The Archaeological Legacy Institute, a non-profit based in Oregon, is sponsoring a four day film festival entitled The Archaelolgy Channel. The event will take place May 18-22, 2010, in the Soreng Theater of the Hult Center for the Performing Arts in Eugene, Oregon. The deadline for entries is October 15, 2009! The TAC Festival was first [...]
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NPR’s On Point, with guest host Jacki Lyden, interviews the anthropologist and archaeologist Tim Pauketat from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Pauketat discusses his new book, Cahokia, about his studies and discovories at the site of the large ancient city on the banks of the mighty Mississippi. The dig, just outside of St.Louis was home to [...]
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For any departments having a career fair or a student recruitment campaign this year, please keep in mind that AAA offers FREE professionally designed 11×17 posters, 8.5×11 newsletters (not Anthropology News) and a limited number of membership brochures. Also, if you are aware of student groups or other anthropology organizations that might be sponsoring an event, [...]
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AAA member Dr. Mark Turin recently gave a brief interview to the Telegraph about the aspirations and goals of The World Oral Literature Project, which he heads. The project is a global initiative to archive and make available oral literatures in danger of disappearing. Turin says: When a language becomes endangered so too does a cultural world view. We [...]
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New York Times op-ed contributor and anthropologist Michael R. Dove has been featured in today’s NY Times issue. His piece is a brief memoir about his friend and colleague Ann Dunham Soetoro, the mother of President Barack Obama, and the focus of her anthropological work in Indonesia. Dove writes: Anthropology shows that people who seem very different from [...]
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Edward T Hall, an AAA Life Member since 1958, passed away on July 20th at his home in Santa Fe, NM, according to the New York Times. Most of his work focused on the power of nonverbal communication versus the use of explicit messages. Dr. Hall worked with the Navajo and Hopi tribes during the 1930′s, taught at the [...]
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In an earlier post, we highlighted an edition of NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook featuring AAA member Nina Jablonski, chair of the Penn State anthropology department and author of Skin: A Natural History. Jablonski has been featured again, this time on the TEDTalks video site, giving a lecture on skin color variation and adaptation. The [...]
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Nina G. Jablonski, AAA member and author of Skin: A Natural History (2008), was featured on yesterday’s edition of NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook. In the second hour of the show, titled “The Skin You’re In,” Ashbrook and his guests discuss skin color manipulation and the new anthropology of skin and tanning. Jablonski is [...]
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