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Volume 33, Issue #2 - May 2022
From the SfAA
President’s Column
By Michael Paolisso - One of the most important activities for the SfAA is planning an annual meeting. Many members come to know and value the SfAA as a result of their participation in our annual…
From the Editors
By Jeanne Simonelli and Orit Tamir - Moving On: From the Salt Lake to the Banks of the Ohio - Salt Lake City is an interesting town. Located in the shadow of the Wasatch (sounds like Sasquatch)…
Summary of System Error and Webhost Transition – Human Organization
Our tenure as editors officially began in Spring, 2019, and with it we were on pace with the previous editorial team working through the remaining backlog before we arrived as well as new submissions.…
Annual Meeting
2022 Program Chair’s Column
By James H. McDonald - The 2022 SfAA annual meeting in Salt Lake City is now squarely in the rearview mirror. It was incredibly good to return to an in-person meeting format, bolstered by our hybrid…
2023 Annual Meeting Theme Statement
Applied anthropology is at an important crossroad. Longstanding political, sociocultural, and environmental problems persist, even as new problems emerge in an increasingly complex world reeling from…
TIGs & Committees
Gender Based Violence (GBV) TIG
By Hasnaa Mokhtar - The epidemic of shameful feminist guilt and inadequacy - “We’re trained to feel guilty about everything as women. For some women, feminism has become another thing to feel…
ExtrACTION and Environment TIG
By Elisabeth Moolinaar - Meeting under the Salt Lake City sun -Our annual meeting in Salt Lake City was a successful and very sunny one. Several hundred attendees were on site and a few hundred more…
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…
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. Beginning in 2002, the Sol…
Annual Meeting Poster Winners
Congratulations to all our 2022 Annual Meeting Poster winners.
Publications
3 books come out in 2021 from Robbie Davis-Floyd
Robbie Davis-Floyd is proud to announce that she had 3 books come out in 2021! This was pure coincidence: one of them took a full 10 years to produce, another took two years, and the third took only…
Making Things Happen:
“Making Things Happen: Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan” - What is the use of anthropology in construction or disaster reconstruction? That question is addressed in a…
Anthropological Perspectives on Environmental Communication
This book is a collection of chapters that explores and discusses the influential and pervasive role of communication on issues pertaining to the environment. Every day we read, hear, or see…
Independent Films as an Anthropological Resource
By Herbert J. Paine (President, Paine Consulting Services) - The intrinsic value of anthropology is in its ability to understand community dynamics and, in turn, to inform and enhance the development…
News from Members & Other Associations
Building Careers in Anthropology
By Elizabeth K. Briody and Riall W. Nolan - Come with us to the Big Apple! - The anthropology-wide, Career Readiness Commission is inviting you to an all-day conference on May 13 at Fordham's Gabelli…
Dr. Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez election to the AAAS
Congratulations to Dr. Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez on his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. - AAAS honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new…
World's First NFT Drop for the Anthropology Community
By Matt Artz - Anthropologists Against the Invasion of Ukraine was created in support of the people of Ukraine. It is the first NFT collection made for the anthropology community.
CONAA Members Reflect on Community Research in the Pandemic
At the 2022 SfAA Annual Meeting, CONAA members who collaborate with partners in the community reflected on the unique challenges they faced during the COVID-19 pandemic in their ongoing research…
Weaving for Justice
At the SFAA Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City colorful textiles from Chiapas, Mexico were on display and for sale. Weaving for Justice would like to thank all those who purchased textiles as well as…
AAA News - Spring 2022
Our first K-12 Teachers Summer Workshop will bring pre-college educators together to help promote the teaching of anthropology in secondary schools and strengthen networks within K–12 anthropology.…
The Reborn Forest: The Jaibazul Reforestation Project
By Alex Valdez - Jaibazul is a piece of private property in the northern coast of Colombia in the Necoclí municipality of the Urabá region. The site was originally an isolated private farmland…
Oral History
Oral History - Julia C. Gluesing
Understanding Global Teams in Automobile Production Management, A Career Path in Business Anthropology: An Interview with Julia C. Gluesing for the SfAA Oral History Project - Julia Gluesing has had…
Obituaries
Nancy Owen Lewis (1945-2022)
Nancy Owen Lewis (1945-2022) was an insatiable scholar and exacting writer; loving wife and doting mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother; faithful friend; and a passionate participant in…
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