Newsletter: March 2004
Record Number of SMA Sessions at the Society for Applied Anthropology Meeting
Mimi Nichter (UArizona) and Kathy Oths (UAlabama) (Program Co-chairs)
The Society for Medical Anthropology meeting at the SFAA is taking place on March 31-April 4, 2004 in Dallas. We hope you are planning to attend. The response to our call for papers has been outstanding! There will be 50 sessions sponsored by the SMA --34 of which were submitted as organized sessions and 16 of which are volunteered sessions. The range of topics is broad and should make for an exciting interchange of ideas. Please join us for the SMA Plenary Session entitled "Global Health Advocacy", which will be on Wednesday, March 31st, from 3:30 to 5:15, followed by a reception. See you there!
Call for Papers: Bars and Health-related Behavior: Cultural Factors (Panel for the annual American Anthropology Association meetings San Francisco, November 17-21, 2004)
Gilbert Quintero (U New Mexico)
We would like to assemble a panel on the anthropology of health-related
behavior in bars within different cultures, either inside or outside the
U.S. Topics of interest include bars and risky sex, taverns and drinking
patterns, bars and smoking, drug use in and around bars, gambling in bars,
bar-related violence, and how bars may serve as venues for the transmission
of health-related information or misinformation.
We lean towards the public health/Society for Medical Anthropology domain
rather than cultural studies for this panel, but have open minds.
For further information or to express interest in participation, please
contact either: Roland Moore (roland@prev.org)
or Juliet Lee (jlee@prev.org)
Basker Award Winner
When listing the winners of SMA awards in last month’s column, we failed to include notice of this year’s Basker Award winner. Caroline Bledsoe (Northwestern) was given the award for her book Contingent Lives:Fertility, Time and Aging in West Africa (University of Chicago Press, 2002). For more information and a synopsis of the book go to the SMA website: http://www.medanthro.net/SMAreports/basker.html
Also on medanthro.net
Check out the essay “I
am the NIH and I Need Your Help” (pdf), new resources on complementary
and alternative medicine, and who to contact about submitting SMA presentation
for the 2004 AAA meeting. The deadline for submissions will be here before
you know it. More information online at the AAA website: http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/mtgs.htm
Please send your comments, contributions, news and announcements to the SMA Contributing Editors Nancy Vuckovic (nancy.vuckovic@kpchr.org) or Janelle Taylor (jstaylor@u.washington.edu)