WELCOME TO THE WCAA WEBSITE The World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA) is a network of national and international associations that aims to promote worldwide communication and cooperation in anthropology. Its primary objectives are: to promote the discipline of anthropology in an international context; to promote cooperation and the sharing of information among world anthropologists; to promote jointly organized events of scientific debate and cooperation in research activities and dissemination of anthropological knowledge. More

Statement from the second meeting of Association Presidents and International Delegates
Jun 03, 2009Published by Junji Koizumi . WCAA

This second face-to-face meeting of Presidents and International Delegates of the member associations of the WCAA, which also benefited greatly from the participation of Leslie Aiello, President of the Wenner-Gren Foundation, provided us with an invaluable opportunity to:

• review the aims and objectives of the Council as defined by the founding document prepared at the first WCAA meeting in Recife, Brazil, in 2004;
• consider whether any further goals should be added to WCAA’s mission;
• reflect on the best way of achieving our aims and objectives in terms of procedures and organization.

Europe and the world.
Jul 13, 2006Published by Gustavo Lins Ribeiro . WCAA

EASA'S 9TH BI-ANNUAL CONFERENCE is going to be held in Bristol (U.K.), 18th-21st September 2006. The conference encourages us to consider the global dimensions of particular ethnographic encounters. The wider interconnections, the spread of ideas, the dynamic relationships and processes which shape the everyday activity of social life; these lie increasingly at the centre of our methodological and theoretical preoccupations as anthropologists. Mediated by individual, institutional, national developments of enormous complexity, this link between global interchange and local creativity deserves our systematic attention and analysis.

The black musicians´ band

A photographic essay by Fernando de Tacca.