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Connecting, Exchanging, And Having Impact, Brian A. Hoey, Hannah G. Smith Jun 2022

Connecting, Exchanging, And Having Impact, Brian A. Hoey, Hannah G. Smith

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

No abstract provided.


Celebrating The Local, Melinda Bollar Wagner Jun 2022

Celebrating The Local, Melinda Bollar Wagner

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Including Table Of Contents, Journal Editors Jun 2022

Front Matter, Including Table Of Contents, Journal Editors

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

No abstract provided.


About The Contributors, Journal Editors Jun 2022

About The Contributors, Journal Editors

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

No abstract provided.


The Influences Of Vodou On Medical Pluralism And Treatment-Seeking Behavior Among Haitian Immigrants In The United States: Suggestions For Cultural Competency Programs, Sarah Hoover Jun 2022

The Influences Of Vodou On Medical Pluralism And Treatment-Seeking Behavior Among Haitian Immigrants In The United States: Suggestions For Cultural Competency Programs, Sarah Hoover

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

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Idioms Of Distress Among White Women Patients At The Southwestern Lunatic Asylum, Marion, Virginia, 1887-1891, Anthony P. Cavender Jun 2022

Idioms Of Distress Among White Women Patients At The Southwestern Lunatic Asylum, Marion, Virginia, 1887-1891, Anthony P. Cavender

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

No abstract provided.


Water And Cherokee Healing, Lisa J. Lefler Jun 2022

Water And Cherokee Healing, Lisa J. Lefler

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 Jun 2022

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

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The Cultural Context Of Depression In Appalachia: Evangelical Christianity And The Experience Of Emotional Distress And Healing, Susan E. Keefe, Lisa Curtin Jun 2022

The Cultural Context Of Depression In Appalachia: Evangelical Christianity And The Experience Of Emotional Distress And Healing, Susan E. Keefe, Lisa Curtin

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

No abstract provided.


Creating Healthy Community In The Postindustrial City, Brian A. Hoey Jun 2022

Creating Healthy Community In The Postindustrial City, Brian A. Hoey

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 Jun 2022

"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

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Introduction, Lindsey King Jun 2022

Introduction, Lindsey King

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Including Table Of Contents, Journal Editors Jun 2022

Front Matter, Including Table Of Contents, Journal Editors

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

No abstract provided.


About The Contributors, Journal Editors Jun 2022

About The Contributors, Journal Editors

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

No abstract provided.


Index, Journal Editors Jun 2022

Index, Journal Editors

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

No abstract provided.


The Art Of Anthropology At A College In Crisis: Exploring Some Effects Of Neoliberalism On Higher Education, Vincent H. Melomo Jun 2022

The Art Of Anthropology At A College In Crisis: Exploring Some Effects Of Neoliberalism On Higher Education, Vincent H. Melomo

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

This chapter addresses the increasing pervasiveness of neoliberal ideologies in our culture and focuses on the implications of these ideologies for the future of anthropology in higher education. More specifically, the chapter considers how these ideologies pose a particular challenge to anthropology’s more humanistic dimensions, which include both the art of anthropology and an anthropology of art. Throughout the chapter, the author tells the story of how reductions were made recently to the anthropology program at his institution in response to converging economic crises. He analyzes the context of these changes and the process by which they were made in …


The Art Of Teaching Anthropology: Examples From Biological Anthropology, Susan Kirkpatrick Smith, Laura D. Lund, Marilyn R. London Jun 2022

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.


Arts Integration As Critical Pedagogy, Elizabeth A. Sheehan Jun 2022

Arts Integration As Critical Pedagogy, Elizabeth A. Sheehan

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

This chapter discusses arts integration in K-12 education as a form of critical pedagogy, a way to create a “curriculum within the curriculum” that meets the demands of standardized testing while encouraging students to make meaningful connections to the material they are taught. Arts integration allows teachers to use a wide range of art forms to teach core subjects, including those emphasized by statewide standardized tests. Focusing on an arts integration project for fourth graders at a Title I elementary school in Richmond, Virginia, the chapter describes how the study of African American history in the former capital of the …


Race And Rhythm In Rock And Roll, Hector Qirko Jun 2022

Race And Rhythm In Rock And Roll, Hector Qirko

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

This chapter argues that contrary to conventional wisdom and the views of many scholars and critics, rock and roll’s most important rhythmic elements are derived from a complex blend of African, American, and European musical traditions. There is therefore no objective support for racialized characterizations of the “beat” that often serve, however unintentionally, to perpetuate stereotypes in discussions of both the genre and American popular music more broadly.


