As we reported earlier, last week C-SPAN’s Book TV aired a session from the AAA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia that focused on the research of Ann Dunham, anthropologist and mother of President Barack Obama. Panelists included Alice Dewey (Dunham’s graduate advisor), Nancy Cooper (a fellow graduate student), and Maya Soetoro-Ng (Dunham’s daughter). For those of you who weren’t in [...]
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A census is a powerful mechanism that both reflects and constructs social taxonomies in profound ways, impacting nations’ perceptions of themselves, the distribution of government funds, the provision of public services, and even legislation. In this US Census year we ask our readers to critically consider this tool: how it is (re)constructed over time, its [...]
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The AAA invites readers to attend “A New National Dialogue on Race,” two days of programming designed to look at the racial issues that America faces in a brand new way. The event, sponsored by the AAA, working in conjunction with honorary co-chairs from the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), will be held January 12, 2010 [...]
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“Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness” will air nationally on the PBS series Independent Lens, hosted by Maggie Gyllenhaal, on Tuesday, February 2, 10:30 pm. The film examines the life and career of Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963), the controversial anthropologist who established the African Studies Center at Northwestern and wrote the groundbreaking The Myth of [...]
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What do our closest living ancestors have to teach us about what it means to be human? How do images of the human brain reveal our faculties for language, the use of tools and the ability to forge social bonds? A new three-part series—“The Human Spark”—premiering January 6, 13, and 20 (8:00 pm) on PBS [...]
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Between May and September 2009, the AAA Committee on Practicing, Applied, and Public Interest Anthropology (CoPAPIA) conducted a survey to discover career and educational information on Masters level anthropologists. Preliminary data from the MA Alumni survey is now available. Learn More
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In order to provide a more democratic, open and transparent voting process, we are initiating a new format whereby both sides of a resolution are presented. In the past, members have sometimes presented both sides of a resolution through Anthropology News. The Executive Board would like to be able to bring a ballot to the membership [...]
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Columbia University Professor Neni Panourgiá, Fordham University Press, and Columbia’s Center for Digital Research and Scholarship partnered to produce an online adaptation of Panourgiá’s recently released print monograph, Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State, now live at http://dangerouscitizens.columbia.edu. The site integrates a range of multimedia into the narrative, allowing users [...]
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Anthropology News seeks articles for an April 2010 “Anthropology and Journalism” issue. To participate, email a 300-word abstract and 50-100-word author biosketch to AN editor Dinah Winnick at dwinnick [at] aaanet.org by this Friday, Dec 18. See our full CFP at www.aaanet.org/issues/anthronews/CFP-Journalism.cfm, and an abbreviated theme description below.
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Profiles in Practice Podcast: Anthropology in the US Forest Service
(click to listen) This week Dr. Lee Cerveny discusses her work as a research social scientist at the U.S. Forest Service. As a graduate student, Lee spent six months studying tourism and rural communities in Southeast Alaska for the Forest Service. She continued her work for the agency while finishing her doctorate and was given [...]
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