Symposia and Seminars

Cultures of Fermentation

Organized by

• Mark Aldenderfer
• Christina Warinner
• Jessica Hendy
• Matthäus Rest

Toward an Anthropological Understanding of Masculinities, Maleness, and Violence

Organized by

• Agustin Fuentes
• Matthew Gutmann
• Robin Nelson

Atlantic Slavery and the Making of the Modern World

Organized by

• Ibrahima Thiaw
• Deborah L. Mack

Disability Worlds

Organized by

• Faye D. Ginsburg
• Rayna Rapp

Patchy Anthropocene: Frenzies and Afterlives of Violent Simplifications

Organized by

• Anna Tsing
• Nils Bubandt
• Andrew Matthews

Cultures of Militarism

Organized by

• Catherine Besteman
• Hugh Gusterson

The Anthropology of Corruption

Organized by

• Akhil Gupta
• Sarah Muir

Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene

Organized by

• Christopher Bae
• Katerina Douka
• Michael Petraglia

Fire and the Genus Homo

Organized by

• Francesco Berna
• Dennis Sandgathe

New Media, New Publics?

Organized by

• Carlo Caduff
• Maria Jose de Abreu
• Charles Hirschkind

Integrating Anthropology: Niche Construction, Cultural Institutions, and History

Organized by

• Agustin Fuentes
• Polly Wiessner

The Death of the Secret: The Public and Private in Anthropology

Organized by

• Chip Colwell
• Mark Davis
• Lenore Manderson

Politics of the Urban Poor

Organized by

• Veena Das
• Shalini Randeria

The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions

Organized by

• Joel Robbins

Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy

Organized by

• Niko Besnier
• Susana Narotzky

Alternative Pathways to Complexity: Evolutionary Trajectories in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age

Organized by

• Erella Hovers
• Steven L. Kuhn

The Anthropology of Potentiality: Exploring the Productivity of the Undefined and Its Interplay with Notions of Humanness in New Medical Practices

Organized by

• Klaus Hoeyer
• Karen-Sue Taussig

Human Biology and the Origins of Homo

Organized by

• Leslie C. Aiello
• Susan Antón

The Biological Anthropology of Modern Human Populations: World Histories, National Styles, and International Networks

Organized by

• Susan Lindee
• Ricardo Ventura Santos

The Beginnings of Agriculture: New Data, New Ideas

Organized by

• Ofer Bar-Yosef
• T. Douglas Price

Corporate Lives: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form

Organized by

• Rebecca D. Hardin
• Damani Partridge
• Marina Welker

Working Memory and the Evolution of Modern Thinking

Organized by

• Frederick L. Coolidge
• Tom Wynn

The Anthropologist as Social Critic: Working Toward a More Engaged Anthropology

Organized by

• Setha Low

Evolutionary Anthropology at the Interface

Organized by

• Jane Phillips-Conroy
• Jeff Rogers

Plagues: Models and Metaphors in the Human “Struggle” with Disease

Organized by

• Ann Herring
• Alan Swedlund

Databases, Data Access and Data-Sharing in Paleoanthropology

Organized by

• Eric Delson
• Steve Frost

Ritual Communication

Organized by

• Ellen B. Basso

Wenner-Gren Young Researchers Conference

Organized by

• George Armelagos

Primate Life-History Databank: Setting the Agenda

Organized by

• Karen Strier

Anthropology Put to Work/Anthropology that Works?

Organized by

• Les W. Field,
• Richard Fox

New Directions in the Anthropology of Markets

Organized by

• Koray Caliskan

Indigenous Experience Today

Organized by

• Marisol de la Cadena
• Orin Starn,

Wenner-Gren Grantees Conference

Organized by

• Richard Fox

Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition, and Human Interaction

Organized by

• Nicholas J. Enfield
• Stephen C. Levinson

Where the Wild Things Are Now

Organized by

• Rebecca Cassidy

Engaging All the Senses: Colonialism, Processes of Perception, and Material Objects

