Does anyone know of a film series that could be used for a telecourse for
Introduction of Anthropology? I am familiar with the series, Faces of
Culture, but this series does not cover physical, archaeology, or applied
anthropology. I look forward to some responses, and I thank you in advance
for your time.

Patricia Miller-Shaivitz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Palm Beach Community College
e-mail  shaivip@...

I've found the Millennium series by David Maybury-Lewis quite useful.  It
uses quite a different set of perspectives for viewing many different
cultures, demonstrating the value of "tribal wisdom" for all of us.

Another, very different possibility, and one I'm considering using for my
next intro course, is Heider's book Seeing Anthropology, which comes with 2
videos that the students receive.  These include about 20 segments from
films, around 6-9 minutes each.  I haven't finished reviewing it but have
liked it so far.

Beverly Bennett

Hi Beverly,
     I used the Heider book for a couple of semesters and didn't care for it
very much.  I thought the text was too idiosyncratic ( the chapter on
cultural symbols was placed toward the end of the text, instead of during
the initial discussions of the culture concept, where I thought it should
be ), and, while some of the video clips were interesting and useful, many
of them were not ( my students especially disliked the one on Dani
children's games ).  Just my opinion.
         Barry Kass
-----Original Message-----
From: Beverly Bennett <bbennett@...>
To: 'SACC-L@onelist.com' <SACC-L@onelist.com>
Date: Saturday, September 04, 1999 10:46 PM
Subject: RE: [SACC-L] Question


>From: Beverly Bennett <bbennett@...>
>
>I've found the Millennium series by David Maybury-Lewis quite useful.  It
>uses quite a different set of perspectives for viewing many different
>cultures, demonstrating the value of "tribal wisdom" for all of us.
>
>Another, very different possibility, and one I'm considering using for my
>next intro course, is Heider's book Seeing Anthropology, which comes with 2
>videos that the students receive.  These include about 20 segments from
>films, around 6-9 minutes each.  I haven't finished reviewing it but have
>liked it so far.
>
>Beverly Bennett
>
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Hi Cynthia,
     The SACC Exec Board meeting will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 16 ( just
before the start of the AAA meeting ) in conference room 4-A of the Chicago
Hilton and Towers, from 1-6 PM.  I'll have to get back to you regarding the
rest of SACC activities during the AAA conference in Chicago.
     regards, Barry
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From: cninivaggi@... <cninivaggi@...>
To: sacc-l@onelist.com <sacc-l@onelist.com>
Date: Friday, September 03, 1999 6:38 PM
Subject: [SACC-L] meetings approaching


>From: cninivaggi@...
>
>
>     When I left last year's (very enjoyable and productive) SACC
>     meeting in Boston last April, I thought I had a dim understanding
>     of when and where SACC's meetings in Chicago were going to be.  But
>     now it's September and I've forgotten it all.  I'm confused!  Would
>     this be an appropriate place to post whatever arrangements are in
>     the works for our organization at the meetings, both business and
>     section meetings?
>
>     Thanks!
>     Cynthia Ninivaggi
>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Fellows [SMTP:rfellows@...]
<mailto:[SMTP:rfellows@...]>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 9:11 PM
To: ANTHRO-L@...
<mailto:ANTHRO-L@...>
Subject: Hieroglyphs for Travelers

         The Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego Society is
offering a FREE copy of the new book Hieroglyphs for Travelers by Thomas F.
Mudloff and Ronald E. Fellows, to all participants in our tour of Egypt
February 5-19, 2000.

        Travelers to Egypt stand in awe as they view the magnificent temples,
tombs, and monuments.  These ancient structures are covered with
hieroglyphic writing that records the names of the pharaohs, their queens,
their nobles,  their gods, and their adventures.   There are magical
formulas and curses that few tourists can read or understand.
NOW YOU CAN!

         Although the complete study of the hieroglyphic writing is the work
of a lifetime, Hieroglyphs for Travelers teaches you to translate the names,
certain sign groups and funerary formulas directly into English...in
minutes.   It is a field guide prepared by Egyptologists for travelers.
Imagine the thrill of, not only seeing, but seeing and understanding. You
will read the glyphs on Hatshepsut's obelisk at Koranic, read an inscription
on Tutankhamon's alabaster cup in the Cairo Museum, and yes, read the curse
in the Tomb of Idu...then enter, if you dare.

         But there's more:  Hieroglyphs for Travelers is also an
indispensable guide to ancient Egypt that directs you to its enchanting
secrets--site by site.

         Hieroglyphs for Travelers is scheduled for publication this month,
September 1999.  ISBN 0-939968-02-9, Library of Congress Card Number
99-092235

For information about our tour of Egypt see our Web page itinerary at
http://www.theglyph.com/itin.html <http://www.theglyph.com/itin.html>   and
reserve your free copy.
Questions? E-mail rfellows@... <mailto:rfellows@...>

Ron Fellows, CM, Editor, The Glyph
Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego
International Association of Egyptologists

-----Original Message-----
From: Inês Meneses [SMTP:ism@...] <mailto:[SMTP:ism@...]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 8:50 AM
To: ANTHRO-L@...
<mailto:ANTHRO-L@...>
Subject: SOS EAST TIMOR
Importance: High

I would like to call on all anthropologists to take a stand (preferably to
their governments and to UN) about latest events in East Timor and the (lack
of) action from international community.
I do believe it is a strict moral obligation of an anthropologist to oppose
any kind of genocide - which is clearly what is happening to East Timorese
people, despite warranties from UN that engaging in the electoral process
would be safe (for further information, search net on 'East Timor', where
you will find a large number of pages on the subject).
PLEASE HELP STOPING THE KILLIG AND DEPORTATION IN EAST TIMOR! EACH MINUTE
COUNTS!



