Spring 2016, Volume 57 No. 1

87th Annual SWAA Conference

San Diego, California April 22-23, 2016

SPRING 2016 PRESIDENT’S NEWSLETTER MESSAGE

Your SWAA Board and the SWAA Conference Planning Committee are putting the final touches on our 87th

Annual Conference on April 22 and 23, 2016 at the well-known resort and concert venue, Humphreys Half Moon Inn

and Suites on San Diego’s Shelter Island. San Diego, here we come!

Conference registration begins Thursday late afternoon, and continues through Saturday. There is a wonderful

(and quite reasonable) restaurant in the hotel, and a number of other restaurants within easy walking distance. We

have an incredible variety of papers, posters and films for you this year! Our meeting and banquet rooms overlook

the water, providing a perfect venue for spending time with colleagues and friends. It just doesn’t get better than this!

Remember that the deadline for on-line registration and Banquet reservations is April 15.

You don’t want to miss hearing our Banquet Speaker, the distinguished anthropologist, Dr.

Laura Nader. She will be speaking to us

about her latest book, What the Rest Think of

the West, in which she allows us to see our-

selves through the eyes of Easterners over the

millennia. The book focuses our attention on

one of the most basic concepts in anthropolo-

gy—and makes it personal: our lack of per-

spective on our own Western culture and its

impact on the global contexts of the past. What could be more im-

portant to understanding how we reach for a sustainable future than

to honestly examine ourselves in this way? This is an important and

timely book both globally, as the West negotiates its role in modern

international contexts, and nationally, as we seek perspective on the

political rhetoric of this election year. Nader’s Banquet message to

us will be one worth not only hearing, but one with central applica-

tion to the work we do as anthropologists, no matter what kind of

anthropology we practice.

You can read about Dr. Nader and hear brief excerpts from an

interview done by the Regional Oral History Office at Berkeley:

Laura Nader: A Life of Teaching, Investigation, Scholarship and

Scope by clicking on vm136.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/

narrators/nader_laura.html.

In our hectic professional lives, it is frequently hard to focus on

our own intellectual growth and to find time to explore and develop

ideas. I know that your participation in the 87th Annual SWAA

Conference will give you many such opportunities. See you April

22nd!

—Kimberly Martin, SWAA President, 2015-2016

IN THIS ISSUE:

President’s Message By Kimberly Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

General Conference Information

Travel Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Hotel Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Parking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Conference Registration Information

Registration Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Registration in Advance . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Registration at the Conference. . . . . . . 2

Conference Events Information

Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Break Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

SWAA Reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

SWAA Business Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Banquet Reservations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Banquet Menu Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Student Paper Competition . . . . . . . . . 4

Conference Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Questions? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Preliminary Conference Program . . . . . . . . 5 Museums and Exhibits Hidden in Plain Sight: Anthropology in the Public Eye By Hilarie Kelly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Advance Registration Form . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 SWAA Executive Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Newsletter Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Membership Renewal Information . . . . . . . 20

2016 SWAA Conference

GENERAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION

All conference events will take place at Humphreys Half Moon Inn & Suites

2303 Shelter Island Drive, San Diego, California 92106. See www.halfmooninn.com/

TRAVEL INFORMATION:

Humphreys Half Moon Inn & Suites is located on Shelter Island, 3.2 miles from San Diego International Airport and 3.4

miles from the OLT Amtrak Station on Taylor Street in San Diego.

If you’re driving: Driving south on I-5, take the Rosecrans exit. Follow Rosecrans, heading west, to Shelter Island Drive

(about 5 miles). Left on Shelter Island Drive; the hotel will be on your right.

HOTEL ROOM INFORMATION: The deadline for hotel reservations at the SWAA rate was March 21. It is possible but unlikely that there are still rooms

available at the SWAA rate—please contact the hotel after reading the information at swaa-anthro.org/hotel-information

-2016/.

PARKING:

Humphreys: special SWAA parking rate of $7/day. Look for information about parking at the Registration Table at the

conference. There are some free public parking lots near the hotel.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION INFORMATION

*All persons attending sessions at the conference must be registered and wearing a name tag*

SWAA REGISTRATION TABLE: When you arrive at Humphreys, please go straight to the SWAA Registration

Table to pick up your program and nametag if you registered in advance, or to register on site.

SWAA REGISTRATION TABLE LOCATION: Thursday (4:30—7:00 pm): main lobby of Humphreys.

Friday and Saturday beginning at 8:00 am: near the SWAA meeting rooms on the concert stage side of the hotel, some

distance to the left of the main lobby. Signs will direct conference-goers from the lobby and from the concert entrance to

the SWAA area.

REGISTRATION IN ADVANCE: The deadline for Advance Registration is FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2016. The

dead - line is firm and will not be extended. Registration forms and payment, either online or by mail, must be re-

ceived by midnight, April 15th. For online and printable forms, please go to: swaa-anthro.org/2016-swaa-conference-

registration/. There is also a conference registration form on page 18 of this newsletter.

REGISTRATION AT THE CONFERENCE: On-site registration will be available at the SWAA Registration Table for those who do not register in advance. All on-

site registration is by cash or check only.

Full conference registration includes access to all conference events, including the sessions, the Friday Reception, and

the Saturday Business Meeting, plus a SWAA tote bag to carry your program and belongings [while supplies last]; and a

one-year membership in SWAA. Reservations for the Saturday Banquet can be made only by full conference registrants.

One-Day Registration will be available at the registration table on Friday and on Saturday; it is not available online. One

-day registration is intended for students and others who would like to see what a professional anthropology conference

is like and/or who would like to hear a friend give a paper.

One-day registrants receive a conference program and access to sessions on Friday Only or Saturday Only. One-day reg-

istration does not give access to the Reception, Business Meeting, or Banquet, and it does not include membership in the

association. One-Day Registration fees are $15 general and $10 student-with-ID.

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PROGRAM

You'll find the Preliminary Program in this newsletter, as well as at the SWAA website. Each speaker is allotted 20

minutes. Please observe the time limit so that all papers can be heard. Session chairs are asked to keep to the

scheduled start times for each paper, so conference attendees can plan ahead for the papers they want to hear. When

you arrive, everyone registered for the conference will receive a printed program with up-to-date information about all

sessions and other events. The abstracts for all papers, posters, and films being presented at the conference will also be

in the printed program.

BREAK ROOM

Each day of the conference there will be a break room where coffee and tea will be available in the morning. Here you

will also find publisher and vendor displays, as well as SWAA publications for sale, and flyers, notices and other items

of interest. We anticipate that the Break Room will be open from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm on Friday and Saturday, if you

want to browse the displays and vendor tables.

