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ABFA - American Board of Forensic Anthropology
The American Board of Forensic Anthropology was incorporated in 1977 as a non-profit organization to provide, in the public interest and the advancement of science, a program of certification in forensic anthropology. In purpose and organization, the ABFA functions in much the same way as do certifying boards in various medical specialties and other scientific fields.
American Academy of Forensic Sciences
As a professional society dedicated to the application of science to the law, the AAFS is committed to the promotion of education and the elevation of accuracy, precision, and specificity in the forensic sciences. It does so via the Journal of Forensic Sciences (its internationally recognized scientific journal), newsletters, its annual scientific meeting, the conduct of seminars and meetings, and the initiation of actions and reactions to various issues of concern. For its members and affiliates, AAFS provides placement services as well as scientific reference studies. As the world’s most prestigious forensic science organization, the AAFS represents its membership to the public and serves as the focal point for public information concerning the forensic science profession. Founded in 1948, the AAFS is headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO.
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
Physical anthropology is a biological science that deals with the adaptations, variability, and evolution of human beings and their living and fossil relatives. Because it studies human biology in the context of human culture and behavior, physical anthropology is also a social science. The AAPA is the world's leading professional organization for physical anthropologists. Formed by 83 charter members in 1930, the AAPA now has an international membership of over 1,700. The Association's annual meetings draw more than a thousand scientists and students from all over the world.
American Board of Criminalistics
The ABC is composed of regional and national organizations which represent forensic scientists. Each organization is entitled to one member on the ABC Board of Directors and one member on the ABC Examination Committee. The representatives from these organizations can answer any questions about the ABC, certification examinations, proficiency testing, and related issues.
American Society of Primatologists
The purposes of this Society are both educational and scientific. Our goals are to promote and encourage the discovery and exchange of information regarding primates, and anyone engaged in scientific primatology or who is interested in supporting these goals may apply for membership. The Society is established as a nonprofit corporation under the nonprofit laws of the State of Washington and the United States of America.
Anatomy Education and Anatomy Research - American Association Anatomists
The American Association of Anatomists was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1888, for the "advancement of anatomical science." Today, AAA is the professional home for an international community of biomedical researchers and educators focusing on anatomical form and function.
Anthropology and the Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association
Welcome to the home page of anthropologists interested in ecology, the environment, and environmentalism. We are part of the American Anthropological Association, the professional society of American anthropologists. We welcome members from countries worldwide.
Association for Africanist Anthropology (AfAA)
The purpose of the Association for Africanist Anthropology (AFAA) shall be to stimulate, strengthen, and advance anthropology by promoting the study of Africa, as well as Africanist scholarship and the professional interests of Africanist anthropologists in the U.S., and both in and outside of the African Continent.
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Phoenix, 1988: The meeting room was filled to capacity, mostly women, a few men, many of whose names were associated with the first published efforts to bring, in the beginning, an "anthropology of women" and later a feminist and gendered anthropology to the discipline. These anthropologists, their students, and others like-minded, under the leadership of the AFA's first Chair, Carole Hill, gave a unanimous vote to the establishment of the Association for Feminist Anthropology. The first few years of the AFA saw the establishment of several central themes that continue to form the core of members' interests. The late Sylvia Forman, a founding member of AFA, came up with the idea of "Working Commissions" as a way to organize and link feminist academic and policy work.
Association of Black Anthropologists
The Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA) was founded in 1977. ABA publishes the journal Transforming Anthropology and currently has two projects: The Vera Green Publication Award and the Gwaltney Scholarship Fund.
Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists
The goals of ALLA are to promote research and distribute information on Latinos in the United States. It will stimulate dialogue in academic and other circles about Latino community objectives and realities encouraging respect for indigenous and insider views, encouraging the participation of community leaders, non-academic anthropologists and others, and in the process, provide information to the public about these objectives, and form affiliations and coalition with other professional groups with similar interests.
Biological Anthropology Section (BAS)
Its purpose shall be to advance the study of biological anthropology and to encourage communication of the results of such study.
Bradshaw Foundation - Rock Art Cave Paintings Archaeology Anthropology
The Bradshaw Foundation provides an online learning resource. Its main areas of focus are archaeology, anthropology and genetic research, and its primary objective is to discover, document and preserve ancient rock art around the world, and promote the study of early mankind’s artistic achievements. The Foundation funds preservation projects around the world, scientific research and research publication. The Foundation carries out its work in collaboration with UNESCO, the Royal Geographic Society, the National Geographic Society, the Rock Art Research Institute in South Africa and the Trust for African Rock Art to ensure that the programs achieve maximum impact. It is a privately funded, non-profit organisation based in Geneva.
