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.

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

Anthropology ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Rose Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Web

As a term and a subject area, applied anthropology refers to that broad array of research, methods, and outcomes developed and used for the explicit purpose of recognizing, understanding, and addressing human problems. It has been described both as the fifth field of anthropology and as the bridging discipline since the application of research and knowledge to social problems cross-cuts all fields of anthropology. Some view applied anthropology narrowly, in terms of work conducted outside of university settings that is typically defined and produced under some form of contractual relationship, with services and resulting products used in some sort of problem-solving way. In this usage, applied anthropologists work to resolve problems, often in technocratic contexts, with theoretically informed praxis that generates and refines methodologies though rarely contributes toward the production of theory. For others, applied anthropology has broader meaning and refers to the varied uses of anthropology in public and private settings, including academia, where the primary objective involves problem-focused concerns. In this usage all forms of anthropological endeavor have social meaning and an applied dimension. Both the varied meanings of term and the varied outcomes of endeavor reflect the political economic conditions, social contexts, and identity politics within the discipline as it has been practiced over the past century, especially in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Classification and restricted access agreements imposed by research sponsors (governments, other international institutions, and corporations), limited peer review, publication and distribution of grey literature reports, and the membership-restricted publication of flagship journals historically reinforced the boundaries between university-based anthropologists and applied practitioners. With the advent of the web, library scanning projects, changes in information disclosure laws, the ease of uploading the collected works of various journals, newsletters, and magazines to the web, and the increased sophistication and use of web-based translation, access to the collective works in applied anthropology has never been greater. Increasingly, the distinction between applied and four-field anthropology has relatively less meaning as anthropologists are engaged as disciplinary and public actors in a wide array of scholarly, practical, and advocacy endeavors. Globally, anthropological work involves and is celebrated for its combined theoretical, applied, and practical contributions to society.

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.

scholarly journals GitHub and Jekyll for Publishing GIS Workshop Content

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Evan Thornberry ◽  
Phil White
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
The Web

In this article, we describe GitHub in simple terms and demonstrate its practical value as a platform for delivering workshop instruction. This article stems from a virtual pre-conference workshop we delivered at the 2020 annual meeting of the Western Association of Map Libraries (WAML). We describe an easily replicated workflow for publishing workshop materials and documentation to the web using GitHub Pages and provide a GitHub repository that readers of this article can copy and customize to suit their own workshop needs.

scholarly journals Peer Review Declaration Form Guidance

2021 ◽  
Vol 2081 (1) ◽  
pp. 011002
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Acceptance Rate ◽  
State Technical ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
Check System ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Scientific Standards ◽  
Submission Date ◽  
The Web

On the following page you will find the declaration form. • Please answer each question. • You should submit the form along with the rest of your submission files. • The deadline is the submission date written in your publishing agreement. All conference organisers/editors are required to declare details about their peer review. We will published the information you provide as part of your proceedings. All papers published in this volume of Journal of Physics: Conference Series have been peer reviewed through processes administered by the Editors. Reviews were conducted by expert referees to the professional and scientific standards expected of a proceedings journal published by IOP Publishing. • Type of peer review: Double-blind • Conference submission management system: To participate in the PIRT-2021 Conference, Participants had to register on the website http://www.pirt.info/?lang=eng#reg_form Abstracts and papers had to be sent to the PIRT-2021 Organizing Committee by e-mail: [email protected] All information about the format of abstracts and papers was on the web-site: http://www.pirt.info/?lang=eng • Number of submissions received: 61 • Number of submissions sent for review: 51 • Number of submissions accepted: 38 • Acceptance Rate (Number of Submissions Accepted / Number of Submissions Received X 100): 62,29 • Average number of reviews per paper: 2 • Total number of reviewers involved:12 • Any additional info on review process: Plagiarism check system: antiplagiat.ru Authors could resubmit the paper with the necessary revisions. • Contact person for queries: Name : Professor Vladimir Olegovich Gladyshev Affiliation: Head of the Faculty of Fundamental Sciences, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 5, 2-nd Baumanskaya St., Moscow, 105005, Russian Federation Email : [email protected]

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.

Saints and Sinner: Sir Richard Owen

2013 ◽  
Vol 95 (5) ◽  
pp. 170-171
Author(s):  
Richard Bellon
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Technical Detail ◽  
British Association ◽  
Animal Kingdom ◽  
General Audience ◽  
Current State ◽  
Richard Owen

The presidential address launched the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Each year a new president provided a broad and accessible summary of the current state of science to a general audience. These talks served as the meeting's intellectual tent-pole. Afterwards attendees fanned out to more specialised events. Most presidents spoke for less than 60 minutes. At the 1858 meeting in leeds, Richard Owen pummelled his audience for nearly three hours. He dedicated much of his time to describing, in excruciatingly technical detail, his groundbreaking work on the structural correspondences present in all vertebrate skeletons, which he had earlier christened 'homologies'. He now made the case that his work provided 'a superstructure of higher generalisations in regards to parts homological or answerable throughout the animal kingdom .' He finished well after eleven at night. A journalist insinuated that no one emerged from the ordeal seemingly unexhausted except for the speaker himself.

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