Our study of Brazilian media began in the early 1980s when co-author Kottak directed a multinational team conducting year-long studies of television engagement in a series of Brazilian communities exposed to television at different times. Based on the ethnographic and quantitative data collected by the team, along with Kottak's institutional analysis of Brazilian television and program content, the study documented an array of media engagements: including the delineation of a multi-stage model of television impact in Brazil; documentation of the influence of "liberal views" tied to televiewing; and even impact on family size and contraceptive use tied to viewing telenovelas. Over the following decades, co-author Pace continued the study in the sample's Amazonian community. He examined how viewers heed, miss, ignore, and resist television's interpellation and how this impacts behavior and perceptions as measured through ethnographic observations and surveys. Kottak and Pace's joint research resumed in the mid-2010s with an analysis of the Mēbêngôkre-Kayapó's (an Indigenous group in the Amazon) unique engagement with television and, more recently, an updated analysis (in progress) of the original communities studied, now focusing on the ways multiple types of media are engaged within a complex and intertwined media ecology.

American AnthropologistVolume 118, Issue 1 p. 229-231 OBITUARY Keith F. Otterbein (1936–2015) William P. Mitchell, William P. Mitchell Mitchell@Monmouth.edu http://www.monmouth.edu/school-of-humanities-social-sciences/Faculty/Mitchell.aspx Department of History and Anthropology, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, 07764Search for more papers by this authorConrad P. Kottak, Conrad P. Kottak Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109Search for more papers by this author William P. Mitchell, William P. Mitchell Mitchell@Monmouth.edu http://www.monmouth.edu/school-of-humanities-social-sciences/Faculty/Mitchell.aspx Department of History and Anthropology, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, 07764Search for more papers by this authorConrad P. Kottak, Conrad P. Kottak Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109Search for more papers by this author First published: 22 February 2016 https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.12499Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume118, Issue1March 2016Pages 229-231 RelatedInformation

General AnthropologyVolume 22, Issue 1 p. 1-7 General Anthropology What is General Anthropology? What is It's Future? Conrad Kottak, Conrad Kottak University of MichiganSearch for more papers by this author Conrad Kottak, Conrad Kottak University of MichiganSearch for more papers by this author First published: 10 April 2015 https://doi.org/10.1111/gena.01006 The following are papers read at a session sponsored by GAD at the 2014 meetings of the American Anthropological Association Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume22, Issue1Spring 2015Pages 1-7 RelatedInformation

Charles Wagley's work, firmly in the Boasian tradition, reflects his association with and training by Franz Boas, but especially by Ruth Benedict and Ruth Bunzel. Wagley's career as an ethnographer began in the Guatemalan highland town of Santiago Chimaltenango in 1937. Soon thereafter, he turned from Guatemala to Brazil, where he did his first field research (1939-1940) among the Tapirapé Indians. Wagley's Tapirapé revisits culminated in his last book, "Welcome of tears: the Tapirapé Indians of Central Brazil" (1977). Wagley's study of Gurupá began in 1948 and produced various editions of his popular book "Amazon town: a study of man in the Tropics". Wagley co-directed the Bahia State-Columbia University Community Study Project in 1951-1952, culminating in the edited book "Race and class in rural Brazil". Over time, Wagley focused increasingly on non-Indians, ranging from rural towns like Gurupá to Brazilian culture as a whole. Illustrating the latter, Wagley wrote two editions of "Introduction to Brazil", a culturally insightful text that examined unity and diversity in Brazilian culture and society. A man of careful scholarship and keen intellect, Chuck Wagley took great pride in the excellence of his teaching and writing; he also enjoyed sharing his knowledge and insights with a larger public

General AnthropologyVolume 17, Issue 1 p. 10-10 Melvin Ember: Goodbye to a Major Figure in General Anthropology Conrad P Kottak, Conrad P Kottak University of MichiganSearch for more papers by this author Conrad P Kottak, Conrad P Kottak University of MichiganSearch for more papers by this author First published: 04 May 2010 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-3466.2010.00005.xAboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume17, Issue1Spring 2010Pages 10-10 RelatedInformation

The author discusses Melvin Ember’s impact as the long-time president of the Human Relations Area Files, which he refers to as “Anthropology’s Archive.” He discusses the digitization of the files, the development of new archives and encyclopedias, and some of the way the files are currently being used. He suggests much of the success of the Human Relations Area Files over the last quarter century can be attributed directly to Melvin Ember and his leadership.