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. 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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