Podcasts from the SfAA

SfAA Awards Ceremony – Malinowski Lecture

Steven K. Wilson — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:50:05 +0000

SfAA Awards Ceremony – Malinowski Lecture by the 2012 Bronislaw Malinowski Award Recipient Clifford Barnett. MC: Willis E. Sibley. Introduction by Peter Kunstadter.

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Lecture took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

Journal of Business Anthropology

Jen Cardew Kersey — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:16:36 +0000

The first issue of the Journal of Business Anthropology, an open access journal, is available online (for free). Please check it out if you’re interested in they field of business anthropology and support the great work being done by the editors and contributors.

Publication of the first issue of the Journal of Business Anthropology

The Journal of Business Anthropology is pleased to announce the publication of its first issue. The JBA is an Open Access journal which publishes the results of anthropological research in business organizations and business situations of all kinds.

The inaugural issue features articles by Marietta Baba, Allen Batteau and Carolyn E. Psenka, Melissa Cefkin, Barbara Czarniawska, and Annamma Joy and Eric P. H. LI, as well as an introduction by editors Brian Moeran and Christina Garsten.

Based on fieldwork, participant-observation and more general ethnographic methods, the journal’s articles, case studies, and field reports are designed to develop an understanding of a wide variety of business practices; to bring to bear theoretical contributions from anthropology and related disciplines that may guide business practitioners in their day-to-day working lives; and to encourage discussion of what does and what does not, constitute ‘fieldwork’ and ‘ethnography’, as well as how they may be carried out, in corporations and other kinds of business organizations. Through the variety of its offerings, the journal encourages reflection upon different ways of writing up and presenting research findings.

To access the journal, please visit the website at www.cbs.dk/jba. Here you will also find case studies, field reports and reviews published by JBA. Contributions to the journal are welcomed and submission guidelines can be found on the JBA website.

For more information please contact Editor in Chief Brian Moeran bm.jba@cbs.dk, or Managing Editor Frederik Larsen fl.jba@cbs.dk

Project Update

Steven K. Wilson — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:13:55 +0000

The SfAA Podcast Project Team had a great time at the 2012 Annual SfAA Meeting in Baltimore this year! We are still in the process of editing the podcasts we recorded, so please continue to visit our website for updates. You can sign up for RSS feed or subscribe by email on the website to be notified as soon as new podcasts are uploaded. Also, don’t forget we have 72 podcasts from the 2007-2011 Annual Meetings to listen to as well. Thanks!

Images and Impacts of Tourism

Steven K. Wilson — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:13:07 +0000

BARBERY, Ennis (UMD) Mapping Parks and Mapping Futures: Symbolic Images in Tourism of the New River Gorge

FEDERMAN, Amy Schlagel (Independent) Tourism in Israel as a Vehicle for Solidarity with the Homeland

JOHNSON, Lauren (U S Florida) Dem Nevah Reach: Living in the Periphery of a Jamaican Tourist Destination

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Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

Introducing the 2012 SfAA Podcast Team!

yumikoakimoto — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:32:52 +0000

The 2012 SfAA Podcast Team consists of 6 members so far: Yumiko Akimoto (Chair – 3rd year), Megan Gorby (Associate Chair – 2nd year), Tommy Wingo (paid audio pro, 4th year), and 3 other UNT students (in addition, 2 – 3 local students will be selected in February). Make sure you say ‘hi’ in Baltimore! Meet the past SfAA Podcast Team members here.

Yumiko Akimoto, Chair

Email: yumiko.unt [at] gmail [dot] com

Yumiko is expected to graduate with master’s degrees in applied anthropology and public health from the University of North Texas (UNT) and UNT Health Science Center in May 2012. She is currently working on her practicum project and thesis on a public health needs assessment in an urban slum community in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area. She has been part of the SfAA Podcast Project since the 2010 Annual Meeting. She enjoys co-managing the project with Megan and is excited to work closely with the other team members this year!

Tommy Wingo

email: tommy [at] wing-o [dot] com

Audio Pro, www.wing-o.com

Tommy is a sound mixer living in Orlando, Florida. In late 2011 he started working for Treehouse (teamtreehouse.com). Projects he has worked on include production sound recording, editing and mixing for film, television, and radio. He has worked as an editor on several different podcasts, including Life Zero, EPIC Podcasts, and Ruby 5, in addition to his work with the SfAA Podcast project.

