Current Table of Contents

• Contents
  Cultural Anthropology Nov 2008, Vol. 23, No. 4: i-i.
• EL CAMPO: Faciality and Structural Violence in Farm Labor Camps
  Cultural Anthropology Nov 2008, Vol. 23, No. 4: 589-629. In this essay, I examine interlocking political, economic, and cultural processes involved in the continuous reproduction of the structural violence that affects migrant farmworkers in the United States. Excluded from rights and protections afforded ...
• RUNAWAY STORIES: The Underground Micromovements of Filipina Oyomesan in Rural Japan
  Cultural Anthropology Nov 2008, Vol. 23, No. 4: 630-659. During fieldwork among Filipina migrants married to Japanese men in rural Nagano, stories about Filipina women who had “run away” from Japanese husbands and families in the region regularly surfaced in casual conversations. This essay focuses on both ...
• WE WERE DANCING IN THE CLUB, NOT ON THE BERLIN WALL: Black Bodies, Street Bureaucrats, and Exclusionary Incorporation into the New Europe
  Cultural Anthropology Nov 2008, Vol. 23, No. 4: 660-687. In this essay, I explore the micropolitics of citizenship and sovereignty via the emerging street bureaucratic status of “white” German women in relationships with “black” men in Germany and Berlin. In the midst of the fallen Berlin Wall and increasing ...
• INCITEMENTS TO DISCOURSE: Illicit Drugs, Harm Reduction, and the Production of Ethnographic Subjects
  Cultural Anthropology Nov 2008, Vol. 23, No. 4: 688-717. This essay traces a brief genealogy of state-funded drug ethnography and its relationship to public health projects such as HIV prevention. Ethnographic research on drug use was a critical part of making invisible practices visible in ways that rendered ...
• THE ELEGIAC ADDICT: History, Chronicity, and the Melancholic Subject
  Cultural Anthropology Nov 2008, Vol. 23, No. 4: 718-746. In biomedical and public health discourses, “chronicity” has emerged as the prevailing model to understanding drug addiction and addictive experience. This approach is predicated on constructing and responding to addictive experience in ways that ...