September 2002
By Bonnie McCay, Rutgers U
Anthropology and Environment Section
The Anthropology and Environment Section’s program chair, Kathy Galvin, announces that the section is sponsoring or co-sponsoring 19 sessions at the AAA Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Look for them. In addition, the lively “Conservation and Community” group is organizing a workshop for the meeting on the nuts and bolts of designing and financing anthropologically-oriented conservation initiatives. Proceedings from last year’s Conservation and Community workshop are in draft form. For more information, visit the C&C Workshop section or contact Pete Brosius (pbrosius@arches.uga.edu) or Diane Russell (d.Russell@cgiar.org).
By the time this column reaches you, the section will have held its long-awaited conference, “Environment, Resources and Sustainability: Policy Issues for the 21st Century,” which is co-sponsored by Culture & Agriculture and by the AAA Public Policy Committee. In addition, several members of the section, including the AN column editor Paige West, participated in a session at the Society for Conservation Biology meetings in Cambridge, England, in July 2002. Check our web-site, http://www.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/anthenv/, for postings on these and other section activities.
And now, the prizes:
5th Annual Rappaport Prize (2002): Call for Submissions. The Roy A. Rappaport Prize recognizes exemplary ecological/environmental scholarship by anthropology graduate students. The winner will be recognized at the A&E business meeting at the AAA meetings in New Orleans, in November 2002, and awarded $500. This is a great way to enhance your CV for the job market. You need not be a member of A&E to submit an entry but you must be a member of AAA. Students interested in submitting manuscripts for this year’s competition should follow Human Ecology formatting guidelines. Manuscripts should be of publishable quality, based on original research, and should not exceed 25 double-spaced pages of text (not including references). Entries should be submitted as an electronic attachment in either Word or WordPerfect to A&E Section President Bonnie McCay (mccay@aesop.rutgers.edu) no later than October 1, 2002. Manuscripts submitted for previous Rappaport Prize competitions are not eligible for consideration.
1st Annual Junior Scholar Award (2002): Call for Submissions and Nominations. An award for junior scholars (un-tenured, or within five years of obtaining a Ph.D) will be granted for the first time at the November 2002 AAA meetings in New Orleans. The purpose of this $500 award is to encourage talented junior scholars to continue working in the domain of anthropology and environment by recognizing their exemplary scholarship. Judging will be based on refereed journal articles, which must be at least in the galley or page-proof stage of publication. We invite all anthropologists to nominate candidates for the award based on their knowledge of the literature and the work of junior scholars. Authors are also invited to nominate their own articles. In either case, articles nominated should be sent in electronic or hard-copy form by October 1st to A&E Section President Bonnie McCay (mccay@aesop.rutgers.edu) , 55 Dudley Rd., New Brunswick, NJ 08901), together with brief memos that nominate the author(s) and identify the key contributions made by or qualities or the work.
Book Award (2003): Call for Nominations. A second new $500 award of the section is for an exemplary monograph in environmental/ecological anthropology. Tentatively titled the Julian Steward Book Award, it will be given at the 2003 AAA meetings. We invite nominations of books at this time, the deadline being December 1, 2002. Nominations should provide a précis of the book and its contributions to environmental or ecological anthropology. The award committee will decide which of the books nominated should be solicited for further review in the spring of 2003. Please nominate outstanding monographs, including your own. Publishers are also invited to submit work they believe to be suitable. Books published within the past five years (1997 and later) are eligible for this first round. They need not be authored by anthropologists. Nominations should be sent to A&E Section President-Elect Tom Sheridan (tes@email.arizona.edu); Arizona State Museum, U of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721).