Anthropology has long had a complex relationship with news media. In many ways, increasing collaboration between anthropologists and print, broadcast or online journalists offers great potential for making our research more accessible and theoretical perspectives more mainstream, in addition to boosting public understanding of and engagement with anthropological research findings. However, journalistic anthropology and anthropological [...]
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We sadly report the passing of former AAA president Dell H. Hymes, who died Friday, Nov 13, 2009, at the age of 82. Hymes was Commonwealth Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of Virginia. Prior to retiring, he taught courses in linguistic anthropology, Native American mythology, ethnopoetics, and Native American poetry. He authored numerous [...]
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The Indiana U School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI has announced the launch of a new MA degree in applied anthropology, which will accept its first class of students in fall 2010. The program website notes:
The Master’s of Arts in Applied Anthropology offers students the opportunity to use anthropological theories and methods toward the [...]
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Elinor Ostrom recently received a 2009 Nobel in Economic Sciences for work examining how humans use institutions to sustainably manage common pool resources. Those interested in learning more can see her Stockholm Whiteboard Seminar video now available on the Stockholm University website.
Ostrom’s work is familiar to many anthropologists. In 2006 she became the founding director [...]
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UC Berkeley has announced that AAA member Mari Lyn Salvador, a scholar of Panama’s Kuna people and their textiles, has been named director of the Phoebe A Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Salvador was CEO of the San Diego Museum of Man from 2004 until 2009. She is a member of the board of directors of [...]
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Julie Koppel Maldonado has submitted the following report on a memorial lecture honoring Ruth Fredman Cernea, presented by the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists (WAPA) on November 1.
Jonathan Boyarin, PhD, JD, Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at UNC Chapel Hill, spoke to a crowd of 250 people on “The Anthropology of [...]
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Anthropology News Call for Proposals: Repatriation
Interested in writing about NAGPRA or other repatriation-related topics in a news or op-ed format? There is still time to participate in the upcoming Anthropology News issue on repatriation. See the call for proposals today and submit your 300-word abstract by Monday, November 16.
Museum Anthropology Call for Papers: “Looking Back, [...]
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The Arizona State Museum is launching a new series of informal, free-flowing discussions with ASM curators, free to the public. On Wednesday, November 4, 3:00-3:45 pm, chat with James T. Watson, ASM assistant curator of bioarchaeology, who will consider the importance of balancing the interests of science and the concerns of descendant communities when [...]
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November Anthropology News In Focus commentaries on aging and eldercare are now available on our Current Featured News page, free to the public through November 30. To access full November issue content—free for AAA members—visit AnthroSource.
The Aging and the Life Course series includes:
Jay Sokolovsky: “Aging, Center State: New Life Course Research in Anthropology
Philip B Stafford: [...]
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Nancy Scheper-Hughes, medical anthropologist and director of Organs Watch, has shared with us a photo from her recent documentary film shoot in Maldova, Turkey and Israel with “Dan Rather Reports.” The documentary will soon be available online.
Those interested in Scheper-Hughes’ work can also see Alison Weir’s recent article “Israeli Organ Trafficking and Theft” in [...]
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