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American Ethnologist

Volume 39. Issue 3. August 2012

Contents:

Biopolitics and the “war on fat”: AE Forum

1. Weighty subjects: The biopolitics of the U.S. war on fat
   
   1. Susan Greenhalgh
2. Commentary: Biopolitical injustice and contemporary capitalism
   
   1. Peter Benson

Articles

1. The athlete's body and the global condition: Tongan rugby players in Japan
   
   1. Niko Besnier
2. Conversion, continuity, and moral dilemmas among Christian Bidayuhs in Malaysian Borneo
   
   1. Liana Chua
3. Accidents of equity and the aesthetics of Chinese offshore incorporation
   
   1. Bill Maurer
      Sylvia J. Martin
4. Documentary disorders: Managing medical multiplicity in Maputo, Mozambique
   
   1. Ramah McKay
5. The biopolitics of hospitality in Greece: Humanitarianism and the management of refugees
   
   1. Katerina Rozakou
6. Creating model consumers: Producing ethnicity, race, and class in Asian American advertising
   
   1. Shalini Shankar
7. The psychic life of biopolitics: Survival, cooperation, and Inuit community
   
   1. Lisa Stevenson
8. Configuring the authentic value of real food: Farm-to-fork, snout-to-tail, and local food movements
   
   1. Brad Weiss

Book Reviews

1. Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil by Alexander Edmonds
   
   1. DONNA GOLDSTEIN
2. Unveiling Secrets of War in the Peruvian Andes by Olga M. González
   
   1. LINDA J. SELIGMANN
3. The Tour Guide: Walking and Talking New York by Jonathan R. Wynn
   
   1. NATALIE ALVAREZ
4. Isma‘ili Modern: Globalization and Identity in a Muslim Community by Jonah Steinberg
   
   1. DAROMIR RUDNYCKYJ
5. Cultured States: Youth, Gender, and Modern Style in 1960s Dar es Salaam by Andrew Ivaska
   
   1. DANIEL MAINS
6. Ethnographic Sorcery by Harry G. West
   
   1. NAOMI HAYNES
7. Recreating Japanese Men edited by Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall
   
   1. CYNTHIA DICKEL DUNN
8. ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba by Jafari S. Allen
   
   1. KRISTINA WIRTZ
9. Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film by Michelle H. Raheja
   
   1. LEIGHTON C. PETERSON
10. New Organ within Us: Transplants and the Moral Economy by Aslihan Sanal
    
    1. MONIR MONIRUZZAMAN
11. Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness by Nitasha Tamar Sharma
    
    1. RAYMOND CODRINGTON
12. Shari‘a Politics: Islamic Law and Society in the Modern World edited by Robert W. Hefner
    
    1. ERIN E. STILES
13. Fallen Elites: The Military Other in Post-Unification German by Andrew Bickfor
    
    1. JASON JAMES
14. Cultures of Migration: The Global Nature of Contemporary Mobility by Jeffrey H. Cohen and Ibrahim Sirkeci
    
    1. LOURDES GUTIÉRREZ NÁJERA
15. Money and Violence: Financial Self-Help Groups in a South African Township by Erik Bähre
    
    1. EMILY MARGARETTEN
16. The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past by Gail Hershatter
    
    1. SHANSHAN DU
17. The Paradox of Relevance: Ethnography and Citizenship in the United States by Carol J. Greenhouse
    
    1. GEORGE E. MARCUS
18. Ordinary Ethics: Anthropology, Language, and Action edited by Michael Lambek
    
    1. RENA LEDERMAN
19. Insectopedia by Hugh Raffles
    
    1. DAVID MCDERMOTT HUGHES
20. Out of Place: Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea by Michael Goddard
    
    1. RICHARD SCAGLION
21. Gangs, Politics and Dignity in Cape Town by Steffen Jensen
    
    1. DEBORAH DURHAM
22. Learning to Speak, Learning to Listen: How Diversity Works on Campus by Susan E. Chase
    
    1. BONNIE URCIUOLI
23. Social Anthropology and Human Origins by Alan Barnard
    
    1. KIRK ENDICOTT
24. Picturing Islam: Art and Ethics in a Muslim Lifeworld by Kenneth M. George
    
    1. JESSICA WINEGAR
25. Vodou Nation: Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism by Michael Largey
    
    1. WILLIAM HOPE
26. Being There: Learning to Live Cross-Culturally edited by Sarah H. Davis and Melvin Konner
    
    1. JOYCE D. HAMMOND