4. Organisational Resources

Patron: HRH The Duke of Gloucester KG, GCVO

The RAI is the oldest anthropological organisation in the world, with a global membership. Since 1843, it has been at the forefront of new developments in anthropology and new means of communication. The Institute is a non-profit-making registered charity. It is entirely independent, with a Director and a small staff accountable to the Council who are elected annually from the Fellowship. Council and Committee members and the editorial team of the Institute's principal journal, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (incorporating 'MAN'), give their services without remuneration. The Institute is funded partly from the income on endowments, but mostly from subscriptions. The journals circulate all over the world, and about seventy per cent of subscriptions revenue comes from outside the UK.

The Institute's members are lineal successors to the founding members of the Ethnological Society of London, who in February 1843 formed a breakaway group of the Aborigines' Protection Society, which had been founded in 1837 in the aftermath of the early nineteenth century Quaker campaign against the African slave trade.

The new society was to be 'a centre and depository for the collection and systematisation of all observations made on human races'. Almost from the start, the membership found itself divided over racialist issues, and between 1863 and 1870 there were two organisations, the Ethnological Society and the Anthropology Society.

The Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1871) was the result of a merger between these two rival bodies. Permission to add the word 'Royal' was granted in 1907.

The component elements in the Institute's field of interests have established their own professional organisations, but the Institute provides a forum for 'anthropology as a whole'.

The RAI has a privileged link with the Museum of Mankind Library (see page 30). It awards medals for outstanding scholarship and manages a number of trust funds for research.

As one would expect from a long-established learned society, the RAI continues some of the rituals of scholarship. The Huxley Memorial Lecture and Presidential Address are delivered annually; the Henry Myers and Curl Lectures in alternate years.

It awards several international prizes, such as the Curl Essay Prize, the Wellcome Medal for Medical Anthropology, the Lucy Mair Medal for Applied Anthropology and the J.B. Donne Essay Prize in the Anthropology of Art.

The RAI is also trustee of several funds which award research grants, including the annual Leach/RAI Fellowship, and the annual RAI Fellowship in Urgent Anthropology.

As well as journals, the Institute publishes an Occasional Papers series.

The Institute has an active Film Committee, awarding biennial film prizes of international standing. Its festivals of ethnographic film are regular events. There is a Film Lending Library of some 200 carefully selected films and videos, which can be hired within the UK for educational purposes (see page 33). About fifty cassette titles are also available for international sale by mail order. Publishers and researchers can use the RAI's important photographic collection. The Photographic Committee organises exhibitions and publications of interest to visual anthropologists and historians of anthropology.

You do not need academic qualifications to join the Institute, as a Fellow or a Member. It welcomes anyone with a serious interest in the subject, whether working in an academic institution or not. Overseas residents are warmly welcomed.

Subscription rates: (1998): Members £16 or US$25, UK Fellows £60, Overseas Fellows £52 or US$83, Junior Fellows £30 or US$48.  Subscription rates for institutions on application.

Members receive Anthropology Today and may attend all RAI functions. Fellows also receive free mailing of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (incorporating 'MAN'), and if resident in the UK they have both borrowing and access rights in the Museum of Mankind Library. There are reduced subscriptions for Fellows resident overseas, and a reduced Junior Fellowship rate for those under thirty.

The Institute's core activity is publishing international journals:

The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute - quarterly, with articles on all aspects of anthropology, as well as correspondence and a section of book reviews.

Anthropology Today - a lively magazine aimed at a wider readership. Every two months, with a special emphasis on topical issues, films, applied anthropology, controversy, etc.

Anthropology Today also maintains an electronic calendar of events (AnthCal) at website: http://therai.org.uk/anthcal/calendar.html

Anthropological Index Online - a free service which makes available information about articles from hundreds of journals received by the Museum of Mankind Library. Search on website: http://aio.anthropology.org.uk/aio/AIO.html

For further information: membership application forms, free sample copies of journals, film catalogue (£9): Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT. Tel: 0171 3870455,
Fax: 0171 3834235.
Website: http://therai.org.uk

The Association of Social Anthropologists was founded in 1946 as the professional association of social anthropologists in Britain; membership is also open to social anthropologists in the Commonwealth. Its objectives are to promote the study and teaching of social anthropology, to represent the interests of social anthropology and to maintain its professional status. Membership is open to those who have a postgraduate research degree or have published significant work in social anthropology and hold (or have held) a teaching or research appointment in anthropology, or who hold (or have held) employment using anthropological training.

In 1996, the ASA also set up a Graduate Student associate membership and a Postgraduate Network which is currently based at the Department of Anthropology, University of Edinburgh.

Both full and associate members of the Association appear in the Annals of the ASA, published each year and free to members; this volume also contains information about all departments of social anthropology in Great Britain, and many Commonwealth departments.

