Anthropology and the Environment
Newsletters
Newsletter items are originally published as a column in the Anthropology Newsletter, a monthly publication of the American Anthropological Association. Past newsletters are archived below. The newsletter is not published in June, July or August.Send items to the newsletter editor, Crystal Fortwangler.
October 2004
Featuring an Announcement of the First Biennial Lourdes Arizpe Award in Anthropology and Environment written by Pamela Puntenney
May 2004
Featuring information and updates about the "Annual Anthropology and Environment Rappaport Prize" Session submitted by Rebecca Zarger, Section Editor
April 2004
Featuring: "National Public Radio series and web-based educational programs on the relationship between religious purity and
environmental pollution in India" contributed by Kelly Alley (Auburn)
March 2004
Featuring: "Crossing the Divide: Anthropologists and Effective Environmental Justice Policy Intervention" contributed by
Kelly Alley (Auburn) and Melissa Checker (Memphis)
February 2004
Highlighting the AAA’s 102 Annual Meeting; Announcing 2003 Award Recipients and 2004 Executive Board Members
January 2004
Covering the "Lund Conference on World System History and Global Environmental Change," by
Alf Hornborg and Christian Isendahl, Human Ecology Division, Lund University
December 2003
Featuring "Engagement: It ain’t easy but we gotta do it!" Contributed by: Jessica Glicken Turnley, Galisteo Consulting Group, Inc.
November 2003
Highlights include: Anthropology and Environment Section Official Business Meeting; Invited session-"Conservation as Science, Discourse and Practices of Control:
Conflict with Indigenous Peoples:" Workshop-“Crossing the Divide: Anthropologists and Effective Environmental Justice Policy Intervention;" and, Workshop-"Campus Sustainability.”
October 2003
Opportunities for Graduate Training---Ecological Anthropology at the University of Florida,
Working Forests in the Tropics Program, and Tropical Conservation and Development Program
May 2003
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Problems
By David G. Casagrande
April 2003
Highlights include: Announcing the First Julian Steward Award (1997-2002); Rappaport Prize and Jr. Scholar Award; and, Campus Greening Workshop Proposed for AAA 2003.
March 2003
Focusing on the Conservation and Community Workshop Held at AAA in New Orleans
September 2002
AAA 2002 plans; Community & Conservation group workshop in New Orleans Nov. 20; conference "Environment, Resources and Sustainability: Policy Issues for the 21st Century,"
Athens, GA, Sept. 2002. Call for applications for Rappaport Paper Award, Junior Scholar Award, and Book Award.
December 2000
Congratulations to new AAA committee members. E.N. Anderson reports
on the cultural ecology of Spain.
November 2000
Some section news and tidbits. U.S. Government report on wildfires.
Andrew P. Vayda reports on his recent wildfire work in Borneo.
October 2000
Fall 2000 AAA meetings with the theme "The Public Face of Anthropology
in the Millenium." A list of A & E invited and volunteered sessions.
September 2000
New editor: Catherine Paige West. A list of new dissertations
in the area of Anthropology and the environment. New academic center
at CUNY.
April 2000
A & E President J. Peter Brosius speaks about Anthropology and
environmental policy and a new listserv concerning this subject.
March 2000
International Discussions on biotechnology that grew out of the 1992
Convention on Biological Diversity.
February 2000
Project underway on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay that is
testing and applying concepts from the anthropologist's toolkit to real-world
environmental management problems.
January 2000
Summary of the Section's Annual Business Meeting, held at the AAA meetings
in Chicago; a summary of the US national budget for environmental and natural
resources programs.
November 1999
The Annual Meeting in Chicago.
October 1999
Gender and the Environment in the New Millennium by Irma McClaurin
and Heather McIlvaine-Newsad (U Florida)
September 1999
The Coming Blue Revolution (water resources research) by John
M. Donahue (Trinity U)
May 1999
Carole Crumley's talk before the National Science Board (governing
body of the National Science Foundation).
April 1999
Environment and Disaster in Honduras: The Social Construction of
Hurricane Mitch by Anthony Oliver-Smith (U Florida).
March 1999
Due South: Learning from the Urban Experience in the Humid Tropics
by Elizabeth Graham (York U and Royal Ontario Museum); New Sustainable
Cities Program at the University of Southern California.
February 1999
Annual Rappaport Prize for student papers; President-Elect Peter Brosius
on the Section; summary of the 1998 Annual Business Meeting.
January 1999
Eanth-l mailing list; preview of topics to be covered in upcoming months;
new Internet resources.
December 1998
Environmental spending in the 1998 federal budget.
November 1998
1998 AAA Annual Meeting Program; 1998 Roy A. Rappaport Student Paper
prize awarded to Melissa Checker; Roy A. "Skip" Rappaport remembered.
October 1998
1998 AAA Annual Meeting Program; Regional Seminar Series of the SfAA's
Environmental Anthropology Program; Student Environmental Fellowships;
Indigenous peoples policy at the World Bank; UNESCO Encyclopedia Project,
membership survey.
September 1998
Common Property Conference Highlights, Vancouver, BC, June 10-14, 1998,
by Evelyn Pinkerton.
May 1998
The World Bank Group's New Social and Environmental Policies for the
Private Sector, by Theodore E. Downing (U Arizona); Section elections reminder.
April 1998
Publication opportunities; the Section's electronic communications;
American Association for the Advancement of Science news; Section's student
paper competition; the proposed National Institute for the Environment.
March 1998
New Executive Committee officers; 1998 Annual Meeting Program; Publishing
opportunities in Culture and Agriculture; Roy A. Rappaport student
paper competition; Rutgers University program in the Human Dimensions of
Environmental Change; call for Biocultural Conservation Award nominations.
February 1998
Session proposal for 1998 meeting; The Biodiversity Conservation Network
seeks contacts with Pacific anthropologists; the experiences of Mellon
demographic fellows, information about the Mellon fellowships.
January 1998
News from the Annual Meeting in 1997; ideas for the meetings in 1998.
December 1997
November 1997
Section mission and goals statement from Carole Crumley, then incoming
President of the Section; the University of Washington's Graduate Program
in Environmental Anthropology.
October 1997
September 1997
Interdisciplinary research in Kayan Mentarang National Park, Kalimantan
Timur (World Wildlife Fund's Culture and Conservation Program, reported
by Cristina Eghenter); US State Department's Commitment to Global Environmental
Protection (as a matter of national security).
May 1997
April 1997
March 1997
February 1997
January 1997
A Word on the San Francisco meetings; planning the 1997 Annual Meeting;
call for submissions; the research of Alx Dark.
December 1996
Mission Statement from Carole Crumley; Training Opportunities on the
Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, Summer Faculty Fellowships;
Graduate Research Assistantships for Fall 1997; Multidisciplinary Research
and Applied Project in Yucatan; the research of Betty Faust; Call for Manuscripts
from Harwood Academic Press.
November 1996
Report on the 1996 Annual Meetings; the Political Ecology Society Meetings;
The research of Catherine Tucker on the management of communal forests
in Honduras and Charlie Stevens on the sustainability of different agricultural
management techniques in Tongas.
October 1996
Membership issues; the fall 1996 annual meeting sessions sponsored
by the A&E Section.
September 1996
Terralingua; Abstract of the Session "Intersections: Place, Space,
Nature, History and Science"; Environment and Behavior; urban community
gardens; Anthropology and the Environment Directory.
May 1996
Research presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Social
Anthropology in Oceania, titled "Sustaining Islanders: The Political Ecology."
Researchers included Nancy Pollock, Paul Shankman, Larry Gorenflo, Eve
Pinkster, Jim Hess, Michelle Dominy, Mike Leiber, Mike McCoy, Bob Franco,
Craig Severenson, Mike Evans, Marion Kelly and Ulla Hasanger. Information
about three anthropological programs focusing on environmental research:
the Human Ecology program at Cook College-Rutgers, the Anthropology Department
at the University of Georgia; and the Anthropological Center for Training
and Research on Global Environmental Change at Indiana University.
April 1996
Journal of Political Ecology; Political Ecology Society; Robert McC.
Netting Prize in Political Ecology; Annual Conference of the International
Association for the Study of Common Property; Bioactive Agents of Medicinal
Plants from Drylands of Latin America Research Project (U Arizona); Conservation,
Biodiversity and Sustainable Economic Development Program (U Arizona).