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Video: SFI President Urges Anthropologists to Go Public or Perish

Inset: Kate Russell Photography
December 20, 2010

SFI President Jerry Sabloff presented the American Anthropological Association’s 2010 Distinguished Lecture at the Association’s 109th annual meeting November 17-21 in New Orleans. His lecture received a standing ovation.

Watch the video here (48 minutes).

Jerry’s lecture, titled “The Circulation of Ideas: Anthropology and Public Outreach,” examined the importance of communication between anthropologists and their publics, the impediments to effective communications, and some ways to overcome such barriers.

His lecture complemented the Association’s 2010 annual meeting theme: Circulation.

Watch the video

"Bone Girl" blog mention of lecture

"Publishing Archaeology" blog article about the lecture

American Anthropological Association blog article about the lecture





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