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Society for Applied Anthropology • 79th Annual Meeting Hilton Portland Downtown Portland, Oregon March 19-23, 2019 Contents Hilton Portland Downtown Map .................................................................................................... ii Welcome from the Program Chair ................................................................................................ iii SfAA 2019 Program Committee .................................................................................................... iv Officers of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Board of Directors, and Editors ............... iv Special Thanks and Co-Sponsors ...................................................................................................v Past Presidents and Annual Meeting Sites .................................................................................. viii General Information How to Use This Program .................................................................................................1 A Note About Abstracts .....................................................................................................1 Registration .......................................................................................................................1 Book Exhibit .....................................................................................................................1 Plenary Sessions ................................................................................................................1 Social Events .....................................................................................................................1 Special Events ...................................................................................................................2 Awards ...............................................................................................................................2 Program Schedule Tuesday, March 19 .............................................................................................................4 Wednesday, March 20 ........................................................................................................7 Thursday, March 21 .........................................................................................................26 Friday, March 22 .............................................................................................................44 Saturday, March 23 .........................................................................................................67 Abstracts Sessions ...........................................................................................................................77 Posters ..............................................................................................................................95 Videos ............................................................................................................................109 Workshops .....................................................................................................................110 Paper Abstracts are Online at: sfaa.net/program Sustaining Fellows .........................................................................................................................112 Participant Index ..........................................................................................................................114 I Hilton Portland Downtown Map II Welcome from the Program Chair The Making of Engaging Change in Turbulent Times I am delighted to welcome you to the 79th annual meeting of Conference attendees will also share their ideas and work in the Society for Applied Anthropology. With 1700 registered the Friday afternoon poster session. Please stop by the Grand participants from 28 countries, this meeting will be one of our Ballroom to meet our 143 poster presenters. Each year the largest, and it promises a wealth of information, perspectives, content and quality of these posters gets better and better. and opportunities for engaged conversations. We last met in The topics parallel and complement what you will have been Portland in 2003, and it is good to be back in this vibrant city. hearing in sessions. Often the work of students or early-career A year ago, I proposed we use this annual meeting to share professionals, the posters present current research, new ideas insights and experiences on how these turbulent times are af- and examples of new methodological approaches. Best of all, fecting our applied work. My hope was we would collectively the authors will be standing right there—excited, a little ner- generate lessons learned to sustain the relevance of our applied vous, but definitely ready to answer questions and learn from work. Today, I feel even greater urgency for us to discuss and you as well. sharpen our understanding of the contributions anthropology and other social sciences can make to address rapidly chang- As in past SfAA annual meetings, our members are willing to ing cultural, societal, and environmental challenges. As you share their skills. We have 15 workshops scheduled, covering will see, the program is innovative, compassionate, and useful. topics such as program evaluation, market systems develop- ment, expert witness preparation, networking, qualitative and On Tuesday, the first day of our annual meeting, we focus on quantitative methods and nonacademic careers. Consider par- issues for Portland and the Cascadia region. We have much ticipating in these workshops to learn new approaches in your to offer, with sessions covering topics such as tribal resource research, analysis, and public engagement in turbulent times. management and collaborations, cities and technology, disaster resilience, community-based participatory research, Our meeting program is enriched by a number of special integrated health care, and gentrification. Annually, the SfAA events. These include a roundtable jointly organized by the Board of Directors organizes a critical local-day conversation. SfAA and AAA on Advocacy, Public Engagement, and Mem- This year’s session focuses on homelessness in Portland and ber Service (Thursday 10-11:50), the Robert A. and Beverly beyond. All Local Day events are open to the general public H. Hackenberg Prize Lecture (Thursday 10-11:50), the J. free of charge, and a reception that evening welcomes them to Anthony Paredes Memorial Plenary (Wednesday 5:30-7:20), our meeting. the Michael Kearney Memorial Lecture (Thursday 3:30-5:20), and a session on the work of renowned Portland-based writer I thank SfAA members and other colleagues for your thought- Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (Thursday 5:30 to 7:20). Our gen- ful and enthusiastic response to the program theme. I am con- eral Welcome Reception is on Wednesday evening; President fident you will find much of interest and relevance. We have Sandy Ervin will preside. This is a time to reconnect with col- around 320 sessions, including roundtables, panels, and films. leagues and meet new people, and, of course, enjoy good food Of course, a program chair does not develop the program and libations. Another important event is Friday evening’s alone. Many of these sessions were organized by the SfAA’s Awards Ceremony. Incoming president Sherylyn Briller will topical interest groups (TIGs) and clusters: Disaster and Risk, serve as master of ceremonies. Winners of the Margaret Mead, Extraction, Gender-based Violence, Agriculture, Fisheries, Sol Tax, and Bronislaw Malinowski Awards will be honored Business, Medical, Displacement and Resettlement, Immigra- tion, Tourism, Museums and Heritage, Disability, and Higher One of the rewards of serving as program chair is being able Education. Other sessions and workshops were contributed to work with a wide range of applied anthropologists and by our seven conference co-sponsors: Canadian Anthropology social scientists and learning of their research and practice. Society/Société canadienne d’anthropologie (CASCA), Centre It was educational, inspirational, and reassuring to see the for Imaginative Ethnography (CIE), Council on Nursing and range and sophistication of our collective work. Another Anthropology (CONAA), Culture and Agriculture Section of reward was to work with a team of colleagues in the SfAA the American Anthropological Association (C&A), National office. The amount of work they do “behind the scenes” Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA), Politi- to make each annual meeting a success defies description. cal Ecology Society (PESO), and the Society for Anthropolog- They are consummate professionals, patient to a fault, ical Sciences (SAS). I was fortunate to have an active program and always of good cheer. I cannot thank Melissa Cope committee, consisting of 20 SfAA members whose ideas and and Trish Colvin enough for all their help on almost every experiences and hard work greatly increased the number and topic at each stage of the work. Neil Hann, SfAA Executive focus of the program’s sessions. I offer my heartfelt thanks to Director, is always there to answer questions and provide the TIGs, co-sponsors, and members of the program commit- expert and calm guidance. Don Stull, SfAA Annual Meeting tee. You made my work better and much easier! Coordinator and good friend, was the perfect partner for me III in developing this program. We work well together and our University of North Texas for their financial support of the skills are complementary. Don made this task much