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You can register and pay online. Register before Feb. 1 for pre-meeting rates.
[The call for sessions and papers is closed]
We hope that some of you will consider organizing or participating in panels. At present, we are looking for people to volunteer for one (or more) of the four, theme-related panels described below:
What does a solid four-field undergraduate program look like?
How are the four fields integrated with each other and what are the benefits of an integrated anthropology?
Papers on research conducted by a single researcher or an integrated team that combines two or more of the four fields.
What are the top 10 things (ideas/facts/methods/theories) from each of the subfields that every anthropologist should know something about? One way this session may be organized is to let experts hold forth, i.e., biological types to speak for biological anthro, linguist types for linguistic anthro, etc.
We are also seeking submissions from individuals who wish to present a paper or organize a panel on other themes as well.
The 2008 meetings will be held February 20-23 in New Orleans at the Le Pavillon Hotel. Hotel information can be found on the SCCR site. Registration forms will be the same as those used last year and can be found on the SASCI web site.
The Society for Anthropological Sciences (SASci) will be meeting jointly with the Society for Cross-Cultural Research (SCCR), February 21-24, 2007, San Antonio, Tx.
Methods in Cultural Anthropology panel Session Date & Time: Wed. 11/15/2006, 6:00 PM - 7:45PM Room: Ballroom A5-Concourse-San Jose McEnery Convention Center
Business Meeting for the Society for Anthropological Sciences Interest Group DATE SCHEDULED: 11/17/2006 TIME: 06:15:00PM - 07:30:00PM ROOM: Meeting Room B4-Concourse-San Jose McEnery Convention Center
Society for Scientific Anthropology Executive Board Meeting DATE SCHEDULED: 11/16/2006 TIME: 12:15:00PM - 01:30:00PM ROOM: Pacific-2nd Flr-Hilton San Jose & Towers
Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory (MACT): The Journal for the Scientific Study of Culture
MACT prize awards for papers presented at the February, 2005 meetings of SAScI, at Santa Fe.
[descrption] The on-line journal Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory (MACT) has awarded three prizes for papers on "cultural theory" presented at the SASci meetings in Santa Fe, Feb. 2005. These papers will appear in a special issue of MACT in the Autumn, 2005 at http://www.mathematicalanthropology.org/
Best contribution to the development of formal/mathematical theory on anthropology: Lawrence A. Kuznar of Purdue University, and his co-authors, for their paper entitled "Nomad: Simulating Cooperation and Conflict Between Nomads and Sedentaries: ($200.00)
Best Application of formal analysis to a ethnographic domain: Douglas D. Caulkins, of Grinnell College and his co-authors, for the paper entitled "Perceiving Ethnic Differences: Consensus Analysis and Personhood in Welsh-American Populations" ($200.00)
Best Student Paper: to Sean Downey, of the University of Arizona, for his paper entitled "Experimenting with 'LAD Culture': A Simulation Based on Willis' 'Learning to Labor' " ($100.00)
Follow the link to the MACT Contents page to download these papers.
Over the 24-26 of February 2005 we held 13 scholarly sessions and one business meeting; no executive committee meeting was held. Through much of the 3 day period we had two sessions running concurrently from ca. 8 am to ca. 7 pm. The 13 scholarly sessions included 6 organized SASci symposia, one joint SASci/SCCR organized symposium, 3 sessions of volunteered papers, 2 special sessions in which a presenter introduced a new topic or approach for general discussion, one general discussion session on a broad topic (cognitive anthropology). The Thursday evening business meeting was attended by ca. 35 members. Additionally, Professor Ralph Bolton and the Inn of the Turquoise Bear generously provided and hosted a Wine and Cheese Reception Thursday night after our business meeting-for which we are most grateful.
Structure and Dynamics eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences
Congratulations to the Group in Social Dynamics and Complexity at UC Irvine for successfully launching Structure and Dynamics, now in its second volume and inviting submissions. The eJournal emphasizes cross-disciplinary research and and is dedicated to reinvigorating the spirit and method of science in anthropology. Contributions from all sub-fields of anthropology are invited. The journal editors have won high marks from authors for high quality and rapid review, excellent editing and copy editing and a rich fare of substantive articles and commentary. Book reviews are invited as well as commentary and long or short article contributions.
The journal features easy electronic submission procedures, editor-moderated interaction between contributors and reviewers and active participation of readers in the debate and commentary on published issues. This new journal is made possible by the University of California eScholarship Repository Journals, with assistance from Berkeley Electronic Press and sponsorship of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at UC Irvine and its Anthropological Sciences-oriented focused research group in Social Dynamics and Complexity
New submissions are welcome. Essential contributor and contact information can be obtained at http://repositories.cdlib.org/imbs/socdyn/sdeas/styleguide.html. Contributors should understand that publication in Structure and Dynamics does not preclude subsequent publication in another journal. One advantage of an ejournal is that, once accepted, an article can be uploaded rather quickly into the current issue.
The Editors are Douglas R. White (Editor-in-Chief), Murray Leaf (Associated Editor-in-Chief), Robert Manlove, Duran Bell, B. N. Colby and Robert Garfias.
MACT: The Journal for the Scientific Study of Culture. Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory, or MACT, is a refereed technical journal for the cultural sciences. Our policy is described in our Policy and Style Manual.
We especially want to publish original research papers on mathematical anthropology, cultural theory, cognitive theory, the philosophy of science as applied to those topics, and related areas. Papers could be mathematical, formal models, or (sometimes) just good reasoning. We particularly want to publish new papers using algebras, logics, lattices, "finite methods", combinatorics or similar techniques. Innovative ideas will be favored. Likely to be rejected: papers which are simply statistical studies or applied text book methods, and papers using standard analysis and/or standard simulations. It may be good research but there are many other places for those papers.
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