SASci Meeting 2006: Call for Panel/Paper proposals Society for Anthropological Sciences (SASci) meeting jointly with the Society for Cross-Cultural Research (SCCR), February 22-26, 2006, Savannah, GA.

Theme: Doing Scientific Anthropology

We welcome sessions organized around the following topics:

• Evolutionary studies: since evolutionary arguments (that's how humans are, or that's how humans evolved) are kind of untestable, what are the accepted and developing standards for arguing from an evolutionary standpoint?
  
• Comparative studies and scale: We do a good job of operationalizing questions and variables, but the nesting of those variables in scales is haphazard and does not conform to any tradition. Could it conform? Should it conform? Would it allow us to make more generalizations or explain more variation if we could compare separate studies to one another - apples to apples. Archeologists should have plenty to say about this.
  
• Cutting edge biocultural research: recent ways of examining changes in biology and culture, whether direct or occurring through indirect feedback loops
  
• Theory building: are there models out there that really are useful for ascertaining how well-developed your framework is? when to you ask which kinds of questions? When do you develop which components of the framework? When do you use which kinds of evidence?
  

In addition we invite organized sessions dealing with:

Hotel Information

Send proposals to: Doug Caulkins (caulkins@grinnell.edu), Victor De Munck (victor@bestweb.net), or Eric Jones (ecojones@uncg.edu)

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