Society for Anthropological Sciences

2025 Society for Anthropological Sciences Carol R. Ember Book Prize - Manvir Singh In Shamanism: The Timeless Religion , Manvir Singh combines ethnography with cross-cultural analysis and insights from the cognitive ...

The Society for Anthropological Sciences Carol R. Ember Book Prize 2025 was awarded to Manvir Singh for Shamanism: The Timeless Religion. Join us in congratulating Dr. Singh for this outstanding work of anthropological science. www.societyforanthropologicalsciences.org/2025/11/2025...

AAA SAS Session - Early Birds Get the Work: Research as an Undergraduate Instructional Tool at a Florida Public Teaching Institution - 8:30-10 AM, Sunday, Nov 23, in Marriott Studio 2

Ethnographic Field and Data Analysis Methods: One-on-one Mentoring Event - 12:45-2:15 PM, Saturday, Nov 22, in Marriott Lafayette (41st Fl)

Society for Anthropological Sciences: Business Meeting - 7-8:30 PM, Thursday, Nov 20, in Marriott Balcony L

AAA SAS Session - Anthropology Beyond Academic Silos - 4:15-5:45 PM, Thursday, Nov 20, in Marriott Studio 8

Society for Anthropological Sciences Sessions at the 2025 AAA Meetings in New Orleans - www.societyforanthropologicalsciences.org/2025/11/soci...

Annual Meeting - Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)

Good news! You still have time to submit to the Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS), meeting with the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) in Albuquerque, NM, from March 17 to 21, 2026.

The deadline to submit is midnight on Monday, November 3.

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We have gathered some resources for creating and presenting posters at conferences. These resources include examples of past posters presented at AAA or SfAA, as well as websites with additional information on guidelines and advice.

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We are pleased to announce that the Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS) is sponsoring a Student Awards competition, offering a prize for the best student paper that meets rigorous scientific criteria in anthropology. In addition, two awards will be given for outstanding presentations.

Cognitive anthropology has long been conceptualized as one of the six disciplines of the 'hexagon' encompassing cognitive science, but this integration is hindered by a lack of dialogue by both cognitive scientists and anthropologists. This roundtable aims to take a step towards stronger linkages by having anthropologists discuss recent work from the cognitive sciences broadly (e.g., neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, AI, philosophy) that is relevant to their work, and that would be of interest to an audience of anthropologists. Each presenter will briefly introduce an article from the last 10 years, authored by a non-anthropologist, and explain how it informs, or could inform, your work or research in cognitively oriented anthropology. So, for instance, you might talk about an experimental psychology study, or an empirical paper from cognitive linguistics, or a conceptual advance from the philosophy of mind. We would then be able to have a lively discussion about these studies that can inform and advance anthropological science.

Anthro (or adjacent) friends: I'm developing a roundtable for the @anthrosciences.bsky.social annual meeting (at SfAA, Albuquerque, 03/17-03/21), "Unhexing the Hexagon: Cognitive Anthropologists in Dialogue" where each presenter talks about a new-ish #cogsci paper (not their own) of anthro interest.

Submissions are now open for the 2025 SAS Carol R. Ember Book Prize. This prize recognizes books whose significant theoretical, empirical, or methodological contributions to anthropology embody the mission of SAS to advance the scientific study of human societies.

We seek organized sessions, panels, and roundtables (in-person or online) as well as volunteered papers (in-person or online) and posters (in-person only).

SAS encourages active student participation and facilitates student incorporation into the professional research community.

Annual Meeting - Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)

The Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS) will be meeting with the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) in Albuquerque, NM, March 17-21, 2026.

The deadline for abstract submission is October 15, 2025.

appliedanthro.org/annual-meeti...

2026 Spring SAS Meeting with SfAA - Call for Papers The 2026 Spring Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS) meeting will be with the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) in Albuquerque, ...

The 2026 Spring Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS) meeting will be with the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from March 17-21, 2025!

For more information, please visit www.societyforanthropologicalsciences.org/2025/07/2026...

