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ner-Gren grant (1984); various SUNY research grants; Vstg Lect, Cambridge (1965-66); Fellow, Australian Natl U (1956-65); Lect, U Wisconsin (1955- 56); Res Assoc, Inst of Industrial Rela- tions, UCLA (1951-55); Asst Lect, Uni- versity College, London (1950-5 1, 1948-49); Fulbright Scholar, London (1949-50). Major interests: changing politics and law; collective bargaining, arbitration, mediation; social-economy and ecology. Fieldwork/projects: Chimbu, Papua New Guinea (1958-87); urban ethnicity, Vila, Vanuatu (1964- 65); collective bargaining, New York (1979-83); scientists and engineers, Cal- ifornia (1951-55); West African author- ity systems (1946-51); changes in Ojibwa social control, Minnesota (1947). Significant publications: “New Men and Big Men,” Ethnology (1987); editor and author, “Introduction” and “Simbu Aggression and the Drive to Win,” special issue: Aggression and Culture, Anthropological Quarterly (1986); Highland Peoples of New Guinea (1978).

Statement: My goals for APLA are for growth, development, recognition and influence. The APLA and its journal de- serve increased recognition as a major segment of anthropology, publishing pa- pers of interest within and beyond its specialty, and as a venue for symposia, the exchange of ideas, and the discussion of political and legal concerns. I would like to see symposia and journal issues on such subjects as concepts and prac- tices of slavery and human rights, wom- en’s political movements and leadership, legacies of colonialism in politics of law, forms of negotiation. The special con- sultative expertise of political and legal anthropology can inform and gain the support of the AAA and international bodies; it should demonstrate the value of this expertise in assessing political in- stitutions and action, law reform, politi- cal and legal education, government pro- grams, administrative training. With recognition APLA may serve on inter- disciplinary advisory committees collab- orating with political science, jurisprud- ence, psychology and related fields. Candidates for Board Member-at Large

Elizabeth F Colson (PhD, Radcliffe 1945) Prof Emeritus ( 1984-pres), Prof (1964-84) UC-Berkeley, Prof (1959-63) Brandeis, Assoc Prof (1955-59) Boston, Assoc Prof (1954-55) Goucher, Senior Lect (1951-53) Manchester, Director (1947-51) Rhodes-Livingstone Inst, Senior Res Officer (1946-47) Rhodes- Livingstone Inst, SOC Sci Analyst (1942- 43) War Relocation Authority. Major in- terests: social anth, political organiza- tion and social control, social change, migration. Significant publications: For Prayer and Profit (with Thayer Scudder, 1988); People in Upheaval (ed, with Scott Morgan, 1987); Voluntary Efforts in Decentralized Management (with Le- nore Ralston and James Anderson. 1983); Secondary Education and the

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Formation of an Elite (with Thayer Scudder, 198 1); Tradition and Contract (1974); The Social Consequences of Re- settlement (1972); The Social Organiza- tion of the Gwembe Tonga (1960); Mar- riage and the Family among the Plateau Tonga ( 1958).

Statement: Whatever phenomena an- thropologists choose for study, these are reactive to the international macropolit- ical economic forces which dominate the world and provide the context within which local political and legal thought and action emerge. Increasingly political and legal anthropologists are examining this wider context, as well as local re- sponses. This I regard as urgent since I see anthropology as primarily the study of existing modes of life with conse- quences for the future.

Melvin Ember (PhD, Yale 1958) Pres (1987-pres) HRAF; Chair Bd Dir (198 1- 87) HRAF; Pres (1981-82) SOC Cross- Cult Res; Sec Bd Dir (1973-81) HRAF; Editor-in-Chief (1982-pres) Behav Sci Res; Prof (1970-89) Hunter C, CUNY; Exec Off (1973-75) PhD Prog Anth, CUNY; Chair (1968-73) Anth, Hunter C; Assoc Prof (1967-69) Hunter C; Dit. (1964) Summ Inst Cross-Cult Res, U Pittsburgh; Asst to Assoc Prof (1963-67) Antioch C ; Fac Mem (1961-63) Grad Prog, NIMH; Lect (1961,63) American U; Res Anth (1959-63) Lab Socio-Envir Studies, NIMH; SSRC postdoc (1958- 59) Yale U; Asst Inst (1956-57) Cult and Behav, Yale C. Major interests: cross- cult res; wadpeace studies; pol anth; soc org; cross-species studies. Fieldwork: Amer Samoa (1955-56). Significant grants: cross-cult res on warfare (NSF: 1986-88, 1983-84); cross-cult res on marital resid (NSF: 1966-67). Signifi- cant publications: “Statistical Evidence for an Ecological Explanation of Wel- fare,’’ American Anthropologist (1982); “The Conditions Favoring Matrilocal Versus Patrilocal Residence,” American Anthropologist (197 1); “The Relation- ship between Economic and Political Development in Nonindustrialized So- cieties,” Ethnology (1963).

Statement: I am pleased to be nomi- nated for office in the Association for Po- litical and Legal Anthropology. My ear- liest research interests were in political change, and I have most recently been doing research on why people may go to war. My mentors in college, Elman Ser- vice and Morton Fried, encouraged my interest in political envolution which, like theirs, was based on the assumption that this was not the best of all possible worlds. I like to think that if behavioral scientists can discover the conditions that motivate people to go to war, we may be able to eliminate those condi- tions and thereby reduce the likelihood of military responses to human prob- lems. As an officer of the Association, I shall do my best to raise the conscious- ness that nonmilitary responses to hu- man problems can be more cost-effec- tive as well as more humane than mili- tary responses.

