The SfAA Podcast Archive

Anthropologists’ Perspectives of Corporate Culture

CHAIR: PANT, Dipak R. (LIUC)
Session Participants:SANTEE, Amy (Independent) The Exotic Anthropologist: Reflections on Working in CorporatelandiaMALEFYT, Timothy de Waal (Fordham U) and OLSEN, Barbara (SUNY Old Westbury) Saving Our Backs: Exploring a Century of Mattress Marketing
Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2013.

Adequacy of Response to Food System Disasters: Comparisons and Syntheses of U.S., Japanese, and Indian Responses to Real and Threatened Disasters in Light of the Emerging Roles of Anthropologists

CHAIR: KATZ, Solomon H. (U Penn)
ABSTRACT: This panel integrates our previous work with food disasters with new case histories based on our current inquiries, and demonstrates the potential for more effectiveresponses that include new roles for anthropologists. This is the more critical as food crises of all kinds become more common over the nextforty or fifty years when climatechange, fresh water scarcity, and populationgrowth are expected to continue to strain the sustainability of the ecosystem and give rise to social unrest as food crises destabilizemore societies capacities to provide adequate and safe food resources for their populations.
DISCUSSANT: BUTTON, Gregory (UTK)Session Participants:STANFORD, Lois (NMSU)MENCHER, Joan (CUNY)BRENTON, Barrett (St. John's) and MAZZEO, John (DePaul)
Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2013.

Accessing the Resource of Anthropology: Making Anthropology More Public and Making the Public More Anthropological

CHAIR: ORTIZ. Cristina (U lowa)
ABSTRACT: A key component of applied anthropology is how we share it or do it among others. As such, we see anthropology not only as a method or a theoreticallens but alsoas a public resource. Considering anthropology as a resourceproduces questions, which we seek to explore here. Who are anthropology's publics? How do our publics envisionus? How do our publics shape the way we frame our research and engagement? How do people access anthropology and how is this access uneven? In response to unequalaccess, how can we make anthropology more public and the public more anthropological?
GONZALEZ, Elias (U lowa)SCOTT, Jill E. (U lowa)DAVIS, Jill (U lowa)DONALDSON, Susanna (U lowa)
 
Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2013.

2012 SfAA Award Ceremony

Malinowski Award Recipient: BARNETT, CliffordIntroduction by KUNSTADTER, PeterHow Did I Get Here? What Did I Learn Along the Way?Clifford R. Barnett is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Stanford University. He notes that all of his professional publications are cited in this presentation. Of the 23 articlesand books listed, only five of the citations (including his doctoral dissertation) have only one person named as a single author. The co-authors listed with him for nearly 80 percentof his publications include: sociologists, anthropologists, pediatricians, psychologists, psychiatrists, geneticists, economists, political scientists, retired military officers andprofessional writers. Given the cultural emphasis we have on the individual, it is understandable that in the social sciences particularly, group projects are not a significant part ofthe educational experience at the university level. When he had his first university appointment in 1964 at Stanford University he encouraged students to work in small groups ontheir term projects. Readers may wonder whether every team member contributes significantly to the end product. First, students have the option of working individually or joininga group, Once the choice is made, the group process stimulates participation and provides positive feed-back to its members. People have to work together in order to producechange.Lecture took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

Images and Impacts of Tourism

CHAIR: NICHOLLS, Heidi (SUNY-Albany)
Session Participants:BARBERY, Ennis (UMD) Mapping Parks and Mapping Futures: Symbolic Images in Tourism of the New River GorgeFEDERMAN, Amy Schlagel (Independent) Tourism in Israel as a Vehicle for Solidarity with the HomelandJOHNSON, Lauren (U S Florida) Dem Nevah Reach: Living in the Periphery of a Jamaican Tourist Destination
Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

Anthropologists as Advocates for Immigrants and Refugees

CHAIR: HO, Christine (Fielding Grad U)
ABSTRACT: This session addresses the pivotal role of anthropologists as advocates for the rights of migrants and refugees. Such roles include anthropologists as analysts ofcomparative policies and practices that can assist asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in their struggle for human rights; as analysts of the intersection between advocacyand ethnographically-drivenfieldwork among migrant populations in Qatar and neighboring GCC states;as challengers of the System of Sakoku in Japan; as educators of theAmerican public and policy makers to change anti-immigrant public discourse; as media campaigners against the fracturing of immigrant families caused by U.S. immigrationlaws.DISCUSSANTS: HEYMAN, Josiah (UTEP), LOUCKY, James (W Wash U)
Session Participants:RABBEN, Linda (Independent)GARDNER, Andrew M. (U Puget Sound)WILLIS, David Blake (Fielding Grad U)FOXEN. Patricia (NCLR. American U)HO, Christine (Fielding Grad U)
Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

What are NGOs Really Doing?

CHAIR: LEATHERMAN, Tom (UMass-Amherst)
Session Participants:GIBSON, Nancy (Marylhurst U) "Junk for Jesus". The Commodified Gift, Donation in a Global EconomyPARK, Seo Yeon (U S Carolina) Transnational Activism, Humanitarianism and Individual Labor Force in Globalized Civil SocietyPOWERS, Elizabeth V. (Central Mich U) What Are We Sustaining?: A Closer Look at a Sustainable Development Model in Cape CoastLEATHERMAN, Tom (UMass-Amherst) Changing Economies, Social Conditions, and Health in the Southern Peruvian AndesCAPPELLI, Mary Louisa (Indiana U- Penn) Reconceptualizing Gender Boundaries in IgbT Culture
Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

Who Controls Your Food System?: Local People, Consumers, and Family Farmers vs. Multinational Corporations (Part 2)

CHAIR: MENCHER, Joan P. (CUNY, TSCF)
DISCUSSANTS: HANCHETT, Suzanne (Planning Alternatives for Change), BURKE, Brian J. (U Arizona)Session Participants:OVIATT. Kate (UC-Denver)MENCHER, Joan P. (CUNY, TSCF)
Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

Who Controls Your Food System?: Local People, Consumers, and Family Farmers vs. Multinational Corporations (Part 1)

CHAIR: MENCHER, Joan P. (CUNY, TSCF)
ABSTRACT: This panel looks at the process of building strong and vibrant local food systems worldwide, that meet the survival needs of all people and shifting away from andchallenging total dependency on corporate food supplies and towards vibrant new systems. The papers cover a range of situations and public policy concerns including thoughnot limited to "urban agriculture," new agricultural approaches that are passed on from farmer to farmer with some NGO and local government help, etc. It raises the question:"How can beginning fundamental changes in the food system world-wide impact present- day monopoly capitalism."
DISCUSSANTS: HANCHETT, Suzanne (Planning Alternatives for Change), BURKE, Brian J. (U Arizona)Session Participants:SOUTHWORTH, Frank (U Penn)BRETT, John (UC-Denver)CAMPBELL-UNSOELD, Maya (U Pacific)BUSCH, Kyra (Yale U)
Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

Addressing the Impacts of/on Tourism

CHAIR: BRONDO, Keri Vacanti (U Memphis)
Session Participants:SPEARS, Chaya R. (Wake Forest Sch of Med) Re-placing Participatory Tourism Development: Reflections on Context and ConsensusFENG, Xianghong (E Mich U) Women's Work, Men's Work: Gender Dynamics of Cultural Tourism in a Chinese Miao VillagePRAKASH, Preetam (U Arizona) Gulf Coast Tourism Following the BP Oil Spill
Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.