Canterbury Statement

The following statement was composed by participants at the Canterbury Convocation in San Francisco and sent to the AAA EB on Monday, December 13, 2004.

Please note that this statement represents points of unity. In other words, not everything that has been discussed is included here, but everything on which we agree is.

We hope that the AAA EB will consider this statement in their deliberations at the AAA EB meeting on Tuesday, December 14, 2004.

The statement is still open for signatures and is currently being considered for adoption by several other AAA sections. Up-to-date endorsements may be viewed here.


November 20, 2004
San Francisco, California

Canterbury Statement

An open letter to the Executive Board (EB) of the American Anthropological Association (AAA):

In response to recent events, we believe that reforms need to be made in how the AAA makes decisions so that it uses the collective power of its membership to advance fundamental human rights as well as carries out its functions as a professional organization. To that end, we are committed to ensure that AAA leaders and membership engage in a productive discussion about the following: 1) the levels of material support the AAA staff needs to negotiate contracts that promote collective bargaining and the right to organize while protecting the Association from liability, and 2) the need for greater transparency, accountability, and responsiveness in the management of the Association, particularly pertaining to communication between the AAA staff, its elected leadership, and the Association's constituent sections, committees, and members.

We would like the AAA EB to publicly explain what mechanisms will be put into place to address the above issues. We are particularly concerned that the EB consider taking the following steps:
• Establish an elected Committee on Labor Issues composed of AAA members who will conduct ongoing consultation with AAA staff, labor leaders, labor attorneys, and other academic and professional organizations on ethical business practices. The committee will seek alliances that promote the interests of labor while protecting the Association from liability.
• In anticipation of labor disputes in Washington, DC in 2005 and in San Francisco in 2006, renegotiate the existing Marriot and Hilton contracts to include force majeure (“opt-out”) language that protects AAA in the event of such disputes.
• Resolve to ensure that the staff
o works closely with the Committee on Labor Issues,
o pursues contracts only with union vendors,
o adds force majeure (“opt-out”) language that protects AAA in the event of a labor dispute to all future vendor contracts,
o prioritizes vendors in union environments over anti-union, “right-to-work” environments,
o and increases AAA’s conference liability insurance.
• Evaluate the conference staff and the resources available to them, with an eye towards ensuring that they are adequately staffed, trained, and managed in a way that ensures their actions are transparent and that they are accountable and responsive to the EB and membership.

Respectfully,

Sign the Canterbury Statement!

Sections and Committees:
Anthropology and Environment Section
American Ethnological Society
Committee for Human Rights
Council on Anthropology and Education
Society for the Anthropology of North America
Society for the Anthropology of Work
Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology
Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists

