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Volume 33, Issue #3 - August 2022
From the SfAA
President’s Column
The English word “volunteer” is an example of anthimeria: using one part of speech for another. I am a volunteer (noun) and I volunteer (verb) my labor freely. Such word conversions reflect language…
Revival of the SfAA Student Committee!
After being dormant for several years, the SfAA has a newly-formed Student Committee who are working to better engage and integrate students into the SfAA. Thank you to President Michael Paolisso for…
From the Editors
This has been a month of post COVID contradictions. As a seasonal Park Ranger, I (Jeanne) answered a call for those who might want to do presentations about the Park Service on a Royal Caribbean…
Annual Meeting
Message from the 2023 Conference Program Chair
By Juliana McDonald - I hope everyone is getting in the last minute beach visits, ballgames, picnics, and golf in a blazing hot July! August is just around the corner and planning for the 2023 SfAA…
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 83rd Annual Meeting for the Society for Applied…
TIGs & Committees
ExtrACTION News
We hope your summer has been everything you had hoped for. It is that time of the year again, to collect ideas and prepare proposals for the SfAA annual meeting 2023. The meeting will be hybrid and…
Gender-based Violence (GBV) TIG
Understanding gender-based structural violence in microfinancialization: reflections from Ibadan - By Olubukola Olayiwola - Conducting my dissertation fieldwork (2018) among women borrowers in the…
SfAA Global Webinar
Webinar: Framing Migration: AN SFAA GLOBAL ROUNDTABLE The knowledge that organizations assume, produce, and use on migration has short and long-range impacts on the people that move.
Awards & Prizes
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.
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…
2023 Pelto International Award Announcement
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 outside of the United…
Michael Crawley winner of the 2022 Mead Award
The Boards of Directors of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) and the American Anthropology Association (AAA) have selected Prof. Michael Crawley to receive the Margaret Mead Award for 2022.…
Publications
New Anthropological Praxis Casebook Published
A new casebook, Profiles of Anthropological Praxis, was released in May by Berghahn Books. This volume is a sequel to the popular Anthropological Praxis: Translating Knowledge into Action, published…
New from Berghahn Books
MAKING THINGS HAPPEN: Community Participation and Disaster, Reconstruction in Pakistan by Jane Murphy Thomas
A World of Many
A World of Many: Ontology and Child Development among the Maya of Southern Mexico by Norbert Ross
News from Members & Other Associations
Project Panchavati: The Challenges of Coproduction
By Jeffrey H. Cohen - Engaged, coproduced research fits well with applied work and our mission to re-envision anthropology. Our team, Project Panchavati, started as a collaboration between OSU…
WAPA - Praxis Award
The Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists’ 2021 Praxis Award Co-winners Exemplify Effective Anthropological Responses to Natural Disasters Abroad and at Home - Bill Roberts, 2021 &…
NAPA Student Achievement Awards
The National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA) offers the annual Student Achievement Awards to recognize undergraduate and graduate student contributions in the area of practicing…
2022 AAGE Conference
This year, AAGE 2022: Creativity and Aging draws our attention to creativity—of ourselves as researchers and of those with whom we work—and the moment’s potential for aging and the life course as a…
Oral History
Making a Career in Development Anthropology:
A SfAA Oral History Interview with Riall Nolan - Riall Nolan has had a distinguished career in development anthropology in both agency and academic settings. He has done development work with various…
Obituaries
Willis Elbridge Sibley (1930-2022)
Willis Elbridge Sibley passed away on March 13th, 2022, at the age of 92 in the small town of Shady Side, Maryland, along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. Will earned a BA in economics at Reed…
Bruno Pereira, Indigenist
Indigenous-rights advocate Bruno Pereira, 41, was killed in June 2022 while traveling in the Javari River Valley of western Brazil with British journalist Dom Phillips. Local fishermen allegedly…
Short Stories
The 25th Hour
By Mario Gonzales - Moises Paraco was worried. Not so much that he had forgotten to say his daily prayers and absolutions. He continued to do so each night after dinner as he had done ever since his…
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