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Mental Health In South Georgia: Another Area Of Disadvantage For An Underserved Region, But Pandemic-Related Policy Changes Suggest Pathways Forward, Shelly Yankovskyy, Anne Price
Mental Health In South Georgia: Another Area Of Disadvantage For An Underserved Region, But Pandemic-Related Policy Changes Suggest Pathways Forward, Shelly Yankovskyy, Anne Price
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
Mental health is a contemporary issue of key concern among academics and policymakers, especially due to the exacerbation of mental health issues with the COVID-19 pandemic. Increases in mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, suicide, opioid overdose, and youth depression are the subject of research and governmental-allocated grant funding and new policies have been put in place at multiple institutional levels. We utilize a political economy framework to understand the incidence of mental health disorders and explore how new programs and policies have been implemented in Georgia to address and support mental health at various institutional levels, such as …
Embodiment And Meaning: Muay Thai In Different Cultural Contexts, Dana B. Dawson
Embodiment And Meaning: Muay Thai In Different Cultural Contexts, Dana B. Dawson
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
This qualitative meta-analysis, drawing from published articles, books, and ethnographies, examines Muay Thai through the interdisciplinary lens of martial arts studies, cultural studies, and anthropological literature. I argue that the interpretation of Muay Thai is intricately tied to its cultural context, revealing dimensions such as cultural heritage, systemic violence, and the global dissemination of martial arts. Framed within anthropological literature on embodiment and cultural performance, the paper understands Muay Thai, akin to dance, as an embodied cultural performance shaped by bodily knowledge and practice. The analysis delves into the nuanced meanings of Muay Thai across three cultural contexts: native practitioners …
“A Strongman With A Wig”: Mountaineering, Gender Dynamics, And Feminine Marginalization In The Club Andino Bariloche, Kaitlyn C. Sisco
“A Strongman With A Wig”: Mountaineering, Gender Dynamics, And Feminine Marginalization In The Club Andino Bariloche, Kaitlyn C. Sisco
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
The Club Andino Bariloche (CAB) is an Argentine mountaineering and winter sports club that was established in San Carlos de Bariloche in 1931. This paper provides a historical assessment of gender dynamics and mountaineering subjectivities in the CAB’s digital archive from 1931 to 2011. Specifically, I examine the CAB’s gendered ideologies of mountaineering as pertaining to: 1) the Andean landscape; 2) masculine protagonism; 3) feminine (in)action; and 4) transitional feminism in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. I argue that a history of feminine marginalization marks much of the CAB expeditionary record, drawing attention to the gendered ideologies of …
Introduction, Kiley E. Molinari
Introduction, Kiley E. Molinari
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Journal Editors
Front Matter, Journal Editors
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
Includes Table of Contents and Contributor notes.
Casting Your Own Spell: The Role Of Individualism In Wiccan Beliefs, Matt Mcdermott
Casting Your Own Spell: The Role Of Individualism In Wiccan Beliefs, Matt Mcdermott
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
What is the role of individualism within the neopagan religious movement of Wicca? To answer this question, this research study was carried out in western North Carolina using participant observation and interviews with ten practitioners in 2021. This paper argues that Wiccan adherents cultivate an individualist agency that manifests through an openness to beliefs and practices. One of Wicca’s key characteristics is a lack of commitment to dogma. This allows Wiccans to bring aspects of their own identities and personalities into their practices. This individualist agency is shaped by solitary and collectivist forms of Wicca, which place value on liberating, …
The Competing Narratives Of Tellico: The Tva, Multivocality, And Contested Place-Making In The Little Tennessee River Valley, Cheyenne Bennett
The Competing Narratives Of Tellico: The Tva, Multivocality, And Contested Place-Making In The Little Tennessee River Valley, Cheyenne Bennett
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