The ASA holds an annual conference, usually around Easter each year, at a different university venue. In 1996, the annual conference was held in Harare, Zimbabwe, and it is planned to hold one conference at least every five years in a non-British Commonwealth country. Selected papers from the conferences are published in the ASA Monographs series, published by Routledge.

The royalties of the ASA publications support the Radcliffe-Brown Memorial Fund, which assists young postgraduates in the final stages of writing up. Application forms are available from the Office Co-ordinator, Royal Anthropological Institute, 50, Fitzroy St, London W1T 5BT.

The ASA website is:  http:/www.lucy.ukc.ac.uk/ASA/

The ASA also carries a regular news column in Anthropology Today.

The ASA's Chair (1997-2001) is Professor Pat Caplan, Institute of Commonwealth Studies,
28 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DS.
Email: pcaplan@sas.ac.uk.
The Hon Secretary is Dr John Eade, Roehampton Institute, Downshire House,
London SW15 4HT.
Email: j.eade@roehampton.ac.uk.

Anthropology in Action brings together anthropologists concerned with health, social and community work, education, organisational change, development and other fields of policy and practice.

The aims are to:

.  create networks of anthropologists working and researching in these fields

.  explore anthropological approaches to current issues of policy and practice

.  give students the opportunity to make contact with anthropologists working in these fields, and provide postgraduate training courses in the additional skills needed for such employment

.  identify theoretical and educational issues arising from the above and disseminate these approaches into anthropology departments.

Anthropology in Action was previously know as BASAPP (British Association for Social Anthropology in Policy and Practice). The change of name in 1993 signified that there was no longer an exclusively British focus. Rather, Anthropology in Action has an increasing European membership and is involved in international applied anthropology organisations.

Anyone who is interested in anthropological approaches to current issues of policy or practice in any field is eligible for membership. Members may have any degree of anthropological training and experience from undergraduates to professors - or may be practitioners interested in bringing anthropological insights into their work.

Anthropology in Action publishes a lively and well-regarded journal, also called Anthropology in Action (ISSN 0967-201X), which is free to members. Anthropology in Action contains key articles, reports of conferences and events, research reports and book reviews.

Anthropology in Action holds an annual meeting in December. Students, practitioners, researchers and lecturers participate in a programme of workshops on a current issue, for example 'Images of Youth', and 'Poverty'. Two major conferences on 'Anthropology of Organisations' and 'Power and Participatory Development' have been published as edited volumes. In 1994 a workshop on 'Making the most of the Media' prompted increasing interest in bringing anthropological work into the public domain. Regular 'Anthropology in Action Talks' on current issues are held in London but conferences and meetings are held all round the country. A Northern network of Anthropology in Action has a packed calendar of events, which has included a conference in February 1997 entitled 'Public Image and Personal Experience'.

Within Anthropology in Action, members are encouraged to form special interest groups with their own interests. Specialist sub-groups include:

.  GAPP Training: A week-long residential course for postgraduates, postdoctorals and other professionals has been held annually to train anthropologists in the additional knowledge skills and understanding needed for work in policy and development in Britain and overseas. Sessions are based on real case studies to give students an understanding of the issues that anthropologists frequently face. These courses are funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. A 247-page curriculum resource manual based on the course was published in 1997. For information contact Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes, 10 Halliwick Road, London N10 1AB.
Tel: 0181 4446757.

.  Group for Anthropology and Health: This group welcomes members who are interested in any area of health. Conferences have included 'Anthropology, Health and Suffering', 'Anthropological Understanding of Drug Use' and 'Anthropology, Health and Sexuality', 'Anthropology and Nursing' and 'Cultural Constructions of Pregnancy'. For information contact Maxine Latimer, c/o Anthropology in Action Administrator (see below).

.  Overseas Development Group: This group considers the uses (and misuses) of anthropology in the development 'industry'. Practical techniques and professional skills as well as theoretical issues are addressed by this group and regular meetings are held. Discussions involve development academics and practitioners as well as students and those on the 'fringes' of development. For information contact Nici Nelson, Dept of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, London. Tel: 0181 6730561. Information about current interest groups is listed in the journal.

The Committee consists of nine people elected from the membership, plus people co-opted as necessary. Meetings are held three times a year and any member of Anthropology in Action is welcome to attend. (Meetings are notified in the journal.)

Convenor: Allison James, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Hull University HU6 7RX. Tel: 01482 465713, Email: a.james@socanth.hull.ac.uk

Secretary: Simone Abram, CPLAN, UWC, PO Box 906, Cardiff CF1 3YN. Tel: 01222 874000 ext. 6087, Email: abram@cardiff.ac.uk

Anthropology in Action employs a part-time administrator to process membership applications and maintain a database of members' qualifications, experience and interests that is used, with permission, to respond to enquiries from prospective employers.

