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The article proposal deadline for the September and October issues of Anthropology News is fast approaching. September will address anthropology education and October will address disaster relief and recovery. For the full CFPs with theme descriptions, see our website. We ...
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The AAA was briefly mentioned on the Brian Lehrer Show during a discussion of the 2010 Census and the barriers to counting individuals in New York City. Angelo Falcón of the Census Bureau’s Hispanic Advisory Committee referenced the work of ...
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Recently, Anthropology and some AAA members have been featured in the public eye!
Dr. Harriet Ottenheimer of Kansas State University helped debunk the myth that those responsible for the “Nigerian 419″ scam were actually from Nigeria, according to this article.
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A quick reminder that public policy forum abstracts for the annual meeting are due Mar. 15, 5pm EST. The deadline for volunteered sessions, individual paper and poster presentations, and special events is Apr. 1. Organizers can submit session abstracts here: ...
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On March 18, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History will mark its 100th anniversary on the National Mall with the public opening of the 15,000 sq. ft. David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, the result of an international ...
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On March 4, Inside Higher Ed covered the release of a report by Harvard’s Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education on the experience of Generation X faculty, based on interviews with tenure-track faculty members at four-year colleges and universities. ...
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The Call for Papers Site is now accepting submissions to participate in the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Submissions are due by 5pm EST on April 1st. The meeting will be located in New Orleans, Louisiana November ...
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Congrats to the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) on the launch of the FoodAnthropology blog at foodanthro.wordpress.com. The launch was accompanied by a welcome message encouraging SAFN members to contribute news and research info by contacting ...
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Congratulations to the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (SACC) on their first all-digital issue of SACC Notes, emailed to SACC members and subscribers today. This digital effort is a work-in-progress, and all reader feedback is welcome. If you are ...
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The March 2010 issue of American Anthropologist, available now on Anthrosource and Wiley-Interscience, features the debut of the new ”Public Anthropology Review” section.
As we announced last fall, these reviews will highlight anthropological work principally aimed at non-academic audiences, including websites, blogs, white papers, journalistic ...
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We are pleased to congratulate the winners, finalists and semifinalists of the 2009 AAA Photo Contest! This year’s first place winner is Brian Donahoe’s “Win, Place, Show,” second is Emily Yates-Doerr’s “La Democracia,” and third is Shauna LaTosky’s “Baby Girl ...
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March Anthropology News In Focus commentaries on repatriation are now posted on our Current Featured News page, free to the public throughout the month.
Since its passage in 1990, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) has prompted ...
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In remembrance of Melvin Lawrence Ember (1933-2009), Pearson has announced the 1st annual Mel Ember Student Scholarship Award. Mel Ember was a Pearson/Prentice Hall author for almost 40 years. His and Carol R. Ember’s books Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology have ...
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NPR has posted online a Feb 26 story on “Haitian Creole for the Haitian Recovery,” a new language course at Duke University organized by languages professor Deborah Jenson. The students enrolled come from a wide range of backgrounds, and include ...
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AAA President Virginia Dominguez is pleased to bring you the first of many Inside the President’s Studio podcasts. This month she interviews Monica Heller, AAA Executive Program Chair for the 2010 annual meeting in New Orleans. Monica ...
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Anthropology News is pleased to announce the themes for our upcoming fall issues. September will address anthropology education and October will address disaster relief and recovery. For the full CFPs with theme descriptions, see our website.
We welcome proposals for ...
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Yesterday’s Baltimore Sun featured the article “Towson Professor to Leave for Haiti to Identify US Remains,” profiling forensic anthropologist Dana Kollmann, whose previous work includes investigations of Baltimore County crime scenes and mass graves in the former Yugoslavia. Kollmann has ...
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The following is a message from AAA Secretary Debra Martin:
Dear AAA Member:
As the Secretary of the American Anthropological Association, I am pleased to report to you the results of our latest ballot initiative. At the most recent annual ...
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The RAI’s Education Outreach Programme invites submissions to its “Meaning of Water” international photo contest. They are looking for photographs of human interaction with water in reference to four thematic categories: (1) livelihoods and sustainability, (2) trade and transport, (3) ...
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The February 15 edition of The New Yorker includes the Annals of Anthropology article “Drinking Games” (p 70-76), by Malcolm Gladwell, highlighting the alcoholism studies work of AAA member Dwight B. Heath. The article includes comments from anthropologists Craig MacAndrew ...
