Story Making, Telling, and Sharing (SMA)

CHAIR: WEINER, Diane (Boston U Grad Sch of Med)

ABSTRACT: Rooted in health education, the creation of digital stories, comics,and graphic narratives have been infiltrated by applied anthropologist andcommunity-based
participatory research. Unlike Public Health, the goal of much of this ethnographically produced story creation is not merely to tailor materials but to provide cultural perspectives
and knowledge to develop and implement culturally relevant and comprehensible interventions (Gent 2009; Kagawa-Singer 2009; McMullin et al. 2010). This session examines
the ways applied anthropologists produce digital stories, graphics, and comics that enable speakers, listeners, and viewers alike to become immersed in historical, economic,
political contexts and socio-cultural experiences of health.

Session Participants:
MCMULLIN, Juliet (UC-Riverside)
OTANEZ, Marty (UC-Denver)
WALRATH, Dana (U Vermont)
GUBRIUM. Aline (UMass-Amherst)

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