Wenner-Gren Symposia in the 1980s

The last of the Burg Wartenstein symposia were held in 1980. After the sale of its European Conference Center in 1981, Wenner-Gren symposia continued at almost the same pace -- held at a variety of sites in the U.S. and abroad -- with most of these meetings' general organization shaped on the Burg Wartenstein model.

Some of the more significant symposia held during this time include: "The Sex Division of Labor, Development, and Women's Status," organized by Helen Safa and Eleanor Leacock; "Infanticide in Animals and Man," organized by Glenn Hausfater, Sarah Hrdy, Christian Vogel and Mildred Dickemann; "Cloth and the Organization of Human Experience," organized by Annette Weiner and Jane Schneider; and the landmark "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, and Meinhard Schuster.

1980

• "The Exercise of Power in Complex Organizations" Louis Wolf Goodman and Larissa Lomnitz, organizers
• "The Sex Division of Labor, Development, and Women's Status" Helen Safa and Eleanor Leacock, organizers
• "Prehisotric Settlement Pattern Studies: Retrospect and Prospect" Evon Z. Vogt, organizer

1981

• "Households: Changing Form and Function" Robert M. Netting and Richard R. Wilk, organizers
• "Anthropology and American Pluralism: Working at the Cultural Grassroots" Alan Lomax and Conrad Arensberg, organizers
• "Yaqui Ritual and Performance" Edward Spicer, Victor Turner, and Richard Schechner, organizers

1982

• "Contemporary Japanese Theater: Wadeda Shogekiji" Victor Turner, Richard Schechner, and Phillip Zarrilli, organizers
• "Feminism and Kinship Theory" Jane Collier and Sylvia Yanagisako, organizers
• "Infanticide in Animals and Man" Glenn Hausfater, Sarah Hrdy, Christian Vogel, and Mildred Dickemann, organizers
• "Theater and Ritual" Victor Turner, Richard Schechner and Phillip Zarrilli, organizers

1983

• "An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Andean Ecological Complementarity" Craig Morris, Izumi Shimada, and Shozo Masuda, organizers
• "National Culture and International Communication" Mary Catherine Bateson, organizer
• "Cloth and Human Experience" Annette Weiner and Jane Schneider, organizers
• "Food Preferences and Aversions" Marvin Harris and Eric B. Ross, organizers

1984

• "Paleoanthropology: The Hard Evidence" Eric Delson and Ian Tattersall, organizers
• "Sepik Research Today: The Study of Sepik Cultures in and for Modern Papua New Guinea" Christian Kaufmann, Nancy Lutkehau, William Mitchell, Douglas Newton, and Meinhard Schuster, organizers

1985

• "Ethnohistorical Models of the Evolution of Law in Specific Societies" June Starr and Jane Collier, organizers
• "Health and Disease of Populations in Transition" George Armelagos and Alan Swedlund, organizers
• "Anthropological Perspectives on Women's Collective Actions: An Assessment of the Decade, 1975-1985" Connie Sutton and Helen Safa, organizers

1986

• "Symbolism through Time" Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, organizer
• "Sepik Culture History: Variation and Synthesis" Anthony Forge, organizer
• "Daughters of the Desert: Women Anthropologicsts and Students of the Native American Southwest" Nancy Parezo and Barbara Babcock, organizers
• "The Living Museum: A Bridge from Past to Future" Philip Dark and Nancy Lutkehaus, organizers

1987

• "Gender Hierarchies" Barbara D. Miller, organizer
• "Primate Life History and Evolution" C. Jean DeRousseau and Mary Ellen Morbeck, organizers
• "The Role of Theory in Language Description" William Foley, organizer

1988

• "Analysis in Medical Anthropology" Margaret Lock and Shirley Lindenbaum, organizers
• "Tensions of Empire: Colonial Control and Visions of Rule" Ann L. Stoler and Frederick Cooper, organizers

1989

• "Critical Approaches in Archaeology: Material Life, Meaning, and Power" Robert Paynter and James Moore, organizers
• "Amazonian Synthesis: An Integration of Disciplines, Paradigms, and Methodologies" Anna C. Roosevelt, organizer

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