For the February issue of Anthropology News, we seek proposals for a thematic series on the circulation of knowledge and culture. We invite you to explore how knowledge circulates among all stakeholders, whether research participants, colleagues or others outside of anthropology. We welcome proposals that reflect on a variety of questions including but not limited [...]
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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today named 23 new MacArthur Fellows for 2010. Congratulations to AAA member Shannon Lee Dawdy (U Chicago), who received a fellowship. Dawdy uses archaeology and historical preservation techniques to study New Orleans.
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The American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Coalition on the Academic Workforce (CAW) invite all members of the contingent academic workforce in U.S. colleges and universities to participate in a survey on general working conditions as members of the contingent academic workforce experience them. Learn More>
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AAA President Virginia R Dominguez writes about the new Committee on World Anthropologies in the October Anthropology News. Read her article “International Collegiality and the AAA” today. Are you interested in joining the CWA? Then nominate yourself to run for a spot on it in the spring election. Nominations close Friday, October 1, 2010.
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Demo & Discussion on Friday September 24. Smithsonian anthropologists talk about their skeletal research collections, where they came from and why they are so important. Learn More>
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Read this powerful virtual issue from Museum Anthropology The Deafening Silence: NAGPRA, Repatriation, and the Pages of Museum Anthropology In the 20 years since the passage of the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), an astonishingly small number of contributions with “repatriation” or “reburial” in the title have been published in Museum [...]
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The 2010 Annual Meeting searchable online program and itinerary are now available, including the new “basic search” for the online program and the “add your own meeting” feature for the itinerary. You may also browse the program by day.
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AAA Secretary Debra Martin contributes this post about the AAA nomination process. In our annual search for the following year’s leaders, the nominations process has opened for the Spring 2011 ballot. We’ve tweaked the process some, and overall the on-line system represents more transparency in how to best throw one’s hat into the ring. The [...]
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Inside Higher Ed reports that in 2008-09 women started earning the majority of doctorate degrees awarded. However, not all subject matters are created equal and men still receive the majority of doctorates in areas such as in computer science and engineering. As is, the overall difference is slight, with women earning 50.4% of doctoral degrees [...]
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Anthropological Methods Classes in Korea
In conjunction with the September print issue of Anthropology News on anthropology education, today we feature a post on a special issue of Korean Cultural Anthropology (42[2]) on the same topic. Links to the original journal articles are not presently available, but interested readers can email Yongsook Lee at yslee@duksung.ac.kr for more information on resources. [...]
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