sions at the li 989 AAA ~~~~~~~ in Wash- ington were all extremely successfal. Now is the time to ensure that the 1990

rleans will be equally exciting. The fdlowipmg ideas have been proposed for SAE sessions at the 1990 meeting (tentative titles):

sessions in New

and the EEC in 1992.” Organizer: John Eidsom, Dept of Anth, U Maapr%and, Coil- lege Park, MD 20742; 381/454-4154,

Anth, U Nevada, Reno, ”V 89557-

Ideology: Locali- ties, Politics and National Symbols in Europe.” Organizers: Uli Linke, Dept of Anth, Rutgers W , Douglass Campus, New Brunswick, NJ 08903; 2011932- 9483; and James R A4 Anth, Ohio State, 245 17th AVe, CQllnmbUS, 6 14292-4 149.

egs When The

ties. ” Organizer: Caroline Brettell, Dept

of An&, Southern Methodist U , Dallas, 75245; 2141692-2926.

oms in Contempo- uropean Culture. ’ ’

Organizer: Lawrence J Taylor, Dept of Anth and Soa;, Lafayette C, Eastorn, PA 18042; 21 51250-5 184.

zuela.

you would like to contribute a p any s f these sessions. If you wp to props session, please con- tact Ellen SAE Program Chair,

Please contact the organizer directly if

ept of Religious Studies, Mc tario L8S 4KB

Individual volunteered papers are also welcome. The deadline for receipt of ab- stracts and pre-registration materials by the AAA is April 1. ,Session organizers are responsible for submitting the origi- nal plus three copies of all abstracts for their proposed session directly to the AAA, and for ensuring that preregistra- tion forms and checks for ail participants are included with the session abstracts. Identify SAE as the appropriate unit for

our session or paper on the . Session organizers who

wish to have their session sponsored by

to the AAA.

June Nash

The major event in the 1988-89 year was the decision on the part of our mem- I

bers to becmne a constituent unit of the American Anthrbpological Association. We now have a membership of 266, ten more than our previous total.

The greatest change has occurred in the Review ofthe Socievfsr the Antho- pology of Work. The Review now in- cludes theme articles in addition to the book reviews and announcements. In view of its increasing responsibilities and opportunities for publishing articles of interest to the membership, the assem- bled members-at the 1989 annual meet- ing in ~ a s h i n S t o n decided to adopt a re- view process for articles submitted t~ the newsletter. This would allow the present editor, Patricia Sachs, to take advantage of the editorial opinion of panel in the case of those submissions requiring con- sideration:

A nominations panei, ionsisting of the outgoing president, June Nash, and volunteers James Weil and Donna Keren, will be charged with nominating a member-at-large and the officers for the succeeding yiar- These will be pub- fished in the Review.

mit suggestion in the following months.

Because of ow statzl s a constituent

unit of the American Anthrapological Association, we will be changing our op- erating bylaws to those that conform to the charter of the Association. One of the principal changes is that in the tern of office of the President, which will be re- duced from three to two years. Follow- ing a three-year interim in which the President of the Association will attend board meetings of the American Anthro- pological Association as an auditor, the incoming president will be aIIowed a vote on the board. This will further in- tegrate OUT activities with those of the Association.

Our 1989 sessions at the national meetings were exceptioglally well devel- oped, with the co-organized session by

have agreed to receive items for the

Newsletter of the ~~~~~~~ - ~ ~ ~ h ~ ~ ~ o - Bogiicd A~~~~iatiior;ll. We urge all mem- bers to submit notices of their activities related to the. Society for the Anthropol- ogy of Work.

Because of her selection as President- Elect of the American A AssociaticPn, Annette

down as presiden ural Anthr~lpol~

sor is James Peacock, who will serve a two-year tern. An election will b early in the year PO choose a new ember to fill the vacancy created on the a d by these deveIopments. At the November business meeting,

members unanimoudy approved the fol- lowing resolution thanking weimer for her inspiratiorial leadership of the SCA: Whereas Annette Weiner has seivcd inimit- ably as president of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, uniting effervescence and flair with vision and hard work, compassion and verve with a sense o f the discipline, thereby leading the Society from exciting be- ginnings to viable (but still exciting) opera- tion; Therefore be it resolved that the Society af- firm its profound gratitude to Annette, its pride in her new presidency, and its warmest good wishes and strong support as she meets her new challenge.

A founding member of the Society,

In a mail ballot t membership voted overwhelmingly in favor of a recommendation to add a treasurer to the Executive B Q U ~ of the Society. The treasurer will be responsi- ble for the budget and for membership development. Susan Narding (U Califor- nia-Santa Cruz) has agreed to serve as treasurer for a three-yea tern, subject to a two-year renewal.

Plans are well underway for the; third annual SCA Meeting, entitled “The

ng of Popular Culture,” to be held

eosis”), and Katie Stewart (“Popular ,Culture Polemics”). Th featuring talks by Fred

ia), Sandria Freitag (South Asia), and rilyn Ivy (Japan), will be interna-

tional in scope and comparative in ap- oack The conference organizers, Don enneis and Robert Fernea, are fine-

tuning the SCA meeting formula by shortening the keynote talks and refining the structure of workshops t~ ensure the involvement of all participants in am ex- ploration of the conference theme. Qp- portunities to sample American popular cu~ture, Southern California-style, will be part of the “experience.” For local arrangements, contact Lucille the American Anthropological tion.

of nominees t~ a handful of highly qraaf-

3 1 1.5) immediately.

Maorni Quinn is organizing the inwited and sponsored SCA panels for the 1990 A M Meeting in New Orleans. Please contact her (Dept of Anth, Duke U, Dur- ham, NC 27710) if you wish to propose a panel for SCA consideratioxi.

Paul Stoller, Contributing Editor

ers a We walked stiffly to the podium 0x1 the

stage of the hotell ballroom and scanned gatricia Sachs and David Haklken bring- ing together a four-field interdisciplinary panel considering technological ”chang in relation to physical evolution of the human species, archeological evidence of processes in technological chang and semiotic parallels PO the cogaaiti and cultural transformations related technological progress. In a sessi sponsored by Jo Ann Schneider, the is- sue o f ethnicity was

theaudieHlce-standin~ room only. “Hi, my naqe is Rellots and I’m a

ce basher. Science bashing . . . 7 7

your help. I admit today ence basher. I will be

. “BBNQ, it takes ou’re a science

Relhs nodded timidly. ‘‘1 am here to- day to tell you my story. 1 am here to tell you how 1 became a science basher.”

“Wow did it start?” mother person in the audience asked.

“It all started in graduate school when I discovqred the distinction between ide-

reality, Ybu see ology i3DdiprilCtk‘ tween illusion and

nds, my men a social scientist. We st philosophers, mostly epis- s weil as the pion

thropoiogists. We read convincing ma- ’

tises about the tiearch for universals, first principles, really, that could explai