March 1981 Anthropology Newsletter 3

DeDartme nts & People - Donham Wins RAI Curl Prize

The Curl Essay Prlze, glven lor Ihe bBSl essay relatlng to results or analysls 01 anthropologlcal work. w8S awarded by the Royal Anthropologlcal Instltule lor 1880 l o Donald L Donham 01 Stanford Unlverslty. The essay wll l appear In an upcomlng Issue of MAN.

Submlsslons ere now belng accepted for the 1981 competltlon. Entries are llmlted to tO.Oo0 words and must be submltted by September 30. 1981. Send In lrlpllcata to (he Secrelary to the Director, RAI. 56 Queen Anne St. London W1M 9U. England. Submlsslons wlll not be returned.?

In Brief H Loon Abrame, Jr (Emanuel Cty Jr C) has been

appolnted contrlbutlng editor end member 01 the advleory board 01 Heellh and Nulrlflon News

tlonal lnstltute 01 Drug Abuse lor a study on the development01 chlldren's attltudes toward h8alth. medlclne. drugs and abusable substance8 CO. prlnclpat Investigetor IS Petfitla Bush. and FfanCOB McCrackln Is Research Aselstant. They are all members 01 the Depanment 01 Communlty and Famlly Medlclne at the Georgetown UnlverSl. ty School of Medlclne.. . . JudlM Lynn Hanna (Maryland) was lnvlted to represent anthropology and aerve on the board 01 the International Dance Councll of UNESCO (Amerlcan chapter). . Donald A Mesunchmldl (WaShlngtOn State). has been selected to ] o h a 10member panel 01 N a tlonal Research Councli's Board on Sclence and Technology lor Internallonal Developmenl. Orga. nited lo asalst the Nepalese government wlth the management of renewable natural rewurcea, the panel me1 In Kathmandu. Feb 8-13., Charlea R Pners ( G e a g h ) nos been awarded thB Sarah Moas FellOwahtp for advanced atudy In Alrlce and wl l l be on leave untll September 1981. Z

FreWOO R Darldaotl recelved 8 grant lrom lhe Ne.

University of Wisconsin Press Gives Award for First Book

The Mark H lngraham Prize has recently been s s t a b l l ~ h ~ by the Unlvsnlty ot Wisconsin Press lor book-length manuscripts In the humanltles or social sciences Inlended to recognize quality in research and writing by a new generation 01 Scholars. the award will be given annually to an author who ha¶ no1 QrevIouSly published a boOk 01 Scholarship The award will include publicallon by Ihe Press and a $1.500 cash prize For lunher inlor. matlon. contact Peter Glvler, U Wlsconsln Press. 500 Llncoln Drive. Madlson, Wl 53708 :

Reuben Hill Award for FamilyResearch Article

The Research and Theory Seciion 01 Ihe National Council on Famlly Relatlons wlll present an award 01 $so0 and a certlflcate for the outstanding family research article 01 the year at its 1981 Conlerence in Milwaukee. Wisconsin. This award wil l honor the author@) whom lee0 anlcle be8t comblnes theory and methodology In Ihe analysis and interpretation 01 a signillcant marriageor lamily Issue. Criteria lor selectlon Include CoricepIuaI and lheoretical clari. ty, methodological soundness, qualily 01 inter. pretallon and dlscusslon, and style of wrltlng and presentation. Nomlnatlons of anicles published in 1980. including seven reprints il possible. should be addressed lo: Brent C Mlller. Dept 01 Famlly (L Human Development. UMC 29. Utah State U. Logan. UT 84322. The deadline is May 15. : :

SUNY At Ston Brook Offers MA In Applled Ant K ropology

A new concentratlon In anthropologlcal Otudl(l8 leadlng to a master's degree In ~pp l led IInthrOpOl. ogy was begun In the apring of 1881 aemestar at the State Unlvarslty 01 Now York at Stony Brook.

The new graduate program Is career oriented, applylng the InslQhts. melhods and prlnclples 01 anthropology and archeology lo the dellnitlon and underatandlng 01 contemporary problems. II we8 planned prlmerlly to propare students lor careers In communlty. governmonl and bualneas Instltu. tlons.

Tho new program requlres a baccalaureate degrea lor admls8lon. but an anlhropology back. ground Is not esaentlal. Full or part.tlma attan.

dance Is posslble Enterlng sludents wll l plan thelr programa In consultallon wlth members 01 tho Applled AnthrOQOlo~y MA Cornmlttee Intern. shlps and olher arrangements lor practical ex. perlence wlll be arranged

The program I8 a apeclal concentratlon wtthln the anthropology graduate program. dlsllnct lrom Stony Brook's ongolng ealabllshed anthropology MA and PhD programs

Appllc~tlon lorms and lnformatlon about the maator's degree In applled anlhropology may be obtalned lrom Dlreclor 01 Graduate Studles,. Depanment of AnlhrOQOlOgy. SUNY at Stony @rook. Stony BfOOk. NY 11794. C.

