AAA 2005 Washington, DC

In 2005, SCA hosted not one but two "Culture at Large" panels, where anthropology meets its interlocutors from allied fields.  SCA's guests in 2005 were Susan Buck-Morss  (Government, Cornell U) and George Lipsitz  (American Studies, UC Santa Cruz).

For the first time, SCA and the American Ethnological Society (AES) joined forces for a joint reception.

For a complete schedule of all SCA-sponsored panels,
click here.

Natal'ia Varlei, as Nina, and Aleksandr Demianenko, as the anthropologist, Shurik, in Leonid Gaidai's 1966 Soviet blockbuster motion-picture comedy,Girl Prisoner of the Caucasus. In "The Good Russian Prisoner: Naturalizing Violence in the Caucasus Mountains," CA 20, no. 1 (February 2005): 39-67, Bruce Grant demonstrates how a broad repertoireof public cultural forms have developed the doctrine of benevolent Russian politics in far pavilions.