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Book Award: Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture
Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture , edited by Jacqueline Royster and Ann Marie Simpkins, received the 2006 College English Association of Ohio Nancy Dasher Award. Susan Krouse, faculty member in Anthropology, has a chapter in this volume, titled: “Transforming Images: The Scholarship of American Indian Women.”
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Book Award: Aztalan: Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town
Robert A. Birmingham and Lynne Goldstein, Aztalan: Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town, won The Midwest Independent Publishers Association Merit Award for the History category, 2006.
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Book Award: Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State
Elizabeth Drexler’s Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) has won an award by Association of Third World Studies (ATWS) Cecil B. Currey Book-Length Publications Award for 2007-2008.
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New Book: Beneath the Ivory Tower: The Archaeology of Academia
Edited by Russell K. Skowronek and Kenneth E. Lewis (University Press of Florida) Overview: “For the first time we have a volume that shows us the story of archaeology at some of our most significant and cherished institutions, America’s colleges and universities.”–Richard C. Waldbauer, National Park Service “The chapters in this volume demonstrate the integration […]
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New Book: Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State
Elizabeth F. Drexler (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) Award: Association of Third World Studies (ATWS) Cecil B. Currey Book-Length Publications Award for 2007-2008. Overview: “A needed critique of the often-romanticized vision of ‘reconciliation through truth commissions’ for nations caught up in historical cycles of violence.”–Susan Rodgers, College of the Holy Cross “Elizabeth Drexler’s sensitive treatment […]
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New Book: Tsodilo Hills: Copper Bracelet of the Kalahari
Edited by: Alec Campbell, Larry Robbins and Michael Taylor (Michigan State University Press) Overview: Tsodilo Hills is a richly illustrated account one of the world’s oldest and most beautiful historical sites: For 100,000 years, inhabitants of Botswana’s Tsodilo Hills region left behind a record of their gathering wild foods, hunting, fishing, mining, rock painting, cattle […]
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New Book: Information and Its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands
Edited by Robert Whallon, William Lovis, and Robert Hitchcock (University of California Los Angeles-Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press) Overview: Information and its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands explores the question of how information, broadly conceived, is acquired, stored, circulated, and utilized in small-scale hunter-gatherer societies, or bands. Given the nature of this question, the volume brings together […]
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New ANP Course – “Urban Anthropology” – ANP 426
It has been argued that, over the past three decades cities have come to occupy increasingly important roles in a new geography of globalization. Indeed, several scholars have argued that the future is not one of nation-states, but rather one of city-states’ increasingly dominant concentrations of power political, economic and cultural centralized nodes linked together […]
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MSU’s Department of Anthropology has been ranked #1 in the United States
MSU’s Department of Anthropology has been ranked #1 in the United States by Public Anthropology’s Public Outreach Assessment Project. Rankings were based on the number and nature of programs focusing on public issues and public outreach that were associated with a department, the degree to which department faculty members engaged in public outreach activities, the nature […]
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MSU receives CASE Circle of Excellence Silver Medal
MSU has received an award from CASE: Council for Advancement and Support of Education for its promotion of the Saints’ Rest excavations. We have been told that MSU University Relations will receive its Circle of Excellence Silver Medal Award in the Special Public and Community Relations category for 2006 for the Saints’ Rest Archaeological Project.