before the Cyclone, the Penang Sugar grew around the Penang Sugar Mill what I imagined. The storm was not Mill ran 24 hours a day. The mill work- built in the colonial period next to Ra- simply revelatory. ers traded off three eight hour shi s. kiraki village. The mill was s ll running, An aunt of one of my feminist friends in At peak output, the mill took in 100 save for a short interrup on in the Suva took me to the closed down mill. tons of cane per hour and produced 1920s, un l the 2016 cyclone ripped Her grandfather, father, uncles, broth- 150-200 tons of granulated sugar per off roofs and factory infrastructure and ers and sons all worked at the Penang day. The constant mo on of the mill sent sheet metal fl ying. Sugar is the Sugar Mill. In many parts of Fiji, Indian was energy effi cient. It was run on bio- dominant industry in Fiji, with tourism Fijians speak Fijian Hindi and indige- fuel, excess fi brous substance known a rising second. In 2017, the Fiji Sugar nous Fijians speak Fijian, and the com- as ‘bagaz,’ and steam, both produced Corpora on, whose majority share- mon language in school and in public in other parts of the refi ning process. holder is the state, claimed that the is English. This was a li le diff erent in Only when something messed up, did mill was damaged beyond repair ci ng Rakiraki. At the doors of the Penang they turn on the diesel generator while the winds of Cyclone Winston and the Sugar Mill, the guards and my friend's engineers fi xed the problem as quickly aunt went back as possible. Every pause was energy, and forth in Fijian and therefore money, lost. Electricity Hindi. My compan- from the town’s transmission lines was ion, an indigenous only used for ligh ng. The mill’s viabil- Fijian, spoke rap- ity relied on a con nuity of mo on. idly in Fijian Hindi, Nobody that I interviewed in Rakiraki puffi ng up her in- or elsewhere in Fiji seemed par cu- terlocutors that larly convinced that the Penang Sugar they were now Mill had closed for the publicly stated world news, as evi- reason. To many in the town, the cy- dence by the white clone was an excuse or a simplifi ca- American stand- on. One man who was not from the ing beside her. I village and did not work in the sugar was s ll decipher- industry suggested conspiratorially ing Fijian Hindi’s that perhaps there was a labor dispute, unique linguis c but the woman whose en re family diff erences, but I had worked at the mill for her en re certainly caught life had heard no such whispers or did the repe ve insis- not want to share them with me. Sam, tence, ‘nahi sukko,’ who gave us the tour, confi rmed that you can’t, from the building was broken, but the indus- the young guards. trial parts were fi ne. The parts were Eventually she being dismantled and shipped off to called out in Fijian the other mills of the Fiji Sugar Corpo- Hindi to her hus- ra on. The bagging part of the process

10 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 12 was already at Lautoka, and had been change on the fron er. It is no more embedded in human experiences. It for a few years. The local sugar cane real in Fiji than in say Houston or New is these human engagements with at- and millworkers were ini ally trucked York, though certainly in all three plac- mosphere that are the righ ul subject to the closest other mill, Lautoka, ev- es, some popula ons are compounded of anthropological research. There is ery day. Two years later, the remaining with intersec ng vulnerabili es diff er- a nonlinear physical rela onship be- commu ng employees were off ered en a ng the magnitude of threat. In tween changing temperatures in the to relocate to another mill or accept Fiji, there is very li le climate denial. world’s oceans and air and the severity layoff packages. A variety of interest The summer I was there, the Fiji Presi- of storms, and similarly there is a non- groups in Rakiraki were ready to move dency was leading the 23rd UN Con- linear rela onship between knowledge away from the mono-crop system even ference of Par es on Climate Change, and experience of climate change and if pre-cyclone iner a would have made and the na onal beauty contest in the the meaning each of us make of it. change less likely. The cyclone spun de- capital, Suva, was themed terminacy in its winds and rains. Was Climate Change. it climate change? Yes, but that meant There is nothing teleo- something diff erent to everyone I logical about a storm. De- spoke with. Did the sudden s llness re- struc on can both reveal veal? Sure, it revealed many things in and obscure. A storm can the bout of inten onality post-storm cause an unavoidable ma- where people decided what to rebuild terial pause shaking the and what to leave to history. iner a of con nuous mo- It is for a diff erent kind of researcher to on, but then a storm can determine how much of the strength be used as a symbol or an of which storm is a ributed to how alibi, a crisis or a cause. much of which kind of human ac on. Wind, rain, storm surges, The IPCCC is confi dent that more and atmospheric pressure worse storms are upon us as a result systems and scrap metal, of human induced climate change. these are all things of or The ethnographic ques on I found to related to the object that be worth pursuing was not necessarily is climate change, each the ontological experience of climate intersec ng with and VOLUME 12| 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER 11 An Interview with Professor Nathan Sayre by Dean Chahim, PhD Candidate

On March 7th, the Department of Anthropology and the Woods Institute co-sponsored a talk by Professor Nathan Sayre, which was titled “Weather/Climate and the Non/Human: Environmental Anthropology in the Anthropo- cene.” Professor Sayre is Chair of the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley, where he has taught for over 15 years. Despite his position in geography, he holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago. His research has taken a critical approach to the study of rangelands and environmental transformation, particularly in the Western U.S. His most recent book, The Politics of Scale: A History of Rangeland Science, details the interwoven history of scientists and bureaucrats struggling to work across the vastly diverging scales required to understand and manage rangelands. A few weeks after his talk at Stanford, I caught up with Professor Sayre at Berkeley to talk with him about the challenges and opportunities of environmental anthropology today. The conversation was wide-ranging, but the transcript has been edited and condensed for clarity.

I know you did your PhD in anthropol- ography had a moment in the sun with I'm not sure that there is a straight- ogy at the University of Chicago and that kind of a framework. It came, in forward recipe, other than being alert have since been really immersed in ge- retrospect, to be something of an em- to the possibility that what you iden- ography. How do you see the rela on- barrassment, if not a kiss of death. So fy may be happening at other scales. ship between the two fi elds around for good reason, geography is, even What you iden fy as happening at one ques ons of the environment? What to this day, extremely re cent about scale is likely to not be isomorphic with are the things you think anthropolo- making causal claims between environ- another scale. Even though it looks the gists might learn from geographers ment and culture or environment and same, one cannot assume that it's the and vice versa? society. As I tried to say when I was at result of a common logic. Stanford a couple weeks ago, it feels I think it begins from the fact that they like anthropologists of this genera on In terms of par ng sugges ons for have a shared interest and, in some aren't as sensi ve to those issues as ge- anthropologists who are interested in places, commitment to ethnography. ographers are. taking on environmental ques ons, That provides a kind of an epistemo- what would you suggest they think logical common ground. Anthropology Some archaeologists who think about about, or avoid doing? is commi ed to ethnography pre y when the Anthropocene started have much across the board. In geography this compelling empirical evidence of Don't lose track of the non-anthropo- it's a li le more uneven but it's pre y widespread human impacts on the genic. Don't give up on the idea that widespread. From a more theore - environment thousands of years ago. there is something out there that we cal point of view, the environment has They may want to think carefully about need to understand that isn't about been central to geography from the how they conceptualize the causal rela- human eff ects. I men oned that a lot very beginning and it has obviously ons between humans and climate. of the most exci ng work going on in been relevant to anthropology but in geography and anthropology is being diff erent ways at diff erent mes and A lot of your work has really focused done by people looking at environ- not always priori zed per se. on the ques on of scale, and it strikes ments or natures that are obviously an- me that your recent book really does thropogenic, such as radioac ve waste Indeed, by the me you get anthropol- try to work at diff erent scales in a com- or deadly chemicals. That is important ogists who foreground ecology, like Roy pelling way. For anthropologists, how work. We also need to think about Rappaport and Julian Steward, geogra- do you recommend we go about think- what we used to call natural systems or phers had rebelled against studies of ing about scale? natural environments, the things that the environment. That was partly Carl conserva on biologists have dedicated Sauers' doing. He was a huge cri c of The simple star ng point in my view is their careers to studying. The idea of environmental determinism. In geog- to ask what is the process that you are pris ne nature is a fe sh, and we do raphy, there had been a moment when interested in? What is the scale of that need to understand the pervasiveness it was all about environmental deter- process or processes? And then imag- of human eff ects and impacts. But let's minism. Determinism was the proof ine trying to fi gure out how to study not swing all the way over and tell our- of the scien fi c value of the discipline; that process at the right scale, which selves that those humanly engineered, the fact that you could make asser ons is to say, the scale at which it operates. or inadvertently humanly produced, about the eff ects of environment on But one should also look at larger scales environments and natures are the only people and socie es and cultures. Ge- and smaller scales around that process. ones we need to be thinking about.

1212 20182018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 1212 What's in Your Bag? Fieldwork Methods Nuts and Bolts by Sam Holley-Klein, PhD Candidate Michelle Rosaldo’s fi eld notes were an impressive sight: in OneNote fi les, each of his notes had a series of fi elds: as- multi-page manual spreadsheets detailing Ilongot phonolo- sociated media, themes, key quotes, and next steps, for ex- gy; folders of notes on spells, rituals, and songs; typewritten ample. Sam and Sabrina both described themselves as low- manuscripts. The archivist had taken a sample of her papers tech: daily fi eldnotes in Microsoft Word registering the day’s and laid them out for the Anthropological Methods class’ interviews and participant-observation. Everyone agreed on visit. Probably any of us could have spent the rest of the the necessity of documenting fi eldnotes on a daily basis – class there. How many times had we all read the introduc- whether in notebooks, on the computer, or in voice memos tion to Women, Culture, and Society? Here, we could catch a – and the inevitable failure to do so. Something is better glimpse of ethnography in the making – knowing we’d have than nothing, though, and done is better than perfect. to strive for something similar in the next few years. Of course, getting to the point where an ethnographer has Seeing the raw data of others’ ethnographic research – the equipment and a workfl ow implies that the research has fi eldnotes, interview transcriptions, maps, photographs, already progressed – but accessing a fi eld site is no simple etc. – is uncommon (but see Sanjek 1990). So, too, are dis- matter. In the offi ces where Dean conducted his research, cussions of how we actually produce them. I’d heard that “charming the gatekeepers” was a concern from students in the sociocultural track on more necessity. Both getting to know ad- than one occasion, and so had Dean Chahim. Getting in ministrative assistants and aides, and touch with Nina Horstmann, Dean proposed an extended starting from the top down, did much Brown Bag seminar and recruited Allison Kendra, Sabrina to help him regularize his presence. Papazian, and I for an informal discussion of the nitty-gritty Sabrina found that an institutional details of fi eldwork: how do you actually take fi eldnotes? affi liation was a good way to get her What kinds of equipment do you bring? How do you access foot in the door – even if it wasn’t a fi eld site? required. During the discussion, I recalled presenting my Stanford fi eld On April 22nd, Dean Chahim, Allison Kendra, Sabrina Pa- letter to a local authority in a rural To- pazian, and I met with a group of around 20 other students tonac community; remembering my to talk about how we, at least, had done our research. Our confusion at why my fancy Spanish- fi eld sites and general orientations varied: from ethnogra- language letter seemed to cause more suspicion than ac- phies of bureaucracy and expertise to heritage and rural life, ceptance, I noted the importance of translating these kinds in Mexico, Peru, and Armenia. The discussion started with of offi cial affi liations into locally-relevant permissions. Alli- the material: what’s in your bag? Everyone agreed on a few son and Sabrina both agreed that doing some sort of labor points: a dedicated recorder (Zoom-brand recorders were a was a good way in. For Sabrina, an internship led to unex- favorite of both Allison and Dean), a camera (though newer pected career opportunities further down the line while, for cell phones may serve just as well), and notebooks – from Allison, informally working in a local restaurant both put her simple corner-store notebooks and to Moleskine pads. From in contact with a key interlocutor and worked as a means to there, everyone had a few unique must-haves: Dean’s inex- counter the extractive nature of this kind of research. It was pensive Asus tablet allowed him to draw and annotate infra- Allison who fi rst mentioned Improvising Theory (Cerwonka structural features; Sabrina’s portable brick charger saved and Malkki 2007); we all paused to nod excitedly to each her equipment from dying too quickly in the Armenian win- other. Yes, Improvising Theory, that was a good one. ter; and Sam’s dedicated GPS allowed him to geolocate the best taquerías. The conversation lasted about two hours; limits of space here prevent me from covering it all, but questions of archi- All of these things were tied to broader workfl ows: the pro- val research and data analysis after the fact also came up. cess of turning daily life into ethnographic data. Both Dean Fortunately, we’re never alone in discussing these ques- and I had read Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Emerson, tions. For example, a good introduction to archival research Fretz, and Shaw 2011), and found the book of great use for strategies comes from David Price (2018) on the Anthro- getting started. Allison had success with Evernote, recording dendum blog; Stanford Libraries’ own Center for Interdisci- daily notes and weekly summaries, cross-referenced with plinary Research off ers workshops on using NVivo; and the her fi eld notebooks and Excel spreadsheets. She stressed Social Science Data and Software staff (located in Green the importance of “being attentive to diff erent things in the Library’s Velma Denning room) off er walk-in consultations fi eld,” recalling how she recorded ambient sound, took notes on a variety of qualitative and quantitative data analysis. on the weather, and described landscapes to better attend Claudia Engel, the Department of Anthropology’s Academic to theoretical questions of aff ect and embodiment. Dean started with his pocket-sized pads, numbered and labeled; Con nued on page 28

VOLUME 12| 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER 13 An Interview with Darryl Li, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences and Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago by Jameelah Morris, PhD Student

In the Fall of 2018, Professor Darryl Li taught a course at Stanford’s Department of Anthropology called “Captivity” to explore the ways that Anthropology, as well as other domains of social inquiry, have unacknowledged and unredeemed debts to captivity as structure, experience, and event. Darryl Li is the Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences and a Lecturer in Law in the University of Chicago. As an anthropologist and attorney, Li works at the intersection of war, law, migration, empire, and race with a focus on transregional linkages between the Middle East, South Asia, and the Balkans. Li is the author of The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity (Stanford University Press, forthcoming), which develops an ethnographic approach to the comparative study of universalism using the example of transnational "jihadists" -- speciﬁ cally, Arabs and other foreigners who fought in the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia Herzegovina. Li has participated in litigation arising from the "War on Terror" as party counsel, amicus, or expert witness, including in Guantánamo habeas, Alien Tort, material support, denaturalization, immigration detention, and asylum proceedings. He is a member of the New York and Illinois bars.

