|
|
Associations
|
Alaska Anthropological
Association
The purpose of the Alaska Anthropological
Association is to serve as a vehicle for maintaining communication among
people interested in all branches of anthropology; to promote public awareness
and education of anthropological activities and goals; to foster sympathetic
appreciation of the past and present cultures of Alaskan peoples; to encourage
Alaskan Natives to participate in the elucidation of their respective
cultures; and to facilitate the dissemination of anthropological works in both
technical and non-technical formats.
American Anthropological
Association
The American Anthropological Association (AAA),
the primary professional society of anthropologists in the United States since
its founding in 1902, is the world's largest professional organization of
individuals interested in anthropology.
Applied Anthropology Computer
Network
Applied anthropologists are professional consultants
and on-board problem solvers in many fields that require a theoretical and
practical understanding of human cultural behavior or human biology. They work
in advertising, market development, health care, cultural resource management,
educational research, business management, economic development, migrant
settlement, forensic analysis, and many other areas. They utilize the research
techniques and background information of the anthropological sciences in
practical settings where they also develop special anthropological approaches
to problem solving.
Canadian Anthropology Society
(CASCA)
The Canadian Anthropology Society is a bilingual
organization operating at a national level. It has for its mandate to: promote
anthropology in Canada, support anthropological research, disseminate
anthropological knowledge in the academic milieu and to the wider
public.
Canadian Sociology
and Anthropology Association
The Canadian Sociology and
Anthropology Association (CSAA/SCSA) is a professional association which
promotes research, publication and teaching in Anthropology and Sociology in
Canada. Its members include anthropologists and sociologists in education,
government and business, students and individuals from other disciplines or
affiliations who share a concern for anthropology and sociology. As of
December 31, l997, we had 1,440 members.
Derbyshire Archaeological
Society
The Derbyshire Archaeological Society was founded in
1878 as an archaeological and natural history society to foster and encourage
interest in the past life and natural history of the county. Though natural
history has been taken over by other societies, the Society has widened its
archaeological and historical work in response to new needs.
Federation of Small Anthropology
Programs
It is designed to further the needs of faculty and
students in small programs in Universities, Colleges, and Community Colleges,
as well as public or private agencies, consulting firms and any other small
groups with interests in anthropology.
Gypsy Lore Society
The Gypsy Lore Society, an international association of persons
interested in Gypsy and Traveler Studies, was founded in Great Britain in
1888. Since 1989 it has been headquartered in the United States. Its goals
include promotion of the study of Gypsy, Traveler, and analogous peripatetic
cultures worldwide; dissemination of accurate information aimed at increasing
understanding of these cultures in their diverse forms; and establishment of
closer contacts among scholars studying any aspects of these cultures.
High Plains
Society for Applied Anthropology
Dedicated to
anthropological solutions to problems resulting from socioeconomic,
environmental, and cultural change.
Human Behavior and Evolution
Society
The Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) is
an interdisciplinary, international society of researchers, primarily from the
social and biological sciences, who use evolutionary theory to discover human
nature - including evolved cognitive, behavioral, emotional and sexual
adaptations.
Leakey Foundation
Thirty years ago, the Leakey Foundation was founded to support
research into human origins. Contributions from members and high donors help
us to grant approximately $600,000 each year to exciting projects worldwide.
Our grant-giving programs strive to continue the pioneering vision of Louis
Leakey, one of the century's great anthropologists and the Foundation's
namesake.
Royal Anthropological
Institute
The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) is a
non-profit-making registered charity. It is entirely independent, with a
Director and a small staff accountable to the Council, elected annually from
the Fellowship.
Society for Applied Anthropology
The Society has for its object the promotion of interdisciplinary
scientific investigation of the principles controlling the relations of human
beings to one another, and the encouragement of the wide application of these
principles to practical problems, and shall be known as The Society for
Applied Anthropology.
Society for the Anthropology of
Europe
The SAE was first conceived in 1986 and its first
elections as a section of the AAA were held in the Fall of 1987. The purposes
of the organization, as announced in the organizing letter that went out to
colleagues in 1986, were: Strengthening national and international networks
between colleagues; Providing forums for discussion and debate; Encouraging
comparative research; Enhancing the visibility and legitimacy of Europeanist
anthropology, both within the discipline and among other Europeanist groups;
Facilitating dissemination of information about employment opportunities,
grants, visiting European scholars, and other resources; Promoting the
professional integration of students specializing in Europe.
Society of Ethnobiology
The Society of Ethnobiology is a nonprofit professional organization
dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the relationships of plants and
animals with human cultures worldwide. Topics include but are not limited to
paleoethnobotany, zooarchaeology, ethnobotany, ethnozoology, and other related
areas in anthropology and biology. The Society hosts an annual conference and
oversees publication of the Journal of Ethnobiology, a semi-annual
professional journal.
Solstice Project
The Solstice Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to the
study of ancient cultures of the American Southwest. The Project was founded
in 1978 by Anna Sofaer to study, document and preserve the remarkable Sun
Dagger and other achievements of ancient Southwestern cultures.
Southwestern
Anthropological Association (SWAA)
Would anyone like to
write a brief history of SWAA?
Texas Archeological Society
The Texas Archeological Society is dedicated to the study and
preservation of the historic and prehistoric aspects of Texas' past.
|
|
|
|