Ines Meneses




______________________________
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Telef. (351) (1) 799 03 88


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Universidade de Lisboa
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Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 8:38 AM
To: ANTHRO-L@...
<mailto:ANTHRO-L@...>
Subject: UNAMET WITHDRAW FROM EAST TIMOR

Please send the message bellow to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, at
ecu@... <mailto:ecu@...>

Subject should be
PLEASE DO NOT WITHDRAW FROM EAST TIMOR

Forward this to everyone you can


Message:

Dear Sir,
I write to express my deep concern on the news about UNAMET withdrawing from
East Timor tomorrow.
I remember once again that UN assured the Timorese people safety in this
process, wich implies a particular moral responsibility - which would anyway
exist.
I urge you not to withdraw your mission from Dili; if you still choose to do
so, I will hold you PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE for the destin of East Timorese
people in general, and THE LIFE OF THE 2500 REFUGEES living at this moment
in UNAMET-Dili.
I would also like to urge you to send a peacekeeping mission to the
territory immediately.
				 Respectfully,




______________________________
Inês S. Meneses
Email: ism@... <mailto:ism@...>
Telef. (351) (1) 799 03 88


Instituto de Ciências Sociais
Universidade de Lisboa
Av. das Forças Armadas, Edif. ISCTE, Ala Sul, 1º
1600 LISBOA - PORTUGAL

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-----Original Message-----
From: Eileen Wilkes [SMTP:ewilkes@...]
<mailto:[SMTP:ewilkes@...]>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 1:20 PM
To: ANTHRO-L@...
<mailto:ANTHRO-L@...>
Subject: Remember EAA99!

The fifth annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists is
imminent!  Plans are in place and preparations made for the event which will
take place at Bournemouth University, UK next week (14 - 19 September).
There are over 60 academic sessions covering most aspects of the discipline,
as well as a wide range of social events and excursions.  The exhibition
will display the products and services of organizations from around the
world, and a public open event is also planned.
Details, including a programme of events and schedule of sessions, are
available from the web site at:
http://csweb.bournemouth.ac.uk/consci/eaa99/
<http://csweb.bournemouth.ac.uk/consci/eaa99/>
Please consider joining the hundreds of delegates who have registered to
attend from far and wide.
We look forward to welcoming you to EAA99 next week.
Eileen Wilkes
EAA99 Co-ordinator
--------------------------
WG22, School of Conservation Sciences, Bournemouth University,
Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, Dorset, BH12 5BB, UK
Tel: +44(0)1202 595058             Fax: +44(0)1202 595478
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[SMTP:daily@...] <mailto:[SMTP:daily@...]>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 8:00 AM
To: daily@... <mailto:daily@...>
Subject: 9/9/99 Daily Report from The Chronicle of Higher Education

ACADEME TODAY: The Chronicle of Higher Education's
Daily Report for subscribers
______________________________________________________________

Good day!

[snip]
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
* DESPITE THE ENORMOUS SIZE of the Web-it now has some 800 million
pages-enough pages contain multiple hyperlinks that it is possible to get
anywhere on the Web by traversing only a few links, according to a paper in
today's issue of the journal "Nature."
* > SEE http://chronicle.com/free/99/09/99090901t.htm
<http://chronicle.com/free/99/09/99090901t.htm>
* > FOR MORE about information technology in academe, go to
http://chronicle.com/infotech <http://chronicle.com/infotech>
_________________________________________________________________

[snip]

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS WEEK'S CHRONICLE
THE ECOLOGICAL INDIAN?: In a new book, Shepard Krech III, an anthropologist
at Brown University, re-examines the view that American Indians lived in
perfect harmony with the land before Europeans arrived.
* > SEE http://chronicle.com/weekly/v46/i03/03a01901.htm
<http://chronicle.com/weekly/v46/i03/03a01901.htm>

	 EAST AFRICA'S NEW COLLEGES: With public institutions in Kenya,
Tanzania, and Uganda at capacity, private universities are filling the gap
between supply and demand in higher education.
* > SEE http://chronicle.com/weekly/v46/i03/03a06501.htm
<http://chronicle.com/weekly/v46/i03/03a06501.htm>

"[snip]

excellent question and I have no answer, other than to assign "Faces" and
add modules of archaeological and physical anthro.  Ann Popplestone has done
a very nice video-assisted distance learning course in physical which you
could review and the "Discovery" arch. telecourse has some videos that might
work.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patricia Miller-Shaivitz (561)367-4608 [SMTP:SHAIVIP@...]
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 8:55 PM
> To: sacc-l
> Subject: [SACC-L] Question
>
> From: "Patricia Miller-Shaivitz (561)367-4608" <SHAIVIP@...>
>
> Does anyone know of a film series that could be used for a telecourse for
> Introduction of Anthropology? I am familiar with the series, Faces of
> Culture, but this series does not cover physical, archaeology, or applied
> anthropology. I look forward to some responses, and I thank you in advance
>
> for your time.
>
> Patricia Miller-Shaivitz, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> Palm Beach Community College
> e-mail  shaivip@...
>
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> Be sure to check out the SACC web page at www.ccanthro.org for meeting
> materials, newsletters, etc.

This is really only an issue for most of us at work.   If you must dial 9 to
access an outside line, and have long distance service, yes you will, in
fact, be paying for whoever's long distance.

