4-0895 ILLEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Friday, November 18, 2011: 13:45-17:30

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Those involved in mentoring activities, Students, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Rebecca B Galemba (Harvard University) and Kedron L Thomas (Harvard University)

Chairs: Rebecca B Galemba (Harvard University)

Discussants: Jeremy M Campbell (Roger Williams University) and Josiah Heyman (University of Texas El Paso)

13:45

Outlaw Farmers, Forbidden Foods: FOOD “SAFETY” REGULATION VERSUS SMALL-Scale Agriculture IN the Contemporary U. S

Jocelyn S Linnekin (University of Connecticut)

14:00

“Report From the Field: The Practices and Political Economy of Marijuana In Northern California”

Michael R Polson (CUNY)

14:15

Subverting National and Supranational Regimes of Rule In the Trinational Frontier of Mercosur

Carmen A Ferradas (Binghamton University)

14:30

Criminality and the Forensics of Blame In Postwar Guatemala

Kedron L Thomas (Harvard University)

14:45

Legal, Illegal, or Quasi-Legal?: Lay Judges and Genocide Trials In Rwanda

Kristin C Doughty (University of Pennsylvania)

15:00

Discussant

Jeremy M Campbell (Roger Williams University)

15:15

Discussion

15:30

Break

15:45

Mediating the Il/Legal: Journalists, Trafficking, and the State In the Triple Frontera

Ieva Jusionyte (Brandeis University)

16:00

Human Mobility , Moving Borders, and the Boundaries of Legality: Mexican and Central American Migrants Crossing Multiple Borders

Christine Kovic (University of Houston-Clear Lake)

16:15

Intimate Illegalities: Legality and Subjectivity At the Mexico-Guatemala Border

Rebecca B Galemba (Harvard University)

16:30

Ambiguous Legality and Morality In a Postsocialist "Transition": Con Artists and Street Hustlers In Havana

G. Derrick Hodge (City University of New York and University of Kansas)

16:45

“Police and Thieves Are All One Family”: State-Criminal Alliances In a Chinese City

John L Osburg (University of Rochester)

17:00

Discussant

Josiah Heyman (University of Texas El Paso)

17:15

Discussion

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