The Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series

Thursday February 25^th 2010
3:00 pm in Crawford Hall 115
Reception to Follow

Steve Boggs, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology
University of Hawai’i
presents,

Anthropology as Politics: Tales of the Elders

Professor Boggs will recount his observations of anthropologists engaged in political activity nationally and in Hawai'i in the 1960s and '70s. Topics to be covered include promoting concepts and theories in and outside anthropology; involving anthropology in public controversies over race, counter-insurgency, and Vietnam; and attempting to influence what anthropologists do. Relations with Hawaiians will also be discussed, and what anthropology should be doing in the future.

Professor Boggs received his PhD in sociology and anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis in 1954. He helped to establish the first office of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, DC, from 1961 to 1966. He taught at the University of Hawai'i from 1966 until his retirement in 1983. At UH he taught the Peoples of Hawai'i course, and was involved in the initiation of Ethnic Studies. He has conducted research in the Hawaiian community, participating in both the Kamehameha Early Education Project (KEEP) and in the Hawaiian sovereignty movement in its early years. He is the author of Speaking, Relating, and Learning: A Study of Hawaiian Children at Home and at School (Ablex, 1985).

For further information, please contact Anthropology at anthprog@hawaii.edu.

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