Podcasts were recorded in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March/April 2017.
John Sarmiento, Chair
Jodi Williams, Co-Chair
Christina Wasson, UNT Advisor
Lindsey Robertson, Interactive Media
Andie Semlow, Interactive Media
Kenneth Saintonge, Communications
Randy Sparrazza, Sound
CHAIRS: FISKE, Shirley (UMD) and CRATE, Susan (GMU)
ABSTRACT: Given the growing urgency to develop state and local responses to a changing climate, this panel invites local scholars, journalists, authors and activists to share their thoughts and projections on how a changing climate will affect our lives, families and cultures—and our cities, villages and Pueblos in New Mexico and the Southwest region beyond. How will the Southwest survive? is the critical question that will be put to the panelists, who will describe the landscape, survivability and sustainability, as they see it, given their research, advocacy, and humanistic perspectives. What kinds of strategies, plans, and adjustments (or radical changes) will be needed across the landscape and across institutions? What will happen in New Mexico under conditions of climate change and how can these challenges be addressed?
Session Participants:
Introduction by: FISKE, Shirley
KANN, Deirdre (Science Operations Office, NWS Albuquerque, ret.) “The Meteorological Data: Observations on Weather Extremes and Changing Southwest Climates”
STUART, David E. (UNM), “Lessons from the Past: What we can Learn from Chacoan Culture Expansion and Decline”?
JOHNSTON, Lyla June (Communications, NEE), “Activist DNA: Resisting Coal & Nuclear AND Exposing the Vision of a New Energy Economy”
PASKUS, Laura (Reporter, NM Political Report) “Lessons from My Journeys: Native and Historic Cultures, Planning for the Future, and Public Access”
MCMAHAN, Ben (CLIMAS, Univ of Arizona), “Anthropological Insights from ‘Climate Assessment for the Southwest’ (CLIMAS)”
DEBUYS, Bill (Author/Conservationist), “The Hotter-and-Drier Community Stress Test”
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Session took place in 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
CHAIRS: HENRY, Doug (UNT)
ABSTRACT: At the 10 year mark in the history of its online MA degree in Applied Anthropology, University of North Texas is reaching out to its alumni to comment on the nature of online training, and the values,benefits, perils, and pitfalls, it entails. In applied anthropology, onlinepedagogy can still be viewed somewhat skeptically; this skepticism prevents honest evaluation of tools and methodologies that can bring anthropology to those unable to attend traditional programs. By inviting alumni two, four, and six years out, this session hopes to open critical dialogue for a longitudinalperspective on the value of online education, and assess who can benefit most, and how.
Roundtable Participants:
DAVIS, Brooke (Proctor & Gamble/Truth Rsch/UNT)
TEAGUE, Margo (Impact Eval & Assessment Serv/UNT)
DOCARMO, Tania (UCI)
MENIER, Kim (HelloText/UNT)
SAUER, Ashley (SCE/UNT)
HENRY, Doug (UNT)
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Session took place in 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
CHAIRS: FINERMAN, Ruthbeth (U Memphis), FOUST, Amy (NAU), and LOUCKY, James (WWU)
ABSTRACT: US sanctuary cities that protect and value their diverse communities are threatened by a new federal administration determined to erase political, economic, environmental, health and social safeguards. Citizens already vulnerable to ethnic, religious, sexual or other discrimination are targeted by new political efforts to erode hard-won rights. Immigrants and refugees seeking dignity and asylum are instead menaced by an administration that proposes walls, religious registration and “extreme vetting.” A panel of governmental, non-governmental, grassroots and educational representatives will discuss strategies to build bridges rather than barricades, and collaborative opportunities to ensure that sanctuary cities can continue to promote cross-cultural understanding, inclusivity, legitimacy, rights and the common good. Panelists will be asked to share their perspectives in relation to three questions/topic areas:
How are sanctuary cities unique? Panelists might discuss differences in policies and practice in declaring sanctuary city status; practical contributions of sanctuary status for economic growth and innovation; social benefits for valuing diversity and human rights; or other distinctions from cities that have not declared this status.
How does new federal legislation threaten sanctuary cities? Participants might outline specific threats to federal funding, or raise broader concerns for community relations (e.g. anti-immigrant violence, red tape, impacts on service organizations, police relations, centers of worship, schools), international trade and global relationships, or risks to vulnerable residents.
