About WCAA
The constitution
The organising committee
The international delegates
The advisory board
Past chairs
The constitution
Click here to read the constitution updated and ratified in Maynooth in 2010.
The organising committee
- Chair: Michal Buchowski ( Polskie Towarszystwo Ludoznawcze / Polish Ethnological Society)
- Deputy chair: Setha Low (American Anthropological Association)
- Treasurer: Gregory Acciaioli (Australian Anthropological Association)
- Secretary: Chandana Mathur (Anthropology Association of Ireland)
- Leslie Aiello (Wenner-Gren Foundation)
- Carlos Caroso (Associação Brasileira de Antropologia)
- Gordon Mathews (Hong Kong Anthropological Society)
- Mugsy Spiegel (Anthropolgy Southern Africa)
- Vesna Vučinić-Nešković (International Association of Southeast European Anthropologists)
The international delegates
From international associations
- Anthropology Association of Ireland (AAI) - Terence Wright
- Anthropology Southern Africa (ASnA) - Leslie Bank
- Association of Social Anthropologists UK & Commonwealth (ASA) - Atreyee Sen
- European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) - Noel Salazar
- International Association of Southeast European Anthropologists (InASEA) - Vesna Vučinić-Nešković
- International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) - Ulli Kockel
- 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) - Isaac Nyamongo
- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research - Leslie Aiello
From national associations
- Argentina: Colegio de Graduados en Antropología de la República Argentina (CGA) - Lia Ferrero
- Australia: Australian Anthopological Society (AAS) - Helen Lee
- Brazil: Associação Brasileira de Antropologia (ABA) - Carmen Sylvia Rial
- Canada: Canadian Anthropology Society / Société canadienne anthropologie (CASCA) - Ellen Judd
- Chile: Colegio de Antropólogos de Chile (CAC) - Luis Campo
- Czech Republic: Czech Association of Social Anthropologists (CASA) - Zdenek Uherek
- Finland: Finnish Anthropological Society (FAS) - Laura Huttunen
- France: Association Française des Anthropologues (AFA) - Judith Hayem
- France: Association Française d’Ethnologie et d’Anthropologie (AFEA) - Françoise Lafaye
- France: Association pour la Recherche en Anthropologie Sociale (APRAS) - Sophie Chevalier
- Germany: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV) - Carola Lenz
- Hong Kong: Hong Kong Anthropological Society (HKAS) - Gordon Mathews
- India: Indian Anthropological Association (IAA) - Soumendra Mohan Patnaik
- India: Indian Anthropological Society, Calcutta - Ajit K Danda
- Israeli Anthropological Association (IAA) - Nurit Bird-David
- Italy: Istituto Italiano di Antropologia (ISItA) - Bernardino Fantini
- Japan: Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (JASCA) - Junji Koizumi
- Latvia: Latvijas Antropologu Biedriba (LAB) - Ieva Raubisko
- Mexico: Colegio de Etnólogos y Antropólogos Sociales (CEAS) - Antonieta Gallart Nocetti
- New Zealand: Association of Social Anthropologists of New Zealand/Aoteroa (ASAA/NZ) - Graeme Macrae
- Norway: Norsk Antropologisk Forening (NAF) - Harald Beyer Broch
- Philippines: Anthropological Association of the Philippines / Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc (UGAT) - Zona Hildegarde Amper
- 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) - Irma Mullonen
- Spain (Catalania): Institut Català d'Antropologia (ICA) - Susan DiGiacomo
- Spain: Anthropological Association of Castile and Leon (AAC-LMK) - William Kavanagh
- Sweden: Anthropological Association of Sweden (SANT) - Helena Wulff
- Taiwan:Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology (TSAE) - Hsun Chang
- Tunisia: L’Association Tunisienne d’Anthropologie (TAA) - Hassen Chaabani
- UK: Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) - David Shankland
- USA: American Anthropological Association (AAA) - Leith Mullings
Advisory committee
- Annie Benveniste (Former President- French Association of Anthropologists)
- David Bogopa (Former President- Pan African 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)
- Virginia Dominguez (Former President - American Anthropological Association)
- 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)
- Shu-min Huang (Former President - Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology, TSAE)
- Karl-Heinz Kohl (Former Chairperson, DGV)
- Junji Koizumi (Former Chairperson, WCAA)
- 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)
- Paul Nchoji Nkwi (Former President, Pan African Anthropology Association)
- Henk Pauw (Former president, Southafrican Association, Former member of WCAA Organising Committee)
- Ana Bella Perez Castro (Former President, Latin American Association)
- Thomas Reuter (Former Chair, WCAA)
- Francine Saillant (Former President - Canadian Anthropology Society)
- Fernando Salmerón (Former President of CEAS (Colegio de Etnólogos y Antropólogos Sociales)
- James B. Waldram (Former President - Canadian Anthropology Society)
Past chairs
- Thomas Reuter (Australian Anthropological Association - 2008-2012)
- Junji Koizumi (Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology - 2005-2008)
- Gustavo Lins Ribeiro (Brazilian Association of Anthropology - 2004-2005)
