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: Thomas Reuter (Australian Anthropological Society)
- Deputy chair: Michal Buchowski ( Polskie Towarszystwo Ludoznawcze / Polish Ethnological Society)
- Treasurer: Gregory Acciaioli (Australian Anthropological Association)
- Leslie Aiello (Wenner-Gren Foundation)
- Carlos Caroso (Associação Brasileira de Antropologia)
- Setha Low (American Anthropological Association)
- Shalini Randeria (European Association of Social Anthropologists)
- Mugsy Spiegel (Anthropolgy Southern Africa)
The international delegates
From international associations
- Anthropology Association of Ireland (AAI) - Chandana Mathur
- Anthropology Southern Africa (ASnA) - Leslie Bank
- Association of Social Anthropologists UK & Commonwealth (ASA) - Raminder Kaur
- European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) - Susana Narotzky
- 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) - Robert Mbe Akoko
- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research - Leslie Aiello
From national associations
- Argentina: Colegio de Graduados en Antropología de la República Argentina (CGA) - Juan Antonio Seda
- Australia: Australian Anthopological Society (AAS) - Rosita Henry
- Brazil: Associação Brasileira de Antropologia (ABA) - Bela Feldman-Bianco
- Canada: Canadian Anthropology Society / Société canadienne anthropologie (CASCA) - Marie Nathalie LeBlanc
- Chile: Colegio de Antropólogos de Chile (CAC) - Luis Campo
- France: Association Française des Anthropologues (AFA) - Laurent Bazin
- France: Association Française d’Ethnologie et d’Anthropologie (AFEA) - Gilles Raveneau
- 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 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) - Sachiko Kubota
- 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
- Philippines: Anthropological Association of the Philippines / Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc (UGAT) - Rozanno Rufino
- 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
- Taiwan:Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology (TSAE) - Shu-min Huang
- 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)
- 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)
- Henk Pauw (Former president, Southafrican Association, Former member of WCAA Organising Committee)
- Ana Bella Perez Castro (Former President, Latin American Association)
- 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
- Junji Koizumi (Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology - 2005-2008)
- Gustavo Lins Ribeiro (Brazilian Association of Anthropology - 2004-2005)