In 1979, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) closed the gates on the Tellico Dam and transformed the last thirty-three free flowing miles of the Little Tennessee River into the Tellico Reservoir. The dam led to the physical, spiritual, and affective displacement of various groups of people who all shared a collective attachment to the land and the river. These individuals witnessed the landscape transform from an agrarian space to an area that is now populated and managed by middle-class and upper-middle-class lakefront communities. This paper attempts to understand the post-Tellico Dam landscape by examining how the different groups of displaced …
Cherokee Concepts About Health And Healing, James Sarbaugh
Cherokee Concepts About Health And Healing, James Sarbaugh
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
Health and well-being are maintained in traditional Cherokee communities by carefully balancing the social, and sacred, relationships between all spiritually significant beings, human or otherwise. An imbalance in these relationships results in ill health that affects the entire community. Balance is maintained or restored through ritual practice in which both women and men may play critical roles as trained specialists who rely on medicines, physical therapies, and ritual language and non-verbal means to communicate sacred knowledge. Practitioners must also constantly monitor, evaluate, and make use of new knowledge gained from the surrounding environment, employing methods that are intrinsically conservative, yet …
Tradition: Intermittent And Persistent, With Particular References To The Cherokees, Raymond D. Fogelson
Tradition: Intermittent And Persistent, With Particular References To The Cherokees, Raymond D. Fogelson
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Introduction, Lisa J. Lefler
Introduction, Lisa J. Lefler
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
About The Contributors, Journal Editors
About The Contributors, Journal Editors
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Becoming An Ally: How Communities Can Empower And Embrace Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Hillary Adams, Eugenia Damron
Becoming An Ally: How Communities Can Empower And Embrace Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Hillary Adams, Eugenia Damron
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Global Health At The Local Level: Innovative Approaches For Preventing Hiv/Aids Among Adolescent Girls In Botswana With Evidence From An Evaluation Study On Perceptions Of Cross Generational Sex And Edutainment Strategies, Rebecca L. Upton
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
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Flipping The Microscope: Peer Education, Race, And Fieldwork In A South African Travel Course, Scott London, Kristen Klaaren
Flipping The Microscope: Peer Education, Race, And Fieldwork In A South African Travel Course, Scott London, Kristen Klaaren
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
About The Contributors, Journal Editors
About The Contributors, Journal Editors
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Is There A Prescription Drug "Epidemic" In Appalachian Kentucky?: Media Representations And Implications For Women Who Misuse Prescription Drugs, Lesly-Marie Bauer
Is There A Prescription Drug "Epidemic" In Appalachian Kentucky?: Media Representations And Implications For Women Who Misuse Prescription Drugs, Lesly-Marie Bauer
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
"The Revolution Will Be Community Grown": Food Justice In The Urban Agriculture Movement Of Detroit, James C. Tolleson
"The Revolution Will Be Community Grown": Food Justice In The Urban Agriculture Movement Of Detroit, James C. Tolleson
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Index, Journal Editors
Index, Journal Editors
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
The Art Of Teaching Anthropology: Examples From Biological Anthropology, Susan Kirkpatrick Smith, Laura D. Lund, Marilyn R. London
The Art Of Teaching Anthropology: Examples From Biological Anthropology, Susan Kirkpatrick Smith, Laura D. Lund, Marilyn R. London
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
Teaching in a college or university setting has many challenges, including often-inadequate preparation in graduate school and the requirement to develop new courses, often in a short period of time. Anthropology faculty are at a particular disadvantage because anthropology lacks any discipline-specific journals for the publication of articles on the scholarship of teaching and learning. Many anthropology faculty desire to have more resources available for course and assignment development. In this chapter, we present several examples of course syllabi, class activities, and a sample student paper that faculty can use as they develop or revise anthropology courses.
