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This essay explores the material imperatives of nineteenth-century statistical ambition, at a time when the nature of paper itself underwent rapid change. It expands the concept of paper technologies to include knowledge about the materials themselves, as well as the infrastructures, techniques, and agreements that made it possible for the right kind of paper to be made available for particular purposes. Taking the production of the forms for the Prussian census as a case in point, it argues that the enumeration effort of Prussian census statisticians went far beyond designing a form, collecting information, noting and compiling figures, or creating tables. Paper knowledge to define and control the material substance of the forms mattered as much as political impetus and statistical methods in getting the census right. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the author's reply to commentaries on her article "The Turn to Affect: A Critique." It explains that the objective of paper is to show that the theorists in her study share erroneous assumptions about the relation among the affect system, intention and cognition. It also explains that her criticisms on the incoherencies of affect theory are no intended to undervalue art and aesthetic experience.

The author discusses the evolution of the cover of the journal "Current Anthropology." He mentions that the cover of the journal presents a list of titles of research papers in a specific issue. He also presents a comparison of the covers of the journal from its inception and reveals that the older cover features a dull matte finish and a plain light gray color while the newer one is shiny and has a distinctive shade of blue. He further points out that one of the features of the cover remain, which is the name of an institution, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research found at the bottom of the cover.

This article focuses on engendering Syro-Palestinian archaeology. First and foremost, the examination of gendered lives requires attention to the households in which people lived. As the author has suggested in a recent paper, the study of households entails recognizing their social, organizational and material complexity. Although it is difficult to provide a definition of a household that applies across all cultures, acknowledging its social and operational properties as well as its physical ones is critical. A household thus is not simply a family or only a house. Rather, it is a built environment that consists of both persons and their hardware.

Discusses some of the consequences of the use of paper in Mexico. Emphasis on the materiality of the paper; Paper as the point of orientation for examining different worldviews; Confrontation with the otherness of Nahua people of Ixhualtlan de Madero in Mexico; Significance of paper in the Nahua culture.