2002 Report: General Anthropology Division

2002 Report: General Anthropology Division,
submitted by Karl G. Heider

Current (as of 24 November 2002) executive committee members: President, Karl G. Heider; President-Elect, Peter J. Brown; Secretary-Treasurer, Ellen Shlasko; Secretary-Treasurer Emeritus, Paul Erikson; Members-at-Large, Angelique Haugerud, Ann Maxwell Hill, and Susan Sperling; Student Representative, Kathryn Mathers. Program Chair 2003, Ann Maxwell Hill.

Activities in terms of major functions of GAD:
1. Promoting Four-field approach to anthropology. We have announced competition for a General Anthropology Award, to recognize exemplary scholarship that crosses subfield boundaries in anthropology. The first one to be awarded in 2003 for an article, chapter, or book with a publication date of 2002. (see announcements in the AN).
2. Promoting skills in teaching anthropology. a. The second annual Institute for Teaching Anthropology was held Wednesday morning, 20 November, before the regular sessions of the AAA annual meeting began. Presenters were Joyce Lucke, Patricia Rice, Conrad Kottak, David McCurdy, Linda Whiteford, and Karl Heider. Thirty people attended. It looks as if this will be a regular feature at the AAA meeting.
3. As a cover organization for small interests groups, namely:
a. FOSAP (Federation of Small Anthropology Programs). Co-Chairs, Catherine Cameron and Robert A. Myers. The FOSAP Newsletter, vol.9.1 . was published, featuring reports on "Teaching in the Margins:Challenging the Anthropological Imagination," a FOSAP panel at the 2001 AAA meeting.
b. CORI (Committee on Refugees and Immigrants) explored publication
possibilities and, at its November meeting, voted to move from GAD to another Section of the AAA, The Society for the Anthropology of Urban, National, Transnational/Global Anthropology.
c. COTA (Committee on Teaching Anthropology) has planned a roundtable luncheon devoted to collegial exchanges on teaching for the 2003 AAA meeting.
d. CAJJ (The Committee on the Anthropology of Jews and Judaism) has been relatively inactive in 2002.
e. HAC (The History of Anthropology Committee) is the newest of the GAD sub-units and is just getting underway.
f. CASTAC (The Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, Computing) held its annual summer meeting.
4. General Anthropology is the official publication of GAD, co-edited by David McCurdy and Patricia Rice. Two issues were published in 2002.
5. The GAD Distinguished Lecture was presented by Rayna Rapp at the AAA Meeting.

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