What can be done to protect sanctuary cities? Panelists and members of the audience will be encouraged to jointly propose strategies for legislators, anthropologists, business and agency leaders, community members and others to protect sanctuary status.
Roundtable Participants:
MAESTAS, Joesph (Rep. for SF District 2)
ARCHULETA, Layla (for Senator Martin Heinrich)
DIAZ, Marcela (Executive Director of Somos Un Pueblo Unido)
NAJI, Qadria (Islamic Center of NM)
BURNETT, Tarrie (Lutheran Family Services Refugee & Asylee Programs)
O'MALLEY, Kathleen (NM Faith Coalition)
LOUCKY, James (WWU)
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Session took place in 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
CHAIRS: WEAVER, Lesley Jo (U Alabama)
CO-CHAIR: SCHENSUL, Steven (UCHC)
ABSTRACT: Anthropologists have long recognized that manifestations of physical illness and psychological distress do not always conform to psychiatric disease states. While many of those who are biomedically-trained have been dismissive as a result, applied anthropologists have recognized their utility as the basis for interventions that can improve communication, adherence, treatment outcomes, stigma reduction and systems change. Session papers will present recent ethnographicand mixed-methods work that identifies and measures cultural syndromes and their incorporation into interventions. This session will include small-group brainstorming of potential interventional approaches and is a companion to a session organized at the recent Society for Psychological Anthropology meeting.
Session Participants:
GUARNACCIA, Peter (Rutgers U) Why a Latino Popular Nosology?: Building Diagnostic Systems on Cultural Categories of Nervios
WEAVER, Lesley Jo (U Alabama) “Tension” among Women in North India: An Idiom of Distress and a Cultural Syndrome
RODGER, James (U Exeter) and STEEL, Zachary (UNSW) The “Fulan-Lotuk” (Dark / Crescent Moon) and Remitting-Relapsing Psychosis in Timor-Leste: Cultural Associations, Social Response and Implications for Recovery
KAISER, Bonnie (Duke U) Reflechi Twòp (“Thinking Too Much”): Description of a Cultural Syndrome in Haiti’s Central Plateau - read by Lesley Weaver
SCHENSUL, Stephen L. (UCHC), BANKAR, Shweta (ICR), and JADHAV, Kalpita (RISHTA) The Cultural Syndrome of Safed Pani (Vaginal Discharge): A Mechanism for Addressing the Health and Mental Health of Indian Women
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Session took place in 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
CHAIR: FOWLER, Emily E. (UIC)
ABSTRACT: This paper explores ethnobotany and traditional Maya of Central America medical practices and how they may be used in conjunction with Western Medicine. I argue that small-scale neighborhood and community utilization of plants traditionally used by the Maya for medical purposes, as a supplement to our more mainstream practices, would lead to a more sustainable medical practice. I use ethnographic data from time spent with a Maya indigenous knowledge scholar and the existing ethnobotany literature to analyze the possibilities for a practical application of these ideas, such as community gardens and community development programs that include education on such practices.
Session Participants:
GRIFFITH, Lauren and GRIFFITH, Cameron (TTU), CHO, Juan (Ixcacao) Agree-culture as Local Ecological Knowledge
GAMWELL, Adam (Brandeis U) Culinary Catalysts and Scientific Shifts: Peruvian Quinoa in the Age of Genetics and Gastronomy
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Session took place in 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
CHAIR: MANDACHE, Luminiţa-Anda (COPAA)
ABSTRACT: The aim of this panel is to collect suggestions for graduate students interested in getting a job with applied anthropology outside the academia. Graduate students, recent employees, and faculties from applied anthropology programs will tell their stories and share the best strategies for preparing for the job market. Additionally, the panel provides the space for conversation between participants from the two sides of the job market.
ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS:
COPELAND, Toni J. (MS State U)
HITCH, Emilie (UMN)
NEWTON, Kevin (ServiceMaster)
MANDACHE, Luminiţa-Anda (COPAA)
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Session took place in 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
CHAIR: FREIDENBERG, Judith (UMD)
ABSTRACT: The wide and enthusiastic response to the question posed in Practicing Anthropology (38.1), “How do we talk about migration” encourages taking another step and suggest new avenues for discussion: what geo-political perspective do we use to study migration, how do we analyze migration and what theoretical perspective frames our positioning; how, and from which disciplines, do we approach research topics and how do we write them up; who do we address, and what is the dominant narrative in our work. We propose four axes for discussion: the geo-political perspective, the analytical approach, the disciplinary option and the narrative practice.
Session Participants:
Introduction by FREIDENBERG, Judith
PENDRY, De Ann (UTK)
METZ, Brent E. (KU)
COHEN, Jeffrey H. (OH State U)
VÉLEZ-IBÁÑEZ, Carlos G. (ASU)
GUZMAN, Eduardo translated by FREIDENBERG, Judith
UNTERBERGER, Alayne
BOEHM, Deborah
SPREHN, Maria
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Session took place in 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
CHAIR: GOMBERG-MUNOZ, Ruth (Loyola U)
ABSTRACT: The topic of immigration was wielded as campaign fodder throughout the 2016 election cycle, with Donald Trump promising to “build a wall” and aggressively expand mass deportations, and Hillary Clinton vowing to support and extend protections for US immigrants. No mere political theater, contentious politics surrounding immigration in the United States have profoundramifications for millions of people both within US borders and beyond. In thissession, panelists discuss their work with migrants and their family members, exploring how migrants perceive and navigate the promises and actualities of 2016 US election results
Roundtable Participants:
GOMBERG-MUNOZ, Ruth (Loyola U)
CASTANEDA, Heide (USF)
CHAVEZ, Leo (UCI)
HEIDBRINK, Lauren (CSULB)
HEYMAN, Josiah (UTEP)
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Session took place in 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
CHAIR: FAYARD, Kelly (Poarch Band of Creek Indians/Yale U)
Roundtable Participants:
AGUILAR, Joseph (San Ildefonso Pueblo/UPenn)
RYKER-CRAWFORD, Jessie (White Earth Chippewa/Institute of American Indian Arts)
CHAVEZ-LAMAR, Cynthia (Hope-Tewa/Navajo/Nat’l Museum of the American Indian)
CHAVARRIA, Antonio (Santa Clara Pueblo/Museum of American Indian Arts and Culture)
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Session took place in 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
CHAIRS: CHAIKEN, Miriam S. (NMSU) and COMPANION, Michèle (UCCS)
DISCUSSANTS: CHAIKEN, Miriam S. (NMSU) and COMPANION, Michèle (UCCS)
ABSTRACTS: The field of disaster mitigationhas grown and expanded, becoming ever more professional and data-driven, as disaster professionals seek to build resilience in the face of shocks and mitigateagainst negative impacts. Despite the progress in this field, there is often animplicit bias that the “experts” are best at responding to disasters, with local knowledge treated as folk wisdom. These papers examine the ways in which “experts” sometimes failed to produce the desired response, and where greater reliance on indigenous knowledge systems and “insider” perspectives were warranted.
Session Participants:
JOHNSON, Katherine J., NEEDELMAN, Brian A., and PAOLISSO, Michael (UMD) Vulnerability and Resilience to Climate Change in a Rural Coastal Community
RIVERA, Jason D. (SUNY Buffalo State) Accessing Disaster Recovery Resource Information: Reliance on Social Capital in the Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy
MATTES, Seven (MI State U) Resiliency Tactics for Animals in Disaster: Lessons from Japan
HUDDLESTON, Chad (SIUE) “Prepper” as Resilient Citizen: What Preppers Can Teach Us About Surviving Disasters
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Session took place in 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
CHAIR: JOHNSTON, Barbara Rose (Ctr for Political Ecology)
ABSTRACTS: In cracking the atom and unleashing nuclear power on this planet, we humans created a complex and completely unique force, one that generates immense power for a few and terrible suffering for many. This session considers the trials endured by host communities and emerging lessons from seven decades of life in a nuclear disaster zone. Part one explores the Marshallese experience and evolving lessons at home and in diaspora. Parts two and three offer a cross- cultural exploration of impacts, risk and uncertainties, and adaptive response. Collectively, we explore the architecture of power and controlling processes driving nuclear expansion, shaping consequential damages, encouraging remedial actions, and the relative success of struggles to build truly sustainable architectures of power.
