WCAA News
The foundation of the WCAA
Jun, 20 2005Author: Published by Gustavo Lins Ribeiro
The presidents of the associations for Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Russia, South Africa, United Kingdom and the United States attended the meeting. The Japanese society sent its director of international relations. The presidents of the following international associations were also present: European Association of Social Anthropologists; International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences; Latin American Association of Anthropology; Pan African Anthropological Association.
After discussing several possible mechanisms and initiatives to increase international cooperation in anthropology, participants of the conference wholeheartedly decided to create the World Council of Anthropological Associations. This network is open to new members and has as its primary objectives to promote (a) the discipline of anthropology in an international context; (b) cooperation and the sharing of information among world anthropologists; (c) jointly organized events of scientific debate and cooperation in research activities and dissemination of anthropological knowledge.
Besides the fact that anthropologists are always prone to acknowledge the value of diversity, there are other reasons why WCAA is an idea that quickly became a reality. It is based on a democratic vision of how anthropologies should intercommunicate and cooperate in a global era. WCAA represents the recognition that now is the time to start new, more horizontal modes of exchange and dissemination of knowledge among world anthropologies. Hopefully, the 2004 Recife conference was just the first in several events designed to implement new institutional policies with a view to promoting greater visibility for diversity in anthropological production worldwide. It undoubtedly initiated a process bound to deepen international cooperation in anthropology in a more cosmopolitan vein. By bringing the leaders of anthropological associations together for a dialogue on the construction of democratic and heteroglossic communication across national boundaries, WCAA seeks to bring about the internationalization of the profession in such a way so as to deal with the challenges of a transnational world.
In April 2005, the Catalan association joined the WCAA. We are confident that the Council will keep growing over the next few years.
See some pictures of the Recife meeting below.
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Ajit Danda and Joćo de Pina Cabral (image/pjpeg)Danda, Bogopa, Vargas, Castro, Chistov, Brumfiel (image/pjpeg)
Malkin, Waldram, Pauw, Pina Cabral, Sapiezinskas, Fardon, Benveniste (image/pjpeg)
Pina Cabral, Fardon, Benveniste (image/pjpeg)
Richard Fardon, James B. Waldram (image/pjpeg)
Victoria Malkin, Annie Benveniste (image/pjpeg)
Chistov, Sapiezinskas, Little, Vargas, Fardon (image/pjpeg)
Ajit Danda, David Bogopa, Luis Vargas (image/pjpeg)
Elizabeth Brumfiel, Luis Vargas (image/pjpeg)
Overview (image/pjpeg)
Koizumi, Brumfield, Chistov, Castro, Vargas, Bogopa, Danda (image/pjpeg)
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