An account is required to join the Society, renew annual memberships online, register for the Annual Meeting, and access the journals Practicing Anthropology and Human Organization
- Hello Guest!|Log In | Register
Volume 34, Issue #3 - August 2023
From the SfAA
President’s Column
By Jennifer Wies - Greetings on behalf of the SfAA Board. This summer has found the group especially busy, with working groups underway to examine the SfAA Mission and initiate a comprehensive…
Help the SfAA Develop New Mission Statement(s)
Michael Paolisso, Carla Guerrón Montero and David Himmelgreen - Explicit and visible mission statement(s) unify and guide organizations and the collective work of their members. The SfAA statements on…
From the Editors
So Long, Farewell, Hagonee, Goodbye: Final Notes and One Last Commentary about the Hermit Peak/Calf Canyon Fire – For Now - Orit Tamir and Jeanne Simonelli
Annual Meeting
From the 2024 Program Chair
By A.J. Faas - Doing the Work of Transformation in the Land of Enchantment: The 2024 Annual Meeting in Santa Fe - For the 2024 Annual Meeting, the Program Committee and I have prioritized broadening…
Call for Papers
SfAA invites anyone in the Applied Social Sciences to submit abstracts (sessions, papers, posters, videos, and workshops) for the Program of the 84th Annual Meeting for the Society for Applied…
TIGs & Committees
ExtrACTION & Environment TIG
The ExtrACTION & Environment TIG will be hosting a virtual roundtable on Wednesday, September 6, 2023 from 11:00am-12:30pm (eastern time zone). We will focus on the past, present, and future of our…
Updates from the Risk & Disaster TIG
By Jennifer Trivedi, Anuszka Mosurska, and Mark Schuller - The Risk and Disaster TIG had a range of panels and events full of engaged conversation in Cincinnati this past spring and is very much…
Tourism & Heritage TIG
The Tourism and Heritage Topical Interest Group (THTIG) is a sub-group of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) that plans events at the annual SfAA Meetings, organizes student awards, and…
Missives from MASSH TIG
MASSH (Medical Anthropologists and Social Scientists in Health) was founded in September 2022 with the goal of promoting professional development, research collaboration, and educational opportunities…
Awards & Prizes
Self-Nominations for 2023 Praxis Award
Be a Self-Advocate and Nominate Your Project for the 2023 Praxis Award - The Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists (WAPA) continues to accept self-nominations for the prestigious 2023…
2024 Pelto International Award Announcement
Call for Nominations - As part of the SfAA’s international initiative, the Pelto International Award is intended to strengthen and expand relationships between the SfAA and applied anthropology in…
Call for P.K. New Papers
The Peter K. New Student Award, an annual student research competition in the applied social and behavioral sciences. Honoring the late Peter Kong-ming New, a distinguished medical…
Call for Malinowski Nominations
The Society for Applied Anthropology requests nominations for the Bronislaw Malinowski Award, which is presented annually to a senior social scientist in recognition of a career dedicated to…
Call for Sol Tax Award Nominations
In 1998, the Society for Applied Anthropology’s established an award in the name of Sol Tax, the prominent anthropologist best known as the founder of action anthropology. Beginning in 2002, the Sol…
News from Members & Other Associations
Kirk Jalbert (ExTraction TIG) Articles
Founding TIG member Kirk Jalbert is in the process of transitioning from Arizona State University to University at Buffalo to join their new Department of Environment and Sustainability. This year, he…
Anthropology Career Readiness Network
It has been just over six months since our last article in the SfAA Newsletter. One change you may have noticed is that we have evolved from a “Commission” to a “Network,” with the corresponding…
Updates from WAPA
By Bill Roberts, 2023 Praxis Award Chair - Washington, D.C. has long held a special position in the history of U.S. American anthropology. The national capital and its environs in Maryland and…
Celebration in Chijnaya:
On September 23, 2023, the community of Chijnaya on the Peruvian Altiplano will celebrate the 60th anniversary of its founding. The project sponsored by a regional government agency, CORPUNO, involved…
National Disability Movement History Distributed Living History Museum Concept
From Devva Kasnitz - Amid pandemics, schools online, and a long slide into virtual worlds and digitized history, disability rights and justice movements, accompanied by the academic articulation of…
Shree Bhagwan Roy Receives Life Time Achievement Award
Professor Dr Shree Bhagwan Roy, founder Chairman of IBRAD, former Professor of IIT Kharagpur, a fellow of the USA Society for Applied Anthropology, a Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science And…
Essays & Research Reports
Back to Bajakunda
Back to Bajakunda, “Nna siloo mu kayiro leti” - By Bill Roberts - Like many anthropologists of my generation, I was transformed by my stint as a Peace Corps volunteer. During my years as a volunteer I…
Crossing Between Worlds and Generations:
Returning to Canyon de Chelly - By Jeanne Simonelli - Driving along Interstate 40 everything looked to me like the outskirts of Gallop, New Mexico. To be driving to Canyon de Chelly with a bus load of…
Framing Care, Education, and Latino Success in Community Based Spaces
By Edgar Valles - I decided to return to Dallas, Texas, my childhood home, to find a site for data collection in the Fall of 2018. My Masters in Anthropology from Iowa State University had made it…
Things Take Time
By Brian Kenny - In the Spring of 2021, casual readings in journal subscriptions fomented an idea that things were not entirely right, and that Archaeology could do better. A community of scholars…
Poems & Short Stories
Baltimore Salvage Series
By Linda Rabben - Since moving to Baltimore in 2021 I’ve been doing research for a book on architectural history. In my travels around the metropolitan area, I’ve photographed many arresting sights,…
The ___ Poem in America
(in Building Block and Stanza Form) By Jennifer Schneider
(Near) Catastrophe
By Jennifer Schneider
Twenty Years Later
What Do We Remember - By Jennifer Schneider
When the Sky Falls
By Jennifer Schneider - Growing up, my children had a curious relationship with the story of Henny Penny, a tale that centers on a chicken who constantly fears the sky is falling. Although my kids,…
Roots
By Jennifer Schneider - When the winner of this year’s National Spelling Bee was asked if he had any secrets or strategies for success, he said he’d study the roots, roots of words of course, so that…
Obituaries
D. Douglas Caulkins, 1940-2023
On February 21, 2023, Applied Anthropology lost one of its most avid and long-standing advocates and teachers. Douglas Caulkins, 82, died at the Mayflower Health Center in Grinnell, Iowa, the town…
Cart
Search