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).

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.

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.

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.

A Challenge to Applied Archeology

1982 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-16
Author(s):  
Alice Portnoy
Keyword(s):  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
General Definition ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Recent Contribution ◽  
Actual Material ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Applied Fields

It seems that those of us who think we are doing applied archeology can't agree on even a general definition of this field of activity. Leland Patterson, in his recent contribution to this column (Practicing Anthropology 3,1, 33-34), seems to base his definition on distinctions between "theory" and "Practice," and between dealing with ideas and with actual material objects. He presented his concept of the field as a contrast to one that he claims is held by many archeologists, i.e., that contract archeology is "applied" while other (mostly academic) archeology is not. I would like to offer still another concept, based on my understanding of other applied fields, especially applied anthropology.

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.

Person-Focused Joking: Pattern and Function

1969 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Lundberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Systems ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
General Definition ◽  
Mass Communications ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Functional Interpretation ◽  
Human Organization ◽  
Joking Relationships ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
And Function

Although humor, wit and joking have received the attention of such eminent scholars as Freud, Bergson and Radcliffe-Brown, they remain among some of those obvious, yet pervasive, phenomena that are relatively unattended to by social scientists. And the attention they have received has usually been on the form and content of humor itself, what humor does to individuals, the extent and impact of humor in mass communications media, and on the highly ritualized patterns of "joking relationships." Because this paper cannot hope to cover the broad topic of humor, it will emphasize joking; specifically, joking that focuses on a person in a stable human organization such as the business firm. In particular I shall inquire into the consequences of joking for work groups and other small social systems. By joking I mean anything that is done by one or more persons to arouse laughter in others. This general definition of joking permits us to ask: Joking by whom, towards whom, about what or whom? What is the latent intent of the joker? Is there a discernible serious consequence? And so on. The definition and the sorts of questions it prompts draw attention to the interpersonal aspects of the joking process. In what follows, I shall first refer to some of the relevant literature, then offer a conceptual scheme for systematically examining joking situations, and finally sketch some tentative patterns of joking, including a functional interpretation, based on some of my own research in industrial work places.

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