Inspired by the interpretations of human evolution proposed by Dr. Louis Leakey, one of the past century's great anthropologists, several individuals founded the Leakey Foundation in 1968 to support his fieldwork and scientific priorities. Within its first decade of existence, the Leakey Foundation provided grants to many of the seminal studies that inform our understanding of human prehistory such as the field research and discoveries of Louis, Richard and Mary Leakey, Don Johanson, Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas. Today, the Leakey Foundation continues to support the significant studies of researchers like Zeresenay Alemseged, Jill Pruetz, Dan Lieberman, Frederick Grine, Sileshi Semaw, David Lordkipanidze and many more.
MIDWEST BIOARCHAEOLOGY AND FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY ASSOCIATION (BARFAA)
Welcome to the BARFAA homepage. BARFAA was formed in 1994 in an effort to support communication between physical anthropologists and interested students on both formal and informal levels. Our organization consists of over 300 members who have a common interest in bioarchaeology, paleopathology, and forensic anthropology. Membership to our organization is free and is open to all interested parties. We meet annually in late Fall. The proceedings of our meetings are published online, and usually include abstracts and submitted papers by participating researchers.
National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA): Welcome
Founded in 1983, NAPA strives to promote the practice of anthropology, both within the discipline and among private and public organizations. NAPA continues to grow as anthropologists engaged in practice have developed broader professional opportunities both inside and outside the Academic realm.
Today, the Paleopathology Association is composed of researchers, scientists, and students from many fields, including physical anthropology, medicine, archaeology, and egyptology from around the world. Membership is open to all who are interested. Members are dedicated to sharing information, ideas and resources. Our annual meeting in North America, and biennial meeting in Europe, focus on the dissemination of information, discussions on issues germane to the field, skill building, and collegiality. The Paleopathology Newsletter, a quarterly publication, helps keep members up to date and in close touch with one another.
Royal Anthropological Institute
The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is the world's longest-established scholarly association dedicated to the furtherance of anthropology (the study of humankind) in its broadest and most inclusive sense. The Institute is a non-profit-making registered charity and is entirely independent, with a Director and a small staff accountable to the Council, which in turn is elected annually from the Fellowship. It has a Royal Patron in the person of HRH The Duke of Gloucester KG, GCVO.
SAFN | Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN), formerly known as the Council on Nutritional Anthropology (CNA), was organized in 1974 in response to the increased interest in the interface between social sciences and human nutrition. SAFN has the following objectives: To encourage research and exchange of ideas, theories, methods and scientific information relevant to understanding the socio-cultural, behavioral and political-economic factors related to food and nutrition; To provide a forum for communication and interaction among scientists sharing these interests and with other appropriate organizations; To promote practical collaboration among social and nutritional scientists at the fields and program levels.
Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges
SACC's major interests are in the teaching of anthropology, sharing teaching strategies, and addressing related issues. Other SACC interests involve increasing the visibility of community colleges, working with colleges and universities, and contributing to K-12 anthropology. As an independent organization and as part of the AAA, SACC has held its own annual meetings (18 meetings from 1987 to 2006) and has met as an organization at the AAA's annual meetings held around the country.
Society for East Asian Anthropology: SEAA
The Purpose of the Section: To advance the anthropological study of East Asian societies and cultures, and other societies/cultures and diasporic and transnational communities with historical or contemporary ties to East Asia. To encourage and facilitate greater scholarly communications and collaborations among East Asianist anthropologists working and teaching in various societies within and outside of East Asia.
Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Humanism has historically made the human endeavor the subject of its concerns. Humanistic anthropology seeks to bring the intellectual resources of the discipline to bear upon this subject. While not blind to the constraints within which we humans operate, humanistic anthropology, in the tradition of the discipline, celebrates that human reality is something upon which we creative primates have real feedback effects: we can change our social and natural environment. Accordingly, it recognizes that anthropological inquiry constitutes a part of that work, particularly in promoting multicultural understanding and revealing the social blockages that are deleterious to our social and physical environment.
Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
The first chapter of SLACA was founded by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in 1969 to advance the study of Latin American anthropology. In 2005, the Society's membership offically approved the adoption of "Caribbean" to the Society's name to reflect the connections between the Latin American and Caribbean regions. SLACA provides a forum for discussion of current research, scholarly trends, and human rights concerns, as well as a space for interchange among scholars from and who work in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Society for Medical Anthropology
This web site serves the needs of medical anthropology graduate students, practicing anthropologists, scholars, and scholar activists who address issues of local, national and international health importance. It is the hub of an active research community and a storehouse for information supporting the endeavors of medical anthropologists and their colleagues in allied social science fields. The site further intends to inform the general public and policy-makers of the scope and breadth of medical anthropology. The site, like the field of medical anthropology, draws upon and benefits from a wide range of theories and methods. It also serves as a space to promote and foster collaboration and coalition-building.
