{"title":"“We Need People to be Woken Up and See This!” Teens Learning Through Critical Analysis","authors":"S. A. Evans","doi":"10.1111/napa.12172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/napa.12172","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45176,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Anthropological Practice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43806885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Roberta D. Baer, Emily Holbrook, Renice Obure, Dillon Mahoney
{"title":"Experiences and Effects of Food Insecurity Among Recently Resettled Refugees from the Congo Wars","authors":"Roberta D. Baer, Emily Holbrook, Renice Obure, Dillon Mahoney","doi":"10.1111/napa.12167","DOIUrl":"10.1111/napa.12167","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recently resettled refugees from the Congo Wars continue to struggle with food insecurity that, in many cases, extends to before their camp and war-time experiences. Beginning in 2016, a team from the University of South Florida has studied dietary adaptation and nutritional status among refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Population census data, in-depth interviews with household heads, anthropometric measurements, dietary recalls, and focus groups—with youth and adults—allowed a look at cross-generational experiences of food insecurity and dietary transition within recently resettled refugee families. These experiences are linguistically mediated, involve cultural adaptation, and are embodied through health effects such as stunted growth, leaving both youth and adults at risk of obesity and related health complications. We found that many families are not utilizing available food-assistance benefits such as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) because of confusion or difficulty accessing the online system and lack of instructional materials in an appropriate language or format. Refugee service organizations and community-based nonprofits need to be aware of the specific needs of and challenges for these refugees. Public health programming should be framed around refugee-specific needs and be cognizant of refugees’ assets and skills as visual learners to avoid a one-size-fits-all (refugees) approach.</p>","PeriodicalId":45176,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Anthropological Practice","volume":"45 2","pages":"142-161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45759752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
María Benito Sánchez, Miguel Mezquida Fenández, Javier Iglesias-Bexiga, Alejandro Calpe Vicente, Azahara Martínez Vallejo, María Fortuna Murillo
{"title":"The Challenges of Identifying Juvenile Soldiers in the Spanish Civil War","authors":"María Benito Sánchez, Miguel Mezquida Fenández, Javier Iglesias-Bexiga, Alejandro Calpe Vicente, Azahara Martínez Vallejo, María Fortuna Murillo","doi":"10.1111/napa.12165","DOIUrl":"10.1111/napa.12165","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Every conflict referred to as a war results in the horror of loss and death. This is true of any war, and the Spanish Civil War is a good example. Many people disappeared and were never found again, mainly because nobody ever looked for them. There were several counteroffensives on the eastern war front in Spain's Levante region during 1938, which, although ending in Pyrrhic victories for the Republican Army, were forgotten for years, as were the bodies of the soldiers abandoned to the elements on the battlefields. In 2014, this research project was developed to locate, exhume, and identify four graves containing the bodies of Republican soldiers found at the site of Peña Salada, Spain. The graves were found to contain five individuals, including some considered to be juvenile soldiers, aged between 14 and 20. They displayed many signs of violence, and it was possible to infer differences in injuries from bladed weapons and firearms. There was also evidence of the pillaging and desecration of the burial site. The genetic profiles of the five individuals were obtained in order to create a DNA database, which would make it possible to compare their profiles with those of potential family members who still live with the uncertainty of not knowing the whereabouts of their loved ones. This study offers the first scientific evidence of the participation of juvenile soldiers on the Levante Front, within the context of the Spanish Civil War.</p>","PeriodicalId":45176,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Anthropological Practice","volume":"45 2","pages":"175-192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43376950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emily K. Brunson, Keri Vacanti Brondo, Toni J. Copeland, Doug Henry
