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Current Anthropology December 2015 Volume 56 Supplement 12 Pages S181–S324 Forthcoming Current Anthropology Wenner-Gren Symposium Current Anthropology Supplementary Issues (in order of appearance) VOLUME 56 SUPPLEMENT 12 DECEMBER 2015 Integrating Anthropology: Niche Construction, Cultural Institutions, and History. Current Agustin Fuentes and Polly Wiessner, eds. New Media, New Publics? Charles Hirschkind, Maria José de Abreu, and Carlo Caduff, eds. Fire and the Genus Homo. Francesco Berna and Dennis Sandgathe, eds. Anthropology Previously Published Supplementary Issues THE WENNER-GREN SYMPOSIUM SERIES Working Memory: Beyond Language and Symbolism. Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge, eds. December 2015 Engaged Anthropology: Diversity and Dilemmas. Setha M. Low and THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE SECRET Sally Engle Merry, eds. Corporate Lives: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form. GUEST EDITORS: LENORE MANDERSON, MARK DAVIS, AND CHIP COLWELL Damani Partridge, Marina Welker, and Rebecca Hardin, eds. On Secrecy, Disclosure, the Public, and the Private in Anthropology The Origins of Agriculture: New Data, New Ideas. T. Douglas Price and Hidden in Plain Sight: Children Born of Wartime Sexual Violence Ofer Bar-Yosef, eds. Volume 56 Volume Partial Secrets The Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations: World Histories, Lying the Truth: Practices of Confession and Recognition National Styles, and International Networks. Susan Lindee and Ricardo Ventura Santos, eds. War Stories and Troubled Peace: Revisiting Some Secrets of Northern Uganda Veterans’ Homecomings: Secrecy and Postdeployment Social Becoming Human Biology and the Origins of Homo. Susan Antón and Leslie C. Aiello, eds. When Privacy and Secrecy Collapse into One Another, Bad Things Can Happen Potentiality and Humanness: Revisiting the Anthropological Object in Contemporary The Rebirth of Secrets and the New Care of the Self in Depressed Japan Biomedicine. Klaus Hoeyer and Karen-Sue Taussig, eds. Supplement 12 Repatriation, Knowledge Flows, and Museum Power Structures Alternative Pathways to Complexity: Evolutionary Trajectories in the Middle The Disclosure of Soviet Repression in Museums as an Excess Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age. Steven L. Kuhn and Erella Hovers, eds. Digital 3-D, Museums, and the Reconciling of Culturally Diverse Knowledges Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy. Susana Narotzky and Publicity, Transparency, and the Circulation Engine: The Media Sting in India Niko Besnier, eds. Secrets from Whom? Following the Money in Global Health Finance The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions. Joel Robbins Secrecy’s Softwares and Naomi Haynes, eds. Politics of the Urban Poor: Aesthetics, Ethics, Volatility, Precarity. Veena Das and Shalini Randeria, eds. Pages S181–S324 Pages Current Anthropology is sponsored by The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, a foundation endowed for scientific, educational, and charitable purposes. The Foundation, however, is not to be understood as endorsing, by virtue of its financial support, any of the statements made, or views expressed, herein. Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F C H I C A G O P R E S S Wenner-Gren Symposium Series Editor: Leslie Aiello Wenner-Gren Symposium Series Managing Editors: Laurie Obbink and Daniel Salas Current Anthropology Editor: Mark Aldenderfer Current Anthropology Managing Editor: Lisa McKamy Book Reviews Editor: Holley Moyes Corresponding Editors: Claudia Briones (IIDyPCa-Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Argentina; [email protected]), Michalis Kontopodis (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany; [email protected]), José Luis Lanata (Universidad Nacional de Río Negro San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina; [email protected]), David Palmer (Hong Kong University, China; [email protected]), Anne de Sales (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France; [email protected]), Zhang Yinong (Shanghai University, China; [email protected]) Please send all editorial correspondence to portions of the world; it is hoped, however, that recipients of Mark Aldenderfer this journal without charge will individually or collectively in School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts various groups apply funds or time and energy to the world University of California, Merced good of humankind through the human sciences. Information 5200 North Lake Road concerning applicable countries is available on request. Merced, CA 95343, U.S.A. (fax: 209-228-4007; e-mail: [email protected]) q 2015 by The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. All rights reserved. Current Anthropology (issn Individual subscription rates for 2016: $79 print + electron- 0011-3204) is published bimonthly in February, April, June, ic, $47 print-only, $46 