scholarly journals Evidencing Anthropology. 115th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 16–20 November, 2016. Minneapolis, MN. USA

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-109
Author(s):  
Elena Sokolova
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
American Anthropological Association

Women Practicing Anthropology: Perspectives Across the Discipline

1983 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-7
Author(s):  
Carole Browner
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Career Advancement ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
American Anthropological Association ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women

The articles in this special issue of Practicing Anthropology grew out of a symposium on "Women Anthropologists in the Public and Private Sectors: Opportunities for Non-Academic Career Advancement" sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women (COSWA) at the 1981 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. As organizers of the panel, Donald Lindburg and I sought participants from each subfield of anthropology working in both the public and private sectors. In the first regard we were successful, with presentations by social, linguistic and physical anthropologists and two archeologists. In the second regard we were less successful, with four of the five panelists—Sibley, Wynn, Wildesen, and Brockman—employed by private concerns.

PA Comments

1983 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Special Interest Groups ◽  
American Anthropological Association ◽  
New Strategies

Over 100 practicing and applied anthropologists met at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Chicago and agreed to establish a new unit of the A practicing anthropology. It was decided that the unit will represent and serve all four sub-fields of anthropology. Goals of the unit will include: 1) to represent the needs of practicing anthropologists within the AAA, 2) to provide a network for communication among practicing anthropologists, 3) to disseminate information on employment and related issues in practicing anthropology, 4) to support, to the extent possible, the activities of already existing regional and special interest groups of practicing anthropologists, 5) to educate students of anthropology in the skills necessary for non-academic anthropological work, 6) to develop new strategies to serve the needs of practicing anthropologists.

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.

The Importance of Being Honest: Verifying Citations, Rereading Historical Sources, and Establishing Authority in the Great Karamoja Debate

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 383-409
Author(s):  
Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
American Anthropological Association ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Rhetorical Devices ◽  
Historical Argument ◽  
Citation Practices ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Anthropologists pay considerable attention to the writing style, the construction of a text, and the question of ethnographic authority, particularly since Derek Freeman's critique of Margaret Mead's Samoa writings. Although the issue of representation of the history and culture of far-flung peoples in the form of the written report is a long and distinguished tradition in the field of cultural anthropology, the Freeman/Mead debates have raised a number of questions ranging from the problem of faulty citation practices to the issue of vulnerable ethnographic authority. The debate over Freeman's critique of Mead has developed into a major controversy and was featured at the 1983 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (Marshall 1993:604). Since then, numerous articles and books have been written on the debate, and while many people have become tired of the “whole mess”, the case continues to attract scholarly attention.Critiques of Freeman often revolve around the sources Freeman used to support his historical argument against Mead, illuminating how Freeman used rhetorical devices, selectively omitted vital passages in historical documents that he cited, and “heavily” used partial quotations and (sometimes) ellipses, in order to “…undermine Mead's ethnographic authority and enhance his own” (e.g., Marshall 1993:604).

scholarly journals The Work of ‘Crisis’ in the ‘Opioid Crisis’

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Summerson Carr
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
San Diego ◽  
American Anthropological Association ◽  
Opioid Crisis ◽  
The Us

This commentary is an edited version of discussant comments to the Executive Session panel ‘Anthropological Interventions in the US Opioid Crisis’ organized by Jennifer Carroll at the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Diego, CA, November 14-18, 2018.

scholarly journals Introduction to the Thematic Section

1996 ◽  
pp. 195-200
Author(s):  
Nick Kardulias
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
American Anthropological Association ◽  
Current Collection ◽  
Broad Audience ◽  
Thematic Section ◽  
Full Complement ◽  
Material Record

The papers in this thematic section were originally presented in two venues. Approximately half of the contributions were delivered first in a session at the Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society in Indianapolis, Indiana in March, 1995. The full complement of presentations took place at the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C., in November, 1995. Two participants in the Washington symposium chose not to include their papers in this section. A number of the papers have thus benefitted from several stages of discussion and criticism. While anthropologists (and especially archaeologists) dominated both panels, the disciplinary breadth represented by the various members contributed to an invigorating discussion which we now bring to the pages of this journal. In this attempt to reach a broad audience, however, we realize there is the problem of disciplinary specificity, i.e., the particular approaches and data with which scholars deal may not be easily comprehensible to those in other fields. For the current collection, this issue is especially acute for prehistorians, whose focus on the material record and a specialized archaeological terminology may confound some readers. The archaeologists have made efforts to minimize the use of esoteric jargon. In addition, chronological periods are clearly defined in order to fix the temporal setting. While some readers may already be very familiar with the periods in question, we thought it best to err on the side of caution.

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