2015 AAA Leadership Fellows Program American Anthropological Association The AAA Leadership Fellows Program provides a unique opportunity for anthropologists early in their careers to learn about leadership opportunities within the association. Each year a group of three to five fellows will be paired with a mentor chosen from among AAA leadership. Mentors are available to fellows … Read more
“The Digital” as major theme at #AAA2014 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Matt Thompson As I settled in to browse the conference program for the 2014 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (just hours before I was scheduled to leave, natch), I was immediately struck by a common … Read more
via (More photos by Marco Hill here) Link: http://anthropoliteia.net/2014/12/05/die-in-protest-at-the-2014-american-anthropological-association-meetings/ ************* Anthropology: It’s still white public space–An interview with Karen Brodkin (Part II) Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog This is the second part of my interview with Karen Brodkin. Part I is here. Ryan Anderson: All of this has me … Read more
Anthropologists and Israel At the American Anthropological Association‘s annual meeting, momentum builds in favor of a boycott of Israeli universities. “Why I signed” (the petition for academic boycott of Israeli institutions) American Anthropological Association Guest blog post by AAA member, Steven Caton (Harvard U). I have not been a fan of boycotts in the past, so why … Read more
American Anthropological Association #AAA2014 Meetings Anthropology Report by Jason Antrosio The 2014 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association are December 2-7 in Washington D.C. Here’s the Searchable Program. What are you most excited to see? Where to publish in OA anthropology Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Matt Thompson Below … Read more
Open access is organic: on the Journal of Material Culture Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology Back in December Haidy Geismar, the incoming editor of The Journal of Material Culture (published by Sage), published an editorial mooting the future of JMC as an open access journal and asking readers to weigh in by taking … Read more
11 Cutting-Edge Thinkers That Anthropologists Should Be Paying Attention to Right Now! Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology ? Well it wouldn?t be an unpaid internship in the 2014 if the bosses upstairs didn?t have me doing a listicle, so I?m proud to present to you a new feature: The Savage Minds Rundown. … Read more
anthropology + design: anne galloway. [This post is part of a two-week series featuring interviews with designers reflecting on anthropology and design.] ANNE GALLOWAY. designer. ethnographer. archaeologist. ANTHROPOLOGY + DESIGN. Andrew Curran – Before Anthropology: Enlightenment ?Science? and the … The Daily Voice Wesleyan professor Andrew Curran will be looking back at an era before … Read more
New American Ethnologist Virtual Issue on ?In/Visibility: Projects, Media, Politics, 2012-2013? NEW! American Ethnologist virtual issue on ?In/Visibility: Projects, Media, Politics, 2012-2013? ? FREE articles for 2 months. Guest edited by Samuel Martínez, organizer of our 2014 AES spring conference on the same theme. Looks of early European revealed Genetic tests reveal that … Read more
Just heard that the latest issue of Cultural Anthropology has a special focus: Gezi Protests. That will definitely be a good scholarly and ethnographic source on the subject. But check out the contents below. Not one specific article you will find on new media usage, which was obviously an essential part of Protests. Unfortunately, (mass) … Read more
Anthropologist Genevieve Bell leads a team at Intel’s Santa Clara, Calif. campus, attempting to forecast future uses for the company’s chips. On Tuesday morning, Oct. 29, 2013, Bell explained how a whimsical robotic kiwi the “Data Monster” visualizes internet-based data sets. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) ( Karl Mondon ) Intel’s anthropologist helps chipmaker prepare … Read more
The History of the Personality of Anthropology This week?s SMOPS is an edited version of Kroeber?s ?A History of the Personality of Anthropology,? a piece which Kroeber wrote very late in his life. In it, Kroeber lays down his vision of anthropology?s unique outlook. In one striking passage, he describes anthropology as a ?changeling? discipline. … Read more
Dr. Nancy Scheper-Hughes Named First AAA Public Policy Award Winner The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is pleased to announce that its Committee on Public Policy has selected medical anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes as the first recipient of the new Anthropology in Public Policy Award. Dr. Scheper- Hughes is a nationally-recognized expert on several important health issues, … Read more
The Afflictions Series: An Interview with Ethnographic Filmmaker Robert Lemelson by Neely Myers from Somatosphere by Neely Myers When Robert Lemelson, an anthropologist, filmmaker, and research professor at UCLA, recently visited the George Washington University to speak at a conference on how ethnographic films can help us understand torture, I had to request an interview. … Read more
Anthropologist investigates African penis theft from Boing Boing by David Pescovitz Penis thefts are on the rise again in West and Central Africa. UC Berkeley cultural anthropologist/geographer Louisa Lombard investigated while visiting the tiny village of Tiringoulou. According to the town doctor, “Western medicine is no match for this magic. It is a mysterious thing.? … Read more