Applied Anthropology and Disaster Research and Management: Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Charleston, 13-17 March 1991

Disasters ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 382-384
Author(s):  
Anthony Oliver-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Disaster Research

For Your Information

1987 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-25
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
American Anthropological Association ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
Margaret Mead

The 1988 Margaret Mead Award, jointly sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology and the American Anthropological Association, will be presented at the SfAA annual meeting in Tampa, Florida, April 21-23. The Mead Award honors a younger scholar for a particular. accomplishment which interprets anthropological data and principles in ways that make them meaningful to a broadly concerned public. Recipients must be clearly and integrally associated with research or practice in anthropology.

Introduction: The Anthropology-Map Merger

2007 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Namino Glantz ◽  
Ben McMahan
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Participatory Health Research ◽  
Health And Well Being

The potential of merging anthropology and mapping became clear to us (guest editors Namino Glantz & Ben McMahan) as we sought novel means of improving health among the elderly in Mexico. To share our own experiences and hear about others, we organized a session—The medical anthropology-map merger: Harnessing GIS for participatory health research—at the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Annual Meeting, held in March 2007 in Tampa, Florida. Presenters detailed case studies to explore how mapping strengthened health research by enriching understanding of the dynamics of health and well-being, and by promoting community engagement in research and intervention. At the same meeting, the PA editors agreed to dedicate this issue of Practicing Anthropology to showcasing the innovative directions that anthropology can take by incorporating participatory mapping. Featured authors—nearly all participants in the SfAA session—illuminate and expand upon the themes Mark Nichter mentions above.

Reflections on Teaching SCRM: Survey Research Methods in Anthropology

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-41
Author(s):  
William Dressler ◽  
Kathryn Oths
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Short Course ◽  
Survey Research Methods ◽  
Field Of Inquiry ◽  
Marine Laboratory

First, we want to emphasize that we are pleased and honored that the students from our first Short Course in Research Methods (SCRM) in Anthropology, taught during the summer of 2006 at the Duke Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, North Carolina, have shown such commitment and perseverance in terms of continuing their professional development with respect to research methods. Through the organization of the session at the 2007 Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Tampa, and their continuing work on those papers for publication here in Practicing Anthropology, they are demonstrating clearly what we learned about them during that week at ‘methods camp’: they have a clear devotion both to their own ongoing maturation as scholars and to the development of anthropology as a rigorous field of inquiry.

For Your Information

1981 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-20
Keyword(s):  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Harvard Medical School ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Alcohol And Drug Use ◽  
Recent Conference ◽  
Conference Presentations ◽  
Alcohol And Drug Abuse

International and interdisciplinary aspects of alcohol and drug use have been the focus of several recent conference presentations. More than a dozen British and American contributors representing the fields of anthropology, sociology, psychology, and psychiatry presented papers at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, held April 16, 1981, in Edinburgh, Scotland. The session was organized by Barbara Lex of the Harvard Medical School, and dealt primarily with methods of alcohol and drug abuse research in varied settings.

Introduction: Understanding and Responding to HIV/AIDS on the African Continent

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Gisele Maynard-Tucker ◽  
Alexander Rödlach
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Hiv Infections ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Hiv Aids

This issue of Practicing Anthropology brings together panel papers focusing on HIV/AIDS in Africa presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Tampa in 2007. These papers discuss various topics related to HIV/AIDS in different African countries: the association between gender and HIV infections, the consequences for the epidemic of the shortage of health workers, the importance of ethical considerations in developing protocols for HIV/AIDS interventions, local interpretations of, and reactions to, methods preventing new HIV infections, and the impact of resource insecurities on HIV/AIDS programs.

Applied Anthropology and Disaster Research and Management

Disasters ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 366-369
Author(s):  
ANTHONY OLIVER-SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Disaster Research

PA Retrospective: Bill and Jeanne's Excellent Adventure

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-39
Author(s):  
Jeanne Simonelli ◽  
Bill Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Acceptance Rate ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
General Audience ◽  
Editorial Policies ◽  
Human Organization ◽  
The Web

It's been a very short six years since we received the PA mantel from then-editor Sandy Ervin. In that time we've seen changes in technology, from 3 1/2 inch floppy submissions to almost exclusively email attachments. Like Human Organization, PA will soon be available on the web, with even those early newsprint issues scanned into PDF files. We are pleased that during our editorship submissions to PA increased each year, especially as we began to contact participants at the annual meeting to remind them of how easily their papers could be converted into PA articles. Our acceptance rate remained high, however, since one of our editorial policies has been to work with authors to turn their submissions into well written PA pieces. We believed that this could be a mentoring process for young scholars learning how to write for a more general audience. We began our editorship by introducing some new features. Teaching Practicing made it though the first four years, and we hope that it was a useful aspect for those who use the journal in their Applied Anthropology classes. In the end, we decided to use the space for additional articles or commentaries.

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