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Dear Scholars, The Programs in Applied Anthropology and Anthropology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University are organizing a small conference bringing together faculty, alumni and graduate students to discuss the current challenges facing our field ranging from theoretical, methodological and analytical angles in an effort to continue exploring the productive tensions found at the intersection of Anthropology and Education. This seminar will be held on Friday, October 18th, and Saturday, October 19th, 2013, at Teachers College, Columbia University. If you have students or colleagues who might be interested in participating in the seminar, or if you belong to other networks whose members might also be interested, please forward this email to them. If you are interested in participating, please send anthro2013@tc.columbia.edu an abstract by June 15, 2013. For more information on the seminar, please refer to http://www.tcanthro2013.org Sample position papers will be made available here http://tcanthro2013.org/position-statements/ in the next few days. Thank you very much. Best, Amina Tawasil

Dear Scholars, The Programs in Applied Anthropology and Anthropology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University are organizing a small conference bringing together faculty, alumni and graduate students to discuss the current challenges facing our field ranging from theoretical, methodological and analytical angles in an effort to continue exploring the productive tensions found at the intersection of Anthropology and Education. This seminar will be held on Friday, October 18th, and Saturday, October 19th, 2013, at Teachers College, Columbia University. If you have students or colleagues who might be interested in participating in the seminar, or if you belong to other networks whose members might also be interested, please forward this email to them. If you are interested in participating, please send anthro2013@tc.columbia.edu an abstract by June 15, 2013. For more information on the seminar, please refer to http://www.tcanthro2013.org Sample position papers will be made available here http://tcanthro2013.org/position-statements/ in the next few days. Thank you very much. Best, Amina Tawasil

There is another photo and question  about CLEAN- DIRTY ----an old subject in Anthropology we can consider on recycling, who does it and who not by this oposition...

thanks for ideas!

regards, 

Cecilia

Whats the difference between a plastic bag bought market and one that you have elaborated? What also with brooms, shovels, scourer..not only is economy..many differences we can find depends consummers, artissnas, etc. etc...I wait commentaries about them. Thank you 

video SCOURER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0nwJP8gZi4

Girard has done some fascinating work with sacrifice and the "scapegoat mechanism" (as he calls it). Much of his work was in literature but he also did some theological/biblical work. He is one of "les Immortelles" of the French Academy so his work is highly regarded. Anyone familiar with him or discussing his work?

You are kindly invited to the interdisciplinary symposium: THINKING MEMORY THROUGH SPACE: MATERIALITY, REPRESENTATION, & IMAGINATION July 11-12 Room 309 Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths University of London  9:30-18:00hs

What does it mean to remember through space? Why is it important, or indeed necessary, to analyze memory and space conjointly? Is it possible to remember without or outside of space? This symposium aims to create a forum in which to discuss, analyze, and critically engage with the topic of post-violence memory and space. Paying close attention to the ways in which particular places and sites of violence are materially experienced, represented, and even imagined, the symposium seeks to literally 'think memory through space'. The two-day event will be organized around four central themes in which we will pair invited academic senior speakers with early career researchers in order to generate productive discussions about specific research projects and about broader theoretical concerns in analyses of memory. Organizing institutions: Goldsmiths University of London - Anthropology Department Spanish National Research Council [CSIC] – Institute of Philosophy and Institute of Language, Literature and Anthropology Supported by: Marie Curie SPBuild Initial Training Network Bosnian Bones, Spanish Ghosts, Goldsmiths College / European Research Council More info: http://thinkingmemorythroughspace.blogspot.com.es/ To book a place email: thinkingmemorythroughspace@gmail.com We hope to see you there!

-- Thinking Memory Through Space is organized byZahira Aragüete Pamela Colombo Lee Elisabeth Douglas Marije Hristova
Mail: thinkingmemorythroughspace@gmail.comWeb: http://thinkingmemorythroughspace.blogspot.com.es/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ThinkingMemoryThroughSpace Twitter: https://twitter.com/MemorySpace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Plata 150,000 people were directly affected by a storm broke out in two hours. In time it fell what a month. Water has taken days to download. There are places where it got to 1.70. The total population is 800,000. It's a university townhttp://www.unlp.edu.ar/ . The solidarity all there and the country is staggering. very big.

