News and Events
- Jeanne Simonelli awarded SAR/SfAA Seminar Grant
- Anthropologists Jeanne Simonelli and Duncan Earle compare Occupy Wall Street to Zapatista consensus based governance
- Two Undergraduate Students Present at 39th Annual Conference on South Asia
- Archaeological Institute of America Publishes Article on Museum's Online Databases
- Articles on Public Archaeology Project in Salisbury Recognize Help of Student Assistant Mary Kate Wagner
- Anthropology Department Hosts Guest Speaker on December 2012 End of Maya Calendar
Jeanne Simonelli awarded SAR/SfAA Seminar Grant
The School of Advance Research (SAR), Santa Fe and the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) have selected the proposal Artisan Production and the World Market:
Collaborating in Theory, Methods, Practice for its 2012 biannual short seminar and SfAA’s 2013 Plenary Session. Co-organized by Jeanne Simonelli, (WFU) June Nash (CUNY) and Katherine O’Donnell (Hartwick College), the goal of this two-day seminar is to provide anthropologists and scholars from related disciplines with the opportunity to address critical human problems and social issues through the application of anthropological insights and methods. The outcome of the seminar will be twofold: 1) a plenary session at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology and 2) an edited volume to be submitted to SAR Press for publication in its Advanced Seminar Series.
As designed by Simonelli, Nash and O’Donnell “the seminar brings together an interdisciplinary, intercultural group of artisans and the scholars who work with them to discuss ongoing work in all areas intersecting with the production, marketing and consumption of crafts and boutique food products. We analyze learning as an interactive process functioning on three levels: providing practical marketing and business skills for small-scale producers; developing methodologies for understanding and enhancing networks of accompaniment; and evaluating the process, to enrich cultural and economic theory. Our seminar becomes the basis for wider discussion at SfAA, as well as the source of two publications.”
The international panel will also include WFU’s Betsy Gatewood, and builds on work on collective entrepreneurship begun by Simonelli and Gatewood three years ago.
Occupy Wall Street Consensus General Assembly and the Zapatistas: Into the American Zócalo
With the emergence of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement around the US, evolving from a small encampment near the financial center of global fiscal crisis, we are finally exposed for the first time nationally to the process well-developed by the rebels of Chiapas, Mexico—consensus governance. As with the Zapatista case, now almost a generation ago, major news outlets expressed frustration with the lack of a single, focused cause or demand—ignoring the real news story, which has to do with the process they have established and advocated for;
Read the entire Article....
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Two Undergraduate Students Present at 39th Annual Conference on South Asia
Two undergraduate students, Bridget Bagel (Anthropology) and Meenakshi Krishnan (undeclared) presented research papers at the 39th annual conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on October 15, 2010. The panel titled " Working for Meaning: Work, Identity and South Asians in a Globalized World," was organized by Dr. Sandya Hewamanne of the Department of Anthropology. Bridget presented her ethnographic research at an Indian restaurant in Winston Salem in a paper titled "Cultural mediators and Global Citizens: Work and Identity at an Indian Restaurant." Meenakshi presented her research at a Mumbai film school and film sets in a paper titled "Behind the Glamour: Bollywood Workers Constructing Global Identities." The panel was chaired by Dr. Anand Pandian (Johns Hopkins University). Dr. Jeanne Marecek (Swarthmore College) was the discussant. All papers were well received and generated enthusiastic discussion afterward. Among many who praised the students' efforts was Professor Jenny Huberman (University of Missouri), who asked for copies of their papers to show her graduate students.
Archaeological Institute of America Publishes Article on Museum's Online Databases
The Archaeological Institute of America recently published on their website an article written by Dr. Stephen Whittington, Kyle Bryner, Beverlye Hancock and Tina Smith. The case study of the Museum of Anthrpology's experience creating an online database for artifacts and archive data details each phase of the project and describes the utility many teachers have already discovered for integrating the Museum's collections in their classes.
Full case study at the Archaeological Institute of America's website
Articles on Public Archaeology Project in Salisbury Recognize Help of Student Assistant Mary Kate Wagner
Ken Robinson, director of Public Archaeology and Mary Kate Wagner, a student assistant were recently featured in two articles in the Salisbury Post, for their research on the remains of a structure that sat above a 250 year old well in Salisbury. Using ground-penetrating radar and following up with careful excavation, Ken Robinson and Mary Kate Wagner were able to find significant clues to the original structure.
"Old Town Well: Team to dig for clues" at the Salisbury Post
"Digging unearths structure related to 1760's well" at the Salisbury Post
Anthropology Department Hosts Guest Speaker on December 2012 End of Maya Calendar
The Anthropology Department hosted a very well-attended presentation by Dr. Duncan Earle on the December 2012 end of the Maya "long-count" calendar titled "2012: What's the Story?". According to one attendee, around 130 people attended the presentation, held in the WFU Museum of Anthropology.
The Winston-Salem Journal reported on the event, and the deluge of catastrophic predictions falsely based on the ancient Maya calendar:
Archaeology Labs' Work at Alamance Battlefield Garners Regional Media Attention
The Archaeology Laboratories received attention from a number of regional news media sources last Friday for their work at the Alamance Battleground. The Labs used a magnetometer (can accurately detect metal and other anomalies under the surface), a Nikon Total Station (accurately measures the distance and change in elevation between specified points), and other equipment to study the site. Several Wake Forest University students as well as students from Eastern Carolina University assisted with the work.
A brief list of the media outlets who covered the Archaeology Labs' work appear below:
This clip features Ken Robinson (Director of Public Archaeology), Paul Thacker (Director of the WFU Archaeology Labs), and two WFU students, Taryn Ricciardelli and Emily Zavodny, both senior Anthropology majors. (Taryn Ricciardelli is interviewed.)
http://news14.com/Default.aspx?ArID=614237
Raleigh News and Observer - Story on Alamance Battlefield, including work by WFU Archaeology Labs
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/1677276.html
Raleigh News and Observer - Short piece centering on work by Archaeology Labs at Alamance Battlefield
http://www.newsobserver.com/1565/v-print/story/1674931.html
Other outlets who covered the story include the Charlotte, NC National Public Radio affiliate, as well as three other newspapers and an additional television news channel. Links to these will be posted soon.
Anthropology Department Hires Dr. Eric Jones as a Lecturer in Archeology
The Department of Anthropology is proud to announce the hire of a new lecturer in Archeology, Dr. Eric Jones.His work in the
Northeast and with GIS, coupled
with his enthusiastic
teaching makes him a welcome addition.
Anthropology Department Welcomes Guest Lecturer Dipak Pant
Dr. Dipak Pant, an anthropologist and economist, at Università Carlo Cattaneo (LIUC, Castellanza, VA, Italy) was a Visiting International Scholar from Mar. 22- Apr. 1 . Prof. Pant is the founder and director of Interdisciplinary Unit for Sustainable Economy in the same university. Recently, he also served as the senior visiting fellow of at the American Museum of Natural History (New York, USA) and at the Field Museum (Chicago). On campus he taught classes in Development, Culture and Nature, and South Asia,; gave a public presentation at the Museum of Anthropology, and was guest speaker at the faculty seminar on Social Entrepreneurship. He met with students , and cooked a Nepali-Italian meal for us. We hope that this will lead to a lasting international partnership for our students and faculty.