The Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS) was organised to promote empirical research and social science in anthropology. The members of SAS want to further the development of anthropological science as empirical knowledge based on testable theory, sound research design and systematic methods for the collection and analysis of data. We seek to fulfill the historic mission of anthropology to describe and explain the range of variation in human biology, society, and culture across time and space.
The coming year's winter/spring SASci meetings will be in Las Vegas on February 22-25 at the Riviera Hotel in conjunction with SCCR. It is suggested that you book early for the very low rate of $69 per night. Call 1-800-634-6753 Riviera Hotel for room reservations and mention SCCR. Besides SCCR, the AAA Children & Childhood Interest Group will be attending.
Information relating to submitting abstracts, sessions and registering online for the meeting can be found at:
IMPORTANT: The due date for abstracts is Nov 30th. The deadline for student paper and poster awards will be December 31st. You can register on line and submit abstract on line too. It is Ok to submit abstracts earlier (early Nov) as many students and faculty need an early decision in order to obtain funding for their travel to the meeting. I hope to have a tentative program schedule ready before January 1.
You may know that SASci rented two rooms at the Marriott Springhill Suites, Thursday and Saturday 9-5, in order to allow people to develop workshops or symposia or discussion groups outside of the AAA meetings. So far we only have one event scheduled and two being planned.
Both of those are informal workshops on methods in which we would invite colleagues (especially students) to bring questions or problems concerning specific methods and work with them one-on-one or in small groups. If any of you would like to offer such a workshop, we have time and space for it.
If you have colleagues or students who might either do a workshop or whom you know need help in a particular method, you might contact them and see if they are interested in doing something and/or having us arrange someone to help them. We are running out of time, so if you have ideas or are willing to work on this, please let me know ASAP.
The 2011 meeting will be held jointly with SSCR in Charleston, SC, 16-19 February. The program chair can be contacted at bblount13239@sbcglobal.net.
Please give thought to attending and participating in the meetings. As was the case last year, SASci will be meeting jointly with the Society for Cross Cultural Research (SCCR) and the American Anthropological Association Child Interest Group (AAACIG). Relevant information about the meeting is:
Location/Hotel: Charleston, SC/Francis Marion Hotel, room rate of $139/night. Web address is www.francismarionhotel.com.
Dates: February 16-19, 2011
Fees: Registration: Members, $115; Non-members, $135; Retirees, $75; Students, $55; Students from SC not presenting papers, $40 Banquet: $50.
Registration and banquet fees can be paid through PayPal to SASci or by check to Seamus Decker, Treasurer, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA email contact: seamusdecker@earthlink.net. You can also register and pay online.
We look forward to a successful 7th Annual Meeting!
European Meeting of the Society for Anthropological Sciences University of West Bohemia, Pilen, Czech Republic The Society for Anthropological Sciences (SASci) held a 3 day workshop Sept. 22-24 2010 at the University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic. The workshop was co-organised by Dr Daniel Sosna (U. of W. Bohemia) and Dr Stephen Lyon (Durham U.). The workshop was been made possible by the generous support of the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Durham University and the University of West Bohemia.
The 2010 elections for SASci Officers and Board members have concluded. All are effective following the AAA meetings 2010 for a term of two years. The results are:
Carol R. Ember, HRAF. On May 18-20, 2009, a workshop was held in Arlington, Virginia to evaluate and potentially decide on the basics of a strategic integrated four-field plan for digitally preservation and access (DPA) to anthropological research materials
There were observers from NSF, NEH, and Wenner-Gren. Discussions included data preservation, data access, metadata, digitization, long-term preservations, depositors, privacy and ethics, copyright and intellectual property, and funding/support and field-wide coordination.
The workshop results will be disseminated online to the broader anthropological community reqesting commentary and suggestions for revision. Future steps are to seek funding to set up the computer infrastructure, organisation and identify processes and issues.
