The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected University of Michigan historian Myron Gutmann to head its directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences. According to the NSF website, the directorate “supports research that builds fundamental knowledge of human behavior, interaction, social and economic systems, and organizations and institutions.” Gutmann is currently director of the Inter-University [...]
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The NY Times featured a story, “An Amazon Culture Withers as Food Dries Up,” on July 24, 2009 highlighting the adverse effects of climate change on the world’s indigenous peoples. Anthropologists who study the effects of global warming are familiar with the human rights implications that accelerated climate change can have upon the world’s more [...]
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The Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is seeking syllabi on anthropology and human rights. This is part of a larger project of the Education and Information Resources working group of the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition, which is developing a database of science and human [...]
Altamira Press has released Economics and Morality: Anthropological Approaches in paperback. In conjunction with this release, the 40-page introduction by co-editor Katherine E Browne has been made available online (pdf). The full volume includes contributions from 13 writers who describe ethnographic cases that suggest new ways of thinking about the role of morality in economic [...]
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UC-Berkeley anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes has been investigating the illicit trade of organs for the past decade. Her informants have helped her identify key figures involved in this trade, including Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum, a kidney trafficker who was one of 44 people arrested on July 23, 2009 for involvement in an international money-laundering scheme. Scheper-Hughes informed the [...]
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On July 22, TIME Magazine featured an interview with AAA member Karen Ho, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota. Ho is author of Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street, based on interviews with employees of Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and other firms. In discussing potential changes to [...]
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The publishing department is pleased to announce the revised AAA Style Guide is complete and available for download (pdf). The Style Guide is our outline of style rules basic to AAA journals. The 2009 edition replaces the 2003 edition and includes updated references to the 15th edition of the The Chicago Manual of Style (2003) [...]
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Hotel information for the 2009 AAA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia (December 2-6) is now available on the Meetings page of the AAA website: http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/info/travel/hotel_travel.cfm Book today to save a room in a hotel where we’ve negotiated special room rates. Staying at the meeting hotels is convenient and helps you stay connected with the informal activities and [...]
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In an earlier post, we highlighted an edition of NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook featuring AAA member Nina Jablonski, chair of the Penn State anthropology department and author of Skin: A Natural History. Jablonski has been featured again, this time on the TEDTalks video site, giving a lecture on skin color variation and adaptation. The [...]
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CEAUSSIC: Mars Turns to Minerva
“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 Terrain System of the U.S. Army (by the fall), 2. The editing of a casebook [...]
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