Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberto Menchu will speak on Saturday and a series of authors will visit the Press Room to discuss their new books. They write about great apes and children, untold facts about twins and the Holocaust, the fish market at the center of the world, and takes on Fat around the globe. Names and times will be posted in the Press Room.
The American Anthropological Association is the world's largest organization of anthropologists, representing all specialties within the profession from cultural, physical/biological, archeology, linguistics and applied anthropology.
Below is a sampling of sessions with potential media interest. Full programs with speakers and room assignments as well as abstracts of each session will be available in the Press Room.
Wednesday
Re-imagining the "Urban": San Francisco is examined as a case study of how traditional concepts of urban versus suburban have changed. (Noon1.45 p.m.).
Anthropological Approaches to Central Asia and the Middle East: Scholars working on both sides of the Atlantic discuss new approaches to replace notions of tribe, state, gender.( Noon3.45)
Modern Magic in Melanesia and Beyond: Panelists will scrutinize the paradoxical proliferations of magical forms in a modernized world. (23.45 p.m.)
Emergent Representations: Violence, Ethnography and the Everyday: A panel discusses the challenges of violence to everyday lives. (25.
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Contact: Ghita Levine
glevine@aaanet.org
703-528-1902 x3039
American Anthropological Association
12-Oct-2004