The deadline for proposals on place for the March 2011 issue of Anthropology News has been extended to December 2, 2010. We invite you to share how you currently engage with place in any of its many forms. For the full description of this thematic issue, see either the original blog post or the issue description on [...]
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The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) is holding an Anthropology of Sport photo contest. The competition is free to enter and is open to both professional and amateur photographers in the UK and abroad who are interested in anthropology, photography and sport. The contest seeks engaging photographs that explore cross-cultural and human elements of sport in relation [...]
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The December 2010 issue of Ethos examines motherhood through the ethnographers’ eyes. As its editors, Kathleen Barlow and Bambi Chapin explain: By looking closely at everyday interactions between mothers and children as they unfolded in a context of interested others, we were learning not only about the cultural world of the adults, but about how cultural orientations are [...]
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We welcome our final guest blog by Caitlyn McNabb (Louisiana State U). The third in a series of invited roundtable sessions, “Engaging New Orleans” focused on public art in this culturally diverse city. The roundtable engaged New Orleanian activists as well as anthropologists in an attempt to better understand the circumstances of the city. This [...]
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We welcome another guest blog from Mark Sanders (Earth Search, Inc). Dr. Jerry Sabloff of the Santa Fe Institute delivered the AAA’s Distinguished Lecture at this year’s conference. The title of his talk, The Circulation of Ideas: Anthropology and Public Outreach, was effectively a battle cry for anthropologists. Our motto shouldn’t be “publish [...]
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We welcome a guest blog from Ashely Duperron (U British Columbia-Okanagan). In yesterday’s inno-vent “Silence and Silos: The Problems of Fractured Thought in Finance”, Gillian Tett (Financial Times) questioned why anthropology does not play a better role in the country’s political policy when in fact it could be used to help predict and make sense [...]
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We welcome a guest blog from Mark Sanders (Earth Search, Inc). Anthropology students are perpetually dogged by questions of what they’ll make of their lives after graduation. Indeed, the “Help Wanted” section of the classified ads section of the local paper is not known for recruiting primatologists, linguistic anthropologists or Mayanologists. Outside of teaching, [...]
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Congratulations to Monica Heller, Mary Gray and Kim Baker! At the AAA Awards Ceremony last night, AAA President Virginia R Dominguez presented (in what she hoped was a surprise) the 2010 President’s Awards awards to these three honorees for their particularly strong and noteworthy service to AAA. Monica Heller is the Executive Program Chair of the 2010 [...]
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Jeremy Sabloff (Santa Fe Institute) is the 2010 AAA Distinguished Lecturer. He will present “The Circulation of Ideas: Anthropology and Public Outreach” tonight (Nov 19) from 6:15 pm-7:30 pm, in Grand Ballroom A, on the fifth floor of the Sheraton.
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The Swarm Orbs combine biological and mechanical swarming behavior in this artistic endeavor. They were created for performing in the desert, but were found roaming the AAA Exhibit Hall this afternoon as part of the Multispecies 3 Salon. Up close, you can see the lights changes colors, and it’s easy to imagine the vibrancy of [...]
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