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Proposals for AN series on Science due May 14 (extended)
Nominations for CoGEA Award (formerly known as the Squeaky Wheel Award) due May 31 (extended)
Voting in 2013 AAA Election closes May 31
Applications for David M Schneider Award due June 1
From the Career Center
Postdoctoral fellowship in museum studies and Postdoctoral fellowship in Native American studies at Brown U
Assistant or associate professor of anthropology at U California Los Angeles
Laboratory manager at U Minnesota
Two postdoctoral research positions at U Göttingen
Postdoctoral fellow in the medical anthropology at U Pittsburgh
Visiting assistant professor in archaeology and/or biological anthropology at U Central Arkansas
Announcements
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2013 Whiteford Graduate Student Award in Applied and Public Anthropology
The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA) announces its 2013 Whiteford Graduate Student…More
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2013 Roseberry Nash Graduate Student Award Competition
The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology invites submission of papers for our Fourth…More
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Inter-American Symposium on Ethnographic Research in Education
September 18-20, 2013 Ethnographic research is inherently local, but it also requires comparison to build…More
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2013 Photo Contest Open Now through June 30
The AAA Photo Contest is designed to demonstrate the rich possibilities of anthropological work through…More
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AN Seeks Proposals on Science
Anthropology News seeks proposals for a July thematic series on science. Potential contributors are invited…More
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2013 Whiteford Graduate Student Award in Applied and Public Anthropology
Archeology in North America
Sexual Harassment and Abuse in the Field There is an important study that all anthropologists, anthropology students, and anybody else…More
North American archaeologists have been slow to board the Twitter train, and I’m not sure why. It might be because…More
Archeology in North America
Bending the Taboo on Discussing Poop, of the Human Kind
Although it may not be broken, the taboo against discussing human feces, in anything but pure scholarly or humorous situations,…More
Bias is pervasive, but rarely made explicit, in North American archaeology. I think it would serve archaeology well if archaeologists…More
Bigfoot has been in the news quite a bit recently, with considerable hoopla being generated in both mainstream and social…More
Archeology in North America
The Most Wasteful People Anywhere Anytime, and Archaeology
North Americans in the early 21st century, it may be argued, are the most wasteful people anywhere and anytime. Despite…More
Archaeologists are complicit in disassociating Indigenous Peoples in North America (i.e. Native Americans, First Nations) from places that are sacred…More
Are popular and widely accepted beliefs about the human past sometimes based on faulty archaeological reasoning? Rob Gargett thinks so,…More
Perhaps it is because I live in an area subject to an ever-increasing amount of trash arriving in coastal…More
Archeology in North America
A Bit of a Crisis in Archaeology in the Lands of Ice and Snow
There is more than a bit of a crisis in high altitude and high latitude archaeology in North America these…More