The following twitterers and bloggers will be covering the upcoming AAA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Visit their feeds to receive up-to-date information about events, sessions, exhibits, etc. Tweeters (#AAA09) AmericanAnthro (AAA) Erica Fontana Lynne Goldstein Sarah Grant Kevin Karpiak Charles Menzies Denice Szafran
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The Penn Museum‘s new exhibition, Righteous Dopefiend: Homelessness, Addiction and Poverty in Urban America, by Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg, will open for AAA Annual Meeting attendees in Philly on Dec 4, 7:00-9:00 pm , and for the general public on Dec 5.
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Thanks to Savage Minds for the recent kudos. AAA staff are pleased to bring our blog readers a diverse range of current news and commentary. If you have information on a new online resource, exhibit, publication, etc. that you’d like to share, please contact us at bestes [at] aaanet.org or dwinnick [at] aaanet.org. You can [...]
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The National Science Foundation has launched a new special report, “Evolution of Evolution: 150 years of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species,” available via an interactive website. The main site includes a helpful timeline on evolution-related developments in anthropology, as well as other fields. The report’s anthropology page highlights video interviews with Susan Anton (NYU) [...]
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If you plan on blogging or tweeting the upcoming AAA annual meeting in Philadelphia, please email Brian Estes (bestes AT aaanet DOT org) with your name (optional) and a link to your site or twitter feed. In the interest of providing the most comprehensive meeting coverage possible–particularly for those who are unable to attend–we would [...]
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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 Public Policy as Anthropological Process: Strategy Development Using an Empowerment Model (requires preregistration) Legislative Advocacy Workshop (requires preregistration)
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Reflections on the Soon-to-be Released CEAUSSIC Report
“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, 2. The editing of a casebook illustrating the diversity [...]
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