CounterPunch‘s “Pulse of the Planet” series kicks off 2009 with Barbara Rose Johnston’s article, “Water Culture Wars.” The series was initially derived from conference papers delivered at the “Pulse of the Planet” panel during AAA’s 2008 annual meeting in San Francisco. Johnston describes the controversial events that transpired at the 5th World Water Forum in [...]
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The Friends of the Committee on Ethics was formally launched this month. This newly established ad hoc consultative body will provide expertise and informal consultation to the membership of the AAA about ethical quandaries they may have encountered in both research and applied settings. Comprised of former chairs of the Committee on Ethics, the Friends [...]
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The AAA Committee for Human Rights has written to Guatemalan authorities on numerous occasions regarding the safety of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Team (FAFG), especially its director Fredy Peccerelli who, along with his family, has been the target of several death threats. FAFG exhumes mass graves in an effort to identify massacre victims of Guatemala’s [...]
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The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) of 2009 (H.R. 1409 / S. 560) suffered a critical blow this week. On Tuesday, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) announced that he would not support the bill. As the only Republican to vote for the bill in 2007, Specter’s vote could have been the deciding factor should the bill [...]
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Scott Jaschik’s article “Farewell to the Printed Monograph” in today’s Inside Higher Ed notes: “The University of Michigan Press is announcing today that it will shift its scholarly publishing from being primarily a traditional print operation to one that is primarily digital.” Read the full article to learn more.
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Call for PapersTitle: Health and the Productivity of Human Rights Discourses Co-sponsor: Committee for Human Rights, American Anthropological Association Abstract: This panel brings together ethnographic and theoretical papers to examine the productivity of human rights discourse in the fields of public health, medicine, and anthropology. In our contemporary world, a discourse of health as a [...]
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AAA is one of several academic, free-speech, and civil-rights organizations to sign a letter to top officials in the Obama administration urging them to end the federal government’s practice of denying visas to foreign intellectuals based on ideology. The letter–addressed to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., and Secretary [...]
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Often accused of employing excessive jargon, anthropologists might find this Inside Higher Ed article (and comments) of interest. John Jackson Jr., aka AnthroMan, also has a post on academic jargon.
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The NY Times reported that the exhibition “Lucy’s Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia” will be ending its stay at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, WA. The Australopithecus afarensis fossils, commonly referred to as “Lucy,” are estimated to be 3.2 million years old and were unearthed in 1974 in Ethiopia. Although the exhibit failed [...]
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The BBC had an interesting story about the recent rise in speakers of Cornish and their challenge to Unesco’s claim that the language is “extinct.” Jenefer Lowe, development manager of the Cornish Language Partnership, argued that Unesco should recognize that languages are in a “fluid state” and create a category that accommodates revitalized languages. Unesco’s [...]
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