Organized by

• Elizabeth Edwards
• Chris Gosden
• Ruth B. Phillips

Workshop on Heritage and Politics

Organized by

• Howard Morphy
• Barbara Bender

World Anthropologies: Disciplinary Transformations within Systems of Power

Organized by

• Arturo Escobar
• Gustavo Lins Ribeiro

Workshop on Suffering and Recovery

Organized by

• Virginia R. Dominguez,
• Richard Fox,

Hearing Cultures: New Directions in the Anthropology of Sound

Organized by

• Veit Erlmann

Beyond Ethics: Anthropological Moralities on the Boundaries of the Public and the Professional

Organized by

• Lynn Meskell
• Peter Pels

Changing Property Relations at the Turn of the Millennium

Organized by

• Caroline Humphrey
• Katherine Verdery

Culture and the Cultural: New Tasks for an Old Concept?

Organized by

• Richard Fox
• Barbara King
• Sydel Silverman

Time and Temporalities in the Anthropological Record

Organized by

• Andre Gingrich
• Elinor Ochs

Anthropology at the End of the Century

Organized by

• Sydel Silverman

Anthropology in the Age of Genetics: Practice, Discourse, Critique

Organized by

• Alan Goodman
• Deborah Heath

Preserving the Anthropological Record: Workshop on Education and Outreach, Part II

Organized by

• Nancy Parezo
• Don Fowler

Preserving the Anthropological Record: Workshop on a National Guide to Anthropological Records

Organized by

• Nancy Parezo
• Don Fowler

New Directions in Kinship Study: A Core Concept Revisited

Organized by

• Sarah Franklin
• Susan McKinnon

Imperial Designs: Comparative Dynamics of Early Empires

Organized by

• Susan Alcock
• Terence D'Altroy
• Kathleen Morrison
• Carla Sinopoli,

Preserving the Anthropological Record: Workshop on the National Anthropological Archives

Organized by

• Nancy Parezo
• Don Fowler

Amazonia and Melanesia: Gender and Anthropological Comparison

Organized by

• Thomas Gregor
• Donald Tuzin

Changing Images of Primate Societies: The Role of Theory, Method and Gender

Organized by

• Linda Fedigan
• Shirley Strum

African Biogeography, Climate Change, and Early Hominid Evolution

Organized by

• Timothy G. Bromage
• Friedemann Schrenk

Funding and Funding Needs in Anthropology: Current Patterns, Future Prospects

Organized by

• Sydel Silverman

The Great Apes Revisited

Organized by

• William C. McGrew
• Toshisada Nishida

Transnationalism, Nation-State Building, and Culture

Organized by

• Linda Basch
• Nina Glick Schiller
• Cristina Szanton Blanc

Anthropological Perspectives on the Human Genome Diversity Project

Organized by

• John H. Moore

Preserving the Anthropological Record II: Toward a Discipline History Center

Organized by

• Don Fowler
• Nancy Parezo

Theorizing Sexuality: Evolution, Culture and Development

Organized by

• Gilbert Herdt,

Anthropological Priorities in the Next Decade and the Role of the AAA

Organized by

• James Peacock
• Annette Weiner

Political-Economic Perspectives in Biological Anthropology: Building a Biocultural Synthesis