DEATHS

01 Ihe Internatlonal Congress of Amerlcenisls (1966). the Order 01 Merll lrom the government Of Ecuador (1966) and the Washlngton Aced. emy 01 Sclentlsts' Award lor Scientlllc Achieve- ment.

CLIFFORD EVANS, curator of Latln Amerl. can archeology, Nallonal Museum 01 Natural Hlstory. Smlthaonlan tnstltutlon. dled 01 a heart atlack at 80 In Weshlnglon. January 9. t98t He had worked wlth hls colleague and wile. Betty J Megoera, chlefly in South Arnerlca--Brazil. Co. lombla. Ecuador. Guyana. Venezuela and Chlle. not only dolng research but involvlng and traln. In0 local eclentlsts--md In Ponape tn the Gar@ llne Islands Evans joined the museum slalf In 1951 followlng 2 year$' leachlng el the Unlver. Slty 01 Vlrglnla (1049-51). a period WhlCh pro. duced a QUbllShed SurVBY 01 IhB 51818'5 WCh801. ogy. He dld lleldwork In Peru lor nls doctorate (Columbla 1850) WhlCh resulted In hi8 mono. graph Culfu63l Slrallgrephy In (he Vlru Valley (1852). A1 the Smlthsonlan he BeNed BS Chelf. man of the Department of Anthropology and In the Senate 01 Scientists. Of his numerous book. length reports and articles. many coauthored wlth Msggars, the monograph presenting styl. lstlc llnks between Japanese and Ecuadorlan

most popular Interest and prolesslonal contro versy Evans was hoqored wllh the gold medal

pottery O f (he thlrd mlllennlum BC aroused the

ROBERT LEATH STlOLER. JR, archeologist. 59. dled In Plne Bluff. Arkansas. September 30. 1980, 01 a heart attack followlng a long Illness

lecturer at Columbla In 1978. Except lor 3 years at Brandels (1957-60) as asslstant proteseor and dlrOCtor 01 the Mlddle East Archaeologlcel Project. hls prolesslonel career was 81 Coturn. bla. He rbcetwd h18 PhD mere In 1954. lollowed by a 3year appolnlment a8 Instructor. In 1680- 81 he dlrecled Columbia's Nublan monumenls lleldwork and lrom 1982 he held the posltlon 0 1 lecturer in Columbla College and admlnlslralor 01 prolects and grants In the graduate depart. ment. HI3 lleldwork carrted hlm to the Amerl. can Soulhwest. Peru. Japan. Iran. Israel. Sudan

edlted lor the St. Marlln's Serles In Prehlstory. The Old World: Enrly Man 10 lhe Developmenr 01 Agrlculrure (1974) and VarIerIes 01 Culture In lhe Old World (1975).

A180 noted: P r l w Peter of Omwe end Den. ma*. October 15. 1980. a1 71: social anthrouoi cglsl who worked extensively In Tlbetan eth. nograpny belore and after World Wsr II corn. pletlng a PhD at the London School of Econom. Ics in 1859. Fmderick Henry Oabom, 91. Jan.

of Populatlon ReSeafCh a1 Prlnceton and the Population Councll. research associate at the Amerlcan Museum of Natural History and author 01 The future ol Human Heredity an6 The Dynamics ol Popularon

whlch had forced hlm lo leave hlS POBltlOn 89

and Egypt and IS reflected In Ihe I W O books he

Wry 1881; demographer. founder Of IhB OlflCe

Please send lnlorrnallon on dedlhs wl lh locel obftuerles, cereer Sumrnarles and pholos when available to Nafhalle F S Woodbury. R I 3. Am. hersf. MA i002 1413/549-0378)

Short Course on Nutritional Methods Scheduled tor June

The Committee on Nutrilional AnlhrOQOlOgy. in conlunction with the International Committee on Anthropology 01 Food, Is organizing a snort course lor anthropoloQists on nutrltionai methods Hosled by the MIT-Harvard Internatlonal Food and Nutrition Program. the 5day course wi l l address problems and methods 01 oblaining nulri. tion inlormation as pan ot %Id studies and will In.

clude Prolecl Conceplualization. dielary analysis. and anthropometric and lunctional assessments and nulrllional status and data interpretatton. The Course is scheduled lor the firs1 week of June 1981. Application lorms and tufther inlormalion are available lrom Nutritional Field Methods lor Anthropologtsts. MIT. 20A-201. CambrldQe. MA 02139; $171253-5101. :1