AIDS and Anthropologists: Ten Years Later

Global AIDS Policy. Douglas A. Feldman. ed. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1994 (cloth and paper),. + 250 pp.
AIDS and STDs in Africa: Bridging the Gap between Traditional Healing and Modern Medicine. Edward C. Green. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994. xii. 276 pp.
Hidden in the Blood:. Personal Investigation of AIDS in the Yucatan. Carter Wilson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995 (cloth and paper), xx. 168 pp.
Plague Doctors: Responding to the AIDS Epidemic in France and America. Jamie L. Feldman. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1995 (cloth), xii. 273 pp.
Young People at Risk: Fighting AIDS in Northern Tanzania. Knut-Inge Klepp. Paul M. Biswalo. and Aud Talle. eds.Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1995 (cloth), xxviii. 243 pp.
AIDS is. Kind of Kahungo That Kills. Hanne Overgaard Mogensen. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1995 (cloth and paper), ix. 135 pp.
Les Sciences Sociales Face au Sida: Cas Africains autour de l'Exemple Ivoirien. Jean-Pierre Dozon and Laurent Vidal. eds. Paris: Orstom, 1995 (paper). 300 pp.
Sida et Anthropologie: Bilan et Perspectives. Jean Benoist and Alice Desclaux. eds. Paris: Karthala, 1995 (paper). 412 pp.     

Of Indians and Anthropologists

The Modern Sioux: Social Systems and Reservation Culture. Ethel Nurge , ed.
The Cherokee Nation of Indians. Charles C. Royce. Introduction by Richard Mack Bettis, President, Tulsa Tsa-La-Gi-Ya Cherokee Community. Native American Library.
Historical Sketch of the Cherokee. James Mooney. Foreword by W. W. Keeler, Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Introduction by Richard Mack Bettis, President, Tulsa Tsa-La-Gi-Ya Cherokee Community. Native American Library.     

Anthropologists and the Rhizomatic Study of Migration

Beginning with a commitment to the idea of connections rather than ruptures, I have traced some of the associations between anthropology and movements of populations, taking a long view in order to place theoretical developments in context while noting continuities and changes. For example, theory and methods constructed in early 20th century US or colonial Africa have been transformed in specific ways that deserve attention. With this comparative aim in mind, I have analysed a range of studies around particular themes, including processes of community formation, delineation of ethnocultural differences, political influences and practices in the control of heterogeneous populations, and forms of knowledge. This paper moves from US, colonial and diaspora studies through discussion of Australian-based research and a too-brief reference to recent transnational and transdisciplinary studies.     

Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists

Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists. Ellen Lewin and William L. Leap. eds. Urbana University of Illinois Press, 1996.315 pp.     

Australian Anthropologists and Public Anthropology

In 2004, the authors convened a session entitled ‘Public Anthropology’ at the Australian Anthropology Society's annual conference. The session examined the development of a specific stream of public anthropology in the USA and Britain and its articulation by writers such as Robert Borofsky in the aftermath of the Yanomami controversy and Richard Werbner in the African context. In pursuing this discussion, we identify three key characteristics that distinguish public anthropology: the broader application of ethnography to urgent and political social issues in a way that shows the profoundly relational nature of current crises to historical, political and local events and forces; a focus on this approach as a central aspect of training, particularly at the postgraduate level; and an active and accessible engagement in public discussion and debate. We present a short case study from Skidmore's research on disease, suffering and the health system in Burma to illustrate ways in which a public anthropology approach could represent the current health crisis in Burma in an effective manner. Drawing also on the work of our fellow panellists, we argue for the timeliness of the development of a public anthropology stream in Australia and for the deliberate inclusion of public anthropology in the Australian Anthropology Society's mandate.     

The Four Subfields: Anthropologists as Mythmakers

A survey of articles published in the American Anthropologist over a 100-year period indicates that substantive collaboration across anthropological subfields is largely a myth—amounting toonly 311 of 3,264 articles surveyed (or 9.5 percent of the total). Working with the anthropological insights of Bronislaw Malinowski, Edward Tylor, and Claude Levi-Strauss, this article considers why a myth of subf ield collaboration nonetheless exists within anthropology. This article concludes by calling for new forms of holism. [Keywords: American Anthropologist, subf ield collaboration, holism, public anthropology]     

A Historian among the Anthropologists

Delimiting Anthropology: Occasional Inquiries and Reflections. George W. Stocking Jr. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. 404 pp.