Several applied anthropologists are currently running for AAA offices.  In support, WAPA is providing their bios and pictures.  To access them, click on the post headline above.  If you are a member of AAA, please review their materials and vote for this talented slate.

VOTING IS OPEN UNTIL MAY 31ST.

Cross-Disciplinary Kudos!

WAPA member Fannie Norwood spoke a while back to a WAPA audience about her research on euthanasia in The Netherlands.  Her book, The Maintenance of Life: Preventing Social Death through Euthanasia Talk and End-of-Life Care - Lessons from the Netherlands, was published in 2009 and has just been reviewed by the Journal of the American Medical Association.

"The Maintenance of Life will not (and is not meant to) change readers' opinion (con or pro) about euthanasia.  Instead, it is 'for anyone interested in learning more about death in another culture in order to gain some insight into death where you live' (p xxiii).  As such, it presents much food for thought."

Pat Fosarelli, MD, DMin, Reviewer
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
2010:304(13):1500.

Coming in February 2011 from University of Illinois Press:

Commemorating Hell:
The Public Memory of Mittelbau-Dora

GRETCHEN SCHAFFT is Applied Anthropologist in Residence at American University and the author of From Racism to Genocide: Anthropology in the Third Reich.

GERHARD ZEIDLER is a former archivist at the concentration camp memorial for Mittelbau–Dora.

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