Individuals:
KAREN BRODKIN, Professor, UCLA, SANA, AFA, ABA
SHARRYN KASMIR, Associate Professor, Hofstra University
JUNE NASH, Distinguished Professor Emerita, CUNY
GILLIAN NEWELL, PhD Candidate, University of Arizona, LASA, NASA
THOMAS E. SHERIDAN, Professor, University of Arizona, A&E
ROBERT T. O'BRIEN, PhD Candidate, Temple University, AES, SANA, SAW, SCA, SMA
JOAN E. PALUZZI, Partners In Health, SMA
SANDY SMITH-NONINI, Assistant Professor, Elon University, SAW
MOLLY DOANE, Assistant Professor, Marquette University, SANA, A&E, AES, SLAA
HEATHER LEVI, Lake Forest College, SOLGA, SLAA, SCA
TERENCE TURNER, Professor, Univ. of Chicago Emeritus, GAD, SCA
DONALD M. NONINI, Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, SUNTA, AES, SAW, SCA
YURIKO C. WELLINGTON, Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa, CAE, SLA, SCA
ZOE REITER, Ph.D. student, Columbia University, SUNTA
PAUL DURRENBERGER, Professor, Penn State, CSAS, SAW, SAE, SANA, SHA, GAD, AES
JASON KLUGMAN, Program Administrator - Program in Teacher Preparation, Princeton University, CAE
VIN LYON-CALLO, Associate Professor, Western Michigan University
ANN KINGSOLVER, Associate Professor,University of South Carolina
JIM WEIL, President, Society for the Anthropology of Work
GILBERT QUINTERO, Research Associate Professor, University of New Mexico, SMA
MICHAEL CLATTS, Director, Institute for International Research on Youth at Risk, National Development Research Institutes, Inc., SMA
KRISTIN BRIGHT, Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley/ Prevention Research Center, SMA, SCA
ANGELA JANCIUS, Visiting Assistant Professor, Youngstown State University, SAE, SUNTA, APLA, AES [SfAA, SEA]
KEVIN MICHAEL FOSTER, Southern Illinois University, ABA, CAE
JASON RODRIGUEZ, UC Santa Cruz, Council on Anthropology and Education
STEPHEN C. MAACK, Founder and Lead Consultant, REAP Change Consultants, NAPA, SUNTA, SAW, AAAAAA
CAROLE L. CRUMLEY, A&E, AD, SAE
NEIL SMITH, Dist. Prof; Director, CUNY Grad Center
JENNIFER ADAIR, Arizona State University, CAE
TORIN MONAHAN, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, SUNTA
ANN S. NIHLEN, Professor, Univ. of New Mexico, CAE
P. KERIM FRIEDMAN, Ph. D., Temple University, SLA, AES, SEAA
JASON SANFORD GREENBERG, Pratt Institute, CAE
CRAIG R. JANES, Professor, University of Colorado, President, Society for Medical Anthropology
KATHE MANAGAN, Postdoctoral Fellow, Tulane University, SLA, SOLGA
SAM BECK, Director, Cornell university
ELLEN BIGLER, Associate Professor, Rhode Island College, CAE, Latin America
PETER LAWSON, Case Western Reserve University, SUNTA, SfAA, SMA
PHILIPPE BOURGOIS, Professor, University of California, San Francisco, Medical Anthropology, Urban Anthropology, Alcohol and Drug Research Group, Applied Anthropology, Latin American Anthropology and North American Anthropology
KAREN STOCKER, Assistant Professor, CSU Bakersfield, CAE, AFA, SLAA
JANET IRENE HECSH, Assistant Professor, California State University, Sacramento, CAE
JUSTINE P. VANTHILT, B.A. Candidate, Anthropology, Cornell University, SUNTA, SAE
DAVID CHAUDOIR, University of Arkansas, CSAS, SANA, SCA, SUNTA, MES
HORMAZD N. SETHNA, Case Western Reserve University
ROSEMARY HENZE, San Jose State University, CAE
STEVE FERZACCA, Associate Professor, University of Lethbridge, AES, SCA, SHA, SUNTA, SPA
HEATHER PLEASANTS, Assistant Professor, University of Delaware, CAE
ANNE MARIE BEISSWANGER-HOUSER, Temple University
PAUL MCDOWELL, Instructor, Santa Barbara City College, SUNTA, SLAA, SACC
CLARE TALWALKER, Assistant Professor, University of Dayton
DANIEL RENFREW, Binghamton University-SUNY
HANS C. BUECHLER, Professor, Syracuse University, SAW
