By Brian McKenna
[mckenna193@aol.com]
University of Michigan-Dearborn
“You must help me if you can.” Jackson Browne, “Doctor My Eyes”
Brian McKenna
I have been helped—even saved—by medicine. For example, two melanomas were diagnosed and excised in 1992. Like many children, my ears were drained of fluid on several occasions, stopping a plague of earaches. A severe concussion from a baseball bat to the head, when I was 12, was closely monitored in the hospital for a week.
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By Michael Agar
[magar@anth.umd.edu]
Ethnoworks LLC
Michael Agar
Some time ago I was anointed a “senior specialist” with Fulbright, at the time to work on complexity and social programs in Buenos Aires. That didn’t work out. But my old friend and colleague, psychiatrist Dr. Ken Vittetoe, with whom I had worked on projects in Honduras over the years, decided to take advantage of the award and invite me to visit Tegucigalpa to give a week-long course to social service practitioners and researchers on how to think ethnographically in their work. What that means and how it went is a topic for another day.
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By James M. Skibo
[jmskibo@ilstu.edu] and
Professor of Anthropology
Illinois State University
By Gina L. Hunter
[glhunt2@ilstu.edu]
Professor of Anthropology
Illinois State University
The “Old Main Project” was recently launched on the campus of Illinois State University: http://oldmain.illinoisstate.edu/. This campus archaeology and oral history project is dedicated to exploring the history of “Old Main,” our first university building that was razed in 1958. This project continues what we hope is a growing trend on university campuses, which demonstrates the relevance of archaeology for understanding a university’s past (see Skowronek and Lewis 2010). Our campuses are not just composed of current buildings but also a buried past lying just below the landscaped quads. Our own university thinks that nothing remains of Old Main, so it has been important for us to demonstrate that the building still exists as an archaeological site and in the memories of the alumni who attended the university when Old Main was still used.
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By Martha W. Rees
[mrees@agnesscott.edu]
Agnes Scott College
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Born in 1935 to an immigrant Arabic-speaking family from Aleppo, Syria, Salomón Nahmad-Sitton started as one of the few male students in social work, and that work led him to anthropology, where he was quickly scooped up by the Instituto Nacional Indigenista (INI), the Mexican federal Indian agency, that, at that time, administered indigenous groups, their health, education and other resources. In his time in the INI, Salomón made his career and had a reputation for getting in trouble—getting kicked out of Jalisco, Nayarit, Michoacán and Yucatán, to name a few, culminating when he was jailed in 1983. After a Fulbright in the US in the mid 1980s, he and his wife, Ximena Avellaneda, moved to Oaxaca, where he is today a senior researcher and past director of the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS). I met Salomón and Ximena in the late 1970s when they built a home in Ajusco, where I was doing my dissertation fieldwork. Subsequently, I worked for Salomón in the INI (1983). We have continued our friendship for over three decades, through thick and thin. This interview is a small attempt to record many of the stories and experiences I had heard about and shared over the years.
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By Bill Roberts
[wcroberts@smcm.edu]
Program Chair, 2012 SfAA annual meeting
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Bill Roberts and Gabriel
Next year’s annual meeting takes the Society from Seattle on the Puget Sound across the country to Baltimore on the Chesapeake Bay. The last time we met in Baltimore was 1996, when then program chair Tim Finan (U of AZ) and the planning committee organized a memorable conference around the theme of Global – Local Articulations. Please join us in Baltimore for our annual meeting, to be held jointly with the Society for Medical Anthropology, at the Sheraton Hotel in Baltimore City Center from Wednesday, March 28 through Saturday, March 31, 2012. The Tuesday before the meeting, March 27, is likely to include a number of events and activities with local communities.
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