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The sixth installment of our Profiles in Practice podcast series features Patricia Clay, a fisheries anthropologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Clay received her doctorate in anthropology from Indiana University-Bloomington, where she focused on ...
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In an op-ed piece for the online edition of The Guardian, AAA Executive Board member Mary Gray writes about the experience of LGBT youth in rural areas.
Drawing on her own research, Gray suggests that “[t] he binaries of closeted/visible, rural/urban and online/offline ...
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The e-Journal of the National Association for Student Anthropologists is currently taking submissions, for their next volume which will be released at the 2010 AAA Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
According to the CFP:
We seek scholarly submissions from undergraduate and graduate ...
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The world focused its attention on Haiti in the wake of the crisis caused by earthquakes in Port-au-Prince last month, but the tiny island nation has been racked with instability practically since it declared independence over 200 years ago.
In an ...
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Following last week’s record-setting snowstorms, the AAA office is back open and staff are working hard to meet member needs. This post is a friendly reminder that there are several important deadlines coming soon.
Applications for the AAA Minority Dissertation ...
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Our ongoing Profiles in Practice podcast series continues with Judy Tso, a practicing anthropologist and owner of Aha Solutions in Maryland. After acquiring her bachelors at UPenn’s Wharton School and working for eight years, Judy acquired a ...
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February Anthropology News In Focus commentaries on “The Meaning of Water” are now posted on our Current Featured News page, free to the public throughout February. Full issue content is available via AnthroSource, including the commentaries, annual meeting coverage, and ...
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Did you miss the AAA Annual Meeting screening of Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness? Want to share the film with your colleagues and students? This week, the documentary is airing nationally on the PBS series Independent Lens, hosted by ...
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The Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA) has launched a “Focus on Haiti” page on their newly designed website that features links to articles, charities, and other materials to help guide those seeking information about the humanitarian crisis in Haiti and ...
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Is your club or student organization currently recruiting members or planning an event? AAA has a limited stock of tote bags you could use! For the cost of shipping you can receive Tote Bags from the 2009 AAA Annual Meeting ...
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The fellowship is in its 11th year. We are happy to have supported young anthropologists completing their doctoral degrees across all subfields in anthropology.
“The AAA Minority Dissertation Fellowship has been invaluable in allowing me to focus on completing my ...
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On Tuesday, antropologi.info posted about a Dec 2009 AAA session in the innovative Pecha Kucha format, featuring interviews with organizer Marcy Hessling and Aleksandra Bartoszko. In the Pecha Kucha format, participants each present their work in 6 min and 40 ...
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War and Counter-Counterinsurgency: Demilitarizing Anthropology and U.S. Society
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On December 5, 2009, the Network of Concern Anthropologists (NCA) held a session at the AAA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia to discuss some of the issues they raised in ...
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“The AAA’s Ad Hoc Commission on Anthropology’s Engagement with the Security and Intelligence Communities (CEAUSSIC) continues its work. Our main activities at present include: 1. the writing of a report to the AAA on the widely and hotly debated Human ...
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NPR recently produced a story on anthropologist Paula Holmes-Eber’s work teaching operational culture at Marine Corps University in Quantico, VA. Listen to the interview or read the written summary, which also includes an active comment board. For additional coverage of ...
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On Thursday, Jan 28, 11:00 am, Barbara J King will appear in a live interview with Diane Rehm, discussing her new book: Being with Animals: Why We Are Obsessed with the Furry, Scaly, Feathered Creatures Who Populate Our World, released ...
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Anthropology News has extended the deadline for article proposals for the upcoming census-themed issue to Friday, 1/29. To participate, email a 300-word abstract and 50–100-word bio to AN editor Dinah Winnick at dwinnick [at] aaanet.org. Proposals may be for In ...
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Frédéric Keck has kindly provided us with a brief account of his personal exchanges with Lévi-Strauss, the legacy of his work, and how he contributed to Keck’s exploration of French anthropology. Keck is currently a researcher in social anthropology at ...
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Profiles in Practice Podcast #4
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This week Kevin Bialy discusses his career at the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) where he serves as the acting international program officer for the Western Hemisphere. ...
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Alan Goodman, former AAA President and co-director of the RACE: Are We So Different? project, appeared on NPR’s Science Friday last week to discuss shifting racial categories in the US Census. He also provided an introduction to the RACE Project ...
