Student Anthropologist, a peer-reviewed journal of the National Association of Student Anthropologists, seeks scholarly submissions from undergraduate and graduate students worldwide, in particular those emphasizing anthropology’s capacity to shape public issues, social problems, and global realities. These submissions should contain original research.
The two types of submissions accepted include:
1. Scholarly articles: under 6,000 words in length, subject to a peer review process.
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Through Distance Learning at the University of Florida Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology courses are being offerred this summer. Registration for courses in the program will be opening March 25th. Four courses (listed below) are offered in Summer 2013. To explore the courses being offered this summer, and for information on registration and tuition, please visit the Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology website. These courses are offered fully-online and no on-campus visits are required. The courses carry 3 graduate credits at the University of Florida and may be taken for credit or without credit. Courses are limited to 18 participants.
Courses Available for Summer 2013:
Social Network Analysis in Cultural Anthropology
Video Data Analysis
Geospatial Analysis in Cultural Anthropology
Text Analysis in Cultural Anthropology
Important Dates:
March 25th- Registration Opens
May 13th- Classes Start
May 14th- Registration Closes
• Economic anthropologists sought to enrich poor numbers
According to a book review in The Financial Times, “A tendency to issue doubtful data is rooted in colonial days and still creates problems for the [African] continent, according to an important study: Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled By African Development Statistics and What To Do About It, by Morten Jerven. The review goes on: “There are lies, damned lies and then there are African statistics. If economic figures everywhere are a work in progress — regularly rebased and updated to take into account fresh data — those from Africa are the most open to question and the most unreliable in their revision.”
Credit: Cornell University Press
The reviewer considers Poor Numbers to be an important contribution to the subject. Morten Jerven, an assistant professor at the school for international studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, builds the case for renewed scrutiny. Pointing to “huge discrepancies and alarming gaps” in African figures, he writes: “Datasets are like guns. Someone will use them if they are left lying around.”
And, further [and now we are getting to the connection with anthropology], Jerven calls for a focus on strengthened national statistical capacity, the use of “economic anthropologists,” and greater transparency on the underlying assumptions and weaknesses of existing data.
As Jerven rightly concludes: “Numbers are too important to be ignored, and the problems surrounding the production and dissemination of numbers are too serious to be dismissed.”
• The real news in anthropology is not about Chagnon
In the Huffington Post, Paul Stoller, professor of anthropology at West Chester University, comments on the latest “flare up” in the news surrounding Napoleon Chagnon‘s memoir, Noble Savages (and see below in this aitn). He states: “In the sweep of time, though, Chagnon’s work is but a blip on the screen. In the nanosecond reality of the media universe, Chagnon’s ideas and struggles will quickly revert back to what they are: ‘very old news.’ The real news…is the ongoing work on structures of poverty and social inequality, work that exposes how contemporary economic practices trigger widespread real world suffering. That scholarship produces results that are politically threatening to men like Rick Scott, Scott Walker and Rick Perry. That’s why they’re slashing higher education budgets. What better way to undermine anthropology, sociology, and the humanities and protect their economic and political interests?”
Machik is once again offering its Summer Enrichment Program (SEP). All volunteers must arrive on July 12th, and depart on August 10th. There will be a mandatory orientation for all volunteers on July 13, 14, and 15. Please read the application guidelines carefully before initiating your application. Application deadline is March 25, 2013.
Western Carolina University in Collowhee, North Carolina, invites applications for a visiting assistant professor of sociocultural anthropology with a specialization in environmental anthropology, beginning August, 2013. Applicants should have a PhD in Anthropology (in hand by time of appointment) from an appropriately accredited institution. The successful candidate will have ethnographic experience and will be qualified to teach an upper-level course in environmental anthropology as well as other courses focused on their regional or topical interests. Application details are available here.
The Master in Cultural Heritage Management is a multidisciplinary postgraduate program designed for students and professionals who are interested in heritage conservation, site management, museum studies, tourism, creative industries, architectural heritage, historical towns, and cultural landscapes.
CHM is a one-year program with a particular attention on complementing the theoretical approach with a practical experience gained on field visits of monuments and sites. The general goal of the program is to enhance the knowledge of professionals and graduates in the field of heritage protection, management and dissemination of the values of the diverse Egyptian cultural heritage.
Eyes of Horus from the Neues Museum, Berlin. Flickr/Marek Isalski The CHM would broaden exchanges with the neighboring countries through partnerships established in particular with the IREST department, Paris 1Panthéon-Sorbonne, and other Euromediterranean institutions.
For your reference please find here following additional information on the course.
The program is co-directed by Professor Fekri Hassan, Université Française d’Egypte, emeritus Petrie Professor of Archaeology, University College London, and Professor Maria Gravari-Barbas, Director of the Institut de Recherche et d’Etudes Supérieures du Tourisme (IREST), UNESCO Chair in Cultural Tourism, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
SIMA is a research training program offered by the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History with major funding from the Cultural Anthropology Program of the National Science Foundation. Dates: June 24 – July 19, 2013. The program seeks to promote broader and more effective use of museum collections in anthropological research by providing a supplement to university training. Application deadline in March 1, 2013. Applicants must submit a short statement of interest and an initial proposal for an individual research project. See full application instructions.
Columbia University announces its Indigenous Studies Summer Program on Indigenous People’s Rights and Policy at Columbia University. The program runs from June 3-14, 2013. The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) is now accepting applications from researchers, professionals, practitioners, and advanced students who wish to participate in an intensive two-week summer immersion program at Columbia University on indigenous peoples’ rights and policy.
The program provides an overview and analysis of the major questions in indigenous affairs today, as they have emerged globally in the last decades. The program has an interdisciplinary approach and incorporates lectures and workshops on the most recent and innovative academic research and policy debates on indigenous peoples’ issues. It is complemented by visits and lectures at the United Nations and state and indigenous peoples’ institutions.
The Research Methods in Anthropology program is taught by top instructors in the field of anthropology. It is designed for current anthropologists and those seeking to become anthropologists, who are looking to strengthen their skills in research methods. The emphasis in each course is on skills for collecting and analyzing the many kinds of data that anthropologists work with. For more information, including how to apply and registration dates, click here.
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