th Anniversary Pittsburgh 2015 Society for Applied Anthropology 75A Worldwide Organization for the Applied Social Sciences Continuity and Change Society for Applied Anthropology • 75th Annual Meeting Omni William Penn Hotel • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania March 24-28, 2015 Contents Welcome from the Program Chair ................................................................................................ iii SfAA 2015 Program Committee ................................................................................................... iv Officers of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Board of Directors, and Editors ................ vi Special Thanks and Co-Sponsors ................................................................................................. vi Past Presidents and Annual Meeting Sites ................................................................................... vii 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 Podcasts ..............................................................................................................................2 Program Schedule Tuesday, March 24 .............................................................................................................5 Wednesday, March 25 ........................................................................................................7 Thursday, March 26 .........................................................................................................24 Friday, March 27 .............................................................................................................42 Saturday, March 28 .........................................................................................................60 Abstracts Sessions ...........................................................................................................................67 Papers ..............................................................................................................................84 Posters ............................................................................................................................189 Videos ............................................................................................................................198 Workshops .....................................................................................................................199 Participant Index ..........................................................................................................................201 Sustaining Fellows .........................................................................................................................216 Omni Willliam Penn Hotel Maps ................................................................................................219 I II Welcome from the Program Chair The Making of the SfAA 75th Annual Meetings—Continuity and Change Welcome to the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied diversity, environment, immigration and displacement. Anthropology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! We are pleased that More recent foci include sustainability, food systems, four kindred professional associations—Culture and Agricul- tourism, shelter and homelessness, policy research, ture, the Political Ecology Society, the Council on Nursing and heritage and cultural conservation, and globalization. Anthropology, and the Society for Anthropological Sciences— Presentations in all these areas are welcome, as are con- join the SfAA in Pittsburgh as co-sponsors. tributions that expand our horizons even further. In a world rife with armed conflict, environmental degradation, epidemic diseases, and social and economic injustice, applied • How has the training of future anthropologists and ap- anthropology’s problem-solving abilities and challenges have plied social scientists changed? What issues have sur- become more vital than ever. As you leaf through the pages of faced in preparing students for new careers? How have this program, you will notice that the 2015 meetings will be applied training programs and other academic depart- large and address a very diverse array of global problems. For ments responded? How can our efforts be improved? most days of the conference up to twenty sessions will be of- fered simultaneously at Omni William Penn Hotel. The confer- • How has our mission changed? What are the chal- ence offers more than 290 paper sessions, panels, posters, and lenges we have faced in our professional ethics? How do roundtables, upward of 25 business and special interest group changes in our conditions evoke new challenges? What is meetings, special events and plenary sessions, and a variety the responsibility of the Society and of the Annual Meet- of exciting tours and professional workshops. At this writing, ings to set an example for ethical responsibility? our registrants represent 24 countries and the United States—a testimony to the broad appeal of the Society for Applied An- Following the success of session clusters in Albuquerque— thropology as a Worldwide Organization for the Applied Social sessions with related themes or interests—we encouraged the Sciences, and to the unique allure of the city of Pittsburgh. continuity of these session clusters and the development of new ones, in Pittsburgh. AJ Fass and Tess Kulstad organized Pittsburgh, a city that reinvented itself during the past three over 20 exciting sessions that will focus on risk and disaster. decades while still maintaining its unique characteristics, pro- Kirk Jalbert, with help from Jeanne Simonelli, organized vides a perfect aesthetic backdrop and adaptive model for this 20 or so sessions roundtables, a field trip, and a film screening year’s 75th Anniversary theme, Continuity and Change: concentrating on research and activism pertaining to the Ex- trAction industries. Betsy Taylor and Christine Ho planned • The 2015 SfAA Annual Meeting provides an opportunity thought-provoking sessions and round tables on human rights to celebrate the Society’s rich history over the last seven and social justice issues. Brian Foster and Don Brenneis and a half decades, and to represent through our work organized exciting and timely sessions on the anthropology and prospects for the future the vitality and practical of higher education complete with a number of panels on value of anthropology and the associated applied social transformational changes, which effect changes in all levels sciences and humanities. of higher education. Elaine Bennett and Heather Resinger put together exciting sessions on the anthropology of health, • The Society for Applied Anthropology held its first and Karen Breda organized a number of panels on health meeting in 1941, in an atmosphere of confidence in the related issues for the Council on Nursing and Anthropology. future. How did we meet that challenge, and how have we Maryann McCabe prepared a number of panels on business fared since? To what extent have we stayed the same and anthropology, while Michael Cernea, with help from Ted how have we changed? Downing, organized exciting sessions on the implications of displacement and resettlement. Lisa Markowitz adminis- • How has the work of anthropology and applied social tered the organization of a number of sessions pertaining to science changed? How can our meetings better reflect the food security, culture and agriculture, and Josiah (Joe) dramatic changes that have occurred with respect to the Heyman was instrumental in organizing PESO sessions and variety of places in which anthropologists and other so- in helping put together volunteered political ecology sessions, cial scientists are now employed? What changes in work and Margo-Lea Hurwicz organized SASci sessions and con- and employment might be anticipated for the future? solidated related volunteer papers into sessions. In addition, the program offers a plethora of invited and volunteered ses- • How has the scope of anthropology and applied social sci- sions that explore a wide variety of topics, from immigration ence changed? We continue to contribute to knowledge and and law, through tourism and heritage, to medicine and ethic practice in such areas as health, development, education, and much much more. III Pittsburgh embodies the conference’s theme, Continuity and Alvarez for his support, counsel, and assistance; President Change. It is a reinvented