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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

WCAA OSAKA 2008
Jun 30, 2008Published by Junji Koizumi . WCAA

.The Second Meeting of World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA OSAKA 2008) will be held in Osaka, Japan from 11th to 13th July 2008. The meeting aims to contribute to mutual understanding and cooperation among anthropologies studied and practiced in different parts of the world. It will be attended by either the President, former President or International Delegate of each member association of the WCAA, and will address issues concerning the construction of collaborative relations among anthropologies of the world and envisions their roles in the contemporary world.

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.


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The black musicians´ band

A photographic essay by Fernando de Tacca.

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