The Committee on Public Policy has compiled a list of policy-related events taking place at the annual meeting. To view the detailed list, please click here.
Workshops
Public Policy as Anthropological Process: Strategy Development Using an Empowerment Model (requires preregistration)
Legislative Advocacy Workshop (requires preregistration)
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From the Society for Visual Anthropology:
The Icebox Project Space at Crane Arts will feature an innovative group exhibition entitled Ethnographic Terminalia from December 2-20, 2009. Scheduled to coincide with the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, this year in Philadelphia, the curators have brought together an international group of artists and ethnographers who are [...]
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Those with any lingering hope that Harvard medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer would be appointed as the new head of USAID will be disappointed to learn that Rajiv Shah–Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics and Chief Scientist at the US Department of Agriculture–will lead the agency. Shah, only 36, previously served as the [...]
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Richard Price has kindly provided us with a brief account of the impact that Levi-Strauss had upon his life and growth as an anthropologist. Price is currently the Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of Anthropology, American Studies, and History at the College of William & Mary:
In October 1963, Sally and I took a [...]
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French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss has passed away at the age of 100. Best known for introducing structuralism into the discipline, Lévi-Strauss contributed greatly to our understanding of non-Western cultures and was a passionate defender of the humanity of all peoples. He was a prolific author, publishing more than 20 books, including Tristes tropiques (1955), The [...]
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Never been to an AAA annual meeting before? Inside Higher Ed blogger and sociologist Eszter Hargittai offers useful advice that will help conference newbies have a rewarding experience. You can read her post, “Conference Do’s and Don’t’s,” here: http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/ph_do/hargittai3
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Dr. William Beeman’s recent address to the World Affairs Council of Alaska about “U.S. – Iranian Relations in the Obama Era” will be broadcast by Alaska public radio on Thursday, Oct. 29 at 6:00pm Eastern. Beeman is President of the Middle East Section of the AAA and Professor & Chair of the Department of Anthropology [...]
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On Oct. 7, 2009, the House Natural Resources Committee held an oversight hearing on the implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Passed in 1990, NAGPRA “provides a process for museums and Federal agencies to return certain Native American cultural items–human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, or objects of cultural patrimony–to [...]
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CounterPunch’s “Pulse of the Planet” series continues with Barbara Rose Johnston’s “War, Peace and the Obamajority.” The series, which draws attention to critical issues in human rights and environmental policy, was initially derived from conference papers delivered at the “Pulse of the Planet” panel during AAA’s 2008 annual meeting in San Francisco.
An expert on [...]
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New AAA Podcast: Profiles in Practice
Click to listen to the Profiles in Practice Podcast [mp3]
In February 2007 the Practicing Anthropology Working Group (PAWG) launched a “Profiles in Practice” column in Anthropology News that highlighted anthropologists working outside of academia. PAWG soon transformed into the more permanent AAA Committee of Practicing, Applied and Public Interest Anthropology (CoPAPIA), which reimagined its Anthropology [...]
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