Megan Gorby, Associate Chair

Email: megangorby [at] my.unt.edu

Megan is a second year master’s student in the applied medical anthropology program at the University of North Texas and the public health program at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. Her current research interests include looking at the usefulness of community gardens in health education and health promotion. She anticipates graduating in December 2012 and is excited to be on the Project for her second year!

Jo Aiken, Communications Coordinator

Email: aikenjo [at] yahoo [dot] com

Jo is a first year master’s student in the Applied Anthropology M.A. program at the University of North Texas. She earned a B.S. in Leadership Development from Texas A&M University. After receiving her bachelor’s degree, Jo worked as a contractor for the NASA Johnson Space Center where she contributed to the official Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) Report in 2003. She is continuing her interest in space exploration and culture by pursuing research interests in organizational and design anthropology as it applies to spacecraft and mission design. Jo spends her spare time traveling, watching old movies, hula dancing, spending time with her dog Bandit.

Steven K. Wilson, Social Media Coordinator

Email: steven.wilson [at] unt [dot] edu

Steve is a first year master’s student at the University of North Texas. He graduated with a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Arlington. Steve’s research focus is business and organizational anthropology. He wants to use anthropological methods to better understand organizational structures to improve corporate ethics, job satisfaction, training and safety. Steve is also interested in storytelling as a tool to better train employees while building communities in the workplace.

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Brittany Donnelly, Session Selection Coordinator

Email: brittanydonnelly [at] my.unt [dot] edu

Brittany is currently a master’s student at the University of North Texas focusing on environmental anthropology. She also holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Oklahoma Baptist University. Brittany’s interests include ethnoecology, tropical forest preservation, sustainability, participatory research methods, environmental justice, indigenous rights, the Kayapó people, and Amazonia. She is currently working on analysis and write-up of the research she conducted this summer in Brazil in which she was able to use her proficiency in Brazilian Portuguese. Her work, entitled, The Kayapó Project: An Assessment of a Kayapó NGO’s Stakeholder Relationships- Identifying Barriers and Future Opportunities, she plans to present for graduation this Spring.

Help choose the 2012 SfAA Podcast Sessions

yumikoakimoto — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:28:48 +0000

It’s that time again! We’re currently working to select the 18 sessions that will be recorded by the SfAA Podcast Team at the 2012 Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD. Just like the last five years, these sessions will start to appear on this site in April as free audio recordings.

As with last year, we’re using an online survey to collect your suggestions. We’d love to have your suggestions so please fill out the survey by Saturday, January 21.

We’re asking for your help so that we can ensure a wide range of topics and interests are covered. We would like to request your input on what sessions we should record. Suggested selection criteria include:

Topic is “hot”
Topic is of widespread interest to many people
Well-known speakers
Student speakers
A wide range of disciplines, including all four subfields of anthropology, should to be represented

Please let us know your session suggestions by filling out our survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KW5FGL3!

We’ve created this survey off of this version of the program.

If you have comments or suggestions about the survey or the experience please email the team at sfaapodcasts(at)gmail(dot)com

2011 in review

Jen Cardew Kersey — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:04:34 +0000

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 8,700 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

SfAA 2012 Abstract Submission – October 15 Deadline

Jen Cardew Kersey — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:52:23 +0000

A message from the SfAA:

As a reminder, abstracts for the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology are due October 15. If you have not registered and submitted your abstracts, please visit the SfAA 2012 web site at:http://www.sfaa.net/sfaa2012.htmlBays, Boundaries, and Borders are broad themes that interconnect with Baltimores past, present, and future history and environment. Society for Applied Anthropology members, and others who have heard about the meetings, are responding by developing plans for hosting invited lectures, or giving presentations, workshops, or receptions. And, of course, there will be music and dance. Some are bringing friends of the Society who will be featuring their craftwork and culture for all of us to enjoy. I encourage you to plan to come early to take part in the Community Day on Tuesday, March 27, then stay through until the end of the meeting on Saturday, March 31.

But remember — you need to move forward with your plans about how to participate – abstracts and registration are due October 15. You may register securely online and submit abstracts at:

http://www.sfaa.net/sfaa2012.htmlEarly spring in Charm City is usually a great time of year. Many of you who stopped by the Baltimore table in Seattle wrote suggestions encouraging the development of a community day similar to the outstanding Traditional Food Summit organized in Seattle. In that spirit, we are planning to work with communities and organizations in and around Baltimore to create a community day. This day will focus on the communitys efforts to regenerate neighborhoods, sustain cultural traditions, and tell the stories of past or contemporary struggles that have preserved the proud heritage of the city.

