Practicing anthropology helps play an important role in bringing more awareness and understanding of the complex issues related to food insecurity. It can also play a role in developing and implementing effective strategies to combat hunger and protect vulnerable populations, such as college students.
Section News
“Good Practices,” Humanized Birth, and Waiting for Care in Brazil
If the objective is to make “good” birth a possibility for all Brazilian women, then maternal and infant health policies must make a more robust attempt to address the systematic exclusions of racially and economically marginalized Brazilians from the promise of “health for all.”
Race, Place, and Latinx Political Choices
How can there be talk of a singular Latinx vote without recognizing the differentiated racial experiences among Latinxs?
A Revision of Outdated Course Policies Is Long Overdue
We need to humanize our course policies and practices and eliminate those that marginalize some students while privileging others.
Elevating the Voices of Latinx Anthropologists
ALLA reflects on the current moment, Latinx anthropology, awards, mentoring, and programming for Raising Our Voices.
Making Our Meetings Work for Graduate Students
Our AAA Annual Meeting and section meetings should be spaces for graduate training. We must do more to include graduate students in our events and produce programming to prepare them for academic and alternative careers.
Srebrenica’s Twenty-Fifth Anniversary from a Distance
With the twenty-fifth anniversary of Srebrenica in the forefront of her mind, Sarah Wagner will be joining faculty and graduate students at Raising Our Voices to rethink ethnographic research in Europe
AES at Raising Our Voices
AES programming seeks to address the current moment and its challenges.
Weaving Environmental Knowledge and Oral Tradition
Oral tradition influences the way people interact with the social and physical world around them and transmits knowledge and institutions that affect cultural norms, behavior, and the environment.
Resource Sovereignty Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
Ideas about sovereignty over natural resources remain trapped in a Cold War binary of market capitalism vs. state socialism, but both these systems are inadequate to the challenge of climate change. Recent political protests in Chile, drawing on indigenous imagery, point to a stringent need to rethink sovereignty.