''Human Organization'' is the peer-reviewed research journal of the
Society for Applied Anthropology
The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) is a worldwide organization for the Applied Social Sciences, established "to promote the integration of anthropological perspectives and methods in solving human problems throughout the world; to advocate ...
. Published quarterly since 1941, it is the second-longest continuously published journal in
cultural anthropology in the United States. Its primary objective is to analyze practical human problems through the application of anthropological theory and data. The journal regularly features articles on
human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for certain standards of hu ...
,
public health
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and
medical care
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, and
indigenous knowledge
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and management of
natural resource
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s.
Since 2015 ''Human Organization'' has been edited by anthropologist Sarah Lyon, associate professor at the
University of Kentucky
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, in
Lexington; her term is scheduled to run until December 2018. Lyon's immediate predecessor as editor-in-chief was anthropologist Mark Moberg, professor at the
University of South Alabama
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, in
Mobile
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* Mobile ( ...
, who held the post from 2011 to 2014. Current editors are
Nancy Romero-Daza (professor) and David Himmelgreen (chair and professor) from the
University of South Florida
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in
Tampa.
References
External links
*
Human Organization'
Anthropology journals
Multidisciplinary social science journals
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