This year our speaker series “Framing” highlights the multiple and contested processes of cultural construction, critique, and analysis that are part of the anthropological project. Framing can apply to the way in which a research problem is addressed, categories are delimited, theory is understood, and boundaries are drawn or transgressed. Framing can also be a way of exploring the way we come to see our world in a particular place and time. In all instances to raise the question of framing is to raise the question of the power, stance, and social position of anthropologists in relationship efforts to understand and explain what it means to be human.
Unraveling Disciplinary Mind-sets
ExpiredLaura Nader, Department of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley The study of disciplinary mind-sets was in part stimulated …
Close Encounters: The Dilemmas of Contact for Isolated Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon
ExpiredGlenn H. Shepard Jr., Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém do Pará, Brazil The Peru-Brazil border region harbors …
Water and the Big History of the Pre-Columbian Mississippi Valley
ExpiredTimothy R. Pauketat, University of Illinois In rethinking the ontological bases of pre-Columbian North America, water emerges …
Re-Framing the Impacts of Cold War CIA Fronts: How the CIA Shaped Social Science
ExpiredDavid Price, Saint Martin’s University Drawing on two decades of archival and extensive Freedom of Information Act …
Ancient Genomes, Paleoenvironments, Archaeology and the Peopling of the Americas
ExpiredDennis O‘Rourke, University of Kansas Traditionally, indigenous American populations have been viewed as descendants of a small …
Re-Framing Punishment
ExpiredDidier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Discussant: Andrea Barrow, Black Lives Matter Punishment has been studied for …
Making Accessible Futures: From Ramps to #cripthevote
ExpiredFaye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, Department of Anthropology, New York University Since the late 20th century, American …