What brought you to your interest interested me in ways that would be efi ts as well as some drawbacks. More- in the intersection between law and deemed methodologically acceptable. over, because anthropology is much anthropology? How did your expe- And legal training was something I less well-represented in the legal rience with human rights organiza- wanted to pursue in order to develop academy than other social sciences, I tions and as an attorney impact your a diff erent set of competencies, like lacked mentors who were well-placed intellectual focus? another language group, for both re- in both fi elds and was really doing my search and political reasons. training in parallel, with two sets of My interest in pursuing a twinned conversations in isolation from one training in anthropology and law Throughout your career, you have another. emerged from my experiences work- sought to bring these two fi elds (law ing in the human rights NGO world That being said, I have crystallized two and anthropology) into conversation around the time of 9/11 and the Ameri- very broad priorities: First, I think the with one another in order to study can aggression on Iraq. Both the politi- anthropological study of law should the complexities of the Global War cal exigencies of that moment and my take doctrine and form more seriously on Terror and the dynamics of US own disaff ection with the NGO space as ethnographic objects and spurs to empire. How have you sought to do as a place to develop those interests theorization. With the rise of certain this? What kinds of interventions shaped my academic trajectory. I ap- readings of Foucault as hegemonic in does this type of interdisciplinary ap- plied to law schools and PhD programs the discipline, anthropology of law too proach enable? In particular, how do at the same time with the intention of often has lapsed into vulgar legal real- you envision an anthropological ap- combining the two. Many other people ism, based on a facile distinction be- proach to studying the law? complete one degree and then pursue tween “law on the books” versus “law the other, but there is no ideal model I have been struggling with this ques- in real life,” where the former is either for sequencing these courses of study. tion for a long time and am not sure ignored or just treated as an ideologi- I’m anywhere closer to a good answer. cal expression of elite preferences. I Anthropology was a discipline that I This in part because the discussion think we need to do a much better job came to out of a dissatisfaction with isn’t really an interdisciplinary one: law of asking about the conceptual and all the others – in another era, I prob- is not a discipline. Law schools are still material work that legal categories ably would have stuck with political fi rst and foremost professional schools themselves do in the world. science. But in the late 1990s I felt that and legal scholars don’t really have a the discipline succumbed to increas- Second, and moving in the opposite form of training based on a canon of ingly narrow forms of positivism that direction, another long-term goal is theoretical and methodological texts, made it very diffi cult to pursue the developing ways to bring anthropo- an eclecticism that has enormous ben- questions and study the regions that

14 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 12 logical sensibilities into legal scholar- the form of equality. This allows us to What led you to focus on fi ghters ship. This requires articulating nor- see, for example, that the U.S. deten- from the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia- mative stances much more explicitly tion practices are consistent with other Herzegovina as a site through which than is comfortable for much of the forms of infl uence through sovereign to study these linkages? discipline, with its rather comfortable equality, such as the use of sovereign The war in Bosnia became a useful site forms of critique and skepticism that debt to discipline the economies of the for exploring these questions because refuse to embrace affi rmative posi- Global South. My forthcoming book, it also occupies such a prominent place tions. I don’t yet have a clear idea for The Universal Enemy, expands on this in the story of liberal humanitarianism, what the alternative should be, but logic to show how seemingly ordinary which has largely been a story told by, the prevailing warmed-over forms of immigration prisons in places like Bos- for, and about white people. Bosnia’s liberalism are inadequate, especially nia-Herzegovina can fi t into a broader precarious whiteness – peripheral to in these times. network of carceral mobility linked to Europe and with its Muslim-plurali- Guantánamo and other sites of captiv- ty population – is especially helpful In much of your work, there is a clear ity in the War on Terror. here. Highlighting the curious paral- interest in the relationship between lels between these jihad fi ghters and sovereignty and imperial power. Speaking of your forthcoming book, western liberal humanitarians in Bos- Particularly, carceral spaces in US The Universal Enemy, one of the nia is a helpful way to rethink global empire seem to emerge as key sites tasks you take up is reconceptualiz- hierarchies of race in the context of through which to analyze how the ing jihad. What do you hope such a U.S. empire and the War on Terror. It projection of US imperial power of- reconceptualization will contribute is also helpful for thinking about the ten governs how citizenship and to anthropological scholarship on diff erences between the racialization responsibility plays out in other na- the War on Terror, transnational soli- of Muslims as a threat in the War on tion-states. Why do carceral spaces darity, and US imperial power? Terror versus the manifold racializa- emerge as the site through which When the fi rst detainees started ar- tions that unfold between and among to ask these questions? What chal- riving in Guantánamo in 2002, it was Muslims. lenges to conventional understand- obvious that no one had a good sense ings of sovereignty do they enable? of what these people had been doing Many Anthropology graduate stu- And how do such challenges help us in Afghanistan in the fi rst place: not dents are constantly trying to devel- understand empire better? the government, nor the human rights op new research methods that can Speaking of theorizing from doctrinal advocates and lawyers who were de- point to new ways for conducting categories as ethnographic objects, I fending them in more abstract terms ethnographic study that are also ap- published a piece recently titled “From of humanity and rights and such. The propriate for their research context. Exception to Empire” about sover- dominant mode of thinking in anthro- What were some of the methodolog- eignty and the circulation of captives pology and Middle Eastern studies ical approaches you employed and in the Global War on Terror. Part of was, and remains, a default anti-es- challenges faced both in conduct- the intervention was to challenge how sentialism that cautions against Ori- ing fi eldwork and in developing the anthropologists have tended to treat entalist monoliths. That didn’t leave book? sovereignty as just a shorthand for many useful tools for explaining how The book develops in part through bad kinds of authority. There has been a bunch of Arabs ended up in Afghani- what I call “ethnographic lawyer- enormous attention paid to the Guan- stan. It was obvious to me that there ing,” which is to bring sensibilities tánamo Bay prison as a site of torture needed to be some way of thinking and skills as an attorney into the re- but almost nothing written about how about what folks were up to, even if search project. This involved fi nding it fi ts into a broader network of car- some of them were engaged in various ways to intervene usefully in litiga- ceral practices. We still know very little forms of violence, that did not demon- tion involving some of the people I about why certain people get sent to ize them nor would be embarrassed by write about but without taking on the Guantánamo as opposed to other that violence. role of representing them as counsel, sites of detention, and by what logics To this day, we still overwhelmingly which I believe would be incompat- they circulate between these various have books trying to explain “the en- ible with the research I wanted to do. spaces. In contrast, the piece focuses emy” or books that show how the War It also involved certain forms of eth- on one of sovereignty’s productive on Terror has harmed people. My up- nographic silence: I spent two years in aspects, looking at the international coming book tries to occupy a space a law school clinic as part of the legal rather than the domestic aspects of in between, one that opposes the War defense team of a detainee held at sovereignty: how it operates through on Terror as a continuation of global Guantánamo who also spent time in multiple states, allowing powerful structures of white supremacy but that the Balkans during the war. While this ones to displace responsibility – in this is not afraid to take seriously transna- case, for the treatment of prisoners – tional jihad movements as their own onto weaker ones while maintaining fl awed set of political projects. Con nued on page 16

VOLUME 12| 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER 15 Anthropologists Beyond the Academy by Torin Jones, PhD Candidate Growing numbers of anthropology PhDs leave the academic ly confi dence-building for many. Anthropologists star ng out world upon comple on of their degrees. While diverse rea- in industry work some mes feel that employers off er them sons fuel such departures, many cite the diffi cul es of aca- posi ons low in the corporate hierarchy. In retrospect, how- demic employment, unwillingness to remain a postdoctoral ever, many recognize the steep learning curve required for scholar for years, curiosity about new possibili es, and a industry work, and appreciate the signifi cant salary bumps general disenchantment with academic poli cs and values. compared to those who accept post-doctoral, lecturer, and Of course, anthropologists have long pursued careers be- assistant professor posi ons. yond the academy. Famous names such as Zora Neale Hur- Leaving academia does not mean forsaking work with ston, Jomo Kenya a, and Gillian Te spring immediately to though ul, insigh ul, and brilliant colleagues. Departmen- mind. From our own departmental community, we can add tal and university life can feed the myth that ‘real’ thinking the names E’lana Jordan, Anthony Medina, Dana Phelps, unfolds exclusively within academic environs. Industry an- Ashveer Singh, and more. thropologists, both from within and outside the Stanford Here in the Silicon Valley, anthropologists have found their community, repeatedly note the profound intellect of their skills of par cular value in major technology fi rms and small- co-workers at non-profi t organiza ons, consul ng fi rms, and er startups. User experience (UX) research, human resourc- major corpora ons. These anthropologists also note that es, marke ng, and social impacts are all fi elds that success- ghter deadlines, teamwork, and real-world problem-solving fully a ract adept anthropologists, and demand skills very nurture cri cal thought on a daily basis. par cular to ethnographic research and wri ng: historical A useful start for doctoral students considering careers out- analysis, interviews, par cipant observa on, ques onnaires, side academia is the EPIC organiza on (h ps://www.epic- focus groups, and more. people.org/). According to its website, “EPIC people draw on Stanford students and PhDs making the transi on from aca- tools and resources from the social sciences and humani es demia to industry off er valuable advice. First and foremost, as well as Design Thinking, Agile, Lean Start-up and other ap- they note the importance of learning to reframe skill sets for proaches to realize value for corpora ons from understand- résumés and hiring directors. CVs o en highlight publica- ing people and their prac ces.” EPIC holds annual confer- ons, presenta ons, and awards. Industry résumés should ences, and publishes ar cles on the experiences and insights emphasize the scope and impact of projects, quan fying this of ethnographers in industry roles. The community of non- informa on as much as possible. Demanding recogni on of academic ethnographers grows each year, and con nually anthropologists’ deep skill sets (project management, grant- explores new possibili es for cri cal research and analyses wri ng, transla on, etc), such reframing has been surprising- beyond the small world of academic wri ng and publishing.

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experience undoubtedly aff ected centered in future work and one in Iraqi prisons or Kurdish deten- the thinking behind the research, that I wish I had been able to think tion camps. European countries the book does not draw upon that with more thoroughly in my book. have generally refused to accept work in any way and indeed cannot The self-declared Islamic State's the return of their citizens, even for because much of the evidence re- ability to establish a zone of rela- criminal prosecution, openly stat- mains classifi ed. tive stability, however short-lived, ing a preference that they be killed enabled a much higher rate of par- off in exile. This issue requires ur- Given the academic research and ticipation of migrant women than gent study -- not only to inform professional work you have done other kinds of transnational jihad any relevant legal and humani- to date, what, to you, seems to formations in recent years. And as tarian eff orts and to counter the be the questions that still need that group's territorial rule has col- enormous sensationalism that has to be asked around armed foreign lapsed, thousands of women and surrounded the issue, but also to fi ghters, transnational connec- children (and of course men, whose help rethink older debates around tions and US imperial power in killability is presumed through gen- feminist scholarship and kinship the wake of continued iterations dered categories of "innocence") in anthropology in a way that is of the Global War on Terror? have been left in various forms of scaled up to connect with dynam- captivity and legal limbo, whether Gender is a theme that could be

16 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 12 Research News Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project by Veronica Peterson On May 10, 2019, the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project (CRRW Project) commemorated the 150th anniversary of the comple on of the First Transcon nental Railroad. As many as 10,000 to 15,000 Chinese railroad workers built the western segment of the railroad. However, their contribu ons have been largely omi ed from previous historical accounts. The CRRW Project is a mul -disciplinary eff ort to give voice to the Chinese migrants whose labor re- shaped the physical and social landscape of the American West. As president of the Central Pacifi c Railroad, Leland Stanford amassed a vast fortune from the First Transcon - nental Railroad and other related businesses. It was this fortune that founded Stanford University. Without doubt, the University would not exist without the monumental labors of the Chinese railroad workers. The project, which began in 2012, culminated in a series of publica ons, events, and Barbara Voss, right, and Jinhua (Selia) Tan, an associate profes- a huge celebra on at Promontory Summit, at the exact site sor of architecture at Wuyi University, examine coins recovered where the Central Pacifi c and Union Pacifi c railroads met 150 from subsurface tes ng at Cangdong village in southern China in years ago. December 2017. Barbara L. Voss (Associate Professor of Anthropology) has been involved with the project from the beginning as the founda on on which new lines of research can develop and project’s Director of Archaeology. The network of archaeolo- new stories can be told. gists connected by the project has worked diligently, produc- To that end, those of us in Voss’ historical archaeology lab ing new research and dissemina ng results to colleagues have been busy. The Cangdong Village Project—a study of and the public. In 2015, Voss edited a special volume of the railroad workers’ home village in southern China—devel- journal, Historical Archaeology. The ar cles cover the history oped organically out of the CRRW Project when it became of Chinese railroad worker archaeology and the breadth of clear that to more fully understand the experiences of the methods at our disposal, including zooarchaeology, bioar- Chinese diaspora, we also need to understand what life was chaeology, ar fact analysis, and spa al analysis. Finding Hid- like at home. The project website (cangdong.stanford.edu) den Voices of the Chinese Railroad Workers by Mary Maniery, presents the results of this project, including an historical Rebecca Allen, and Sarah Chris ne Heff ner, provides a color- meline, ar fact image gallery, publica ons, and the docu- photo, accessible entry to the topic for a broad audience. It mentary fi lm, Making Ties: The Cangdong Village Project, by is available on lulu.com. In 2018, Voss published “The Ar- Barre Fong. Ph.D. candidate Laura Ng is currently expanding chaeology of Precarious Lives: Chinese Railroad Workers in this research with her project, the Transna onal Archaeology Nineteenth-Century North America” in Current Anthropol- of the Chinese Diaspora Project in Wo Hing Hamlet, Gom Ben ogy. Voss and other members of the archaeology network Village, Taishan County. contributed chapters to the CRRW Project’s edited volume, The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the TransconƟ nental Here in the heart of campus, Voss also serves as Faculty Ad- Railroad, which was published this year by Stanford Univer- visor for the Arboretum Chinese Labor Quarters project, a sity Press. study of the loca on where some of Stanford University’s fi rst Chinese employees lived. They worked across Stanford lands, At the week-long celebra on of the sesquicentennial in building and maintaining the University’s iconic landscapes Utah, led by the Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants As- like the Arboretum, Palm Drive, and the gardens of the Main socia on, an important ques on was about how to transi- Quadrangle. This is a collabora ve, community based project on from the ini al research phase to public dissemina on. with opportuni es for research, educa on, and engagement. Like the workers who had to clear land and build the grade More informa on can be found on the project website (chi- before laying down any track, the CRRW Project has built the neselaborquarters.stanford.edu).

