Making History at the Frontier - Women Creating Careers as Practicing Anthropologists

This volume presents the stories of 11 women anthropologists whose career paths have successfully navigated the terrain of practice. Two central themes that run across the life histories of these authors are an integrated scholar-practitioner identity and the role of improvisation and creativity in the development of their career trajectories. The personal career histories of the anthropologists presented here highlight the contributions and concerns of women practitioners from the perspective of feminist anthropology. Current and future anthropologists, both women and men, will benefit from reading their stories. Students in applied anthropology programs and others considering careers in practice will find within this issue of the NAPA Bulletin information about possible career trajectories and windows into the mysterious, complex, and entrepreneurial world of practice.

List of contents

Making History at the Frontier Christina Wasson National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 1-19. Random Walk Mary Odell Butler National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 20-31.
Pursuing International Development through a Gender LensReflections on a Nonlinear Career Path in Applied Anthropology Mari H. Clarke National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 32-54.
Seeing Double: An Anthropologist's Vision Quest Jacqueline Copeland-Carson National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 55-81.
Anthropology in Pursuit of Public Policy and Practical Knowledge Shirley J. Fiske National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 82-107.
An Interim Story of a Career as an Applied Anthropologist Madelyn Iris National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 108-122.
Putting On AirsFinding a Path to a Career in Applied Anthropology Susan Racine Passmore National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 123-134.
Theory and PracticeImprovising a Life as a Practicing Anthropologist Eve C. Pinsker National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 135-151.
Bushwhacking a Career Patricia Sachs National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 152-162.
Life at the Crossroads Jean J. Schensul National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 163-190.
Solving Puzzles Susan Squires National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 191-208.
The Spiral PathToward an Integrated Life Alaka Wali National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 209-222.
Histories and Futures at the FrontierSome Final Thoughts Christina Wasson National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 223-226.
Biosketches of Authors National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 227-231.

About the author

Volume Editor: Christina Wasson
General Editor: Tim Wallace

Christina Wasson is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Texas. She is a linguistic anthropologist whose work explores the intersections of communication, organizations, and technology. In addition, she is interested in self-reflexively exploring the practices of the discipline of anthropology, in both academic and applied/practicing contexts, with a particular focus on gender issues. In 2002 she was elected to the Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association (COSWA). She led COSWA's effort to conduct a national survey on academic climate issues and helped build bridges between COSWA and the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology. Christina Wasson received her Ph.D. from Yale University. She has published articles and book chapters in the fields of anthropology, organization studies, and discourse studies on topics such as language use in organizations, team decision making, and virtual groupwork. She has also worked as a project manager in several consulting firms. [e-mail]

Tim Wallace is Associate Professor and Applied Anthropologist in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. His primary interests lie within the subfield of the anthropology of tourism. His most recent research has taken him to the communities around Lake Atitlan in the Guatemalan Highlands. He has carried out applied research work on tourism in Costa Rica, Hungary, and Madagascar. In addition, he has done applied work in Mozambique studying maize marketing; Ecuador for a potato marketing project; Togo, West Africa, to study economic development policy; Peru to research community development strategies in Peru; and, Hiroshima, Japan to study international education policy. He has also done research in North Carolina on farmers markets in Raleigh, North Carolina, and on socioeconomic responses to pest management practices among tomato and cabbage farmers in North Carolina. He has been President of the Southern Anthropological Association and the Association of North Carolina Anthropologists, was a member of the Executive Board of the Society for Applied Anthropology, and is coeditor of the NAPA Bulletin. He recently edited NAPA Bulletin 23 on "Tourism and Applied Anthropologists." ([e-mail])

Summary

* peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology * dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods * most editions available for course adoption.

Product details

• Authors: James M. Tim Wallace, Christina Wasson, Ellis Wasson
• Publisher: American Anthropological Association
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.09.2006
• EAN: 9781931303293
• ISBN: 978-1-931303-29-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 172 mm x 255 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 417 g
• Series: NAPA Bulletin; NAPA Bulletin
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous