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The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is an American organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology.With 10,000 members, the association, based in Arlington, Virginia, includes archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, biological (or physical) anthropologists, linguistic anthropologists, linguists, medical anthropologists and applied anthropologists in ...
Heller was executive program chair for the 2010 annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans. She served as vice president of the association for 2011–2013. In November 2013, she became president. She is one of the few scholars at a non-U.S. institution to lead the AAA in the organization's history. [4]
Annette B. Cohen was born on February 14, 1933, in Philadelphia. She embarked on her academic career later in life, following an initial career in business. Dr. Weiner's first two marriages ended in divorce, and she was later married to Dr. William E. Mitchell, a retired anthropology professor from the University of Vermont.
The American Anthropology Association awards an annual prize named after Benedict. The Ruth Benedict Prize has two categories, one for monographs by one writer and one for edited volumes. The prize recognizes "excellence in a scholarly book written from an anthropological perspective about a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender topic." [29] [30]
Previously, the AAPA had published an official position on biological aspects of race, based on evidence from anthropological (as well as biological, genetic, and social scientific) research in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 101, pp 569–570, 1996. That statement emphasized that all humans belong to a single species and ...
She served on the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association from 1990 to 1991 and 1999 to 2001. [4] From 1999 to 2002, Harrison was an Advisory Board member for a PBS film, “Race–The Genealogy of an Illusion.” [ 4 ] From 2001 to 2007, Harrison was an advisory board member for the American Anthropological Association's ...
In 2010 Manderson and fellow researcher Carolyn Smith-Morris edited the book Chronic Conditions, Fluid States: Chronicity and the Anthropology of Illness [3] She was the editor of the 2011 book Surface Tensions: Surgery, Bodily Boundaries and the Social Self, as well as Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health in the same year. [4] [5]
Quinn served on a National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Employment of Women and Related Social Issues (1981–87), and she participated in the AAA Committee to Study the Academic Employment of Women in Anthropology (1982-1993), which resulted in the publication of two major examinations of gender relations in anthropology: "A New ...