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honoring highly trained and experienced archaeologists, SAA Awards awards also iden fy up-and coming leaders in the fi eld.” Among the awards, two prizes are given out to honor recent- Lynn Meskell receives the A.D. White ly published books. The Scholarly prize for a book that has Professor-at-large at Cornell University had, or is expected to have, a major impact on the direc on and character of archaeological research. The Popular prize Lynn Meskell was recently named the AD White Professor- is for a book wri en for the general public and presents the at-Large from Cornell University, a six-year term eff ec ve results of archaeological research to a broader audience. July 1, 2019. Established to honor its fi rst president, Andrew Dickenson White, the program appoints a group of individu- Professor Seetah’s book is an edited volume on a much ne- als, from both America and abroad, who have achieved high glected area in archaeology, the Indian Ocean World, a re- interna onal dis nc on in the various areas of science and gion that spans from southern Africa across the waters to scholarship as well as in the learned professions, public af- Australia. In it, he brought together archaeologists, histori- fairs, literature, and the crea ve arts. There are only two A. ans, ar sts, and other researchers who collec vely increase D. White Professors-at-Large in Humani es, the other one our knowledge in a truly interdisciplinary fashion. Larger held by Bruno Latour. topics of colonialism, slavery, migra on, heritage construc- on, climate change, economy, disease, and religion are pre- At any one me, up to twenty outstanding intellectuals from sented by scholars from across the globe. Diff erent types of across the globe hold the tle of Andrew Dickson White Pro- evidence are used eff ec vely through several approaches of fessor-at-Large and are considered full members of the Cor- understanding the past and rela ng the past to contempo- nell faculty. During the six-year term of appointment, each rary situa ons. Ecological considera ons underlie various Professor visits Cornell while classes are in session during the chapters on a wide range of topics. Connec ng Con nents: academic year. The ac vi es they engage in benefi t both stu- Archaeology and History in the Indian Ocean World makes dents and faculty. Among such ac vi es are public lectures, a substan al contribu on to anthropology, archaeology, his- offi ce hours with undergraduate and graduate students, spe- tory, and the Indian Ocean World. cialized seminars, collabora ve research with members of Professor Meskell's book is a defi ni ve book on UNESCO the faculty, consulta on on student theses, undergraduate and its involvement in archaeology and the impact of the research projects, laboratory work, and a wealth of infor- World Heritage designa on. The historical context of this mal discussions with Cornell colleagues and students. Being interna onal organiza on and its infl uence on archaeology named an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large ranks are illuminated through in-depth fi rst-hand research, ample among an academic’s most eminent dis nc ons and honors. documenta on, and insights that provide eye-opening revela ons. The successes and failures of UNESCO are many, and Lynn Meskell and Krish Seetah Receive they con nue today. A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heri- Society for American Archaeology Book tage, and the Dream of Peace posi ons archaeology in a larger, intertwined, and meaningful context. Poli cs, economics, Awards and current events all factor into whether and how par cular The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) has named sites are deemed worthy of designa on or inves ga on. Anthropology Professor Lynn Meskell and Professor Krish The awards were presented during SAA’s 84th Annual Busi- Seetah, the recipients of its 2019's Book Awards. Professor ness Mee ng in Albuquerque, NM on Friday, April 12, 2019. Meskell to receive the Book Award in the Popular category for her book, A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace (Oxford University Press, 2018), and Weronika Tomczyk receives SAA's Dienje Professor Seetah to receive the Book Award in the Scholarly Kenyon Memorial Fellowship category for his book ConnecƟ ng ConƟ nents: Archaeology Weronika Tomczyk is the recipient of this year's Society for and History in the Indian Ocean World (Ohio University Press, American Archaeology (SAA) Dienje Kenyon Memorial Fel- 2018). lowship for her research project inves ga ng animal man- SAA Awards recognize and honor knowledge and profes- agement prac ces at Wari Empire sites in north-central, sional achievements at all career levels--from student and Peru. early career archaeologists to those who have made las ng Weronika's project focuses on assessing whether bone as- contribu ons to the Society and the profession. “SAA is one semblages within Wari Empire archaeological sites were of the leading organiza ons in archaeology. The Society has the result of a strict imperial economic policy, an adaptable a long tradi on of acknowledging excellence in the fi eld of policy which depended on exis ng local situa ons and envi- archaeology through our awards, which pay tribute to those ronmental condi ons, or a fusion of infl uences from mul ple performing outstanding archaeological scholarship and re- socie es with variable acceptance of Wari cultural tradi ons. search,” said SAA President Susan Chandler. “In addi on to Wari’s unprecedented conquest of a large part of the Andean 18 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 12 Department News

Regenerating Anthropology in Chile During the dark years of the Pinochet regime in Chile, as Department of Social Anthropology at University Col- anthropology and other social sciences were discon n- lege, London, and the Department of Anthropology at ued and terminated subjects at Chilean universi es. The Stanford. Since 2017, Thomas Blom Hansen has served regime saw these disciplines as subversive and hotbeds on the interna onal advisory board for this project. of student ac vism. Beginning in the early 2000s, An- thropology was re-introduced as an academic subject in The same group of anthropology faculty in Chile also Chile. This was part of the gradual democra za on in the launched the annual La n America Summer School on country as well as a long overdue interest in recognizing Social Issues in 2017. This seminar gathers faculty and Chile’s cultural diversity, including its many indigenous graduate students in Anthropology and other social sci- communi es. Chilean anthropology is today remarkably ence disciplines from across La n America, US and Eu- dynamic, driven by a diverse group of young anthropolo- rope for fi ve days of workshops and plenary sessions. gists who have come from across the world to develop Anthropology faculty (Sharika Thiranagama, Duana Full- the discipline at the country’s prominent ins tu ons. In wiley and Thomas Blom Hansen) have run workshops in 2015, a group of anthropologists at Chile’s premier pri- 2017 and 2018 and each year graduate students from vate university, Pon fi cia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Stanford Anthropology and other disciplines have ben- won a major fi ve-year ins tu onal development grant efi ted from these produc ve seminars. The theme of the from the Wenner-Gren Founda on. The grant is de- next summer school (January 2020) is “Haun ng Social signed to help the Department of Anthropology at the Issues in La n America”. The Department of Anthropol- Universidad Catolica develop a doctoral program in col- ogy looks forward to con nue this collabora on in the labora on with a number of interna onal partners, such years to come.

Awards Con nued from previous page years by employing evidence from the last 300 years. Us- ing AI tools to recognize pa erns in transmission over me, world may have been mo vated not by an interest in gather- our approach is the fi rst to access vast, data-rich evidence ing power or spreading their par cular religious beliefs, but on climate, land use, and human behavior from historic epi- rather by the acquisi on of new natural resources, perhaps demics, alongside gene c evidence on human demography, insuffi cient in their Ayacucho Valley heartland. To reveal in- and vector and parasite biology. Malaria threatens 3.5 bil- forma on about animal management in Wari culture, she lion people in ~97 countries. 90% of those aff ected live in will combine standard zooarchaeological with stable isotope Africa and children under fi ve suff er the highest morbidity. analyses and geometric morphometrics. Despite billions of dollars spent over decades-long eff orts at The awards was presented during SAA’s 84th Annual Busi- eradica on, prevalence is on the increase as is re-emergence ness Mee ng in Albuquerque, NM on Friday, April 12, 2019. is areas formerly under control. The problem is exacerbated because of resistance to pes cides and drugs, and the lack of a proven vaccine. Malaria will become a greater threat Professor Krish Seetah receives a HAI due to global warming, expanding urbaniza on and agricul- (Human Centered Ar fi cial Intelligence) ture, and increased human mobility, yet we lack the tools to seed grant predict transmission as a func on of clima c, land-use and demographic factors. How do mul ple factors interact to ex- Professor Krish Seetah and his team on recently received the acerbate or mi gate outbreaks? Addressing this ques on is HAI (Human-Centered Ar fi cial Intelligence) Seed Grant, an cri cal for policy to control malaria. Our models could guide award given to excep onal scholars for their inves ga on disease predic on, providing evidence to help adjust policy into cu ng-edge AI solu ons to support or advance human- for targeted interven on. ity, foster interdepartmental or interschool collabora ons His research team includes Robert Dunbar (Earth System Sci- between faculty, postdocs, students, and staff , and present ence), Carlos Bustamante (Biomedical Data Science, Genet- new, ambi ous research that will help guide the future of AI. ics), Giulio De Leo (Biology), Erin Mordecai (Biology), Desiree Professor Krish Seetah's project is tled Predic ng malaria LaBeaud (Pediatrics - Infec ous Diseases), Michelle Barry outbreaks: AI to learn, classify and predict across diverse (CIGH), Bright Zhou (Medicine), David Pickel (Classics), and paleo-demographic, clima c and genomic data. The project Hannah Moots (Anthropology). seeks to predict the impact of malaria for the next 50-100

VOLUME 12| 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER 19 Department News New Books Sylvia Yanagisako and Lisa Rofel, co-author Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion Duke University Press (2019)

In this innova ve collabora ve ethnography of Italian-Chinese ventures in the fashion industry, Lisa Rofel and Sylvia J. Yanagisako off er a new methodology for studying transna onal capitalism. Drawing on their respec ve linguis c and regional areas of exper se, Rofel and Yanagisako show how diff erent historical legacies of capital, labor, na on, and kinship are crucial in the forma on of global capitalism. Focusing on how Italian fashion is manufactured, distributed, and marketed by Italian-Chinese ventures and how their rela onships have been complicated by China's emergence as a market for luxury goods, the authors illuminate the o en-overlooked processes that produce transna onal capitalism— including priva za on, nego a on of labor value, rearrangement of accumula on, reconfi gura on of kinship, and outsourc- ing of inequality. In so doing, FabricaƟ ng TransnaƟ onal Capitalism reveals the crucial role of the state and the shi ing power rela ons between na ons in shaping the ideas and prac ces of the Italian and Chinese partners.

Lochlann Jain Things That Art: A Graphic Menagerie of Enchanting Curiosity (ethnoGRAPHIC) University of Toronto Press (2019)

This is an ar ul yet playful look at lists and categories with accompanying commentary that is sure to delight and surprise. The book consists of 59 original drawings and 4 essays. Lochlann Jain’s whimsical drawings interrogate the unconscious ways we a empt to make sense of the world. These "things that art" gather me culously labelled elabora ons on a variety of themes. On the surface, the drawings suggest order and classifi ca on, but on closer inspec on, each piece employs a series of visual and literal puns that jar our sensibili- es and force our minds to move out of their well-worn pathways into new, uncharted territory. Commentaries by Maria McVarish, Elizabeth Bradfi eld, Drew Daniel, and the author off er further insight into the artwork. They discuss how Jain’s aesthe c decisions and strategy bring us to ques on our reliance on these sor ng mechanisms with depth, nuance, delight, and surprise.

Krish Seetah Humans, Animals, and the CraŌ of Slaughter in Archaeo-Historic SocieƟ es Cambridge University Press (2018) In this book, Krish Seetah uses butchery as a point of departure for exploring the changing historical rela onships between animal u lity, symbolism, and meat consump on. Seetah brings together several bodies of literature - on meat, cut marks, cra speople, and the role of cra in produc on - that have heretofore been considered in isola on from one another. Focusing on the ac vity inherent in butcher, he describes the history of knowledge that typifi es the cra . He also provides anthropological and archaeological case studies which showcase examples of butchery prac ces in varied contexts that are seldom iden fi ed with zooarchaeological research. Situa ng the rela onship between prac ce, prac oner, material and commodity, this imagina ve study off ers new insights into food produc on, consump on, and the cra of cuisine.

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Krish Seetah Connecting Continents: Archaeology and History in the Indian Ocean World (Indian Ocean Studies Series) Ohio University Press (2018)

In recent decades, the vast and culturally diverse Indian Ocean region has increasingly a racted the a en on of anthropologists, historians, poli cal scien sts, sociologists, and other researchers. Largely missing from this growing body of scholarship, however, are signiﬁ cant contribu ons by archaeologists and consciously interdisciplinary approaches to studying the region’s past and present. ConnecƟ ng ConƟ nents addresses two important issues: how best to promote collabora ve research on the Indian Ocean world, and how to shape the research agenda for a region that has only recently begun to a ract serious interest from historical archaeologists. The archaeologists, historians, and other scholars who have contributed to this volume tackle important topics such as the nature and dynamics of migra on, coloniza on, and cultural syncre sm that are central to understanding the human experience in the Indian Ocean basin. This groundbreaking work also deepens our understanding of topics of increasing scholarly and popular interest, such as the ways in which people construct and understand their heritage and can make use of exci ng new technologies like DNA and environmental analysis. Because it adopts such an explicitly compara ve approach to the Indian Ocean, ConnecƟ ng ConƟ - nents provides a compelling model for mul disciplinary approaches to studying other parts of the globe.

Ian Hodder Where Are We Heading? The EvoluƟ on of Humans and Things Yale University Press (2018)

A theory of human evolu on and history based on ever-increasing mutual dependency between humans and things In this engaging explora on, archaeologist Ian Hodder departs from the two prevailing modes of thought about human evolu on: the older idea of constant advancement toward a civilized ideal and the newer one of a direc onless process of natural selec on. Instead, he proposes a theory of human evolu on and history based on “entanglement,” the ever-increasing mutual dependency between humans and things. Not only do humans become dependent on things, Hodder asserts, but things become dependent on humans, requiring an endless succession of new innova ons. It is this mutual dependency that creates the dominant trend in both cultural and gene c evolu on. He selects a small number of cases, ranging in signiﬁ cance from the inven on of the wheel down to Christmas tree lights, to show how entanglement has created webs of human-thing dependency that encircle the world and limit our responses to global crises.

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to understand why my ac vist informants have chosen to go down to the countryside of “Asia’s World City” and how such eff orts may transform the villages, Hong Kong’s urbanism and poli cal culture, and, ul mately, the ac vists themselves. In par cular, farming has been “rediscovered” as an exemplar of what rural Hong Kong can aff ord in envisioning alterna ve urban futures. Since the 1980s, because of the cheaper agricultural products from Mainland China, more al- luring jobs available in urban Hong Kong, and the land grabs by voracious developers, farming has been marginalized in Hong Kong. Today, Hong Kong’s food self-suffi ciency rate is extremely low. Being a farmer, similarly, falls outside the scope of both occupa onal choices and the ways in which most Hong Kongers imagine who they are in the city. My humble gi is the produce from Golden Snake, a cer fi ed Fig 1. The fi rst lesson of a farming camp at Plum Heart. A dozen of organic farm at Plum Heart, a village in Lantau Island where par cipants reclaimed a plot of land together. I reside. Plum Heart is one among few villages that s ll have ac ve agricultural ac vi es in Hong Kong, partly because it “So, you brought back some carrots way from… Hong Kong?” has sidestepped the pace of fast development due to mul - layered historical and geographical con ngency. My uncle curiously looked into the bag I was holding, hesitat- ing about how to comment on the gi that I claimed to be Smaller, sweeter, and crisper than the Chinese kind in mar- special. Standing in my grandma’s kitchen where vegetables ket, the carrot is promoted as “local” but has a transna onal are supposed to be well- cooked, he at fi rst frowned on my biography. It is an English type grown by an experienced Nep- sugges on to eat the carrot raw. A er some bites, though, alese farmer who is hired full- me by Mr. Chan, a middle- he seemed to like it. aged Hong Kong man. A professional working and living in the hyper- urbanized side of the city, Mr. Chan cannot de- It was in late January. I was taking some days off from my vote much me and labor to farming, where his sideline fi eldwork to join the fes vity of the Lunar New Year in Fujian, enthusiasm lies. He instead rents some plots of land from where my extended family lives. For my uncle, as for many the villagers, who, not without irony, have abandoned the who have come to know “Hong Kong” in various ways, a gi from this consumerist metropolis can be anything from new- fangled electronics, exo c clothes, high-quality medicines… but carrots? There are some nuanced connec ons between what con- fuses him and what I am looking at in Hong Kong as an ethnographer. Hong Kong’s authori es are hard-selling a set of urban development projects to its ci zens. Adver sed as an unmissable opportunity to sustain the city’s prosperity by mely fi ng into Mainland China’s ambi ous regional developmental schemes, these projects are clearly designed to carry on the existent mode of urbaniza on featured by the land economy and liberal housing market. My project examines social movements that confront Hong Kong’s top-down developmental regime by a empts to democra ze urban planning and promote alterna ve urbanism. Interes ngly, the major site for these campaigns does not take place in Hong Kong’s densely populated districts. Fig 2. Lantau Tomorrow Vision is characterized by massive land Rather, it is the countryside, long ignored in the myth of the reclama on near the island and complex, big-budgeted infrastruc- city’s urban miracles, that is spotlighted as where alterna ve tures. A guided tour was organized to visualize the ocean that urban visions could emerge. Through fi eldwork, I am trying would disappear if the development plan is enacted.

22 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 12 unproﬁ table agricultural produc on for decades. They are more interested in selling their land to real estate developers. In a city with the least aﬀ ordable housing in the world, the expecta on of exchanging land for economic ci zenship is nothing special. I learned from Lucas, the Nepalese farmer in charge of Gold- en Snake’s daily maintenance, that Mr. Chan is more interested in keeping a farm as a hobby than marke ng the crops with a business-mind (he comes only on weekends to work in the farm). A true farming master, Lucas is paid hourly. Of- ten mes, he has to dump all he grows, since there are not many customers.