ASSOCIATION OF BLACK ANTHROPOLOGISTS Arthur K Spears. Contributing Editor

I 1989 Annual Meeting

Angela Giiliam, ABA program chair for the i989 Annual Meeting, has in- formed me thst the tentative time sched-

uled for the joint session with AES, “The Social Construction of the Past: Representation as Power,” is 1:30-5: 15, Thursday, November 16. 4 s I have noted before. this session is intended to

serve as a lead-in to the Second World Archaeology Congress, to be held in MErida, Venezuela, in 1990. Among those presenting papers will be St Clair Drake, “Anthropology and History”; Bernard Magubane. “Is South Africa a White Man’s Country?”; and Martin Bernal, “The Image of Ancient Greece and Colonialism.” Johnnetta Cole and William Shack will be among the discus- sants. This session clearly promises to be a major event.

Presenters at this session should send their papers to the four discussants by October 1. Angela is the ABA cochair, and George Bond is the AES cochair. Angela can be contacted at Evergreen State C , Olympia, WA 98505; 206/866- 6018, -5552 (mess).

I want also to remind members of the other joint session, with the Association for Feminist Anthropology, ‘‘Teaching about -Race and Gender: Strategies for Course Design and Classroom Instruc- tion.” The cochairs are Faye Harrison (ABA) and Sylvia Forman (AFA). Faye can be contacted at the Dept of Anth, U Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN

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that there will be a special event cospon- sored by the Society for Medical Anthro- pology and ABA: “Blacks, AIDS, and Public Policy.” Tony Whitehead is the ABA cochair; Michelle Shedlin, the SMA cochair. This will not be an aca- demic session; rather, it will bring to- gether state and federal government rep- resentatives, business leaders, and com- munity activists who have been involved with AIDS issues. Efforts are underway for publicizing the event in the Washing- ton area and nationally. The session will be videotaped and the proceedings.writ- ten up for circulation and, possibly, pub- lication. The seriousness of AIDS for the black community and the nation is ad- umbrated by the following statistic: 90% of the children (under eighteen) infected with AIDS in New York City are black and Hispanic. Tony can be contacted at the Dept of Anth, U Maryland, College Park, MD 20742; 301/454-4154.

The business meeting will follow the joint session with AES at 5:30, followed in turn by the reception (cash bar) at 7. There will be a hospitality suite; mem- bers should check at the meeting for de- tails.

BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY SECTION Alan Swedlund, Chair

Greetings! The Annual Meeting (Washington, DC, November 15-19) will soon be upon us and, on behalf of the Executive Committee of the Biolog- ical Unit, I would like to bring a few items to your attention.

Business Meeting

The Business Meeting .will be held on Thursday, November 16, at 1290 noon. We urge you to attend. Refreshments and snacks will be available to unit mem- bers. There are the usual items on the agenda and a couple of important issues you may wish to think about in advance. The Executive Committee will bring be- fore you a motion to consider receiving the American Anthropologist as part of your basic dues package. If we approve this motion it will change the dues from the basic fee of $10.00 to approximately $35.00. Provision will be made for those of you who already receive the journal through membership in another unit or division. The AA will be coming under a new editor, and biological anthropolo- gists will hopefully see this option as a positive step. The editorial board of AA would like to see more active participa- tion in the journal through submissions, reviews, etc.

The second item of significance will be discussion of a merit award in biolog- ical anthropology. The nature and term of the award is undecided at this point. The Executive Committee has discussed the possibility of naming it after a distin- guished individual in the field and mak- ing the award annually. The criteria for nominations and other issues will be brought before the general membership.

Annual Program Program Chair Yasar Iscan has again

put together a number of interesting ses- sions. The sessions include “Current Research in Paleonutrition: Biological, Cultural and Archeological Perspec- tives” (Mary K Sandford, org), “The Ends of the Earth: Paleoanthropology at the Fringes, 4O,OOO-1O,OOO years BP” (Milford Wolpoff and Olga Soffer, orgs), “Molecular Anthropology” (Don J Melnick, org), “Infant Morbidity and Mortality: Relationships to Fertility” (Ann V Millard, org), “Human Biology and Primate Behavior” (Volunteered Papers, Lany Greene, Chair). There is also a workshop to be held at the Air Force Institute of Pathology on “Mu- seum Opportunities for Anthropolo- gists.” Check with Yasar Iscan (Florida Atlantic) for details.

Those of us attending the meetings in recent years have also come to appreci- ate the ample menu of interesting ses- sions conducted by the Nutritional An- thropology Section and find in the Med- ical Anthropology sessions a cure for boredom. In sum, there really is a lot going on for biological anthropologists at the annual meeting, and we hope you are planning to be there.

The current slate of elected officers in the Biological Unit: Alan Swedlund (Massachusetts), Chair; Cheryl Riten- baugh (Arizona), Chair-Elect; Emoke Szathmary (W Ontario), Secretary- Treasurer; Linda Jackson (Florida), Member; Jeanne de Rousseau, Member. Appointed: Yasar Iscan (Florida Atlan- tic), Program Chair; James Bindon (Al- abama), Newsletter Editor; Helen Fisher (AMNA, NY), Media Liaison

CENTRAL STATES ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY Betty Messenger. Contributing Editor

the 1990 annual spring meeting in Cin- tration fee, dates and hotel selected for I cinnati, not available at the time this is

Specific information about the regis-