Anthropology has a long history of examining kinship in a myriad of ways. As notions of kinship and family have continued to evolve around the world, it is time to ask what anthropology has to say today about family and kinship. Anthropology News invites proposals for an April 2012 thematic series exploring family and kinship from [...]
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At the recent AAA Annual Meeting held in Montreal, Canada, the Executive Board voted to appoint Michael Chibnik (U Iowa) as the new Editor-in-Chief for the association’s flagship journal, American Anthropologist. Chibnik has a wealth of experience in journal editing and publishing, and is currently the editor of the Anthropology of Work Review and a member [...]
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Anthropology News website has an expansive array of content and commentary in addition the their print version. Here’s a highlight of a popular trending story by AAA member, Robert R. Sauders. Read the entire article here. Over the past two months, the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has captured the attention of the world with its [...]
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We’re pleased to share this blog post from special AN reporter Émilie Sarrazin. She reports here on a Saturday afternoon session “Revolution in the Middle-East and North Africa: Anthropological Perspectives.” Saturday afternoon, a four-hour session of the AAA Annual Meeting was devoted to the major uprisings that have taken place in 2010 and 2011 in many regions [...]
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Check out the photos from the AAA Annual Meeting on Anthropology News Flickr Page.
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Join AAA President Virginia R. Dominguez for her AAA Presidential Address. The Address, titled “Comfort Zones and Their Dangers: Who Are We? Qui Sommes-Nous?”, will be given in the Palais de Congrès Room 516CD at 18:15.
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We’re pleased to share this blog post from special AN reporter Marianne Butler. She reports here on sessions about reproductive technology. Vignettes of foetuses being asked to serve as “expert witnesses” in determining when life begins, through the reproduction of the “socially dead” and the tracing of reproductional debris, to an elision of counting embryos and counting [...]
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The Society for Psychological Anthropology will be having their business meeting today. The meeting will be held at the Hyatt – Fourth Floor – Soprano B from 18:15 – 20:15.
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We’re pleased to share the this blog post from special AN reporter D Archie Frink (Middle Tennessee University). He shares his observations from the second day of the 2011 AAA meeting. In the morning of the second day of the AAA conference — and the first for many — the activity is buzzing: novice students display poster [...]
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Science in Anthropology Session at AAA’s Annual Meeting
Click the play button to listen to the Science in Anthropology: An Open Discussion session (3-0430) at AAA’s Annual Meeting. This invited roundtable session was sponsored by the Society for Anthropological Sciences, organized by Peter Peregrine (Lawrence U) and chaired by President Virginia Dominguez (U of Illinois). Roundtable presenters included Daniel A. Segal (Pitzer College), H Russell Bernard (U [...]
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