Fig 4. Cows used to be part of local agricultural produc on, but became una ended a er the end of farming era. Showing up here and there, they have become a walking legacy.

The stake is especially high in Lantau. Long considered as Hong Kong’s back garden, Lantau Island has been a major des na on for outdoor fans. It has also a racted a range of local ci zens and expats, who have chosen to move in due to the rich natural landscapes, slow pace of country life, and rather aﬀ ordable rent, none of which can be found in the bustling city centers. Yet, Lantau was recently included in the largest development plan in the city’s history. The plan, namely Lantau Tomorrow Vision, is characterized by massive land reclama on near the island and complex, big-budgeted Fig 3. “Hong Kong's Tomorrow, Voices from Us” Four days a er infrastructures. This New Lantau is promoted as a beneﬁ - Hong Kong government announced Lantau Tomorrow Vision, a cial investment that can not only solve Hong Kong’s hous- protest against the top-down planning broke. ing shortage, but also helps to further connect Hong Kong to Mainland China.

Such a hidden farm would then remain unknown to the pub- To what extent can Hong Kong’s urban future be altered by lic, had there not been a group of ac vists who endeavor to ac vist interven ons that, like the Farm to Table, reach down promote “agricultural community” by launching a project deeply to the level of soil? As someone witnessing these bot- called Farm to Table. Inspired by a predecessor originated in tom-up eff orts, I hope my disserta on can give a though ul California, this project aims at connec ng farms, residents, answer. and restaurants at Plum Heart through food. The carrots I purchased are an example of what this emerging network of circula on may bring to an ordinary local resident. In addi on, the project invites urban residents to Plum Heart to join their farming camps, guided tours, and other ac vi- es that altogether make visible the life of this small town. A major part of my fi eldwork is to facilitate these mundane ac vi es by working with my informants. Some mes I work as a volunteer farmer, although I have been quite awkward and slow so far. The agendas of these experimental “social projects” in rural Hong Kong go beyond food consump on and farming per se. Cri cally embedded are hopes to enhance local community es and cul vate the public’s understandings and sensibili- es of how diff erent—and charming—the “village life” could Fig 5. Guided tours organized by Farm to Table typically end up be. These grassroots eff orts, on the other hand, are expected with a meal of locally grown foods. I perhaps don't have the to get scaled up, feeding the social movements against top- chance to say this in my disserta on, but this crown daisy tempura down, developmentalist urban planning. is truly a masterpiece.

VOLUME 12| 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER 23 interview or event, has begun resona ng with my growing percep on of this place. (Am I un- ethical, a sellout? Uber swallowed the Gulf’s Careem whole as it metastasized. It’s geƫ ng so cheap. And why is it so many drivers have started since the blockade? But rental rates correlate with internaƟ onal business expense accounts, not student funding. Is there even a bus? The new metro just went live, but there are no train stops within miles of my bachelor [studio apartment] and I heard there were Ɵ cket kiosk issues. World Cup is coming.) The oscilla ons of my existence here are harmonic and discordant with a rapidly evolving global city. In a country where almost 90% of 2.7 million total residents are non-ci zens, I am an outsider among outsiders among insiders and insiders who remain outsiders. Ci zens, the network whispers to the ini ate, are allegedly less o en seen. Work is perhaps the common denominator; we cannot be present without jobs and visa sponsorship. Yet I am called an expat, while others become laborers. Our spe- ciﬁ c exper ses are ordered and stra ﬁ ed along complex lines of Le tt e race, gender, class, passport ci zenship, and other more subtle r

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24 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 12 more than two decades, Qatar has invested heavily in outward- and inward-facing heritage projects including museums, events, archaeology sites, public art and exhibi ons, and other cultural produc ons. Culture has been deemed cri cal to na onal surviv- al—today as a development resource for Qatar’s Vision 2030 and tomorrow as a produc ve niche in a knowledge economy. Yet in the world’s richest na on per capita (by PPP), much of this work is completed by non-ci zens. Why is the postcolonial work of cultural na on-making so infl uenced by expatriates who may not share iden es, experiences, and values with the ci zens they ostensibly represent? What roles do these professionals play? What are the consequences of this system? Qatar’s transna onalism has taken on new urgency since the start of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt’s poli cal and economic blockade on June 5, 2017. (For the fi rst Ɵ me made in Qatar sƟ ckers decorate basics like bread and milk, though people joke it’s good to learn some Turkish or Farsi if you’re headed out for groceries.) Hashtag # [the siege] con nues, despite Qatar declaring “we’ve moved on” in the New York Times in December 2018. That venerable enterprise also covered Doha’s latest culture launch this spring, the Na onal Museum of Qatar, in its Style sec on. “So Power is in Style in Qatar.” Too true. Non-ci zen residents and tourists are usually enthusias c about their visits to Qatar’s cultural sites. In my par- cipant observa on they wax lyrical about NMoQ capturing the desert’s spare s llness and the Museum of Islamic Art’s Cairo- inspired Chinese-American monumentality. The chords struck don’t sound like ar fi ce, but visitors largely take home what has been designed for them to see. I’m grasping for answers to these questions through my fi eldwork in Doha. It’s a double challenge to study up not simply with professionals, but with interlocutors who often have very similar backgrounds to me. These days experts are usually viewed as doers, but my research suggests that they are as much particular social beings: highly mobile and privileged guests but ultimately constrained from contesting subtle narratives of royal legitima- cy. As societies increase their reliance on expertise in all kinds of decision making, how and why we come to trust experts are key questions for our time. Yet alongside this critique I also appreciate some potential for cross-cultural collaboration. Contem- porary globalizations contributed to aggressive nationalisms emerging around the world in part by reinforcing the value of human heritage. Is it too bold to also learn something about the urgent task of living and working together from a region which actually has been defi ned by movement and cross-cultural inter- dependence for millennia? At least these are my current trajectories. Seven and a half months behind me, seven and a half still ahead. Soon I’ll exit the country to switch visas. On my return I’ll head once again to the medical commission, where the thunk-zap of x-rays awaits all migrants to Qatar. By now I know to ask if the doctors might compare the new images to the old ones, rather than get as- signed the usual second round and subsequent TB test. We’ll see.

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BY Pablo Seward Delaporte, field researcher

Fig 1. Pachaku , one of 64 se lements (campamentos) that predominantly migrant people built in Antofagasta, Chile, beginning in 2015.

It is a mid-May evening in Antofagasta, Chile’s rich but ex- with this evening, however, have challenged this neolib- tremely unequal copper mining capital in the Atacama Des- eral imaginary. Since they seized government lands in 2015, ert, right around the me when the desert’s dry heat quickly these migrant women have developed their campamento— gives way to sharp cold. I stand huddled together with ap- once abandoned dump yards—into a vibrant and permanent proximately 150 self-iden ﬁ ed pobladoras (shantytown neighborhood, with rela vely solid homes; informal but se- dwellers) in their campamento (informal se lement) on the cure access to basic services; wide roads; community ven- windy hillsides surrounding Antofagasta’s modern coastal ues; churches; internal transporta on systems; and periodic core. Pachaku —as I call their campamento—houses ap- “intercultural” fes vals and ac vi es. proximately 5,000 people, about 80% of them immigrant, and is today the largest campamento in Chile. Of the 150 pobladoras gathered this evening, virtually all of them are im- migrants, most of them Indigenous Quechua- and Aymara- speaking women from Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Campamentos in Chile today are generally no longer imagined as the transgressive paramilitary “encampments” that Le par es helped found in the decades prior to Pinochet’s coup as bas ons of popular power and that Pinochet then violently repressed. Rather, they are seen as anachronis c Fig 2. An allegorical car spaces of poverty in Chile’s otherwise miraculous economy, transpor ng “queens” where the poor provisionally “camp out” while they wait for from diﬀ erent areas capital subsidies to access privately constructed social hous- of Pachaku during an intercultural fes val in ing projects in the peripheries. The pobladoras who I stand February 2019.”

26 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 12 We are huddled together tonight on what once was the ce- Impact Agency (EIA) regarding the construc on of an elec- ment founda on of one of the eighty or so homes that, in trical substa on on one end of Pachaku . Pobladoras argue early 2018, Antofagasta’s regional government evicted and that construc ng the substa on would consolidate the trans- re-se led in a transitory emergency neighborhood. The re- mission lines that cross Pachaku , thus guaranteeing Pacha- gional government targeted Pachaku out of Antofagasta’s ku ’s eventual disappearance. 64 campamentos because of its extreme risk condi on: Over the frame that remains from the rese led home on many of Pachaku ’s homes occupy the “safety zones” of the founda on where we stand, pobladoras have draped a three high-voltage transmission lines. Fully aware of the risks white blanket where EIA offi cials and representa ves from that living under these lines entails, the pobladoras I stand the private company planning to build the substa on project with tonight nevertheless refused to rese le in the emergen- a PowerPoint presenta on. The mee ng seems uneven ul. cy neighborhood. Despite its environmental risk condi on, Both company representa ves and government offi cials are Pachaku —pobladoras insist—provides them with the con- reluctant to heed pobladoras’ claim that Pachaku has “sys- di ons to strive for what they o en describe as a “dignifi ed tems of life” and “customs” that Chile’s laws may recognize life” (vida digna). as worthy of environmental protec on—campamentos are rarely imagined as places of culture. Dogs abandoned by the neighbors who le to the transitory emergency neighborhood roam around, occasionally breaking into passing fi ghts. The constant buzz from the transmission lines is louder at this me of the day when people all over the city return home from work and use more electricity, although pobladoras point out that by now their ears have become desen- si zed to the buzz. Con nued on next page

Fig 3. The ruins of a home in Pachaku that regional government authori es rese led in a transitory emergency neighborhood in January 2018.

We are gathered tonight because since resis ng rese lement pobladoras in Pachaku have begun dreaming about the seemingly impossible goal of urbanizing their se lement. With this dream in mind, a few months ago pobladoras ﬁ - nanced a topographic study of their se lement and directly Fig 5. Homes built beside one of many par cipated in its elabora on. In doing so, they have had to towers in Pachaku endure recurrent taunts by authori es and experts who ac- holding the high- cuse them of deceiving their neighbors with “false hopes.” voltage transmis- The mee ng tonight is part of a “civic par cipa on” ac vity sion lines that cross that the pobladoras required from the state’s Environmental the se lement.

Fig 4. Topographic image of Pachaku crossed by the three transmission lines, as well as by a highway that the government plans to build over Pachaku

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But, suddenly, one of the pobladoras displays a banner reading, “No to the substa on, yes to urbaniza on!” and others begin chan ng, “Who will leave? The lines! Who will stay? The pobladoras!” Visibly disturbed, the substa on company’s representa ve reveals a secret we would later learn he was not meant to reveal: that the government had already approved a project that would move the transmission lines out of Pachaku within three years. Pobladoras greet the revela on with joy, clapping excitedly and hugging each other. The uproar drowns a state offi cial’s warning that moving the lines does not, by any standard, guarantee Pachaku ’s urbaniza on. A pobladora next to me, Carmen, is too excited to hear the state offi cial. During Pachaku ’s last carnaval— Fig 7. A pobladora working with an engineer in a topographic study of Pachaku fi nanced by the pobladoras in order to push for the an Andean fes val that pobladoras celebrated in February— seemingly impossible dream of urbanizing Pachaku . Carmen had prayed to the virgin for the transmission lines to move. She rubs her hands together intensely, more out of ku has become a way for pobladoras to exit this violence, excitement than cold. The next morning Carmen would tell and dream and make real a diff erent world. My disserta on me that her racing thoughts and insa able appe te a er the focuses on Pachaku and other campamentos like it in An- good news kept her up all night. tofagasta. These are spaces generally seen as high-risk zones with environmentally and economically “vulnerable” popula- ons, which the state has the ethical duty to “eradicate” and overcome. That migrant pobladoras around the city have sys- tema cally refused this mode of care and insisted that their campamentos, despite their vulnerability, are desirable places to live in raises a series of interes ng ques ons regarding biopower, structural violence, neoliberalism, ci zenship, risk, and desire amid changing confi gura ons of migra on, poverty, and urban environments. How do migrant women imagine the state’s changing investments in caring for them and their communi es? How do their life trajectories and iden es as Black, as Indigenous, as women, as poor, and as migrants defi ne how they sense Fig 6. Pobladoras huddled together on the cement founda on of injus ce in this form of caring (or not)? How do these as- a rese led home for the mee ng with EIA offi cials and company pects of their individual iden es shape their thoughts, feel- representa ves. ings, and desires about a “dignifi ed life” in their se lements? Through what prac ces do they share and voice cri que, and Pobladoras recognize that Pachaku is a symptom of the then act to change the status quo and inaugurate new worlds structural violence that leaves migrants homeless in Chile (or not)? What subjec ve states do these processes gener- and pushes them to live in precarious ecologies. But it is ate? How do these processes open and close personal and not only this, and in the four years since it emerged, Pacha- collec ve horizons and crises of life in the campamentos?

Con nued from page 13 - What's in your bag? Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Technology Specialist, has helped me out on a number Emerson, Robert M, Rachel I Fretz, and Linda L Shaw. of these questions. 2011. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. Chicago: In short: the resources are there. Sometimes, it’s just a University of Chicago Press. matter of having these kinds of conversations – that, I Price, David. “Antropologists in the Archives: A Brief think, was our goal in having the methods panel. Hope- Guide for the Perplexed.” Anthrodendum, 2018. fully, this won’t be the last. https://anthrodendum.org/2018/10/22/anthropologists-in-the-archives-a-brief-guide-for-the- perplexed/ References Sanjek, Roger. 1990. Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthro- Cerwonka, Allaine, and Liisa Malkki. 2007. Improvising pology. New York: Cornell University Press.

