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A free, virtual issue of Cultural Anthropology focused on Democracy, Voting, and Elections is now available. The issue includes 5 essays published over the last few years.
Cultural Anthropology is the journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association.
Access essays in the virtual issue here:
Watching U.S. Television From the Palestinian Streets: The Media, the State, and Representational Interventions
Amahl Bishara
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121359028/PDFSTART
Rose-Colored Glasses? Color Revolutions and Cartoon Chaos in Postsocialist Georgia
Paul Manning
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/120178862/PDFSTART
Election Day: the Construction of Democracy through Technique
Kimberley A. Coles
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/120178795/PDFSTART
Making Democracy Count: Opinion Polls and Market Surveys in the Chilean Political Transition
Julie Paley
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/120178707/PDFSTART
Multipartyism and Nostalgia for the Unified Past: Discourses of Democracy in a Dance Association in Cameroon
Clare A. Ignatowski
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/120178784/PDFSTART
Want to read more?
For each of these essays, the Cultural Anthropology website features a page of "Supplemental Material" with links, videos, and other tools especially useful for teaching. Click on the authors' names below to access the supplements for their respective articles.
Supplemental material for each essay is available on the journal website:
Virtual Issue: Democracy, Voting, and Elections
http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/173
Other Cultural Anthropology essays focused on Democracy, Voting, and Elections are listed here:
Theme: Democracy, Voting, and Elections
http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/101
Cultural Anthropology publishes ethnographic writing informed by a wide array of theoretical perspectives, innovative in form and content, and focused on both traditional and emerging topics. The journal is one of more than 20 publications featured in AnthroSource, the American Anthropological Association's online portal.
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