Newsletter - Winter 2003

Notes from Editor Michael Chibnik

This is the final issue of the SEA Newsletter that I will edit. I would like to thank all the people who have helped me with this enjoyable task during the past several years, especially Judith Marti and Steve Tulley. The new editor of the Newsletter is Kathleen Pickering, Department of Anthropology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523.

The 2003 SEA meeting will take place on April 4-5 in Monterrey, Mexico. The theme of the meeting is “migration and economy.” The program organizer is Lillian Trager. The preliminary program and information about local arrangements can be found on pp. 3-9. The registration form is on p. 10. SEA 2003 Program

SEA Elections

SEA members will soon receive ballots for elections for President and Board members. The terms of President Richard Wilk and Board members Karen Tranberg Hansen and B. Lynne Milgram end in spring 2003. The candidates are:

President Michael Chibnik (University of Iowa)
Lillian Trager (University of Wisconsin – Parkside)

Board Members

Slate 1: Georgia Fox (California State University – Chico)
Cynthia Robin (Northwestern University)

Slate 2: Lisa Cliggett (University of Kentucky)
Christina Garsten (Stockholm University)

Prize-Winning Book

West African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War, a book co-authored by SEA member Mahir Saul (University of Illinos) and Patrick Royer, has won the Amaury Talbot Prize of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Great Britain). The book is an anthropological interpretation of a war against a French colonial government.

2002 SEA Harold K. Schneider Paper Prize Winners

John Tofik Karam was awarded the Graduate Prize for his paper "A Cultural Politics of Entrepreneurship in Nation-Making: Phoenicians, Turks, and the Arab Commercial Essence in Brazil" A PhD student at Syracuse University, John's faculty sponsor was John Burdick. The Undergraduate Prize was awarded to Tricia Olsen, last year a student at Carleton College, for a paper entitled "Women in an Age of Globalization: The Avon Case Study in São Paulo, Brazil." Tricia's faculty sponsor was Jerome Levi.

Description of Harold K. Schneider Paper Prize. The submission deadline for the 2003 competition is June 1, 2003.

Review of Radical Political Economies

SEA member Tamar Diana Wilson (University of Missouri, St. Louis) suggests that readers consider submitting manuscripts to the Review of Radical Political Economies. Articles in this journal, as the name suggests, often are critiques of neoliberal and structural adjustment policies and use Marxist or neoMarxist approaches.If you are interested in publishing in this journal, submit three copies of a manuscript to Helen Dayton Gunn, Managing Editor, Review of Radical Political Economies, Department of City and Regional Planning, 106 W. Sibley Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. Ms. Gunn can be reached by email at hg18@cornell.edu.

SEA Book Prize

The first SEA Book Prize for $500 will be awarded in 2003 to a book in economic anthropology (broadly defined) published in 1999-2002. Subsequent awards will be made every two years. A three-person committee (Michael Chibnik - University of Iowa, Gracia Clark - Indiana University, Alan Smart, -University of Calgary) has been formed to make the initial award. The committee has so far received about fifteen nominations for this award. Please send the names of any books you think worthy of consideration for the award by April 1 to Michael Chibnik, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 (michael-chibnik@uiowa.edu).

Connections with French Economic Anthropologists

The famous French anthropologist Maurice Godelier was the keynote speaker at the 2002 SEA meetings, which included a special session devoted to his ideas. Professor Godelier sent an email to the SEA Newsletter which included the following passage: “...I would like to develop links between your association and the French young anthropologists who have been dealing with economic anthropology. They are not many, but they are good. One of them, Francis Dupuy, has published in 2001 a book entitled “Anthropologie Economique,” Armand Colin Publishing House, Paris. He ...[would like]... to know to whom and where he should send a copy of the book to be reviewed.” Are there any readers of the SEA Newsletter who would like to review this book and/or who know suitable places for reviews? I am an Associate Editor for Book Reviews for the American Ethnologist and might be able to arrange a review there. Dupuy’s book [obviously] is in French.