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Session proposals seeking executive session status are due Friday, January 22nd to Monica Heller at aaaprogramchair@gmail.com.
Session proposals must include:
Session title
500 word session abstract
List of panel participants and
List of paper titles.
Additional supporting information such as ...
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Dear AAA Members and Friends:
As we all know by now, Haiti has been hit by a natural disaster of horrible magnitude. For a country struggling for so long with inadequate infrastructure, widespread poverty, long-standing health problems, and frequent political ...
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Panelists continued conversations about race during the second day of the AAA symposium, “A New National Dialogue on Race,” that took place on Capitol Hill. We were happy to have the honorable Congresswoman and Congressional Black Caucus Chair Barbara Lee ...
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On Jan. 12-13, 2010, the AAA was joined by the Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus in hosting a groundbreaking symposium, “A New National Dialogue on Race,” on Capitol Hill. The program brought together diverse leaders to ...
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Profiles in Practice Podcast #3
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This week Megan Hawkins discusses her work as a cultural resource specialist with the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii, where she is currently contracted out to the U.S. Army. Megan ...
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The fall 2009 issue of AnthroNotes is now available online. Managing Editor Ann Kaupp of the Smithsonian’s Anthropology Outreach Office tells us that this issue includes:
articles on what archaeology can inform about contemporary environmental issues, simulating the past to ...
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January Anthropology News In Focus commentaries on “Water Governance and Management” are now available on our Current Featured News page, free to the public throughout January. Full issue content is available via AnthroSource, including the commentaries, an interview with Gregory ...
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Today we present an online essay by Barbara Rose Johnston that supplements her January Anthropology News print commentary, “Water, Culture and Power Negotiations at the UN.” The print essay is now available on the AAA website and AnthroSource. We welcome ...
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For readers not quite ready to dive into the post-New Year’s work week, we bring you a few fun links on anthropology and food (thanks to Alice Kehoe). First is an interview in the Mikwaukee, Wisconsin Journal Sentinel with James ...
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We’re pleased to welcome Jason G Watkins to the AAA staff as our new Director of Meetings. Jason is responsible for oversight and management of the association’s meetings and related products. He provides direction and guidance to the AAA program ...
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In previous Archeology Division columns in Anthropology News, William Longacre and Namita Sugandhi addressed the question, “What would archaeology be without anthropology?” In this month’s AN column (available through AnthroSource), Michael Smith and Philip Arnold answer the question, “Does archaeology ...
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As we reported earlier, last week C-SPAN’s Book TV aired a session from the AAA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia that focused on the research of Ann Dunham, anthropologist and mother of President Barack Obama.
Panelists included Alice Dewey (Dunham’s graduate advisor), Nancy Cooper (a ...
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A census is a powerful mechanism that both reflects and constructs social taxonomies in profound ways, impacting nations’ perceptions of themselves, the distribution of government funds, the provision of public services, and even legislation. In this US Census year we ...
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The AAA invites readers to attend “A New National Dialogue on Race,” two days of programming designed to look at the racial issues that America faces in a brand new way. The event, sponsored by the AAA, working in conjunction ...
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“Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness” will air nationally on the PBS series Independent Lens, hosted by Maggie Gyllenhaal, on Tuesday, February 2, 10:30 pm. The film examines the life and career of Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963), the controversial anthropologist ...
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Profiles in Practice Podcast #2
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This week Dr. Lee Cerveny discusses her work as a research social scientist at the U.S. Forest Service. As a graduate student, Lee spent six months studying tourism and rural communities in ...
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What do our closest living ancestors have to teach us about what it means to be human? How do images of the human brain reveal our faculties for language, the use of tools and the ability to forge social bonds? ...
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Between May and September 2009, the AAA Committee on Practicing, Applied, and Public Interest Anthropology (CoPAPIA) conducted a survey to discover career and educational information on Masters level anthropologists. Preliminary data from the MA Alumni survey is now available.
Learn ...
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In order to provide a more democratic, open and transparent voting process, we are initiating a new format whereby both sides of a resolution are presented. In the past, members have sometimes presented both sides of a resolution through Anthropology News. ...
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Columbia University Professor Neni Panourgiá, Fordham University Press, and Columbia’s Center for Digital Research and Scholarship partnered to produce an online adaptation of Panourgiá’s recently released print monograph, Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State, now ...