Anthropology in Action is financed from membership fees and occasional incomes, such as income from conferences. Membership fees are kept to a minimum to encourage all interested people to join.

Correspondence should be sent to:
Pam Groocock, 17 Marlborough Mansions,
Cannon Hill, London NW6 1JR.
Email: 106347.167@compuserve.com

Journal items should be sent to:
Delphine Houlton, 109 Forest Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN2 5BG

Website: http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Anthaction. A calendar of Anthropology in Action events can found at:

http://www.cf.ac.uk/uwcc/cplan/abram/calendar.html

The National Network for Teaching and Learning Anthropology provides a forum for discussing anthropological, educational and policy issues related to teaching and learning anthropology. The National Network involves anthropology lecturers, researchers, students and alumni and provides a resource to the profession so that the same scholarship, reflexivity and rigour evident in research is also applied to the teaching and learning of anthropology. The National Network's Report on Teaching and Learning Social Anthropology in the UK has run into two editions.

The National Network was established in 1995 with two years funding from the Department for Education and Employment. A further three years' funding has come from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (1996-9) for a 'discipline-specific educational development programme'. This programme involves funding ten development projects in departments, supported by an educational development consultant, with results disseminated through termly national workshops.

The workshops also address a broad range of issues relating to various aspects of teaching and learning anthropology within the changing context of higher education policy and practice. Reports on each workshop are available for sale.

Chair: Dr Sue Wright, Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT.
Tel: 0121 4146063
Email: S.A.Wright@bham.ac.uk

Programme Administrator: Ms Julie Dudley,  Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology, University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT.
Tel 0121 414 6063
Email: Dudleyj@css.bham.ac.uk

Educational Development Consultant:
Dr Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes,
10 Halliwick Road, London N10 1AB.
Tel. 0181 4446757
Email: mssmpsp@ioe.ac.uk

Administrative Assistant: Ms Caroline White,
27 Gladwell Road, London N8 9AA.
Tel. 0181 348 6169
Email: CWhiteN8@AOL.com

The National Network for Teaching and Learning Anthropology has a website at: http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/resources.html

There is also a mailbase discussion list. Anthro-teach-learn is free and open to all staff, students and alumni. To join send an email message to: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk, with the following text: Join anthro-teach-learn 'firstname(s)' 'lastname'.

The European Association of Social Anthropologists was established in 1988. It was founded to improve links between scholars throughout the continent, and total membership by 1997 had reached 1305. Membership is open to anthropologists educated and/or based at a European University; associate membership is available to those who demonstrate a substantial involvement in the pursuit of social anthropology in a European country.

The Association publishes a register of members, including details on research interests and institutional affiliations. The register also has details of departments of social anthropology based in Europe.

A newsletter is published two or three times a year and is available on subscription to non-members. It provides news and short articles on current issues of interest. The Association's journal, Social Anthropology, is published three times a year.

Every year, the Association organises a conference in a European city, at which research papers are given. In addition, its members co-ordinate workshops on teaching anthropology. Networks on ethics and visual anthropology have also been started.

EASA's website is: http://www.ub.es/easa/menu.htm

The EASA Chair (1997/8) is Professor Marilyn Strathern, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge, CB2 3RF. The secretary (1997/8) is Professor Joan Bestard Camps, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Barcelona, Baldiri Reixac s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.

The Anthropological Association of Ireland (AAI) is composed of anthropologists either working in Ireland (north and south) or living outside the country but with an interest in the anthropology of Ireland. The Association meets twice a year (usually early May and early December) with conferences which are well attended and lively. Students are encouraged to join the Association and participate in its conferences. The running of the Association is overseen by a committee with ten or so members and students are represented.

Membership enquiries may be made to
Dr A.D. Buckley, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Cultra, Holywood, Co Down BT18 0EU, Northern Ireland (no email address yet).

The Association also produces annually The Irish Journal of Anthropology the current editor of which is Dr Jamie Saris, St Patrick's College, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
Email: ajsaris@may.ie

Websites of interest include:

The Anthropological Association of Ireland:
http://www.iol.ie/~huma/aai/aai.html

The Department of Social Anthropology at The Queen's University of Belfast:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/pas/sa

The Department of Anthropology at Maynooth:
http://www.iol.ie/anthropo.anthropo1.htm

The Irish Journal of Anthropology:
http://www.iol.ie/~huma/aai/home.html

Anthropology Wales/Anthropoleg Cymru is a new organisation open to all those in Wales with an interest in anthropology and related subjects. It also welcomes members from outside Wales who are interested in anthropological research in Wales. The organisation aims to promote the study of anthropology in Wales and to facilitate the development of research on Wales. Student members and individuals from outside the academic community are welcome. For more information contact Dr C.A. Davies, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP.
Email: C.A.Davies@swansea.ac.uk

The American Anthropological Association was founded in 1902, and is the world's largest organisation of people interested in the discipline (with a membership of over 10,000). The purpose of the Association is, in broad terms, to promote the study of humankind in all its aspects, including archaeological, biological, socio-cultural and linguistic research. Membership is open to anybody interested.

