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

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The Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort is the official conference hotel. Conference room rates are: standard double room $169.00 and oceanfront double room $189.00. To get these rates, please mention that you are attending the AES/SANA spring meeting when making your reservations.

The Holiday Inn is located in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, twelve miles from the Wilmington International Airport (ILM). Delta and US Air service the Wilmington International Airport. There is a complementary shuttle from the airport to the hotel. One-way taxi fares are $15.00. A taxi takes approximately 20 minutes to reach the hotel.

If you are driving, from I-40, US 17, or US76, take 74E to Wrightsville Beach. Turn Left at the final light to Lumina Avenue.

Please note that the deadline for paper proposals to the AES/SANA 2008 Meeting "Democracy, Disorder, and Discontent" has been extended to February 8th. For information on the conference and to read instructions on how to submit paper proposals, please click here.

ADVANCE REGISTRATION ENDS ON MARCH 13, 2008.

Please use the secure form, hosted at aaanet.org, to register for the April 2008 AES/SANA meeting.  read more »

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 »

The Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) and the American Ethnological Society (AES) announce a joint meeting for 2008:

SANA/AES Spring 2008 Meeting
Democracy, Disorder, and Discontent
April 3-5, 2008
Wrightsville Beach, NC
Submission deadline for panel and paper proposals: January 15, 2008 FEBRUARY 8, 2008
instructions for submitting paper and session proposals
keynote speakers & plenary panel sessions

The 2008 SANA/AES conference seeks panels and papers that creatively engage the discrepancies between the idea and the practice of democracy and that explore the forms of disorder and discontent engendered by these contradictions. What is democracy? Democracy is often understood as an expansion of individual freedoms, the spreading out of economic equality through participation in the market, and an alternative to excessive government regulation. Yet despite these optimistic claims, there remains an inherent tension between economic inequality and democratic politics. Emergent social and political orders in many parts of the world are characterized by growing inequality, and they are neither democratic nor secure. Furthermore, established rights, entitlements, and democratic principles in the United States itself have eroded, and wealth is increasingly redistributed upwards.  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

Accessing American Ethnologist through anthrosource
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).

Accessing American Ethnologist through JSTOR

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