ELLEN E. FOLEY, Postdoctoral Fellow, Health and Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania, SMA
MARIANN SKAHAN, Univ. of New Mexico, CLA, NASA, SLA
SHASTA GAUGHEN, University of New Mexico, NASA, AES
MARIA T. BRODINE, Graduate student, San Diego State University
DOUGLAS FOLEY, Professor
VALENTINA PAGLIAI, Assistant Professor, Oberlin College, SLA, AES, SOLGA, CSAS
CHARLES MENZIES, UBC, AES, SAW, SAE, SANA
DEBRA CHANDLER, PhD
JANISE HURTIG, Research Specialist, UIC
KRISTI BRIAN, PhD
PAULINE LIPMAN, Assoc. Prof., DePaul University, CAE
DAVID C. VIRTUE
DAVID VALENTINE, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
JANET G. AHLER, Professor, University of North Dakota, CAE, Public Anthro
GREG TRAUTMANN, Student, SLA
DR. ANITA FABOS, University of East London
ALEXANDER KING, Lecturer, University of Aberdeen, AES, SLA
PER KRISTIAN HILDEN, Senior Research Fellow, University of Oslo, Medical Anthropology, Alcohol and Drug Research Group
SUSAN GREENBAUM, Professor, University of South Florida, SUNTA President-elect
NIKOLETA KATSAKIORI, University of Manchester, UK, SUNTA
KAREN J. CLARK, Adjunct Prof., Univ. of Pa. and Arcadia Univ., CAE
DR. RONALD FRANKENBERG, Keele & Brunel Universities (retired), SMA and several others
ELIZABETH GRACE, Ph.D. student, University of California, Santa Barbara, CAE
LEILA MONAGHAN, Course Director, Indiana University, SLA
DR. CONSTANCE DEROCHE, UCCB, SAW, SANA, SUNTA
KRISTINE GENTRY, Auburn University, AFA, AES
PATRICK MCQUILLAN, Associate Professor, Boston College, CAE
TIMOTHY M. HALL, PhD, SAE, SPA
YVONNE LASSALLE, Assistant Professor, Hunter College, CUNY AE, SCA, SUNTA, POLAR
BEN CHAPPELL, Asst. Professor, Bridgewater College
WILLIAM L LEAP, Professor and Chair, Dept of Anthropology, American University
LISA BRANDO
DAVID GADSBY, Ph.D. Student, American University
LEE D. BAKER, Associate Professor, Duke U., ABA SANA
AARON TOBLER, American University
FAYE V. HARRISON, Professor, University of Florida, ABA, AFA, AES, SCA, SUNTA
WENDY HATHAWAY, University of South Florida, SANA, SUNTA, NASA, NAPA, CAR, AFA, ABA
DR. MARGARET MACDONALD, York University, SMA
TIM MAHONEY, Assistant Professor, California State University-Stanislaus, CAE, SLA
PETER C. HANEY, Lecturer in Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
LISA ROFEL, Associate Professor, University of California Santa Cruz, SCA
KARL H SCHWERIN, Professor Emeritus, Univ. of New Mexico, AES, ASA, C&A, GAD, SLAA
JEMIMA PIERRE, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, ABA
MELANIE ROCK
ROSHANAK KHESHTI, Ph. D. Candidate, UC Santa Cruz
KAREN L. DAVIS, Adjunct Instructor/PhD candidate, Temple University, SMA, etc.
MARC PERRY, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ilinois, Urbana-Champaign, ABA
ANA M. ALONSO, Associate Professor, University of Arizona, Elected Board Member, SCA
KATHRYN S. OTHS , Professor, Alabama, SMA, CNA
NICK RATTRAY, Graduate Student, University of Arizona
BRINTON S. RAMSEY, Graduate Student, Teachers College, Columbia University, CAE, NAPA
FREDERICK ERICKSON, University of California, CAE, SLA
DEVIN, American University, AES, NASA
KAMALA VISWESWARAN, Associate Professor, UT Austin, AFA
ELLEN LEWIN, Professor, University of Iowa, AES, AFA, SANA, SMA, SOLGA
ANGELA E. ARZUBIAGA, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, CAE SUNTA
CAROLE NAGENGAST, Professor, UNM, AA, AES, SFA
LOUISE E. TALLEN, Ph.D., UCLA Dept. of General and Internal Medicine Health Services Research, SPA, SOLGA, SAR
JAN NESPOR, Virginia Tech
SAMUEL GERALD COLLINS, SAW Executive board, Towson University, SAW, AES, East Asia
MARY ANGLIN, Associate Professor, University of Kentucky