Organized by

• Alan Goodman
• Thomas Leatherman

Preserving the Anthropological Record: Issues and Strategies

Organized by

• Sydel Silverman
• Nancy Parezo

The Politics of Reproduction

Organized by

• Faye Ginsburg
• Rayna Rapp

Rethinking Linguistic Relativity

Organized by

• John Gumperz
• Stephen Levinson

AIDS Research: Issues for Anthropological Theory, Method, and Practice

Organized by

• Gilbert Herdt
• Shirley Lindenbaum

Tools, Language and Intelligence: Evolutionary Implications

Organized by

• Kathleen Gibson
• Tim Ingold

Amazonian Synthesis: An Integration of Disciplines, Paradigms, and Methodologies

Organized by

• Anna C. Roosevelt

Critical Approaches in Archaeology: Material Life, Meaning, and Power

Organized by

• Robert Paynter

Tensions of Empire: Colonial Control and Visions of Rule

Organized by

• Frederick Cooper
• Ann L. Stoler

Analysis in Medical Anthropology

Organized by

• Shirley Lindenbaum
• Margaret Lock

The Role of Theory in Language Description

Primate Life History and Evolution

Organized by

• C. Jean DeRousseau
• Mary Ellen Morbeck,

Gender Hierarchies

Organized by

• Barbara D. Miller

The Living Museum: A Bridge from Past to Future

Organized by

• Philip Dark
• Nancy Lutkehaus

Daughters of the Desert: Women Anthropologists and Students of the Native American Southwest

Organized by

• Barbara Babcock
• Nancy Parezo

Sepik Culture History: Variation and Synthesis

Organized by

• Anthony Forge

Symbolism Through Time

Organized by

• Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

Anthropological Perspectives on Women’s Collective Actions: An Assessment of the Decade, 1975-1985

Organized by

• Helen Safa
• Constance Sutton

Health and Disease of Populations in Transition

Organized by

• George Armelagos
• Alan Swedlund

Ethnohistorical Models of the Evolution of Law in Specific Societies

Organized by

• Jane Collier
• June Starr

Sepik Research Today: The Study of Sepik Cultures in and for Modern Papua New Guinea

Organized by

• Christian Kaufmann
• Nancy Lutkehaus
• William Mitchell
• Douglas Newton
• Lita Osmundsen
• Meinhard Schuster

Paleoanthropology: The Hard Evidence

Organized by

• Eric Delson,
• Ian Tattersall
• John A. Van Couvering

Food Preferences and Aversions

Organized by

• Marvin Harris
• Eric B. Ross

Cloth and the Organization of Human Experience

Organized by

• Jane Schneider
• Annette Weiner

National Culture and International Communication

Organized by

• Mary Catherine Bateson

An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Andean Ecological Complementarity

Organized by

• Shozo Masuda
• Craig Morris
• Izumi Shimada

Theater and Ritual

Organized by

• Willa Appel
• Richard Schechner
• Phillip Zarrilli

Infanticide in Animals and Man

Organized by

• Mildred Dickemann
• Glenn Hausfater
• Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
• Christian Vogel,

