Network Meeting 01-18-24
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The ACRN’s 2-Year Anniversary Celebration: A Resounding Success!
We want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who joined us for the commemoration of the Anthropology Career Readiness Network's second anniversary. On Thursday, May 25 at 4pm ET, we came together virtually to honor two years of achievements and growth within our network. The event was a resounding success, as anthropologists from diverse industries and sectors united to reflect on our collective accomplishments and explore the promising path that lies ahead. We were honored to have Ed Liebow, the Executive Director of the American Anthropological Association, deliver a thought-provoking address on the future of our field. His insightful [...]
Anthropology Career Readiness Network Announces New Name
Troy, MI, February 19, 2023 – The Anthropology Career Readiness Network announced a new name and updated logo as the grassroots professional group moves into a phase of accelerated outreach to anthropologists in all subfields. Elizabeth Briody, Founder, Cultural Keys, LLC, and Riall Nolan, Emeritus Professor, Purdue University, originally formed the Network as a volunteer-run commission of anthropologists charged with improving the preparation of anthropology students for the workforce readiness. Nolan said, “We saw a need for better ways to approach current employment trends within anthropology. With more students entering non-academic jobs, anthropologists require new ways of marketing their talents [...]
Timothy Malefyt Dicusses Gift Giving on NY 1 for Valentine’s Day
Recently, Timothy Malefyt appeared on NY 1 to talk about Valentine's Day and the act of gift giving. During the segment, Tim delved into the anthropological aspect of gift giving, explaining how gift exchange creates bonds of reciprocity. He pointed out that this applies not only to romantic relationships but also to business relationships. As an example of gift giving in advertising, Tim mentioned a Debeers Diamond commercial.
Career-related Sessions at AAA
Lots of great career-related sessions and workshops are planned for the AAA Meetings in Seattle, WA (Nov. 9-13). Here is a sampling: Executive Session, Live-Streamed: Unsettling Anthropology to Prepare Students: Career Readiness Commission Results, Recommendations, Implementation, , Nov. 9, 8:00 a.m. NAPA Session: The Unsettled History of the Future of Organizational Anthropology: An Engaged Roundtable Discussion, , Nov. 9, 2:00 p.m. NAPA/AAA Careers Expo 2022: , Nov. 10, 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Workshop: Translating Anthropological Knowledge to Practice in Medical Education, , Nov. 12, 8:00 a.m. Workshop: Going Up? Offering the Perfect Elevator Pitch! , Nov. 12, 10:15 a.m. [...]
New online course at Arizona State University on cultural domain analysis (CDA)
New online course at Arizona State University on cultural domain analysis (CDA). Start whenever you want and take whatever time you need to finish. Cost: $200. Through lectures, demonstrations and practical exercises with software learn: (1) how to define a cultural domain; (2) methods, like free lists and pile sorts, for collecting data about how groups of people think about a set of things in a cultural domain; (3) methods for analyzing those data -- methods like multi-dimensional scaling, cluster analysis and cultural consensus analysis; and (4) methods for visualizing the results of your analysis in graphs. More info and [...]