AnthropoAutumn 2004 Log News from the ’s Department of

In this issue: Kamajor initiator Mama Munda Fortune (left) and her apprentice, Bo, Sierra Leone. July 2000. Front Cover Note from the Chair Daris Swindler Graduate Fellowship

Inside 10 Years of Advising and Mentoring Alum Nina Jablonski Breaks New Ground with Theory of Skin Color Stories of Hope Of Course : Conservation West African War and Violence

Back Cover Milestones Trump Island

Inside this issue… West African War and Violence Note from the Chair Dear friends and alums, From new faculty – “I was scared before coming here, but this is a very friendly The department is thriving! We have over 300 “The department feels lively and friendly. There’s a feeling of place.” majors (a number that always grows as the anticipation, as if some change is in the air. I really enjoy the school year progresses), eighteen terrific new healthy outspokenness of everyone in faculty meetings, “The professors really encourage students to pursue their own graduate students, and four amazing new especially around the topic of the department’s future interests. They’re very open to the idea of students being faculty members! And thanks to two of our directions. I feel like it’s a very exciting moment to be joining comfortable with their own ability.” new colleagues, the University of Washington’s the department.” Africa Program is enjoying a renaissance. We’ve “Students get together to work in groups according to their completed some office remodels to accommo- “My main impression so far is that the members of the various interests. There are several brown bag lunches and date the new faculty, and soon we will open the different sub-disciplines all seem to share a sense of student-initiated reading groups. There are lots of venues for doors to a new, state-of-the-art computer center congeniality and mutual respect. That feels different from students to exchange ideas and learn from one another.” Miriam Kahn on the fourth floor. And, by the time you receive many other departments.” this newsletter, our beautifully redesigned, user- As you can imagine, it was very gratifying to friendly web site should be up and running. “I’ve been very impressed with how understanding and hear these comments, and not only because supportive everyone has been in dealing with all my stupid they’re so positive. As faculty members we do, Most encouraging of all, donations from friends questions like… how do I work the copy machine… where’s the indeed, work hard to create a student-centered and alums have reached a record level — up by fax machine… how do I get back in the building when I lock intellectual program that is coherent, challeng- 1,700% (yes, that’s not a typo; there has been myself out in the middle of the night… (now, of course, I’ll ing, and exciting, and an environment that is an increase from $6,200 in 2003 to $106,000 so need to follow up with my research to find out why anyone productive and supportive. It looks like we’re far in 2004)! With all of this activity going on, I was in the office at that hour).” succeeding! sense a definite feeling of renewal, energy, and excitement. From new graduate students – Of course, I may never know whether these new “Faculty members possess a wealth of knowledge. Among the colleagues and students were just telling the But, being an anthropologist, I felt I should do a various professors, that knowledge is both amazingly diverse ethnographer what they thought she wanted to little ethnographic research to see whether I was and still always complementary.” hear … just imagining this buzz in the air or whether my hunch was based on “reality.” So, armed with “The faculty members are very accessible, supportive, and paper and pencil, as well as a sophisticated encouraging.” e-mail question I posed about people’s first im- pressions, I interviewed both my new colleagues “The curriculum is excellently structured and very coherent. It and the new graduate students. Here’s what feels completely unique. We’re presented with mental maps of they had to say: what anthropology is and how it came to be this way.” Daris Swindler Graduate Fellowship One of Seattle’s Top Physicians Leads the Way

Dr. Richard Pelman, one of Seattle’s top “Reflecting on my own education in the the lead gift to establish the Daris Swindler physicians (as recently chosen by Seattle Department of Anthropology, I’m thankful for the Graduate Fellowship in Biocultural Magazine), is heading a campaign to establish a many worldviews I learned about. Being better Anthropology. I hope it will help other students graduate student fellowship in the name of his able to understand the messages of culture and discover an experience that may define their favorite professor, Dr. Daris Swindler, whom he people has helped in so many instances in my careers. I hope that the recipients, in reflecting fondly remembers from his own student days in career. Today, as a urological surgeon, I’m on Daris Swindler’s career, will continue to our department. Now a clinical professor of constantly reminded of my physical anthropol- enlighten and inspire others the way Daris did urology in the UW School of Medicine and an ogy courses, where I gained a wealth of for me.” associate of Bellevue Urology Associates, Dr. knowledge about anatomy and was Pelman traces the blossoming of his profes- awed by the integration of structure and “Recently I have met current graduate students sional passion to a course he took thirty years function within our personal machines. Most of in the Department of Anthropology and have Richard Pelman ago with Dr. Swindler. Dr. Pelman’s words all, I feel indebted to Dr. Daris Swindler, whose been energized by their focus and knowledge. I