With the theme of recilclage've been watching that made with the aid with the distribution of water in plastic bottles. I suggested in the face of a local radio recycling some techniques for support. The next day on my facebook group contained an incipient women group d are called Weavers and Tailors by  La Plata remains of wool, woven squares, square thick fabrics that envaiban lko messages and photos that made .. a week later are and over 200 knitting.

I wrote in my fieldworkdiary "Recycling in the emergency " a new concept, how and when we rwcycling and how?

Data here and who wants to support the campaign we started some people here are also data http://www.facebook.com/groups/443836045658654/

To Support the weavers and seamstresses x La Plata who make blankets for the flood victims. Weave and send you too, it's easy!Send on four squares in a tissue or cloth to this direction. You put them on the envelope write. and wrtie 

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I  am a PhD student in anthropology at the University of Ferrara, Italy. Next year I amo going to Tunisia for a research in political anthropology. I am currently trying to collect the titles of all the monographs about Tunisia edited in the last twenty years (1992-2013). No matter what the topic is. Any help?

Thanks,

Stefano Pontiggia

Call for Papers - até 22 de Abril Call for Papers - até 22 de Abril

Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, em Vila Real (Portugal) entre el 8 y el 11 de Setembro de 2013:

"O Oriente, a Sul do Ocidente. Etnografias do Sul sobre contextos árabes e islâmicos"

Coordenadores: Maria Cardeira da Silva (FCHS-UNL) Francirosy Ferreira (USP) Paulo Pinto (Universidade Federal Fluminense)

Submeter aqui: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/apa/apa2013/panels.php5?PanelID=2399

Regras: http://www.apantropologia.org/congresso2013/call-for-papers-pt/

Contamos convosco para participar e divulgar.

Call for Papers - até 22 de Abril Call for Papers - até 22 de Abril (português, español ou english)

Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, em Vila Real (Portugal) entre el 8 y el 11 de Setembro de 2013:

"O Oriente, a Sul do Ocidente. Etnografias do Sul sobre contextos árabes e islâmicos"

Coordenadores: Maria Cardeira da Silva (FCHS-UNL) Francirosy Ferreira (USP) Paulo Pinto (Universidade Federal Fluminense)

Submeter aqui: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/apa/apa2013/panels.php5?PanelID=2399

Regras: http://www.apantropologia.org/congresso2013/call-for-papers-pt/

Contamos convosco para participar e divulgar.

Call for Papers - até 22 de Abril (português, español ou english)

Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, em Vila Real (Portugal) entre el 8 y el 11 de Setembro de 2013:

"O Oriente, a Sul do Ocidente. Etnografias do Sul sobre contextos árabes e islâmicos"

Coordenadores: Maria Cardeira da Silva (FCHS-UNL) Francirosy Ferreira (USP) Paulo Pinto (Universidade Federal Fluminense)

Submeter aqui: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/apa/apa2013/panels.php5?PanelID=2399

Regras: http://www.apantropologia.org/congresso2013/call-for-papers-pt/

Contamos convosco para participar e divulgar.

Call for Papers - até 22 de Abril

  Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, em Vila Real (Portugal) entre el 8 y el 11 de Setembro de 2013:  

"O Oriente, a Sul do Ocidente. Etnografias do Sul sobre contextos árabes e islâmicos" 

Coordenadores: Maria Cardeira da Silva (FCHS-UNL)  Francirosy Ferreira (USP)  Paulo Pinto (Universidade Federal Fluminense) 

Submeter aqui: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/apa/apa2013/panels.php5?PanelID=2399 Regras: http://www.apantropologia.org/congresso2013/call-for-papers-pt/  Contamos convosco para participar e divulgar.

A new book on action anthropology put out by the Journal of Northwest Anthropology is out. You can find it at Amazon. Here is the abstract of this excellent new work:

Action Anthropology and Sol Tax are both important chapters in the development of contemporary anthropology and applied social science. Although unknown or forgotten by most, both continue to be revered and applied by a group of intellectual descendants who will not let die either the man or the approach to helping communities. In 2010 and 2011, former students, colleagues, the two Tax daughters--both academic professionals--and others came together to explore the relevance of Action Anthropology and Sol Tax to applied social science today. In reflecting on the history of the man and the intellectual tradition that he inspired, the authors document the many contributions made by Tax and his student-colleague cohorts. Using examples from contemporary applications, the contributors also demonstrate the present-day power of the ideas and approaches developed over the first 75 years. Time will tell whether Action Anthropology and Sol Tax in 2012: The Final Word? will close this important chapter in the development of applied social science research. Regardless, the tenets of Action Anthropology, detailed and explicated throughout this volume, will continue to provide a foundation for all applied scientists interested in social justice, indigenous decolonization, and improving the human condition.