Feminism and Kinship Theory

Organized by

• Jane Collier
• Sylvia Yanagisako

Contemporary Japanese Theater: Wadeda Shogekiji

Organized by

• Richard Schechner
• Victor W. Turner

Yaqui Ritual and Performance

Organized by

• Richard Schechner
• Edward Spicer
• Victor W. Turner

Anthropology and American Pluralism: Working at the Cultural Grassroots

Organized by

• Conrad Arensberg
• Alan Lomax

Households: Changing Form and Function

Organized by

• Robert M. Netting
• Richard R. Wilk

Prehistoric Settlement Pattern Studies: Retrospect and Prospect

Organized by

• Evon Z. Vogt

The Sex Division of Labor, Development and Women’s Status

Organized by

• Eleanor Leacock
• Helen Safa

The Exercise of Power in Complex Organizations

Organized by

• Louis Wolf Goodman
• Larissa Lomnitz

Human Adjustment in Time and Space in Madagascar

Organized by

• Aidan Southall
• Conrad Kottak
• Pierre Verin

Anthropology of Food

Organized by

• Mary Douglas
• R.S. Khare

Paleoecology of the Arctic Steppe — Mammoth Biome

Organized by

• David M. Hopkins
• John V. Mathews
• Charles E. Schweger
• Steven B. Young

Social Inequality: Comparative and Developmental Approaches

Organized by

• Gerald D. Berreman

Human Ecology in Savanna Environments

Organized by

• David R. Harris

Indigenous Anthropology in Non-Western Countries

Organized by

• Hussein M. Fahim

Baboon Field Research: Retrospect and Prospect

Organized by

• Shirley C. Strumm

Dilemmas of Focus in Linguistics

Organized by

• Eric Hamp
• Michael Silverstein
• Carl Voegelin

Cultural Frames and Reflections: Ritual, Drama and Spectacle

Organized by

• Barbara A. Babcock
• Barbara Myerhoff
• Victor W. Turner

Ecological Influences on Social Organization: Evolution and Adaptation

Organized by

• Irwin S. Bernstein

Fundamentals of Symbolism

Organized by

• Mary LeCron Foster

Shanty Towns in Developing Nations

Organized by

• Peter Lloyd

Origins and Affinities of the First Americans

Organized by

• W.L. Laughlin

Relationships between Anatomy and Behavior in Fossil and Contemporary Primates

Organized by

• Mary Ellen Morbeck
• Holger Preuschoft

The Place of Anthropology Amongst the Sciences: The Soviet and Western View

Organized by

• Ernest Gellner

Taphonomy and Vertebrate Paleoecology: With Special Reference to the Late Cenozoic of Sub-Saharan Africa

Organized by

• A. Kay Behrensmeyer
• C.K. Brain
• Andrew Hill
• Alan Walker

International Aspects of Anthropological Publication

Organized by

• Cyril S. Belshaw,

The Theoretical and Methodological Implications of Long-Term Field Research in Social Anthropology

Organized by

• Elizabeth Colson
• George M. Foster
• Thayer Scudder

Semiotics of Culture and Language

Organized by

• M.A.K. Halliday
• Sydney Lamb
• John Owen Regan

Progress in Molecular Anthropology

Organized by

• Morris Goodman
• Richard Tashian

Secular Rituals Considered: Prolegomena Toward a Theory of Ritual, Ceremony and Formality

Organized by

• Max Gluckman
• Sally Moore
• Victor Turner

The Behavior of Great Apes

Organized by

• Jane Goodall
• David Hamburg

The Role of Natural Selection in Human Evolution

Organized by

• Francisco Salzano

Phylogeny of the Primates: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Organized by

• Frederick Szalay
• W. Patrick Luckett

Stratigraphy, Palaeonotology, and Evolution in the Lake Rudolf Basin

Organized by

• Yves Coppens
• F. Clarke Howell
• Glynn Ll. Isaac
• Richard E.F. Leakey

Physical Anthropology and Nutritional Status

Organized by

• Alexander Roche
• Frank Falkner

Ritual: Reconciliation in Change

Organized by

• Margaret Mead
• Mary Catherine Bateson

Stratigraphy and Patterns of Cultural Change in the Middle Pleistocene

Organized by

• Karl Butzer
• Glynn Isaac

Cultural and Social Influences in Infancy and Early Childhood

Organized by

• P. Herbert Leiderman
• Steven R. Tulkin

Origin of African Plant Domesticates

Organized by

• Jack R. Harlan

Scale and Social Organization

Organized by

• Fredrik Barth

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Planned Social Change

Organized by

• Gerard L. Rosenfeld
• Colin M. Turnbull

Toward the Comparative Study of Asian Medical Systems

Organized by

• Charles Leslie

Calibration of Hominoid Evolution: Recent Advances in Isotopic and Other Dating Methods as Applicable to the Origin of Man

Organized by

• W.W. Bishop
• J.A. Miller

Ethnic Identity: Cultural Continuity and Change

Organized by

• George DeVos
• Theodore Schwartz

Demography and the Biological and Social Structure of Human Populations

Organized by

• G. Ainsworth Harrison

Toward the Description of the Languages of the World

Organized by

• John Lotz

Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates: Methods of Study and Recent Advances

Organized by

• Russell H. Tuttle

Emergent Civilization in Mesoamerica as Compared to Parallel Developments in the Old World