Does Our Being There Change What We Come To Study?, Lindsey King
Does Our Being There Change What We Come To Study?, Lindsey King
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
While documenting an ex-voto tradition in a small Roman Catholic shrine town in Northeast Brazil where pilgrims craft mimetic offerings in payment for a spiritual healing, I began to see subtle changes in the manufacture of and interest shown in these offerings. Was this just a coincidence or did my traveling from the United States with expensive cameras and recording equipment spark this change? In this discussion, I examine the “art” of anthropology, delving into the question of how our gaze may be changing the material traditions that we travel to study and what linking changes this may bring to …
A World Of Difference: Unity And Differentiation Among Ceramicists In Quinua, Ayacucho, Peru, Jennifer A. Vogt
A World Of Difference: Unity And Differentiation Among Ceramicists In Quinua, Ayacucho, Peru, Jennifer A. Vogt
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
This chapter analyzes local notions of authenticity drawing on ethnographic data collected during thirteen months of fieldwork in the rural village of Quinua, Peru. The author highlights how local ceramic artisans conceived of authenticity, which, it is argued, is encapsulated by local terms and material practices surrounding the concept of artesano verdadero. Artisans in Quinua share, borrow, and even “steal” designs from others. Within this context, artisans persistently evaluated each other based on these practices. Ultimately, the narratives artisans tell themselves and others about who they are, and are not, as artisans, thereby put forth claims about who counts and …
Mirror Dance: Tourists, Artists, And First People Heritage In Botswana, Jessica Stephenson
Mirror Dance: Tourists, Artists, And First People Heritage In Botswana, Jessica Stephenson
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
Arts destined for the tourist market have long been devalued and set aside from serious study. They are considered mass-produced, artistically uninteresting, and inferior in quality. Recent scholarship counters these views; many forms of tourist art can be recognized as artistically inventive and conceptually complex authentic objects of significance to both client and artist. Here the paintings and prints created by artists affiliated with the Kuru Art Project in Botswana are considered as forms of autoethnography, after Mary Louis Pratt’s term for indigenous autobiographies created in the context of “contact zones.” Autoethnographies are received heterogeneously—in this case, as both nostalgic …
Pocahontas And Rebecca: Two Tales Of A Captive, Margaret Williamson Huber
Pocahontas And Rebecca: Two Tales Of A Captive, Margaret Williamson Huber
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
The Jamestown colonists’ accounts of their capture of Pocahontas, her reactions to life among them, and the consequences for the success of the colony differ radically from the Mattaponi Indian oral history of the same events, published in 2007. Both versions present themselves as “true” — that is, objective reporting of real events; but the fact that each inverts the other raises questions of validity and, ultimately, of historiography in general. This paper argues that the question of veracity is irrelevant to our interpretation of these accounts. Instead, we must take them as representations of a culturally conceived reality—that is, …
Art As Distraction: Rocking The Farm, Daniel W. Ingersoll, Kathleen Butler Ingersoll
Art As Distraction: Rocking The Farm, Daniel W. Ingersoll, Kathleen Butler Ingersoll
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
Monumental architecture, massive statuary, and other art forms fascinate Westerners and tend to inspire positive judgments about past cultural virtuosity and sophistication. Like the pyramids of Egypt or the stone masonry of Machu Picchu, the moai (the statues) and ahu (stone platforms supporting moai) of Rapa Nui (a.k.a. Easter Island) have impressed, mystified, and preoccupied the Western cultural imagination since their encounter by Europeans. Explorers, archaeologists, anthropologists, and tourists are drawn to the monumental like moths to light—which is understandable—but that light also blinds. Here a case is made that for Rapa Nui the obsession for the monumental has led …
Teaching Anthropology Through Food, David M. Johnson
Teaching Anthropology Through Food, David M. Johnson
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
The Politics Of Traditional Foodways In The Arkansas Delta, C. Laine Gates, Justin M. Nolan, Mary Jo Schneider
The Politics Of Traditional Foodways In The Arkansas Delta, C. Laine Gates, Justin M. Nolan, Mary Jo Schneider
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
“Ooo Ooo, Aah Aah”: People, Bonobos, And Mirrored Projections At The Zoo, Robert Shanafelt
“Ooo Ooo, Aah Aah”: People, Bonobos, And Mirrored Projections At The Zoo, Robert Shanafelt
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Causes Mini-Film Festival: Anthropology For Public Consumption, Matthew Richard, Andrea Zvikas
Causes Mini-Film Festival: Anthropology For Public Consumption, Matthew Richard, Andrea Zvikas
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Making Africa Accessible: Bringing Guinea-Bissau Into The University Classroom, Brandon D. Lundy
Making Africa Accessible: Bringing Guinea-Bissau Into The University Classroom, Brandon D. Lundy
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.
Enculturating Student Anthropologists Through Fieldwork In Fiji, Sharyn R. Jones, Loretta A. Cormier, Caitlin Aamodt, Jade Delisle, Anna Mccown, Mallory Messersmith, Megan Noojin
Enculturating Student Anthropologists Through Fieldwork In Fiji, Sharyn R. Jones, Loretta A. Cormier, Caitlin Aamodt, Jade Delisle, Anna Mccown, Mallory Messersmith, Megan Noojin
Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society
No abstract provided.