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by Janet Diaz, undergrad anthropology Senior

In the Name of Safety kicked up his feet, lost his fl ip-fl ops in the process but refused to walk up the ambulance steps. His mom stretched out her hand, begging, saying that she needed him to help I spent my summer in Texas working at Oasis, a domes c vio- her out and that he had to go with her. Yet, Brandon refused. lence shelter dedicated to caring for survivors who have fl ed He let go of the burger in his hand and pulled Brenna’s hair from their abusive partner. At Oasis, I worked primarily at and lanyard. I picked up the items he dropped and tried to the client services desk, which is the ‘hub’ of the shelter. Sur- talk him into staying inside the ambulance. I knew he was vivors/clients can go to the desk to collect their daily medi- afraid of enclosed spaces. For what seemed to be the fi h ca on, request extra clothes, schedule taxi pick ups, and be me, Brenna pleaded that the paramedic hold on to the child helped with other services. Social workers a end to varying who was using all his strength to push out of the ambulance. needs - primarily, a en on needs to be on the client, but When the paramedic fi nally helped, Brenna closed the door. there is also administra ve/bureaucra c work to which they Sighing, she said, “Poor baby.” We walked back into the shel- need to (equally) a end. This mul plicity of interests cre- ter, talking about the chaos and sadness of that moment. ates a struggle within social workers, most of whom, at Oa- sis, are women of color. I describe social workers as women Even though Brenna knew that the boy didn’t want to leave, with hybrid subjec vi es because there are mul ple iden - she was le with no other choice but to send him in the am- es and experiences they have had that create the personal bulance, because Oasis does not allow kids to be at the shel- self; moreover, they have the tools, training, and ins tu onal ter without their parents’ supervision, another rule imposed backing to create the professional self. However, as workers, for the purposes of “safety”. This shows how the structures they are disciplined to correspond with clients in a manner of the domes c violence shelter prevent workers from enact- that is not necessarily compassionate and loving. This pre- ing the hybrid subjec vity, the personal and the professional vents social workers from enac ng professional and personal self. To do her job, she enacted an ugly form of professional care in a way that embodies the full poten ality of their hy- care that wasn’t refl ec ve of the empathe c compassion she brid subjec vi es. would otherwise feel for someone in a situa on with which she was personally familiar. One a ernoon, Brenna (a Client Service Advocate) and I were on shi . Lots of kids and their moms were fi nishing lunch, I argue that it's not just the lack of resources that employees, when an ambulance arrived at the shelter. A client had felt with the severed self, confront when making pragma c de- nauseous and vomited earlier in the day, so she requested cisions. At Oasis, social workers were cau ous about giving that an ambulance be called for her. Before the paramedics “too many” things to clients. When I asked why, they o en rolled in, Brenna took Brandon, the client’s son, into the in- referred to the rules limi ng clothing items per person living take room adjacent to the hall his mom was lying in to fi nish in the shelter. They also frequently men oned how the items his lunch. From the Client Services desk, I observed as the cli- in the back closet were limited: they always needed to have ent’s vitals were taken and she was rolled out of the shelter. some on reserve. This idea of wan ng to help future people Other families also stared back to see what was going on. meant giving the bare minimum (or insuffi cient) resources to the present client. During my me at Oasis, for instance, Now that the client was in the ambulance, Brenna needed to baby wipes were ra oned. Newly donated packages would take Brandon out, and she was going to need help. She had be opened, and about ten wipes were added to Ziploc bags. been running from the parking lot, back inside the shelter, I was told that when clients exited, they would receive the and back out to coordinate between the paramedics and the regular-sized packs. However, in my two months at Oasis, mother, and to check-in on Brandon. I walked into the intake women did not always leave through the procedure outlined room and told Brandon we were going to leave now; Brenna by the agency. Some would be midnight exits1, and others walked him out while I stayed behind to grab the booster seat and wrap his burger and tater tots just in case he didn’t 1 A “midnight exit” was how women were marked get food at the hospital. I caught up with Brenna and Bran- if they did not return before the 10:00pm room checks. It don. Brandon shouted and tugged at Brenna’s arm because was assumed that if women did not return, they were not “he didn’t want to go to jail.” Brenna repeated back that no in need of or did not want Oasis services. Thus they were one was taking him to jail, he was going to the hospital with dismissed from receiving services. Women classifi ed as his mom. We approached the ambulance sta oned in the “midnight exits” typically call to schedule a me to pick up middle of the parking lot. No shade, just the hundred-degree their belongings at the administra on building. Texas sun hi ng our faces as we wrestled with Brandon to get inside. As Brenna sat him on the ambulance steps, he Con nued on page 39

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by Cora Cliburn, undergrad anthropology Senior

Articulating the Environment: Discourse on Sustainability Among Beijing’s Elite Engineering Students

This research is based on ﬁ eldwork during summer 2018 at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. My honors thesis examines how Tsinghua students envision their own responsibility, as well as that of the university and the Chinese government, respectively, in addressing environmental challenges. This research revealed several discourses, but focuses on what I call a discourse of inchoateness, characterized by a willingness to take stock of environmental issues, accompanied by a sense of fear in asserting one’s viewpoint—a sort of sophisticated confusion. “The Blues” are one of four mechanisms that inform and color this discourse. What follows is an excerpt from my second chapter.

I was introduced to the “The Blues” for the fi rst time while ers2. Air quality data at this time showed a considerable re- speaking with two biology Ph.D. students, Gao and Wen, duction in nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide and photochemical fi rst- and fi fth-year lab mates, respectively. According to smog, confi rming the experience on the ground3. Wen, “every year Tsinghua’s School of Environment has a slogan. At fi rst it seemed very interesting: ‘In twenty years Wen described this period to me: we will welcome a blue sea and a blue sky.’” She smirked and glanced over at Gao. “I was particularly excited when I Under these restrictive measures, the sky became heard it the fi rst year. In the second year, the slogan had not blue again. Therefore, if the measures are strong changed; it was still ‘twenty years later.’ Every year there are enough, these [air pollution] issues will go away. You still twenty more years.” She and Gao looked at each oth- cannot always use such a sudden and strong means er and then burst into laughter. “Maybe this phrase is just to suppress activity, but this does tell us that there something that sounds good. However, it is undeniable that is a possibility; our interventions can be rigorous [the government] is making their best eff ort in this regard.” and have a quick eff ect. Nevertheless, after hosting APEC, Beijing returned to being what it is. Those two “In what ways?” I asked. days had such a big impact on life.

“The simplest example is APEC 2014,” she said. In Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011), Rob Nixon writes of the techniques those in a position of The Asia-Pacifi c Economic Cooperation (APEC) Confer- power use to obscure damage, highlighting the aesthetic ence, which Beijing hosted in November 2014, came up manipulation involved. For example, he points to the 2010 regularly in my conversations with students as an example Deepwater Horizon spill as an example of the way “the tem- of the Chinese government’s ability to bring about swift poral horizons of disaster zone are… routinely foreshort- and drastic change. In order to ensure cleaner air for inter- ened,” due to the cover-up strategies implemented by the national guests, Beijing forced thousands of factories near perpetrators of environmental harm4. He notes that British the capital to shut down or reduce emissions by 30%, halt- Petroleum carpet bombed the spill with Corexit at night— ing construction projects and limiting traffi c1. Schools and public offi ces were closed and economic and social activities 2. Didi Tatlow. 2014. “In Beijing, Clearer Views Hide Real Life.” The suppressed, with restrictions extending to a ban on temples New York Times, The New York Times, Nov 7. Accessed November burning incense and wedding parties setting off fi recrack- 11, 2018. 3. X. Li and Y. Wei. 2016. “Comparative Analysis Of The Charac- teristics Of Atmospheric Pollution In Beijing Before And After The 1. Zhanshan Wang, Yunting Li, Tian Chen, Dawei Zhang, Lingjun APEC Conference.” 121-131. Li, Baoxian Liu, Jinxiang Li, Feng Sun, and Libo Pan. 2016. Haoran Liu, Cheng Liu, Zhouqing Xie, Ying Li, Xin Huang, Shan- “Science-Policy Interplay: Improvement of Air Quality from 2008 shan Wang, Jin Xu, and Pinhua Xie. 2016. “A Paradox for Air Pol- to 2014 in Beijing and the Scientifi c Approach to Achieve APEC lution Controlling in China Revealed by ‘APEC Blue’ and ‘Parade Blue.” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 97 (4) (04): Blue.’” Scientifi c Reports 6: 34408. 553-559. 4. Rob Nixon. 2011. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 272-73.

30 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 12 View from Wenbeilou, Tsinghua University (Photos by Author)

“thus the oil dispersant operated as an image dispersant”— Both Wen’s and Yang’s responses contained tones of hope- and strictly controlled media coverage of the aff ected area5. fulness and possibility tinged with pragmatism. Neither Together, these techniques are reminiscent of certain forms woman expressed anger or frustration about the way the of environmental engineering and censorship carried out by government momentarily created better living conditions the Chinese government6. only to reverse the process soon after. Instead, APEC Blue seemed to represent a moment when Beijing’s potential Eff orts to clean the air during APEC similarly attempted to was made tangible, all part of a larger movement toward a mask reality and save face. But unlike Deepwater Horizon, better environmental future—one in which younger genera- “The Blues” are not a singular instance in one location; they tions are directly implicated and integral. As Wen said after, are a repeated demonstration of the Chinese government’s capacity to make a change when it decides that it would be Are young people the future? They should be and politically expedient to do so. APEC Blue was just one exam- actually already are. Environmental protection must ple in a series of “Blues,” including Parade Blue and Olympic happen within our generation. This is the road we Blue7. Many international media platforms noted the un- have to walk. We need to make change with an eye ethical and opportunistic nature of Beijing’s actions during to our past and future and try to contribute. We can APEC and responded cynically, criticizing the government start with small behaviors in our daily life… This cen- for using authoritarian interventions to briefl y bolster its in- tury is really an experiment for all of us. ternational image while evading systemic issues8. Elizabeth Economy has refl ected a similar degree of opti- However, not everyone viewed the government in a nega- mism about China’s environmental future, though she has tive light as a result. In line with certain journalists, many pointed to students and young people as the key: “We can students like Yang, an intern with the Brookings-Tsinghua expect this next generation to be bolder. They possess the center, acknowledged that APEC Blue was by no means a full complement of skills necessary to organize eff ectively: permanent solution but expressed trust in the larger deci- technical expertise on the environment, strong backgrounds sion-making process: in journalism and media, and extensive ties to environmental activists both throughout China and abroad.”9 Yet, as Beijing had such blue skies—it was unbelievable, just my conversations with students showed, their responses, for that weekend. But you cannot keep those facto- while seemingly certain, still consist of generalizations and ries shut down forever, because we still need to de- patient, perhaps even resigned, notions of a temporally un- velop the economy at the same time as you think defi ned, iterative and imperfect government process. about the energy issues. That’s what the government is trying to do, and I think it is putting a lot of money I argue that, for Tsinghua students and other Beijing resi- and resources into this. dents, the temporal incrementality generated by so-called quick fi xes is yet another mechanism contributing to a discourse of inchoateness. Perhaps, as long as consistent blue 5. Ibid, 273-75. skies are always a future aspiration, pollution will continue 6. Denyer, Simon and Xu Yangjing. 2014. “Unable to clean air com- to be normalized, leading people to provide ambivalent pletely for APEC, China resorts to blocking data.” WorldViews, The commentary on what might feel like a persistent condition, Washington Post, Nov 10. even if logically they know it is an emergency. 7. Elizabeth Economy. 2010. The river runs black: the environmental challenge to China's future. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 180. 9. Economy. The river runs black: the environmental challenge to 8. Didi Tatlow. 2014. “In Beijing, Clearer Views Hide Real Life.” The China's future. 179. New York Times, The New York Times, Nov 7.

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“They Love Me, They Love Me Not— And tos," June-August 2016, an exhibit of 30 1950 Why It Matters” at www.youtube.com/ photographs taken in Juchitán between watch?v=6ePXxeGrfvQ. 1971-2014; Casa de la Cultura, Juchitán, Nancy M Williams [AB 1950] Oaxaca. Honorary Reader in Anthropology, David K Jordan [MA 1964] School of Social Science, University of Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Peter G Bourne [MA 1969] Queensland. UCSD. Oﬃ cially retired at UCSD in 2004 Visiting senior research fellow, Green but continued to teach a full load pro bono Templeton College, University of Oxford, Ronald Wolf [BA 1953] through winter 2019. This makes 50 years U.K. Working on why the Dutch are so tall. Retired at UCSD, and I shall spend Spring, 2019 Paper pending publication.

emptying my offi ce for the next generation. I'm happy to say that I have been Roberta Reiff Katz [BA 1969] 1960 able to leave an endowed fi eldwork fund Senior Research Scholar at CASBS. In as legacy. collaboration with a sociologist, a linguist, Cecile (Cissie) D Hill [BA 1961] and a cultural historian, I am completing a Retired from the Hoover Institution, at Rosana L Hart [BA 1964] study of college-age post-millennials that Stanford in 2005; My position had been to Owner, Hartworks LLC. Writing websites seeks to better understand daily life activi- curate exhibits, using the materials in the and books. My main project right now is a ties as well as values and worldviews. The collections of the Hoover Archives. series of memoirs. Details at my site zana- study has led to a series of short articles hart.com and Zana Hart is the name I use about iGen (also known as GenZ) that run Lynda Lytle Holmstrom [BA 1961] for my Kindles and paperbacks at Amazon. in Pacifi c Standard this spring and will also Professor Emerita, Sociology Department, result in a book that we anticipate will be Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. There’s Pell Fender [MA 1967] published in 2020. no “heavy lifting,” as they say, at the Despite my advanced age I am still serv- moment. But I work on various projects, ing as the Chief Development Offi cer of including the Eastern Sociological Society growing Home, a Westminster-based (CO) Opportunities in Retirement Network; nonprofi t helping families struggling with 1970 originally an ad hoc group, it now is an poverty. offi cial ESS Committee. Also, people keep David B Kronenfeld [PhD 1970] asking to interview me about the rape Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Wilma Wool [MA 1968] research I began with Ann Wolbert Burgess Department of Anthropology, University Hiking teacher Fremont HSD Adult Educa- so many decades ago; it’s nice to know of California, Riverside. My major recent tion. people still are interested, although the endeavor has been my attempt (in my downside is that violence against women 2017 Culture as a System: How we Know Anya Peterson Royce [AB 1968] remains, I think, the greatest health chal- the Meaning and Signifi cance of what we Chancellors Professor of Anthropology lenge of our day. Do and Say. Oxford and New York: Rout- and of comparative Literature, Indiana ledge) to understand what we mean by University Bloomington; Adjunct Profes- Alan Howard [PhD 1962] "culture", why it is something more than sor, Irish World Academy of Music and Professor Emeritus, University of Hawai'i simple "whatever it is that anthropologists Dance, University of Limerick. Awarded at Manoa. Since retirement in 1999 I have describe", and why it is something both the Medalla Binniza [Medal of the Zapotec published a book and 25 articles/book "real" and important. I explore how it can People] for her contributions to the Zapo- chapters, almost all of which are available function as a distributed, diff erentially tec people over 5 decades of fi eld research in pdf format and can be downloaded shared, collective cognitive structure--that in Juchitan, Oaxaca. Awarded the Tracy along with my vitae from my personal only exists in our knowledge of it--in much M. Sonneborn award for distinguished website at the same sense that the grammar of a research and distinguished teaching by language exists. Culture does not tell us Indiana University. Received an Honorary Ronald P Rohner [PhD 1964] what to do, but tells us how what we do is degree from the University of Limerick Professor Emeritus and Director. Ronald likely to be understood by those around for her distinguished scholarship in the and Nancy Rohner Center for the Study of us; and it gives us a set of possible ways of anthropology of dance and performance Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection. thinking about and acting in kinds of situa- and for her contributions to the Irish Join the International Society for Interper- tions we might conceptualize ourselves as World Academy of Music and Dance. Most sonal Acceptance and Rejection at isipar. being in a one moment or another. It does recently, she has curated three exhibits of uconn.edu. (8th International Congress on not impinge on our agency, but does help photographs of her and her late husband's Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection will us make sense of how others may make work in Juchitan: "Transformations: The be in Porto, Portugal in 2020). Recipient sense of how we decide to act. Isthmus Zapotec of Juchitán, 1967-2018", of the American Psychological Association an Exhibit of Photographs by Anya Pe- Award for Distinguished Contributions to My work on kinship continues in articles terson Royce, Mathers Museum, August the International Advancement of Psy- and conferences. I have tried to un- 21-December 10, 2018. "Guidxi Stine’ Ne chology. He also received the Outstand- derstand terminologies fi rst as formal Ca Xpanda’/ Mi Pueblo y Sus Retratos, ing International Psychologist Award systems, and then as kinterms are used Juchitan, Oaxaca", selected photographs from the USA for 2008, and the Henry in conversation and interaction, and then 1971-1972, Ronald R. Royce, Mathers David International Mentoring Award in as they are extended to wider reaches of Museum, May 1, 2018. And "Guidxi Stine’ 2017. View Rohner’s TEDxUCONN talk kin and non-kin--denotatively, connota- Ne Ca Xpanda’/ Mi Pueblo y Sus Retra-

