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Index Abu-Lughod, Lila, and writing against culture , 36 Addis Ababa (headquarters of Organization of Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa), 7 African American: disturbing mainstream anthropology, 16; experiences in anthropology , 17, 55, 128, 129; and the L.A. riots, 26; males as “endangered species,” 32; and marginalization in anthropology, 17; in media images, 26; perceptions of race, 32; relations with Africans, 38, 128, 129; as scholars studying race, 27; as subjects of community research project, 25, 28, 30, 33, 35, 37, 45–47; as working-class, 65; working in a hotel in Washington D.C., 113. See also anthropology African anthropology: conditions for growth, 150; relationship to postmodernism , 147, 149 Africana studies (combining African and African American studies), 129 African Diaspora, linking to African studies , 129 Africanist: as an academic identity, 130; call to emulate anthropology, 139, 140; training at Northwestern University, 130; White gatekeepers, 128 Africanist anthropologist: identifying as, 126, 140; responding to Mafeje’s challenges , 77 Africanist anthropology: as dead, 76; as represented by Herskovits, 129 Africanity, as a shared identity for Africans, 3 African Sociological Review, and debate between Archie Mafeje and Sally Falk Moore, 77 African studies: in America, 128; as an area of research interest, 115, 126, 129; as dominated by White anthropologists, 128; and relationship to anthropology, 130; at the University of Nairobi, 127. See also Herskovits , Melville African Studies Association: conference in Chicago, 107; meeting in San Francisco, 139 African Studies Center: at Northwestern University, 129; in Title VI universities, 130 alterity: Africans and, 72; anthropology’s focus and fixation with, x, xii, 52, 74; as anthropology’s undoing, 74; as the basis for nonscientific worldview, 149; as defining anthropology, 131, 148; as framed by Western scholarship of Africa, 148; Western notions and, 3, 148; why anthropologists pursue it, 70 American Anthropological Association (AAA): attempts to connect with global applied anthropology associations, 132; relationship to Society for Applied An- 178 . index thropology, 64; as source of ethnographic data, xii, 101 American Anthropologist, as flagship journal , 123 American Ethnologist, as flagship journal, 123 Amuyunzu-Nyamongo, Mary, and view of anthropology as marginalized, 95 Anglo-French Axis, dominant Western anthropological practice as, xi, 153n5 annual meetings: AAA relationship to SfAA and, 64; book exhibits and, 114, 115; hosted in Africa by ASA, 124; job hunters and, 115, 116; membership, 125; as networking sites, 113–14; in New Orleans , 104, 115; PAAA and, 103, 106, 107; participants at, 125; as strategies for world anthropologists to collaborate, 138–39; as symbolic sites for studying anthropologists , xii, 81, 121; in Washington D.C., 111, 112, 136, 141 anthropological authority, weakening position of discipline through turn to poetics , 147 anthropology: in action, xi; of anthropology , 4; applied, 64, 99; Black experience and, 17; critiques of and, 14, 77; cultural Critique and, 100; dual identity and, 141, 142; ethnography of and, xi, 2; marginal and, 94–97, 141, 144–47; native perspectives and, viii; pure, 64; pursuit of the Other and, 70; racist label of, vii, 55–57; reflexive, xi, 1, 123; “soft science” and, 95; symbolic and interpretive, 12; toolkit for other disciplines and, 118, 161n15; Uganda and, 96; Western, viii, 2, 19, 22, 33, 78; World, 102 Anthropology News: announcing Commission for World Anthropologies, 131; announcing World Anthropology Network, 132; column on world anthropologies, 138 Arusha: ASA meeting in, 124; meeting Johannes Fabian in, 76. See also Association for Social Anthropology in the UK and Commonwealth Association for Africanist Anthropology (AfAA), membership in, 112 Association for Social Anthropology in the UK and Commonwealth (ASA): in contrast with AAA, 103, 123; history of, 124; meeting in Arusha, 124–25; meeting in London, 125; meetings in Africa, 124 AT&T, representing Africa with a monkey , 57 Baker, Lee, creating alternative epistemologies in anthropology, 15 Basso, Keith, working with Nyaigotti-Chacha at Yale, 4 Baudrillard, Jean, critiquing American culture , 50, 63 BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), as source of alternative news in Kenya, 89 Beidelman, Tom O., recycling field notes, 75 Benedict, Ruth, engaging subjectivity in ethnography, 147 Boas, Franz: African American anthropologists and, 128, 129; as antiracist, 57; Elliott Skinner as Boas Chair at Columbia, 16; reputation in anthropology compared to Black anthropologists, 109 Britain: as anthropology center, 136; hegemonic centers of anthropology, 130, 136; as less racist than America, 16–17; production of intellectuals, 63 British social anthropology, functionalist approach, viii, 64 Bruner, Edward, and symbolic interpretive approach, 11 Buck, Pem Davidson, transcending nativization and Othering in anthropology, 15 capitalism: shaping liberal arts education, 66; shaping postmodern responses in...