A new book on action anthropology put out by the Journal of Northwest Anthropology is out. You can find it at Amazon. Here is the abstract of this excellent new work:

Action Anthropology and Sol Tax are both important chapters in the development of contemporary anthropology and applied social science. Although unknown or forgotten by most, both continue to be revered and applied by a group of intellectual descendants who will not let die either the man or the approach to helping communities. In 2010 and 2011, former students, colleagues, the two Tax daughters--both academic professionals--and others came together to explore the relevance of Action Anthropology and Sol Tax to applied social science today. In reflecting on the history of the man and the intellectual tradition that he inspired, the authors document the many contributions made by Tax and his student-colleague cohorts. Using examples from contemporary applications, the contributors also demonstrate the present-day power of the ideas and approaches developed over the first 75 years. Time will tell whether Action Anthropology and Sol Tax in 2012: The Final Word? will close this important chapter in the development of applied social science research. Regardless, the tenets of Action Anthropology, detailed and explicated throughout this volume, will continue to provide a foundation for all applied scientists interested in social justice, indigenous decolonization, and improving the human condition.

A new book on action anthropology put out by the Journal of Northwest Anthropology is out. You can find it at Amazon. Here is the abstract of this excellent new work:

Action Anthropology and Sol Tax are both important chapters in the development of contemporary anthropology and applied social science. Although unknown or forgotten by most, both continue to be revered and applied by a group of intellectual descendants who will not let die either the man or the approach to helping communities. In 2010 and 2011, former students, colleagues, the two Tax daughters--both academic professionals--and others came together to explore the relevance of Action Anthropology and Sol Tax to applied social science today. In reflecting on the history of the man and the intellectual tradition that he inspired, the authors document the many contributions made by Tax and his student-colleague cohorts. Using examples from contemporary applications, the contributors also demonstrate the present-day power of the ideas and approaches developed over the first 75 years. Time will tell whether Action Anthropology and Sol Tax in 2012: The Final Word? will close this important chapter in the development of applied social science research. Regardless, the tenets of Action Anthropology, detailed and explicated throughout this volume, will continue to provide a foundation for all applied scientists interested in social justice, indigenous decolonization, and improving the human condition.

A new book on action anthropology put out by the Journal of Northwest Anthropology is out. You can find it at Amazon. Here is the abstract of this excellent new work:

Action Anthropology and Sol Tax are both important chapters in the development of contemporary anthropology and applied social science. Although unknown or forgotten by most, both continue to be revered and applied by a group of intellectual descendants who will not let die either the man or the approach to helping communities. In 2010 and 2011, former students, colleagues, the two Tax daughters--both academic professionals--and others came together to explore the relevance of Action Anthropology and Sol Tax to applied social science today. In reflecting on the history of the man and the intellectual tradition that he inspired, the authors document the many contributions made by Tax and his student-colleague cohorts. Using examples from contemporary applications, the contributors also demonstrate the present-day power of the ideas and approaches developed over the first 75 years. Time will tell whether Action Anthropology and Sol Tax in 2012: The Final Word? will close this important chapter in the development of applied social science research. Regardless, the tenets of Action Anthropology, detailed and explicated throughout this volume, will continue to provide a foundation for all applied scientists interested in social justice, indigenous decolonization, and improving the human condition.