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry D Kass [SMTP:kassbrown@...]
<mailto:[SMTP:kassbrown@...]>
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 11:46 PM
To: Ann Popplestone
Subject: Fw: From a reliable source

You probably should post this on the SACC-L.
		 Barry
-----Original Message-----
From: LMossman@... <mailto:LMossman@...>  <LMossman@...
<mailto:LMossman@...> >
To: [snip]
Date: Friday, September 10, 1999 9:17 AM
Subject: From a reliable source


	 >Subject: I just called Bell Atlantic and verified it myself
		 > >
		 > >
		 > >Last night I got a call from an individual identifying
himself as an AT&T
		 > >Service technician who was conducting a test on our
telephone lines.  He
		 > >stated that to complete the test I should touch nine (9),
zero (0), the
		 > >pound sign (#) and then hang up.  Luckily, I was
suspicious and refused.
		 > >
		 > >Upon contacting the telephone company, I was informed
that by pushing
90#,
		 > >you give the requesting individual full access to your
telephone line,
	 > which
		 > >allows them to place long distance telephone calls billed
to your home
	 > phone number.  I was further informed that this scam has been
originating
	 >from
	 > many of the local jails/prisons.  I have also verified this
information wi
th
	 > UCB Telecomm, Pacific Bell, MCI, Bell Atlantic, GTE and NYNEX.
		 > >
		 > >Please beware.  DO NOT press 90# for ANYONE.  The GTE
Security Department
		 > >requested that I share this information with EVERYONE I
KNOW.  PLEASE
pass
		 > >this on to everyone YOU know.  If you have mailing lists
and/or
	 >newsletters from organizations you are connected with, I encourage
you to
	 >pass on this information to them, too."
	 >

-----Original Message-----
From: Hugh W. Jarvis [SMTP:hjarvis@...]
<mailto:[SMTP:hjarvis@...]>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 12:48 PM
To: ANTHRO-L@...
<mailto:ANTHRO-L@...>
Subject: New Archaeological Web Site (fwd)

Forwarded message. Contact information below. Cheers, Hugh.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 08:26:49 -0500
From: C. L. & A. Huckerby <huckerby@... <mailto:huckerby@...> >
Subject: New Archaeological Web Site

Good Morning Everyone,
Please excuse any cross-postings you may receive.
I am pleased to announce a new Archaeologically oriented web site.
http://www.vvm.com/~huckerby/DOCUMENTS/Web%20Page%20Introduction.html
<http://www.vvm.com/~huckerby/DOCUMENTS/Web%20Page%20Introduction.html>  The
site aims to promote interdisciplinary discussions and the posting of new
ideas and approaches to archaeological research.  Through my own research
and on-going career, I have found interactions with people from other
disciplines very stimulating and have provided me with additional directions
of thought for both theoretical and practical applications.  It is my hope
that this site will promote this concept and that others will benefit.
To start things off I have posted several recent publications and my
doctoral thesis.  Please use the Comments and suggestion page to send ideas,
comments and requests to add your own publications to the site.
Enjoy!
Dr. Cheryl L. Huckerby, R.P.A.
Archaeologist &
	 Cultural Resource Management Specialist
DIRECTORATE OF PUBLIC WORKS
ATTN ENVIRONMENTAL DIVISION
III CORPS AND FORT HOOD
4213 77TH STREET  ROOM 6
FORT HOOD  TX  76544-5028
Tel: 254-287-1092
Fax: 254-287-3591
email: huckerbyc@... <mailto:huckerbyc@...> ,
chuckerb@... <mailto:chuckerb@...> , huckerby@...
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael D. Glascock [SMTP:glascockm@...]
<mailto:[SMTP:glascockm@...]>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 10:40 PM
To: ANTHRO-L@...
<mailto:ANTHRO-L@...>
Subject: books to review for SAS

To SAS members and interested others:
Please read all of this message and do not use REPLY!!

Two new books are available for review and I am looking for
someone interested in writing a review for a future issue of the
SAS Bulletin.  The books are:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Grasshopper Pueblo: A Story of Archaeology and Ancient Life,
by Jefferson Reid and Stephanie Whittlesey
The University of Arizona Press, 1999.
6 x 9 in., 204 pp., 32 b&w photos, 8 illustrations,
ISBN 0-8165-1913-5 (paperback = $15.95)

Moreau, J.-F., ed. 1999. L'archeologie sous la loupe. Contributions a
l'archeometrie. Paleo-Quebec 29. Montreal: Recherches amerindiennes au
Quebec. ISBN 2-920366-27-0.
No price given. 88 pp. (7 articles, all in French).
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Interested reviewers should briefly describe their qualifications
and reasons for wanting to write a review. Reviewers are REQUIRED
to complete reviews within three months after receipt of the book.
If you cannot fulfill this commitment, then do not offer to review.
Reviewers can be of any nationality, but the review must be written
in English. Membership in the Society for Archaeological Sciences
(SAS) is desirable but not a requirement; however, please let me
know if you are a SAS member. If you are interested, please contact:

     Mike Glascock (Book Review editor for SAS Bulletin)

     at my e-mail address:     glascockm@...
<mailto:glascockm@...>

Reviewers will be selected from among the best offers received by email
within three working days after the posting of this announcement.