VANESSA DEKONINCK, University of California, Davis
SAMUEL M. MARTINEZ, Assoc. Prof, Anthropology & Latin American Studies U Connecticut-Storrs, AES, SCA, ALLA, SLAA
MICHAEL BLIM, Associate Professor, CUNY Graduate Center, SAW Past President
NANCY SCHEPER-HUGHES, Professor, UC Berkeley
LUCIA ANN MCSPADDEN, Senior Research Fellow, Pacific School of Religion, SUNTA, GAD, NAPA
JUDITH M. MAXWELL
ROBERT FOSTER, Professor, University of Rochester, SCA, AES
HINDA SEIF, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley
SIMON CRADDOCK LEE, Cancer Prevention Fellow, NCI, SMA, SCA, SOLGA
PAMELA O. BROWN, Graduate Student, University of North Texas, CAE, NAPA
GREG TANAKA, Professor, Pacific Oaks College, CAE, SUNTA, SCA, SAA
JAY SOKOLOVSKY, Professor, Univ of South Florida, St. Petersburg, SANA, SMA, SUNTA
SUSAN MAKIESKY BARROW, Research Scientist, NY State Psychiatric Institute, SMA, SANA, AES, SUNTA
LISA MAYA KNAUER, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, SUNTA, Visual Anthropology
CHAR ULLMAN, Senior Research Associate, University of Arizona, Board member of CAE; other memberships include SUNTA, SOLGA, SFA
CHIP PERKINS, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, CAE
SUSAN HYATT, Associate Professor, IUPUI, SANA, AFA, SUNTA, ABA, NAPA, SAE
ADAM HENNE, University of Georgia, A&E, SLAA, NASA
MARIELA NUNEZ-JANES, Assistant Professor, University of North Texas
ROBERT BOROFSKY, Hawaii Pacific University
DREW J. ASSON, Grassroots Program Manager, SPLA
MISHA KLEIN, Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley, School of Public Health/Prevention Research Center, AES, A&DSG
DONNA DEYHLE, Professor, CAE
ANRU LEE, Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY, SAW
CAROLYN EPPLE, Assistant Professor, Sonoma State University
MAX KIRSCH, Associate Professor, Florida Atlantic University
DR. SOFIA VILLENAS, University of Texas at Austin, CAE
FRANK A. SALAMONE, Professor and Chair, Iona College
REYMUNDO CHAPA, Graduate Student, University of Texas at Austin, SLAA, NASA
DAVID NUGENT, Professor, Colby College, AES, SLAA
ROSE MILLS
JESSACA LEINAWEAVER, University of Michigan, AFA, SHA, SLAA
MARIA D. VESPERI, Professor, New College of Florida, SANA, ABA, AES, SCA, SVA
DEBBIE ZORN, Senior Research Associate, University of Cincinnati, CAE
CARLY HUTCHINSON AAA Member
JUNAID RANA, Assistant Professor
JULIA MEREDITH HESS, Instructor, University of New Mexico, AES, SUNTA, CORI Co-Chair, AFA
MARGI NOWAK
LISA HOFFMAN, Asst Prof, U Washington, Tacoma, SUNTA, SCA, AFA
LISA WOZNIAK
KELLY FELTAULT, PhD Candidate, American University
LINDA LIGHT, California State University Long Beach, SACC, SLA
KATHRYN ANDERSON-LEVITT, U Michigan-Dearborn, CAE, SAE, SPA
MARIA AMELIA VITERI, American University, AAA, AFA
REBECCA FRISCHKORN, PhD Student, American University, SUNTA, CORI
C. TODD WHITE, University of Southern California, APA, SOLGA, SLA
FRANCOISE DUSSART, Associate Prof, University of Connecticut
ROB GORDON, University of Vermont
CLARA HENDERSON, Indiana University, SVA, SCA
ERIC RICE, Instructor, Johns Hopkins Graduate Division of Education
JOANNE B. EICHER, Regents Professor, University of Minnesota, SVA, AES
JEAN DENNISON, Ph.D. Student, University of Florida, SVA
MARION MCCREEDY, Adjunct Professor, University of St. Francis
ADAM FRANK, Freeman Teaching Fellow, Wittenberg University
JON C WAGNER, University of California, Davis
MARIANNE GEORGE
AARON GLASS, New York University, SVA, CMA
AMY CATLIN-JAIRAZBHOY, Associate Professor (Visiting), UCLA, SVA, NAPA, SAR
ALAN KLIMA, Associate Professor, UC Davis, SCA, SVA
JOE KINSELLA, Doctoral candidate, University of New Mexico, CMA, AES, CAE
PETER S. ALLEN, Professor, RIC, SVA, SAE
