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The SEA is a group of anthropologists, economists, geographers, and scholars from other disciplines who are interested in the connections between economics and social life. The SEA welcomes new members from all disciplines and all four fields of anthropology.
Note from the Incoming President
Dear Members,
Thank you for the vote of confidence that I received last spring! It is an honor and a pleasure to be elected president of the Society for Economic Anthropology. Ever since Sutti Ortiz introduced me—as a newly hired Assistant Professor at Boston University— to the Society, I have been a fan. I especially like the ease with which the Society serves as a forum for intra-disciplinary dialogue between socio-cultural and archaeological anthropologists. I remember giving my first paper at the 1990 annual SEA conference (in Tucson that year) and receiving lots of friendly and critical feedback—all of which contributed to the refinement of my paper (later published in Ortiz 1993, Understanding Economic Process). This central activity of the SEA—small conferences in which graduate students, junior professionals, and senior silver-backs mix with ease—is a rich tradition within the Society and I will do everything in my power to maintain and enhance it.
On the topic of SEA Conferences, as president of the SEA, one of my primary responsibilities is to bring exciting and innovative conference topics to the members. If any of you are thinking about organizing a conference, please do not hesitate to send me a conference abstract at tricia@bu.edu. I would especially welcome themes that hold salience and relevance for anthropologists of all stripes—socio-cultural, biological, linguistic, and archaeological.
A special quality of the SEA is its size. For most of us who have been involved with the AAAs, this quality and intimacy is most welcome. But the age-profile of the Society is aging and it is time to recruit new members from the ranks of our graduate students and young colleagues. In this regard, I urge each one of you to forward broadly to colleagues and graduate students the Conference Call for Papers for the upcoming 2009 meeting. I have found that once a colleague has attended an SEA conference, it is not difficult to persuade them to invest in a membership. As an archaeological anthropologist with taproots in economic anthropology and the deep history of the Maya region, I am especially interested in expanding archaeological membership within the Society.
Patricia A. McAnany,
President, Society for Economic Anthropology
Professor, Boston University, Department of Archaeology
Kenan Eminent Professor, Department of Anthropology, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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News & Announcements:
2009 Annual Meeting “Weaving Across Time and Space: The Political Economy of Textiles”, April 2-4, 2009 at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.
The meeting is organized by Walter E. Little (SUNY-Albany) and Patricia A. McAnany (UNC, Chapel Hill) and hosted by Charles Stanish (UCLA-Cotsen Institute). Click here for the call for papers.
Listserve:
The Society for Economic Anthropology has a new listserv, SEA-L. The listserv is a place to connect, announce conferences, post important information, and ask questions. Information about the listserv can be found in the Membership section of the website.
The Society for Economic Anthropology has a new listserv, SEA-L. The SEA envisions the listserv as a place to connect, announce conferences, post important information and ask questions. The list is open to all interested individuals and we hope that if you subscribe to the listserv, you might also join us as a member of the SEA. This is a moderated list and not a high volume list. To subscribe to SEA-L, send an email to the list-serv manager, Walter Little (wlittle@albany.edu).