------------------------
Dr. Michael D. Glascock
Research Reactor Center
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211

Phone:  573-882-5270
FAX No: 573-882-6360

e-mail: glascockm@... <mailto:glascockm@...>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Hugh W. Jarvis [SMTP:hjarvis@...]
<mailto:[SMTP:hjarvis@...]>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 9:03 PM
To: ANTHRO-L@...
<mailto:ANTHRO-L@...>
Subject: Call for papers: 26th annual Ontario Archaeological Society

Forwarded message. Please use contact information below.
Thanks,
	 Hugh

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:23:31 -0400
From: "Robert W. Park" <rwpark@...
<mailto:rwpark@...> >
Subject: Call for papers: Ontario, Canada

The 26th annual symposium of the Ontario Archaeological Society is
approaching-it'll be held on the weekend of October 29-31, 1999 at the
University of Waterloo, sponsored by the university's Quaternary Sciences
Institute and the OAS's Grand River-Waterloo Chapter.  Accommodations and
banquet facilities have been arranged through the Waterloo Inn. October in
Waterloo Region would not be complete without Oktoberfest so don't forget to
pack your dirndls and lederhosen, since we'll be serving up plenty of
gemutlichkeit at our Bavarian theme banquet.
THE THEME
The Human Ecology of Ontario's Eleven Millennia: People, Environment,
Change, and Adaptation Throughout the Holocene
LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
It's less than two months until the symposium but due to the recent
withdrawal of a couple of papers, we have room for some last-minute
submissions. The primary theme of the conference is paleoecological, defined
very broadly, but we already have a range of papers on other topics as well
so paper proposals on almost any topic of relevance to Ontario archaeology
are welcome.
FURTHER DETAILS
The full text of the call for papers is also available on the official
symposium web site, along with a list of most of the papers already
confirmed. Conference registration information is also available there.
	 http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/ANTHRO/OAS99.html
<http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/ANTHRO/OAS99.html>
SUBMISSIONS
Paper abstracts of up to 200 words should be submitted as soon as possible
to:
	 Dr. Robert W. Park
	 Department of Anthropology & Classical Studies
	 University of Waterloo
	 200 University Ave. West
	 Waterloo, ON  N2L 3G1
	 (519) 888-4567 ext. 5666
	 (519) 747-9149 (FAX)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ann Kaupp [SMTP:Kaupp.Ann@...]
<mailto:[SMTP:Kaupp.Ann@...]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 3:51 PM
To: pops@... <mailto:pops@...>
Subject: new Ainu catalog

Ann, can you please put this on the SACC listserve or tell
me how I can do it if possible.  Thanks.  Ann
The Arctic Studies Center is pleased to announce the publication of their
new exhibition catalogue, "Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People," edited by the
exhibit curators, William Fitzhugh and Chisato Dubreuil, with assistance
from David Dubreuil. The exhibit catalogue has 420 pages, 450 color
illustrations and maps; and its fifty-five chapters are arranged in six
sections: theories and origins; ancient history; Ainu "discovery;" Ainu
Moshir (ethnography); art; and Ainu today. Authorship is by
internationally-known scholars and Ainu cultural leaders and
tradition-bearers.
"Ainu" is available in paperback from the Smithsonian Shops (202- 357-1536)
for $39.95 plus $7 for shipping and handling, or from the Arctic Studies
Center (202-357-4742) for $49.95 including shipping and handling, checks
only.  Hardbacks are available for $75 from the Arctic Studies Center and
from the University of Washington Press (206-543-4050).  The Ainu exhibition
can be viewed at the National Museum of Natural History until January 2000.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mara Greengrass [SMTP:MGREENGR@...]
<mailto:[SMTP:MGREENGR@...]>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 9:53 AM
To: ANTHRO-L@...
<mailto:ANTHRO-L@...>
Subject: AAA Annual Meeting news

Hey folks, I've been reminded that perhaps I should make some announcements
about the AAA's upcoming annual meeting in Chicago (November 17-21 at the
Chicago Hilton and Towers, be there or be rectangular!)
1) Yes, the preliminary program is up on the website at
http://www.aaanet.org/prelim_pro.htm <http://www.aaanet.org/prelim_pro.htm>
.
2) You can register for the meeting on-line at
http://www.aaanet.org/advanced_registration.htm
<http://www.aaanet.org/advanced_registration.htm>  until October 15. After
the 15th, it's on site registration only.
3) You can make your hotel reservation on the web by going to
http://public1.ITVLSVC.com/aaa/ <http://public1.ITVLSVC.com/aaa/> . The
deadline for hotel reservations is October 20th.
4) Hey, you can even register for workshops on-line at
http://www.aaanet.org/workshop_registration.htm
<http://www.aaanet.org/workshop_registration.htm> .

Hope to see you all at the meeting! If you're interested in learning about
getting anthropology into the news come by and see me in the pressroom
(Conference Room 4L, 4th floor).
Mara Greengrass <mgreengrass@... <mailto:mgreengrass@...> >
American Anthropological Association
4350 N Fairfax Dr, Ste 640, Arlington, VA 22203
703-528-1902 x3029; fax 703-528-3546

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Zeitlyn [SMTP:D.Zeitlyn@...]
<mailto:[SMTP:D.Zeitlyn@...]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 4:45 AM
To: ANTHRO-L@...
<mailto:ANTHRO-L@...>
Subject: Warning Anthropological Index Online Unavaiable -20-23rd
September

Warning: due to work on the university mains supply the AIO will be
unavailable from Monday 20th September to Thursday 23rd September. We
apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
yours sincerely
davidz
p.s. Several enhancements coming soon! Watch this space...

Dr David Zeitlyn,
Hon. Editor Anthropological Index Online
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology,
Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing,
Department of Anthropology,
Eliot College,
The University of Kent,
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Subject: Fw: WAPA Praxis Award deadline extension

Dear Colleagues: Please feel free to post this message to other lists as
appropriate. Our apologies in advance for cross-postings.
The Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists (WAPA) announces
the Praxis Award application deadline has been extended until September 24,
1999. Please act quickly to complete an application, or to nominate
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Burning Man

(by Leanna Wolfe)

     Several years ago I was invited me to watch a video that a local
cinematographer shot of "Burning Man."  The footage was messy and he rambled
on about young people, drugs, and that while it was a one-of-a-kind
experience, he had little interest in attending again.  I absorbed his point
of view.  Why I affirmed would anyone want to journey up to Northern Nevada's
Black Rock Desert to brave intense midday sun, freezing nights, possible
wind, rain, and sand storms, to party with a bunch of 20-something kids?

