National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
A biweekly look at recent stories on anthropology and practicing anthropologists in the popular media Films Anthropologists just keep making interesting documentaries, and the Chicago Sun Times points us toward an upcoming documentary about the closing of Wisconsin Steel in the 1980s and how an entire pathway to the middle class quickly disappeared. You may…
Marc Hébert is a Design anthropologist for the City and County of San Francisco. He works in the Human Services Agency’s (HSA) newly created Innovation Office.
David Fetterman is an evaluator by profession, and is probably best known for his work on creating Empowerment Evaluation, which helps individuals learn to evaluate their own programs. In this process Fetterman serves as a coach, helping guide the work and maintain rigor, but allowing stakeholders to plan, implement and evaluate themselves. The end goal…
WEDNESDAY, December 3 12:30 PM-3:30 PM. NAPA Workshop: Mixed Method Evaluations, Qualitative or Quantitative or What? Mary Odell Butler. Park Tower 8219 3:45 PM-5:45 PM. NAPA Workshop: (FREE) Software for Writing and Managing Fieldnotes: FLEX DATA Notebook for PCs. James (Tim) M. Wallace and Julie Green. Park Tower 8219 6:00 PM-8:00 PM. NAPA Workshop: The Ethnographic Field School: How…
A biweekly look at recent stories on anthropology and practicing anthropologists in the popular media The Usual Suspects Genevieve Bell is interviewed yet again by the New York Times and ranges over a number of topics while not being allowed to go deep. It’s unfortunate. It is refreshing to hear someone talk realistically about technological…
Mary Odell Butler received her PhD in anthropology from Temple University in 1978 and has spent the last three decades conducting program evaluations through contracting firms for clients in public health.
The National Association For The Practice of Anthropology is a section of The American Anthropological Association (AAA) – contact GC