explain it best: “Comparative Primate Anatomy” course marvel at the work they are undertaking and I changed my life. It was over our baboon am reassured that anthropology is more “It probably has to do with being fifty-something cadavers that I first began to appreciate the relevant and necessary than ever.” that I find myself reflecting more often on my specialized adaptation that any species, human past and future. A half century of experiences – or otherwise, requires to be successful. Of all “I invite you to help support these talented my progression from school to career, the the courses I took at the UW, there was none individuals and honor Dr. Swindler by contribut- challenges of raising a family, and my social and that grabbed my attention or encouraged my ing to the fellowship fund. For more information, economic responsibilities – ultimately (and enthusiasm more than that one.” please contact the department chair, Dr. Miriam hopefully) lead to a sense of peace and Kahn at [email protected] or (206) 543- fulfillment. Bumps always occur on the road of “I deeply believe that those of us whose roads 5240.” life, whether they’re merely minor vibrations or have been relatively free of bumps have an occasional severe obstacles. But, however these obligation to support and encourage those who Daris Swindler glitches present themselves, I’m convinced that are beginning their journey. For this reason, as a great education helps smooth the road.” well as to honor Dr. Swindler, I have provided Ten Years of Advising and Mentoring: Diane Guerra Alum Nina Jablonski Breaks New Ground with Theory of Skin Color Of Course: Primate Conservation Biological Anthropology 469 Although she greatly enjoyed working with Both and -3 are essential for healthy reproduc- young children,Diane decided that she was tion. Folate is required for normal development of an embryo’s ready for a change of pace. Having worked as nervous system, while vitamin D-3 maintains healthy blood levels Why should we care if many primate species are endangered? the office manager for the recruitment office of of calcium and phosphorus, protecting bones and promoting their And what can be done to protect them from extinction? A class of the Educational Opportunity Program at the growth. Too much UVR can not only cause skin cancer, but it can twelve undergraduates and Lecturer Leila Porter will spend a University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Diane break down folate, which compromises a person’s chances of quarter exploring answers to these questions in a course called decided to take a job as an academic counselor having a healthy baby. Too little UVR can lead to vitamin D- “Primate Conservation.” at UIC’s College of Engineering. It was there that deficiency diseases such as rickets and osteoporosis. As Diane realized she had found a career that Jablonski explains, “Skin color is an evolutionary balancing act Porter, who earned her PhD at the State University of at Diane Guerra matched her interests and her personality to a T. Nina Jablonski between protecting yourself from excess UVR, while allowing a Stony Brook in 2000, has been a lecturer at the University of Ten years ago, Diane Guerra became the little UVR into your skin to produce vitamin D.” Other researchers Washington since 2002. Her research has focused on the Department of Anthropology’s first Director of When her husband accepted an offer from the Anthropological research can play a pivotal role in weakening and have linked skin color and sun exposure, but Jablonski is the first behavioral ecology of small-bodied monkeys (tamarins and Undergraduate Student Services when former English department at the University of dismantling harmful biases and stereotypes, bringing empirical to pinpoint a direct relationship between sun exposure and the Goeldi’s monkeys) in the Bolivian Amazon, one of the most chair Carol Eastman hired her away from the Washington, Diane moved to Seattle with him facts to bear on questions of racism, bigotry, and misunderstand- reproductive mechanism regulating skin color. diverse regions for in South America, boasting fourteen Department of Mathematics. Whether helping and has made a home for herself here at the uni- ing. When it comes to the highly charged topic of color, different species. students decide which courses to register for, versity. Along the way, Diane completed her anthropology cannot rewrite history, but it can help lay the With any luck, Jablonski’s research will go far toward changing the supporting them through difficult circum- master’s degree in education with a concentra- foundation for a value-free understanding of how and why human way people think about skin color. “We can take a topic that has During the course of her dissertation research, Porter realized stances, or discussing course schedules, tion in curriculum and instruction, fitting well skin color varies. caused so much disagreement, so much suffering, and so much that unless efforts are initiated to control deforestation, Bolivian graduation, and graduate school, Diane is with her current responsibilities in the depart- misunderstanding, and completely disarm it,” she says. “We’re all forests and primates will quickly disappear. Primates as a always ready with a warm smile and a friendly ment. In addition to her usual duties, Diane Nina Jablonski, a paleoanthropologist who received her PhD in the same under the skin.” Jablonski’s findings show that skin taxonomic group are under grave threat: thirty percent of species word of advice. recently took on the responsibility of working physical anthropology from the University of Washington in 1981, coloration doesn’t happen by chance; “it’s something that are considered