Making History at the Frontier Women Creating Careers as Practicing Anthropologists

by Wasson, Christina; Wallace, James M. Tim

• ISBN13: 9781931303293
• ISBN10: 1931303290
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-11
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods. peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods most editions available for course adoption

Author Biography

Volume Editor: Christina Wasson

General Editor: Tim Wallace

Christina Wasson is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Texas. She is a linguistic anthropologist whose work explores the intersections of communication, organizations, and technology. In addition, she is interested in self-reflexively exploring the practices of the discipline of anthropology, in both academic and applied/practicing contexts, with a particular focus on gender issues. In 2002 she was elected to the Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association (COSWA). She led COSWA’s effort to conduct a national survey on academic climate issues and helped build bridges between COSWA and the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology. Christina Wasson received her Ph.D. from Yale University. She has published articles and book chapters in the fields of anthropology, organization studies, and discourse studies on topics such as language use in organizations, team decision making, and virtual groupwork. She has also worked as a project manager in several consulting firms. [e-mail]

Tim Wallace is Associate Professor and Applied Anthropologist in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. His primary interests lie within the subfield of the anthropology of tourism. His most recent research has taken him to the communities around Lake Atitlan in the Guatemalan Highlands. He has carried out applied research work on tourism in Costa Rica, Hungary, and Madagascar. In addition, he has done applied work in Mozambique studying maize marketing; Ecuador for a potato marketing project; Togo, West Africa, to study economic development policy; Peru to research community development strategies in Peru; and, Hiroshima, Japan to study international education policy. He has also done research in North Carolina on farmers markets in Raleigh, North Carolina, and on socioeconomic responses to pest management practices among tomato and cabbage farmers in North Carolina. He has been President of the Southern Anthropological Association and the Association of North Carolina Anthropologists, was a member of the Executive Board of the Society for Applied Anthropology, and is coeditor of the NAPA Bulletin. He recently edited NAPA Bulletin 23 on "Tourism and Applied Anthropologists." ([e-mail])

Table of Contents

Making History at the Frontier

National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 1-19

Random Walk Mary

National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 20-31

Pursuing International Development through a Gender LensReflections on a Nonlinear Career Path in Applied Anthropology

National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 32-54

Seeing Double

An Anthropologist's Vision Quest Jacqueline Copeland-Carson National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 55-81

Anthropology in Pursuit of Public Policy and Practical Knowledge

National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 82-107

An Interim Story of a Career as an Applied Anthropologist Madelyn Iris National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 108-122

Putting On AirsFinding a Path to a Career in Applied Anthropology Susan

National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 123-134

Theory and PracticeImprovising a Life as a Practicing Anthropologist

National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 135-151

Bushwhacking a Career Patricia Sachs National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 20

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