From the Archives: Justice after Genocide and the Anthropologist’s Role
In this series, our contributing editors reflect on a set of articles from the archives of American Anthropologist that speaks to their research interests. Here, Emily Weisenberger explores how anthropologists have thought about their roles in restorative justice projects.
Vital Topics Forum: Archaeology as Bearing Witness
In this forum, contributors discuss ways to use archaeology to scrutinize violent encounters, traumatic events, dislocations, and structural inequalities.
Decolonizing Disciplines
Deborah Thomas’s introduction for the September 2018 issue.
Anthropological Airwaves: The Military Present, Episode 4
In the fourth and final episode of this special feature on “The Military Present,” Emily Sogn and Vasiliki Touhouliotis discuss war, injury, and the production of ungovernable life in Iraq and beyond with anthropologist and physician Omar Dewachi (American University of Beirut).
Supplementary Material: Kusimba and Walz
Supplementary material for "When Did the Swahili Become Maritime?: A Reply to Fleisher et al. (2015), and to the Resurgence of Maritime Myopia in the Archaeology of the East African Coast" by Chapurukha M. Kusimba and Jonathan R. Walz
Supplementary Material: Rea
Supplementary material for "Calibrating Play: Sociotemporality in South Korean Digital Gaming Culture" by Stephen C. Rea.
Decentralizing Energy
In this post, Myles Lennon and Douglas Rogers consider the promises and potential pitfalls of decentralized energy systems.