Anthropology Club

Thanks to all of you who were able to make it out to the meeting! We had a great time getting to know each other and watching a pretty intense movie (oh man…)! The rest of the semester should be great!

If you were not able to make it to the meeting, no worries! There will be more! We didn’t get a chance to watch ‘The Linguists’ so we will probably have another movie night at some point. Anyway, just to fill everyone in, we talked about….

*Open House–Saturday 9 am - 3 pm.  If you are interested in helping out, email Amanda (astueve@ksu.edu) and let her know.

*Budget situation–There will be a meeting held (date to come later) in order to help form a letter to our local legislators. If you aren’t able to make it, be sure to get a copy of the letter to send to your local legislator. Let’s make sure these budget cuts don’t happen!!!

*Facebook group/website–If you haven’t joined the facebook group “KSU Anthropology Club” or the listserv, go ahead and join! We will be sending out important information over both. Also, if you register (right hand column on this page) for the website, you can make posts. If you come across anything that interests you that you think others in the anthro club would be interested in, go ahed and post it, rather it be a video, news link, ranting, etc. Hopefully we can get some good discussion going.

*Fundraising–We are currently trying to pull some fundraising ideas together. Currently, we are thinking about selling Pizza Hut discount cards and are in the process of coordinating with their manager. More news will be posted as soon as we find out more. Also, later on in the semester we are thinking about holding an International Dinner, so start thinking about yummy international cuisine recipes : )

I think that’s about it, if I missed anything, feel free to add it on!!! Have a great weekend!

This is an article that was released today about the importance of contacting KS Legislators concerning the potential budget cut K-State could face.  This budget cut would result in increased tuition, a multitude of layoffs, a reduced number of courses being offered, as well as many more devastating results.  All of these results will have an impact on our educational experience here at K-State,  as well as our future,  so let’s do what we can to combat this. To find out more, just follow the link below!

http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/mar09/budgetcuts32509.html

Hey all!

If anyone is interested in reading the central states abstracts, follow the link below!

http://courses.missouristate.edu/mbuckner/CSAS%2009%20Paper%20Abstracts.htm

Be sure to mark your calendars for Thursday, March 26th. We will be holding an anthro club meeting at 7 pm at Angie Mares’ home (directions will be sent out later on), where we will discuss upcoming events. We are also planning on watching the Linguist, so it’s an event you don’t want to miss! Hope to see you all there

Sapiens Symposium
3:10 pm - 5 pm March 24th 2009
Waters 129

Feel free to print and post this awesome flyer created by Raieh:

Very interesting article! Check it out! Any thoughts?

http://www.counterpunch.org/mckenna03102009.html

Neat article about some of the impacts that Twitter, as well as other social networking sites are having on the community.

Perhaps the most interesting line is that “Most of the police and fire departments number their followers in the dozens or hundreds, but many said the word can spread quickly when followers “re-tweet” to their friends or post the information from Twitter on their Facebook accounts.”

Read the full article by following the link below!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/13/police.social.networking/index.html

Lindsay Ahalt, a senior in anthropolgy, biology, microbiology, and pre-med, discusses the importance of cultural competence in medicine. This is just one way in which anthropology is impacting in the medical field!

http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/mar09/ahalt31109.html

Just a reminder: Submissions for this are due April 6th to Professor Wesch.

The Ibn Battuta Award is awarded to the anthropology major submitting the best anthropological research paper for the academic year. The award consists of a cash prize and a book describing the advenures and discovers of Ibn Battua. The awardee will be recognized at the annual departmental awards ceremony in April.

The paper can be about any anthropological topics. Coauthored papers are prohibited.

For examples of  previous winning papers, follow the links below

http://tinyurl.com/cogthg Kevin Champion 2007

Phish-Heads: Modern Society, Youth, and Identity  (you may
need to sign in to scribd to download). Professor Wesch 1997

After the 94 articles activity I reported about on our Digital Ethnography blog 2 weeks ago, my research team (”students”) began crafting their research proposals. These were then aggregated into one collaborative proposal showing how each project is related to the others. In the meantime, they have also been learning the language of video; gathering clips, pictures, and techniques for demonstrating their proposals in compelling ways. Most of them had never edited video before, and yet here we are just 4 weeks into the semester and they have already mastered the basics and created some interesting work. The video below is simply some of the best of their 16 “trailers” mashed together to give you a glimpse into the project we hope to create throughout the rest of this semester. We call the project: “The Fight for Significance in the Age of the Microcelebrity: Anonymity, Anonymous, Smart Mobs, Mad Mobs, Bot Mobs and the Great American Poets”

All the students are actively blogging about their projects. You are welcome to follow along at our research hub.