32 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 12 Alumni News tively, and fi guratively. I have looked at tomize CodePhil digital training products Nicol "Nick" I Mackenzie [AB 1973] how kinterm patterns relate to patterns into the languages of indigenous people Small business owner. Retired from the of behavior among kin, to kingroups such of Mindanao and local IT companies to practice of Anesthesiology. President of as lineages, and to kin categories such as develop telemedicine applications. Monterey Medical Solutions providing clans--and what ties all this together." continuing computer and consulting sup- Jean E Jackson [PhD 1972] port of the Stanford Children's Hospital David E Young [PhD 1970] Professor of Anthropology Emerita, Parenteral Nutrition Program and other Retired Massachusetts Institute of Technology. client hospitals. Managing Multiculturalism: Indigeneity Charles E Fulkerson jr [BA 1970] and the Struggle for Rights in Colombia Elaine Wong [AB 1973] Semi-retired, writing, painting, teaching (2019 Stanford University Press) ex- Senior Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences and enjoying the heck outta life. Stan- amines the evolution of the Colombian for Undergraduate Education in 2019-20. ford Magazine publishes another article indigenous movement over the course of I am coordinating the implementation of authored by me about Leland Stanford Jean Jackson's fi ve decades of research in new general education requirements for and I getting "spiked" when building our the region. She off ers comprehensively The Brandeis Core, including new Diver- railroads (End Note, May-June 2019). In developed and nuanced insights into how sity, Equity and Inclusion Studies in the 2018 won CT awards for recent watercol- indigenous communities and activists US; Diff erence and Justice in the World; ors and spring 2019 teaching watercolor to changed over time, as well as how her Health, Wellness and Life Skills; Critical a class of 10 adults. Live with my wonder- own ethnographic fi eldwork and scholar- Conversations in the First Year Experience; ful middle-aged Boxer mutt in a big old ship evolved in turn. https://www.sup.org/ and Digital Literacy, Oral Communication, "Colonial" house. books/title/?id=20624 and Writing Intensive requirements as defi ned in each major. I am also chairing Pamela B Maes [BA 1970] Lia Saroyan [BA 1972] Retired our Committee for the Support of Teach- Retired Nurse Practitioner in Family Helped my twin granddaughters move ing's eff orts to address the rising cost of medicine. Completed timber framed barn into their respective dorms as entering textbooks and the facilitation of a more on our property so Gary has a workshop. Stanford freshman in the class of 2022. accessible and inclusive learning environ- Celebrating all parts of our life with six Not my accomplishment, all theirs. I have ment for students with disabilities. I also grand children. Plan to continue to travel no recent accomplishments, nor do I desire serve on an Undergraduate Advising Work- to reconnect with friends and family!! any. Grateful to be healthy and happy. ing Group for Brandeis's strategic planning eff orts, and work to advance faculty Eric Almquist [AB 1970] Jean E DeBernardi [BA 1973] support for international, fi rst generation, Partner, Bain & Company, Boston. The Ele- Professor, Department of Anthropol- and URM students. ments of Value, Harvard Business Review, ogy, University of Alberta. I was acting 2016; The B2B Elements of Value, Harvard chair of the anthropology department Jack Bilmes [PhD 1974] Business Review, 2018 2017-18; I am now on sabbatical and have Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Anthropol- just completed a book entitled Christian ogy, University of Hawaii, Manoa. Special Naomi R Quinn [PhD 1971] Circulations: Global Christianity and the issue of Journal of Pragmatics on regrad- Professor Emerita, Department of Cultural Local Church in Penang and Singapore, ing in conversation (forthcoming)--one Anthropology, Duke University. 1-"His- 1819-2000. My most recent ethnographic article by me, fi ve by my students. torical circumstances and biological research project focused on the topic "From ethnosemantics to occasioned proclivities surrounding patriarchy," in The "Material Identity: The Anthropology semantics: The transformative infl uence of Psychology of Women under Patriarchy, H. of Contemporary Chinese Tea Culture," Harvey Sacks." Forthcoming in On Sacks: Mathews & A. Manago, eds., 2019. Albu- and my next goal is to write a book that Methodology, materials, and inspirations. querque: School for Advanced Research. will focus on Wuyi Mountain's black and No page numbers yet. 2-Advances in oolong teas. Dean Chavers [MA 1974] Culture Theory from Psychological Anthro- Director, Catching the Dream, formerly pology, N. Quinn, ed, 2018. NY: Palgrave Stephen Lawson [BA 1973] known as the Native American Scholarship Macmillan. 3-Attachment Reconsidered: Retired from the Linus Pauling Institute Fund, which has produced 1,010 graduates Cultural Perspectives on a Western Theory, and from a courtesy faculty appointment since 1986.Maintained a graduation rate N. Quinn & J. Mageo, eds., 2013. NY: Pal- in the Department of Biomedical Sciences of 80.2% with 1,328 students funded and grave Macmillan. at Oregon State University. I just com- 1,010 graduates at the BA/BS, MA, Ph. D. pleted the introductory chapter for a new and MD levels. Martti J Vallila [BA 1971] academic book on vitamin C scheduled for Author of 8 “Bannana books” including publication this year. My chapter gives the Hector Neff [AB 1974] “Bannana in Russia; Commercializing historical overview of the clinical use of Professor, Department of Anthropology, Transformational Technologies” and high-dose vitamin C as adjunctive cancer CSULB. Edited volume (Glascock, Neff , “Bannana Vindicated” which detail my therapy, mainly focused on the collab- and Vaughn, eds., 2019) Ceramics of the discovery of an unrecognized treatment orative work of Linus Pauling and Ewan Indigenous Cultures of South America, of Alzheimer’s. Am living in Mindanao, Cameron that began in the early 1970s and University of New Mexico Press. Recent Philippines which I discovered in 1971 as on the controversial studies at the Mayo papers in Latin American Antiquity, An- a Volunteers in Asia teacher at Mindanao Clinic. cient Mesoamerica, Geoarchaeology, and State University in Marawi City. Working Biology Letters. Working on a book, Fire with students at Columbia & MIT to cus- and Salt: A History of Human Exploitation

VOLUME 12| 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER 33 Alumni News of the Pacifi c Littoral of Southern Chiapas, fund-raising and programmatic oversight International Union of Anthropological Mexico. for activities in health, nutrition, water and Ethnological Sciences in Florianopolis, and sanitation, protection and education Brazil, completed fi ve-year term as IUAES Terry Gerritsen [BA 1975] on behalf of some 50,000 girls, boys and President. At the 2018 AAA meeting was Novelist and fi lmmaker. Using my Anthro adolescents in migrant and host communi- awarded a AAA Presidential Award for her degree in unexpected ways! Now fi lming a ties across Colombia. contributions to the unifi cation of global documentary about the centuries-old rela- anthropology under the newly founded tionship between humans and pigs. (Title: World Anthropological Union. At the "Pig.") A bit diff erent from my usual work 1980 2018 AAA meeting was honored with a as a novelist. My 28th novel, THE SHAPE double session that marked the 10th year OF NIGHT, will be published this fall. Michael R Dove [PhD 1981] anniversary of the publication of her book, Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in Dorinne K Kondo [BA 1975] Ecology, School of Forestry and Environ- the Global Age. Has been invited to deliver Professor of American Studies and Anthro- mental Studies; Curator, Peabody Museum a keynote lecture, "Navigating Racialisa- pology, University of Southern California. of Natural History; Co-Coordinator, Joint tion’s Dangerous 'Glocal' Terrain: Africana My book, Worldmaking: Race, Performance F&ES/Anthropology Doctoral Program; Feminisms in Transnational Counter- and the Work of Creativity (Duke, 2018) was Director, Council on Southeast Asian Stud- publics," at the international conference published at the end of 2018. Grounded ies; Professor, Department of Anthropol- on "Racialisation and Publicness" at the in critical ethnographic work, it theorizes ogy, Yale University. Completed book ms University of Oxford, June 27-28, 2019. Has racialized labor, aesthetics, aff ect, genre, on the ecological challenge of human been invited to spend fall 2019 as Visiting and structural inequality in contempo- consciousness, and published 5 papers: 1. Professor at Kyoto University's Institute rary theater. The text upends genre, Dove, M. R. and P. Kirch. 2018. Harold C. for Research in Humanities. While there interleaving analysis with vignettes and Conklin. NAS Biographical Memoirs: 1-14. she will collaborate with Professor Yasuko my full-length play Seamless. The book 2. Dove, M. R. 2018. Remembrance of H.C. Takezawa on a co-authored publication theorizes and performs the ways the arts Conklin. In: Shifting Cultivation Policies, that examines both transpacifi c and trans- can remake worlds, from theater worlds Malcolm Cairns ed., v. UK: Centre for atlantic perspectives on globalization and to inner, psychic worlds to worldmaking Agriculture and Biosciences International. multiple modalities of racialization. visions for social transformation. 3. Dove, M. R. 2018. "Rubber versus Forest on Contested Asian Land." Nature Plants Helene E Hagan [MA 1983] Lindsay S Robbins [BA 1976] 4:321-322. 4. Burow, P., S. Brock, M. R. President, Tazzla Institute for Cultural Di- Retired from veterinary medicine. Dove. 2018. "Unsettling the Land: Indige- versity (1993-present). Executive Producer, neity, Ontology, and Hybridity in Settler Amazigh Film Festival USA (2008-present). Susan B Timberlake [BA 1976] Colonialism." Environment and Society: My fi fth book was published in August Retired in 2014 as Chief, Human Rights and Advances in Research 9:57-74. 5. Keleman, 2018, titled Russell Means The European Law Division, Joint United Nations Pro- A., D. Chatti, K. Overstreet, M.R. Dove. Ancestry of a Militant Indian . It includes a gramme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Though 2018. "From Moral Ecology to Diverse chapter on the neglected history of French thoroughly enjoying the time, space, Ontologies: Relational Values in Human men and Indian women unions in early growth and peace of retirement from Ecological Research, Past and Present." America, and the brochure of my fi eldwork the United Nations, I am also working as Current Opinion in Environmental Sustain- on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation with a consultant to the Global Fund to Fight ability 35:54-60. Lakota elders, titled Visual Identifi cation AIDS, TB and Malaria to help countries get Project (1982-1985). Working on the pub- funds for and implement programs to re- David M Fetterman [PhD 1981] lication of my 2019 book of essays, Sixty move human rights-related barriers to HIV, President and CEO, Fetterman & Associ- Years in America, as an immigrant French TB and malaria health services in develop- ates, international consulting fi rm. Profes- Moroccan anthropologist." ing countries. These programs address sor (adjunct faculty), Pacifi ca Graduate stigma, discrimination, gender inequality Institute, University of Charleston. Invited Terry Rowe [BA 1983] and gender-based violence, and punitive to South Africa to provide training at the Senior Systems Tech at De Anza College laws, policies and practices by empower- Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Insti- in Cupertino. Celebrating 1st grandchild ing civil society and service providers with tute on behalf of the United Nations. 4th in March 2019. Completed my 200th human rights and legal tools and knowl- Edition of Ethnography: Step by Step (in cold-water scuba dive in 2018. Working edge to improve behavior and attitudes press). Trekked to Mt. Everest Base Camp to complete my boat captain's license in to support health. Beyond health, these in September. Recipient of the top anthro- 2020-21. programs also help strengthen communi- pologist of the year 2019 award (IAOTP) ties and civil society – threatened social Merry L Eilers [MA 1984] realities in an age of fragmentation and Irena Stein [MA 1981] Retired. Since 2008, at an annual event for repression. Proprietor, Alma Cocina Latina and Azaf- the State Department's select Interna- rán, LLC. tional Women of Courage, I have been a Frederick Spielberg [BA 1978] hostess to one of the ten chosen. They Emergency Coordinator, UNICEF-Colom- Faye V Harrison [PhD 1982] are brought by the DOS to Washington, bia. Organized and managed UNICEF- Professor of African American Studies DC and awarded in a Ceremony in the Colombia's humanitarian response in and Anthropology, University of Illinois State Dept. on March 8 each year. That is 2018 to the massive migratory infl ux at Urbana-ChampaignIn July 2018, at the International Women's Day. My organiza- from Venezuela, including coordination, closing of the 18th World Congress of the tion, American Women for International

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Understanding, partners with DOS to give Indians and the U.S. settler state, as well each other across continents and cultures them a banquet while they are in the USA. as national understandings of American using mobile apps. This year: my IWOC is from Bangladesh, identity and nationalism. assisting the Rahinga women refugees Janet R Elsbach [BA 1989] from Burma. Claudio Lomnitz [PhD 1987] I am a writer, and I teach writing for adults Professor of Anthropology. I published a with special needs in an organization that Robin Greenberg [BA 1984] book on my family's history titled Nuestra works to reconnect isolated populations to Documentary fi lm director & producer. América (Fondo de Cultura Económica, the community at large using the arts as Confl ict resolution mediator & trainer. 2018). My second play, La Gran Familia, a common ground. I published a book re- Director and producer of forthcoming was produced by Mexico's National The- cently about building community through documentary feature "MO TE IWI: Carving ater Company; and I edited a commemora- food, and enjoyed exploring how comfort for the People" on the life of Maori master tive volume for 50 years since Mexico's '68 food is connected across cultures globally. carver Rangi Hetet, which will celebrate movement (1968-2018: Memoria colectiva Extra Helping: Recipes for Caring, Connect- its World Premiere at the New Zealand de medio siglo. Mexico City: UNAM, 2018). ing and Building Community, One Dish at a International Film Festival 2019 (www. Time (Roost, 2018) moteiwi.com). Aaron Neiman [BA 1987] Professor and Chair, Department of Bio- Nicole Holzapfel [BA 1989] Monica G Brickwedel (Monica Garin) [AB chemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook JP Morgan Chase. Head of Regulatory 1985] University. Operations, Commercial Banking. I started Educator/Granada High School in Liver- teaching a class this semester called "Pre- more, CA. In my 34th year of teaching Kath Weston [PhD 1988] paring for Professional Life" at Fairleigh honors Physical and Cultural Geography! Professor of Anthropology, Department Dickinson University in New Jersey. of Anthropology, University of Virginia. Lucy Holmes [BA 1986] Awarded British Academy Global Profes- Danyelle M O'Hara [BA 1989] Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, sorship with The University of Edinburgh Director, Sustainable Forestry and African University at Buff alo. I currently have a (2019-2023); Published "The Ethnogra- American Land Retention Program, U.S. grant to conduct a health services trial pher's Magic as Sympathetic Magic", Endowment for Forestry and Communi- to improve health outcomes in children Social Anthropology/ Anthropologie Sociale ties. with asthma and from communities that 26:1 [2018]: 15-29. experience health disparities. Following the Chronic Care Mode as a framework, Murphy Halliburton [BA 1988] 1990 we are using a multifaceted intervention Professor, Department of Anthropology, to integrate the delivery of health services Queens College and the Graduate Center, Kim G Moore [BA 1990] through the use of school-based health CUNY. My new book - India and the Patent Deputy Director, GRIP Training Institute centers. Wars: Pharmaceuticals in the New Intel- and Insight-Out. Last fall I was invited to lectual Property Regime, Cornell University become the Deputy Director and eventual Steve Sellers [BA 1986] Press, 2017. http://www.cornellpress. successor ED for an amazing restorative Strategic Consultant. I am currently work- cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100933240. justice program called GRIP (Guiding Rage ing with three interesting organizations: into Power) working with more than 500 NatureServe, a nonprofi t that tracks Stephanie Keith [BA 1988] incarcerated people in 5 state prisons. species and works to provide the best Freelance Photojournalist. Award of We are excited to grow the program to information about biodiversity to decision- Excellence from the Pictures of the Year serve more of the 200,000 people on "Life makers in the federal and state govern- International photojournalism competition Row" -- incarcerated with life sentences ments and businesses; The Relay Fund, an in Daily Life Singles for a photo of Lakota -- in the US, and be part of the growing investment group focused solely on invest- teenagers on the Cheyenne River Indian movement to dismantle the unjust system ing in black- and latinx-owned businesses; Reservation in Green Grass, South Dakota, of mass incarceration. You can watch a and Circular Systems, an innovative fi ber U.S. while on assignment for Reuters. powerful trailer about our work at www. company whose goal is to reduce both insight-out.org. plant and chemical waste by using these Orin Starn [PhD 1989] materials to develop new materials for Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke Hugh Gusterson [PhD 1991] clothing, shoes and other items. University. My new book, The Shining Professor of Anthropology & International Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Aff airs, GWU. President, American Ethno- K Tsianina Lomawaima [PhD 1987] Andes, is being published by W. W. Norton. logical Society, 2015-2017. Author, Drone: Professor, School of Social Transformation, It's co-authored by historian Miguel La Remote Control Warfare (MIT Press, 2016). Arizona State University; 2018-19 Senior Serna, and tells the story of the rise and Co-editor special issue of Current Anthro- Fellow at the Clements Center for Study fall of Peru's brutal Maoist insurgent. pology on Cultures of Militarism (2019). of the Southwest, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX. Working on book Bill N Bradford [BA 1989] Deborah K Palmer [BA 1991] manuscript, tentatively titled The Land of President, Smule, Inc, social music Professor of Educational Equity and Cul- the Free, examining how early twentieth network based in San Francisco. Connect- tural Diversity in the School of Education century debates over U.S. citizenship for ing the world through music by enabling at the University of Colorado Boulder. My American Indians deepen our understand- Smule community members to sing virtual book titled Teacher leadership for social ing of the relations among American audio/video duets and group songs with change in bilingual/bicultural education