     Sometime last summer my interest began to grow.  Several of my friends
were buzzing about going.  I explored the organizing web site
(www.burningman.com) and my intrigue increased.  I sensed that a critical
mass of people were being drawn in…and I wanted to sense why.  The encampment
seemed to be growing exponentially-several years ago 800 attended, last year
15,000 attended, and this year over 23,000 would attend.  And the attendees,
while originally connected to San Francisco's Society for Creative
Anachronism, were now journeying from New York, Texas, Florida, and even
Europe.  I figured Burning Man had an appeal much bigger than a drug crazed
party out in an otherwise remote desert.  And so I decided to go.

The Journey

     No journey to Burning Man is simple.  And for most attendees the journey
is part of the experience.  For me it meant a meeting at my friend Alex's
home, Gemini Manor, where I connected with Kim who was in search of riders to
help her drive her VW van.  The meeting was otherwise tedious.  Having done
years of wilderness backpacking and having lived in remote Indian villages in
Mexico and tribal villages in East Africa, "surviving" Burning Man sounded
like a piece of cake.  Kim and I briefly discussed food, water, and supplies
and figured we were set.

     We decided to leave LA on Wednesday night following my evening
anthropology class.  That afternoon I loaded Kim's van with a tent, several
sleeping bags, clothes, food, water, and a rather rusty bike.  She spent the
evening organizing the van and around 10:30 PM we set off for points north.
The van made strange noises, barely ascended hills, and its clutch would
sometimes freeze.  Moreover, Kim and I hardly knew each other.  Luckily, we
(she, I, and the van) never overheated.  We occupied ourselves with hours and
hours of girl talk-discussing the ins and outs of our current and previous
relationships as well as our dreams for how our love lives should really be.

     As it turned out our journey was relatively painless.  We took turns
paying for gas, shared food, and slept for a couple of hours at a roadside
rest area on Highway 5.  For others getting to Burning Man was a huge
undertaking.  A group from Colorado broke down in some hinterland town in
Eastern Nevada, had to rent a truck from a place 100 miles further, and got
in days later than expected.  Several people (Alex among them) decided to
refurbish old hippie vans and suffered innumerable breakdowns.  Perhaps the
most efficient trip would have been to fly into Reno, rent a vehicle, and
travel just the last three hours by land…Later I discovered an even more
efficient trip was to land one's private plan onto the far end of the Burning
Man site.

Arrival

     As the roads away from Reno became more remote, more and more of the
vehicles looked Burning Man-bound.  Gallons of water hung from the edges,
bikes clung to the backs, and their engines, too, perilously sputtered.  As
we pulled onto the site's dirt road, we joined a line of cars that also
managed to arrive at 3:30 PM on Thursday.   A 20-something guy with a huge
nose piercing greeted us with a map and a rambling spiel about water,
garbage, and camping.

     Kim and I were so exhausted that it took us nearly two hours to locate
the Gemini Manor encampment.  The "address" we had was wrong…and our efforts
to get help were more intriguing than helpful.  We met a motor mouth who had
hauled nine truckloads of supplies from San Francisco over the last couple of
weeks, looked over yards of message-covered bulletin boards, and surveyed a
messy looking hippie town.  Everyone looked hot and lazy…my initial impulse
was to leave as soon as we could.

     Out of luck more than good information, we located Gemini Manor and began
to unload.  I pitched my tent, pumped up an air mattress, and laid out what
would be my home for the next four days.  The site was filled with friends
and soon-to-become friends.  That evening we witnessed a wedding, shared in a
community potluck dinner, and headed out on our bikes to explore the village.

The Village

     Burning Man sleeps late into the morning, simmers in the hot afternoon
sun, and comes alive as night falls.  All assembled, it becomes the fifth
largest city in the state of Nevada.  The village circles a huge desert
playa, a dusty dark lakebed from another geological time.  The center is
dotted with sculptures and installation art.  Some of it burns to be
beautiful and some of it eventually burns to a crisp.  The art is to be
engaged-walked through, crawled through, sat in, touched, banged, and danced
around.  Being at Burning Man is being in motion.  Taking pictures was such a
static spectatored experience that I took relatively few.  I mostly biked
(even my rusty 10 speed did great on the desert playa), talked, danced, and
absorbed.

     Sometimes I explored with friends from Gemini Manor and lots of the time;
I wandered off on my own.  Each night I explored art, dance clubs, and
conversation with a different guy.  Each of their rhythms was fun-their
newness to me added to the wonder of being there.  After awhile being part of
this dynamic village really grew on me.  I loved jumping on my bike and
cruising until something drew me in.  Then I'd slowly engage.  There might be
food, drinks, music, conversation, massage, dancing, or just grabbing a seat
and grokking the mood.  There were so many moods and it was so easy to jump
from one to another.  Sometimes I'd be sitting in a New Age Temple talking
about spirit, other times I'd survey S&M paraphernalia, dance to techno-music
powered by huge generators, take a yoga class, or sit in Bianca's living room
and eat quesadillas and fruit.

     Everything (other than the $100 admission ticket) was free.  And much of
the exhibition spoofed corporate America and organized religion.  Pleasure
was accessed in a person-person way-by giving, getting and/or trading.  No
one was there to focus attention on themselves or draw money to themselves.
It was so refreshing!

     While there were scheduled events like the burning of the man on Saturday
evening, much of what engaged me was unscheduled and spontaneous.  There was
so much going on that wherever you were was just right.  There was so much
motion that there was little need to be in the center.  While unpacking back
at home, I found a schedule of events and a directory of art locations.  For
a moment I felt a bit bewildered that I hadn't looked it over earlier.  Then
quickly I surmised that engaging who and what I did was just perfect.  I'd
discovered things and people just as they came to me.

