Newsletter - Fall 2001

Economic Anthropology at the 2001 AAA Annual Meeting

The 2001 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association will take place in Washington, D.C. from November 28 to December 2. There are a number of events of interest to members of the SEA.

Board of Directors meeting - Thursday, November 29, 8:30-10:00 p.m

Business Meeting - Friday, November 30, 6:15-7:30 p.m.

SEA Sponsored Sessions

Poster Session - Thursday, November 29, 9:30-11:00

AAA Presidential Session, Society for Economic Anthropology: (1) Labor, (2) Gender, Thursday, November 29. 1:45-5:30

Other Sessions

The following sessions have titles that seem directly related to the interests of SEA members. There are many other sessions that include some economic anthropology papers.

Wednesday, November 28

Culture and Economic Diversity in the US Small Farm Sector, 12:00-1:45

Speechless Economics: The State of Value, 6:00-9:45

Capitalist Myths, Ethnic Memories: Making States, Nations, and Money in the New Europe, 8:00- 9:45 (p.m.)

Economy and Environment in Agriculture, 8:00-9:45 (p.m.)

Thursday, November 29

Work is the Spine of History: Papers in Remembrance of Herbert Applebaum, 8:00-11:45

Culture, Agency, Economy: Globalization and Agricultural Production in Mexico and Central America, 10:15-12:00

Marxism and Archaeology: The Last Twenty Years, 1:45-3:30

Outside the Academy Walls: Placing Anthropology in the World of Business, 4:00-5:45

Friday, November 30

Cooperation, Reciprocity, and Punishment: Experimental Results from 17 Societies, 8:00-11:45

Anthropological Dimensions of Commodity Chains in the World Economy, 1:45-3:30

Does Mauss Travel? Gift Exchange Outside the Pacific. 1:45-3:30

Farmers' Resistance to Industrial Agriculture: Alternative Marketing Strategies for Small Farmers, 4:00-5:45

Saturday, December 1

The Transnational Reach of the Gift: Asian Networks of Exchange, 8:00-9:45

Marketing Heritage: Global Goods and the Endangered Past, 8:00-11:45

Communities of Gendered Consumption, 1:45-3:30

Money, Culture, and Exchange: Perspectives on Social Relations in the Market Economy, 1:45-3:30

Money and Border-Building: Monetary Union, Foreign Aid, and Currency Practices, 4:00-5:45

Sunday, December 2

Authenticity, Expressive Culture, and the Global Market, 8:00-9:45

Shifting Values, Money, and Markets: Cultural Responses to Economic Change, 8:00-9:45

Local Resources, Transnational Capital, and the State, 8:00-11:45