endangered. Thus, unless initiatives are under- with the department’s sub-discipline curriculum has determined that skin color is an evolutionary adaptation. Her evolved for a good set of biological reasons. And it takes the wind taken to protect these species and their habitats, they are likely Born and raised in Chicago, Diane learned early coordinators to develop a biannual teaching findings were recently published in the Journal of Human out of racism and bigotry [and social stigma],” she explains. to become extinct within the next one hundred years—a fate that on how to adapt to a world in the throes of schedule that bridges curriculum and the needs and are the first comprehensive theory of skin coloration. would be both tragic and dangerous, given the vital role primates social and cultural change. After earning her BA of advising. Jablonski has held the Irvine Chair of Anthropology at the play in their ecosystems. in education at Northeastern Teacher’s College Variations in skin color occur because over millennia, populations California Academy of Sciences since late 1994. She is the author in Chicago, she taught elementary school for Over the years, Diane has advised engineering, of have migrated across the Earth and have needed to of numerous papers and books on primate and human evolution, Luckily for conservationists like Porter, primates are a useful taxo- two years in the inner city. Later, joining her math, and anthropology students. If you ask her, adapt to the amount of ultra-violet radiation (UVR) from the sun conducts fieldwork throughout Africa and Asia, and in 2002 was nomic group on which to focus efforts: they are conspicuous and husband in his hometown in south Texas, Diane she’ll tell you that she finds working with falling on different regions. The degree of skin pigmentation is elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement charismatic animals, making them “flagship” species to promote taught fourth grade in an elementary school that anthropology students the most fulfilling of all. related to two conflicting physiological needs: the need to protect of Science. served economically disadvantaged Latino Because anthropology students study and strive the body against the breakdown of essential compounds that are the conservation of the ecosystems they inhabit. In addition, children, many of whom came to know her as to address the varied needs of human beings in sensitive to UVR (such as folate, a B vitamin), while simultane- because the majority of primates live in tropical rain forests, they their first and only African American teacher. all their cultural diversity, Diane feels lucky to be ously allowing just enough UVR into the skin to allow for the serve as flagship species for some of the most threatened ecosys- in a position to support them as they take up synthesis of vitamin D-3. tems in the world. Porter has worked with several organizations some of the most important concerns we face in to establish protected areas in the Bolivian tropics, but conserva- the world today. tion campaigns and education are vital to increasing awareness of the threat of extinction. Stories of Hope West African War and Violence As a next step, Porter brings her campaign to the University of Asst. Professor Rachel Chapman’s Journey in Anthropology New UW Asst. Professor studies West African War and Violence through a Fresh Lens Washington campus with her course “Primate Conservation,” in which students look at factors that make species vulnerable to extinction, including behavior, feeding ecology, reproduction, density, and distribution. In addition, students discuss the design and implementation of conservation plans to protect primates and their ecosystems, looking at case studies from around the world. At the end of the quarter, students formulate proposals to protect a region of tropical Amazon forest and then present their although women talked to her about their most conservation plans in what is sure to be an engaging and pressing problems—infant and maternal mor- passionate debate. bidity and mortality—they failed to seek health care at the clinic. Primate conservation is an issue of global concern, and making sure University of Washington students are well-informed is a Inspired by two and a half years of experience small but promising accomplishment. Increasing awareness is an in Mozambique, Chapman was ready to start important step towards creating global interest and support for her research. She examined reproductive health conservation initiatives to keep primate species thriving and their Rachel Chapman seeking in the pluralistic health system in Danny Hoffman rain forest homes intact, and we in the University of Washington, The paths we take as anthropologists are many Mozambique. She found that women often hid Sierra Leone has a particular allure for anthro- Department of Anthropology are thrilled to do our part. and varied, and knowing where we’ve come from pregnancy because they feared social threats to pologists working in Africa. Through the early often helps explain how we arrived at studying their own and their unborn children’s lives, more 1990s, scholars conducting fieldwork in the what we do. The story of how newly hired faculty than they feared biological problems. Patterns West African nation produced some of the most member Rachel Chapman came to study health of delayed prenatalAFRICA care were related to pat- innovative studies of power dynamics and care disparities among women begins with her terns of social disruption and commoditization governance, ritual practices, urbanization and birth. of social life. Thus, they did not see the clinic as gender relations. But with the outbreak of war being helpful