R I T E S O F P A S S A G E January 2000 Anthropology News

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ment to equity for women in anthropology. Carol Kramer has been a leader with a clear but quiet voice in issues involving gender equity within anthropology for more than 20 years. She was a member of COSWA between 1973-75. She was also a member of the Ruth Benedict Col- lective in the 1970s. In 1979, while teaching at Lehman College, CUNY, she was part of a group that drew up a resolution calling on the AAA board to reverse their disavowal of the 1972 Resolution on Fair Practices in Employment of Women. The group, also including Roger Sanjek, Rayna Rapp, Carole Varlce and Glenn Peterson, was able to enlist over 150 sponsors of the reso- lution and the resolution was passed with an overwhelming voice vote in the AAA meeting of December 1980. This resolution was narrowly passed in a mail ballot. The resolution was re- sponside for immediately censoring five depart- ments. Departments continue to be reviewed, with unfair practices still being noted in the AN.

In 1986-87, drawing on the resources available in an NSF funded Visiting Professorship for Women at the U of Arizona, Kramer initiated and conducted the first survey of gender equity on women within archaeology, covering the period between 1976-86. Miriam Stark, then a student at the U of Arizona, worked as a research assistant in this project. The survey demonstrated that whereas the number of women was increasing in archaeology graduate programs and as tenured faculty members, there was a decline in the num- ber of women at each subsequent career stage, with significant drops from graduate school admission, to completing the doctoral degree, to being hired in tenurable positions and achieving tenure. The results of the survey were published in the December 1988 AN, (p 11-12). The effec- tive methods taken in this study inspired a num- ber of subsequent studies in other aspects Qf archaeology. Finally, Kramer has played an important role as mentor to many women in archaeology, at Arizona and elsewhere.

COSWA is delighted to be able to recognize the contributions of Carol Kramer with this award.

Nominations for the Y2K Squeaky Wheel Award are now being accepted. Please see this month’s Anthro Awards column in the Career Development section for submission information.

ALLA Announces Winners BY MONICA Russu. Y Ron~icuu. ‘The 1999 Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists’ Student Paper award was given to Benjamin Armintor, graduate student in An- thropology at U Texas, Austin, for his paper, “A SubAltern Conceptualization of San Antonio.” Regarding the paper, one reviewer wrote: “This was a very well written and clearly articulated paper. It does a wonderful job of exploring the contradictions inherent in using “commodity” as an analytical category for interpreting the pas- torela. It also does a wonderful job of interweav- ing theory and fieldwork data.”

The ALLA Student Paper Competition is held annually and awarded to the best paper on any facet of anthropology that concerns issues related to US Latinas, Latinos and their communities. It is limited to individuals who are students at the time of their submission. The 1999 ALLA Student Paper competition was reviewed by Jonathan Xavier Inda (UCSB), Nilsa Oliver0 (independent scholar), Monica Russel y Rodriguez (Duke) and Lynn Stephen (U Oregon).

The 1999 ALLA Book Award was given to Ana Celia Zentella, for her book Graving Up Bilingual (1997). As one reviewer wrote: “Zentella takes an

Ana Celia Zentella, recipient of the 1999 ALIA Book Award for her ethnography Growing UD Bilinaual

incredibly complex issue (biigualism as illustrated in a case study of New Yorkers of Puerto Rican de- scent), identifies nu- merous complicat- ing factors (multiple English & Spanish dialects, multiple types of family set- tings, language ac- quisition-longi tu- dinally-as well as language use, con- text of use, sociopo- - . -

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and analyze all these factors in a very,engaging and readable manner, with strong theoretical grounding and an innovative approach. Her case study examples are rich and appealing and she makes it easy to get to know her informants, while connecting their experiences with the broader theoretical issues of language use in a multicultural society. This is anthropological holism at its best.”

The finalists, which were also outstanding, included Mexican Outsider by Martha Menchaca (1995) and Exposing Prtjudice by Bonnie Urciuoli (1998).

The ALLA Book Competition is held every three years. The award is given to the best book published within the last five years on any facet of anthropology that concerns issues related to US Latinas/os and their communities. The 1999 ALLA Book Award was reviewed by: Elizabeth de la Portilla (Michigan), Monica Russel y Rodriguez (Duke), Vilma Santiago-Irizany (Cornell) and Carolyn Ybarra (Stanford). This coming year, ALLA will conduct the ZOO0 ALLA’Student Paper Competition and the ZOO0 Rising Professional Award. See future editions for details.

Tattersall Wins Howells Prize

BY D ANDREW MEWWETHER

The Biological Anthropology Section announce the winner of the 2000 Howells Prize. Ian Tattersall, Curator of Anthropology (American

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Museum of Natural History) was pre- sented with the ZOO0 William White Howells Prize for an outstanding contri- bution in biological anthropology. He received the award for his recent book, Becominn Human:

The-presentation was made to Tattersall at the Annual Business Meet- ing of BAS on November 21 in Chicago, IL. The Award includes a bronze medallion sculpted by Roberto Bertoia of Cornell U, an honorarium and certificate. In making the presentation Alan Swedlund (U Massachusetts, Amherst), Chair of the Awards Committee, quoted from several reviews of Becoming Human, in which the contri- butions of the book to ideas regarding human evolution were acknowledged. One of the award‘s criteria is that a book must reach a wider audience in general anthropology, biology or related sciences.

The Howells Prize was inaugurated in 1993 in honor of William White Howells Professor emer- itus of the Peabody Museum (Harvard). Howells is a past president of the AAA and a distinguished scholar who has published several landmark books in physical anthropology. The award is made annually, or as appropriate, by the Biolog- ical Anthropology Section of AAA. Nominations for significant books are accepted on a continu- ous basis. Those interested in nominating a can- didate for the Howells Prize are encouraged to do so. Nominations are by letter, and ideally include examples of reviews or other supportive informa- tion, Send to: Alan Swedlund, Awards Commit- tee, BAS, Dept of Anthropology, U of Massachu- setts, Amherst, MA 01003-0485.

Barnhardt Wins Spindler Award The Council on Education extends its most sin- cere congratulations to Ray Bamhardt, winner of this year’s Spindler Award. The Section also heartily congratulates the co-winners of the 1999 CAE Dissertation Award: Brian Brayboy, for “Climbing the Ivy: Examining the Experiences of Academically Successful Native American Indians at Two Ivy League Universities” (Advisor: Fred Erickson, U Penn), and Ellen Skilton-Sylvester, for “Inside, Outside and In-Between: Identities, Literacies and Educational Policies in the Lives of Cambodian Women and Girls in Philadelphia” (Advisor: Nancy Homberger, U Penn). Honorable mentions for the same award went to Marlena Yvette “Ginger” Baber (Advisor: Susan Green- baum, U South Florida), and Carolyn Vincent (Advisor: Evelyn Jacob, George Mason U).

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