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Residential Fellowships offered by the National Humanities Center

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Joslyn O.

The National Humanities Center offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities during the academic year, September 2013 through May 2014. Applicants must have doctorate or equivalent scholarly credentials. Young scholars as well as senior scholars are encouraged to apply, but they must have a record of publication, and new Ph.D.s should be aware that the Center does not normally support the revision of a doctoral dissertation. In addition to scholars from all fields of the humanities, the Center accepts individuals from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects. The Center is also international and gladly accepts applications from scholars outside the United States.

Most of the Center’s fellowships are unrestricted. Several, however, are designated for particular areas of research.

Applications and letters of recommendation must be postmarked by October 15, 2012.

Visit the National Humanities Center Fellowships Page for complete details and application.

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RACE: Are We So Different in Springfield, MO

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Joslyn O.

The RACE: Are We So Different traveling exhibit is now at the Discovery Center in Springfield, MO.

Looking through the eyes of history, science, and lived experience, RACE: Are We So Different? explores similarities and differences among people and reveals the reality – and unreality – of race. The story behind RACE: Are We So Different? is complex and may challenge how you think about race and human variation, about the differences among people and the similarities that unite us all.  This exhibit is included in Discovery Center admission.

Visit the Discovery Center today!

Not in Missouri? Visit the virtual exhibit now.

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AAA Members, Last Chance To Cast Your Vote

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Joslyn O.

The ballot will close Thursday, May 31st at 5:oopm EST. Today’s guest post is by AAA Secretary, Debra Martin.

Greetings Members,

The on-line voting system we implemented last year worked really well and AAA staff has continued to make improvements so that it is super easy for you to see the candidates (along with their compelling photos), read their scintillating statements, and vote for the ones of your choice.  Follow the link from the main page, or you can log-in directly through AnthroGateway: https://avectra.aaanet.org/eweb/ and once you have selected AAA candidates through that ballot, you will go on to the section candidates on those ballots (for those you belong to) where you will be asked to vote on any issues specific to your sections.

As you know, because we have told you every year, it is perplexing that so few members vote (about 17% over the years).  Even if you don’t know all of the candidates (why should you? We are 11,000-plus members), you can read their statements and make a judgment about the commitment and talent that they will bring to AAA leadership.

Please cast your votes if only so that you can marvel at the new system in all its ease and esthetic qualities.  We have Kim Baker, Lisa Myers to thank for these modernizations and as always, if you have any questions or issues with voting, please contact Kim  elections@aaanet.org.  Any fresh ideas or feedback about the nominations and voting process can be directed to me (debra.martin@unlv.edu).

So get started by clicking https://avectra.aaanet.org/eweb/

Best,
Debra Martin
AAA Secretary

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Honor and Shame and the Unity of the Mediterranean

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Joslyn O.

Edited by David Gilmore, Honor and Shame and the Unity of the Mediterranean is available at the AAA online store at a discounted member rate.

Gilmore provides new, comparable data on Peristiany’s paradigm, “honor and shame.” He reexamines fundamental assumptions about Mediterranean unity made on the basis of the original honor/shame model.

This volume is thus especially significant and timely, and should be recognized as generally important for anthropologists, regardless of their particular ethnographic concerns.  Saunders~Anthropological Quarterly 1988.

SUPPORTS: European history and area studies, coursework in religion, anthropology of gender and social control.

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Photo Friday

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Joslyn O.

The 2011 AAA Photo Contest is a showcase of anthropology at its best. Of the 93 photos submitted, AAA members selected their favorites in each of the four categories: Practice, People, Place and Process. You can view the top 20 photos in Anthropology News. Here on the AAA blog, we featured several of the photos in a blog series, Photo Friday.

Title: The Fighting Cock
Photo Courtesy of Michael Eilenberg
Contest Category: People
Caption: 76-year-old Ringgit gently handles his prime fighting cock after dressing its wounds from a recent cockfight. For several months Ringgit’s clan had been in conflict with a neighbouring clan over ownership to a piece of forest. It was decided that the dispute should be solved through a cockfight with the winning party gaining control of the forest. Besides, from being important arenas for networking and making deals cockfights are often used by the Iban in West Kalimantan, Indonesia to settle internal disagreement and disputes. In this remote part of Indonesia where state institutions are weak, customary law still plays a crucial role in conflict settlement. West Kalimantan, Indonesia. April 2011.

Find your best photos from the last two years…the 2012 AAA Photo Contest is now open. Winning photographs will be displayed at the 111th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. View contest details.

