In this issue:

• AAA Meeting Guide with list of panels submitted by Members, including a panel organized by Robbie Davis-Floyd called “Back to the Basics of Birth”

• CAR Advocacy – information about the Carework in the Academy Ad hoc Advocacy Committee, headed by CAR members Sallie Han and Jill Fleuriet

• Important announcement from Robbie Davis-Floyd regarding, among other things, the Annotated Bibliography on CAR’s website and an exciting new Internship opportunity for students

• Notes from the Field – rich ethnographic descriptions and notes including:
  • Gynecology Talk: Race-Sexuality-Class Privilege and Reproductive Encounters by Nessette Falu
  • Nutritional Epigenetics and Prenatal Diets: “I’ve been eating this way for years” by Natali Valdez
  • “Sexual panic” in Bluefields, Nicaragua by Ishan Gordon.

• Community Engagement opportunity – the Projeto aBRAÇO a Microcefalia, in Salvador, Brazil, which support women who have given birth to babies affected by the zika virus.

• Book Award and Member publications
• And more…!

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In this Issue:

Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meetings 2016 Panel and Paper Guide for Anthropology and Reproduction.

CAR Advocacy Committee Statement on Abortion Legislation Published in Medical Anthropology Quarterly.

The CAR Advocacy Committee published MAQ Policy Statement opposing restrictive abortion legislation. Read the full statement here: “The Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR) Opposes Legislation that Creates Barriers to Safe Abortion Care.”

Notes from the Field

The Role of Social Movements in Brazil and of UK/Brazil Partnerships in Changing Childbirth by Christine McCourt and Camilla Schneck AND Crisis, Uncertainty, Responsibility: Pregnancy in the Time of Zika by K. Eliza Williamson

Call for Papers on Sustainable Birth for Edited Collection due by May 15th.

In accord with the current focus on sustainability, we explore systematic and innovative solutions to excess maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity that can be adapted across nations, regions, and communities to restore mother-centered and newborn-centered models of birth. Please send 250-word abstract to Kim.Gutschow@williams.edu by May 15, 2015. For more
information, please contact the editors.

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In this Issue:

• A list of reproduction-related panels and papers at this year’s AAA annual meeting
• Notes from the field, advocacy reports, and conference reports from Jessica Lott, Robin Whitaker, and Mounia El Kotni
• Award announcements
• Recent publications
• News updates from CAR members around the world
• Opportunities and upcoming conferences and symposia
• … and more!

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CAR meetup at SfAA, Thursday, March 26th

CAR History, “Looking Back: Narrative Histories of CAR”

By Eliza Williamson

For the current issue we asked long-time members to reflect on their experiences in CAR, past and present. We were able to collect two short interviews–one with Robbie Davis-Floyd and the other with Susan Erikson. Lynn Morgan also submitted an early memo on CAR’s advocacy initiatives. Various others helped us gather information on CAR’s beginnings.

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Notes from the Chair: Notes on Teaching Anthropology

By Sallie Han

Teaching a course in the Anthropology of Reproduction in particular has presented itself as an opportunity – not only for my students, but also for myself – to read across the four fields of anthropology. This semester, I assigned the first chapter of Brigitte Jordan’s Birth in Four Cultures (in which she describes a biosocial approach to childbirth) with evolutionary anthropologist Wenda Trevathan’s “The Evolution of Bipedalism and Assisted Birth,” and Holly Dunsworth’s posts critiquing the obstetrical dilemma hypothesis on The Mermaid’s Tale blog (http://ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2012/07/thatobstetrical-dilemma-really-tied.html and http://ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2012/08/that-obstetricaldilemma-really-tied.html).

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