2014 ROUTE 66 Destinations Society for Applied Anthropology • 74th Annual Meeting Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town March 18-22, 2014 Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town Map Please be environmentally friendly and recycle your name badge holder. There are several boxes in the registration area where you can return it. Contents Welcome from the Program Chair ................................................................................................ iii Welcome from the President ............................................................................................................v SfAA 2014 Program Committee .....................................................................................................v Officers of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Board of Directors, and Editors ............... vii Special Thanks and Co-Sponsors ................................................................................................ vii Past Presidents and Annual Meeting Sites .................................................................................... ix General Information How to Use This Program .................................................................................................1 A Note About Abstracts .....................................................................................................1 Registration .......................................................................................................................1 Book Exhibit .....................................................................................................................1 Messages and Information ................................................................................................1 Plenary Sessions ................................................................................................................1 Social Events .....................................................................................................................1 Special Events ...................................................................................................................2 Awards ...............................................................................................................................2 Program Schedule Tuesday, March 18 .............................................................................................................8 Wednesday, March 19 ......................................................................................................18 Thursday, March 20 .........................................................................................................36 Friday, March 21 .............................................................................................................54 Saturday, March 22 .........................................................................................................70 Abstracts Sessions ...........................................................................................................................83 Papers ............................................................................................................................103 Posters ............................................................................................................................232 Videos ............................................................................................................................241 Workshops .....................................................................................................................243 Participant Index ..........................................................................................................................245 I II Welcome from the Program Chair What Is a Meeting? On behalf of the 2014 Program Committee, I am proud to which we are meeting. It is also an opportunity to showcase welcome members and guests to this year’s annual meetings. anthropology and applied social science to a general public. We They are among the largest meetings we have ever held, with have publicized the day locally and invited the public to attend 1,820 participants preregistered as of February 1. There are sessions free of charge. The sessions that compose Albuquer- 250 sessions with nearly 1,700 individuals on the program. que/New Mexico Day are restricted to topics that relate directly There are about 90 posters being presented. We are offering 11 to the interests of the region. Topics include immigration, wa- workshops. We are also offering 14 tours, a record number for ter, sustainable agriculture and local food, health care, Native our meetings. Every meeting room available to us is accounted American art, Pueblo culture, and local history and heritage. for and we have extended some sessions into the early evening. It is especially pleasing that a significant number of local But there is more than numbers to be appreciated here. We can residents have agreed to actively participate in the events of the be impressed by the quality of papers and other activities to be day—including political leaders, representatives of the media, presented and by the considerable diversity of subjects with tribal and Pueblo representatives, staff of public agencies, com- which the presenters are concerned. Among contributors we munity representatives, and local activists. So it is not just “us” have a good mix of academic professionals, student present- talking about “them” behind closed doors, but multiple parties ers, and I think a larger than usual turnout of anthropologists engaged freely with important issues. We are pleased that the and other social scientists who practice outside of academia. Albuquerque Public Library agreed to cosponsor the day and Twenty-nine countries are represented among the registrants. to help with publicity. We started planning for these meetings with the theme of Each day of the meetings includes a full schedule of paper Destinations, and with the following theme statement: sessions, panels, roundtables, and workshops. This year we have experimented with a “cluster” approach in which some Destination: (1) the place to which one is going or directed; (2) members of the program committee were asked to make a spe- the ultimate purpose for which something is created or intended. cial effort to develop sessions in their area of expertise. These clusters could then be organized in such a way as to minimize We are a world on the move. We are increasingly drawn to scheduling conflicts and promote their common interests. In issues of transience and mobility. The leading question of our this vein, Judith Freidenberg helped draw together and or- time might no longer be who we are but rather where are we ganize more than 25 sessions related to issues of immigration going? Where will we live as storms imperil our lives and sea and migration. Susanna Hoffman and her colleague AJ Fass levels rise, or as fresh water becomes a scarce commodity in helped bring together more than 20 sessions related to risk and many parts of the world? How do we imagine a fair and just disaster research. Alaka Wali and Kristina Kreps aided in world in those places where immigrants face discrimination the organization of six sessions related to engaged museums. and hostility and political refugees wait impatiently for some- Jennifer Weis and Hillary Haldane helped provide for five one to respond to their plight? Where do we find safe harbor sessions related to gender-based violence and Melissa Stevens when some of our most constant fellow travelers are disease and Tim Wallace assisted in bringing forth a dozen sessions and epidemics and where health care professionals struggle related to tourism. These cluster organizers were also invited to respond to the needs of a diverse and transient population? to organize a roundup session on the last day of the meetings Where do we locate the past and peoples’ heritage in such a to discuss what went on in their clusters and how preparations great furor of instability and mobility? How and to what ef- might be made for next year’s meetings. fect are peoples’ homes and environments transformed by the ubiquitous demands of a global tourism industry? How far I have always regarded tours as an important part of our must our food and goods travel to satisfy modern consumer meetings, and this year it has been my intention that they not demand? How do our cities and communities respond to the only entertain and educate but that they also reflect the best needs of the homeless, the undocumented, and multiple other reaches and principles of our disciplines. Most of this year’s visitors? How are the Diasporas of the past reflected in the tours will be led by colleagues in anthropology and archae- contingencies of the present, and how might we anticipate the ology, and many reflect a commitment to drawing attention movements of people in the future? to important social issues and to actively collaborating with those we tour. Faculty, alumni and students of the University For this week, of course, our destination is Albuquerque, New of New Mexico Anthropology Department have been espe- Mexico, and our meetings begin with a special day. Albuquer- cially helpful with some of the tours. One promising innova- que/New Mexico Day has been developed as an opportunity to tion that developed in part from a meeting at the department share a part of our meetings with the residents of the region in was to connect some tours to sessions being offered during III Albuquerque/New