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Alumni Update by Mun Wei M Chan [BA 1994]

A er gradua ng from Stanford with a BA (Anthropol- ogy) and MA (Educa on) in 1994, I du fully returned to Singapore to serve my scholarship bond with Singapore Airlines. It wasn’t my only job. Over the subsequent two and a half decades, I would take on diff erent func onal roles in private and government organiza ons. Variety has been my spice of life. My last full- me posi on was as the Divisional Director of Corporate Planning at Sentosa Development Corpora on, which is the government en ty that looks a er the leisure island of Sentosa. The work was eclec c and the best part was formula ng and implemen ng the Sentosa Sustain- A wefi e of my wife Eunice and I at one of the public parks in Singapore. ability Plan. My team and I embarked on ini a ves such The city-state is very built up, yet there are pockets of green and tranquil- lity sca ered all over the 700 square kilometres of land. While there’s as vermicompos ng, installing a dal turbine to generate always the pressure to chop down trees in the name of development and renewable energy, improving energy effi ciency across the progress, am glad that the pro-ecology advocates have been speaking up business units and carrying out a biodiversity survey on to conserve the island’s precious fl ora and fauna. the island. As I got more involved in sustainability ma ers, I realized that sustainability indeed ma ers. It’s intellec- Increasingly, I realize that climate change, arguably the most tually challenging, meaningful and urgent too, bearing in cri cal sustainability issue, is not well-understood. While the mind the precarious state of the world’s ecology. adverse eff ects of an ever-increasing concentra on of greenhouse gases are more visible globally, most companies and A er nine and a half years at Sentosa, I returned my individuals do not see the connec on between their daily rou- Islander Pass in August 2018 to transi on to the gig nes and the harm done to the Earth. I hope to change that. economy. I’m now juggling consul ng, training, wri ng, Stanford taught me to look deep into the inter-relatedness of advocacy and investment -- this includes working with a things. It is with this lens that I intend to unpack and explain Singapore-based plas c manufacturing company to de- climate change in a simple and persuasive manner, so as to velop a circular economy business model, advoca ng for a nudge people to make ecologically responsible decisions. If greener world through the Sustainable SG Facebook page there are like-minded fellow Anthro alums who are interested that I started, and advising a social enterprise bakery on to collaborate, drop me an email at munwei.chan@alumni. how to grow its business (do well) so that it can employ stanford.edu ok? more persons with disabili es (do good).

came out in August 2018. I also recently recently promoted to Vice President of Dee Espinoza [BA 1993] (June 2018) edited a special issue of the Technology Solutions for SWCA. The CEO, Espinoza Consulting Services. My International Multilingual Research Journal company is the largest private employer of company, Espinoza Consulting Services, (vol 12, #3) titled "Teacher agency and archaeologists in North America. is in its 9th year in business with over 30 pedagogies of hope for bilingual learn- employees in a fi ve-state region (http:// ers (in a brave new world)." Other recent Nancy Marie Mithlo [PhD 1993] www.ecs-arch.com). I am serving my published work includes: "Maybe what Professor, Department of Gender Studies second term both as an elected offi cial we’ve done here in Antigua is just the and Affi liated Faculty, American Indian (Trustee for the Town of La Jara) and as a thing to combat global inequity': Devel- Studies Center and Interdepartmental Colorado governor-appointee to the Mi- oping Teachers for Linguistically Diverse Program 2017–2018. Visiting Scholar, Uni- nority Business Advisory Board. I recently Classrooms through Study Abroad", versity of California Los Angeles Institute had an article published on my company in a co-authored chapter for a book on of American Cultures, American Indian the Entrepreneur section of the Stan- immersion-based teacher preparation, and Studies Center, George A. and Eliza Gard- ford Business Magazine (http://stanford. "Speaking Educación in Spanish: linguistic ner Howard Foundation Fellow, Brown io/2RM7ZV0 ). I am also serving as host for and professional development in a bilin- University, Getty Research Institute Guest the 2019 San Luis Valley Economic Summit gual teacher education program in the US- Researcher. and am very active on the local level with Mexico borderlands," a co-authored article economic development. Personally, I have in the International Journal of Bilingual Patrick S Dote [BA 1993] a wonderful husband (Julian), six adult Education and Bilingualism. Director of Market Structure at Impera- children, fi ve grandchildren, and one large tive Execution. Leading research team German Shepherd. Work keeps me busy, Matthew S Bandy [AB 1992] at startup dark pool focused on reducing but in my spare time I like to fi sh, hang out SWCA Environmental Consultants. I was implicit costs of trading through modeling. with family, and paint.

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Shana L Yansen [AB 1995] Up to Colonial Power: The Lives of Henry US Embassy Bangkok (starting in August Harvard Kennedy School of Government Roe and Elizabeth Bender Cloud (University 2020). Executive Education. After serving in of Nebraska Press, 2018). I became co-PI Peace Corps Honduras for 2 years, entered of the one million UCOP Critical Mission Julia K Nelson [BA 2005] the fi eld of global health, working primar- Studies Grant in collaboration with the Head of Research, Moo Print Ltd. Com- ily in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and In- Amah Mutsun starting January 2019 and pleting a market segmentation project donesia through Johns Hopkins Center for ending December 2020. I, with under- that will drive company strategy for the Communication Programs. Later started graduate and graduate students, postdocs next 5 years. a company to empower women through and tribal members will develop projects income-generating opportunities-- sourc- and conduct research in collaboration Howard Chiou [MA 2006] ing eco-conscious and ethical apparel and with the Amah Mutsun about the missions CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Offi cer. accessories. Sold company, returned to and their ancestors who were prisoners global health at Harvard Global Health of missions and other topics critical of the Mollie Chapman [BA 2006] Institute and recently shifted into public mission system. Postdoc, University of Zurich policy and leadership training at Harvard's Kennedy School Executive Education Sonia Das [AB 1999] Tracy N Hadnott [BA 2006] (enjoying greatly). Sending my deepest Associate Professor, Department of An- Assistant Professor, Department of gratitude to the amazing faculty, students thropology, New York University. Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive and experiences sparked through Stan- Sciences, Division of Reproductive En- ford's Anthropology Dept. docrinology and Infertility, UC San Diego School of Medicine. Finishing postgradu- Julia Macias [AB 1997] 2000 ate clinical training Reproductive Endo- Assistant Dean, Offi ce of Scholar Pro- Jean-Pierre Webb [BA 2000] crinology and Infertility in June 2019, and grams, Washington University in St. Louis. Partner - Mission Wine Merchants. Started beginning my fi rst faculty position in July a fi ne wine importation and distribution 2019. Recently married to fellow Stanford Genevieve Bell [PhD 1998] business in 2014. It was unexpected, but alum, Brandon Harrison (06'). Distinguished Professor, College of Engi- I must say my anthropology background neering and Computer Science, Austra- is incredibly helpful in understanding the Scott D Walter [MA 2007] lian National University. Senior Fellow & culture that surrounds the farmers, restau- Associate; Retina Consultants, PC Vice Vice President, Intel Corporation. First rateurs, collectors, and sommeliers that I Chief; Ophthalmology Service, Hartford anthropologist to be appointed to the deal with on a daily basis. Hospital, Assistant Clinical Professor; Uni- Australian Prime Minister’s Science and versity of Connecticut School of Medicine. Technology Council. First anthropologist Charu Gupta [BA 2003] In collaboration with the Hartford Health- to be made a Fellow of the Australian Northshore University Health System Care Cancer Institute, Dr. Scott Walter es- Academy of Science and Technology. First tablished the fi rst ocular oncology service cohort of Masters students joined my Sarah Pollet [BA 2003] in central Connecticut (recently featured new program: www.3Ainstitute.org. New Senior Manager, UCSF Benioff Children's on the Channel 3 Eyewitness News). Dr. podcast series: https://nextbillionseconds. Hospital San Francisco. Walter has treated more than 30 patients com/2018/11/23/1968-when-the-world- with ocular melanoma and other rare eye began-part-one-the-pivot/. Regina R Richter Lagha [BA 2003] cancers. Last year, he partnered with the Education research consultant. We Melanoma and Skin Cancer Center on the Shari Jacobson [PhD 1999] welcomed the birth of our third child in annual Sullivan Oncology Symposium Associate Prof. of Anthropology, Susque- 2017. Currently working as a research ("Advances in Melanoma") and a com- hanna University. I have become active consultant to several organizations in munity outreach event at Westfarms Mall in the gun violence prevention move- southern California. Recent accomplish- ("Walk to Wellness"). In the past year, ment, and started a local group of Moms ment: presenting what it means to be an he has accepted invitations to speak at Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. archaeologist to 25 seven year-olds at my several national meetings (the American We recently helped get passed Pennsyl- son's career day. Society of Retinal Specialists, Association vania's fi rst gun safety legislation in over for Research in Vision and Ophthalmol- a decade, a bill that disarms domestic Nicole Probst Fox [MA 2004] ogy, and Vit-Buckle Society) as well as abusers. I would love to hear from other Foreign Service Offi cer, US Department of local meetings including the Connecticut alumni using their training to work for State. In July 2019, I’ll have completed a Society of Eye Physicians (CSEP). He is a social change. Over the next few years two-year tour as the Chief of the Energy, member of the CSEP Executive Board and my department will be hosting an "activ- Environment, Science, Technology, and Education Committee, a member of the ist" series, and I'd be delighted to bring Health Unit in the Economic Section at Connecticut State Medical Society, has in some Stanford alumni to speak about US Embassy Manila, where I’ve covered testifi ed before the state's Public Health their work as activists. everything from ASEAN multilateral Committee, and was recruited to lobby cooperation to domestic public health on behalf of CT Eye Physicians at the 2019 Renya Ramirez [MA 1999] crises and from energy security to the US Mid-Year Forum in Washington, DC. Professor of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz. government’s Indo-Pacifi c Strategy. I'm I was promoted to full professor of An- headed back to Washington, DC to spend Jerry C Zee [MA 2007] thropology at UC Santa Cruz. I published a year learning Thai before moving on to Assistant professor, UC Santa Cruz An- my second single authored book, Standing be the Press Attaché/Spokesperson at thropology Department

VOLUME 12| 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER 37 Alumni News

Avi Tuschman [PhD 2008] Damian Satterthwaite-Phillips [PhD 2011] work with faculty and teacher trainers CEO of Pinpoint Predictive. Pinpoint Data Scientist at CBT Nuggets. Brown and to implement new systems at The Royal Predictive (www.pinpoint.ai) enables com- Satterthwaite-Phillips. 2018. "Economic Academy, a high school for economically panies across a wide variety of industries correlates of footbinding: Implications for vulnerable Bhutanese children. I live on a to more eff ectively forecast and infl u- the importance of Chinese daughters’ la- beautiful, remote Himalayan mountainside, ence human behavior. Having brought to bor", Public Library of Science: Sep 20, 2018. and I welcome contact from fellow alums market the fi rst privacy-safe Psychometric who are in the region. AI, Pinpoint’s Thinkalike® Engine allows Bryn Williams [PhD 2011] organizations to better understand inten- Attorney, Keker, Van Nest & Peters. Misa Shikuma [BA 2012] tions, reduce risks, and persuade people to Misa is the pastry sous chef at Che Fico in take positive actions. Katrina Salas-Padilla [BA 2011] San Francisco, whose ethos is if Northern Program Administration - Academic Sched- California were a region in Italy. She also Cora L Garcia [MA 2008] uling and Registration at the University of reviews fi lms for the Seattle-based Interna- Student, UCSF. Will complete a nurse prac- San Francisco School of Nursing and Health tional Examiner, and recently covered the titioner degree from UCSF in Fall, 2019. Professions. I recently received an off er Sundance Film Festival. of re-admittance to the MFA program in Stephanie Cruz [BA 2008] Creative Writing under the Poetry Track Bruce O’Neill [PhD 2013] Senior Fellow Trainee-UW SOD Dept at the University of San Francisco where I Associate Professor, Department of of Oral Health Sciences. In April 2019, I also work full time, thereby qualifying for Sociology and Anthropology, Saint Louis full tuition subsidy. I intend to pursue two University. Bruce O’Neill was promoted defended my dissertation titled, Caring projects within the program along with to Associate Professor with tenure in the Bodies: Cadavers, Technicians, and Hidden course facilitation/professor assistantship; a Department of Sociology and Anthropology Labor in U.S. Continuing Medical Educa- thesis on the poetics of viral marketing and at Saint Louis University. tion at the University of Washington. I am a book of poetry I will write in honor of the now a PhD in Anthropology! Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Mica Esquenazi [BA 2013] Resident Physician in the Department of Carolyn M Dupont [BA 2008] Brian F Codding [PhD 2012] Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at Upstream Tech -- using satellite data and Associate Professor, University of Utah. the Baylor College of Medicine. Graduation machine learning to monitor changes in Currently the principal investigator on an from the University of Rochester School of natural resource usage (such as irrigation, interdisciplinary project funded by the Medicine in 2017. Currently completing resi- water supplies, coastal fl ooding, wildfi res, National Science Foundation examining the dency in the Department of Otolaryngol- and deforestation) combined eff ects of climate change and ogy - Head and Neck Surgery at the Baylor fi rewood harvesting on woodland ecosys- College of Medicine. Kathryn A Mariner [BA 2008] tems to determine the conditions that pro- Assistant Professor of Anthropology and mote healthy forests capable of sustaining Elizabeth J Rosen [BA 2013] Visual and Cultural Studies, University of wood fuel use by Navajo and Ute communi- Executive Advisor, Public Diplomacy Divi- Rochester, NY. My fi rst book, Contingent ties into the future (https://nsf.gov/award- sion, NATO. In January, after fi ve years of Kinship: The Flows and Futures of Adoption search/showAward?AWD_ID=1714972). continuously moving back and forth across in the United States, has been published the Atlantic every 4-18 months, I fi nally felt with University of California Press (April Maura Finkelstein [PhD 2012] settled enough to invest in a piano key- 2019). Based on fi eldwork at a small Assistant Professor in Sociology & Anthro- board and some nice linens. It's a big deal. adoption agency in Chicago between 2009 pology at Muhlenberg College. The Archive and 2016, the book places the practice of of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mum- Yeon Jung Yu [PhD 2014] domestic adoption within a temporal, eco- bai, Duke University Press, April 2019. Assistant Professor, Department of Anthro- nomic, and aff ective framework in order to pology, Western Washington University, interrogate the social inequality and power Karen A Acevedo [BA 2012] Bellingham, WA. dynamics that render adoption—and the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner – Pulmonology. families it produces—possible. Recently graduated from UCSF School of Brianna N Kirby [BA 2014] Nursing in 2018 and moved to the Central Early Childhood Educator at Bing Nursery Valley. I have been working in Pediatric School Pulmonology for the last 6 months and 2010 learning more about chronic lung diseases Sumathaterrise C Lam [BA 2014] and how to manage them. I also ran the Solutions Analyst at Box. In the last few Claire Menke [BA 2010] Boston Marathon last year and continue to years, 1) volunteered on two international Research Manager at Facebook. After enjoy running in Fresno. service impact projects with Team4Tech spending nearly four years building out a in Costa Rica and Cambodia, focused on user experience research team at Udemy, Susannah R Poland [BA 2012] fostering STEM technology education an online teaching and learning company, Researcher, Education Research Centre, within poor/remote communities; 2) led Claire transitioned to Facebook to get expe- The Royal Academy, Bhutan. In the fall of my offi ce's employee resource group (Box. rience managing at a larger company. She 2018 I moved to Bhutan to join a team that org) focused on volunteering, nonprofi ts currently manages a team of UX research- is developing a holistic secondary education & community impact, organized offi ce- ers that work on creative expression and system for the nation. My research focuses wide volunteering sessions, led fundrais- sharing within the Facebook App. on curriculum and assessment of social, ers and drove awareness for causes in the emotional and spiritual development. I local community; and 3) helped launch an

