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Show Allen Turner to Chair Denver Meet such as arid land studies, Canadian studies, geography, economics, political science, sociology, and women's studies. f'-'i:' ft 1 V" jr V I '"; A ( t .. "A total of 21 papers will be read dealing with anthropology," an-thropology," Turner said. "The program will include both academic and nonacademic people and their work on archeological and ethnological problems." Of particular interest, Turner said, is the session dealing with the Lake Powell area. He said that papers will be read dealing with economic and demographic conditions in rural Utah, the impact of energy development develop-ment on boom towns, and several papers dealing with the Navajo, their households and income, voting patterns, and the effects of energy developments on their politicial institutions. Professur Turner has been associated with the Western Social Science Association, for the past four years and has read anthropological an-thropological papers at WSSA conferences dealing primarily with community development anthropology, the result of his work in a community development program with the Kaibab-Paiute Kaibab-Paiute Indians. The anthropologist joined the SUSC faculty in 1972. The Western Social Science Association provides for an exchange of ideas and professional research among its members. mem-bers. Included in the Denver conference will be sessions dealing with 20 subject areas ALLEN C. TURNER Allen C. Turner, Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Southern Utah State College, will serve as the chairman for anthropology sessions of the 20th Annual Western Social Science Association Conference Con-ference April 27-29 in Denver. Anthropological sessions will center around "Anthropology, "An-thropology, and Environmental En-vironmental Impact Assessment," "Ethnogr-pahic "Ethnogr-pahic Methodology," "Ethnic Communities in Transition," ana ' Changing Political Economy in the Southwest-A Southwest-A Lake Powell Research Project." |