Society for the Anthropology of Europe
The purposes of the organization, as announced in the organizing letter that went out to colleagues in 1986, were: Strengthening national and international networks between colleagues. Providing forums for discussion and debate Encouraging comparative research Enhancing the visibility and legitimacy of Europeanist anthropology, both within the discipline and among other Europeanist groups Facilitating dissemination of information about employment opportunities, grants, visiting European scholars, and other resources Promoting the professional integration of students specializing in Europe.
Society for the Anthropology of North America
The goal of the Society for the Anthropology of North America is to address the need for a focused voice and institutional presence for the Anthropology of the United States, Canada and Mexico. While elements of our research tradition are addressed by applied, medical, educational, political and urban anthropology, among others, no previously organized anthropological society has focused upon this region as an "area." In order to place our research findings in historical perspective and to continue developing theoretically, it is important that we acknowledge our area context and begin to analyze it systematically within broad frameworks such as ethnicity, race, class, gender and structured inequality.
Society for the Anthropology of Work
The purposes for which SAW is formed are (a) to advance the study of work in all its aspects, by anthropologists from all areas of the discipline; and (b) to encourage the communication of such study.
Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology
SUNTA, a section of the American Anthropological Association, concerns itself with theories, problems, processes, and institutions of urban, national and transnational life. Urban life and problems in the modern world are interrelated with national and transnational institutions (especially globalizing capitalism), processes, and forces.
Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists
This section of the website is to keep members informed of news, events, procedures, and ongoing discussions within the organization. In time, it will grow to include the history of SOLGA including past editions of the SOLGAN and columns from the Anthropology Newsletter.
The Evolutionary Anthropology Society
The Evolutionary Anthropology Society (EAS) is a section of the American Anthropological Association. We bring together all those interested in applying modern evolutionary theory to the analysis of human biology, behavior, and culture. This website describes our group’s activities. We welcome students, faculty, and anyone with similar interests to join the EAS and help us build a thriving community of researchers.
The General Anthropology Division
The General Anthropology Division (GAD) is an evolving coalition of anthropologists interested in what unifies and cross-cuts the discipline. It stimulates conversations that span the subfields and provides a home for emerging interests and ideas. It raises broad questions, fosters the emergence of new areas of inquiry, and examines the structures and conditions that shape our lives as anthropologists. GAD is also the umbrella for several committees that examine particular cross-disciplinary issues, such as the history of anthropology, science and technology studies, anthropological teaching, and the nature of anthropology in small programs. GAD publishes a bulletin, General Anthropology, and the FOSAP publication, ANTHRO-AT-LARGE.
The Middle East Section of The American Anthropological Association
The Middle East Section (MES) of the American Anthropological Association convenes anthropologists with an interest in the peoples, cultures and histories of the Middle East. Our membership is noteworthy for its disciplinary diversity: socio-cultural anthropologists, linguistic anthropologists, physical anthropologists and archaeologists, as well as practicing anthropologists from these subdisciplines, all participate actively in the section, and our membership thrives on the participation of members from the United States, the Middle East, and from other parts of the world. The activities of the MES, while ongoing, peak at the annual conference of the American Anthropological Association, where the MES sponsors sessions and panels proposed by its membership. The MES also awards an annual student paper prize.
The National Association of Student Anthropologists
The National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA), the student section of the American Anthropological Association, was founded in 1985 to address graduate and undergraduate student concerns and to promote the interests and involvement of students as anthropologists-in-training. NASA provides a network of students across the subfields of anthropology and directly addresses issues that are of interest to both undergraduate and graduate students, including finding jobs, attending graduate school, fieldwork programs, networking, and much more!
The Paleoanthropology Society Home Page
The Paleoanthropology Society was founded in 1992. It recognizes that paleoanthropology is multidisciplinary in nature and the organization's central goal is to bring together physical anthropologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, geologists and a range of other researchers whose work has the potential to shed light on hominid behavioral and biological evolution.
The Society for Anthropological Sciences
The Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS) was organised to promote empirical research and social science in anthropology. The members of SAS want to further the development of anthropological science as empirical knowledge based on testable theory, sound research design and systematic methods for the collection and analysis of data. We seek to fulfill the historic mission of anthropology to describe and explain the range of variation in human biology, society, and culture across time and space.
Welcome to the Human Biology Association
The mission of the Human Biology Association is to advance the understanding human biological variation, to enhance the training of professional human biologists, and to foster a better comprehension of the scope of human biology among scientific professionals and the public. To meet this mission, the Association promotes education, discussion, integration and dissemination of research on all aspects of human biological variation through annual scientific meetings and periodic publications.