JAN NEWBERRY, Assistant Professor, University of Lethbridge, APLA, AFA, AES, SUNTA, NAPA, A&E
NERIKO DOERR, Brookdale Community College, CAE
ELIZABETH BIRD, Professor and Chair, University of South Florida, SVA, SCA
JEFF DUNCAN-ANDRADE, Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University, CAE
CAROL HERMER
CHRISTA CRAVEN, Co-Chair, Society of Lesbian & Gay Anthropologists, University of Mary Washington, SOLGA, AFA, SANA, CAR, SMA
PETER WOGAN, Visual Anthro
BRIAN MCKENNA, University of Michigan-Dearborn
ROSA ELENA, Archaeologist, Visual Anthropologist
SUSAN ERVIN-TRIPP, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, SLA
STEWART GUTHRIE, Fordham University
HILDA LLORÉNS, Asst. Prof., Middlebury College, SVA, SHA, ABA
PETER BIELLA, President, Society for Visual Anthropology, San Francisco State University
FRANCES RIEMER, Associate Professor, Northern Arizona University
LORI ALLEN, MES
SARAH LAMB, Associate Professor, Brandeis University
MICHAEL OSTERWEIL
DR. BRAD BIGLOW, University of North Florida, CAE, SLAA, NAPA, SOLGA
TIM PILBROW, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, SAE, SCA
RACHEL HEIMAN, Core Faculty, The New School
MARY L. GRAY, Assistant Professor, Indiana University, Department of Communication and Culture, SOLGA, SANA
STEPHANIE TAKARAGAWA, Temple University, SVA
KELLY ASKEW, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, SVA, AfAA
MARILYN SILVERMAN, Professor, York University, Toronto, APLA, SAE, SAW, AES
G. ALEXANDER MOORE, Professor, Univ. Southern California, AES, SUNTA, SOLGA, SVA
MARCELA MENDEZ, MA, Business Consultant, NAPA, SUNTA, SEAA, SLAA
AMY AILEEN DONOVAN, Ph.D., UCSF, SOLGA, SANA, AFA, SVA, SAW
STEPHEN O. MURRAY
JENNIFER ALVEY, Lecturer, University of Michigan-Flint, AES, SLAA, SANA
DOUGLAS A. FELDMAN, Professor, SUNY Brockport
KAREN KELLY-BLAKE, Ph.D. Candidate, Michigan State University
ROBERT ROTENBERG, DePaul University, SUNTA (President), SAE, AES
TY TENGAN, Assistant Professor, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
VICTOR M. TORRES-VELEZ, ABD, Michigan State University
SARAH HORTON, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School, SANA
GILLIAN M. GOSLINGA, Ph.D. Candidate, UC Santa Cruz
ARACHU CASTRO, Assistant Professor of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Partners In Health, SMA
KRISTIN KOPTIUCH, Associate Professor, Arizona State University West
MELANIE E. L. BUSH, Brooklyn College, CUNY
TIM SIEBER, Professor, Massachusetts-Boston, SANA, SUNTA, ABA, CAE, AES, SCA
ATHENA MCLEAN, Associate Professor, Central Michigan University SMA, SANA
MARY ALICE SCOTT, University of Kentucky
MERRILL SINGER, Associate Director, Hispanic Health Council, SMA, SANA
SARAH E RUBIN, Graduate Student, Case Western Reserve University, SMA, CAR, CAH
ANDREW ROTH-SENEFF, Professor, El Colegio de Michoacán, AES, SLAA
CHARLOTTE HANEY MUELLER, Ph.D. Candidate, Case Western Reserve University, SMA
ALISSE WATERSTON, Associate Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
ANNA MARIE NICOLAYSEN, Ph.D. student, University of Connecticut, SMA, SLAA
CHRISTOPHER CARRICO, Adjunct Instructor/PhD Candidate, Temple University, AES, SLAA, SANA, CAE, NASA
CLAIRE WENDLAND, Chinle Comprehensive Healthcare Facility, Navajo Area Indian Health Service
BARBARA ROSE JOHNSTON, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Political Ecology, ABA, AFA, A&E
ROBERT L. A. HANCOCK, Department of History, University of Victoria
BEVERLY BENNETT, Shimer College
JUDITH GOODE, Professor, Temple University, SANA, SUNTA, SAW
ROBERT CLARK, Ph.D Candidate, Yale University
MARGARET (GRETA) GIBSON, Professor, UC Santa Cruz, CAE