SWAA RECEPTION

On Friday evening, 6:00 to 8:00 pm, SWAA will host a reception for all those who have registered for the full con-

ference, with complimentary hors-d’oeuvres and a no-host bar. Please show your nametag when you arrive.

SWAA BUSINESS MEETING

The Business Meeting, open to all SWAA members, will be held during the Saturday lunch break. All confer-

ence registrants are encouraged to attend in order to meet current Board members, to learn more about SWAA,

and to hear a preview of the 2017 conference. The winners of the 2016 Student Paper and Poster Competitions will be

announced at this meeting.

SWAA BANQUET [by advance reservation only]

The SWAA Banquet is open to Full Conference registrants; registrants can make reservations for themselves and one

guest if they wish to bring someone who is not registered at the conference, or who will register for one day only.

Banquet reservations must be made in advance—reservations and payment, online or by mail, must be received by 4:30

pm FRIDAY, APRIL 15th (firm deadline). Banquet reservations can be made at the same time as conference registra-

tion at swaa-anthro.org/2016-swaa-conference-registration/. Or they can be made after registering by using this link:

swaa-anthro.org/banquet-tickets-2016-swaa-conference/.

If you decide you want to attend the banquet after the deadline, please contact SWAA Treasurer Andre Yefremian and

ask to be placed on the Waiting List—tickets may become available if ticketholders cannot attend at the last minute.

Email swaatreasurer@yahoo.com before the conference starts (be sure to include your cell phone number) or text after

the conference starts at 818-720-8069.

The Banquet will begin at 6:45 pm on Saturday, April 23. The distinguished speaker at the banquet will be Dr. Laura

Nader, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. anthropology.berkeley.edu/people/laura-

nader.

SWAA BANQUET MENU

Mixed greens salad with balsamic dressing or ranch dressing.

Rolls and butter.

Choice of entrée:

Grilled jidori chicken breast, grilled asparagus and roasted potatoes. Or Seared salmon filet, grilled asparagus and roasted potatoes, beurre blanc. Or

Grilled Portobello mushroom stack, grilled asparagus and roasted potatoes.

Crème brulee.

Water, iced tea.

White wine, red wine.

Tea, coffee.

Price: $42 (includes tax and tip)

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STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION and STUDENT POSTER COMPETITION:

The submission deadline for both competitions is Friday, April 15, 2016. More information can be found here:

Student Paper Competition: swaa-anthro.org/student-paper-competition/

Student Poster Competition: swaa-anthro.org/student-poster-competition/

Contact Michelle Roberts if you have questions about the paper competition: chemwali@hotmail.com

Contact Brandon Fryman is you have questions about the poster competition: brandon.fryman@gmail.com

Student Paper Competition Prizes: First prize $200 Second Prize $100 Third Prize $50

Student Poster Competition Prizes:

First prize $200 Second Prize $100 Third Prize $50

Winners of the 2016 Student Paper Competition and Student Poster Competition will be announced at the Business

Meeting on Saturday and the prizes will be awarded at the Saturday evening Banquet.

SWAA CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

Since 2007, SWAA has published peer-reviewed proceedings of each conference. The Proceedings of past conferences

can be purchased for $20 each in the Break Room at the conference. Online information is available

at swaa-anthro.org/proceedings.

2007: Mining Material Culture

2008: Borders, Boundaries, and Transitions: Framing the Past, Imagining the Future

2009: Relevancies: Public Anthropology in a Globalizing World

2010: Place, Space, Environment, and Climate: Humanity and a Changing Planet

2011: Health and the Human Body: Practices, Policies and Perspectives

2012: Telling Stories: Analysis, Interpretation, and Narrative

2013: Work and Play

2014: Imagineering the Present: Technology and Creativity

2015: Anthropological Voyages: Past, Present and Future

QUESTIONS ABOUT the CONFERENCE? Questions about conference registration or banquet reservations? Contact SWAA Treasurer Andre Yefremian at swaatreasurer@yahoo.com

Questions about the Preliminary Program? Contact Program Chair A.J. Faas at aj.faas@sjsu.edu

General questions? Contact Local Arrangements Chair Jonathan Karpf at jkarpf@calfac.org

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Friday, April 22

SESSION 1: 8:30-10:45 (Sunset Room)

Evolving Identity: Sustaining Self-Image for the Future

(Organized Session) Organizer and Chair: Richard Nicolas (CSU

Los Angeles)

8:30-8:50 David Fornelli (CSU Los Angeles)

Diaspora of American Classic Cars

8:50-9:10 Jose Trinidad Castañeda III (CSU Los Angeles)

Social Media as a Research Tool: From “Big Data” to

“Thick Data”

9:10-9:30 Ashley Ascencio (CSU Los Angeles)

Animated Anomie: Krill and the Collective Conscious

9:30-9:50 Richard Nicolas (CSU Los Angeles)

Gripping the Anchor: An Analysis of Stress and Identity

in the Navy

9:50-10:10 Roanna Mitchell-Iverson (CSU Los Angeles)

Television and Fandoms: An Analysis of Queerbaiting

10:10-10:30 Sonia Barragan (CSU Los Angeles)

Animé Networks: A Lens into the Interworking of the

Media Fandom

10:30-10:45 Discussion

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SESSION 2: 8:30-10:45 (Pacific Room)

Borders and Branches: Migrations, Genetics, and Syncretisms

Chair: Michael Eissinger (UC Merced)

8:30-8:50 Brendon O’Connor (Arizona State University)

“Un Poquito Más Complicado Se Fue Haciendo”/ “It

Kept Getting a Little More Complicated”: Invokable His-

tories and Kin Relations among Transfronterizo Universi-

ty Students

8:50-9:10 Trangdai Glassey-Tranguyen (UC Riverside)

Risk as Mobility: Undocumented Vietnamese Migrants in

a Transnational Legal Limbo

9:10-9:30 Jennifer Taylor (Academy of Art University)

Back to the Future of Our Genes: An Ethnographic and

Historical Inquiry on Trends in Genealogical Writing,

DNA Testing, and Genetic History

9:30-9:50 Jeremy Peretz (UCLA)

The House of Ezra: Israelites among Guyana’s Black

Faithists

9:50-10:10 Julián Jeffries (CSU Fullerton)

Non-DREAMers and the Creation of the ‘Un-Deserving

Immigrant’ Frame: Casualties and Exclusions of

‘Benign” Immigration Policy

10:10-10:30 Hilary Ledsam (CSU Long Beach)

Constructing Agency in Narrative and Public Discourse:

A Study of Professionals Who Work with Survivors of

Sexual Trafficking

10:30-10:45 Discussion

SESSION 3: 8:30-10:45 (Point Loma Room)

Frontiers of Urban Action and Experience. Chair : Julie Good-

man-Bowling (California Baptist University and University of Neva-

da, Reno)

8:30-8:50 Antonio Gioia (University of Chicago)

Perceptions of PLUR: Understanding the Raver’s Code of

Peace/Love/Unity/Respect

8:50-9:10 Adonia Lugo (CSU Los Angeles)

Bicycling and Environmental Racism: Steps toward Equit-

able Future Streets

9:10-9:30 Chima Michael Anyadike-Danes (UC Irvine)

The Right to Be a Neighborhood in Control: Examining the

Constitution and Role of a Los Angeles Neighborhood

Council

9:30-9:50 Lauren Smyth (UC Santa Barbara)

“Our House, Our Space”: Producing Muslim-American

Space in Southern California

9:50-10:10 Patricia Morton (CSU Los Angeles)

From Criminal to Culture: The Evolution of a Bad Boy

10:10-10:45 Discussion

SESSION 4: 11:00-12:35 (Sunset Room)

Issues Pertaining to the Tribes of San Diego County (Organized

Session). Organizers and Chairs: Steven Elster (UC San Diego) and

Hilarie Kelly (University of La Verne)

11:00-11:20 Harry Paul Cuero Jr. (Campo Band of Kumeyaay

Nation)

Education, Past and Present, for Tribal Youth

11:20-11:40 Oletha Leo (Viejas (Baron Long) Group of Capitan

Grande Band of Mission Indians of the Viejas Reservation)

Interviews with Grandma: Traditions of the Viejas Tribe

11:40-12:00 Ross Frank (UC San Diego)

A 10-Year Repatriation Effort by the Kumeyaay Tribal

Communities

12:00-12:20 Steven Elster (UC San Diego)

Evidence Regarding the Performance of Southern California

Creation Stories before World War II

12:20-12:35 Discussion

_______________________________________________________

SESSION 5: 11:00-12:35 (Pacific Room)

Anthropological Engagement and Applications

Chair: Andre Yefremian (Glendale Community College)

11:00-11:20 Andre Yefremian (Glendale Community College)

Promoting Sustainable Development: The Role of Social

Banks

11:20-11:40 Julia Hammett (Truckee M eadows Community

College)

Living at the End of the World: Viewing the Anthropocene

through the Lens of a Citizen Anthropologist

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Preliminary Program

BREAK: Break 10:45 – 11:00

11:40-12:00 Sarah Etheridge-Creswell (College of the Can-

yons)

Identifying Cultural Themes in a Shared Experience of

Water Hygiene Education Participants

12:00-12:20 Emily Grover (Southwestern University)

“The Community Is the Greatest Work of Art”: Texas

Art, History, and Identity at the San Angelo Museum of

Fine Arts

12:20-12:35 Discussion __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

SESSION 6: 11:00-12:35 (Point Loma Room)

Addressing the Health of Latino Farm Working Communities

in Southern California’s Inland Empire (Organized Session)

Organizer and Chair: Ann Cheney (UC Riverside)

11:00-11:20 Agustin Maximo Anastacio (Riverside City Col-

lege), Christine Newkirk (UC Riverside), and Katheryn Rodri-

guez (UC Riverside)

Culture, Gender, and Risk-Taking among Latino Farm

Working Men

11:20-11:40 Ann Cheney (UC Riverside), Christine Newkirk

(UC Riverside), and Katheryn Rodriguez (UC Riverside)

Ulysses Syndrome: The Emotional and Psychological

Life of Latino Farmworkers

11:40-12:00 Christine Newkirk (UC R iverside), Katheryn

Rodriguez (UC Riverside), and Ann Cheney (UC Riverside)

Barriers to Individual and Community Wellness and

Health Care among Latino Farmworkers in the Eastern

Coachella Valley

12:00-12:20 Katheryn Rodriguez (UC Riverside), Christine

Newkirk (UC Riverside), and Ann Cheney (UC Riverside)

Barriers to Engaging Farm Working Communities in

Health Research

12:20-12:35 Discussion

SESSION 7: 2:00-3:55 (Sunset Room)

Culture and the Politics of Identity: People and Places

Chair: Elizabeth Murray (University of South Florida)

2:00-2:20 Alexandra Jaffe (CSU Long Beach)

Heterogeneous Authenticities in a Corsican Cultural Park

2:20-2:40 Elizabeth Murray (University of South Florida)

Rebranding for Growth: Marketing Strategies in

Southern California Wine Country

2:40-3:00 Jen O’Neal (Southwestern University)

“Heart to Help”: Performing Whiteness in Development

NGOs in Sub-Saharan Africa

3:00-3:20 John Norvell (University of La Verne)

From Discourse to Taxonomy in Brazilian Color/Race

Terms

3:20-3:40 Rhiana Stevens (Southwestern University)

A Culture of Perception and Discrepancy: Women’s

Experiences with Violence in Tunisia

3:40-3:55 Discussion

SESSION 8: 2:00-3:55 (Pacific Room)

The Diverse Gendered Dynamics of Human Experience

Chair: Barbra Erickson (CSU Fullerton)

2:00-2:20 Catherine Hodge McCoid (University of Central M is-

souri) and LeRoy McDermott (University of Central Missouri)

Women Artists Representing Themselves in the European

Upper Paleolithic

2:20-2:40 Dia Flores (Long Beach City College)

“I Am Not a Tomboy”: Perspectives of Gender by Filipina

Immigrants in London

2:40-3:00 Patricia Taber (UC Santa Barbara)

Tradition and Transformation: Women and Micro-

enterprise in Neoliberal India

3:00-3:20 Sarah Prothero (CSU Long Beach)

She’s Not a ‘Real’ Gamer: Online Discourses of Gender

Regarding Female Broadcasters on Twitch.TV

3:20-3:40 Leah Sakacs (CSU Long Beach)

Tell Me Who You Are: Life Histories of Women beyond

the Prison Walls

3:40-3:55 Discussion

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SESSION 9: 2:00-3:55 (Point Loma Room)

Belief and Behavior: Interpretations of Past Environments

(Organized Session).

