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SAS Newsletter A PUBLICATION OF THE SOUTHERN Fall 2017 ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY Volume E10, Issue 2 SAS Newsletter ANNOUNCING THE 2018 SAS 53RD ANNUAL MEETING INSIDE THIS ISSUE 2018 53RD ANNUAL MEETING SOUTHERN ANTHROPOLOGICAL Announcements……………...2 SOCIETY (SAS) Downtown Marriott, Chattanooga, TN Notes From the President..3 All sessions and events held on Friday and Saturday: April 20-21, 2017 Annual Meeting ……...5 2018 2016 Annual Meeting ........ 7 FINAL ABSTRACT DEADLIINE: MARCH 10, 2018 2016 Undergraduate Paper Winner………………………….11 Send Abstracts by email attachment to: Zora Neale Hurston Award …………………………………….23 Drs. Betty J. Duggan ([email protected]) and Lyn Miles (Lyn- Proceedings/ SA…………….24 [email protected]). For Annual Meeting details, registration, hotel and James Mooney Award…….25 forms go to SAS website (http://southernanthro.org). 2016 Mooney Award Recipi- ents …………………………………….26 KEYNOTE SPEAKER 2016 Student Paper Awards……..………………….28 DR. ANN KINGSOLVER SAS Members’ Recent Publi- TOPIC: METHODOLOGIES OF CONNEC- cations…………………………29 TION:ANTHROPOLOGY’S EVERYDAY Student Book Reviews and POSSIBILITIES Teaching tips………………...30 Ann Kingsolver, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky, is a cultural anthropologist whose ethnographic re- search for over 30 years has focused on how people in rural areas make sense of global capitalist logic and policies in relation to livelihoods and identities. She started that work in her hometown in Kentucky, as work in tobacco and textiles was shifting to other regions, and then did fieldwork in Mexico and Sri Lanka. Most recently, she has been organizing and participating in comparative conversations across global mountain regions. Her books and co-edited volumes include: NAFTA Sto- ries: Fears and Hopes in Mexico and the U.S. (2001); Tobacco Town Fu- tures: Global Encounters in Rural Kentucky (2011); More than Class: Stud- ying Power in U.S. Workplaces (1998); The Gender of Globalization: Wom- en Navigating Cultural and Economic Marginalities (2007); The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology (2017); Appalachia in Context: Place Matters (2018); and, Global Mountain Regions: Conversations To- ward the Future (fall, 2018). 1 A PUBLICATION OF THE SOUTHERN Fall 2017 ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY Volume E10, Issue 2 ANNOUNCEMENTS NOMINATIONS FOR SAS SAS SPOTLIGHT ON INNOVATION OFFICERS AND APPOINT- SESSION AND SPEAKER MENTS Disasters, Displacement, and Hu- Please send nominations of man Rights Program University of someone else or yourself for Tennessee, Department of An- the offices and appoint- thropology ments listed below. Send The DDHR promotes holistic training, these and any questions to President Betty Duggan at collaborative research, rigorous theo- [email protected], retical approaches, and applied/ copying to Past President engaged work on historical and contem- and Councilor Robbie porary problems broadly associated Ethridge at re- with human rights concepts and norms. [email protected] . In Through innovative, inter- nomination include position, subdisciplinary work in cultural, biolog- nominee’s name, title, con- ical/forensic and archaeological anthro- tact information, and a brief pology it contributes to the develop- paragraph (150 words or ment of anthropology as a science, as an less) about the person’s pro- art, and as a tool for improving the human condition. An undergraduate fessional interests, contribu- concentration in DDHR and a Graduate Certificate is available for degree tions and/or previous SAS and non-degree graduate students in any discipline. involvement, if any. DEAD- LINE FOR NOMINATIONS: Dr. Tricia Redeker Hepner is Associate Professor of Anthropology March 10, 2018. and Director of the Disasters, Displacement, and Human Rights (DDHR) Program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She works broadly on Nominations for Officers: issues of conflict, migration, and human rights, especially with refugees President (2018-2020) and asylum seekers from Eritrea in North America, Europe and Africa. President-Elect (2018-2020) Secretary-Treasurer (2018- 2023) Councilor (2018-2021) (one opening) Nominations for Appoint- ments: Photographer (documenting annual meetings, beginning 2018) Zora Neal Hurston Prize Committee Member (one opening, beginning 2018) Graduate Student Repre- Chattanooga, TN sentative to Board (2018- 2020) (first-time offered) 2 A PUBLICATION OF THE SOUTHERN Fall 2017 ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY Volume E10, Issue 2 FROM THE PRESIDENT: A BRIEF HISTORY OF SAS PUBLI- CATIONS AND CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES By Betty J. Duggan (MOIFA, UTC) Since the call to establish the Southern Anthropological Society in 1965 and its first annual meeting in 1966, publications have been