e-only. Institutional print + electronic August, October, and December by The University of Chicago and e-only subscriptions are tiered according to an institution’s Press, 1427 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637-2954. type and research output: $330 to $693 (print + electronic), Periodicals postage paid at Chicago, IL, and at additional $287 to $603 (e-only). Institutional print-only is $379. For addi- mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to tional rates, including prices for full-run institutional access Current Anthropology, P.O. Box 37005, Chicago, IL 60637. and single copies, please visit www.journals.uchicago.edu /CA. Additional taxes and/or postage for non-US subscriptions may apply. Free or deeply discounted access is available to read- ers in most developing nations through the Chi cago Emerging Nations Initiative (www.journals.uchicago.edu/ceni/). Please direct subscription inquiries, back-issue requests, and address changes to the University of Chicago Press, Jour- nals Division, P.O. Box 37005, Chicago, IL 60637. Telephone: (773) 753-3347 or toll-free in the United States and Canada (877) 705-1878. Fax: (773) 753-0811 or toll-free (877) 705- 1879. E-mail: [email protected]. Reasons of practicality or law make it necessary or desirable to circulate Current Anthropology without charge in certain Current Anthropology Volume 56 Supplement 12 December 2015 The Life and Death of the Secret Leslie C. Aiello The Life and Death of the Secret: Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 12 S181 Introduction Lenore Manderson, Mark Davis, Chip Colwell, and Tanja Ahlin On Secrecy, Disclosure, the Public, and the Private in Anthropology: An Introduction to Supplement 12 S183 Private Lives: Strategies of Revelation and Shades of Truth Kimberly Theidon Hidden in Plain Sight: Children Born of Wartime Sexual Violence S191 Corinne Squire Partial Secrets S201 Cristiana Giordano Lying the Truth: Practices of Confession and Recognition S211 Sverker Finnström War Stories and Troubled Peace: Revisiting Some Secrets of Northern Uganda S222 Opening Up the Private: The State and the Unsettling of the Secret Birgitte Refslund Sørensen Veterans’ Homecomings: Secrecy and Postdeployment Social Becoming S231 Don Kulick When Privacy and Secrecy Collapse into One Another, Bad Things Can Happen S241 http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA Junko Kitanaka The Rebirth of Secrets and the New Care of the Self in Depressed Japan S251 State Revelations and the Framing of Knowledge Chip Colwell Curating Secrets: Repatriation, Knowledge Flows, and Museum Power Structures S263 Egle˙ Rindzevicˇiu-t e˙ The Overflow of Secrets: The Disclosure of Soviet Repression in Museums as an Excess S276 Gwyneira Isaac Perclusive Alliances: Digital 3-D, Museums, and the Reconciling of Culturally Diverse Knowledges S286 Ravi Sundaram Publicity, Transparency, and the Circulation Engine: The Media Sting in India S297 In the Power of Secrets Susan L. Erikson Secrets from Whom? Following the Money in Global Health Finance S306 Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe Secrecy’s Softwares S317 Current Anthropology Volume 56, Supplement 12, December 2015 S181 The Life and Death of the Secret Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 12 Leslie C. Aiello Figure 1. Participants in the symposium “The Death of the Secret.” Front, from the left: Sverker Finnström, Cristiana Giordano, Lenore Manderson (organizer), Tanja Ahlin, Sarah Nuttall, Chip Colwell (organizer). Second row: Laurie Obbink, Leslie Aiello, Birgitte Sørensen, Gwyneira Isaac, Junko Kitanaka. Third row: Don Kulick, Kimberly Theidon, Mark Davis (organizer). Back row: Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, Robin Boast, Susan Erikson, Ravi Sundaram. A color version of this figure is available online. The Life and Death of the Secret is the 149th symposium in of the Foundation’s journal, Current Anthropology. The sym- the Wenner-Gren symposium series and the twelfth sympo- posium, titled “The Death of the Secret: The Public and Private sium to be published as an open-access supplementary issue in Anthropology,” was organized by Lenore Manderson (Uni- versity of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and Monash Uni- versity, Australia), Mark Davis (Monash University, Australia), Leslie C. Aiello is President of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for and Chip Colwell (Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Anthropological Research (470 Park Avenue South, 8th Floor North, U.S.A.). It was held March 14–20, 2014, at the Tivoli Palacio New York, New York 10016, U.S.A.). de Seteais, Sintra, Portugal (fig. 1). q 2015 by The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. All rights reserved. 0011-3204/2015/56S12-0001$10.00. DOI:10.1086/683430 S182 Current Anthropology Volume 56, Supplement 12, December 2015 The main aim of this symposium was
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