About WCAA
The constitution
The organising committee
The international delegates
The advisory board
Past facilitators
The constitution
Click here to read the constitution updated and ratified in Osaka in 2009.
The organising committee
- Chair: Thomas Reuter (Australian Anthropological Society)
- Deputy chair: Shalini Randeria
- Junji Koizumi (Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology)
- Gustavo Lins Ribeiro (Brazilian Association of Anthropology)
- Setha Low (American Anthropological Association)
- Henk Pauw (Anthropology Southern Africa)
The international delegates
From international associations
- Anthropology Southern Africa (ASnA) - Mugsy Spiegel
- Association of Social Anthropologists UK & Commonwealth (ASA) - James Fairhead
- European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) - Michal Buchowski
- International Association of Southeast European Anthropologists (InASEA) - Vesna Vučinić-Nešković
- International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) - Junji Koizumi
- Latin American Association / Asociación Latinoamericana de Antropología (ALA) - Margarita Bolaños Arquín
- Pan African Anthropology Association (PAAA) - Robert Mbe Akoko
- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research - Leslie C. Aiello
From national associations
- Argentina: Colegio de Graduados en Antropología de la República Argentina (CGA) - Juan Antonio Seda
- Australia: Australian Anthopological Society (AAS) - Linda Connor
- Brazil: Associação Brasileira de Antropologia (ABA) - Carlos Caroso
- Canada: Canadian Anthropology Society / Société canadienne anthropologie (CASCA) - Janice Graham
- Chile: Colegio de Antropólogos de Chile (CAC) - Debbie E Guerra Maldonado
- France: Association Française des Anthropologues (AFA) - Laurent Bazin
- France: Association pour la Recherche en Anthropologie Sociale (APRAS) - Sophie Chevalier
- Germany: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV) - Karl-Heinz Kohl
- Hong Kong: Hong Kong Anthropological Society (HKAS) - Gordon Matthews
- India: Indian Anthropological Association (IAA) - Soumendra Mohan Patnaik
- India: Indian Anthropological Society, Calcutta - Ajit K Danda
- Ireland: Anthropology Association of Ireland (AAI) - Chandana Mathur
- Italy: Istituto Italiano di Antropologia (ISItA) - Bernardino Fantini
- Japan: Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (JASCA) - Sachiko Kubota
- Mexico: Colegio de Etnólogos y Antropólogos Sociales (CEAS) - Laura Valladares
- New Zealand: Association of Social Anthropologists of New Zealand/Aoteroa (ASAA/NZ) - Graeme Macrae
- Poland: Polskie Towarszystwo Ludoznawcze / Polish Ethnological Society - Michal Buchowski
- Portugal: Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (APA) - Robert Rowland
- Russia: Russian Association of Anthropologists and Ethnologists (RAEE) - Ludmila Nikonova
- Spain (Catalania): Institut Català d'Antropologia (ICA) - Susan DiGiacomo
- Spain: Anthropological Association of Castile and Leon (AAC-LMK) - William Kavanagh
- UK: Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) - David Shankland
- USA: American Anthropological Association (AAA) - Virginia Dominguez
Advisory committee
- Gregory Acciaioli (Former International Delegate, Australian Anthropological Association)
- Annie Benveniste (Former President- French Association of Anthropologists)
- David Bogopa (Former President- Pan African Anthropological Association)
- Elizabeth M. Brumfield (Former President- American Anthropological Association)
- João de Pina Cabral (Former President - European Association of Social Anthropologists)
- Luis R. Cardoso de Oliveira (Former president, Brazilian Association)
- Milka Castro Lucic (Former President - Latin American Association of Anthropology)
- Yuri K. Chistov (Former President - Russian Association of Anthropologists and Ethnologists)
- Benoît de l'Estoile (Former International Delegate of EASA)
- Richard Fardon (Former Chair - Association of Social Anthropologists of the U.K and the Commonwealth)
- John Gledhill (Former Chairperson, Association of Social Anthropologists UK)
- Gustavo Lins Ribeiro (Former President, Anthropological Association of Brazil / Former Chair, WCAA)
- Graeme Macrae (Former President of ASAA/NZ The Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand)
- Henk Pauw (Former president, Southafrican Association, Former member of WCAA Organising Committee)
- Ana Bella Perez Castro (Former President, Latin American Association)
- Fernando Salmerón (Former President of CEAS (Colegio de Etnólogos y Antropólogos Sociales)
- James B. Waldram (Former President - Canadian Anthropology Society)
Past facilitators
- Junji Koizumi (Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology - 2005-2008)
- Gustavo Lins Ribeiro (Brazilian Association of Anthropology - 2004-2005)