Organizer and Chair: Raquel Ackerman (CSU Los Angeles)

2:00-2:20 Jennifer McCrackan (CSU Los Angeles)

Exploring Tokusatsu: The Influence of the Tokugawa

Period on Japanese Television

2:20-2:40 Jose C. Ambrocio Aguilar (CSU Los Angeles)

In Search of Matzume: Territorial-narratives of an Archaeo-

logical Cave Survey in Asuncion Ocotlan, Oaxaca, Mexico

2:40-3:00 Joseph Curran (CSU Los Angeles) and Richard Nicolas

(CSU Los Angeles)

Here There Be Dragons: Monsters in Parallel Cultures

3:00-3:20 Justin D’Agostino (Southern Illinois University) and

Marilyn Brody (Southern Illinois University)

An Analysis of Human Senses in the Jungles of Indonesia

3:20-3:40 Maricela Emma Lopéz (CSU Los Angeles)

Division of Identities: Interpretation of Evolving Racial

Sensitivity

3:40-3:55 Discussion

SESSION 10: 4:10-6:00 (Sunset Room)

Poster Session A. Chair : TBA

Dawn Burns (CSU Long Beach)

Venice Beach: A Soul Synthesis

Amanda Costello (Boston University School of Medicine)

Environmental Consciousness in Death: America’s

Transformation in Mortuary Practices

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Lunch Break 12:35 – 2:00

Break 3:55 – 4:10

Timothy Curran (Cal Poly Pomona)

Habitat is Everywhere: Designing for Coexistence with

Wildlife

Jennifer Desatoff (CSU Long Beach) and Erika Suarez

Paying Students to Do the Right Thing: Rewards for

Recycling on Campus

Melissa Franks (CSU Long Beach)

Beyond the Classroom: Museum Education and

Community Outreach in Schools

Brandon Fryman (University of La Verne) and Katya Rodriguez

(University of La Verne)

Applying Theory to Sustainable Housing: “Something

about the Rhythm of the Earth”

Melissa Ignacio (CSU Los Angeles)

The Fleet Is In: Collective Memory and the Unofficial

Monument

Liam D. Murphy (CSU Sacramento)

Denizens of Hell: Costume, Aesthetics, and Social

Performance at Hellfest

Alix Politanoff (CSU Los Angeles) and Jose Trinidad Castañeda

III (CSU Los Angeles)

“Listening Session”: An Applied Urban Method

Vanessa Ruiz (CSU Los Angeles)

Brazilian Social Stratification and HIV/AIDS among

Women in the Favela of Rocinha

Natalie Vindivich (CSU Los Angeles)

Coming Home to Roost: An Ethnohistory on Chicken,

Alaska

Anne Marie Whitehead (CSU Fullerton)

Green Burial: An Alternative Practice

Aziz Yuldashev (Cultures Without Walls along the Great Silk

Road) and Melinda Niekum (Cultures Without Walls along the

Great Silk Road)

Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in Central

Asia for Sustainable Development and Intercultural

Dialogue

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SESSION 11: 4:10-6:00 (Point Loma Room)

Film Session 1. Chair : TBA

Patrick Godut (University of La Verne)

Ameri-Pino: Recognizing Filipino Heritage in America

(25 minutes)

Steven Rousso-Schindler (CSU Long Beach)

At Street Level (26.4 minutes)

Saira Naqvi (CSU Long Beach)

Musicians in Medicine (7.07 minutes)

Saturday, April 23, 2016

SESSION 12: 8:30-9:50 (Sunset Room)

Poster Session B. Chair : TBA

M. Alex Bellenger (CSU Long Beach)

“I Am Not For Sale”: An Applied Approach to Human

Trafficking Prevention

MarkJason Cabudol (San Diego State University)

When All Else Fails: Pediatric Cannabis Use for

Intractable Epilepsy

Nasim Eslami (UC Riverside)

Iranian’s Communities: Obstacles on Iranian-Americans’

Unison in America

Artemisia Hermosillo (CSU Los Angeles)

Women of the Pomo and Yurok Nations: Ideologies of

Power

Emily Ibrahim (CSU Long Beach), Rachel Chauvin, and

Lydieth Najera

United & Growing

Emilio Jacintho (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) and Pierre

Lienard (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

The Outsider Problem

Stephen Macharia (CSU Long Beach), Alex Wechter and

Patrick Moreno

Stress, Support, and Sustainability: Measuring Experiences

of First Generation College Students

Daniel Mehrabian (Yerevan State University)

Sustainable Ethnic Identities: The Retention of Armenian

Ethnic Identity in the Los Angeles-Based Diaspora

Matthew Purifoy (CSU Chico) and Sahar Foruzan (CSU Chico)

Finding Harmony

Elizabeth Stela (UC Riverside)

Terraforming, Martian Bodies, and Ethics: The Future of

Space Exploration and Settlement

Taree Vargas (CSU Long Beach)

Verbal/Embodied Parallels and Cooperative Meaning

Generation

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SESSION 13: 8:30-9:50 (Point Loma Room)

The Power of Dreams (Organized Session). Chair: Barbra Erickson

(CSU Fullerton) Organizer: Anne Marie Whitehead (CSU Fullerton)

8:30:8:50 Anne Marie Whitehead (CSU Fullerton)

Dreams as Culture

8:50-9:10 Jose Zamora (CSU Fullerton)

The Value of Dreams: Silencing Narrative

9:10-9:30 Christal Snyder (CSU Fullerton)

Dreaming of an Alternative: Double Woman Dreams in

Lakota Society

9:30-9:50 Dianna Stifter (CSU Fullerton)

Inception and Lucid Dreaming

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SWAA RECEPTION: 6:00-8:00, Room TBA

Complimentary hors-d'oeuvres and no-host bar

[Open to all who are registered for the full conference]

SESSION 14: 9:00-9:50 (Pacific Room)

Film Session 2

Teri Brewer (Independent Scholar)

A Donation to the Museum (27 minutes)

Desiree Renee Martinez

Discussant

SESSION 15: 10:05-12:05 (Sunset Room)

Teaching Anthropology: Conceptual and Methodological

Toolkits. Chair : Michelle Rober ts (University of Nevada, Reno

and CSU Sacramento)

10:05-10:25 Juliann Couture (University of Colorado, Boulder)

and Erin Gratz (University of La Verne)

Collaborations to Foster a Conceptual Understanding of

Information Integration in Today’s Students

10:25-10:45 Kathryn Sorensen (Ashford University) and

Jennifer Miller-Thayer (Citrus College)

Interactive Resources for Teaching Anthropology Online

10:45-11:05 Melissa Begey (CSU Long Beach)

50 Shades of Green: Discourses of Sustainable Fashion in

the Classroom Setting

11:05-11:25 Monica Thompson (University of La Verne)

Sex Estimation from Cranial Traits: A Look at Current

Methodology

11:25-11:45 William Fairbanks (Cuesta College) They Say Cultural Anthropology Is Dead: Was it Suicide?

