Wenner-Gren Symposia in the 1970s

David Hamburg, Jane Goodall, and Robert Hinde, "The Behavior of Great Apes" Burg Wartenstein, 1974

In the 1970s, the vast majority of Wenner-Gren symposia were held at the Burg Wartenstein Conference Center. However, several signficant meetings were also held in stateside.

Sixteen symposia (Numbers 52 through 67) were held at the Burg Wartenstein Conference Center from 1971 through 1975.

Included with this series of meetings were: "Calibration of Hominoid Evolution: Recent Advances in Isotopic and Other Dating Methods as Applicable to the Origin of Man," organized by W.W. Bishop and J.A. Miller; "Cultural and Social Influences in Infancy and Early Childhood," organized by P. Herbert Leiderman and Steven R. Tulkin; "The Behavior of the Great Apes," organized by David Hamburg and Jane Goodall; and "Progress in Molecular Anthropology" organized by Morris Goodman and Richard Tashian.

1970

• "Emergent Civilization in Mesoamerica as Compared to Parallel Developments in the Old World" Robert Heizer and John Graham, organizers
• "Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates: Methods of Study and Recent Advances" Russell H. Tuttle, organizer
• "Toward the Description of the Languages of the World" John Lotz, organizer
• "Demography and the Biological and Social Structure of Human Populations" G. Ainsworth Harrison, organizer
• "Ethnic Identity: Cultural Continuity and Change" Theodore Schwartz and George DeVos, organizers

1971

• "Calibration of Hominoid Evolution: Recent Advances in Isotopic and Other Dating Methods as Applicable to the Origin of Man" W.W. Bishop and J.A. Miller, organizers
• "Toward the Comparative Study of Asian Medical Systems"  Charles Leslie, organizer
• "An Interdisciplinary Approach to Planned Social Change" Colin M. Turnbull and Gerard L. Rosenfeld, organizers

1972

• "Scale and Social Organization" Fredrik Barth, organizer
• "Origin of African Plant Domesticates" Jack Harlan, organizer

1973

• "Stratigraphy, Palaeontology, and Evolution in the Lake Rudolf Basin" Yves Coppens, F. Clarke Howell, Glynn Ll. Isaac, and Richard E.F. Leakey, organizers
• "Cultural and Social Influences in Infancy and Early Childhood" P. Herbert Leiderman and Steven R. Tulkin, organizers
• "Stratigraphy and Patterns of Cultural Change in the Middle Pleistocene" Karl Butzer and Glynn Isaac, organizers
• "Ritual: Reconciliation in Change" Margaret Mead and Mary Catherine Bateson, organizers
• "Physical Anthropology and Nutritional Status" Alexander Roche and Frank Falkner, organizers

1974

• "Phylogeny of the Primates: An Interdisciplinary Approach" Frederick Szalay and W. Patrick Luckett, organizers
• "The Behavior of Great Apes" David Hamburg and Jane Goodall, organizers
• "The Role of Natural Selection in Human Evolution" Francisco Salzano, organizer
• "Secular Rituals Considered: Prolegomena Toward a Theory of Ritual, Ceremony and Formality" Max Gluckman, Sally Moore, and Victor Turner, organizers

1975

• "Progress in Molecular Anthropology" Morris Goodman and Richard Tashian, organizers
• "Semiotics of Culture and Language" Sydney Lamb, M.A.K. Halliday, and John Owen Regan, organizers
• "The Theoretical and Methodological Implications of Long-Term Field Research in Social Anthropology" Elizabeth Colson, George M. Foster, and Thayer Scudder, organizers

1976

• "International Aspects of Anthropological Publication" Cyril S. Belshaw, organizer
• "Taphonomy and Vertebrate Palaeoecology: With Special Reference to the Late Cenozoic of Sub-Saharan Africa" Andrew Hill, A. Kay Behrensmeyer, C.K. Brain, and Alan Walker, organizers
• "The Place of Anthropology Amongst the Sciences: The Soviet and Western View" Ernest Gellner, organizer
• "Relationships between Anatomy and Behavior in Fossil and Contemporary Primates" Mary Ellen Morebeck and Holger Preuschoft, organizers
• "Origins and Affinities of the First Americans" William S. Laughlin, organizer

1977

• "Shanty Towns in Developing Nations" Peter C. Lloyd, organizer
• "Fundamentals of Symbolism" Mary LeCron Foster, organizer
• "Ecological Influences on Social Organization: Evolution and Adaptation" Irwin S. Bernstein, organizer
• "Cultural Frames and Reflections: Ritual, Drama and Spectacle" Victor W. Turner, Barbara Myerhoff, and Barbara A. Babcock, organizers
• "Dilemmas of Focus in Linguistics" Carl Voegelin, Michael Silverstein, and Eric Hamp, organizers

1978

• "Indigenous Anthropology in Non-Western Countires" Hussein M. Fahim, organizer
• "Human Ecology in Savanna Environments" David R. Harris, organizer
• "Social Inequality: Comparative and Developmental Approaches" Gerald D. Berreman, organizer

1979

• "Paleoecology of the Arctic Steppe -- Mammoth Biome" David m. Hopkins, John V. Matthews, Charles E. Schweger, and Steven B. Young, organizers
• "Anthropology of Food" Mary Douglas and R.S. Khare, organizers
• "Human Adjustment in Time and Space in Madagascar" Aidan Southall, Conrad Kottak, and Pierre Verin, organizers

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