{"title":"It's Not Just Academic: The Importance of Program Development in Applied Anthropology Education","authors":"Emily K. Brunson, Keri Vacanti Brondo, Toni J. Copeland, Doug Henry","doi":"10.1111/napa.12156","DOIUrl":"10.1111/napa.12156","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article we consider applied anthropology as it exists at the program level. While individual faculty can promote applied training, sustainability in applied education is only possible when entire faculties—and the college and university administrations that provide the necessary financial, structural, and social support—are committed to this approach. While many options for program development exist, we argue that being aware of what other programs are doing, and what is and is not working for them, is both time-saving and transformative. This article provides overviews of common applied anthropology training approaches, discusses the importance of support for applied programs, and introduces the rest of the articles in this series, which focus more specifically on particular approaches, programs, and training needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":45176,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Anthropological Practice","volume":"45 1","pages":"57-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/napa.12156","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128056453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lindsey Raisa Feldman, Keri Vacanti Brondo, Stanley Hyland, Edward Maclin
{"title":"Grit, Grind, and Praxis: The Memphis Model of Applying Anthropology","authors":"Lindsey Raisa Feldman, Keri Vacanti Brondo, Stanley Hyland, Edward Maclin","doi":"10.1111/napa.12159","DOIUrl":"10.1111/napa.12159","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper we define “The Memphis Model,” or the type of praxis-oriented, critically engaged anthropology developed and used by the Department of Anthropology at the University of Memphis. This model draws inspiration from the Grit and Grind ethos of the city of Memphis, along with its deep cultural and political traditions of grassroots activism for social justice. Here, we define how this is done in practice. The Department of Anthropology continually brings together current students, faculty, alumni, and community partners in coalition to develop approaches to address emerging social justice issues throughout the city, country, and world. This paper draws on one specific example, the Welcome Home Memphis Initiative, a long-term partnership with community housing agencies, alumni, faculty, and students to counter exploitative housing practices, to explain the process of the Memphis Model.</p>","PeriodicalId":45176,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Anthropological Practice","volume":"45 1","pages":"82-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/napa.12159","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124960559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building Bridges: Using a Local Conference to Facilitate Conversations and Collaborations Around Applied Anthropology","authors":"Emily K. Brunson, Reyda Taylor","doi":"10.1111/napa.12160","DOIUrl":"10.1111/napa.12160","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Students' education in applied anthropology can occur through a variety of sources including classroom instruction, hands-on experience and professional mentorship. Anthropology programs, and especially those with an applied focus, can help facilitate these types of experiences. This article details one such attempt: the creation and implementation of a local conference. The Texas Applied Anthropology Summit (TAAS) was first developed in 2016. The purpose of this and subsequent TAAS events was to bring together anthropological practitioners, faculty and students in an effort to build and strengthen relationships around applied anthropology in Texas. Based on data collected from past TAAS events and additional outreach with anthropologist practitioners it was determined that while key differences in practitioner and student/faculty interests exist, TAAS serves as an important networking tool for all attendees. This article also details what is needed, including programmatic support, to organize and implement a local conference.</p>","PeriodicalId":45176,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Anthropological Practice","volume":"45 1","pages":"97-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/napa.12160","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125917373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Louis Herns Marcelin, Richard Dembo, Toni Cela, Catherimarty Burgos, Morris Copeland, Bryan Page
{"title":"Collaboration as Process: The Making of a Partnership to Serve At-Risk Youths of Haitian Descent","authors":"Louis Herns Marcelin, Richard Dembo, Toni Cela, Catherimarty Burgos, Morris Copeland, Bryan Page","doi":"10.1111/napa.12154","DOIUrl":"10.1111/napa.12154","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The increasingly intractable nature of many social problems has given rise to cross-institutional and interdisciplinary collaborations in order to respond to social problems that no single entity can resolve on its own. One value of anthropology lies in its capacity to provide culturally tailored strategies for successful collaboration between different stakeholders in communities, across disciplinary fields, among public policymakers and practitioners. In this article, we revisit the emergence of a collaborative initiative to support at-risk youths of Haitian descent and their families. This work was undertaken by university researchers, juvenile justice professionals in Miami-Dade County, and community-based practitioners. Guided by a holistic anthropological perspective and a multidimensional approach to collaboration, we provide a processual analysis of almost two decades of opportunities and challenges posed by our collaboration and illuminate the importance of collaboration in identifying evidence-based solutions to social problems. While not all collaborative teams experience the same processes or operate within the same sociocultural contexts, we argue that there are some fundamental principles to establishing effective collaboration: a shared common goal, shared objectives, and time.