News
WCAA EASA2010 meeting
The WCAA's next meeting will be just before EASA2010 at Maynooth, this August: read more.
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Royal Anthropological Institute Fellowship in Urgent Anthropology
The RAI invites applications for the next Fellowship in Urgent Anthropology. This is the first of 2 18-month Fellowships to be held at Goldsmiths (London), and is open to all without restriction of nationality or residence. The closing date for applications is 1 October 2010. For details see the RAI website
SIEF2011: People Make Places - ways of feeling the world - CFP
The call for papers for the 10th International SIEF Congress, to be held in Lisbon 17-21 April 2011, organized by CRIA (Centre for Research in Anthropology), is now open, and will close on 15 October 2010.
SIEF is an international organization that facilitates and stimulates cooperation among scholars working within European Ethnology, Folklore Studies, Cultural Anthropology and adjoining fields. CRIA is a research Centre in Anthropology that congregates over 200 researchers, including both Portuguese and international scholars.
For more information and to propose a paper, visit the conference website.
Non-WCAA publication: Popular Anthropology
Popular Anthropology is a free online magazine dedicated to fostering a much-needed dialogue between anthropologists and the general public. Anthropologists spend years conducting research and writing important articles that rarely reach the public. The magazines objective is to construct a bridge between scientists and the public to inform, educate, and ultimately share that vast amount of knowledge in a manner that is both considerate and informative. In addition, our publication is graduate-student friendly, and also encourages submissions from graduate students and professionals in other countries.
The magazines editorial board and staff are all unpaid volunteers, and include working professionals with PhDs, graduate students, and undergraduates from not only the field of anthropology, but also from other social science and interdisciplinary fields.
Each issue contains features submitted by social scientists working in the subfields of Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, and Linguistic Anthropology. In addition, columnists from around the world will be regularly submitting manuscripts. Each issue features several Depart-ments written by social scientists, including Social Science across the Globe, where columnists discuss work being conducted by social scientists in their region, the societies in their area, and pertinent issues in the region; Primate News, which discusses current discoveries, publications, and events occurring in the field of primate studies; and Global Education, which focuses on educational opportunities that are available throughout the world.
The first issue is scheduled to be published in March 2010. Published quarterly, the magazine will be published in PDF which will then be converted to an interactive Flash flip book; PDF and especially Flash will allow us to incorporate both sound and movies. Although past issues will be available on the website, our subscription service will be available shortly, allowing subscribers to receive each issue automatically via email after publication. Unlike academic journals, Popular Anthropology will actually be formatted to look like a magazine. However, despite the magazines mass market visual appeal, all manuscripts are scholarly; the AAA Style Guide is the editorial boards chosen citation style.
Providing this magazine to people throughout the world free of charge is only one of our several goals. We also plan to provide this publication in different languages. Currently, Popular Anthropology is available in English. However, dedicated members of our Editorial Board & Staff are in the process of assembling a team of volunteer translators led by Nuno Miguel Neves at the Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal who will be able to provide subscribers with a Portuguese language edition of the magazine. We hope to publish the Portuguese edition concurrently, or shortly after, the publication of our English edition. The Portuguese language edition will enable approximately 220 million people throughout the world (including, but not limited to, citizens of Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, Angola, East Timor, and Cape Verde) to access articles written by anthropologists and other social scientists.
If you would like more information about this publication or would like to submit a manuscript, you can log onto http://www.popanthro.com. Or if you would like to watch our progress, join us on our Facebook group at or on Twitter.
Dawn C. Stricklin, MA
Publisher/Editor
