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Abstract:OPINIONUNDER THE HUMAN RIGHTS UMBRELLA |“Causes Celebres, New and Old” by Linda RabbenCOUNTERPOINTS |“Modernization and the Myth of Vicos” by Eric B RossANTHROPOLOGY AND ACTIVISM |“Pussy Riot Matters” by Robert R SaudersANTHROPOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR |“Anthropology in the Public Sector” by Sarah Ono, Heather Schacht Reisinger, and Samantha L SolimeoTHE WORLD IS CURVED |“The World is Curved” by Michael HarkinINEQUALITY IN AMERICA |“The Wages of Smartness” by Kathryn Marie DudleyCONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY |“Impersonal Genomics and Anthropology” by Adam Van ArsdaleMIDDLE EAST MUDDLE |“Body Politics: Muhammad and Middleton” by Daniel Martin VariscoMIDDLE EAST MUDDLE |“Between the Rock of Ages and a Hard Sell” by Daniel Martin VariscoARCHEOLOGY IN NORTH AMERICA |“The Subversive Archaeologist, Interviewed” by Robert MuckleGLOBAL HEALTH |“If a bomb drops in Sudan and no one hears, did it make a sound?” by Jeff DealWHERE THE SOUL MEETS GENOME |“Molecular Suspects: Murder Genes and Mass Shootings” by Jason SilversteinLANGUAGE AND CULTURE |“The Genetic Worldview and Indo‐European Myths of Origin” by Magnus Pharao HansenLeila Monaghan, Jacqueline Messing and Richard Senghas are contributing editors of the Language and Culture column in Anthropology News.EYE TO ETHNOGRAPHY |“Films Good to Think With” by Jenny Chio and Zeynep Devrim GürselCHANGES IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND EDUCATION |“New Orleans Education: Using Choice to Stack the Deck?” by Juliette de WolfeJ DRIVE |“Markets and Au Pairs: Material Culture, Global Economy and Domestic Work in Europe” by Ritu G KhanduriNARRATIVE ETHNOGRAPHY CULTURAL STORYTELLING |“Evidence That There is Rarely One Correct Answer” by Barbara GariiJulia L Offen is the contributing editor of Narrative Ethnography, Cultural Storytelling in Anthropology News.IN FOCUS: VIOLENCE AND CONFLICT“Researcher Responses to KONY 2012” by Amanda J Reinke“Gender‐based Violence and Body Politic in Nepal” by Kapil Dahal“Voices of Karimojong Storytellers” by Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler“Sound of Death and the Legacy of Thinking Violence” by Stephanie W Alemán and Tarryl L Janik“Generating Change in a Conflict Area: A Glimpse at Global, Local and Individual Approaches” by Michael F Sullivan“Embodying the Enemy: Muslim Students in Right Wing Hindu Schools” by Rucha Ambikar“Violent Terms: Examining Language of “Law” and “Torture” in the Bush Administration by Rachel Daniell“Movement, Consent and the Justification of Soldier Rape in Militarized Economies” by Rebecca GimbelKNOWLEDGE EXCHANGECHANGING THE ATMOSPHERE |“Climate Change Impacts across the Americas” by Sarah Strauss2012 AAA PHOTO CONTEST |“People” Photo Contest Entries2012 AAA PHOTO CONTEST |“Place” Photo Contest Entries2012 AAA PHOTO CONTEST |“Practice” Photo Contest Entries2012 AAA PHOTO CONTEST |“Process” Photo Contest EntriesSECTION NEWSNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT ANTHROPOLOGISTS | Keri A Canada, ed. |“New Issue of Student Anthropologist”NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT ANTHROPOLOGISTS | Keri A Canada, ed. “Request for Feedback: Gender Equity in Anthropology”NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT ANTHROPOLOGISTS | Keri A Canada, ed. “NASA Call for Submissions”Keywords:human rights, activism, advocacy, economic anthropology, biological anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, ethnography, anthropology education, violence, conflict, legal anthropology, climate changeInterview with Neil Whitehead j.1556‐3502.2012.53701_s.x.mp3 Tarryl L Janik's interview with Neil Whitehead. Sound file to go with the In Focus essay “Sound of Death and the Legacy of Thinking Violence: Notes on a Final Interview with Neil L Whitehead”