Organized by

• John A. Graham
• Robert F. Heizer

Kinship and Locality

Organized by

• Louis Dumont
• David Schneider

The Ongoing Evolution of Latin American Populations

Organized by

• Francisco Salzano

The Moral and Aesthetic Structure of Human Adaptation

Organized by

• Gregory Bateson

Systematics of Old World Monkeys

Organized by

• John R. Napier

Social Organization and Subsistence in Primate Societies

Organized by

• John Ellefson

World Views: Their Nature and Their Role in Culture

Organized by

• W. T. Jones

The Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation

Organized by

• Gregory Bateson

Theory and Method in American Indian Ethnological and Ethnohistorical Research

Organized by

• Eleanor Leacock
• Nancy Lurie

Reunion para la Enseñanza con las Investigaciones Antropológicas

Organized by

• Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán
• John Murra

Primitive Art and Society

Organized by

• Raymond Firth
• Anthony Forge
• Robert Goldwater

World Association for the Study of Primate Variability (Human and Non-Human): Constitutional Session

Organized by

• Paul T. Bake
• Santiago Genoves

Kinship and Culture

Organized by

• Francis Hsu

Ethnography of Law

Organized by

• Laura Nader

The Inter-Relation of Biological and Cultural Adaptation

Organized by

• Paul Baker
• Joseph Weiner

Local-Level Politics

Organized by

• Marc J. Swartz

Man the Hunter

Primate Social Behavior

Organized by

• Phyllis Jay

The Evolutionist Interpretation of Culture

Organized by

• Eric Wolf

Systematic Investigation of the African Later Tertiary and Quarternary

Organized by

• W. W. Bishop
• J. Desmond Clark

Animal Communication

Organized by

• Thomas A. Sebeok

Cross-Cultural Similarities in the Urbanization Process

Organized by

• Edward Bruner
• Aidan Southall
• Oscar Lewis

Behavioral Consequences of Genetic Differences in Man

Organized by

• J.N. Spuhler

Revolution vs. Continuity in the Study of Language

Organized by

• Dell Hymes

Pastoral Nomadism

Organized by

• Gordon Bowles
• Lawrence Krader
• Robert Murphy

The Biology of Populations of Anthropological Significance

Organized by

• Joseph Weiner

The Determination of the Philosophy of a Culture

Organized by

• F.S.C. Northrop

The Cultural Development of the Maya

Organized by

• Evon Vogt

Salvage Archaeology

Organized by

• Fred Wendorf

Classification and Human Evolution

Organized by

• Sherwood Washburn

The Use of Computers in Anthropology

Organized by

• Dell Hymes
• Sydney Lamb
• A. Kimball Romney
• Thomas Sebeok

Ceramics and Man

Organized by

• Frederick R. Matson

Anthropology and the Conditions of Individual and Social Freedom

African Ecology and Human Evolution

Organized by

• Francois Bourliere
• F. Clark Howell

Anthropological Horizons

Organized by

• Alfred L. Kroeber
• Clyde Cluckhohn

Comparative Aspects of Human Communication

Organized by

• Godfrey E. Arnold
• John Lotz

Economics and Anthropology: Capital, Saving and Credit in Peasant Societies

Organized by

• Raymond Firth
• Bert F. Hoselitz

Teaching of Anthropology

Organized by

• David Mandelbaum

The Chronology of Western Mediterranean and Saharan Prehistoric Cave and Rock Shelter Art

Organized by

• Alberto C. Blanc
• Luis Pericot

Early Man and Pleistocene Stratigraphy in the Circum-Mediterranean Regions

Organized by

• Alberto Blanc
• F. Clark Howell

From 15,000 BC to the Thresholds of Urban Civilization

Organized by

• Robert J. Braidwood
• Gordon R. Willey

Stability and Change in Thai Culture

Organized by

• Lauriston Sharp

Rural Peoples of the Mediterranean

Organized by

• Julian Pitt-Rivers

The Application of Quantitative Methods in Archaeology

Organized by

• Robert F. Heizer

Social Life of Early Man

Organized by

• Sherwood Washburn

Second Austrian Symposium

Organized by

• Emil Breitinger
• Richard Pittioni
• Joseph Haekel

International Symposium on Current Anthropology

Organized by

• Sol Tax

Man’s Role in Changing the Face of the Earth

Organized by

• Marston Bates
• Lewis Mumford
• Carl O. Sauer
• William L. Thomas, Jr.

International Symposium on Anthropology