Session Participants:
LABRIOLA, Monica C. (UHWO) Celebrating Survival in the Shadow of the Bomb: Ebeye, Marshall Islands.
NAKAHARA, Satoe (Chukyo U) The Perception of Radiation Disaster in the Marshall Islands.
DUKE, Michael and KLIPOWICZ, Caleb (U Memphis) Poison and Pleasure: The Meanings of Alcohol Use among Marshall Islanders in the US.
GENZ, Joseph (UHH) “Breaking the Shell”: Cultural Discovery, Revitalization, and Resilience of Nuclear Refugees from Bikini and Rongelap in the Marshall Islands.
MELLO, Christy (UHWO) Pu’uhonua O Waianae: Sustainable Approaches to Displacement and Community Health and Wellness.
Session took place in 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
CHAIR: THACKER, Paul (WFU)
Session Participants:
TREMBLAY, Adrienne (SWCA Env Consultants) Switching Gears: Flexibility and Adaptability in Cultural Resource Management
WOLFORTH, Lynne M. (UHH) and ANDERSON, Clint K.P. (Kameheameha Sch) Bringing Historic Hawaiʻi to Life: New Directions in Teaching with Museum Artifacts for the Hawaiian Language Immersion School
WOOD, W. Warner and PACIFICO, David B. (UWM) Notes toward Assembling an Anarchist Museum Anthropology
STINE, Linda F. (UNCG) Linkages in Community-Engaged Archaeology
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Session took place in 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
CHAIR: VASQUEZ, Miguel (NAU)
Session Participants:
NETHERLAND, William (U Autònoma de Barcelona) Catalonia and the “Culture of Welcome”: Grassroots Approaches to Refugee Integration
RYAZANTSEV, Sergey (ISPR RAS/RUDN) "Russian-Speaking Economy" as a Mechanism of Integration of Russian Migrants in the USA
CHROSTOWSKY, MaryBeth (EKU) Refugee Children Education and Well-being: Meeting the Needs of a County’s Growing Newcomer Population
MANZANO, Russell (UCF) “Italy Only Rescued You”: Refugees’ Perspectives About Assistance from Non-Governmental Organizations in Sicily
VASQUEZ, Miguel (NAU) Austrian Refugee Integration Project and Q&A
Session took place in 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
CHAIR: ERICKSON, Pamela (UConn)
Session Participants:
TAYLOR, Reyda (PKE Insights), BRUNSON, Emily K. and TAYLOR, Nicole (TX State U) The Texas Applied Anthropology Summit: Facilitating the Needs of Both Practicing and Academic Anthropologists
AYALA, Armida (Kaiser Permanente) and NWACHUKU, Ijeoma (National U) When the Stakes Are High: Transitioning towards Collaboration in Research Ethics
ERICKSON, Pamela (UConn) and FRANK, Cynthia (Yale U) College Students’ Changing and Stable Ideas about the Cause of Disease, 2008-2016
RAZAVIMALEKI, Bita (Independent) My Brand Is Anthropology: Traces of Anthropology in Social Services
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Session took place in 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
CHAIR: HANNA, Bridget (Northeastern U)
ABSTRACT: The increasing interdisciplinarity of Big Data science poses new riddles for anthropologists. Originally, disciplinary divisions were driven by the urge to: 1) protect unique epistemologies; 2) foster distinct methodologies, & 3) cultivate specialized knowledge. Today however, disciplinary silos are being eroded by the rise of the data sciences, with their omnivorous appetite for information and relatively agnostic view as to its’ philosophical underpinnings. What does this mean for ethnographic practice, for collaboration, and for justice? How do we ethically work with, within, and with-out Big Data? Stories across environmental, medical, cartographic, judicial and managerial worlds help frame these new conundrums.
