Examining Power, Serving the State

This article explores the tensions faced by anthropologists who seek to examine critically the institutional structures of state power in American society, but who find themselves immersed in the bureaucracies of state organizations. It examines the author's experience as an AAA Congressional Fellow and her efforts to write an op-ed editorial about the invasion of Panama for a prominent member of the US Congress. It situates this experience within the transformations that shaped the discipline of anthropology in the 1980s and pushed new Ph.Ds to seek jobs outside the academy. It then explores the contradictions involved with studying up while simultaneously serving power

Biology · Panama · Political science · Power (physics) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Cuban History and Society · Ecology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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