11:45-12:05 Discussion _____________________________________________________

SESSION 16: 10:05-12:05 (Pacific Room)

Variations of Indigeneity in America Chair: Kimberly Martin (University of La Verne)

10:05-10:25 Janet Page-Reeves (University of New M exico), Conceptualizing Native Identity as a Foundation of

Success among Native Americans in STEM

10:25-10:45 Robyn Houts (Gavilan College)

A Culture Sustained Against All Odds: The Amah

Mutsun, Ohlone People of Chitactac

10:45-11:05 Shasta Gaughen (Pala Band of M ission Indians) Sustaining Tribal Futures: Indian Gaming and Cultural

Survival

11:05-11:25 Brian Baker (CSU Sacramento) Exhibiting “American Indian” Nostalgia in Public

Ceremony

11:25-11:45 Terri Castaneda (CSU Sacramento) “Injun Louie” and the Visual Economy of American

Indians at Mid-20th Century: An Analysis of Cartoon

Imagery in the Smoke Signal

11:45-12:05 Discussion

SESSION 17: 10:05-12:05 (Point Loma Room)

Film Session 2. Chair : TBA

Vanessa Villarreal (CSU Long Beach)

The Albanian Dream (8.13 minutes)

Taree Vargas (CSU Long Beach)

Belongings (10 minutes)

Kimberly Martin and Matthew Martin-Hall (University of La

Verne)

The Zapotec Way: Dying and Weaving at La Grana Tejidos

(25 minutes)

J.T. McKinney (University of La Verne)

Exploring Sacred Healing Modalities: From the Andes to

Southern California (10 minutes)

SESSION 18: 2:00-4:00 (Sunset Room)

Community-Based Applied Anthropology at San Jose State Uni-

versity, Part 1 (Organized Session).

Organizer and Chair: A.J. Faas (San Jose State University)

2:00-2:20 A.J. Faas (San Jose State University)

Time and Memory in Disaster: Cases from the Andes and the

Pacific Northwest

2:20-2:40 DeDe Patterson (San Jose State University)

Living Between Borders: Transnational Marriages and U.S.

Resettlement Patterns in Sudanese Refugee Populations

2:40-3:00 Jacqueline Porcello (San Jose State University)

History of Anthropology at San Jose State University

3:00-3:20 Kirk Phillips (San Jose State University)

Mapping the Gamer Landscape: Anthropological

Perspectives on Professional Gaming

3:20-3:40 Michael Boero (San Jose State University) Looking Back, Moving Forward: Adaptive Resource

Management in the Sierra Nevada

3:40-4:00 Discussion ________________________________________________________

SESSION 19: 2:00-4:00 (Pacific Room)

Families, Kith and Kin: Social Bonds and Networks that Sustain

Us (Organized Session). Organizers and Chairs: J ayne Howell

(CSU Long Beach) and Suzanne Scheld (CSU Northridge)

2:00-2:20 Hilarie Kelly (University of La Verne) Migration, Family Work, Aging and Gender in Two

Diasporic Communities in North America

2:20-2:40 Jayne Howell (CSU Long Beach) Sustaining Social Ties while Sustaining One’s Children:

Oaxacan Families Separated by the Demands of Rural

Teaching

2:40-3:00 Kevin Zemlicka (CSU Northridge)

Tales of Kinship and Transformation in the Ugandan

Diaspora

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3:00-3:20 Matilde Cordoba Azcarate (UC San Diego)

Kinship as Liquidity in a Maya Textile Factory Village

3:20-3:40 Suzanne Scheld (CSU Northridge)

From Secure to Securitized Childhood: Youth Baseball,

Parent Perceptions, and Fragmented Community in Los

Angeles, California

3:40-4:00 Discussion

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SESSION 20: 2:00-4:00 (Point Loma Room)

Health, Wellness, and Lifeways Chair: Jonathan Karpf (San Jose State University)

2:00-2:20 Ambyr Hardy (CSU Long Beach) Sustaining Motherhood: Navigating the Challenges of

Urban Parenthood Together

2:20-2:40 Jacob Schreiber (CSU Long Beach) Financial Stress and Decision-Making towards the End of

Life

2:40-3:00 Violetta Paley (CSU Long Beach) Healing the Mind, Body, and Spirit with Imagery Hypno-

sis & Mindful Meditation at a Cancer Support Center in

Los Angeles

3:00-3:20 William Bowen (The Inner Looking Place)

A New Look at Early Chinese Medicine in America

3:20-3:40 Drew Kotlarczyk (Southwestern University) “Learn with It and Lean with It”: Accommodation, Power,

and Identity

3:40-4:00 Discussion

SESSION 21: 4:20-6:20 (Sunset Room)

Community-Based Applied Anthropology at San Jose State

University, Part 2 (Organized Session). Organizer and Chair :

Roberto Gonzalez (San Jose State University)

4:20-4:40 Aaron Van Valen (San Jose State University)

Racialization and Legislation of Indian Relocation to San

Jose, California

4:40-5:00 Brieann DeOrnellas (San Jose State University)

Thrust into Urbanization: Economic and Affective

Precarity for American Indians after the Urban Relocation

Act

5:00-5:20 Elaine Foster (San Jose State University)

Leadership Inheritance: A Study at CommUniverCity

5:20-5:40 Jamieson Mockel, Chelsea Halliwell, Stephanie

Monterrosa, DeDe Patterson, and Ailea Merriam-Pigg (San Jose

State University)

Continuity and Change in Community-Based Leadership

in San Jose, CA

5:40-6:00 Leah Grant, Gianina Bebb, and Angela Moniz (San

Jose State University)

Urban Movements: American Indian Resettlement and Pan

-Indian Identities in the San Francisco Bay Area

6:00-6:20 Discussion

SESSION 22: 4:20-6:20 (Pacific Room)

“Salon Sessions”: In these small, informal "salon sessions," 2-4 panelists will present briefly on a narrowly focused topic, after which panelists and audience will engage in discussion of the panel topics.

