Anthropology Southern Africa
Yet SASCA, like AASA, placed no restrictions of language, race or gender on its membership and had members from outside South Africa, and some members of SASCA were also members of AASA. SASCA also had a journal, the South African Journal of Ethnology / Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Etnologie, which published contributions by local as well as international scholars (French, German, Flemish, amongst others).
By the 1990s the differences between the two associations were dissolving so rapidly in an anthropological community that was anyway too small to sustain two associations that the decision was taken to combine AASA and SASCA into the single ASA, SASCA contributing its journal under the new name Anthropology Southern Africa. A code of ethics was adopted.
Membership categories of ASA are: full members, associate members and students. Members represent a wide range of professions; they are engaged in both academic and applied anthropology. They are drawn mostly from the Southern African Development Conference (SADC) countries but there are also members from other African countries and beyond Africa as well. There are +/- 80 active members.
An important vehicle for knowledge exchange is the journal Anthropology Southern Africa. It is peer evaluated and serves a wide South African, African and international community. The journal is registered for 4 numbers per year but due to financial constraints it is published twice a year containing two numbers at a time. Contributors from around the world are welcome to submit articles for publication. However, contributors or their institutions are responsible for the page fees – though these are maintained at the lowest feasible rate. Southern African Anthropologists also publish in journals such as African Studies, Journal of Southern African Studies, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Africa, and African Anthropologist.
In addition, the ASA has its own newsletter, but this appears irregularly as it has been largely dependent on contributions by members and such contributions have not been readily forthcoming. The editor of the newsletter would be happy to accept external contributions – news, opinions – that are not of the kind normally directed to a peer-reviewed journal.
ASA, furthermore, organises an annual conference where students, local and international academics, as well as non-academics are welcome to participate in the proceedings.
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