[URBANTH-L]Fwd: Arizona Anthropologist 17 now available

[Ronald Hector A. Villanueva]

Hello, I hope you are all enjoying your spring break.

Note that the Arizona Anthropologist Issue 17 is out.  Get your copies, only
$9/ exclusive of shipping.

  © 2006 Arizona Anthropologist 

  Cost per issue is $9.00. For subscription information, contact 
Arizona Anthropologist, Department of Anthropology, 
The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ  85721 
Fax (520) 621-2088 

  http://clubs.asua.arizona.edu/~azanthro/- 

  Table of Contents
Editor's Introduction to Issue #17 

  Hecky Villanueva......................................................... iv 

  Preface: John W.
Olsen............................................................ xi 

  Trans-Cultural Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition: Understanding
the Sociolinguistic Effects of International Tourism on Host Communities 
Eric Johnson............................................................... 1 

  _¡Me Gusta Hip-Hop!_: Evidence of Popular U.S. Culture Among Mexican Border
Youth
Brian Hawkins............................................................ 41 

  Negotiating the Moral Politics of Transnational Motherhood: Conducting
Ethnographic Research in Central America 

  Kate Goldade............................................................ 64 

  Lessons from New New Journalism 

  Brian Burke, Phil Leckman, Andrea Sturzen, Kathleen Van Vlack,   and Hecky
Villanueva...................................................88 

  Agent-based models as behavioral laboratories for evolutionary
anthropological research
L. S. Premo............................................................ 105 

  Language as Practice and Self-Dialogization: Examination of Language and Self
in _Ta'arof_
Satoshi Abe............................................................. 132 

  EXCERPTS FROM THE EDITORIAL PAGE:

  .... the _Arizona Anthropologist_ documents change and has witnessed it in
various communities throughout the world. This is demonstrated through diverse
articles and updates published for over sixty years. The _Arizona
Anthropologist_, formerly the _Atlatl,_ established in 1944, is among the
oldest and longest running graduate student-produced and peer-reviewed journals
in the United States.We welcome submissions of anthropological interest for
peer
review from graduate and undergraduate students. Many contributors are now
renowned academics and researchers.   

  Issue 17 explores intriguing aspects of the ever-debated issues of
globalization and the economic and cultural implications of the U.S.-Mexico
borderlands. These issues, among others, are the constant fodder of academic
debate, election propaganda, and xenophobic activities. Two articles in this
issue  look at aspects of culture change through language interaction in the
U.S.-Mexico border region. The first is by Arizona  State graduate student Eric
Johnson who analyzed the linguistic interactions between the host community of
Puerto Peñasco/Rocky Point, Mexico and its predominantly American international
tourists. The second is by recent University  of Arizona anthropology graduate,
Brian Hawkins, who wrote about the dynamics of American popular culture as
embodied in the musical genre of hip-hop on Mexican youth in the border town of
Nogales, Sonora. Both articles provide a nuanced approach to the interaction of
two cultures in a border region that is rapidly urbanizing. 

  Closer to home, the University of Arizona Department of Anthropology
celebrated its 90th anniversary in March 2006 with a series of seminars,
colloquiums, poster-exhibits, laboratory visits, socials, a gala dinner, the
launch of the Raymond H. Thompson Award, and importantly, a scholarship fund
drive. Department Chair John W. Olsen provided a short history of the
department in the preface. ....... 

  One initiative of the former editors was their call for more reflexive
articles on fieldwork. One such article is by new mother, Kate Goldade, on the
impact and implications of bringing her newly born daughter with her during
dissertation fieldwork in Costa   Rica. The lessons learned and the questions
raised, especially on aspects of transnationalism in research, should be
helpful to those contemplating bringing family members with them into the
field. 

  Another article is a commentary-essay on writing styles vis-à-vis
anthropology. Five graduate students, including this Editor, enrolled in Tom
Mcguire's writing class and produced this collaborative essay. It deconstructs
the literary genre popularly known as New New Journalism by reviewing the works
of five popular nonfiction writers and commenting on how writing style, nuance,
and research rigor can be compatible.......  

   In recognition of the quality of papers that win the annual Dozier Award for
best student paper submitted to the Anthropology Department, the _Arizona
Anthropologist _publishes the faculty-reviewed and chosen paper without peer
review. This year's awardee is archaeologist Luke Premo, a newly minted PhD,
now with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. His paper
argues that agent-based models (ABM) can provide paleoanthropologists with
simulations of possible behavioral dynamics and site formation processes of
past societies and paleoenvironments............  

  The last paper is by a linguistic anthropology graduate student, Satoshi Abe
, on the Iranian practice of _ta'arof_, which is a form of "institutionalized
language interaction" through which respect is conveyed between acquaintances.
Examining the _ta'arof_ practice allowed him to explore how language
interactions influence how the self is constantly negotiated in a communicative
and social context............... 

---- This is a rather "thick" issue in celebration of the 90th anniversary of
the U of A. Dept.of Anthropology. The Az.Anth also has a new logo, that of a
quipo.   If you're thinking of a nice gift that represents the U. of A, please
consider the Az. Anth Issue 17.
Thanks to all the contributors, our reviewers, AA staff, and supporters!
Best regards.

Hecky Villanueva
Editor for issue 17
Arizona Anthropologist

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