Author Archives: Justin Shaffner

The Society for Humanistic Anthropology announces our annual poetry competition as a means to encourage scholars to use alternative literary genres to explore anthropological concerns. These concerns may be any of those associated with any of the five fields of … Continue reading →

Society for Humanistic Anthropology invites you to attend our workshops, sessions and meetings for this year’s AAA: Producing Anthropology SHA Workshops This year there are ten SHA workshops. To participate, one must be registered for the AAA meeting and on-line … Continue reading →

EXTENDED DEADLINE: AUGUST 15 POETRY COMPETITION: SOCIETY FOR HUMANISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY JUDGES: Renato Rosaldo, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, and Nomi Stone The Society for Humanistic Anthropology announces our annual poetry competition as a means to encourage scholars to use alternative literary genres to … Continue reading →

The Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA) announces the 24th annual juried competition for the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. The late Victor Turner devoted his career to seeking a language that would reopen anthropology to the human subject, and the prize … Continue reading →

JUDGES: Jessica Falcone, Rachel Newcomb and John Colman Wood The Society for Humanistic Anthropology announces our annual fiction competition to encourage anthropologists to use alternative literary genres to explore anthropological concerns associated with the four fields of anthropology. Stories should … Continue reading →

JUDGES: Renato Rosaldo, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, and Nomi Stone The Society for Humanistic Anthropology announces our annual poetry competition as a means to encourage scholars to use alternative literary genres to explore anthropological concerns. These concerns may be any of those associated … Continue reading →

  Victor Turner Prize Judges: Ruth Toulson, Angela Garcia and Ather Zia First prize: Julie Livingston, Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic (Duke, 2012) Julie Livingston is Professor of History at Rutgers University Second prize: … Continue reading →

As scheduled in the preliminary program, be sure to check for any changes in the final program. You can also view the complete SHA listing on the AAA website. Thursday, November 21, 2013 8:00 AM-9:45 AM 3-0095, EPISTEMOLOGY, EMPATHY, AND … Continue reading →

Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 SHA Writing Prizes SHA is proud to announce the winners of the 2012 Ethnographic Fiction, Ethnographic Poetry, and Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing competitions who were honored at the SHA awards ceremony … Continue reading →

The 2012 Program Chair and President-Elect, Billie Jean Isbell, and many members of SHA have mounted a full program for the AAA meetings in San Francisco.  The highlights are listed below, and the full program will appear by clicking on … Continue reading →