Discoveries

     Many of the artists who come to Burning Man go to tremendous efforts to
create environments and amazing moments.  People trucked in live camels, a
piano, huge living rooms of furniture, and gardens replete with fresh sod,
flowers and small ponds.  After our first night out we sat around camp and
raved about our discoveries.  There was a light tunnel which fit purveyors
with special glasses that made everything delicately swirl, huge metal drums
with great designs carved into the edges with fires burning within, and an
awesome green laser that danced in the night sky.  There were also the things
I made up like the 20-jet Jacuzzi, the guy that was dressed in a business
suit and handing out $100 bills, and the blow-job parlor.  And for a moment
my friends believed just about everything!

     The next night featured an opera, which of course went up in flames, and
then Saturday night featured the burning of the man.  For a group that
claimed to be anti-organized religion, I was astonished at the ritualistic
approach to the big burn.  The crowd gathered and waited and waited.  I
nearly slept in my crouched waiting position.  Then torch-bearers filed in,
making fantastic swoops in the air with their lit flames.  Finally the man,
which was decorated with neon lights, was lowered to the ground and fit with
starry pyrotechnics.  Then it was raised and ignited.  It crackled and spewed
out flames and the crowd went mad.  Within minutes all order ceased and a
wild dance around the flames ensued.  Each time I attempted to edge in to
snap a picture, a crazed dancer would crash into me.  If I dared step closer
to the flaming mass, I'd certainly burn, as well.

     A group of neo-statisticians were gathering opinions of everything from
the sublime to the truly ridiculous.  They displayed bright colored pie
charts with such findings as whether witnessing a burn brought on erotic
desire.  Maybe because I was amongst the 2/3 of attendees that couldn't claim
so, I was bemused that anyone did.  Still, burning captivates.  Perhaps it's
the heat, maybe that primal campfire smell, and certainly the transformation.
  Witnessing all matters of art indelibly transform through the burning
process was truly amazing.  And I remained amazed at the religion of
disorder, rebellion and ultimately community that ensued.

Community

     I became enamored with Burning Man because of the way community occurred.
  Nothing was forced; no workshop leader told everyone to put on a nametag,
create a "heart connection," or tell a stranger a secret.  Conversation,
food, and play were shared spontaneously.  I had great chats while waiting in
the long latrine lines (they were a dream compared to the East African
hinterland) and while waiting to have my hair washed at the "Astral Head
Wash."  Sometimes I found myself seeking long lines so I might be able to
chat up a new person.

     As for "cultural rules," they were pretty basic.  People asked permission
before spritzing others with water though the heat made such offers a
delight…  Food was freely offered; Orrin and Justeen made amazing meals.  If
I wasn't camped to near them, I might have subsisted on balance bars,
cantaloupe and organic grapes.  Instead I gained several pounds feasting on
barbecued chicken and steak, couscous, salads, omelets, and bagels with lox,
onions and cream cheese.  "Freezing Man" featured an old ice cream truck
replete with eskimo pies, ice cream sandwiches, and plenty popsicles and
dreamsicles.  Spontaneously the truck would cruise around offering treats to
those who had "tickets."  (I managed to score one from talking up a friendly
guy from San Francisco who thought I looked familiar.)

     What really made Burning Man work for me was that there were so many ways
to be.  There were lots of possibilities and hardly one agenda.  One could
spend the whole week stoned, on ecstasy, on acid, or whatever else appeared.
One could spend the week naked, provocatively naked, or provocatively
clothed.  And one could engage everyone and everything erotically.  All
agendas were fine.  I never for a moment felt I wasn't fitting in because I
hadn't imbibed, disrobed, or flexed my inner or outer self.  Whatever I did
and whatever those around me did worked.  Then, on Sunday evening Kim
announced to me it was time to pack up.

Leaving

     I wasn't ready to go.  Even though at least half of the encampment had
disassembled - I wasn't ready.  It reminded me of the time I left summer camp
before the session was over.  In my mind the camp continued on forever.
While we drove through the night into Reno and along Hwy 80, I imagined that
last night there were amazing burns, fabulous food, and all the dancing I
hadn't completely done.  The next day we had lunch at Harris Ranch; despite
the friendly servers and good road food, it barely registered a bleep on my
happiness scale.  The next week in LA felt flat.  Community wasn't a bike
ride a way; no wonder when I was in my early 20s and studying the ins and
outs of Mayan pueblo life, I promised myself I'd some day return to a
day-to-day-face-to-face village.

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Subject: Indian Books Update - ~APY/9H  (fwd)

More books from the Indian subcontinent. Please use contact information
below.
Cheers, Hugh.
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Subject: Indian Books Update - ~APY/9H

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Colombia OKs hotly contested oil exploration near Indian tribe's lands

