Report from the Presidents

Greetings EAS Members,

Happy Fall! With the changing seasons this year comes some big changes for the Evolutionary Anthropology Society. As many of you know, we have been having discussions for several years about the future of EAS, and its place within the AAA. This year we will be making a final decision about what our future will look like both within and outside of the American Anthropological Association. These discussions will take place at our annual board and business meetings (details below). The business meeting is open to all members and will be held on Zoom. Please attend if you can.

This year AAA is holding a hybrid meeting, including some events which will take place outside of the traditional meeting week. In particular, our board and business meetings will both be held on November 10th. The business meeting will be held from 6-8pmEST/3-5PST. The Zoom link for the meeting is: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/7274654285

We have many exciting sessions, both in person and virtually, at this year’s meeting in Baltimore. These are listed at the end of this newsletter. If you have not yet registered we encourage you to do so. Discounted rates are available for those who are attending virtually.

For students and postdocs attending the meeting (either in person or virtually), we are hoping to have extra funding this year to help you cover the costs of the meeting. A call will be going out for reimbursements once the meeting has ended, so save your receipts!

Finally, we are still looking for someone to take over for the wonderful Delaney Glass as newsletter editor for EAS. Typically this post is filled by a student, who works closely with the President, President-Elect and Past-President to get out our quarterly newsletters to members. If you are interested, please email me at bscelza@gmail.com with a short statement about your interest.

Sincerely, Brooke Scelza, EAS President Karen Kramer, EAS President-Elect Mary Shenk, EAS Past-President

AAA Baltimore 2021 EAS Related Sessions & Meetings

Wednesday, November 10, 2021 (pre-conference activity)

Evolutionary Anthropology Society Business Meeting 4:00 PM – 6:00PM Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/7274654285

Thursday, November 18, 2021

(2-1543) Children Foraging in a Changing World

Roundtable / Townhall (Virtual) Evolutionary Anthropology Society 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM Karen Kramer, Ilaria Pretelli, Edmond Dounias, Almudena Mari Saez, Sagan Friant, Sheina Lew- Levy, Alyssa Crittenden, Jeremy Koster, Shani Mangola

(2-1590) Art, Science, or Politics? The Crisis in Hunter-Gatherer Studies, 30 years Later

Cosponsored Session - Oral Presentation (In-Person)* Evolutionary Anthropology Society 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM Melanie Martin, Alyssa Crittenden, Helen Davis, Robert Hitchcock, Richard Lee, Shani Mangola

(2-1380) Evolutionary Perspectives on Health and Reproduction

Cosponsored Session - Oral Presentation (In-Person) Evolutionary Anthropology Society 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Sean Prall, Katherine Wander, Siobhan Mattison, Kathrine Starkweather, Melanie Martin, Brooke Scelza, Nurul Alam, Tami Blumenfield, Mary Shenk

(2-1220) Living in Groups, Truth and Responsibility: The Ecology of Cooperation and Conflicts in Families, Communities and Societies

Oral Presentation (In-Person) Evolutionary Anthropology Society 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM Eric Schniter, Juan Garcia, Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos, Diego Guevara Beltran, Brenda Bowen, Jory Lerback, Jeremy Koster, Jenna Kurten, Jeffrey Winking, Jane Lankes, Mary Towner, Mary Shenk

Friday, November 19, 2021

(3-1992) Researcher responsibilities and responses during the COVID-19 pandemic

Roundtable / Townhall (Virtual) Evolutionary Anthropology Society 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM Tiffany Alvarez, Sera Young, Jessica Brinkworth, Cecilia Tomori, Kayla Hurd, Melanie Martin, Brooke Scelza, Christopher von Rueden, Jeremy Koster

(3-2260) Experimental Approaches to Truth and Responsibility

Oral Presentation (Virtual) Society for Anthropological Sciences 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM Christine Legare, Ben Kenward, Jordan Kiper, Ulises Espinoza, Alejandro Erut, H. Clark Barrett, Joshua Homan, Danijela Jerotijevic

(3-2300) Engaging Pedagogy, Publics, and Perception in Biological Anthropology

Volunteered - Oral Presentation (In-Person) Biological Anthropology Section 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Alex Pelissero, Erik Schulz, Sherrie Alexander, Douglas Crews, Lucia Elgerud (individual posters-papers)

(3-2385) Credit vs Market on the Northwest Coast (Another Anomaly?)

