By Jayne Howell
[jhowell@csulb.edu]
Editor, Practicing Anthropology
California State University-Long Beach
By Ron Loewe
[rloewe@csulb.edu]
Editor, Practicing Anthropology
California State University-Long Beach
Jayne Howell
Ron Loewe
Ron Loewe and I are completing our final issues as editors of Practicing Anthropology. The upcoming issue is titled “Anthropology and the Public Good: Environment, Health Care and Diversity. ” The eight individually submitted articles are important reminders of the breadth of projects that anthropologists participate in. The fall issue begins with 2011 Malinowski Award winner Salomón Nahmad’s reflections (in collaboration with Martha Rees) on his career as an anthropologist and advocate for indigenous populations in Mexico. Three articles focus on environmental concerns: Keri Brondo, Natalie Bown and Laura Woods examine ecotourism and gender among the Garifuna. Laura Henry-Stone discusses the watershed restoration project in Virgina, and Gabriela Lanzas provides an analysis of water management in Tabasco, Mexico. Shirting toward migration, Shay Lyn Cannedy offers anthropological insight on a refugee resettlement program in Texas, while Robert Guang Tian and Mahesh Ranjan Debata discuss the nationalism movement in the Uyghur diaspora. Two other articles offer anthropological insight on different aspects of health care. Linda Kaljee, Alfred Pach and Bonita Stanton’s article explores the value of anthropological perspectives for vaccine studies. Heide Castañeda, Nolan Kline, Mackenzie Rapp, Nicole Demetriou, Naheed Ahmed, Isabella Chan, Theresa Crocker, Nathaniel Dickey, Patrick Dillon, Hilary Dotson, Jordana Frost, Natalie Hobbs, Emily Koby Novicki, Philip McNab, Francisco Montiel-Ishino, and Colleen Timmons provide medical school students’ perspectives on the 2010 Affordable Care Act.
We are excited to be working with Alan LeBaron (Kennesaw State University) and James Loucky (Western Washington University), who are guest editing the Winter 2011 issue, “America/Mesoamerica Partnerships for Community Wellbeing and Cultural Renewal.” We will provide more details on that issue in our next column.
On a final note, Anita Puckett, Chair of the Appalachian Studies Program at Virginia Tech University will begin her term as Practicing Anthropology editor in early 2012. In the meantime, please continue to use anth-pa@csulb.edu address to submit individual manuscripts and proposals for whole- or partial issues. Submission guidelines are available at http://www.sfaa.net/pa/paauthor.html.
