What does AA stand for?

American Anthropology (scientific group)

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The author discusses topics such as the change in collecting aims and methods that shifted ethnographic studies into a broader consideration of culture, how ethnographic collecting became political and connected to nationalism, and the German experience in German New Guinea in a wider context of Euro- American anthropology.

Anthropology's global histories; the ethnographic frontier in German ...

20) The League prompted many studies in its wake, and prompted as well a subfield of specialisation in North American anthropology called "Iroquois Studies.

On ethnographic refusal: Indigeneity, 'voice' and colonial citizenship

Neither Jantz nor Stein knew it then, but the Kennewick Man case would gain international renown -- and its accompanying controversy would highlight not only the conflict between principals of scientific inquiry and tribal sovereignty but also a deep professional divide within American anthropology.

Anthropology: the great divide; Discovery of Kennewick Man stirred up ...

The remains thus cast further doubt on the migration theory that has dominated American anthropology for most of this century: The hemisphere was settled in one mass migration about 11,500 years ago by Asiatic peoples crossing an Ice Age land bridge from Siberia to Alaska across what is now the Bering Strait.

`KENNEWICK MAN': NO ETHNIC MATCH -- SCIENTISTS SAY SKULL DOESN'T FIT ...

3) In this article, I would like to make a start at assessing her place in American anthropology and argue that it is more important than has often been recognized.

"Sis Cat" as ethnographer: self-presentation and self-inscription in ...

9780739117774 Robert Redfield and the development of American anthropology.

Robert Redfield and the development of American anthropology. ...

American anthropology practically began on the battlefield where dead warriors, and everything they owned, were collected for study under the direction of the U.

ORAL HISTORIES ARE SPEAKING; WILL WE HEAR?

The opening chapter unearths the subaltern traditions of black Westerner ethnologies and ethnographies, followed by thematically related discussions of the place of race and racism in the cultural theory of anthropologist Franz Boas and the work of George Washington Ellis as an example of the subaltern tradition of African American anthropology.

The social sciences and theories of race