Poster (In-Person) Evolutionary Anthropology Society 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM Igor Valerievich Kuznetsov

(3-2462) Behavioral Ecology of Post-Marital Residence Among Sena Horticulturalists in Mozambique

Poster (In-Person) Evolutionary Anthropology Society 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM Karl Mertens

(3-2332) Effects of family demographics and household economics on Sidama children’s nutritional status

Poster (In-Person) Biological Anthropology Section 2:00 PM - 3:45 PM Courtney Helfrecht

(3-2464) BAS Distinguished Lecture, Awards, and Reception

Distinguished Lecture (In-Person) Biological Anthropology Section 8:00 PM - 11:30 PM Rachel Caspari

Saturday, November 20, 2021

(4-3294) Bringing Truth to a Post-Truth World: how anthropologists engage and assess their science communication

Cosponsored Session - Roundtable / Townhall (Virtual) Biological Anthropology Section 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM Melanie Beasley, Tina Lasisi, Christopher Schmitt, Keneiloe Molopyane, Cara Ocobock, Marc Kissel, Holly Dunsworth

(0-1040) Fat Talk: How anthropologists approach the topics of obesity, fat bias, and body image in different cultural and health contexts.

Podcast (Virtual) Biological Anthropology Section Alexandra Niclou, Sophie To, Katherine Daiy, Jennifer Cullin, Kendall Arslanian, Kayla Hurd

Events and Announcements

EHBEA 2022 will be hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in the vibrant city of Leipzig, Germany, from the 19th to the 22nd of April. For more details go here.

The AABA will be having their annual meeting in Denver March 23-26. EAS will likely hold a social event at the meeting. Stay tuned for more details.

Two EAS members have recently been interviewed for the Sausage of Science Podcast, hosted by Chris Lynn and Cara Ocobock.

• Brooke Scelza: soundcloud
• Katie Starkweather: soundcloud

Recent Member Publications

Bryce, Authors, et al. “Biology’s best friend: Bridging disciplinary gaps to advance canine science.” Integrative and Comparative Biology (2021).

Crittenden, Alyssa N., et al. “Harm avoidance and mobility during middle childhood and adolescence among Hadza foragers.” Human Nature (2021): 1-27.

Davis, Helen Elizabeth, Alyssa N. Crittenden, and Michelle Scalise Sugiyama. “Ecological and Developmental Perspectives on Social Learning.” Human Nature 32.1 (2021): 1-15.

Jaeggi, Adrian V., et al. “Do wealth and inequality associate with health in a small-scale subsistence society?.” Elife 10 (2021): e59437.

Kramer, K. JV Hackman, R. Schacht & HE Davis.Effects of family planning on fertikity behaviour across the demographic transition. Scientific Reports (2021): 10.1038/s41598-021-86180-8.

Lawson, David W., et al. “Shared interests or sexual conflict? Spousal age gap, women’s wellbeing and fertility in rural Tanzania.” Evolution and Human Behavior 42.2 (2021): 165-175.

Lew-Levy, Sheina, et al. “The life history of learning subsistence skills among Hadza and BaYaka foragers from Tanzania and the Republic of Congo.” Human Nature (2021): 1-32.

Mattison, Siobhán M., et al. “Gender differences in social networks based on prevailing kinship norms in the Mosuo of China.” Social Sciences 10.7 (2021): 253.

Pisor, Anne C., and James Holland Jones. “Do people manage climate risk through long‐distance relationships?.” American Journal of Human Biology 33.4 (2021): e23525.

Scelza, Brooke, Sean Prall, and Kathrine Starkweather. “The role of spousal separation on norms related to gender and sexuality among Himba pastoralists.” Social Sciences 10.5 (2021): 174.

Shenk, Mary K., et al. “Social support, nutrition and health among women in rural Bangladesh: complex tradeoffs in allocare, kin proximity and support network size.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376.1827 (2021): 20200027.

Starkweather, K. E., et al. “Are fathers a good substitute for mothers? Paternal care and growth rates in Shodagor children.” Developmental Psychobiology (2021).

Winking, Jeffrey, and Jeremy Koster. “Small-scale utilitarianism: High acceptance of utilitarian solutions to Trolley Problems among a horticultural population in Nicaragua.” PloS one 16.4 (2021): e0249345.

Wood, Brian M., et al. “Gendered movement ecology and landscape use in Hadza hunter-gatherers.” Nature human behaviour 5.4 (2021): 436-446.