September 21, 1999
Web posted at: 6:42 p.m. EDT (2242 GMT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- The Colombian government granted Occidental
Petroleum a license to explore for oil next to Indian lands Tuesday -- a
step a tribe says could spell death for its people and culture.
Calling the cultural threat and the environmental impact minimal, the
government said it granted the license to promote Colombia's economic
development.
Environment Minister Juan Mayr announced the decision to allow the Los
Angeles-based company to conduct exploratory drilling just outside a
543,000-acre reserve inhabited by the tiny U'wa Indian nation of 8,000
members.
Last month, the government expanded the tribe's reservation nearly
four-fold. The semi-nomadic U'wa fish and farm in the hilly forested
territory near Colombia's border with Venezuela.
Mayr denied the U'wa were given the land to make them favorably disposed
toward the oil exploration permit.
"No way. They are totally different issues," the minister told a news
conference.
The Indian group, which in 1997 threatened mass suicide to prevent oil
drilling on its lands, isn't ready to back down.
"The U'wa people are rejecting and condemning this decision," spokesman
Ebaristo Tegria told The Associated Press by telephone from tribal offices
in Cubara, just outside the reserve. "This spells cultural and environmental
genocide."
A major oil project so close to U'wa lands would attract the same kind of
violence and environmental destruction that plagues oil-producing regions
throughout Colombia, Tegria said.
Rebels hiding in the jungle have kidnapped oil executives and have carried
out 55 dynamite attacks on pipelines this year, sending oil gushing into the
jungles. Thousands of soldiers have been detailed to guard the
installations.
Occidental Petroleum has tried for several years to obtain permission to
drill for oil in the so-called Samore bloc, believing it could contain as
many as 2.5 billion barrels of crude.
After first applying to explore directly on U'wa lands, the company backed
down last year amid heavy international criticism by activists riveted by
the U'wa suicide threats. The group considers oil the sacred "blood of
mother earth."
In October, the company resubmitted its application, this time to drill two
to three miles outside the U'wa territory. The permit skirts constitutional
requirements that grant Indians to power to manage their resources.
If sizable petroleum deposits are found in the area, the company will have
to reapply for a license to take the oil out of the ground.
Oil is Colombia's top source of foreign exchange, but government officials
say a drop-off in business investment could make the country a net oil
importer by 2002.
Mayr claimed the government could ensure the U'wa are shielded from any
violence associated with the oil industry's coming.
That's almost impossible to guarantee, said David Rothschild, director of
the Amazon Coalition, a Washington D.C.-based environmental group that has
backed the U'wa cause. "The Colombian government has shown no ability to
keep violence out of these areas. So the promises are hollow."
Three American activists working with the U'wa were kidnapped near the
reserve and killed in March by a unit of the rebel Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

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-----Original Message-----
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Subject: NEW POSITION IN WOMEN'S STUDIES AT UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
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The following position announcement will not appear in the AAA Newsletter
but anthropologists with the approprite qualifications and experience are
encouraged to apply.
Cheers,

Phil Young
Department of Anthropology
University of Oregon

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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:36:12 -0700 (PDT)
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To: abiersac <abiersac@...
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Subject: NEW POSITION IN WOMEN'S STUDIES AT UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
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Here's the ad text.  Thanks to both of your for forwarding it!
Barbara


The University of Oregon Women's Studies Program seeks a tenure-track
assistant or associate level professor in the social sciences to begin
teaching in September 2000.  We are particularly interested in candidates
with expertise in social scientific and/or historical approaches to one or
more of the following areas: race, poverty, work, health, sexuality or
feminist theory as it illuminates significant social and political issues.
Candidates should have interdisciplinary interests and experience working in
women's studies examining the relationship among gender, race, class, and
cultures. The successful candidate will also teach one course per year in an
appropriate social science department.
The Women's Studies Program offers an undergraduate major and minor, and a
graduate certificate.  Candidates should be able to teach the introductory
course, feminist theory, and other courses in the candidates area of
expertise, in addition to being prepared to direct the Program on a rotation
basis in the future.
Qualifications: PhD in appropriate discipline, evidence of outstanding
teaching, and a strong record of scholarly productivity required.  Salary
will be commensurate with experience and rank.  Send cover letter, c.v.,
writing sample, and at least 3 letters of reference to Women's Studies
Search Committee, Women's Studies Program, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
97403-1298.  Deadline for applications is November 1, 1999. The University
of Oregon is an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution committed
to cultural diversity and compliance with the American Disabilities Act.

Barbara Corrado Pope, Director, Women's Studies,
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403

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The following message comes from SACC President (and professional
travel agent)  Omara Ben Abe:


	 The Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges meetings will be
held in Seattle WA   April 5-9, 2000


	 Lodging will be at the Best  > Western >  Executive Inn
Seattle

	  Rates are $105
* single/double plus taxes.
* Booking number 800-351-9444 or
* 206-448-9444


Paper guidelines etc will follow

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From: peachee@... <mailto:peachee@...>
[SMTP:peachee@...] <mailto:[SMTP:peachee@...]>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 11:24 PM
To: pops@... <mailto:pops@...>
Subject: A Plea for Help

Dear Ms. Popplestone,

Could this please be posted to the SACC-L list?
Thank you very much.
Matthew Higgins
peachee@... <mailto:peachee@...>



Dear SACC-L members,
I am a high school teacher who is fortunate enough to teach an elective
course in Anthropology, of which a large portion consists of discussion of
Paleoanthropology.  Currently, I am VERY supported in my teaching of
Paleoanthropology (to the point of, among other things, the district
purchasing skull reproductions of various Australopithecine & Homo species
for the class).  Nonetheless, I fear that the course could end up getting
the "Kansas Treatment" if a significant challenge was made to my teaching
Paleoanthropology.  Thus, for preemptive reasons, I would very much like to
find out, perferably with citations, the position of each of the major
religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, & Buddhism) on
evolutionary theory as it applies to humans.  Ideally I would like to go
beyond generalization and know the specifics for each religion's
denominations (for instance: orthodox, conservative, & liberal Judaism;
Roman Catholic (John Paul II's encyclical), Eastern Orthodox, & arious
Protestant Churches; various schools of Buddhism; etc.).  With that
information, should the situation ever arise, I should be able, on his/her
own terms, to discuss with, and convince, any "challenger" of the necessity
of teaching Human Evolution in a course called Anthropology.
Thank you in advance for your time and help.
				 Sincerely,

				 Matthew Higgins
				 peachee@...
<mailto:peachee@...>

From today's New York Times:


		 Karl Menges, 91, Expert on Central Asian Languages
		 By WILLIAM H. HONAN
		 Karl Menges, an authority on the strategically important
languages of Central Asian peoples in the former Soviet Union, died last
Monday in Vienna, Austria. He was 91.
		 Menges, who picked up new languages almost as casually as
most people buy groceries, had been active conducting research at the
University of Vienna until a few months before his death, his son,
Constantine, said.
		 In 1960, Menges told a reporter that he handled "over 50
languages." On another occasion, he said the number was 41. His son
remembers his having said that he spoke, read and wrote "about 24
languages."
		 Apart from English and his native German, Menges said he
felt most comfortable speaking any of the Altaic languages; the group
includes 30 Turkic, five Mongol and six Tungusic subgroups.
		 Although generally unknown in the United States, the Altaic
languages are, next to Russian, the most important languages spoken in the
former Soviet Union. For that reason, federal grants became available during
the Cold War for scholars doing research in them.
		 Menges taught for 36 years at Columbia University. When the
program in Altaic languages there was expanded to include Uralic languages
in 1954, Grayson Kirk, then Columbia's president, said that because of the
Soviet Union's domination it was "even more imperative that we develop the
maximum understanding of the various languages and cultures throughout the
area as soon as possible."
		 Uli Schamiloglu, a professor of Turkic language and culture
at the University of Wisconsin, explained: "The area in which these
languages are spoken was thought to be the soft underbelly of the Soviet
Union. If there was going to be a revolt, it was supposed to start there, so
we were being told to get to know the area. No one had as much knowledge of
it as Professor Menges. Speaking all those languages, he was a rare bird."
		 So unfamiliar were many of the languages that in 1940
Columbia University invited Menges to teach Slavic languages. It was only
after he arrived that Columbia officials discovered he was teaching the
Altaic languages.
		 Living in Germany in the early 1930s, Menges, who called
himself a Catholic centrist, joined the anti-Nazi resistance, distributing
literature, organizing meetings and speaking out in public forums.
		 In 1936, he was arrested by the Gestapo, interrogated for
five hours, charged with treason and temporarily released pending a trial.
		 As he was leaving Gestapo headquarters, a friendly former
fellow student who had joined the Gestapo told Menges secretly, "If I were
you, I wouldn't come back."
		 Menges promptly made his escape over the Czech border. After
part of Czechoslovakia was annexed by the Nazis, he fled to Turkey, where he
continued to teach and pick up additional languages.
		 He published 15 books and hundreds of articles. He retired
from Columbia in 1976 and started a second teaching career at the University
of Vienna. A revised edition of his book "The Turkic Languages and Peoples"
was reissued a couple of years ago by a German publisher.
		 Karl Heinrich Menges was born on April 22, 1908, in
Frankfurt, Germany. He received a degree from the Lessing Gymnasium and then
pursued graduate studies at the Universities of Frankfurt and Munich. He
earned a Ph.D. from Berlin University in 1932.
		 Menges is survived by his son, Constantine Menges of
Washington, and one grandson.
		 Early in his career at Columbia, Menges said that when he
arrived in the United States he was the only person in this country who
could read and speak Uzbek, the language of Uzbekistan, then a Soviet
republic in Central Asia.
		 "Now," he added, "a colleague of mine also knows it."

You might also try contacting these folks.

http://www.natcenscied.org/ <http://www.natcenscied.org/>


The National Center for Science Education has lots of resources for teachers
and has been involved in the legal side of this dispute when it comes up.

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Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 12:57 PM
To: ANTHRO-L@...
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Subject: female principle (cfp)

THE FEMALE PRINCIPLE
UTA Conference on the Suppressions and Reassertions of The Female Principle
in Human Cultures.
University of Texas at Arlington, March 30-April 1, 2000.
Keynotes: Martha Nussbaum, March 30;
Drucilla Cornell, March 31; and
Eva Keuls and Nancy Tuana, April 1

This conference recognizes the suppression
of femaleness as a primary meaning
of Western and other cultures over a long period, and opens this issue to
renewed scrutiny.
It seeks to identify, document, account for, and
interpret the suppression of femaleness via the
specific forms it takes from early periods to the
present, and to identify and describe newly developing practices that
counter it. Exposures, descriptions, and theorizations of this suppression
are essential to projecting a future for femaleness in human societies.
We invite proposals from all fields of the humanities and the social and
behavioral sciences. Papers may deal exclusively with forms of suppression
(and their counterforms)--many of them clandestine, unrecognized,
underexplored; with the figures or contents suppressed; with examples of
femaleness that elude suppression or otherwise counter it; or with
re-emergences; or with combinations of the foregoing, and may draw on the
following as a possible framework:
Bearing a positive social value in an advanced Asian society as late as the
seventh century, the female principle sinks into general anathema in the
West by the time of classical civilization, and into near oblivion by the
time of the early church. There it remains, under powerful forms of social
repression, into the twentieth century. Then, via numerous separate
discourses, pluralist thought creates a climate of opinion in which
femaleness can re-emerge in literary, philosophical, religious, and other
languages under a positive sign.
Papers may be descriptive, and/or interpretive or theoretical accounts of
specific forms of suppression, such as the sexual; of forms taken by
coverups of suppression; of cultural contexts mandating suppression; and of
femaleness eluding suppression or otherwise countering it-all these in
discourses and social practices worldwide. Cross-disciplinary and new
theoretical approaches are encouraged.
Submission deadline: November 20, 1999
Additional information: lfrank@... <mailto:lfrank@...>
Postal mail:
Conference on the Female Principle
Department of English 19035
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas 760l9

Ph. 817-272-2692
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