This article describes and analyzes the American Anthropological Association’s adoption of a sexual harassment and sexual assault policy as a part of the groundswell of recognition that sexual violence detrimentally shapes scientific inquiry, a recognition catalyzed by the #MeToo cultural moment. This is a case study of what Marcel Mauss terms “policy as total social phenomena,” which narrates a significant historical pivot in the story of feminism that evidences feminist theorizing in praxis, per a framework developed by bell hooks. We critically situate this transformation within what Marshall Sahlins calls “contingent circumstance,” which enables institutional transformation. We argue that professional associations can set normative expectations and best practice standards to mold cultural change. The article outlines the reframing of sexual violence as professional misconduct to emphasize the element of community while not denying that there are interpersonal harms. The policy recognizes the foundational impact of gender oppression on a discipline’s methods, training practices, and the expected entitlements of professional success. Building on the scholarship and activism that have documented anthropology’s all-too-typical history with sexual violence, we offer a rare insider’s understanding into the unfolding process of designing and adopting norms intended to compel behavioral change. The article concludes with the questions that remain in the exercise of community responsibility for sexual harassment and sexual assault. We suggest that while the intentional reorganization of institutional practices, policies, and training processes can facilitate cultural change that curtails sexual violence, long-term transformations require community action in terms of intentional investments in policy review and educational programming.

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规则很重要：专业协会如何围绕性暴力重新制定社区内规范？

本文描述并分析了美国人类学协会采用性骚扰和性侵犯政策，作为承认性暴力有害地塑造科学探究的风潮的一部分，这一认识是由#MeToo 文化时刻催化的。这是马塞尔·莫斯 (Marcel Mauss) 所称的“作为总体社会现象的政策”的案例研究，它讲述了女权主义故事中的一个重要历史支点，证明了女权主义理论在实践中的运用，根据 bell hooks 开发的框架。我们批判性地将这种转变置于马歇尔·萨林斯（Marshall Sahlins）所谓的“偶然情况”中，这使得制度转变成为可能。我们认为，专业协会可以设定规范期望和最佳实践标准来塑造文化变革。文章概述了将性暴力重新定义为职业不端行为，以强调社区因素，同时不否认存在人际伤害。该政策承认性别压迫对学科方法、培训实践和职业成功的预期权利的根本影响。建立在记录人类学关于性暴力的典型历史的学术和行动主义的基础上，我们提供了一种罕见的内部人士对设计和采用旨在迫使行为改变的规范的展开过程的理解。文章以在性骚扰和性侵犯的社区责任中仍然存在的问题结束。我们建议，在有意重组制度实践、政策、