Session Participants:
JONES, Rose (Children’s Health) The Era of Affordable Care: The Wild West, Gun-toting Frontier of Healthcare Research
MENDENHALL, Emily (Georgetown U) Big Data, Lived Experience, and Perpetuation of the DALY in Global Health
KENDALL, Carl (Tulane U)
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Session took place in 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
CHAIR: HANNA, Bridget (Northeastern U)
Session Participants:
COLES, Kimberley (U Redlands) Evidence and Experiment in GIS-Enabled Community Driven Development in the Philippines
ANNECHINO, Rachelle and LEE, Juliet P. (PIRE) The Secret Lives of Search Algorithms: Youtube Search as a Social Environment
WELLER, Susan C. (Discussant) and Q&A
Session took place in 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
CONVENER: Ervin, Alexander
Award Winners:
President's Award and Outstanding Service for Applied Social Science: Tom May
Margaret Mead Award Recipient: De Leon, Jason
Sol Tax Award Recipient: Kunstadter, Peter
Bronislaw Malinowski Award Recipient: Lamphere, Louise. Parts 1 & 2
Session took place in 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
CHAIR: WELLER, Susan C. (UTMB)
Session Participants:
WELLER, Susan C. and VICKERS, Ben (UTMB), BERNARD, H. Russell (ASU/UF) Sample Size: Saturation, Domain Size, & Salience
TURNLEY, Jessica Glicken (Galisteo Consulting) When Data Isn’t Data: Unpacking the Term across the Sciences
AUGUSTIN, Caitlin (U Miami/DataKind) Efficient Systematic Mapping: New Methods for Analysis and Effective Communication of Results to Community Partners for Conservation Policy Decision-Making and Q&A
Session took place in 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
CHAIR: SCHUG, Seran (Rowan U)
ABSTRACT: This panel addresses the long-standing misperceptions of anthropology as a static social science about distant others rather than a dynamic exploration of relationships. We showcase experiential learning projects that challenge misrepresentations and misappropriations of ethnographic knowledge and practices. Projects include script-writing and other writing culture projects that educate and critique the process of ethnography, student-run development of a museum with audience engaged interactive displays, collaborative storytelling for an online archive— “Voices of the Garden State,” building a database of legal cases that affect traditional Native American/American Indian practices, and photo- ethnography as a collaborative relational effort.
Session Participants:
Introduction by: SCHUG, Seran.
SCHULTZ, Jared S. "It's Not You, It's Not Me, It's Us"
LINCOLN, Nicholas "Participant Observation: Based on True Events and The Ethnography by EE Evans-Pritchard Titled "The Nuer"
SCHUG, Seran "Dismembering Practices: Performances As Critical Reading"
FARRELL, Gianna "Of Turkey Vultures, Teaching, and Ethnography"
HOOD, Rosalie "Jeep Culture"; HARVEY, Victoria "Anthropology and Egypt at Penn Museum"
GUSTAFSON, Kelsey. "Museum Studies at Rowan"; SCHUG Seran. "Voices of the Garden State"
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Session took place in 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
CHAIRS: RE CRUZ, Alicia, NUNEZ-JANES, Mariela, and KOEBER, Ryan (UNT)
ABSTRACT: The unprecedented increase of border crossings in the summer of 2014 has been associated to alarming reports of human rights violations. In this context, anthropologists play numerous interconnecting roles working as and with activists, organizers, volunteers, advocates and witnesses. This roundtable is integrated by anthropologists and a variety of professionals from the USA and Mexico who work collaboratively in “witnessing” the dehuminanizing of migrant lives. The discussion will focus on what witnessing means in the context of migration, how witnessing relates to anthropological praxis, and what implications witnessing brings to the practice of anthropology in contexts of social injustice
ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS:
SILVA HERNANDEZ, Aida (UABC)
AURORA SIERRA, Ligia (UQROO-Chetumal)
CHINCHILLA, Norma (UCLB)
ZOLTAN, Paul (Immigration Lawyer)
ANDERSON, Jill (Otros Dreams en Accion)
PACHECO, Andres, L.
PAVEY, Steve
FORES TAMAYO, Ana M.
Part 1
Speakers: Alicia Re Cruz, Ligia Aurora Sierra
Part 2
Speakers: Ana M. Fores Tomayo, Andres L. Pacheco, and Aida Silva Hernandez
Part 3
Speakers: Norma Chinchilla, Jill Anderson, and Paul Zoltan
Part 4
Speakers: Steve Pavey, Alicia Re Cruz, and Q&A
Session took place in 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
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