Missed last week’s photo? Click here.

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Death Rituals Casting Call

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Joslyn O.

AAA occasionally receives requests throughout the year for anthropologists to assist, host, or star in television shows, movies, and documentaries. Here is one seeking a co-host for a show that explores death rituals. If you are interested, please contact the Casting Director, Jamie Carroll directly (jamie.lccarroll@gmail.com or 646-552-5480).

I am a casting director with a Major Cable Network dedicated to Nature, Science and Exploration; we are currently gearing up to produce a pilot.

The show will explore death rituals around the world.  The tone of the piece will be smart, engaging and witty, akin to No Reservations for death instead of food.  We’re searching for a male-co-host and I wanted to reach out to you and see if you knew anyone who might fit the bill.

We’re looking for a guy, mid ’20s to mid ’30s, who can act as a quirky and funny sidekick to our edgy female host.  He’ll have to interact with people and be able to interact with people on the fly, so be comfortable creating conversation with a camera around.  He has to have an interest in death and rituals – whether professional or personal.  (An emerging paleontologist, archaeologist, anthropologist)

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with any questions.

Thank you for your time!

Sincerely,
Jamie Carroll
Casting Director | NGC
jamie.lccarroll@gmail.com | 646.552.5480

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Gender and Race Through Education and Political Activism: The Legacy of Sylvia Helen Forman

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Joslyn O.

Published in partnership with the Association for Feminist Anthropology, Gender and Race Through Education and Political Activism: The Legacy of Sylvia Helen Forman is edited by Dena Shenk. Purchase the book at a special AAA member rate of $10.00.

Highlights of the book include:
On Sylvia Forman, Intellectual Progeny, and American Struggles: An Overview – Kay B. Warren
`Verticality’: Concept and Practice, Past and Future – Sylvia Helen Forman
Conflict, Coffee, Cattle and Corn: Inversion of Gender through Development in Rural Honduras – Libbet Crandon-Malamud
Planning and Training to Improve Service Delivery for Older African American – Sue Perkins Taylor
The Politics of Advocacy in Anthropology: Organizing the Human Rights and Environment Study – Barbara Rose Johnston
Women’s Groups in Belize, Central America: The Quest for Female Autonomy – Irma McClaurin
Hear You Tell It: Teaching Anthropology in Prison – David Glyn Nixon

See the Table of Contents for complete details.

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Please Take AAA’s Social Media Survey

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Joslyn O.

How are we doing? Do you find the blog content useful? Do you also follow AAA on Twitter or elsewhere? We’d like your feedback. Help AAA evaluate its social media usage and get to know its users better by taking AAA’s social media survey.

Please take the survey today. Thank you!

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Photo Friday

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Joslyn O.

The 2011 AAA Photo Contest is a showcase of anthropology at its best. Of the 93 photos submitted, AAA members selected their favorites in each of the four categories: Practice, People, Place and Process. You can view the top 20 photos in Anthropology News. Here on the AAA blog, we will feature several of the photos in a blog series, Photo Friday.

Title: Behind the Masks, Qoyllur Rit’i Pilgrimage
Photo Courtesy of Andrea M Heckman
Contest Category: Practice
Caption: Dancers spend a year preparing by sewing sequins and adornment on their costumes to catch the sun’s light, and are judged by the quality, weight, and cost of their costumes as well as the symbolic significance of the designs. As these unmasked supporters walk side by side with the dancers, it is clear how the masked dancers take on another persona, an identity linked to myth and tradition. The stories are lived anew each year by the dancers and for that period of ritual time and space, they become the mythical beings by staying in costume and masked for the duration of the pilgrimage. Many dancers learn to dance when children and participate for long periods of their lives.

Find your best photos from the last two years…the 2012 AAA Photo Contest is now open. Winning photographs will be displayed at the 111th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. View contest details.

Missed last week’s photo? Click here.

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Have You Seen the RACE: Are We So Different Exhibit?

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Joslyn O.

Have you seen the RACE: Are We So Different Exhibit? The Exhibit is currently on location at the University of Northern Iowa Museums, located in Cedar Falls, IA.  The Exhibit will be on display until Saturday, June 9. Admission is free. Check the Museum website for hours and directions.

Not near Cedar Falls? Visit the RACE: Are We So Different virtual exhibit today!

Don’t forget to order your RACE t-shirt and educational dual disc set at the AAA online store. Special discounts are available for teachers and AAA members.

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