“Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th-Century Chesapeake” opened February 7th at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Curated by forensic anthropologists Doug Owsley and Kari Bruwelheide, the exhibit provides information both on 17th-Century Chesapeake ways of life and also on forensic anthropology as a field. It incorporates 340 objects, artifacts and humans [...]
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Winners of the 2008 Photo Contest have been announced and their photos are now available online! The contest committee reviewed 294 entries from 73 participants, selecting 54 photos as semifinalists. From that group 20 finalists were selected, including four top winners. All images selected as finalists and winners can be viewed online through our Flickr [...]
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Anthropology News seeks contributions for a thematic series on anthropological ethics at a key moment during the AAA Code of Ethics revision. We ask our members to pause and consider what this process should entail. What are your thoughts about the notion of codifying ethics? Have you encountered ethically complex situations where guidance would have [...]
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The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) is renewing its efforts to bring about immigration reform, the Hill reported earlier this month. The CHC will launch a 17 city listening tour where attendees can hear first-hand accounts of individual experiences within the American immigration system. Supporters of reform legislation believe the Democratic majority in Congress and broad [...]
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UNHCR’s Policy Development and Evaluation Service has created a “Witchcraft and Human Rights Network.” It is an informal network where information about new developments, research and news related to witchcraft can be shared. The first article shared with the network is an article written in New Issues in Refugee Research by Jill Schnoebelen called “Witchcraft [...]
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President Barack Obama has taken quick action to reverse many of Bush’s policies. The Nation reported that Obama has lifted the “global gag rule,” which prevented the US government from providing aid to any organizations that fostered, provided or advised women about abortion. The gag rule, once rescinded by Bill Clinton, was reinstated by George [...]
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UNHCR’s Policy Development and Evaluation Service has created a “Witchcraft and Human Rights Network.” It is an informal network where information about new developments, research and news related to witchcraft can be shared. The first article shared with the network is an article written in New Issues in Refugee Research by Jill Schnoebelen called “Witchcraft [...]
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Nancy Scheper-Hughes’ research on global organ trafficking was highlighted in a story by Newsweek recently. Hughes acknowledges that her methods, which include misleading some research subjects, bump up against the association’s ethics code. Her research has, however, helped generate awareness about the black market organ trade and the extent to which some US hospitals are [...]
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AAA President Setha Low and the Committee for Human Rights sent letters to the Guatemalan government requesting additional protection for members of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation who have been receiving death threats for their investigation of massacres that occurred in the 1980s. Vice President Rafael Espada responded to this request by temporarily increasing protection [...]
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In light of the specificity of the proposed changes to Triple A’s Code of Ethics, the Executive Board (EB) has determined that a more comprehensive review of the entire code is warranted. The EB has convened a task force to undertake such a review over the next two years. The task force, composed of members [...]
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