Interview with Carole E. Hill, March 15, 2014

Interview Summary

Carole E. Hill discusses her involvement with various anthropological groups and societies throughout her career. She talks about her experience as the president of the Southern Anthropological Society, which was created to highlight anthropological achievements in the southern United States. Hill also discusses her membership and presidential term in the Society for Applied Anthropology, including how she created the president's advisory committee, made up of past presidents of the society. Hill tells Abbott-Jamieson about some of her international work with the Society for Applied Anthropology, as well as her work to develop an online network of anthropologists in the 1990s. Hill talks about how the Society for Applied Anthropology’s attempts to create jobs for anthropologists through legislation, as well as to have a media spokesperson for the discipline, were not realized due to theoretical and political factions with the society. Hill then recalls her founding and term as president of the Association for Feminist Anthropology, as well as her work with committees on minority issues.

Interview Keyword

Women in anthropology Minorities in anthropology Diversification of anthropology Anthropology departments Anthropological committees Marxism Modernism Anthropology--Theory Politics in anthropology Cultural anthropology Anthropology societies

Interview LC Subject

Society for Applied Anthropology Southern Anthropological Society Association for Feminist Anthropology American Anthropological Association Minorities Feminism Hill, Carole E. Sexism in anthropology Anthropology Minorities--Scholarships, fellowships, etc. Postmodernism Materialism Anthropologists Ethnology

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