Oboler, Suzanne, ed. 2006. Latinos and Citizenship: TheDilemma of Belonging. New York: Palgrave Macmillian.

Peacock, James, Harry Watson, and Carrie Matthews, eds.2005. The American South in a Global World. Chapel Hill, NC:University of North Carolina Press.

Smith, Heather A., and Owen J. Furuseth, eds. 2006. Latinosin the New South: Transformations of Place. Burlington:Ashgate.

Stavans, Ilan. 1995. The Hispanic Condition: Reflections ofCulture and Identity in America. New York: HarperCollins.

Stokes, Melvyn, and Rick Halpern, eds. 1994. Race & Class inthe American South since 1890. Oxford: Berg.

Woodward, C. Vann. 1938. Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel.Savannah: The Beehive Press.

Woodward, C. Vann. 1971. Origins of the New South, 1877–1913. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press(c.1951).

Zúñiga, Víctor, and Rubén Hernández-León, eds. 2005. NewDestinations of Mexican Immigration in the United States: Com-munity Formation, Local Responses and Inter-Group Relations.New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Sam ByrdCUNY Graduate CenterSByrd@gc.cuny.eduNorth American Dialogue 14.2, pp. 38–41, ISSN 1556-4819. © 2011 by the AmericanAnthropological Association. All rights reserved. DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4819.2011.01041.x

OverviewSANA’s Invited Sessions at the 2011 AmericanAnthropological Association’s Annual Meeting“Traces, Tidemarks and Legacies” in Montreal,Canada

By Nathan Woods and Susan Falls

The great benefit, and privilege, of acting assession editor for SANA is the opportunity toshare in a bird’s eye peek at how anthropologicalresearch in North America is being cultivated.This year, we had a great variety of submissionsthat reflect the breadth and diversity of topicsanthropologists are examining in the NorthAmerican context. We also saw a strong sense ofexcitement and interest in North American schol-

arship, which translated into a number of excitingpartnerships between SANA and other AAASections. Given these very positive outcomes, wethought that it is appropriate to give a shortreport on the consistent themes pointing towardthought-provoking developments both withinSANA and cooperatively between SANA and thebroader anthropological community.

One overriding theme that we saw in this year’ssubmissions reflects the changing conditions forthe production and circulation of knowledge. Thechanging political economy for the production ofknowledge — both within academe and with-out — has enormous implications for not onlyhow anthropological knowledge is produced andconsumed but also how it is taught and circulated.These changes hold real entailments for how thelabor conditions for academic and nonacademicknowledge work is currently structured, as well asfor the types of professional and political respon-sibilities anthropologists inherit and are in posi-tions to change, enact, and encourage. This themeis cogently highlighted in an invited session,cosponsored with the Council on Anthropologyand Education; entitled Collusion: Theorizing Aca-demics, the University and the State, this panel high-lights the relationship between Neoliberal statepolicies and the conditions for academic labor.

As with the changes to the university system,the production and circulation of knowledge as itnow occurs outside of the university, in govern-ment agencies, and nonprofits, through commu-nity sponsored research, local initiatives, andsocial movements, not only suggest changes inthe market share for anthropological expertisebut also means transformations in how commu-nities stand in broader arenas of social and cul-tural debate. Two invited sessions stand out inthis regard. First, BioMexico: Risk Reproduction andSovereignty, cosponsored with the Society forLatin American and Caribbean Anthropology,provides a range of perspectives on the emergentrelations between bioscience and citizenshipin Mexico. Similarly, Gitxaala Laxyuup (KitkatlaNation): Tracing Gitxaala History and Culturethrough Archaeology and Anthropology, cospon-

41

sored with the Anthropology and EnvironmentSection, presents a range of perspectives on theproduction of Gitxaala territorial history and onthe production of knowledge as it is implicatedin an array of disputes over ownership, territory,and sovereignty.

Papers in both BioMexico and Gitxaala Laxyuupaddress the long-standing issue of how real com-munities exercise political and ethical resources tointervene in the production of knowledge, and thecircumstances for its dissemination, processesimplicated in the everyday organization of healthand environmental disparities, inequalities ingender and sexuality, and the ongoing organiza-tion of racial conflict and ethnic nationalism. Whilethese two sessions complicate the issue of creatingeffective and equitable partnerships betweenanthropologists and the communities they study,they also speak to issues of collaboration andengagement with diverse forms of expertise. Thisis precisely what is in focus in the session, Tracesand Transformation in Anthropology and Art Prac-tices: A Strategic Engagement?, which SANA willcosponsor with the Society for Visual Anthropol-ogy. Here, papers examine how art practices mightconstitute a form of anthropological strategicengagement per se rather than something analyti-cally appropriated by anthropologist, or as a prac-tice viewed as mere collaboration betweenanthropological and artistic expertise.

Hopefully, these themes will offer the opportu-nity to engage with, and reflect on the changingconditions for the production of anthropologicalknowledge, and the diverse means, that in theNorth American context, anthropological exper-tise is challenged by the emerging conditions forthe production, dissemination, and the use ofknowledge.

Invited Sessions

• BioMexico: Risk, Reproduction, and Sover-eignty (cosponsored with Society for LatinAmerican and Caribbean Anthropology).John Hartigan is the organizer.

• Collusion: Theorizing Academics, the Univer-sity and the State (cosponsored with Councilon Anthropology and Education). Alex-ander Posecznick is the organizer.

• Trances and Transformations in Anthropologyand Art: A Strategic Engagement? (cospon-sored with Society for Visual Anthropol-ogy). Trudi L. Smith and Andrea N. Walshare the coorganizers.

• Gitxaala Laxyuup (Kitkatla Nation): Historyand Culture Through Archaeology and Anthro-pology (cosponsored with Anthropologyand Environment Section). Charles R.Menzies and Caroline F. Butler are theorganizers.

Nathan WoodsCUNY Graduate Centerwoods.ndw@gmail.com

Susan FallsSavannah College of Art and Designsfalls@scad.eduNorth American Dialogue 14.2, pp. 41–42, ISSN 1556-4819. © 2011 by the AmericanAnthropological Association. All rights reserved. DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4819.2011.01042.x

Thank You Catherine Kingfisher!

I will have to work extremely hard to fill theshoes left by Catherine Kingfisher, our outgoingNorth American Dialogue (NAD) editor. She suc-cessfully expanded the length and depth of NAD,making it a more relevant publication for SANAreadership and beyond. I hope to continue pursu-ing the goals set forth by Kingfisher, such aspushing NAD towards becoming a larger, peer-reviewed journal, and fostering a continued pres-ence by Canadian and Mexican scholars. Iwelcome your suggestions and contributions: Iam especially interested in developing a visualcolumn and in introducing emergent topics, con-cerns, and methods as they relate to North Ameri-can Anthropology.North American Dialogue 14.2, p. 42, ISSN 1556-4819. © 2011 by the AmericanAnthropological Association. All rights reserved. DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4819.2011.01043.x

42