Does Our Being There Change What We Come To Study?, Lindsey King Jun 2022

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 …


Style And Configuration In Prehistoric Iconography, Vernon James Knight Jr. Jun 2022

Style And Configuration In Prehistoric Iconography, Vernon James Knight Jr.

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

The iconography of ancient art has to do with making propositions about what that art depicts. Stylistic studies, in contrast, make propositions about the sharedness of formal properties with other objects. These can be done separately. Although many iconographic analyses of ancient art proceed with little or no consideration of style, I argue that the two modes of analysis are interdependent. I offer a methodological case that stylistic analysis is logically prior to iconographic study in the domain of ancient art. This observation argues for a distinctively staged approach to the iconography of ancient objects, one in which detailed stylistic …


Defining Art In The Gozo International Contemporary Arts Festival, Rachel Syka Jun 2022

Defining Art In The Gozo International Contemporary Arts Festival, Rachel Syka

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

This chapter explores the role of identity, place, and origin of the artists in the Gozo International Contemporary Arts Festival in Gozo, Malta. Based on research conducted in July 2010 for a summer field school in sociocultural anthropology, I draw on conversations with several of the artists showing their work, as well as interactions with local organizing officials, arts instructors, and Gozitan artists and craftspeople not directly involved in the exhibit. I argue that the event is a space in which central questions of Gozitan identity are actively addressed and negotiated, focusing particularly on the manner in which the international …


Thomas Kinkade: Money, Class, And The Aesthetic Economy, Susan Falls Jun 2022

Thomas Kinkade: Money, Class, And The Aesthetic Economy, Susan Falls

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

Contemporary art is seldom given sustained anthropological analysis despite its tantalizing potential. As a response, this essay examines the work of Thomas Kinkade to cast an oblique light on the production of value. Kinkade’s mechanically reproduced opus representing Cotswold cottages, quaint city scenes, and Disney fantasies are sold by authorized dealers in malls, along tourist strips, and online. Rather than operating as kitsch, lowbrow, or a new model for art-making, Kinkade’s overt profit motive, self-celebration, and evangelical Christianity refract political, economic, and especially aesthetic constructions that undergird contemporary markets. A bad boy of the aesthetic economy, Kinkade’s work, mostly dismissed …


A World Of Difference: Unity And Differentiation Among Ceramicists In Quinua, Ayacucho, Peru, Jennifer A. Vogt Jun 2022

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 Jun 2022

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 …


A Memoir Of An Other, Robert C. Philen Jun 2022

A Memoir Of An Other, Robert C. Philen

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

I am the literary executor for my late partner, the prolific poet and essayist Reginald Shepherd. Shepherd often spoke of writing a memoir but never had the chance to do so before his death. However, the essays he wrote, his poetry, his correspondences, and other writings contain many, many fragments of memoiristic material in his voice. I am in the process of assembling these fragments into his posthumous memoir, and the project bears a strong relationship to the long tradition of ethnographic biographies, as well as being a strong example of bricolage and mythic thinking. Here, I will reflect on …


Pocahontas And Rebecca: Two Tales Of A Captive, Margaret Williamson Huber Jun 2022

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, …


Disciplined Aesthetics: Fashioning Art And Anthropology, Brandon D. Lundy Jun 2022

Disciplined Aesthetics: Fashioning Art And Anthropology, Brandon D. Lundy

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

No abstract provided.


Art As Distraction: Rocking The Farm, Daniel W. Ingersoll, Kathleen Butler Ingersoll Jun 2022

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 …


Preface And Acknowledgments, Brandon D. Lundy Jun 2022

Preface And Acknowledgments, Brandon D. Lundy

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

No abstract provided.