Call for Nominations — 2026 John J. Carty Award www.societyforanthropologicalsciences.org/2025/07/call...

The AAA has extended the deadline for submissions for the conference in New Orleans.

The portal will close at 11:59 p.m. EST on April 18 — this Friday.

About Welcome to the new web site of the Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS)!  The Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS) was organize...

SAS is committed to a broad, integrative, holistic vision of anthropological science. We are happy to host panels, posters or papers from any subfield or topic that fits within the mission of the Society (www.societyforanthropologicalsciences.org/p/about.html).

We encourage anyone (especially students) interested in creating or connecting with others for an oral session to reach out to the program committee via email.

SAS is happy to assist in connecting members to create sessions. You can reach out to SAS members through the listserv by sending an email to: society-for-anthropological-sciences@googlegroups.com.

Contributions from students, pre-tenure scholars, applied or practicing anthropologists, and individuals from groups underrepresented in the academy are particularly desirable.

The program committee (Max Stein, Werner B. Hertzog, Michael Thomas, Vera da Silva Sinha, and Toni Copeland) is excited to see a strong pool of SAS relevant posters and panels this year, and we’re happy to work with you to try and match people with overlapping interests.

Poster/Gallery Session Guidelines for Success & Accessibility - The American Anthropological Association Poster Creation & Travel To create your poster, you will need to use software such as PowerPoint or Photoshop, other professional software programs, or open source alternatives to these programs. […]

AAA has some helpful advice and guidelines americananthro.org/accessibilit... as well. In addition, SAS plans to host a virtual poster workshop this summer (details upcoming).

Poster/Gallery Session Guidelines for Success & Accessibility - The American Anthropological Association Poster Creation & Travel To create your poster, you will need to use software such as PowerPoint or Photoshop, other professional software programs, or open source alternatives to these programs. […]

AAA is not accepting individual volunteered papers this year, but they are accepting individual volunteered posters. Some people have expressed interest in assistance creating their posters. SAS plans to post information to help with this on our website.

As we are all completing submissions for AAA in November, SAS wanted to reach out to remind you that the General Call for Participation for AAA’s 2025 Annual Meeting in New Orleans from November 19-23 closes on Wed. April 16th at 11:59pm EDT.

Congratulations to our spring 2025 Travel Award winner Erik Fanin, Goethe-University Frankfurt, for "Not just walking to places: an excerpt from teenagers' lives in Baranzate, Italy"!

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Congratulations to our spring 2025 Travel Award winner Iris Pakulla, University of Cambridge, for "The Making of Existential Politics: Dealing with Infertility in a Gobi Desert Mine"!

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Congratulations to our spring 2025 H. Russell Bernard Student Paper Prize winner Thomas Long, University of Manchester, for "Divided We Stand, United Our Call: Conceptualising the Divisions in Baptist Religion as Fractures"!

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2025 Preliminary Program for the Society for Anthropological Sciences/Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meetings The full preliminary program for the meetings is hosted by the Society for Applied Anthropology . Below are the Society for Anthropological ...

SAS@SfAA Session "Advancing Cultural Model Theory and Folding Affordance Theory, Part II" is in Broadway III, 11:15 am-1:00 pm today! www.societyforanthropologicalsciences.org/2024/12/2025... #SfAA2025

2025 Preliminary Program for the Society for Anthropological Sciences/Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meetings The full preliminary program for the meetings is hosted by the Society for Applied Anthropology . Below are the Society for Anthropological ...

SAS@SfAA Session "Advancing Cultural Model Theory and Folding Affordance Theory, Part I" is in Broadway III, 9:00-10:45 am today! www.societyforanthropologicalsciences.org/2024/12/2025... #SfAA2025

2025 Preliminary Program for the Society for Anthropological Sciences/Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meetings The full preliminary program for the meetings is hosted by the Society for Applied Anthropology . Below are the Society for Anthropological ...

SAS Reception — all are welcome - is in Broadway III, 7:00-8:30 pm today! www.societyforanthropologicalsciences.org/2024/12/2025... #SfAA2025