(click to listen) AAA President Virginia Dominguez is pleased to bring you the first of many Inside the President’s Studio podcasts. This month she interviews Monica Heller, AAA Executive Program Chair for the 2010 annual meeting in New Orleans. Monica discusses growing up in Montreal, her path to linguistics, politics in Canada, the representation of [...]
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Anthropology News is pleased to announce the themes for our upcoming fall issues. September will address anthropology education and October will address disaster relief and recovery. For the full CFPs with theme descriptions, see our website. We welcome proposals for In Focus commentaries, Teaching Strategies, Field Notes articles, photo essays, news stories, interviews and more! [...]
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Yesterday’s Baltimore Sun featured the article “Towson Professor to Leave for Haiti to Identify US Remains,” profiling forensic anthropologist Dana Kollmann, whose previous work includes investigations of Baltimore County crime scenes and mass graves in the former Yugoslavia. Kollmann has traveled to Haiti to identify the remains of American earthquake victims there as a member [...]
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The following is a message from AAA Secretary Debra Martin: Dear AAA Member: As the Secretary of the American Anthropological Association, I am pleased to report to you the results of our latest ballot initiative. At the most recent annual meeting, a resolution was adopted at the business meeting by a quorum of members. This [...]
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The RAI’s Education Outreach Programme invites submissions to its “Meaning of Water” international photo contest. They are looking for photographs of human interaction with water in reference to four thematic categories: (1) livelihoods and sustainability, (2) trade and transport, (3) management and access, (4) religion and spirituality. This competition is open to secondary school students, [...]
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The February 15 edition of The New Yorker includes the Annals of Anthropology article “Drinking Games” (p 70-76), by Malcolm Gladwell, highlighting the alcoholism studies work of AAA member Dwight B. Heath. The article includes comments from anthropologists Craig MacAndrew and Robert B. Edgerton as well. Alice Kehoe informs us that Dwight Heath has also [...]
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In an op-ed piece for the online edition of The Guardian, AAA Executive Board member Mary Gray writes about the experience of LGBT youth in rural areas. Drawing on her own research, Gray suggests that “[t] he binaries of closeted/visible, rural/urban and online/offline should be questioned as they converge through media to privilege, and morally rank certain strategies [...]
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The e-Journal of the National Association for Student Anthropologists is currently taking submissions, for their next volume which will be released at the 2010 AAA Annual Meeting in New Orleans. According to the CFP: We seek scholarly submissions from undergraduate and graduate students worldwide about the application of anthropological theories and methods outside of academia or across [...]
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The world focused its attention on Haiti in the wake of the crisis caused by earthquakes in Port-au-Prince last month, but the tiny island nation has been racked with instability practically since it declared independence over 200 years ago. In an article, “Laviche: Haiti’s Vulnerability to the Global Food Crisis”, from the November 2009 NAPA Bulletin (Volume 32), [...]
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Profiles in Practice Podcast: Anthropology & Fisheries Management
(click to listen) The sixth installment of our Profiles in Practice podcast series features Patricia Clay, a fisheries anthropologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Clay received her doctorate in anthropology from Indiana University-Bloomington, where she focused on ecological and economic development and the success of fisheries cooperatives started by the US government. [...]
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