2007 Podcasts

1

"Dude, That's My Space!"

DISCUSSANT: HORST, Heather

ABSTRACT: The public prominence of social networking websites like MySpace and Facebook and media attention to the “effects” of violent videogames and mobile phone use have put these technologies at the forefront of contentious national debates. Advocating a kid-driven perspective on new media influenced by the resurgence of childhood studies in anthropology, we explore how young people use, share, create with, interact with, and perceive digital technologies in their day-to-day lives.

Session Participants: 

TRIPP, Lisa (Florida State University)
HORST, Heather (University of California, Berkeley)
YARDI, Sarita (Georgia Institute of Technology)
LANGE, Patricia (Annenberg Center for Communication | University of Southern California)

Session took place in Tampa, FL at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2007.

2

Global Health in the Time of Violence Part 1

CHAIRS: RYLKO-BAUER, Barbara, FARMER, Paul, and WHITEFORD, Linda

ABSTRACT: There is growing recognition amongst many involved in global health policy that narrowly-defined health initiatives need to be linked to broader efforts in addressing root causes of the global burden of disease, including poverty, lack of clean water, malnutrition, gender inequity and maternal health. More recently, they have begun to examine the multiple facets of violence and its impact on factors that directly determine health and the provision of health care.  The panelists bring to this discussion a critical analytic perspective embedded in first hand knowledge of the experiences of those whose lives are shaped by global and local violence. 

Session Participants: 

RYLKO-BAUER, Barbara (Michigan State University)
FARMER, Paul (Harvard University and Partners in Health)
WHITEFORD, Linda (University of South Florida)
FASSIN, Didier (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
NORDSTROM, Carolyn (University of Notre Dame)

Session took place in Tampa, FL at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2007.

Global Health in the Time of Violence Part 2

CHAIRS: RYLKO-BAUER, Barbara; FARMER, Paul; and WHITEFORD, Linda

Session Participants: 

BOURGOIS, Philippe (University of Pennsylvania–School of Arts and Sciences & School of Medicine)
SINGER, Merrill (Hispanic Health Council)
QUESADA, James (San Francisco State University)

Session took place in Tampa, FL at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2007.

3

South Florida's Impact on Anthropology & Society

DISCUSSANT: ANGROSINO, Michael (University of South Florida)

ABSTRACT: Between 1974 and 1994, forty-two works descriptive of the University of South Florida MA and PhD programs in applied anthropology were published.  In that period some two hundred graduates of those programs entered the work force. Since then, another hundred have been added.  It is time to consider the impact of those professional practitioners on the discipline of anthropology and on the various professional sectors in and around which they work.  This roundtable approaches these issues with an anthropological perspective – encouraging former students and faculty “natives” of different classes to speak for themselves, encouraging audience participation.

Session Participants: 

WOLFE, Alvin (University of South Florida)
DEITRICK, Lynn (Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network)
OGILVIE, Michele (University of South Florida Alumni)
BIRD, Elizabeth & HIMMELGREEN, David (University of South Florida)
PRIMO, John (University of Georgia) - audio not available

Session took place in Tampa, FL at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2007.

4

Environment & Conservation Policy

CHAIR: CATTANI, Jacqueline (University of South Florida)

Session Participants: 

KELLEY, Geoff (University of Georgia) From the State to the Local: Conservation along the Mexico-United States Border

CASAGRANDE, David (Western Illinois University) Residential Landscape Preferences in the Phoenix Oasis

GARTIN, Meredeth and WUTICH, Amber (Arizona State University) The Social Dynamics of Policy-maker Collaboration

CATTANI, Jacqueline (University of South Florida) Lifting the Ban on DDT for Malaria Control: Health, Environmental, and Economic Perspectives

Session took place in Tampa, FL at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2007.

5

Applying Linguistic Anthropology in the Classroom & Beyond

Due to audio issues, not all files are available.

CHAIR: MESSING, Jacqueline (USF)

ABSTRACT: This panel includes several undergraduate students from the University of South Florida’s Anthropology program and their mentor.  We will discuss the teaching of linguistic anthropology and applied linguistics in the classroom, including ideas for a variety of “real-world” research projects.  The students wrote ethnographic papers based on their own research for a course on “Language and Culture” and then served as peer editors, to produce a special issue of USF’s Journal of Undergraduate Research.  This journal showcased fourteen students‚ ethnographic research papers, including studies of language as it relates to: health and community, identity, linguistic variation, archeology, religion, technology, and deaf culture.

Session Participants: 

CARDEW, Jen (University of North Texas)

GILLOGY, Marianne (University of South Florida)

Session took place in Tampa, FL at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2007.

6

2007 SfAA Awards Ceremony: The Malinowski Award

Malinowski Award Recipient: Gretel Pelto
Introduced by Peggy Bentley

Taking Care of Children: Applying Anthropology in Maternal and Child Nutrition and Health

This paper describes main features of a program of technical assistance in South Asia (primarily India) designed to help comm -unity health researchers develop more effective data gathering and analysis in applied studies of reproductive health issues. The program was funded by the Ford Foundation (India) and organized under a grant to Johns Hopkins University. Recipients of the technical assistance have been mainly small nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and some social science researchers in academic institutions in India. In most cases, the participants have been involved in community-based intervention programs, so the research activities have had a directly applied focus. The increasing challenge of the AIDS epidemic brought about a shift in emphasis in the program, as many organizations and individuals took up research on sexual behavior to better understand the patterns of individual actions that are associated with higher risks of HIV infection. An informal “sexual behavior research network” has developed as the program of technical assistance and the communications among the various participants matured. The use of computers for data management and e-mail communication has facilitated these developments.

Session took place in Tampa, FL at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2007.