</p>","PeriodicalId":45176,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Anthropological Practice","volume":"45 1","pages":"23-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/napa.12154","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117012218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Getting to Education to Get to Health: A Culture of Health Intervention in Orange, New Jersey","authors":"Katherine T. McCaffrey, Mindy Thomson Fullilove","doi":"10.1111/napa.12155","DOIUrl":"10.1111/napa.12155","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this essay, we tackle the challenge of adapting the dominant way we think about health in the United States—through an individualistic, technocratic, biomedical lens—to address social problems rooted in structural inequality. As scholar activists, the authors participated in a coalition effort to improve community health in a postindustrial New Jersey city. Adopting a social determinants of health perspective, we describe efforts to move discourse away from wellness and toward a deeper understanding of the role of education and learning in building a \"culture of health.\" The essay discusses how this structural analysis of health competed with much more narrow cultural understandings of education and health rooted in a pervasive wellness ideology. Coalition success hinged on correctly identifying the obstacles to health and learning in the community as understood by community members: violence emerged as a pressing obstacle that impeded both learning and health. Once we clarified a shared understanding of health as learning and a common understanding of violence as the most immediate obstacle to health as learning—our coalition was energized and made progress.</p>","PeriodicalId":45176,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Anthropological Practice","volume":"45 1","pages":"39-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/napa.12155","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133926561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Participatory Research in Mesoamerica and Data Protection in Europe (and Elsewhere)","authors":"Alanna Cant","doi":"10.1111/napa.12144","DOIUrl":"10.1111/napa.12144","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay examines the tensions between participatory ethnographic research methods and newly emerging legal regimes of data protection and privacy. Drawing on the example of recent grant-funded research in Mexico, the essay charts how the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation impedes the practices and ethos of participatory research in significant ways. In particular, new legal requirements about data collection, access and storage, and “the right to be forgotten,” effectively preclude integrating community members into research planning or data collection. As countries around the world move toward more robust and comprehensive data protection and privacy laws, the issues raised in this essay are likely to become more pressing in many different research contexts in the future. [Mexico, data protection, participatory research, privacy laws].</p>","PeriodicalId":45176,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Anthropological Practice","volume":"44 2","pages":"152-156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2020-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/napa.12144","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41956017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aztecs Are Not Indigenous: Anthropology and the Politics of Indigeneity","authors":"Catherine Whittaker","doi":"10.1111/napa.12147","DOIUrl":"10.1111/napa.12147","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To write about Indigeneity means already being deeply enmeshed in identity politics. The much researched rural south of Mexico City is a case in point. Anthropologists have described the Nahuatl speakers of Milpa Alta as “heirs of the Aztecs,” and knowledge of Nahuatl and folklore has become key to maintaining municipal land rights in the context of current multiculturalist politics. Thus, Nahuatl has become a politicized marker of prestige. This has led to various tensions, including acrimonious competition over what constitutes the “correct” way of speaking Nahuatl and frictions with newly arrived speakers of other Indigenous languages. To avoid exacerbating these tensions, I suggest that anthropologists should commit to decolonizing their work by politically and epistemologically situating it and by adopting participatory approaches, as well as an iterative, adaptive approach to research ethics. This means continuously reevaluating and tailoring one's ethics to concrete situations as they emerge—and never truly leaving “the field.” [Identity politics, decolonization, Nahuatl language]</p>","PeriodicalId":45176,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Anthropological Practice","volume":"44 2","pages":"173-179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2020-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/napa.12147","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125175830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}