in protecting them or their infants in 1991, the understanding of “culture” in Sierra Chapman was born to a black, unwed teenage from harm. All of this was unfolding on the Leone took a very different turn. Images of mother just before civil rights were legally ex- ground within a political and economic context civilians maimed by teenage combatants tended to all Americans. She was adopted into of extreme poverty. In her dissertation she tells became synonymous with the Mano River a multi-racial family with three other adopted these women’s stories in a way that moves region of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. No children and grew up in an environment of beyond their belief in witchcraft and sorcery to 1 2 place is now more closely associated with the intense social activism. In college, as part of her include the national and global forces of war violent upheavals of parts of post-Cold War own search for identity, she double-majored in and structural adjustment policies that shape Africa. “Tribalism” and the “culture of violence” the bullets of their enemies, and they drew a Danny comes to the Department of Afro-American Studies and Literature, learned their lives. are the lenses through which most observers parallel to the hunters of legend as a way to Anthropology fresh from finishing his graduate Swahili and Yoruba, and studied in Kenya. It was now see events throughout West Africa. explain their own extraordinary powers. But work in the cultural anthropology department at in Africa that Chapman realized that if she want- Before coming to the University of Washington, Danny’s ethnographic work among militia Duke University. Before beginning his graduate ed to understand the dilemma of being black in Chapman taught at Case Western Reserve Uni- With his work in Sierra Leone and elsewhere in members in the capital city of Freetown, in the studies, Danny worked as a photojournalist in America, she needed to understand black life versity, where she developed the urban health the region, recently hired University of eastern city of Bo, and in rural areas in Sierra Southern and East Africa. This year he will be before and outside of America. She continued program in their Department of Anthropology. In Washington anthropologist Danny Hoffman Leone and Liberia suggests that circulating teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on to a master’s degree in African Studies and Cincinnati she continued her search to under- addresses these twin understandings of social Rambo videos and the CNN coverage of in the anthropology of Africa and visual along the way discovered anthropology, which stand and document the disparities in health life in Sierra Leone. Danny’s research – along September 11 and the war in Afghanistan are at anthropology, as well as on the study of warfare pulled together under one umbrella everything care access, care-seeking, and health outcomes with that of other anthropologists, political least as important to understanding the ways and violence. she felt she needed to make sense of the world: of women in economically and socially marginal- 3 4 scientists, economists, and historians special- combatants see themselves as are traditional language, history, poetry, the environment, ized settings. To date, there is no single answer izing in African conflict zones – suggests that narratives of hunters and warriors. Likewise, politics, psychology, and art. As she explains, from any discipline that adequately explains 1,2+3 : Rachel Chapman those aspects of the war which appeared most competition over the profits of the diamond “Anthropology calls this ‘culture.’” why disparities in birth outcomes are worse for 1: Women‘s focus group in bairro Mucessua, Mozambique sensational or primitive are not evidence of a trade in the wake of the 1980s economic crises black women in the U.S., regardless of class. 2: Women elders in Muccessua, Mozambique retreat from the modern world or an eruption of is more relevant to understanding the conflict Chapman went on to UCLA for a PhD in anthro- 3: Anthropologist with her namesake, Raquela ancient tribal animosities. They are, rather, than are ethnic tensions. In short, the questions pology. During her time as a graduate student, Professor Chapman is committed to working closely interconnected with today’s global which have always interested scholars of Sierra she was invited to join a delegation to Mozam- toward answering these questions and finding 3,4+5 : Danny Hoffman economy. Leone – questions about participation which bique, which was in the midst of a terrible civil ways to disrupt this tragic pattern of inequality 4: Kamajors in battle gear, Bo, Sierra Leone. July 2000. have always interested scholars of Sierra Leone war. Later, she was invited back again to do her that dictates who lives and who dies, when and 5: Demonstrating a kamajor’s ability to repel bullets, Bo Sierra Leone. The kamajor militia with which Danny did his and post-colonial economy, gender dynamics, doctoral research there. But before beginning how. In each setting she studies, she is consis- July 2000. fieldwork appears in media coverage of the and generational power struggles – remain the her research, she spent two years working in tently amazed by how people go on in everyday 6: Mama Munda Fortune’s kamajor unit, the Kassela War Council, Bo, decade-long war as a violent anachronism: most important questions to ask even amidst Mozambique as the assistant to the Director of ways under immense pressure and against great Sierra Leone. July 2000. 5 6 Many of the young men who joined the militia the seemingly radical shifts in social landscape Health Education. 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