Families in the Field: Considering the Methodology and Position-

ality in Anthropological Fieldwork with Partners and Children

Chairs: Erin Stiles (University of Nevada, Reno) and Michelle Rob-

erts (University of Nevada, Reno and CSU Sacramento)

Erin Stiles (University of Nevada, Reno)

From Zanzibar to Utah: The Influence of Family Life on

Projects and Methods in Ethnographic Research

Claire Cesareo (Saddleback College)

Intimacy and Ethnographic Knowledge

Michelle Roberts (University of Nevada, Reno and CSU

Sacramento)

Unexpected Aspects of Mothering in the Field for a Year in

the Lao PDR

Ambyr Hardy (CSU Long Beach)

Work-Life Balance in the Field

Agency and Surveillance at Work. Chair : Henry Delcore (CSU

Fresno)

Henry Delcore (CSU Fresno)

Agency and Surveillance: Classrooms and Other Workplaces

Ailea Merriam-Pigg (San Jose State University)

“Just Turn It Off”: An Exploration of GamerGate and the

Online Workforce

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SESSION 23: 4:20-6:20 (Point Loma Room)

Human Environment Entanglements and Multi-Species Encoun-

ters. Chair : Brandon Fryman (University of La Verne)

4:20-4:40 Mikel Hogan (CSU Fullerton)

From Sacred to Profane Landscapes: Lessons from Bolsa

Chica and Banning Ranch Archaeological Sites in Orange

County, CA

4:40-5:00 Brandon Fryman (University of La Verne)

Sustainable Housing: Theory, Practice, and Evaluation;

Learning from the Past to Help the Future

5:00-5:20 Daniel Ross (Southwestern University)

Black Country, White Wilderness: Colonialism,

Conservation and Conflict in Tasmania

5:20-5:40 Janni Pedersen (Ashford University)

The Ape and You: Ape-Human Relationships in Behavioral

and Cognitive Research

5:40-6:00 Louis Forline (University of Nevada, Reno)

Are People and Systems Sustainable? Exploring the Nature

of Ruptures and Continuities of Indigenous Amazonians in

the 21st Century

6:00-6:20 Discussion

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Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Laura Nader, UC Berkeley

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Two recent visits to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco afforded me opportunities to employ an anthropological lens

in two very different kinds of museum exhibitions: the California Academy of Sciences, which was reopened after sub-

stantial renovation in 2008 to provide the public with a one-stop encounter with the natural sciences, including elements

of anthropology; and the De Young Museum of Fine Arts across the plaza, which completed its renovation in 2005.

Many anthropologists have commented on the implications of placing anthropological materials in museums of

“natural science.” Historically, anthropology has strong theoretical and methodological ties to the natural sciences. Bio-

logical anthropology still seems clearly to belong there, but many have pointed out that all four fields can and perhaps

should have a presence in other kinds of museums as well, including those devoted to “fine arts.” Older Euro-American

museum traditions generally were rooted in self-celebration and imperial triumphalism, while contemporary museums

increasingly challenge older barriers and categories, and tread much more carefully around the issue of objectifying en-

tire groups of people and their cultures. [Consider, for example, the Art/Artifact exhibition controversy. See James C.

Faris (1988) “ ‘ART/artifact’: On the Museum and Anthropology” in Current Anthropology 29(5):775-59.] Happily, this

shift has left anthropologists with more options for locating their work and inserting their anthropological gaze into pub-

lic venues. It also invites the public to practice anthropology when they visit any museum.

In past columns I have mentioned the Bowers Museum in Orange County, which houses cultural material displays

from all over the world, from Native California basketry to New Guinea masks and statuary. The Bowers has also host-

ed mega-exhibits of the Lucy fossil, the mummies of Urumchi, the African photos of Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher,

and the Chinese terra cotta warriors, as well as public lectures by Wade Davis and Zahi Hawass. [The museum website

is www.bowers.org.] Like the Bowers, the California Academy of Sciences, one of the largest natural science museums

in the country, and the De Young, identified as a fine arts museum, have undergone major renovations and have made

their focus both more culturally complex and integrated.

I have a personal attachment to the Cal Academy, as its supporters call it. In 1971, I had the privilege of participating

in a herpetological expedition in Northern Kenya, under the leadership of Robert Drewes, now Curator Emeritus of Her-

petology at Cal Academy. As an undergraduate that year, I learned a great deal about how science is done, and the ex-

perience laid the foundations for my subsequent PhD research in the region. The reliance of field scientists on the indig-

enous technical knowledge (ITK) of local community members made a big impression on me. For many years after, I

was pleased to visit Cal Academy, which then housed separate halls, representing different scientific disciplines. My

favorite display was in the old Human Cultures Gallery: a diorama of a Gabbra nomadic pastoralist home in Northern

Kenya, complete with a stuffed pack camel. The material cultural items and supporting data had been supplied by an-

thropologist William I. Torry (then a research fellow at Berkeley), who kindly shared his ideas with me prior to my own

Museums and Exhibits By Hilarie Kelly, University of La Verne

Hidden in Plain Sight: Anthropology in the Public Eye

California Academy of Sciences De Young Museum of Fine Arts

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field research. (This, by the way, is the kind of inspiring mentorship and collegiality we hope our students will receive.)

Sadly, that diorama is no longer. The new museum design is quite different. However, the material objects donated by

Torry are still part of the museum’s collection and photographs can be viewed online through their website’s anthropolo-

gy collections database.

The new Cal Academy emphasizes the interdisciplinary connections between the various sciences, especially in rela-

tion to how the public sees our role as generators of knowledge. The new facility is designed to make it more clear than

ever how science is relevant to prevailing public interests. Now, a reed canoe sits on the bank of a tide pool exhibit.

The detailed display on human evolution is housed in the classic, natural his-

tory-style Africa Hall, where a live South African penguin exhibit at the op-

posite end draws in groups of children for field trips and sleepovers. At vari-

ous locations in the museum, visitors are invited to touch things, from live

snakes to casts of animal skulls, including humans and our hominid ances-

tors. Humans are depicted as part of the natural world, which includes such

impactful phenomena as earthquakes, species coloration, and extinction. The

display on human variability and “race” is part of a larger exhibit on species

variation generally, and effectively makes the same point of the AAA Race

Project: that our common notions of race misread human patterns of pheno-

typic and genotypic variation, especially in relation to what we know about

such variations in and between other species. There is a glass-walled work-

ing Project Lab on the first floor where staff scientists work under the public

gaze, and a Naturalist Center on the third floor where the public engages in

some participatory science, with staff available to guide them. The message

is clear: the contents of this museum are not a musty “cabinet of curiosities.”

They are and always have been integral parts of “our” world.

