Review of \u3ci\u3eEvery Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight. \u3c/i\u3eBy Timothy Pachirat.

In June 2004, political scientist Timothy Pachirat went to work on the killfloor of an unnamed beef slaughterhouse in Omaha, Nebraska. He started out as a liver hanger in the cooler. There carcasses hang before being sent to the fabrication floor where hundreds of handheld knives and saws reinvent chilled half-carcasses as steaks, rounds, and roasts that are then boxed and shipped to distributors and retailers around the world. For four days he worked in the chutes, driving cattle to the knocking box to be stunned, as required by the Humane Slaughter Act, before being turned into meat. Then for three months he was in QC (quality control), which afforded him access to the entire kill floor. In December, when asked by a USDA inspector to blow the whistle on food safety violations, he explained that he was actually an undercover ethnographer. The next day Pachirat quit his job, but stayed in Omaha for another 18 months conducting, on a much less grueling schedule, participant-observation research and interviews with community and union organizers, slaughterhouse workers, USDA inspectors, cattle ranchers, and small-slaughterhouse operators. Sadly, this later research does not appear in his account

Review of \u3ci\u3eEvery Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight. \u3c/i\u3eBy Timothy Pachirat.

In June 2004, political scientist Timothy Pachirat went to work on the killfloor of an unnamed beef slaughterhouse in Omaha, Nebraska. He started out as a liver hanger in the cooler. There carcasses hang before being sent to the fabrication floor where hundreds of handheld knives and saws reinvent chilled half-carcasses as steaks, rounds, and roasts that are then boxed and shipped to distributors and retailers around the world. For four days he worked in the chutes, driving cattle to the knocking box to be stunned, as required by the Humane Slaughter Act, before being turned into meat. Then for three months he was in QC (quality control), which afforded him access to the entire kill floor. In December, when asked by a USDA inspector to blow the whistle on food safety violations, he explained that he was actually an undercover ethnographer. The next day Pachirat quit his job, but stayed in Omaha for another 18 months conducting, on a much less grueling schedule, participant-observation research and interviews with community and union organizers, slaughterhouse workers, USDA inspectors, cattle ranchers, and small-slaughterhouse operators. Sadly, this later research does not appear in his account

Cows, Pigs, Corporations, and Anthropologists

Don Stull is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Kansas, where he taught from 1975 to 2015. He has been editor-in-chief of Human Organization, president of the Society for Applied Anthropology, and a recipient of the SfAA’s Sol Tax Distinguished Service Award. In 2001 he was presented with the key to Garden City, Kansas, and made an honorary citizen in recognition of the value of his work to this community

Factors Associated with Revision Surgery after Internal Fixation of Hip Fractures

Background: Femoral neck fractures are associated with high rates of revision surgery after management with internal fixation. Using data from the Fixation using Alternative Implants for the Treatment of Hip fractures (FAITH) trial evaluating methods of internal fixation in patients with femoral neck fractures, we investigated associations between baseline and surgical factors and the need for revision surgery to promote healing, relieve pain, treat infection or improve function over 24 months postsurgery. Additionally, we investigated factors associated with (1) hardware removal and (2) implant exchange from cancellous screws (CS) or sliding hip screw (SHS) to total hip arthroplasty, hemiarthroplasty, or another internal fixation device. Methods: We identified 15 potential factors a priori that may be associated with revision surgery, 7 with hardware removal, and 14 with implant exchange. We used multivariable Cox proportional hazards analyses in our investigation. Results: Factors associated with increased risk of revision surgery included: female sex, [hazard ratio (HR) 1.79, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.25-2.50; P = 0.001], higher body mass index (fo

Review of \u3ci\u3eIndians and Anthropologists: Vine Deloria, Jr. and the Critique of Anthropology\u3c/i\u3e Edited by Thomas Biolsi and Larry J. Zimmerman

North American anthropology can be divided into two ages: BD and AD-Before and After Deloria. In 1969 cultural anthropology in the United States was shaken by Vine Deloria\u27s witty diatribe, Custer Died for Your Sins. Twenty years later, cultural anthropologist Tom Biolsi and archaeologist Larry Zimmerman organized a symposium on the subsequent relationship between anthropologists and American Indians. Indians and Anthropologists assembles several of these papers and some new ones in what will certainly be an often-cited collection. The book\u27s introduction reviews What\u27s Changed, What Hasn\u27t since Deloria fired his shot across anthropology\u27s bow in Custer\u27s chapter on Anthropologists and Other Friends. It closes with Deloria\u27s conclusion on Anthros, Indians, and Planetary Reality. In between, ten chapters explore Deloria\u27s critique of anthropology, archaeology and American Indians, and the connections between ethnography and colonial discourses and modes of domination. Six contributors are cultural anthropologists, two archaeologists, one a historian, and one an Indian educatorthree are American Indians. North American anthropology was born among the Iroquois and the Zuni, and until the 1960s it was hard to find an anthropologist who had not worked among American Indians. This bond explains why the discipline was so shaken by Deloria\u27s attack. In Growing up on Deloria, Elizabeth Grobsmith speaks for anthropologists who grew to professional maturity in the immediate aftermath of Custer. Eloquently examining Deloria\u27s decidedly mixed legacy for anthropology, Grobsmith alone among the contributors acknowledges the substantial contributions of applied anthropology to Indian people. Nothing has strained recent Indian-anthropologist relations more than repatriation and reburial. Archaeologists and anthropologists themselves are often bitterly at odds over these matters. Randy McGuire does a masterful job of explaining how archaeologists came to believe that all the real Indians are dead and belonged to them. Larry Zimmerman\u27s review of anthropology and the reburial issue shows how we got into this mess and suggests principles for future archaeological investigations

Social Thought and Research, Volume 20, Number 1&2 (1997): Book Review

Review of Joseph A. Amato's "To Call It Home: TheNew Immigrants of Southwestern Minnesota" with John Meyer, John Radzilowski, Donata DeBruyckere, and Anthony Amat

A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN PUBLIC POLICY

In comparison with the other social and behavioral sciences, there has been a general lack of anthropological input or interest in public policy. Copyright 1981 by The Policy Studies Organization.

Rights Without Resources: The Rise and Fall of the Kansas Kickapoo

INTRODUCTION A new era in American Indian affairs was born on March 6, 1968 when President Lyndon Johnsonl in a special message to Congress entitled "The Forgotten Americans," called for a new goal in federal Indian policy. He proposed "a policy of maximum choice for the American Indian: a policy expressed in programs of self-help, self-development and self-determination." Although the self-determination era was inaugurated by Johnson, Richard Nixon's special message on "The American Indians" of July 8, 1970 is generally viewed as the foundation of what was hailed at the time as a "radical new policy." The message read in part: It is long past time that the Indian policies of the Federal government began to recognize and build upon the capacities and insights of the Indian people. . . . The time has come to break decisively with the past and to create the conditions for a new era in which the Indian future is determined by Indian acts and Indian decisions

Rights Without Resources: The Rise and Fall of the Kansas Kickapoo

A small but select literature on recent Indian policy has begun to appear. Notably absent, however, are treatments of implementation at the local level. The Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas provides an excellent case study of the successes and failures which have attended the recent emergence of Indian self-determination