A new book on action anthropology put out by the Journal of Northwest Anthropology is out. You can find it at Amazon. Here is the abstract of this excellent new work:

Action Anthropology and Sol Tax are both important chapters in the development of contemporary anthropology and applied social science. Although unknown or forgotten by most, both continue to be revered and applied by a group of intellectual descendants who will not let die either the man or the approach to helping communities. In 2010 and 2011, former students, colleagues, the two Tax daughters--both academic professionals--and others came together to explore the relevance of Action Anthropology and Sol Tax to applied social science today. In reflecting on the history of the man and the intellectual tradition that he inspired, the authors document the many contributions made by Tax and his student-colleague cohorts. Using examples from contemporary applications, the contributors also demonstrate the present-day power of the ideas and approaches developed over the first 75 years. Time will tell whether Action Anthropology and Sol Tax in 2012: The Final Word? will close this important chapter in the development of applied social science research. Regardless, the tenets of Action Anthropology, detailed and explicated throughout this volume, will continue to provide a foundation for all applied scientists interested in social justice, indigenous decolonization, and improving the human condition.

Not only it is to consumme more and more, it is to know what and how to abandon the rubish and separate it.

A new job, new ideas, new...instead of old...;) is add to the consummer and dragging form the past  : the bonne  and the mauvaise reciclater in the suavage jungle of consummerisme.

Before plastic recycling there were another kind of materials to recycling. Also before to circule in the market the supossed finish object or in the domestic place.

After the 50 has changed the way to collet botttles, and during long years men and women were share the collect of glass. One of the first big separation rubish was with glass. It s necesary to here that a bottle of glass of a beer cannot go with rest a murano glass together in the same basket because both materials have a diferent composition which cannot  let to recycle at the same temparature...."it ´s necesary to learn at the school" ji!

There are many steps and processes that we have stilll find out as well as to sistematizate the links with people and people with rubish and all her large word.

Here some visual information about glass..and if you know more, have comments, send me them! Thanks

2014 ASAO Symposium (in Hawaii): NAMING SYSTEMS AND NAMING RELATIONS IN AUSTRONESIA/OCEANIA  

Organizers:  Kun-hui Ku (kunhui.ku@gmail.com)

and Lamont Lindstrom (lamont-lindstrom@utulsa.edu)

Participants Don Gardner (Mian, PNG), Kun-hui Ku (Paiwan, Taiwan), Isabel Leblic (Paicî, New Caledonia), Lamont Lindstrom (name-sets everywhere), Mac Marshall (Namoluk, FSM), and Latham Wood (Aneityum, Vanuatu) shared working papers about names and nomination in a variety of Austronesian/Oceanic societies. We also discussed working papers by Doris Bacalzo (Wampar, PNG), Wen-Te Chen (Puyuma, Taiwan), Monica Janowski (Kelabit, Sarawak) and Denis Regnier (Betsileo, Madagascar) who were unable to join us in San Antonio.  Other interested folks joined the discussion and we thank them for their contributions.  The group decided to promote itself to a Formal Symposium in 2014 and identified three cross-cutting interest clusters that we will particularly and collectively explore. Guided by ideas and input from session members, we will refine these clusters during the upcoming year.  Naomi Macpherson (Bariai, PNG) and Chun-wei Fang (Bunun, Taiwan) have joined us and if others are interested in contributing a paper to our Formal Symposium, contact Ku or Lindstrom.  Participants will circulate 8000 word papers before 20^th Aug.

Names implicate a number of central issues of anthropological, linguistic, and philosophical concern and it is no surprise that our papers go in a variety of directions.  Diversity is further enhanced by our different field sites.  A strength of the session is that our case studies come from across the Austronesian language area from Madagascar, to Sarawak, Taiwan, Chuuk, Papua New Guinea, and Vanuatu.  And although the set includes the non-Austronesian Mianmin system, one could hope that such breadth might provide comparative basis for Austronesian system and how this has developed, here and there. 

Given our diversity, we think the best approach (used also in other ASAO sessions) is to gather papers into clusters, keeping in mind that papers will of course speak to more than one of these topics.  Our initial suggestion is to form three clusters around three central topics:

1.  Social Reproduction (how naming systems inform the constitution of local groups and personages from one generation to the next):  Likely contributions here are Latham, Leblic, Lindstrom.

2.  Identity and Personhood (how names both identify and get used by persons and groups in strategic social and political competition; how individuals rename themselves throughout their life cycles or to reposition themselves in significant ways):  Bacalzo, Chen, Gardner, Janowski, Ku, MacPherson.  

3.  Global/Historical Impacts on Local Systems (how naming systems have responded to, and thus also record, historical events during the past several centuries):  Marshall, Regnier, Fang.