The SfAA Podcast Archive

Women, Empowerment, and Health in Urban India (SMA)

CHAIR: SCHENSUL, Stephen L. (UConn)
ABSTRACT: This session will present qualitative and quantitative data on sexual and reproductive health for women in low income communities in Mumbai,India. Specific topicswill focus on smokeless tobacco use, marital sexuality, sterilization, gynecological problems, and vaginal discharge in the context of gender norms and practices in the family,health care system and community that serve to contribute to health problems and undermine approaches to addressing these problems. Each paper will discuss thedevelopment of interventions and their impact in ameliorating these issues at multiple levels.
Session Participants:BRAULT, Marie A. (UConn), JADHAV, Kalpita (Topiwala Nat'l Med Coll), and VERMA, Ravi K. (Int'l Ctr for Rsch on Women)KOSTICK, Kristin (Inst for Community Rsch)SCHENSUL, Stephen L. and SINGH, Rajendra (UConn)
Session took place in Baltimore, MD at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2012.

2011 SfAA Awards Ceremony: The Malinowski Award

Malinowski Award Recipient: Salomón Nahmad Sittón
Introduced by: Allan Burns
 
The Role of Anthropology with the Changes and Challenges of the 21st Century in Mexico and the World
 
Anthropology in Mexico has always been applied, and this often puts anthropologists, indigenous peoples, and anthropological principals in direct conflict with state policy andthe national project. This paper summarizes the history of anthropology and applied anthropology in Mexico, using my career in the National Indigenist Institute (IN) and theIndigenous Education Office (GEl) of the Education Secretariat (SEP). It illustrates the risks and challenges anthropologists face when the side with indigenous peoples in favorof their individual and collective self-determination and autonomy.
Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71 st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

A Tribute to Franz Boas by Amelia Susman Schultz, His Last Ph.D. Student

CHAIR: MILLER, Jay (Lushootseed Rsch)
ABSTRACT: After her undergraduate degree, Amelia Susan entered the Columbia University anthropology graduate program, knowing that Boas was one of the few professorswho would accept women students. Later, he came out of retirement to direct her second PhD dissertation in Linguistics after she was asked by Ruth Benedict to withdraw herfirst PhD work based an innovative "ethnohistory" of Round Valley, California. Over a long career, she applied her anthropology in expanded ways and maintains a deep andabiding affection for Boas.
PRESENTER: Amelia Susman Schultz
Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71 st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

Ethics in Applied Online Research

CHAIRS: CARDEW KERSEY, Jen and BANNON, Megan (Sapient)
ABSTRACT: The popularity of conducting research online is growing exponentially in both academia and the practicing world. While culture is being brought online and createdonline, anthropologists and researchers are taking their pursuits into the virtual world. There are ethical concerns being expressed through informal discussions and channels butmost of the American associates and societies have not included online research in their code of ethics. The purpose of this discussion panel is to continue the conversationabout ethics in online research with practitioners and thought leaders. The panel will welcome audience participation. The outcome of the panel will include a set of next steps.
PANELISTS: CARDEW KERSEY, Jen and BANNON, Megan (Sapient), NOLAN, Riall W. (Purdue U), CAMPBELL, Annicka (Sapient) and Townsend, Colin (University of SouthCarolina).
Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71 st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

Environmental Impact on Public Health: Domestic and International

CHAIR: SINGER, Merrill (U Conn)
Session Participants:VANDERLINDEN, Lisa (TX Christian U) Left in the Dust: Environmental Illness after 9/11SINGER, Merrill (U Conn) Down Cancer Alley: Medical Anthropology and Environmental CrisesMETHAPHAT, Chingchai (Burapha U) Organic Discourses in Mitigating Risks of Chemical Pesticides in Eastern ThailandSHARMA, Satya P. (U Saskatchewan) Ignorance Can Often Work against You: Health Effects of Pesticide Use among the Farm Workers of Yuba and Sutter Counties of NorthernCalifornia
Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71 st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

Corporate Ethnography: Issues and Challenges (Part 2)

