Anthropology and the Military Industrial Complex
Chair: Roberto Gonzalez (San José State University)
Ronald Loewe (CSU, Long Beach) Anthropology, Ethics, and the War against the Poor in Latin America
Hilarie Kelly (CSU, Long Beach) Anthropologists, the State and Global Militarism in Relation to Africa
Karen Holmes (CSU, Long Beach) The Use of Torture: Ethics, the Military and the Use of Anthropology
Presentations by: Sarah Cote, Misty Jaffe, Barbara LeMaster, Rez Moges, Hector Neff, Katherine Nutter-McClintock, and Karen Quintiliani
Posters from: Adrian Abella/Gena Granger (LA-ICP-TOF-MS Analysis of Ceramic Sherds from Playa Vista, California); Sarah Coté (Using the Participants’ Perspective: Assessment of an After-School Recreation Center); James Daniels (Digital image processing of shell temper in late prehistoric ceramics from the Mississippi River Valey); Jacqueline Martinez (PUMA: Latino Immigrant Grassroots Organization and Environmental Justice); Tomoko Matsumoto (Ethnic Hybridity Reflected in Names).
Films from: David Gruca/Rhonda Holden (Inches from Paradise); Hanah Ruckman (Lifting the Spirits: Patricios, Argentina); Sarah Taylor (Gracia a los Gringos).
In May 2008 the Society for Cultural Anthropology Conference was held on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. CSULB students Krystal Long, Cynthia Wilson, Hanna Ruckman, and Sarah Taylor each showcased their ethnographic films.
Sara Coté, presentation, “What Do You Think? A Youth Based Assessment of an After-School Program.”
Several faculty and students from CSULB presented at the AAA meeting in Washington D.C. The AAA Presentations and topics of CSULB faculty and students included: Scott Wilson (National Cultures, Local Projects); Rezenet Moges (Argumentation in Media Sites); Barbara LeMaster, Hide Okuno (presented in the same session: The Discreet Charm of Insults: The Argumentative Dimension of Communication); Misty Jaffe (Current Issues in Anthropology: Five Field Update Issues in Applied Linguistic Anthropology); Pamela Bunte, Misty Jaffe (presented in the same session: Issues in Applied Linguistic Anthropology); Ron Loewe/Sarah Taylor (Evaluation Anthropology in the Public Interest: Emerging Issues in an Emerging Subfield). Poster presentations included: Hanna Ruckman (Community Participation and Justice); and Jayne Howell, Ann Pitts, and Arelis Quinones (presented in the same session: Constructions of Cultural and Personal Identity Within and Across Borders: Tourism, Labor and Migration).
