[URBANTH-L]SUNTA at AAA

[David Haines]

To SUNTA members and friends:

For those of you attending the AAA meeting
in D.C., here are a few key items:

Special invited sessions:

Global Downtowns
      Thursday, November 29, at 1:45 p.m.

Constructions of Cultural and Personal Identity within
and across Borders: Tourism, Labor and Migration
      Friday, November 30, at 9:00 a.m.

Not Untouchable: Recentering the Margins in Urban
Anthropology for the 21st Century (Papers in honor of
Owen Lynch)
      Friday, November 30, at 4:00 p.m.

Ethnography and Poverty: Epistemology, Theory, and
Policy (An Across-the-Disciplines Dialogue with Mitch
Duneier)
      Saturday, December 1, at 1:45 p.m.

Also:

SUNTA business meeting (all welcome)
      Friday, November 30, at 12:15 p.m.

. . . and join us for a reception with cash bar. This is a
combined event of SUNTA with the American Ethnological
Society (AES) and the Society for Cultural Anthropology
(SCA)
      Friday, November 30, at 7:15 p.m.

I will circulate a draft of the business meeting agenda in
a few days. But in the interim do feel free to suggest any
items you would like to see discussed at the business
meeting.

Best regards,

-- David

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David W. Haines
Associate Professor of Anthropology
George Mason University  SOAN 3G5
Fairfax  VA 22030

President, Society for Urban, National, and
Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA)

Office: 703-993-3600
Web:    http://gunston.gmu.edu/dhaines1