Practicing anthropologists abound in the mid-Atlantic region, and I invite each one of you who reads this note to tell other colleagues and then come to Baltimore and share your stories about practical lessons youve learned. Practitioners have much to offer to aspiring students seeking to create their niche in the professional world as well as the faculty who are training them and the discipline we embody. Practitioners often work at the boundaries of professional activity, where innovative insights are perhaps more common than within the walls of lecture halls, and we want to lay the welcome mat wide open for them in Baltimore.

The Society for Medical Anthropology – http://www.medanthro.net/ – is already a cosponsor for the Baltimore meetings. The Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists –http://www.wapa.cloverpad.org/ – the oldest Local Practitioner Organization in the region, is another potential cosponsor of the meeting. The National Association for the Practice of Anthropology –http://practicinganthropology.org/ – is also supporting the meeting and will be well represented. This Baltimore venue promises to be a rich and intellectually stimulating social environment conducive to professional networking and fun.

The SfAA Student Committee is working diligently on an Alternative Political Ecology track that will offer diverse panels, roundtables and tours in Baltimore. Overall, we plan to offer a diverse group of tours of the region, and also develop directions for self-guided tours of the Baltimore, Annapolis and Washington, DC triangle area. We also hope to increase film or video submissions about applied research, activism, or social justice issues.

This will be a meeting you dont want to miss. But remember, register your abstract for a presentation, session, poster, or documentary video by October 15 at:

http://www.sfaa.net/sfaa2012.html

See you in Baltimore!Bill Roberts
Chair, 2012 SfAA Annual Meeting

Ethical Dilemmas of Medical Research

Jen Cardew Kersey — Mon, 09 May 2011 05:46:06 +0000

CHAIR: POAT, Jennifer Therese (Oregon Hlth & Sci U)

NEWBURY, Liz, SIMON, Christian, and L’HEUREUX, Jamie (U Iowa) Public Perceptions of Community Advisory Boards in Biobanking: Benefits and Challenges

POAT, Jennifer Therese (Oregon Hlth & Sci U) Genetalk: How Americans Feel About Sharing

CLAIBORNE, Deon (Mich State U) International Research Guideline on the Ground: The Costa Rican Case

KELLY, Kimberly and NICHTER, Mark (U Arizona) The Politics of Local Biology in Transnational Clinical Trials: The Case of Japan

TAIT, Caroline (U Saskatchewan) Resituating the Ethical Gaze: Medical Morality and the Local Worlds of Canadian First Nations and Métis Peoples

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Session took place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

Using Culture to Understand Behavior in Organizations

yumikoakimoto — Mon, 09 May 2011 05:43:28 +0000

CHAIR: NOLAN, Riall W. (Purdue U)

NOLAN, Riall W. (Purdue U) Organizational Thinking and Organizational Change: Why It’s Hard to Speak Truth to Power

HANCHETT, Suzanne (Planning Alternatives for Change) Looking Back: A Long-term View of Some Development Projects

GIULIETTI, Michael mmg0102@unt.edu (U N Texas) Old Ideas for a New World: Shoe Repair as a Professional Culture Download Paper; Download PowerPoint; Website: http://community.sfaa.net/profile/MichaelGiulietti; Phone: 940-435-9298

Michael Giulietti, a student of Anthropology at the University of North Texas is a student of the four-field approach and has completed fieldwork in both Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology. After receiving funding from the McNair Scholars Program in 2009, he embarked on the first ever academic inquiry into the professional culture of shoe repair. Michael has presented material at the 2011 Society for Applied Anthropology meeting and numerous other venues. Future plans for the research include adding to the academic literature on the anthropology of consumption or applying new perspectives to cultural materialism. Exiting UNT in 2011 and matriculating into Oregon State University’s Masters of Applied Anthropology Program, Michael hopes to apply future work with craftsmen to assist businesses adapting to changing consumer economies.

ROTHSTEIN, Rosalynn (U Oregon) Narrative Forms at a 911 Call Center: Constructing Workplace Identity

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Session took place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

Health Disparities and Social Justice in Guatemala: Medical Anthropology in the NAPA-OT Field School

Jen Cardew Kersey — Mon, 09 May 2011 05:18:52 +0000

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CHAIR: ROSEN, Danielle (Columbia U)

ROSEN, Danielle (Columbia U) Chronic Undernutrition in Guatemala’s Children: Why Nutritional Interventions Come Up Thin Download PowerPoint

SHETLER, Anya ashetler@bu.edu (Boston U) A Complicated Delivery: How Prenatal Care in Guatemala Illustrates Disparities in Utilization of Health Services

Anya Shetler is currently pursuing her BA in Anthropology at Boston University. She is interested in medical anthropology and the ways that social science can contribute to public health programs. After visiting Honduras when she was 14 she fell in love with Spanish language, Latin dancing, and Central America, which recently led her to being a lucky participant in the NAPA-OT Field School in Antigua, Guatemala. Anya is passionate about traveling and intends to pursue her MPH with an international focus.

GUREVITCH, Jacqueline jgurevitch@uchicago.edu (U Chicago) Ethnicity and Mental Health in Guatemala: A Comparative Study of Perceptions and Causes of Mental Illness Download PowerPoint
Interests in Anthropology: mental health, medical technologies, Internet anthropology

DEPRIMO, Adam (Senior, completing BA in Anthropology, U S FL-St. Petersburg) Perceptions of Disability: Understanding Occupation and Ability in Antigua and Rural Highland Guatemala Download PowerPoint

DISCUSSANTS: HALL-CLIFFORD, Rachel http://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/about-us/affiliates-and-emeriti/dr-rachel-hall-clifford/ (NAPA-OT Field Sch) and FULLILOVE, Robert E. (Columbia U MSPH)

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Session took place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

Managing and Mismanaging Labor Migration, Part III Policy in Perspective (SAR Plenary)

Jen Cardew Kersey — Sun, 08 May 2011 08:10:18 +0000

This is Part 3 of a 3 part session (Part 1, Part 2).

CHAIRS: GRIFFITH, David (E Carolina U) and AUSTIN, Diane (U Arizona)

GRIFFITH, David and CONTRERAS, Ricardo B. (E.Carolina.U).Family and Managed Migration between Sinaloa, Mexico and North Carolina

SMART, Josephine (U Calgary) Labour Mobility in the 21st Century: The Temporary Foreign Workers Program in Canada

ROCHA PERALTA, Juvencio (Assoc.of.Mexicans. in.North.Carolina), GRIFFITH, David, and CONTRERAS, Ricardo (E.Carolina.U).A History of Activism: The Organizational Work of Juvencio Rocha Peralta

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Session took place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

Managing and Mismanaging Labor Migration, Part II Cases and Communities (SAR Plenary)

Jen Cardew Kersey — Sun, 08 May 2011 08:09:01 +0000

This is Part 2 of a 3 part session (Part 1, Part 3).

CHAIRS: GRIFFITH, David (E Carolina U) and AUSTIN, Diane (U Arizona)

PREIBISCH, Kerry (U Guelph) Migrant Workers and the Social Relations of Contemporary Agricultural Production in Canada

GRIFFITH, David and CONTRERAS, Ricardo (E Carolina U) Family and Managed Migration between Sinaloa, Mexico and North Carolina

AUSTIN, Diane (U Arizona) Guestworkers in the Fabrication and Shipbuilding Industry along the Gulf of Mexico: An Anomaly or a New Source of Labor?

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Session took place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

Managing and Mismanaging Labor Migration, Part I Key Moments in North American Guestworker History (SAR Plenary)

Jen Cardew Kersey — Sun, 08 May 2011 08:07:36 +0000

This is Part 1 of a 3 part session (Part 2, Part 3).

CHAIRS: GRIFFITH, David (E Carolina U) and AUSTIN, Diane (U Arizona)

MARTIN, Phil (UC-Davis) The H-2A Program: Evolution, Impacts, and Outlook

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Session took place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

Becoming an Applied Anthropologist: Diverse Training Models With a Common Goal

Jen Cardew Kersey — Mon, 02 May 2011 03:23:52 +0000

CHAIRS: PETTS, Jamie (Oregon State U) and ROMERO-DAZA, Nancy (U S Florida)

PANELISTS: CARDEW KERSEY, Jen (Sapient), Bannon, Megan (Sapient) GELFER, Sharon (CSU-Long Beach), NOBLE, Charlotte (U S Florida), GOTTIER, Nicole (U Memphis), and PETTS, Jamie (Oregon State U)

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Session took place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

Co-sponsored by: COPAA