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5 unusual facts about American Anthropological Association


Florinda Donner

Eventually her former doctoral committee at UCLA published a letter in the Newsletter of the American Anthropological Association in which they expressed their disbelief in Donner's account stating that she was present in Los Angeles during the period in which she supposedly lived among the Yanomami.

John L. Cotter

At the 1958 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C., Cotter chaired a symposium on the role of archaeology in historical research.

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census

However, the practice of separating "race" and "ethnicity" as different categories has been criticized both by the American Anthropological Association and members of U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Robert Laurens Kelly

Kelly served as secretary for the Archaeology Division of the American Anthropological Association from 1996 to 1998.

Vine Deloria, Jr.

The American Anthropological Association sponsored a panel in response to Custer Died for Your Sins.


Art in Odd Places

The panel was presented in collaboration with Radhika Subramaniam, founder of interdisciplinary art journal, Connect:art.politics.theory.practice and Setha Low, president of the American Anthropological Association, with panelist: Bill Brown of Surveillance Media Players; Clarinda MacLow, choreographer and performer; and Paul Carter, philosopher and artist from the Lab Architecture Studio.

DeeDee Halleck

She received two Rockefeller Media Fellowships for The Gringo in MaƱanaland, a compilation film about stereotypes of Latin Americans in U.S. films, which was featured at the Venice Film Festival, the London Film Festival and won a special jury prize at the Trieste Festival for Latin American Film and first prize from the American Anthropological Association's Visual Anthropology Division in 1998.

Frank Speck

Speck was elected to numerous professional associations, where he took an active role on committees, such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society, Geographical Society of Philadelphia, and Archaeological Society of North Carolina (honorary).


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