Clockwise, from top right:

Touch this snake; Touch this

Australopithecus; Touch this skull;

Touch this tide pool; Human Varia-

tion display; Project Lab

[Photos by Hilarie Kelly]

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I began my day at the Cal Academy with a behind-the-scenes tour, which costs $24.95 above the admission price of

$34.95 for adults. It is worth it. The number of people on a given tour depends on who signs up, and in this case I was

the only person. My guide was Brendan Papciak, who is the Specialty Tours Manager, and was formerly in the Educa-

tion Department of the Oakland Zoo. We began by visiting the notable “living roof” of the new building, which was

designed by famed architect, Renzo Piano. All visitors are permitted to ascend onto a viewing platform to see this ex-

perimental space, which consists of an expanse of native California plants and several grassy hillocks that are part of the

building’s breathing and cooling system. The tour allowed me to follow Brendan onto the roof itself to examine its

structure and various project elements that are incorporated into it.

Clockwise from top left:

Cal Academy roof dome

and viewing platform;

Rainforest dome from the

inside; Cross-section of

the “living roof”; Speci-

men vault taxidermy and

Beaked Whale skeleton;

on top of the roof with

guide Brendan Papciak

[Photos by Hilarie Kelly]

Only native plants brought in by birds or the wind have been al-

lowed to grow there, and Brendan explained that it has been an unex-

pected revelation to see the number and variety of native plants that

have made their way there and thrived. These are expected to sup-

port local bird and insect populations that also make their home in

the area. Drainage and rain harvesting projects test ways in which

such roofs might be suitable for structures in urban environments in

an increasingly unpredictable climate. One section is devoted to a

“body farm” for the remains of cetaceans that wash up on nearby

beaches. Brendan later showed me, in a vault below, the skeleton of

a rather famous Baird’s Beaked Whale once known as the Santa

Cruz Sea Serpent. (See http://www.deepseanews.com/2014/11/lies-

damned-lies-and-cryptozoology/.) For more detail on the roof, see

http://www.greenroofs.com/projects/pview.php?id=509 .

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Inside the building, below one of the rooftop hillocks, is an enormous four-story rainforest dome, billed as “the larg-

est of its kind in the world” on the museum website (http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/osher-rainforest.) The

“portholes” installed in the eternal hillock provide light and temperature control. Visitors enter the dome and are able to

directly observe plants, birds, and insects from different rainforest econiches on all four levels.

I would like to see more in the rainforest dome about the human cultures that have successfully adapted there. Per-

haps that will happen in the future, as this museum continues to evolve.

Brendan explained to me that the old Gallery of Human Cul-

tures is gone; specifically cultural exhibits will now rotate with

other content in spaces outside of the larger attractions, called

“Iconic Exhibits” on their website: Osher Rainforest, Kimball

Natural History Museum, Steinhart Aquarium, and Morrison

Planetarium. I was fortunate that the exhibit, Evolving Tradi-

tions: Southwest Native Pottery and Silver, was on display in the

small Upper Gallery on the third floor. The exhibit highlighted

items of the museum’s impressive Elkus Collection of 1,700 ob-

jects, especially from Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, and Rio Grande Pueblo

communities. In this exhibit, links between older and contempo-

rary art production traditions were explored, with considerable

discussion of how notable individual artists had come to promi-

nence within the context of various attempts to develop the com-

mercial viability of their work. In the diversity of exceptional

pieces on display, it is possible to recognize some of the distinct

styles associated with several generations of artists and their com-

munities.

Clockwise, from below right:

Southwest jewelry, stone and shell; Southwest jewelry, silver work; southwest

artist profile; Southwest ceramic contemporary piece; Southwest ceramic an-

tique piece; Southwest Native Pottery and Silver exhibit entrance

[Photos by Hilarie Kelly]

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The museum has an Anthropology Department within their Institute for Biodi-

versity Science and Sustainability, the part of the academy that supports the many

affiliated research scientists. The person responsible for ethnographic and archae-

ological collections management is Laura Eklund, who can be contacted at

LEklund@calacademy.org for further information on how to access collections

and regarding future anthropologically relevant exhibitions at the museum. The

Senior Curator of Anthropology is Zeresenay (Zeray) Alemseged, whose human

paleontological work is included in the exhibit “The Human Odyssey” located in

the Tusher Africa Hall. (See the website: http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/

human-odyssey.) Alemseged does fieldwork in Ethiopia, and is known best for

his discovery of a 3.3 million-year-old fossil skeleton of a 3-year-

old Australopithecus afarensis child, of the same species as the famous fossil,

“Lucy.” This exhibit is rich in information and hard to miss, drawing visitors in

with interactive elements and a hominid species comparison display that employs

optical illusion technology known as “Pepper’s Ghost.” The interactive Human

Migration Map is available on the museum’s website and can be used in teaching.

(See http://legacy.calacademy.org/human-odyssey/map/.)

Just outside of the Africa Hall, in an expansive space devoted to the theme of biodiversity, one cannot help but see a

majestic family of three giraffes (taxidermied) that seems to stroll freely along the side of the wall. Nearby signage

makes the point that some of the dioramas in the old Africa Hall were retained as an example of past collecting and dis-

play methods in the natural sciences, now replaced by less destructive ethological and small sample techniques. This

exemplifies the environmental and ecological shift embodied by the new museum. But what about their pre-renovation

collections, one might ask? While on the behind-the-scenes tour of the museum’s storage vaults, I gazed at shelves

filled with specimens of creatures from all over the globe. (There are twenty-six million specimens!) One shelf con-

tained snakes, reptiles and amphibians from Africa, some of which could have been specimens that I helped Robert

Drewes collect in 1971 in Kenya. My sadness at participating in the dispatch of specimens back then was mitigated

somewhat by enthusiasm for the scientific knowledge to be gained, nurtured by Drewes’ willingness over subsequent

years to show me how those specimens yielded the information he sought. (For a summary of his work, see http://

www.calacademy.org/explore-science/robert-drewes.) During our tour of the specimen vaults, Brendan related to me

how birds taken from the Galapagos long ago helped recent researchers determine when avian pox first arrived there.

This information continues to be relevant as researchers document the current status of bird populations, some of which

appear to be in decline. (For more information on this story see http://www.calacademy.org/explore-science/collections-

stories-avian-pox and http://phys.org/news/2011-01-year-old-specimens-avian-pox-galapagos.html.)

The Cal Academy was first built in downtown San Francisco in 1853. Its second location was destroyed in the 1906

earthquake, and the museum was then rebuilt in Golden Gate Park. Several buildings were added thereafter, only to

suffer damage in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. This led to the renovated museum of today. The California Acade-

my of Sciences is a major attraction for anyone in the San Francisco area, and anthropologists will find much to interest

them in this example of the new generation of natural history museums.

Human Odyssey display, Lucy skeleton

Left: Taxidermied

giraffe display

Right: Specimen

storage vault

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On another day, I visited the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, which is within sight of the Cal Academy.

