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SOCIETY FOR HUMANISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY

THE 2008
ETHNOGRAPHIC POETRY COMPETITION

The Society for Humanistic Anthropology announces our annual poetry competition as a means to encourage scholars to use alternative literary genres to explore anthropological concerns.  These concerns may be any of those associated with the fields of  anthropology: Archaeological, Biological, Linguistic, Sociocultural and Applied.

Winning entries and honorable mentions will be recognized at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in November, 2008, and will be published in the Society's journal, Anthropology  and Humanism.  The winner(s) will receive an award of $100.  All entries will be considered for publication in the journal.  There is no entry fee for members of the American Anthropological Association.  If you are not a member, there is a $10 fee.

Judges will be:

_ Misha Cahnmann Taylor cahnmann@uga.edu, Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of Georgia.

_ Kent Maynard maynard@denison.edu, Department of Anthropology, Denison University

_ Dorine Preston dopresto@uga.edu, Department of English,  University of Georgia

Submissions must be unpublished and include: a) one copy of a cover letter with home and institutional addresses & a short bio, b) three copies of no more than three poems of any length totaling no more than 10 pages in all (please do not include your name/address  on the poems, c) a self-addressed stamped envelope for contest  results, to be posted by the end of May 2008, and d) proof of AAA membership or  a $10 check made to the Society for Humanistic Anthropology.  Send unpublished poems only.  Complete submissions must be postmarked by March 10, 2008 to

Dr. Misha Cahnmann Taylor
Department of Language and Literacy Education
125 Aderhold Hall
Athens, GA 30602
(off.) 583-8127
email:
cahnmann@uga.edu

Electronic or faxed submissions will not be accepted except by   request from ethnographic poets working outside the U.S. and Canada.

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Melisa Cahnmann, 
Department of Language Education
125 Aderhold Hall, University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
cahnmann@uga.edu
Phone: (706) 583-8127 Fax: (706) 542-4509

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Last updated: March 11, 2008.