The AAA is made up of over fifty sections and interest-groups, representing different sub-divisions of the discipline. These range from the Anthropology of Religion Section to the Council for Museum Anthropology or the Society for the Anthropology of Europe. A number of Committees discuss issues such as ethics or the position of women in the discipline.

Annual, five-day meetings bring together over 5,000 anthropologists from all over the world in an American city.

The journals American Anthropologist and American Ethnologist are published quarterly.

The AAA publishes a regular newsletter which includes news, articles, job adverts and details of conferences. Brochures deal with a series of subjects, including careers in anthropology and a survey of departments in the USA.

The membership manager of the AAA is Donna McHugh, 4350 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 640, Arlington VA 22204, USA.

The AAA's website is: http://www.ameranthassn.org

Anthropology and Nursing Association (ANA)

Jenny Littlewood, Research and Development, Room 211, Diary House, South Bank University, London SE1 0AA
Tel: 0171 8158010/7995, Fax: 0171 8158099

Association of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences (ALSISS)

Hon. Secretary: Sally Hardy, c/o Regional Studies Association, Wharfdale Projects,
15 Micawber Street, London N1 7TB
Tel: 0171 4901128, Fax: 0171 2530095

British Medical Anthropology Society (BMAS)

For information on membership and current activities, write to BMAS, c/o Dr Cecil Helman, 38 Lynmouth Road, London N2 9LS.

British Society for Population Studies (BSPS)

c/o Centre for Population Studies,
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
99 Gower Street, London WClE 6AZ

East Europe Anthropology Group 

Editors: Sam Beck, Field and International Study Program, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853, USA, and David A. Kideckel, Department of Anthropology, Contral Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT 06050, USA. Membership and subscription enquiries: Joel Marrant, Department of Sociology-Anthropology, Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon 97128

Forum Against Ethnic Violence

Joint Chairs: Professor Mike Rowlands, Department of Anthropology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT (ucsamir@ucl.ac.uk) and Dr Stefan Feuchtwang, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE.

Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory 

Chairperson: Dr Peter Wade, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL.
Tel: 0161 2754000, Fax: 0161 2754023.

IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology

Executive Secretary: Dr P.J.M. Nas, Institute of Cultural and Social Studies, Wassenaarsweg 52, Postbus 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands. Tel: 0171 (27)3471/3992

Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS)

Secretary: Dr Joy Hendry, School of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX3 0BP. Treasurer: Dr Lola Martinez, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London WClE 7HP.

Japanese Society of Ethnology

Higashicho 3-1-17, Hoya, Tokyo.
Editor of Japanese Journal of Ethnology (Minzokugaku-kenkyu): Professor Shinji Yamashita, Cultural Anthropology, University of Tokyo, Komaba 3-8-1, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153.

Museum Ethnographers Group

Secretary: Anita Herle, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Downing Street,
Cambridge CB2 3D2
Tel: 01223 333514, Fax: 01223 333503.

Nigerian Association of Anthropologists

Current President: Dr Ayodele Ogundipe, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Benin, PMB 1154,
Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.

Pan African Association of Anthropologists

BP 1862, Yaounde, Cameroon
Fax: (237) 221873, Telex: 1141 KN
President: Paul Nchoji Nkwi
Secretary General: Azuka Dike

Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)

Business office: PO Box 24083, Oklahoma City, OK 73124-0083, USA.

As with any active, engaged and relevant discipline, anthropology generates a large amount of empirical research findings as well as new and critical theoretical perspectives and debates. Such material appears in books but, prior to this stage, the preliminary writings of anthropologists usually get their first airing in journals. Many of the organisations mentioned above publish their own journals, as listed. These are highly specialist publications that generally appear three to four times per year and consist of collections of articles which are reviewed by an editorial board made up of senior people from the discipline. Journals are the place where you will find up-to-the-minute data, ideas and book reviews. Although someone new to the discipline is likely to find the contents of journals rather too specialist, they are very useful for getting a sense of what the key debates and concerns of anthropology currently are. It is also important to note that because many journals have been in existence for a long time, they constitute an important historical record. Delving into earlier volumes of the more established journals can give a marvellous insight into the growth and development of contemporary anthropology.

For example, you might wish to consult the following:

.  American Anthropologist

.  American Ethnologist

.  Anthropology in Action

.  Anthropology Today

.  Critique of Anthropology

.  Current Anthropology

.  Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute (incorporating 'Man')

.  Social Anthropology.

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