The De Young is the “most visited art museum west of the Mississippi, the sixth-most-visited art museum in North

America, and the 35th-most visited in the world” (https://deyoung.famsf.org/about/history-de-young-museum). It was

in the De Young that I satisfied my anthropological interest in the culture of Hawaii, past and present, by attending the

exhibit “Royal Hawaiian Featherwork: Na Hulu Ali’i.” The feather items, especially the royal cloaks of brilliant red and

yellow, were exquisite, but the most interesting theme of the exhibit was the importance that these items had for Hawai-

ian royalty. Such items could be misunderstood as

mere relics of the past, were it not for the fact that

many contemporary Hawaiians still regard the old

monarchy with fondness and even reverence. We are

reminded of this in various political actions in Hawaii

today that reference the past, such as the recent pro-

tests at Mauna Kea, the majestic snow-covered vol-

canic peak on the island of Hawaii that is scheduled

to become the site for a new mega-telescope; in the

protracted negotiations over the application of

NAGPRA on the islands; and in debates over whether

Native Hawaiians should be given political status like

that of Native Americans, or whether the monarchy

and political autonomy should be restored. The thread

between past and present in Hawaiian culture, depict-

ed well in this exhibit, is on my mind this spring as I

prepare to attend the annual Merrie Monarch Festival

of hula in Hilo. I was therefore pleased to see detailed

stories of Hawaiian royalty retold in this exhibit.

Some of those stories are painfully tragic, involving

the betrayal of a popular and internationally recog-

nized monarchial state by their American “allies.”

The Hawaiian royals played a key role in both

championing the traditional culture and in brokering a

rapid modernization process. Sadly, their project ulti-

mately fell to colonial scheming and annexation in

1893 (for which President Bill Clinton officially apol-

ogized in 1993), while thousands of Hawaiians lost

their land and their lives to the influx of people and

microbes from outside. (For the actual statute of apol-

ogy, see https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-

107/pdf/STATUTE-107-Pg1510.pdf.) It is a block-

buster story, here delicately and elegantly told in

feathers in a “fine arts” museum. The precious feath-

er objects are mostly behind glass, a classically static

museum display option made necessary by the fragili-

ty of the items. However, the experience is enlivened

by ample signage, photographs and portraits of royals

who once wore and gifted these symbolically power-

ful feather regalia. The capes are especially magnifi-

cent, and I was not entirely surprised to learn that

their circulation as far as Europe sparked a fashion

trend in feather capes there as well.

One wonders how Hawaii might have evolved if

their monarchy had not been forcefully overthrown.

The last king, David Kalakaua, the “Merrie Monarch”

after whom the biggest hula competition in the world

is named, has since become a symbol of the Hawaiian

Left: Feather cloak standing

(as it would have been worn)

Above: Feather cloaks laid flat

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Renaissance, from the 1970s to the present, along with the last Queen, Liliuo-

kalani, who wrote the famous melody, “Aloha Oe” while under house arrest

by American forces. Their images can be found all over Hawaii and in the

diaspora. Ironically, they are always shown in Western dress, rather than in

those wonderful feather capes. In fact, the last royals to be officially depicted

wearing feather cloaks were the young Nahi’ena’ena and her brother-consort,

who became Kamehameha III. (You can read their story here: http://

thedreamstress.com/2012/10/nahienaena-a-tragedy-of-two-parts/) Their story

too is a tragic one, and may be an important clue to the semiotics of dress in

the waning days of the Hawaiian monarchy.

The De Young hosted a variety of cultural events connected to the exhibit,

and these included artist-in-residence Herman Tachera, a Hawaiian feather-

work expert from the islands, who not only gave a hands-on workshop for

visitors on the day I was there, but also graciously performed a hula when a

local Hawaiian musical group played live music. Other musicians and dance

groups performed throughout the length of this exhibition, as is quite com-

mon at all contemporary celebrations of Hawaiian culture today. The songs,

with lyrics in the revitalized Hawaiian language, have become a cornerstone

of cultural survival at home and in the diaspora. Many of the lyrics explicitly

reference the monarchy. The dances are an embodied symbol of Hawaiian

identity and values of community, and it is not uncommon for community

members to spontaneously take the stage to join in. One of the most common

dance steps is nicknamed the “kalakaua” after the last king, as every hula

dancer knows. In such a context, cultural anthropology integrates with fine

arts and performing arts to embrace visitors in an engaging, participatory ex-

perience that has become a hallmark of modern museum experiences. This

exhibit recently closed, but you can still see many of its splendors in the ex-

traordinary, well-documented catalog produced by the De Young. https://

deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/featherwork The exhibit will be at the Bishop

Museum in Honolulu until May 23, after which most of the feather pieces

will be placed in storage for years to preserve them.

Above: Royal portraits

Clockwise from left:

Featherwork workshop;

Hula performance at De Young;

Featherwork expert Herman

Tachera doing hula

Photos by Hilarie Kelly

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We should not underestimate the impact the four fields of anthropology have had on shaping public knowledge over

the past century. The task is still incomplete, certainly, as our own inquiries are never-ending. Placing our work in pub-

lic view, in museums and other exhibitions, as well as in popular publications and other media, not only advances the

goal of a public, engaged anthropology, but it also enhances our own ability to appreciate the work of others in our own

and related disciplines. Next year (2017), our current Vice President A.J. Faas, of San Jose State University, will be

hosting our annual SWAA conference. Please consider visiting the California Academy of Sciences and the De Young

Museum in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco whenever you visit the Northern California coastal area. ♦

Clockwise from top left:

California Academy of Sciences; Cal Academy Rain forest

dome; Cal Academy Education Center; Feather cape display

at the De Young (photo by Zahara Keulen); De Young tower

Photos by Hilarie Kelly

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MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION / RENEWAL OF MEMBERSHIP

Membership/renewal forms and online membership/renewal can also be found at the SWAA website: swaa-anthro.org/membership/

NAME:

AFFILIATION:

MAILING ADDRESS:

EMAIL:

REGULAR MEMBER $25 EMERITUS MEMBER _________ $25

STUDENT MEMBER $20

Make check payable to SWAA. Mail completed form and check to:

Treasurer, SWAA, Dept. of Anthropology, SJSU, 1 Washington Square, San Jose, CA 95192-0113

I prefer to receive the SWAA Newsletter ONLINE _______

I prefer to receive a paper copy of each SWAA Newsletter. _______

Questions? Contact Andre Yefremian at swaatreasurer@yahoo.com