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
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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 boosting public understanding of and engagement with anthropological research findings. However, journalistic anthropology and anthropological journalism also pose several key challenges for practitioners in both fields, including difficulties in balancing the goals, priorities, timelines and communication styles of journalism and anthropology.
Anthropology News seeks articles addressing these topics and more for our 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 Dec 18. See our full CFP at www.aaanet.org/issues/anthronews/CFP-Journalism.cfm.
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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 courses in linguistic anthropology, Native American mythology, ethnopoetics, and Native American poetry. He authored numerous publications, including Ethnography, Linguistics, Inequality: Essays in Education, 1978-1994 (1997), and Now I Know Only So Far: Essays in Ethnopoetics (2003). AAA will publish a full obituary honoring Dell Hymes in a future issue of AN.
A memorial gathering will take place at the upcoming AAA meeting in Philadelphia, on Saturday, Dec 5, 7:30-9:30 pm in Grand Ballroom III of the Courtyard Marriott. In addition to being a past AAA president, Dell Hymes was also a past president of the American Folklore Society and Linguistic Society of America. Additional reflections on his life and work can be found on Savage Minds, Jason Baird Jackson’s blog, Daily Progress, Philly.com and Language Log. Readers are welcome to post additional links in comments.
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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:
The Master’s of Arts in Applied Anthropology offers students the opportunity to use anthropological theories and methods toward the goals of solving real world problems. The program is constructed around a set of core courses together with independent research and internships. The degree takes advantage of our long-standing departmental strengths in Public Archaeology, Urban Anthropology, International Development, Globalization, Medical Anthropology and Museum Studies.
For more information about the program, see the IUPUI anthropology website.
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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 in Philadelphia, the curators have brought together an international group of artists and ethnographers who are actively engaged in experimental and emergent cultural forms. Visitors are invited to join in a multisensorial happening that challenges the boundaries and borders that demarcate the margins of ethnographic, anthropological, and art practices. A diverse group of artists and anthropologists present boundary troubling works in eleven separate installations; each installation project in Ethnographic Terminalia offers a thought provoking and playful (or agitating) alternative to considering what lies both beyond and within imagined and constructed boundaries of the skilled practices of artists and ethnographers. Read more »
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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 University website.
Ostrom’s work is familiar to many anthropologists. In 2006 she became the founding director of the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity in Arizona State U’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change. She is also affiliated with Indiana U and, as the video indicates, on the board of the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Amber Wutich and Michael E Smith of Arizona State U further discuss Ostrom’s award and her relationship with anthropology in a forthcoming Anthropology News article (see our December issue).
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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 Man from 2004 until 2009. She is a member of the board of directors of the California Association of Museums and served as president of the AAA’s Council for Museum Anthropology.
The Hearst Museum houses more than 3.8 million cataloged objects, primarily from early California and other portions of North America, as well as from ancient Egypt, Africa, Oceania and Peru. More information about the Hearst Museum collections is available online.
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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 Studies at UNC Chapel Hill, spoke to a crowd of 250 people on “The Anthropology of Jews and the Jews in Anthropology” at the Ruth F. Cernea Memorial Lecture at 3:00 pm on Sunday, Nov 1, at the Katzen Arts Center’s Recital Hall, American U. The audience included Ruth’s family, members of the anthropological community, friends and others interested in the topic. Read more »
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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 research.
I encourage the practicing community to take advantage of this opportunity to explore the benefits of Anthrosource as a research tool. In particular, I’d like to draw to your attention some efforts being made in American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of AAA, to make sure this title brings practicing, applied, and public anthropologists and their contributions into this august record of the field.
In June 2009, the journal published a review by Melissa Checker of 2008 literature, “Anthropology in the Public Sphere, 2008: Emerging Trends and Significant Impacts.” The editor of the journal, Tom Boellstorff, plans to have these annual recaps each year, summarizing key contributions and themes in the documents produced by applied, practicing and public anthropologists. Read more »
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New AAA Podcast: Profiles in Practice
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 more permanent AAA Committee of Practicing, Applied and Public Interest Anthropology (CoPAPIA), which reimagined its Anthropology News column under the new title “Anthropology Works” in September 2008.
CoPAPIA is now building upon past Profiles in Practice columns with an online interview series geared towards students interested in anthropology but uncertain about career paths that await them after graduation. The series is hosted by Ruth Sando, owner of Sando and Associates, who is a practicing anthropologist and former board member of the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists. This week she interviews Cheryl Levine, a social science analyst at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Read more »
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