a vital part of this professional organization’s mission and legacy. Today, the SAS Proceedings, Southern Anthropologist journal, and SAS E- Newsletter, offer different opportunities for scholars, other profession- als, and students at different career stages to publish their research and/ or discuss current projects. SAS also recognizes annually the best eth- nography about Southern cultures and/or themes, past or present, pub- lished by an academic press, with the James Mooney Award. Read on for a bit of history about each publication, and whom to con- tact about current publication guidelines for each. Historic information Betty J. Duggan (MOIFA, UTC), is derived from the author’s research in several digital interviews that President are part of a larger SAS oral history project conducted by Michael An- grosino (USF) and his graduate students for the 1996 annual meeting, a project funded in part by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, as well as the CURRENT OFFICERS & CHAIRS SAS website. • President: Betty J. Duggan (MOIFA, UTC) • Past President: Robbie The SAS Proceedings is now in its 51st year of academic press publica- Ethridge (UMiss) tion. According to Michael Angrosino (USF), Erma Honigmann (UNC) • Secretary-Treasurer: Brandon was the first editor, and the late Charles Hudson said that these first one D. Lundy (KSU) or two volumes were mimeographed for distribution (any copies out • Councillors: Robbie Ethridge (U of Miss), Abby Wightman there?). From 1967 through 2007, the series was published by the Uni- (MBU), Vincent Melomo versity of Georgia Press. General Editors during the UGA years includ- (WPU) Southern Anthropolo- ed: Charles Hudson (UGA), Mary Helms (UNCG), Michael Angrosino gist • Editors: Julian Murchison (USF), and Chris Toomey (USC). Beginning in 2008, Newfound Press, (EMU), Matthew Samson digital imprint of the University of Tennessee Library System, took (DC) over as publisher, with the late Robert Shanafelt (GSU) serving as Gen- • Newsletter Editor and Social eral Editor. Following his death, Heidi Altman (GSU) took over as Act- Media Manager: Matthew Richard (VSU) ing General Editor (2013-2014). Currently, we have four Proceedings • Newsletter Editorial Assis- volumes in various stages of development (see p. 24). Reinventing and tant: Ashlie Prain (VSU) Reinvesting in the Local for Our Common Good, edited by Brian Hoey • Archivists: Daniel W. Inger- (MU), from the 2016 annual meeting, goes into production this fall. soll (SMCM), Carrie B. Douglass (UVA) • Endowment Fund: Max White From the outset, selection of theme, invited authors, and volume editing (PC), Robbie Ethridge (U of of each Proceedings was accomplished by the Keynote Symposia Chair Miss) (s) of the preceding annual meeting. Originally, founders chose this • Mooney Award Coordinator: format following the American Ethnological Society’s example, select- Daniel W. Ingersoll (SMCM) • Zora Neal Hurston Prize ing an academic department to host and organize each meeting, which, Chair: Lisa Lefler (WCU) at the same time, garnered an edited volume publication for one or • Student Paper Competition more of its faculty. In later years, the academic affiliation of the Key- Chair: Matthew Richard note Chair/Proceeding Editor sometimes varied from the host institu- (VSU) tion. Recently, some Proceedings’ chapters have been developed from • Student Paper Competition Chair: Vincent Melomo papers selected from annual meeting presenters by the meeting’s Pro- (WPU) 3 Fall 2017 Volume E10, Issue 2 gram Chair/Proceedings Editor. Today, creative proposals for host- ing a future annual meeting and developing a related Proceedings volume should be submitted at any time to the current SAS Presi- dent by an individual(s) from an institution or collaborating institu- tions for consideration by the SAS officers and Board. The South- ern Anthropologist was established in the first years of SAS as well, with the purpose of providing a juried publication outlet for professors and their graduate students. The SAS archive is missing issues from 1973-1983, so please con- tact us if you have paper copies for these years that we can digitize. Also, SA issues published online from 2004-2014 do not list the editor(s), so unacknowledged editors please speak up. Identified SA editors include: Malcom Web (LSU, ca. 1972), Michael An- grosino (USF, ca. 1970s), Pat Lerch (1984-1987), Gif Nickerson (NCSU, 1987-1994), David Johnson (NCATSU,1994-2003), and from 2015-present, Julian Murchison (EMU) and Matt Samson (DC). Available issues of SA from 1972-1917 can be accessed on the SAS website. EDITORS NOTE: Around 1977, when Michael Angrosino was Southern Anthropolo- gist editor, the annual Student Paper Competition was instituted, There was a lot of news to with winning graduate and undergraduate student papers published catch up on, and
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