VOL 13 NO 7 SEPTEMBER 1972

newsletterOF THE AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Association Affairs)GUIDE AVAILABLE THIS MONTH

Guide to Departments of Anthropology 1972-73 is nowavailable on prepaid order from the Association at $2.50 acopy for individual members, $4.00 for non-members andinstitutions. Many members have already pre-ordered thevolume when returning their bills for dues, these individualswill be automatically sent the Guide. Others may use thecoupon provided inside on page 7 or write to Publications,AAA, 1703 New Hampshire Av NW, Washington, DC 20009;payment should be enclosed with orders. The Guide is notdistributed free to any category of membership, but it isavailable at the discount price to all individual members.

With the 1972-73 volume the Guide enters its seconddecade. In the 11 years since the establishment of this specialpublication, listings have increased from 36 academic depart-ments offering the PhD and 8 the MA—coverage of "all thedepartments in the US granting doctoral degrees and some ofthe larger departments which give the MA only," to quotefrom the 1962-63 edition-to 258 university and collegedepartments, 84 offering the PhD, 64 the MA only and 108 anundergraduate major or concentration. In addition, since 1970the Guide has included museums: this year 48 institutions, ofwhich the national museums of Canada and the United Stateshave more than one anthropological division.

Comparison of entries in the current edition with those for1971-72 reveals continued growth in the number of academicdepartments as well as the number of anthropologists in them,even in this period of reduced academic expansion: 30additional departments are listed this year, 6 have withdrawnprimarily because of reduced or only marginal programs inanthropology, 6 museums have dropped their entries, but 5additional ones are included, and 3 of those formerly in theGuide as separate entities list their personnel with associated

1973 SAA MEETING PROGRAM DEADLINE

December 1, 1972, is the deadline for titles andabstracts of papers for the annual meeting of the Societyfor American Archaeology, May 3-5, 1973, San Francisco.Program chairman Ezra B W Zubrow, Dept of Anth,Stanford U, Stanford, CA 94305. See details in announce-ment on page 4,

SPECIAL SECTIONsee page 12

NEWS OF THE ANNUAL MEETING

academic departments as several others regularly have, 3430anthropologists appear in the Guide this year 355 more thanin 1971-72.

The Guide is not an inclusive directory of practicinganthropologists by any means, although it now lists approxi-mately three-fifths of the Association's Fellows and VotingMembers, however, it is used as a directory of the profession inthis country and Canada, as well as a handbook of depart-ments. New positions in anthropology in the current decadeare likely to be far fewer in the type of institutions which theGuide now covers. Small 4-year colleges wanting one or twoanthropologists on their faculties, 2-year colleges and evensecondary schools, together with federal, state and communityprograms and agencies, will become increasingly the areas inwhich anthropologists find positions. To continue to serve as asource of information on the profession and as a directory ofanthropologists, the editor hopes to develop a way to includethe growing number of people outside the Guide's presentareas. -NFSW

FIVE GROUPS AFFILIATE WITH AAAFive organizations have become affiliates of the American

Anthropological Association to date. Requests for affiliationwere accepted by the Executive Board last May for Council onAnthropology and Education, Latin American AnthropologyGroup, Linguistic Society of America, Program in Eth-nographic Film and Society for Medical Anthropology. Formalaffiliation with the Association, as distinct from sharedadministrative services now involving ten groups, was madeoperative again by the Board at its November 1971 meeting inresponse to requests and the constitutional mandate to act tocoordinate activities of members of the Association with thoseof other organizations concerned with anthropology. The actof affiliation in no way impinges on the independent status oforganizations nor does it necessarily involve using AAAadministrative and production facilities, although three of the

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