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Department of Anthropology
6047 Silsby Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
(603) 646-3256
Fax: (603) 646-1140
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News Bulletins:
Faculty News:
.jpg) Hot from the Press: Kirk
Endicott and Robert Welsch, eds., “Taking Sides: Clashing Views in
Anthropology,” 4th ed. (McGraw Hill, 2009).
This is a debate-style reader designed to introduce students to current
controversies in major subfields of anthropology, including biological
anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and
ethics in anthropology. Each of the 19 issues includes an introduction and
postscript by the editors and two articles by leading scholars arguing
opposites positions on the issue. Questions include: “Are Humans Inherently
Violent?,” “Can Apes Learn Language?,” and “Is Gay Marriage Natural?” The
reader is designed to teach students how to critically analyze scholarly
arguments and develop informed opinions on important issues in
anthropology.
 Kirk M. Endicott and Karen L. Endicott, "The
Headman Was a Woman: The Gender Egalitarian Batek of Malaysia" (Waveland,
2008).
A comprehensive ethnography of one of the few remaining hunting and
gathering peoples of Southeast Asia, The Headman Was a Woman presents
the gender concepts, roles and relations of the highly egalitarian Batek of
Peninsular Malaysia. Based on longtime field-work, the book describes the
lives of Batek men and women in the tropical rainforest, and includes
discussions of fieldwork, hunting and gathering, social organization, religion,
gender, nonviolence, and cultural persistence in the face of a changing
landscape.
The ethnography is accompanied by a 37-minute DVD, The
Batek: Rainforest Foragers of Kelantan, Malaysia. Footage shows vidid
highlights of camp life and social activities as well as all of the important
economic processes described in the book.
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Dartmouth: 2/29/2008 and Dartmouth News
2/26/2008
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Students News:
Five Dartmouth Students and Four Dartmouth Faculty Attended the
48th Annual Meetings of the Northeast Anthropological Association,
on March 7-9, 2008.
Dartmouth College was well represented at the meetings of the Northeast
Anthropological Association held this past weekend at the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst. One of our students, Megan Paradise ’08, won the John
Omohundro Undergraduate Student Paper Prize for her paper entitled “Social
Constructions of ‘Quality’ in Subsistence Agriculture and Food Production: A
Case Study from Himachal Pradesh, India.” This is the third undergraduate paper
prize Dartmouth anthropology students have won in as many years from the
NEAA.
Four other students gave papers: Adam M. Levine ’08, presented “Mapping
Socio-Cultural Evolution: Multilinearity Revisited.” Zaneta Thayer ’08
presented a paper she had coauthored with her advisor, Assistant Professor Seth
Dobson entitled “On the Adaptive Value of the Chin from the Perspective of
Sexual Dimorphism.” Zachary Kaufman presented his paper “Evaluating an
Adolescent-Targeted HIV Prevention Program in the Dominican Republic,” and
Joseph Ornstein ’09 presented a paper he had co-authored with Visiting
Professor of Anthropology Robert L. Welsch, “Friendship on the North Coast of
Papua New Guinea.”
Two of the Department of Anthropology’s newest faculty members organized
provocative and interesting sessions in Biological anthropology. Kathleen
Muldoon, Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Adjunct Assistant Professor of
Anthropology, organized and chaired a panel entitled “Body of Evidence: New
Directions in Evolutionary Morphology,” in which Assistant Professor Seth
Dobson presented his paper “Allometry of Facial Mobility in anthropoid
Primates: Implications for the Evolution of Facial Expression.” Dobson also
served as a discussant on the panel and led an interesting discussion among the
many students and faculty present. Muldoon also helped organize a panel on
“Madagascar’s Lemurs: Surviving on an Island of Change” at which she presented
her paper (co-authored by S. M. Goodman of The Field Museum), “Patterns of
Ecological Diversity in Modern Small Mammal Communities of Madagascar.”
Christopher Ball, McKennan Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of
Anthropology, presented a fascinating and provocative paper “Upper Xinguans are
Rock Stars: The Pragmatics of Complaint in Indigenous Amazonian Development
Projects.” This paper was presented in a panel called “Beyond Development:
Socioeconomic Policies from a Grassroots Perspective” and led to a spirited
discussion afterward.
In recent years, Dartmouth students and faculty have regularly attended the
NEAA meetings since 2003. In 2004, Welsch organized the meetings at Dartmouth,
which was cosponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Dickey Center for
International Understanding, the Rockefeller Center, the Hood Museum, and
Native American Studies Program.
Adam Levine '08 has been selected as a Rhodes Scholar for 2008
Adam M. Levine, Bronx, New York, is a senior at Dartmouth College where he
triple majors in anthropology, art history, and mathematics and social science.
His undergraduate thesis in art history is an examination of canonical images
of Christ. He is interested in the application of mathematical network analysis
to art, historical and anthropological studies. He is also a light heavyweight
boxer. Adam plans to do a D.Phil. in classics at Oxford.
47th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Anthropological Association,
2007
 Jacob Appelbaum's '07 paper
"Natural Disasters in the Pacific: Ongoing Problems and Unique
Responses" won the John Omohundro Undergraduate Paper Prize at the
47th annual meeting of the Northeastern Anthropological Association in Itahaca,
New York. Jacob's paper focused on the many problems of disaster planning
and response in the Pacific. He used the results of his own
ethnographic fieldwork on Nukunonu, Tokelau to provide an example of successful
strategies for preparing for and responding to natural disasters.
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