Anthropology

Jason Green – Southern Anthropological Society Meeting

admin — Thu, 02 May 2013 16:49:59 +0000

Jason received one of two Honorable Mentions in the undergraduate student paper competition for his paper entitled “’Well, I Am Your Doctor, Aren’t I?’ The Benefits of ‘Women’s Language’ in Medical Discourse.” Since only a first place prize was awarded, this is equivalent to tying for second place. An earlier version of this paper was written for Dr. Margaret Bender’s Language and Gender course (ANT/LIN 333).

Occupy Wall Street Consensus General Assembly and the Zapatistas: Into the American Zócalo

admin — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:47:30 +0000

With the emergence of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement around the US, evolving from a small encampment near the financial center of global fiscal crisis, we are finally exposed for the first time nationally to the process well-developed by the rebels of Chiapas, Mexico—consensus governance. As with the Zapatista case, now almost a generation ago, major news outlets expressed frustration with the lack of a single, focused cause or demand—ignoring the real news story, which has to do with the process they have established and advocated for;
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Jeanne Simonelli awarded SAR/SfAA Seminar Grant

admin — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:54:18 +0000

The School of Advance Research (SAR), Santa Fe and the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) have selected the proposal Artisan Production and the World Market:
Collaborating in Theory, Methods, Practice for its 2012 biannual short seminar and SfAA’s 2013 Plenary Session. Co-organized by Jeanne Simonelli, (WFU) June Nash (CUNY) and Katherine O’Donnell (Hartwick College), the goal of this two-day seminar is to provide anthropologists and scholars from related disciplines with the opportunity to address critical human problems and social issues through the application of anthropological insights and methods. The outcome of the seminar will be twofold: 1) a plenary session at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology and 2) an edited volume to be submitted to SAR Press for publication in its Advanced Seminar Series.

As designed by Simonelli, Nash and O’Donnell “the seminar brings together an interdisciplinary, intercultural group of artisans and the scholars who work with them to discuss ongoing work in all areas intersecting with the production, marketing and consumption of crafts and boutique food products. We analyze learning as an interactive process functioning on three levels: providing practical marketing and business skills for small-scale producers; developing methodologies for understanding and enhancing networks of accompaniment; and evaluating the process, to enrich cultural and economic theory. Our seminar becomes the basis for wider discussion at SfAA, as well as the source of two publications.”

The international panel will also include WFU’s Betsy Gatewood, and builds on work on collective entrepreneurship begun by Simonelli and Gatewood three years ago.