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October 2000
Paige West, Contributing Editor
As most of you know, the AAA will hold its annual meetings November 15 -19 in San Francisco, CA. The theme this year is “The Public Face of Anthropology in the Millennium.” Krista Harper, the Anthropology and Environment Section program chair, working with the AAA staff, has come up with an exciting program. Below, Krista has contributed a list of invited and volunteered sessions that comprise our program. A & E has come a long way from our initial "interest meeting" at the 1996 AAA meetings. We started out with 254 members and have grown to 411 members in only five years. The theme of this years meetings, with the focus on the relationship between anthropology / anthropologists and public interest issues, fits well with our section's goal of contributing to environmental conversations and debates in both the public and the private sector.
The Anthropology and Environment Section is pleased to announce its program for the 2000 AAA meetings. The A & E Section is sponsoring two invited sessions, both of which promise to provoke stimulating debates on the directions of environmental anthropology and its relationship to public policy:
Invited Session (co-sponsored by the AAA Committee for Human Rights): “Indigenous, Indigenist, and Environmentalist Interests:Compatibilities and Incompatibilities at the Intersection of Environmental Anthropology, Advocacy and Human Rights,” session organizer Leslie E. Sponsel (U Hawai`i).Friday, November 17, 2000, 8-11:45 AM. (Session #2-024)
Invited Session: "Political Ecology at the Crossroads: Methods, Analyses, and Applications," session organizer Lisa Gezon (U of West Georgia).Saturday, November 18, 2000, 1:45-5:30 PM.(Session 3-100)
The following volunteered sessions will be featured at the meetings as part of the Anthropology of Environment Section's program:
"Meaning, Subjects, and Networks: Environmental Social Movements and the Anthropology of Activism," session organizer Dorothy Holland (UNC-Chapel Hill). Thursday, November 16, 2000, 1:45-5:30 PM.(Session 1-096)
"Conservation Anthropology: Beyond the Backlash Against Local Participation," session organizer Flora Lu (Stanford).Thursday, November 16, 2000, 1:45-3:30 PM. (Session 1-080)
"Evolutionary Approaches to Cooperative Hunting," session organizers Michael Alvard (SUNY-Buffalo) and Eric Fink (SUNY-Buffalo).Saturday, November 18, 2000, 8-11:45 am.(Session 3-030)
"The 'American Commons' in the New West: Conflict and Collaboration on Federal Public Lands," session organizer Thomas Sheridan (U of Arizona).Saturday, November 18, 2000, 4-5:45 PM.(Session 3-100)
"Human Dimensions of Global Change: A mandate for Anthropological Engagement," session organizer Russanne Low (U of Minnesota).Friday, November 17, 2000, 8-11:45 AM.(Session 2-032)
"Public Spaces, Native Places," session organizer Robert Begay (Navajo Nation).Friday, November 17, 2000, 1:45-5:30 PM.(Session 2-109)
"Public Participation and the Environment," session chair John Wingard (U of Memphis).Wednesday, November 15, 2000, 6-7:45 PM.(Session 0-101)
"Space and Time in Environmental Anthropology," session chair Donna Dwiggins (Washington State U).Wednesday, November 15, 2000, 8-9:45 PM.(Session 0-125)
"Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Animals," session chair Yuka Suzuki (Yale U).Sunday, November 19, 2000, 12:15-2 PM.(Session 4-084)
"Landscapes: Interpretations, Resources, and Change," session chair Ross Sackett (U of Memphis).Wednesday, November 15, 2000, 12-1:45 PM.(Session 0-028)
The meeting of the A & E executive board will be on Thursday, November
16, at 9:30 AM, in Union Square 9.
Thanks again to Krista Harper for contributing the above the listing
of A & E invited sessions and volunteered sessions.Questions about
the A & E program should be directed to Krista at kharper@anthro.umass.edu.
All section members are also encouraged to attend the A & E annual
business meetings which will be held on Thursday, November 16 from 12:15-1:30
PM in Yosemite B.
A key item of discussion at the A&E business meeting will be how
we can develop our capacity in the public policy domain.Over the past several
months, several members of A&E have been involved in discussions along
these lines on the A&E public policy listserv (AEPPC-L@listserv.uga.edu).
Two focus areas have evolved out of these discussions: (1) conservation
and community, and (2) environmental justice.Our goal is to develop networks
of anthropologists who can address these issues, and to develop strategies
for greater involvement in the public policy domain. We need your input
at the business meeting.In addition, we are in the process of forming two
committees to address each focus area and we plan to meet in San Francisco
(time still to be decided). Interested members of A&E are invited to
attend. Please contact A&E President Pete Brosius (pbrosius@arches.uga.edu)
if you are interested in participating.
Paige West
Department of Anthropology
Rutgers University
Cpwest@eden.rutgers.edu