38 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 12 Alumni News internal voluntary coaching program within modern era in the Aegean. using narratives, images, and other sources my company off ering free tech coaching/ of multimedia. The public platform allows advisory sessions to nonprofi ts. In 2018, Hantian Zhang [PhD 2015] information to be easily accessed by those I was a part of the Student Rising Above's Risk analytics manager, Charles Schwab looking to discover more about negative Alumni Advisory Board helping advise and heritage, which has otherwise been erased plan programs and events for alums from Annette Esquibel [MA 2015] from national imaginaries. With this project the program Research Strategist. In the past couple we encourage the public to recognize nega- years Annette has served in many roles as tive heritage, to critically engage with it and Anna Malaika G Ntiriwah-Asare-Tubbs [BA a sole researcher, including in her last posi- to refl ect upon how it shapes and informs 2014] tion as the user experience research team their lives in the present day. PhD Student University of Cambridge. lead at a social impact focused e-commerce Recently completed a fi ction novel that I startup. Annette has recently moved Allison Mickel [PhD 2016] am in the process of editing! Am going to to Minneapolis, MN, to join a boutique Assistant Professor of Anthropology, be pitching my dissertation for a book deal research, strategy, and design fi rm and is Lehigh University. Published a new article, this year as well. slowly adjusting to the cold. She is the win- "Essential Excavation Experts," in Archae- ner of the Qualitative Research Consultants ologies: The Journal of the World Archaeologi- Helen Human [PhD 2015] Association's Young Professionals Grant for cal Congress, and secured funding to run a Assistant Dean, College of Arts & Sci- 2019. fi eld school for Lehigh students in Jordan. ences, Washington University is St. Louis. This summer, she is also co-directing a Lindsay Der [PhD 2016] Emily L Santhanam [BA 2016] responsive preservation project aimed at Assistant Professor without Review, Curator of Exhibitions & Education at the documenting eight late Byzantine Churches University of British Columbia. Lindsay Der Chickasaw Cultural Center in Crete, Greece. This project is funded by is a Principal Investigator in the AMP Lab Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks and and the director of the Negative Heritage Amrapali Maitra [PhD 2018] the J.M. Kaplan Fund Responsive Preserva- Project. The Negative Heritage Project Resident Physician, Brigham and Women's tion Initiative for Cultural Heritage Resourc- is dedicated to documenting negative Hospital; Clinical Fellow in Medicine, es. Documenting frescoes from one of the heritage sites from around the world with Harvard Medical School. Amrapali is com- earliest known named Byzantine painters, the goal of creating a comprehensive cata- pleting residency in Internal Medicine at Ioannis Pagomenos, the project team aims logue. The project maps and presents the Brigham and Women's Hospital, affi liated to provide insight into the artistic transi- “stories” of various negative heritage sites with Harvard Medical School. tion from the medieval period to the early

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were some mes removed from the shelter for various one kid. In moments like these, removed from her job reasons; in these cases, it was rare that the me was watching over many kids, she engaged in loving acts taken to prepare an exit care package. Detergent was of care - not just for the baby, but the mom, too. Dana also ra oned. Every me a woman needed to do laun- came to the CSC one a ernoon to show oﬀ the li le dry, she would sign up for her laundry shi and request boy for whom she was caring. She shared how she had detergent that was given in small plas c containers. been told by her superiors that she should not bathe Even in abundance, there were restric ons of every- the baby. Yet she did it a second me, recalling that she day household items. Oasis’ mandated rules prevented had go en to know the mom well when she picked up workers from engaging their ‘personal’ self desires (giv- her baby from child care, and that she knew she want- ing to survivors all of the resources they had on hand) ed some help. When the mom exited her case manage- while abiding by the expecta ons of the ‘professional’ ment mee ng, she passed by the client services desk self (ra oning out available resources in expecta on of and smiled when she saw her baby bathed and in clean ‘future’ clients). clothes, sleeping calmly in the stroller. But nevertheless, there were instances when workers From the organiza on’s perspec ve, bathing the baby enacted deeply loving acts of personal care - like the was a viola on of the ‘job’ - Dana had trespassed her me Dana, the child care aid, bathed a baby whose job requirements. In other words, she had been too mom struggled with her hygiene and neglected to at- caring and coming closer to liability (read: danger from tend to his. Dana’s job was to care for babies when the the organiza on’s perspec ve). But it’s in these mo- moms had mee ngs with case managers or counseling ments that the full poten al richness of hybrid sub- appointments at the shelter. In some cases, case manag- jec vi es is displayed, as workers with professional ers would pe on for Dana to take care of a kid if they knowledge and personal knowledge, as fellow survi- felt the mom needed some rest away from their child/ vors, women, and mothers, exhibit acts of care that children. The nursery was o en full of kids needing child are reﬂ ec ve of both their professional knowledge and care, but there were instances where they only had their personal life histories.

VOLUME 12| 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER 39 Student Achievements

Undergraduate Awards Sabrina Jiang “C-sections by Maternal Request and the Co-production of Nancy Ogden Ortiz Memorial Prize for Outstanding Labor Pain in Urban China” Performance in Anthro 90B Theory in Cultural and Social Anthropology Franz Boas Summer Scholars Julia Pandolfo Madeleine (Elle) Ota The Joseph H. Greenberg Prize for Undergraduate Academic “Our Sea of Heritage: UNESCO’s Management and Excellence Valorization of World Heritage in the Paciﬁ c Islands” Jade Arellano Ra Bacchus The James Lowell Gibbs, Jr. Award for Outstanding Service to “Jonkonnu in VR: Using Virtual Media in Performance the Department in Anthropology Ethnography” Janet Diaz Hannah Zimmerman “From Fishing to Supervising Dog-Sledding: An Ethnographic The Robert Bayard Textor Award for Outstanding Creativity in Study of Finnmark’s transition from a Fishing-Based to Anthropology Keith Nobbs Tourism-Based Economy” Jasmine Liu Firestone Golden Medal for Excellence in Research- Dean’s Pool “The Universal and the Particular: Making and Remaking Jade Arellano European Identity Through Classical Music Festivals”

The Michelle Z. Rosaldo Anthony Hackett “Beyond the Gayborhood: Gender, Sexuality, and Spatial Summer Field Research Grant Belonging in the Changing Castro District” Mahima Krishnamoorthi Wint Thazin “The Reproductive Health Experience of Low Income “Caregiving for Liver Cancer: Ethnography of Caregiving Kin Minority Women” in Myanmar”

Graduate Awards The Anthropology Prize for Academic Performance by a Mas- ters Student The Bernard J. Siegel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Madeleine (Elle) Ota Written Expression by a Ph.D. Student in Anthropology Alexa Russo New Job Placements

The Robert Bayard Textor Award for Outstanding Creativity in Kathryn Takabvirwa Anthropology 2018-2020 Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow, U of Chicago Jasmine Reid 2020 - Assistant Professor of Anthropology, U of Chicago The Anthropology Prize for Academic Performance Lauren Yapp Dean Chahim Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University The Anthropology Prize for Outstanding Graduate Research and Publication Tomo Sugimoto Tomonori Sugimoto Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University

The Annual Review Prize for Service to the Department Samuel Holley-Kline Alisha Cherian Postdoctoral Fellow, Florida State University Tallahassee

The 2019 Centennial Teaching Assistant Award Alisha Cherian Samuel Holley-Kline

40 2018 / 2019 NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 12 Anthropology Faculty

Andrew Bauer (Assistant Professor; Ph.D. University of and medical apologies; queer studies; art and design. Chicago, 2010) Intersections of social inequalities, landscape histories, and modern framings of nature in South India. Richard Klein (Professor; Ph.D. Chicago, 1966) Paleoan- thropology; Africa, Europe. Lisa Curran (Professor; Ph.D. Princeton, 1994) Political ecology of land use; governmental policies/transnational fi rms; Matthew Kohrman (Associate Professor; Ph.D. Harvard, natural resource sector; ecological dynamics; land rights/ 1999) Medical anthropology, governmentality, illness expe- rural livelihoods; NGOs/protected areas/donor agencies; rience, gender, China. REDD carbon payments; corruption; Asia/Latin America. Tanya Luhrmann (Professor; Ph.D. Cambridge, 1986) William H. Durham (Professor Emeritus recalled to active The social construction of psychological experience, social duty; Ph.D. Michigan, 1977) Biological anthropology, eco- practice and the way people experience their world, the do- logical and evolutionary anthropology, cultural evolution, main of what some would term the "irrational." conservation and community development, resource management, environmental issues; Central and South America. Liisa Malkki (Professor; Ph.D. Harvard, 1989) Historical anthropology; historical consciousness and memory; mass dis- Paulla A. Ebron (Associate Professor; Ph.D. Massachusetts placement and exile; racial essentialism and mass violence; at Amherst 1993) Comparative cultural studies, nationalism, nationalism and internationalism; the ethics and politics of gender, discourses of identity; Africa, African-America. humanitarianism; religion and contemporary missions in Af- rica; religion and globalization; social uses of the category, James Ferguson (Professor; Ph.D. Harvard, 1985) Political art, and the politics of visuality. economy, development, migration and culture; neoliberalism and social assistance, Southern Africa. Lynn Meskell (Professor; Ph.D. Cambridge, 1997) Archaeo- logical theory, ethnography, South Africa, Egypt, Mediterra- James A. Fox (Associate Professor; Ph.D. Chicago, 1978) nean, Middle East, heritage, identity, politics, embodiment, Linguistic anthropology, historical linguistics, biology and postcolonial and feminist theory, ethics, tourism. evolution of language, archaeological decipherment, settle- ment of the New World, mythology, computational meth- John W. Rick (Emeritus Associate Professor recalled to ac- ods; Mesoamerica, Americas. tive duty; Ph.D. Michigan, 1978) Prehistoric archaeology and anthropology of band-level hunter-gatherers, stone Duana Fullwiley (Associate Professor; Ph.D. UC Berkeley tool studies, analytical methodology, animal domestication; and UC San Francisco, 2002) The Anthropology of science; Latin America, Southwest U.S. Medical anthropology; Genetics and identity; Economic anthropology; Global health politics; Africanist anthropology; Krish Seetah (Assistant Professor; Ph.D. University of Cam- Race; Health disparities; Environmental resource scarcity as bridge, 2006) Zooarchaeology, human-animal relationships, a source of ethnic confl ict, Senegal, West Africa, France, and colonialsm, Indian Ocean World. the United States. Kabir Tambar (Assistant Professor; Ph.D. University of Chi- Angela Garcia (Associate Professor; Ph.D. Harvard, 2007) cago, 2009) Religion and secularism, pluralism and national- Medical and psychological anthropology; violence, suff er- ism, the politics of aff ect, Islam, Middle East, Turkey. ing and care; addiction, morality and science; subjectivity; ethnographic writing; Unites States, Mexico. Sharika Thiranagama (Assistant Professor; Ph.D. Universi- ty of Edinburgh, 2006) Ethnicity, Violence, Gender, Kinship, Thomas Blom Hansen (Professor; Dr. Phil, Roskilde Univer- Displacement, Political Anthropology and Political Theory, sity, 1996) South Asia and Southern Africa. Multiple theo- Sri Lanka, South Asia. retical and disciplinary interests from political theory and continental philosophy to psychoanalysis, comparative re- Barbara Voss (Associate Professor; Ph.D. UC Berkeley, ligion and contemporary urbanism. 2002) historical archaeology, archaeology of colonialism, culture contact, Spanish-colonial archaeology, overseas Ian Hodder (Professor; Ph.D. Cambridge, 1974) Achaeologi- Chinese archaeology, postcolonial theory, gender and sexu- cal theory, the archaeology and cultural heritage of Europe ality studies, queer theory, cultural resource management, and the Middle East, excavations in Turkey, material culture. public archaeology, community-based research, California archaeology. Miyako Inoue (Associate Professor; Ph.D. Washington University, 1996) linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, Sylvia J. Yanagisako (Professor; Ph.D. University of Wash- semiotics, linguistic modernity, anthropology of writing, ington, 1975) Kinship, gender, feminist theory, capitalism, inscription devices, materialities of language, social orga- ethnicity; U.S., Italy. nizations of documents (fi ling systems, index cards, copies, archives, paperwork), voice/sound/noise, soundscape, tech- EMERITI nologies of liberalism, gender, urban studies, Japan, East Asia. Harumi Befu, George A. Collier, Jane F. Collier, Carol L. Del- aney, Charles O. Frake, James L. Gibbs, Jr., Renato Rosaldo. S. Lochlann Jain (Professor; Ph.D. U.C. Santa Cruz, 1999) Extra-legal forms of communications, such as warning signs

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