With the annual meetings next week this eNewsletter provides a full list of the NAPA events, sessions and exhibits as well as other items of interest.  Saturday night at 6:15 is the NAPA Business meeting. You are also welcome at the Wednesday afternoon NAPA Planning meeting at 1:00 PM and the Thursday afternoon NAPA Governing Council meeting at 2:00 PM. On Friday, visit the NAPA Booth and the NAPA/AAA Employer Exposition in the main exhibit hall. Times and places are noted in the list below

NAPA was very involved in the discussions over the past 6 months related to the motion to reinstate the 1971 AAA Ethics Statement on the secrecy of research. After much dialog, the AAA Executive Board refined the current Ethics Statement and decided to begin a revision process over the next year. The revised version of the Ethics Statement will be voted on at the AAA Annual Business meeting on Thursday night at 7:30. Please attend. We need to demonstrate our concerns that the AAA should be an inclusive professional organization. All AAA policies, and especially the Ethics Statement, must accommodate the widest array of employment opportunities for anthropologists. No policy should be created that, naively or otherwise, makes corporate, governmental, and consulting activities suspect.

I hope to see all of you at the Saturday evening NAPA Business meetings at 6:15. Here we will provide an overview of the NAPA activities and issues as well as recognize the student award winners and the incoming and outgoing officers.

This is the final eNewsletter that I will be compiling. At the NAPA Business meeting Mary Butler will be taking the role of NAPA President. I have been honored by being your President and by working with such a dedicated group of NAPA members. I look forward to continuing to serve NAPA in the role of Past-President for two more years.

Sincerely, Dennis Wiedman, NAPA President

NAPA Sponsors LPO Luncheon at AAA conference

Every year at AAA conference, NAPA sponsors a get together for leaders from the Local Practitioner Organizations (LPOs). This is a time for sharing and learning and supporting each other.  This year it will be Friday, November 21, 2008 at 12:30pm at Borbudur Restaurant. We invite one leader from each LPO to attend. If the usual or main leader cannot make it, they pass the invitation on to another LPO member.  Invitations have gone out to LPO leaders and there is still time to RSVP to Rebecca Severson, NAPA’s LPO liaison, at r.severson@research-int.com or 312-981-5816. With the help of LPO leaders Mike Duke and Kim Koester from the BAAPA (Bay Area Association of Practicing Anthropologists), we’ll be meeting at Borbudur Restaurant,

700 Post, SF.  So, whether your LPO is long established, just getting started, or kind of dormant, all are invited.

A list of the LPOs in various states or areas is on the NAPA web page at: http://www.practicinganthropology.org/lpos/ Practicing anthropologists should consider joining their local LPO for the professional and social benefits they offer. If there is not an LPO in your area, let us know, and we can work with you to create one!

Volunteers Needed at NAPA/LPO booth at AAA

You are needed for at least 1 hour to volunteer at the NAPA/LPO booth during the AAA conference, Thursday-Saturday, Nov 20-22, anytime between 9am and 4pm. For those of you new to volunteering at the booth, the job is simple: Hand out NAPA and LPO materials and field questions about NAPA and LPOs.

All you need to know will be at the booth. It‘s easy and fun and rewarding because you’re helping!  It‘s a great chance to meet others, network, and feel professionally connected. Plus it‘s

in the exhibition hall by all the book vendors so that‘s good, too.  Don‘t delay——sign up for at least 1 hour by contacting r.severson@rsearch-int.com today.

The NAPA/LPO booth at the AAA conference is a great place for LPOs to recruit new members. Just bring a stack of fliers to put on the table at the booth.

Schedule of NAPA Events and Sessions at the AAA meetings in San Francisco.

By Kate Gillogly

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Wednesday, November 19th

Thursday, November 20th

AAA Business Meeting. Led by AAA President Setha

Low, possible discussion of motion to return to 1971

Ethics.  Significant numbers of practitioners must be present to express positions and respond to motions from the floor.

Friday, November 21st

7:30 PM 9:30 PM Continental Parlor 5

Saturday, November 22nd

Sunday, November 23rd

4 019 Giving More than We Take: Reciprocity in the

Research Process

8:00 AM 9:45 AM Yosemite C

Anthropology News

Anthropology News seeks contributions for two spring 2009 series that will explore how ethnographic work is produced through diverse media. We encourage proposals for In Focus commentaries, Teaching Strategies, Field Notes articles, photo essays, interviews and more.

Proposal submission deadline: December 1, 2008. Early submissions are encouraged.

Multisensory Anthropology across Media: More than just ways of thinking and being, cultures are also fields of sensation, experience and sentiment. Indeed fieldwork remains the sine qua non of ethnographic understanding precisely in so far as both cultural transmission and cultural understanding depend on experiential engagement. Recognizing this, many contemporary anthropologists seek to explore the variety of media—including video, music, photography, digital ethnography and creative writing—through which such multisensory experiences and knowledges can be communicated. Drawing from diverse modes of creative expression, from traditional forms of ethnographic writing to work that makes use of performance or new technologies, submissions should focus on how media can be harnessed to ethnographically convey different kinds of information.

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Visual Ethics: As access to digital media increases, discussions of “visual ethics”—ethical considerations regarding the collection and dissemination of visual data—become ever-more incumbent on anthropologists using this data. This conversation is framed by the varying, sometimes conflicting needs and interests of those who produce and consume visual data, including research communities and anthropologists across all subfields. This series seeks to explore the following issues: (1) negotiating representational authority; (2) control in the circulation of images; (3) displaying images in different contexts, including textbooks, conferences and film festivals; (4) relations with and responsibilities toward research subjects and communities; (5) balancing rights to privacy and knowledge circulation; and (6) the collection and dissemination of visual materials within the context of globally expanding use of and access to digital media technologies.

Guidelines: To participate, email a 300-word proposal and 50-100-word author bio to Anthropology News editor Dinah Winnick. Proposals for photo essays should also include five high resolution photographs, each with a caption and credit. Selected authors will be asked to submit final articles of 1000-1400 words for commentaries and 300-1000 words for other article types.