CHAIRS: JORDAN, Brigitte (PARC) and CEFKIN, Melissa (IBM)
PANELISTS: HEPSO, Vidar (Norwegian Tech U) and WALKER, Mary (MarketTools.com), SUNDERLAND, Patricia and DENNY, Rita (Practica Grp) MAXWELL, Chad (Razorfish) andJORDAN, Brigitte (PARC)
Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71 st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011

Corporate Ethnography: Issues and Challenges (Part 1)

CHAIRS: JORDAN, Brigitte (PARC) and HEPSO, Vidar (Norwegian Tech U)
ABSTRACT: Ethnography in Corporations is a hot topic that we propose to explore in two Panels followed by a Roundtable. In the Panel, expert practitioners discuss some of thefundamental issues they confront in their work on a daily basis. The format consists of spirited exchanges where two interlocutors take on a particular issue from a differentpoint of view, each taking ten minutes for their statement. This will be followed by 10 minutes of audience participatory discussion. These encounters are specifically NOT meantto be confrontations, but are presented in the spirit of positioning complementary approaches within a broader universe of ethnographic methodology and theory. Part I startswith Gluesing juxtaposing Conventional Ethnographic Methods, the kind that are grounded in participant observation, with Technology-Supported Methods as discussed byRiopelle. This is followed by a dialogue between Rijsberman who takes on Ethnography Writ Small, specifically in support of product design, paired with Ensworth who focuseson Ethnography Writ Large as in understanding whole systems. Finally Solomon will tackle Rapid Ethnographic Techniques, engaging with Cefkin who will provide acomplementary viewpoint with The Limits to Speed in Ethnography.
PANELISTS: GLUESING, Julia and RIOPELLE, Kenneth (Wayne St U), RIJSBERMAN, Marijke (Interfacility) and ENSWORTH, Patricia (Harborlight) SOLOMON, Kern (Independent)and CEFKIN, Melissa (IBM)
 
Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71 st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011

Anthropological Insights into the 2011 Uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East

CHAIR: KING, Diane and SCHULLER, Mark
PANELISTS: GARDNER, Andrew; ILAHIANE, Hsain; KING, Diane; RIGNALL, Karen
Session took Place in Seattle, WA at the 71 st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March-April 2011.

”We Are All Arizona”: Expanding Immigration Enforcement and Political Struggles of Undocumented Immigrants Part 2 (SLACA)

CHAIRS: GOMBERG-MUNOZ, Ruth and NUSSBAUM-BARBERENA, Laura (U IL- Chicago)
DISCUSSANT: HEYMAN, Josiah (UT-El Paso)
Session Participants:QUESADA, James (San Francisco State U)KOVIC Christine (U Houston-Clear Lake)SHARP, Ethan (UT-Pan American)
Session took place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applies Anthropology in March-April 2011

”We Are All Arizona”: Expanding Immigration Enforcement and Political Struggles of Undocumented Immigrants Part 1 (SLACA)

CHAIRS: GOMBERG-MUNOZ, Ruth and NUSSBAUM-BARBERENA, Laura (U IL- Chicago)
ABSTRACT: Enforcement-oriented immigration programs, the most well-known of which is Arizona's S.B. 1070, have spread rapidly throughout the U.S. interior in recent years.Accelerated immigration enforcement brings serious hardships to undocumented communities and simultaneously galvanizes campaigns for immigrants' rights. In this panel,participants draw on their ethnographic research with undocumented workers and activists to explore the development of two parallel trends: 1) the amplification of punitiveimmigration policies across the United States, and 2) the strategies of political mobilization that undocumented organizers develop in response to accelerated enforcement andthe ongoing struggle for immigration reform legislation.
DISCUSSANT: HEYMAN, Josiah (UT-El Paso)
Session Participants:GOMBERG-MUNOZ, Ruth and NUSSBAUM-BARBERENA, Laura (U IL-Chicago)UNTERBERGER, Alayne (FL Inst for Community Studies)CORRUNKER, Laura (Wayne State U)MARTINEZ, Konane (CSU-San Marcos)
Session took place in Seattle, WA at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applies Anthropology in March-April 2011