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Abstract:OPINIONLANGUAGE AND CULTURE | Politics Discussion I |“Revisiting Obama's “You didn't build that: When Gesture is a Part of Speech”” by Rich SandovalLeila Monaghan, Jacqueline Messing, and Richard Senghas are contributing editors of the Language and Culture column in Anthropology News.LANGUAGE AND CULTURE | Politics Discussion II |“From Victims to Accusers: Redefining Rape in Today's Political Climate”” by Robin ConleyLeila Monaghan, Jacqueline Messing, and Richard Senghas are contributing editors of the Language and Culture column in Anthropology News.ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR |““Doing” Anthropology in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: Being Mindful of the Cultural Landscape” by Jeff SolomonSarah Ono, Heather Schacht Reisinger and Samantha Solimeo are contributing editors of the Anthropology in the Public Sector column in Anthropology News.NOTES FROM THE FIELD |“Mutual Beneficience with Research Assistants” by douglas carl reeserGLOBAL HEALTH |“Healthcare Inter‐culturally and Inter‐linguistically” by Jim Harries and Jeffery L DealINEQUALITY IN AMERICA |“The Great Gatsby Curve Debate” by Kathryn Marie DudleyCOUNTERPOINTS |“Populist Peasant Studies: The Life and Legacy of Ernest Feder” by Eric B RossARCHEOLOGY IN NORTH AMERICA |“The Most Wasteful People Anywhere Anytime, and Archaeology” by Robert MuckleUNDER THE HUMAN RIGHTS UMBRELLA |“The Exile” by Linda RabbenMIDDLE EAST MUDDLE |“No Olive Branch in Gaza” by Daniel Martin VariscoWHERE THE SOUL MEETS GENOME |“DNA Shall Set You Free” by Jason SilversteinTHE WORLD IS CURVED |“The Progressive Grotesque” by Michael E HarkinIN FOCUS: POWER“After Aceh's Peace” by Leslie Dwyer“When Having “Rights” is not Right: Inequality in Inheritance for Muslim Women in Bangladesh” by ATM Shaifullah Mehedi and Nehraz MahmudKNOWLEDGE EXCHANGECHANGING THE ATMOSPHERE |“A Snapshot of Climate Change in Rural Tanzania, 2010–2011” by L Jen ShafferSarah Strauss is the contributing editor of Changing the Atmosphere, the AN column of the AAA Global Climate Change Task Force.SECTION NEWSASSOCIATION FOR FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGY | Damla Isik and Jessica Smith Rolston, eds. “Preserving the Past and Preparing for the Future” by Jane HenriciKeywords:human rights, public anthropology, applied anthropology, fieldwork, archaeology, climate change, linguistic anthropology, biological anthropology, power