AES/CASCA Conference 2009
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CANADA
May 13-16 2009

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The American Ethnological Association (AES) and the Canadian Anthropology Society- Société Canadienne d’Anthropologie (CASCA) invite the submission of papers, sessions, symposia, roundtables, and workshops for the upcoming joint conference on the theme of “Transnational Anthropologies: Convergences and Divergences in Globalized Disciplinary Networks.” The conference will be hosted by the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2009.

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The AES program chair for the 2009 AAA meetings is Kenneth Guest, Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Baruch College, CUNY.  Please direct enquiries about invited sessions to Ken, at kenguest@earthlink.net

This year AES will award the biannual Elsie Clews Parsons Prize for the best graduate student paper. The winner of the prize receives a medallion cast by a Hopi silversmith featuring a design visible on our website as the society's logo. Graduate students interested in applying for the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize should send three copies of their complete paper to David Nugent, Department of Anthropology, Emory University, 1557 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30322. The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2009. Papers should be no longer than 35 double-spaced pages, previously unpublished, and should conform to American Ethnologist style guidelines.

American Ethnologist Vol. 35, No. 3 (August 2008) has been released. AES members should have received a copy in the mail.

AnthroSource subscribers (AAA members & subscribing institutions) can read the entire issue, and visitors may read the abstracts on AnthroSource.

American Ethnologist Vol. 35, No. 2 (May 2008) has been released. AES members should have received a copy in the mail.

AnthroSource subscribers (AAA members & subscribing institutions) can read the entire issue, and visitors may read the abstracts on AnthroSource.

The final Program for the AES/SANA conference Democracy, Disorder, and Discontent in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina is now available.

Download final program here in Adobe PDF format.

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American Ethnologist  Vol. 35, No. 1 (February 2008) has been released. AES members should have received a copy in the mail.

AnthroSource subscribers (AAA members & subscribing institutions) can read the entire issue, and visitors may read the abstracts on AnthroSource.

Submitted to Anthropology News for inclusion in the February, 2008 issue by Fran Rothstein, Contributing Editor (submitted December 12, 2007– 599 words)

Among the many exciting sessions and events sponsored by the AES in Washington, the panel at the Business Meeting entitled “Anthropologists and War: Non-Participation in Counterinsurgency” with anthropologists Marshall Sahlins, Catherine Lutz, David Price and Roberto Gonzalez as moderator was one of the most important and very well-attended panels.
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The American Ethnological Society awarded its biannual book prizes at the AES business meeting on Thursday, November 29th 2007, during the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, DC. The Sharon Stephens Prize is given for a junior scholar's first book, while the Senior Book Prize recognizes a book by a senior scholar.

The awards go to works that speak to contemporary social issues with relevance beyond the discipline and beyond the academy. Ethnographies and critical works in contemporary theory - single-authored or multi-authored but not edited collections - are eligible.

This year's recipient of the Senior Book Prize is Lila Abu-Lughod, for Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt (University of Chicago Press, 2005).
The two recipients chosen for the Sharon Stephens First Book Award are Charles Hirschkind, for The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counter Publics (Columbia University Press, 2006) and Julia Elyachar, for Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development and the State in Cairo (Duke University Press, 2005).

The Senior Book Prize Committee was chaired by Carla Freeman and included Donna Goldstein and Ken Guest.

The Junior Book Prize Committee was chaired by Jacqueline Solway and included Richard Handler and Rosemary Coombe.  read more »

American Ethnologist Vol. 34, No. 4 (November, 2007) has been released. AES members should have received a copy in the mail.

AnthroSource subscribers (AAA members & subscribing institutions) will soon be able to read the entire issue here.

AESonline.org visitors may read the foreword, abstracts, table of contents, and all book reviews (full text) here.

The AES Board wishes to circulate the petition below from The Network of Concerned Anthropologists for your review.

The Network of Concerned Anthropologists who are organizing the petition was founded by our former AES President and board members along with other concerned anthropologists. We hope that you will consider the petitiion seriously as the issues are again becoming central to our professional integrity and the pursuit of anthropological research.

These concerns will be raised at the AES Business meeting Thursday, November 29th from 6:15-7:30pm. We have invited Cathy Lutz and David Price to speak after the AES Awards Ceremony. We hope to contribute to a lively and extensive general discussion at the AAA Conference, Washington DC, November.

Yours sincerely,
Ida Susser
President
American Ethnological Society  read more »

By Frances Rothstein, AES Secretary

• The program from the 2007 AES/CASCA Toronto Meetings can be downloaded here. (.pdf)

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From all accounts the AES/CASCA Conference in Toronto, May 9 - 12 was very successful. The Conference was well attended with over seven hundred people registering and the sessions were quite stimulating. The lovely weather, convenient and comfortable setting at the University of Toronto, and the generous welcome from the Canadians of CASCA contributed to a very relaxed atmosphere that provided an excellent context for meeting and talking with old and new friends. Thanks to Councilor and AES Conference Organizer Matti Bunzl’s efforts to provide many student travel grants and Graduate Student Representative Becca Prahl’s organization of a number of events of interest to students, student participation was unusually strong. Becca organized a number of useful workshops on IRBs, funding, and publishing as well as an AES/CASCA student party.  read more »

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American Ethnologist Vol. 34, No. 3 (August, 2007) has been released. AES members should have received a copy in the mail.

AnthroSource subscribers (AAA members & subscribing institutions) will soon be able to read the entire issue here.

AESonline.org visitors may read the foreword, abstracts, table of contents, and all book reviews (full text) here.

American Ethnologist Vol. 34, No. 2 (May, 2007) has been released. AES members should have received a copy in the mail.

AnthroSource subscribers (AAA members & subscribing institutions) can read the entire issue here.

AESonline.org visitors may read the foreword, abstracts, table of contents, and all book reviews (full text) here.

The board of the AES is pleased to announce that Donald L. Donham has accepted the editorship of American Ethnologist. His three-year term as editor, renewable for a fourth year, will begin in July, 2007.

Donald L. Donham is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He is a past Fellow at th e Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has written three books, the latest of which is Marxist Modern: An Ethnographic History of the Ethiopian Revolution (California, 1999). In addition, Dohnam is co-editor of three collections, the last (with Edna G. Bay) entitled States of Violence: Politics, Youth, and Memory in Contemporary Africa (Virginia, forthcoming). He has written on issues of social theory and time, politics of the economy, narrative as analytical device, sexuality, and violence. He is interested in the methodological dilemmas posed by ethnographic attempts to illuminate world projects like capitalism, empire, and modernity.

For more about Donald L. Donham, please: click here

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Members of the AAA enjoy free access to the anthrosoruce archive of all AAA journals, including American Ethnologist (vol. 1-31, including the most recent issues). Click here to go directly to the AE archive on anthrosource (you will need to log in using your AAA member ID). To learn more about anthrosource, click here. (Institutional and individual subscriptions are available).

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