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The author comments on anthropology professor Nahal Naficy's ethnographic account of the possibilities and institutional challenges to the disciplinary life of anthropology in Iran. He argues that Naficy's paper is a call on Iranian anthropologists to rethink pedagogy and address the important issue of disciplinary identity. He also discusses the link between the 1979 Revolution on the current preoccupation of Iranian social sciences with concepts of modernity and cultural identity.

The article presents an obituary for Keith F. Otterbein, professor emeritus of anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

The article focuses on the concept of global anthropology and the place of an East Asian anthropology and anthropologists within this framework. Topics discussed include the experience of the author as an anthropologist in Hong Kong, the impact of economic development and technological innovation on the study of anthropology, and the reasons East Asia is not yet ready to assume leadership role in anthropology. The factors that would help create a common East Asian anthropology are mentioned.

Information about several activities on the fifth annual London Anthropology Day sponsored by the Royal Anthropological Institute on July 10, 2008 is presented. It relates that an approximate of 220 students, teachers, and career advisers from schools and further education colleges attended the event, in which they participated plenary talks, museum tours, film screenings and a wide variety of workshops covering many areas of anthropological research.