Society for Economic Anthropology

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The Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) is a group of anthropologists, archaeologists, economists, geographers and other scholars interested in the connections between economics and social life. Its members take a variety of approaches to economics: some have a substantivist perspective, while others are interested in the new institutional economics. Every year the SEA holds a spring meeting focused on a specific topic in economic anthropology. The journal Economic Anthropology is also produced annually, based on the meeting. The SEA is a section of the American Anthropological Association.

The society was founded in 1980. Harold K. Schneider served as the first president, from 1980 until 1982.

See also[]

Economic anthropology

Topics of recent spring meetings[]

• 2010 - Contested Economies: Global Tourism and Cultural Heritage. University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
• 2009 - Weaving Across Time and Space: The Political Economy of Textiles. University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
• 2008 - Cooperation, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
• 2007 - The Political Economy of Hazards and Disasters, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina.
• 2006 – Economics and Morality. California State University, Channel Islands, Ventural California.
• 2005 - Economies and the Transformation of Landscape. Dartmouth College. Hanover, New Hampshire.
• 2004 - Fast Food - Slow Food: Social and Economic Contexts of Food and Food Systems,Decatur, Georgia
• 2003 - Migration and Economy, Monterrey, Mexico
• 2002 - Valuables, Goods, Wealth and Money, Toronto, Canada
• 2001 - Labor, Milwaukee, WI
• 2000 - Gender in Economic Life, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
• 1999 - Development Beyond the 20th Century: A Critical Discussion in Economic Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
• 1998 - Theory in Economic Anthropology, Chicago, Illinois

Titles of recent volumes[]

• Vol. 25: Economies and the Transformation of Landscape. Lisa Cliggett and Chris Poole, eds. In Progress.
• Vol. 24: Fast-Food, Slow-Food. Rick Wilk, ed. 2007
• Vol. 23: Labor in Cross-Cultural Perspective. (Paul Durrenberger and Judith Marti, eds.) Alta Mira 2006.
• Vol. 22: Migration and Economy: Global and Local Dynamics. Lillian Trager, ed. Alta Mira 2005.

External links[]

• Society for Economic Anthropology wiki and website
• AltaMira press, the publisher of the annual volumes
• The Society for Economic Anthropology Home page