A Waterston

Biographic Data

ID	12642
NAME	A Waterston
GIVEN NAMES	A
FAMILY NAME	Waterston
SIGNATURE	WATERSTON A
AFFILIATIONS	City University of New York
ORCID	0000-0002-6750-7610
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	74
TOTAL CITATIONS	163
AUTHOR COUNT	73
EDITOR COUNT	1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1963
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2025
H-INDEX	6

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Open AccessJames Cuffe, Morgan Mattingly et al.ARTICLESocial Anthropology2025References: 4
There is a place on the southwest edge of Ireland, where stone and sea touch in a constant ebb and flow of memory, history and landscape. Dingle, or An Daingean as it is in the local Irish language. A name that evokes myth and magic, conjuring not only the topography of its windswept cliffs and quiet, stony fields but also the sense of something larger - a pulse, a draw, something that carries you in
Intimate ethnography: What's it good for
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2025Cited by: 1References: 40
Anthropologist Barbara Rylko-Bauer and I coined the term "intimate ethnography" in 2006 to capture the research and writing approach in our respective life-history projects, she with her mother and I with my father. Since that time, the genre has seen growing recognition in anthropology. Intimate ethnography centers on an intimate other-family members or someone known to the ethnographer prior to the research-as the subject of an ethnographic pro…
Observations
Open AccessA WaterstonCHAPTERCollection of Creative…2024
Improvising life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: Anthropological perspectives
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEkritisk etnografi Swedish Journal…2024
https://doi.org/10.33063/diva-550511
Less is more/Less and more
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEHau Journal of Ethnographic Theory2024
Just Imagine
A WaterstonARTICLEphiloSOPHIA2022
Just Imagine Alisse Waterston (bio) The united states is a flower of harm. —Tongo Eisen-Martin, “Taking a Common Name (after Claudia Rankine’s Just Us)” I never have to go far for evidence of the truth of this line from Tongo Eisen-Martin’s response to Claudia Rankine’s Just Us. On a Friday, Kyoo Lee, coeditor of philoSOPHIA, invited me to offer my own response to Eisen-Martin’s and Fanny Howe’s essays in what she said would be “like a game of ex…
Imagining World Solidarities for a Livable Future
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEkritisk etnografi Swedish Journal…2020Cited by: 1References: 2
In this article, I refer to Eduardo Galeano's challenge to exercise the right to dream and call on anthropologists to couple their knowledge with fearless imagination to work on behalf of a livable future that has yet to come.Galeano's primer for the "looking-glass world" in his book Upside Down resonates with anthropological understanding of the historical role of difference as ideological infection and on the political economic forces that repr…
Intimate ethnography and the anthropological imagination: Dialectical aspects of the personal and political inMy Father's Wars
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist2019Cited by: 16References: 53
Intimate ethnography is work of the anthropological imagination that models dialectical thinking in its approach to people, topics, and analysis. Rooted in particular intellectual, cultural, political, and anthropological currents, intimate ethnography comes when the need to engage larger publics in rethinking and recounting lives lived and experienced is increasingly urgent. An example of such work,My Father's Wars, centers an intimate Other as …
Response to Hollands
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2018References: 1
Four Stories, a Lament, and an Affirmation
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2018Cited by: 5References: 19
The following is the text of the presidential address presented on December 2, 2017, at the 116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, DC. I took the opportunity of this talk to reflect on this moment of being in anthropology. No doubt these are dark times, which prompts my questions: "What of us, as anthropologists, in these times? How will we pass the time that is given us?" Referring back to and in dialogue…
Four Stories, a Lament, and an Affirmation
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEAnthropology News2017
The following is the text of the presidential address presented on December 2, 2017, at the 116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, DC. I took the opportunity of this talk to reflect on this moment of being in anthropology. No doubt these are dark times, which prompts my questions: "What of us, as anthropologists, in these times? How will we pass the time that is given us?" Referring back to and in dialogue…
From the President: On Freedom, Academic and Otherwise
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEAnthropology News2017
From the President: Getting Credit
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEAnthropology News2017
From the President: In Praise of Who We Are and What We Do
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEAnthropology News2017
A Year of Challenges and Accomplishments
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEAnthropology News2017
From the President: Reflections on Things Past and Present
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEAnthropology News2016
From the President: We Are Everywhere
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEAnthropology News2016
From the President: For What It's Worth
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEAnthropology News2016
From the President: A Gift of Giving with PIFFT
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEAnthropology News2016
From the President: Doing Our Bit
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEAnthropology News2016
Latinos, militarism, and militarization
Open AccessLuis F B Plascencia, A Waterston et al.ARTICLELatino Studies2015References: 5
This American tragedy
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEDialectical Anthropology2015
Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Affect and Evocative Ethnography
Open AccessIan Skoggard, A WaterstonARTICLEAnthropology of Consciousness2015Cited by: 51References: 42
A growing interest in affect holds much promise for anthropology by providing a new frame to examine and articulate subjective and intersubjective states, which are key parts of human consciousness and behavior. Affect has its roots in the social, an observation that did not go unnoticed by Durkheim and since then has been kept in view by those social scientists interested in the emotions, feelings, and subjectivity. However, the challenge for et…
My Father's Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century
A WaterstonBOOKMy Father's Wars2013
Winner: International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Outstanding Book Award 2016 * My Father’s Wars is an anthropologist's vivid account of her father's journey across continents, countries, cultures, generations, and wars. It is a daughter's moving portrait of a charming, funny, wounded and difficult man. And it is a scholar's reflection on the dramatic forces of history, the experience of exile and immigration, the legacies of culture, and th…
Exoticizing the Other and the Author: Commentary on G ang L eader for a D ay by S udhir V enkatesh
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLENorth American Dialogue2012

Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Affect and Evocative Ethnography
Open AccessIan Skoggard, A WaterstonARTICLEAnthropology of Consciousness2015Cited by: 51References: 42
A growing interest in affect holds much promise for anthropology by providing a new frame to examine and articulate subjective and intersubjective states, which are key parts of human consciousness and behavior. Affect has its roots in the social, an observation that did not go unnoticed by Durkheim and since then has been kept in view by those social scientists interested in the emotions, feelings, and subjectivity. However, the challenge for et…
Out of the shadows of history and memory: Personal family narratives in ethnographies of rediscovery
Open AccessA Waterston, Barbara Rylko‐bauer et al.ARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist2006Cited by: 44References: 22
Shadows are often places of hiding, ephemeral or blurred, and they also soften that which appears stark or unbearable in the light. This article is grounded in dialogues that revolve around shadows: between the two author–anthropologists, each reconstructing a parent's story, situating it in history and political economy; and between each daughter and her parent. Both parents have witnessed some of the 20th century's major upheavals and social pr…
Intimate ethnography and the anthropological imagination: Dialectical aspects of the personal and political inMy Father's Wars
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist2019Cited by: 16References: 53
Intimate ethnography is work of the anthropological imagination that models dialectical thinking in its approach to people, topics, and analysis. Rooted in particular intellectual, cultural, political, and anthropological currents, intimate ethnography comes when the need to engage larger publics in rethinking and recounting lives lived and experienced is increasingly urgent. An example of such work,My Father's Wars, centers an intimate Other as …
The Story of My Story: An Anthropology of Violence, Dispossession, and Diaspora
A WaterstonARTICLEAnthropological Quarterly2005Cited by: 14References: 10
This is a story of an old man whose travels through the 20th century were marked by sorrow, humor, tragedy, and transformation. The author follows in anthropology's tradition of writing an individual's biography, locating one man's life in space and time. It is also an experiment in autoethnography since this anthropologist is the old man's daughter. The personal, intimate narrative recounts a father's history (child in Jedwabne, Poland, young ma…
Anthropological research and the politics of HIV prevention: Towards a critique of policy and priorities in the age of Aids
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1997Cited by: 11References: 38
This paper is based on the author's ethnographic HIV prevention research at a community-based residence for women in New York City who have a history of homelessness and diagnosis of mental illness. The author presents the human face of this American tragedy, while exploring the ways in which larger social forces circumscribe these women's lives. The author also critically assesses the HIV prevention agenda, including the dominant paradigm in pre…
Anthropology off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing
Open AccessA Waterston, Maria D VesperiBOOKAnthropology off the Shelf2009Cited by: 7
Are Latinos Becoming "White" Folk? And What That Still Says about Race in America
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLETransforming Anthropology2006Cited by: 6References: 4
Four Stories, a Lament, and an Affirmation
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2018Cited by: 5References: 19
The following is the text of the presidential address presented on December 2, 2017, at the 116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, DC. I took the opportunity of this talk to reflect on this moment of being in anthropology. No doubt these are dark times, which prompts my questions: "What of us, as anthropologists, in these times? How will we pass the time that is given us?" Referring back to and in dialogue…
Reflections on Teaching Social Violence in an Age of Genocide and a Time of War
Open AccessA Waterston, Antigona KukajARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2007Cited by: 3References: 32
This article is a reflection by a teacher and a student on "structural-violence pedagogy," the process of teaching and learning about the structures of inequality implicated in various forms of social violence, including those of everyday life, massacre, and genocide. Using a case study of an undergraduate course in anthropology, we explore the complexity and emotionally charged nature of this field, some innovative teaching strategies, and contr…
Society for the Anthropology of North America: Community Service Learning: Where is Anthropology
Open AccessSam Beck, A WaterstonARTICLEAnthropology News2000Cited by: 2
Intimate ethnography: What's it good for
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2025Cited by: 1References: 40
Anthropologist Barbara Rylko-Bauer and I coined the term "intimate ethnography" in 2006 to capture the research and writing approach in our respective life-history projects, she with her mother and I with my father. Since that time, the genre has seen growing recognition in anthropology. Intimate ethnography centers on an intimate other-family members or someone known to the ethnographer prior to the research-as the subject of an ethnographic pro…
Imagining World Solidarities for a Livable Future
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEkritisk etnografi Swedish Journal…2020Cited by: 1References: 2
In this article, I refer to Eduardo Galeano's challenge to exercise the right to dream and call on anthropologists to couple their knowledge with fearless imagination to work on behalf of a livable future that has yet to come.Galeano's primer for the "looking-glass world" in his book Upside Down resonates with anthropological understanding of the historical role of difference as ideological infection and on the political economic forces that repr…
Doing Our Home Work: Anthropologists on Homelessness and Housing in the United States
Open AccessA WaterstonARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1998Cited by: 1
There's No Place like Home: Anthropological Perspectives on Housing and Homelessness in the United States. Anna Lou Dehavenon. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1996.206 pp.Ttie Unequal Homeless: Men on tlie Street, Women in Their Place. Joanne Passaro. New York: Routledge, 1996. 128 pp.Homesteading in New York City, 1978-1993: The Divided Heart of Loisaida. Malve von Hassell. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1996. 205 pp
Yugoslavia and the New Communism
Jan M Michal, Jan Michal et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1963Cited by: 1
Journal Article Yugoslavia and the New Communism Get access Yugoslavia and the New Communism. By G. W. Hoffman and F. W. Neal. (New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1962. Pp. xiv + 546. $8.) Planning in Yugoslavia. By A. Waterston. (Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins Press (London: Oxford University Press), 1962. Pp. ix + 109. $3.) Jan M. Michal Jan M. Michal University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…