Table of Contents for AE, Vol. 33, No. 4 (November 2006)

In this issue...

IRBs, Bureaucratic Regulation, and Academic Freedom
Locating or Liberating Creolization
Beyond (Methodological) Nationalism
Revolution, Neoliberalism, and Cosmopolitics read more »

Foreword

Virginia R. Dominguez

AE Forum: IRBs, Bureaucratic Regulation, and Academic Freedom

Provocation

Introduction: Anxious borders between work and life in a time of bureaucratic ethics regulation
Rena Lederman

The perils of working at home: IRB “mission creep” as context and content for an ethnography of disciplinary knowledges
Rena Lederman

Fuzzy boundaries and hard rules: Unfunded research and the IRB
Daniel Bradburd

Ethical escape routes for underground ethnographers
Jack Katz

Protecting human subjects and preserving academic freedom: Prospects at the University of Chicago
Richard A. Shweder

Commentaries

NSF supports ethnographic research
Deborah Winslow

The end of ethnography as collateral damage of ethical regulation?
Didier Fassin

Comment on IRB regulation of ethnographic research
Stuart Plattner

IRBs are the tip of the iceberg: State regulation, academic freedom, and methodological issues
Gustavo Lins Ribeiro

Don’t eat unwashed lettuce
Marilyn Strathern

Missing the ethical wood for the bureaucratic trees
Nandini Sundar

Partial measures
Don Brenneis

Anthropology, IRBs, and human rights
George J. Annas

Rejoinder

The ethical is political
Rena Lederman

AE Forum: Locating or Liberating Creolization

Provocation

Theorizing world culture through the New World: East Indians and creolization
Viranjini Munasinghe

Commentaries

Theorizing through the New World? Not really
Ulf Hannerz

Feats of engineering: Theory, ethnography, and other problems of model building in the social sciences
Aisha Khan

Mixed metaphors
John Tomlinson

New savage slots, response to Viranjini Munasinghe’s “Theorizing world culture through the New World: East Indians and creolization”
Deborah A. Thomas

Creolization and indigeneity
Vicente M. Diaz

Circulation, transpositions, and the travails of creole
Daniel A. Segal

Commentary on Viranjini Munasinghe, “Theorizing world culture through the New World: East Indians and creolization”
Verena Stolcke

On theoretical impurity
Pauline Turner Strong

Rejoinder

Claims to purity in theory and culture: Pitfalls and promises
Viranjini Munasinghe

Beyond (Methodological) Nationalism

Empire is in the details
Catherine Lutz

Beyond the ethnic lens: Locality, globality, and born-again incorporation
Nina Glick Schiller, Ayse Çaglar, and Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen

Revolution, Neoliberalism, and Cosmopolitics

Reclaiming modernity: Indigenous cosmopolitanism and the coming of the second revolution in Bolivia
Mark Goodale

Body, nation, and consubstantiation in Bolivian ritual meals
Susan Paulson

“Everyone can do as he wants”: Economic liberalization and emergent forms of antipathy in southern Ethiopia
James Ellison