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Anthropology News seeks articles for an April 2010 “Anthropology and Journalism” issue. To participate, email a 300-word abstract and 50-100-word author biosketch to AN editor Dinah Winnick at dwinnick [at] aaanet.org by this Friday, Dec 18. See our full CFP ...
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AAA is pleased to introduce a new gift membership program in time for the winter holidays and end of semester. Memberships are a great gift for teaching or research assistants, exceptional undergraduates, retiring faculty, and colleagues seeking employment. Membership provides ...
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A session from the 2009 AAA Annual Meeting, “Survival and Thriving in Indonesia”, which honored the work of anthropologist Stanley Ann Dunham, mother of Barack Obama, will be televised on C-SPAN 2’s Book TV on Sunday December 20 at 2pm ...
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As part of our committment to broaden access to anthropological research, AAA is now providing free access to content from American Anthropologist, Anthropology News, Ethos, and PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review that published before 1974.
The initiative, approved last year ...
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The latest issue of NAPA Bulletin explores the effects of the world food crisis in various settings around the globe, and suggests ways to mitigate those effects through the application of anthropological principles and practices.
The result is a collection of ...
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New Zealand’s first international ethnography hui will be held November 17-19, 2010 at the University of Waikato (Hamilton, New Zealand), with the theme: “Contemporary Ethnography across the Disciplines.” The hui has three key threads:
Emerging Methods: traditional, experimental, transgressive forms
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The Ahi Evran University dept. of anthropology has announced that the 2010 IUAES Inter-Congress will be held in Antalya, Turkey, October 3-6, 2010, with the theme: “From the Crossroads of Civilizations: Understanding Cultural Diversity to Connect Societies.” The organizers note:
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Cormac Sheehan, contributor to the November Anthropology News commentary series on aging and the life course and research fellow at the TRIL Centre and Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, has shared with us a link to a new discussion forum ...
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The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced that eight international research teams have been awarded the first “Digging into Data Challenge” grants for projects that promote innovative humanities and social science research using large-scale data analysis. The competition was ...
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The AAA’s Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities (CEAUSSIC) released its Final Report on the Army’s Human Terrain System Proof of Concept Program [pdf]. CEAUSSIC held a press conference on the report during ...
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“The AAA’s Ad Hoc Commission on Anthropology’s Engagement with the Security and Intelligence Communities (CEAUSSIC) continues its work. Our main activities at present include: 1. the writing of a report to the AAA on the widely and hotly debated Human ...
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AAA welcomes all meeting attendees to join us for the President’s Address and Awards Ceremony tonight at 6:15 pm, Grand Ballroom Salon H, 5th Floor, Marriott. The talk will be delivered by Setha Low, outgoing president. I want to give ...
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Winning, finalist and semifinalist photos from the 2008 AAA photo contest are on display in the exhibit hall entryway, along with another slideshow organized by the Society for Visual Anthropology. The exhibit hall will be open through 4:00 pm today, ...
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Thursday featured a press briefing and book release reception for S. Ann Dunham’s Surviving against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia, edited and with a preface by Alice G. Dewey and Nancy I. Cooper, with a foreword by Maya Soetoro-Ng ...
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Thanks to Deborah Rotman and Agustin Fuentes (U Notre Dame, top right) for their great work in organizing this year’s undergraduate poster session.
The session attracted students working in an incredibly diverse set of research areas, such as Amber Herkey ...
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Dai Cooper, a musician and anthropology graduate student at U. Toronto, will be performing “The Anthropology Song: A Little Bit Anthropologist” on Saturday around 2:00pm in the Marriott exhibit hall as part of the graduate school reception. She will also perform during ...
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As of 1:45 today, 1,941 itineraries have been created using the My Itinerary Tool. New this year, it allows users to create personalized itineraries for annual meeting events and is available to everyone who has registered for the conference. If you registered ...
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I’ve received a tip for easy-to-get-to and affordable meals for those of you at the meeting in Philadelphia. The Reading Terminal Market is close to the meeting hotel and many of the food merchants there offer a $7 Meal Deal for breakfast ...
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Today we feature an extended version of a December Anthropology News section column, submitted to the Society for East Asian Anthropology by Gene Cooper, professor of anthropology at the University of Southern California. Are you interested in contributing a future ...
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December Anthropology News In Focus commentaries on “The Future/s of Anthropology” are now available on our Current Featured News page, free to the public through December 31. Full December issue content will also be available online soon via AnthroSource.
