Mathijs Pelkmans (LSE): A Wider Audience for Anthropology? Political Dimensions of an Important Debate. Maite Maskens (ULB) and Ruy Blanes (Bergen): Don Quixote’s Choice: A Manifesto for a Romanticist Anthropology. David Berliner and Laurent Legrain (ULB) and Mattijs Van de Port (Amsterdam): Bruno Latour and the Anthropology of the Moderns. Christopher Howard (Massey): Imagining Post-anthropocentric Anthropology. Dawid Kobialka (Adam Mickiewicz): Time Travels in Archaeology: Between Hollywood Films and Historical Re-enactment? Dawid Kobialka (Adam Mickiewicz): Archaeology Through the Lens of Sherlock Holmes. James L. Flexner (ANU): Historical Archaeology, Contact, and Colonialism in Oceania. Bruce Bradley (Exeter) and Michael Collins (Texas State): Imagining Clovis as a Cultural Revitalization Movement. From the Journal of Ethnographic Theory, a symposium on Marshall Sahlins (and a response by Sahlins). Todd Meyers interviews Paul Rabinow on the logic of anthropological inquiry. Why is anthropology not a public science? Keith Hart wonders. Justin E. H. Smith defends anthropology as science and advocacy — against both the postmodern turn and the simplistic scientism of Napoleon Chagnon. Peter d'Errico on George Stocking, the man who forced anthropologists to respect native cultures. Anthropologist Jason Pine immersed himself with Missouri meth users — it turns out hillbilly heroin is more like hillbilly Adderall. Carole McGranahan on conference chic, or, how to dress like an anthropologist.
