Applied Anthropology of Risk, Hazards, and Disasters

2015 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.J. Faas ◽  
Roberto E. Barrios
Keyword(s):  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Special Edition ◽  
Human Organization ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Disaster Anthropology ◽  
Historical Antecedents

This article provides a brief introduction to advancements in the anthropology of disasters as well as the historical antecedents and the intellectual collaborations that contributed to contemporary work in the field. It reviews the multiple directions, methodological approaches, and theoretical leanings that comprise today's diversified field of disaster anthropology and discusses how the monographs included in the special edition of Human Organization (74[4]) on the applied anthropology of risks, hazards, and disasters showcase the variety of topics and themes engaged by applied anthropologists who work on disaster-related issues.

Human Organization: A Three-Year Review (1967-69)

1970 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Official Journal ◽  
Human Organization

The purpose of this study is to review the 1967, 1968 and 1969 issues (Volumes 26, 27, 28) of Human Organization, the official journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology, in order to determine the nature of: (1) the journal itself; (2) the authors (their disciplines and places of employment); (3) the articles (methodology, subject matter and setting); and (4) to present some general reactions to the journal's style, content and format.

Editorial: Applied Anthropology

1955 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Keyword(s):  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Human Organization ◽  
Definition Of

(Editor's Note: Because of the number of requests received from members and, particularly, non-members of the Society, for a definition of "applied anthropology," we are publishing with minor changes an editorial that first appeared in the Fall, 1950 issue of Human Organization).

Results of the 1981 Society for Applied Anthropology Readership Survey

1982 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-23 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Executive Committee ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Present Survey ◽  
Editorial Policies ◽  
Administrative Functions ◽  
Human Organization ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Selection Of

This report is based on the second readership survey completed by the Society for Applied Anthropology Publication Policy Committee (PPC). The first focused on Practicing Anthropology and was designed to elicit feedback regarding this publication's initial editorial policies and relation to the SfAA. The present survey was requested by the SfAA Executive Committee at their December 1980 meeting. The PPC was charged with providing feedback to the Executive Committee to help with their deliberations regarding: (1) the reappointment of the Practicing Anthropology editor at the spring 1981 Edinburgh meeting; and (2) the selection of an editor for Human Organization for the fall 1981 meeting in Los Angeles. While the former goal was achieved, the schedule for selecting an HO editor was advanced, thus precluding the PPC's latter charge. This final report has been prepared in the belief that it contains data relevant to the general planning and administrative functions of the SfAA Executive Committee, the PPC, and the two journal editors. The report furthers completes a PPC commitment to present the survey results to the SfAA membership.

From the Editor

1966 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-186
Keyword(s):  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Human Organization ◽  
Future Growth

Whence and whither are the questions to which incoming editors traditionally address themselves. The answers usually point with pride to the journal's past accomplishments and with optimism to its future growth. I share that pride and optimism in the Society for Applied Anthropology and Human Organization. At the same time, I am less bewitched by the record of former progress than bothered by certain gaps and failures.

scholarly journals Cows, Pigs, Corporations, and Anthropologists

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald D. Stull
Keyword(s):  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Garden City ◽  
University Of Kansas ◽  
Human Organization ◽  
Service Award ◽  
The University

Don Stull is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Kansas, where he taught from 1975 to 2015. He has been editor-in-chief of Human Organization, president of the Society for Applied Anthropology, and a recipient of the SfAA’s Sol Tax Distinguished Service Award. In 2001 he was presented with the key to Garden City, Kansas, and made an honorary citizen in recognition of the value of his work to this community.

The Real World: Teaching Anthropology as if it Mattered

1998 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-43
Author(s):  
Margaret Everett
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Real World ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
American Anthropologist ◽  
The Real ◽  
Human Organization ◽  
The Future ◽  
Decision Making Processes

In James Peacock's 1995 address on the future of anthropology given at the AAA meetings in Washington, D.C., he spoke persuasively about the discipline's need to move "beyond the academy" and warned that in order for anthropology to flourish, "we must press outward" ("The Future of Anthropology," American Anthropologist 99(1): 9-29, 1997). Efforts to broaden anthropology's contribution to society "beyond the academy" are already under way, as Human Organization, this publication, and this column, in particular, attest. Specifically, renewed interest in public policy reflects the growing conviction that anthropologists' work today needs to be more relevant to decision-making. Applied anthropologists often express frustration at their lack of influence in decision-making processes. Again, as Peacock argues, "Applied anthropology is often a mop-up operation, identifying and solving problems caused by bad policy. Instead, anthropology must move to shaping policy." Efforts through the AAA, SfAA, and elsewhere suggest a turning point for applied anthropology and the discipline in general.

For Your Information

1987 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 22-23
Keyword(s):  
Executive Committee ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Search Committee ◽  
Human Organization

The Executive Committee of the Society for Applied Anthropology announces the opening of a search for a new editor of Human Organization, and hereby solicits applications from prospective editors. Applications will be accepted by the Search Committee until October 30, 1987. The Search Committee will make its recommendations to the Executive Committee in April, 1988, and the new editor will assume office on January 1, 1989.

Autobiographical Notes on a Career in Applied Anthropology

1990 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-16
Author(s):  
Omer Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Expert Witness ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
State Courts ◽  
Santa Fe ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Southern Paiute ◽  
Native American Church ◽  
Human Organization

Dr. Stewart served as discussant for the Santa Fe paper session "Working On, Working For, and Working With American Indians" from which this special issue of PA is drawn. His most visible applied anthropology role has been as expert witness. He reports that between 1950 and 1983 he testified in numerous Indian Claims cases on behalf of the Chippewa, Shoshone, Ute, Southern Paiute, Northern Paiute, Klamath, Washo, Gosiute, and Indians of California, helping these groups receive awards from the Indian Claims Commission in excess of $200 million. Most recently, he was involved in the San Juan Southern Paiute effort to obtain federal acknowledgement as a tribe. However, Dr. Stewart is best known for his testimony on behalf of members of the Native American Church who have sued state courts for the legal right to practice the peyote religion openly. His work in this area has spanned the thirty years from 1960 through the present. Dr. Stewart discussed the origins of anthropological concern with the peyote religion and his own role in defending its practice in his 1983 Malinowski Award address at the SfAA meetings in San Diego, CA. The following are excerpts from the full text of that address, reprinted with permission from Human Organization 42(3), Fall 1983, pp. 189-194.

South Florida Training Program Undergoes Modifications

1983 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-9
Author(s):  
Curtis Wienker
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Human Organization ◽  
Applied Program ◽  
The University ◽  
Level Training ◽  
Internship Training

The University of South Florida MA Program in Anthropology will change some of its requirements, beginning in the fall of 1983. The primacy emphasis of the program will continue to be the training of practicing anthropologists. During its nine years of existence, USF's Graduate Program in Anthropology has attracted considerable interest nationwide. It was the first exclusively applied program to focus explicitly on masters' level training in applied anthropology as preparation for other than academic careers. Various aspects of the program have recently been discussed in Practicing Anthropology, vol. 4, no. 3-4). Also, the program and especially its internship component were recently addressed in a review of Internship Training in Applied Anthropology: A Five Year Review (A. Wolfe, E. Chambers and J. Smith) by John van Willigen in Human Organization (vol. 41:3).

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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