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“The AAA’s Ad Hoc Commission on Anthropology’s Engagement with the Security and Intelligence Communities (CEAUSSIC) continues its work. Our main activities at present include: 1. the writing of a report to the AAA on the widely and hotly debated Human ...
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The following twitterers and bloggers will be covering the upcoming AAA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Visit their feeds to receive up-to-date information about events, sessions, exhibits, etc.
Tweeters (#AAA09)
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Erica Fontana
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The Penn Museum’s new exhibition, Righteous Dopefiend: Homelessness, Addiction and Poverty in Urban America, by Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg, will open for AAA Annual Meeting attendees in Philly on Dec 4, 7:00-9:00 pm , and for the general public ...
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Thanks to Savage Minds for the recent kudos. AAA staff are pleased to bring our blog readers a diverse range of current news and commentary. If you have information on a new online resource, exhibit, publication, etc. that you’d like ...
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The National Science Foundation has launched a new special report, “Evolution of Evolution: 150 years of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species,” available via an interactive website. The main site includes a helpful timeline on evolution-related developments in anthropology, as ...
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If you plan on blogging or tweeting the upcoming AAA annual meeting in Philadelphia, please email Brian Estes (bestes AT aaanet DOT org) with your name (optional) and a link to your site or twitter feed. In the interest of ...
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The Committee on Public Policy has compiled a list of policy-related events taking place at the annual meeting. To view the detailed list, please click here.
Workshops
Public Policy as Anthropological Process: Strategy Development Using an Empowerment Model (requires preregistration)
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Anthropology has long had a complex relationship with news media. In many ways, increasing collaboration between anthropologists and print, broadcast or online journalists offers great potential for making our research more accessible and theoretical perspectives more mainstream, in addition to ...
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We sadly report the passing of former AAA president Dell H. Hymes, who died Friday, Nov 13, 2009, at the age of 82. Hymes was Commonwealth Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of Virginia. Prior to retiring, he taught ...
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The Indiana U School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI has announced the launch of a new MA degree in applied anthropology, which will accept its first class of students in fall 2010. The program website notes:
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Click to listen to the Profiles in Practice Podcast [mp3]
In February 2007 the Practicing Anthropology Working Group (PAWG) launched a “Profiles in Practice” column in Anthropology News that highlighted anthropologists working outside of academia. PAWG soon transformed into the ...
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From the Society for Visual Anthropology:
The Icebox Project Space at Crane Arts will feature an innovative group exhibition entitled Ethnographic Terminalia from December 2-20, 2009. Scheduled to coincide with the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, this year ...
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Elinor Ostrom recently received a 2009 Nobel in Economic Sciences for work examining how humans use institutions to sustainably manage common pool resources. Those interested in learning more can see her Stockholm Whiteboard Seminar video now available on the Stockholm ...
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UC Berkeley has announced that AAA member Mari Lyn Salvador, a scholar of Panama’s Kuna people and their textiles, has been named director of the Phoebe A Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Salvador was CEO of the San Diego Museum of ...
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Julie Koppel Maldonado has submitted the following report on a memorial lecture honoring Ruth Fredman Cernea, presented by the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists (WAPA) on November 1.
Jonathan Boyarin, PhD, JD, Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Religious ...
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A message from T.J. Ferguson, AAA Executive Board member and incoming chair of the Anthropological Communication Committee:
In November and December 2009, AAA and Wiley-Blackwell are offering free access to over ten years of Anthrosource content, AAA’s online portal for anthropological ...
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Those with any lingering hope that Harvard medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer would be appointed as the new head of USAID will be disappointed to learn that Rajiv Shah–Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics and Chief Scientist at ...
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The NEH summer institute “Native Cultures of Western Alaska and the Pacific Northwest Coast” will be held in Alaska and British Columbia, June 13–July 12, 2010, for 24 faculty from community and four-year colleges and universities, sponsored by the Community ...
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Anthropology News Call for Proposals: Repatriation
Interested in writing about NAGPRA or other repatriation-related topics in a news or op-ed format? There is still time to participate in the upcoming Anthropology News issue on repatriation. See the call for proposals ...
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The third installment of our “Frugal Philly” Guide to the 2009 AAA Annual Meeting is now available, courtesy of Jeff Maskovsky.
Apparently there’s more to Philly than just cheesesteaks, though they’ve got that, too! Maskovsky provides a culinary guide to places that ...