JOHN DONAHUE, Professor, Trinity University, SMA, AFA, NAPA, SfAA
CAROL THOMPSON
KATE MASLEY, Doctoral candidate, Case Western Reserve University, SMA, SfAA, CAR
DENNI BLUM, Assistant Professor, CSU Fresno, CAE
ELLEN MOODIE, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
SARAH HILL, Asst. Prof., Western Michigan University
ALLEN FELDMAN, Associate Professor, Department of Culture and Communication NYU, AES, SCA, SVA, SUNTA
KENYON STEBBINS, Assoc. Prof, retired, West Virginia Univ.
SALLY A. CAMPBELL, University of Colorado at Boulder
BRUCE GRANT, Associate Professor, Swarthmore College, SCA Board Member.
VINCI DARO, PhD Candidate, UNC-Chapel Hill
RON LOEWE, Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University, SLAA, SMA
ELIAS L. MARTINEZ, Asst. Professor, SUNY-Binghamton, CAE
HEEWON CHANG, Associate Professor, Eastern University, CAE
ALAYNE G UNTERBERGER, Exec Director, FICS, UF, SMA, NAPA
DARA CULHANE, Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University
ANDREA MUEHLEBACH, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago, SAE
ANDREA CLEMONS, Loyola Marymount University, CAE #1
RENE LLEWELLYN, University of South Florida, BAS, SAFN, SOLGA
JOHN GLEDHILL, Professor, The University of Manchester, AES, SLAA, SVA
GARRETT ALEXANDREA MCDOWELL, Ph.D. Student, Temple University SUNTA, SVA
JESSICA FALCONE, PhD student, Cornell University, SPA, SCA
CONAL GUAN-YOW HO, Ph.D. Candidate, UC Santa Cruz
GERALD SIDER, Professor, CUNY, AAA, AES, Culture.Agriculture
MARA BUCHBINDER, Case Western Reserve University, SMA, SfAA
DONNA KIRSCHNER, PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania, CAE
HARRIET L RICHARDSON SEACAT, Adjunct Faculty, University of South Alabama, NAPA
SHARMIN SADEQUEE, Grad Student
SIMON MAY, University of Chicago
TRICIA NIESZ, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Kent State University, CAE
SONIA NUSSENZWEIG HOTIMSKY, Student, Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo
ANTHONY MARCUS, Senior Lecturer, Melbourne University Private
CARLA PACIOTTO, Associate Professor, Western Illinois University, CAE
SHARI FELDMAN, graduate student, University of South Florida
JUDITH PREISSLE, Professor, University of Georgia, CAE
JANISE HURTIG, Research Specialist, UIC
JESSICA GREENBERG, University of Chicago, SAE
THERESA MCGINNIS, Assistant Professor, Hofstra University, CAE
ANWEN TORMEY, U. of Chicago
MICHAEL L. CEPEK, University of Chicago, AES
JUBIN CHERUVELIL, Graduate Student/Information Analyst, Michigan State University
HEIDE CASTANEDA, PhD student, University of Arizona, SAE, SMA, SUNTA
KARIN FRIEDERIC, University of Arizona, SMA
ALEXANDER (SASHA) NEWELL, Visiting Assistant Professor, New York University
JOANNA STONE, Graduate Student, University of Arizona
JAMES P. STANSBURY, Asst. Professor, University of Florida, SMA, SAFN(CNA)
DAVID J. DWYER, Professor, Michigan State University
DEVVA KASNITZ, Academic Coordinator, UCB, SMA
AVIVA BOWER, Assistant Professor, College of Saint Rose, CAE
GREGORY S. POOLE, DPhil candidate, University of Oxford, UK, CAE, SEAA, SLA
DR. MELFORD S WEISS, Professor, California State Univ. Sacramento, CAE
MICA POLLOCK, Assistant Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
JEFF SHULTZ, Professor, Arcadia University, CAE
CRISTINA GONZALEZ, University of South Florida, GAD, SCA, SANA, SUNTA, CAE
CAROL S. GOLDIN, Director, Academic & Strategic Planning, Rutgers University, SMA
DEBORAH REED-DANAHAY, Professor of Anthropology, UTexas-Arlington, CAE, AES, SAE, APLA
YA-CHUNG CHUANG, Assistant Professor, National Chiao Tung University, SUNTA
DR. BARBARA OOMEN, University of Amsterdam
WILLIAM O. BEEMAN, Professor, Brown University, SLA, AES, SOLGA
VICTORIA J. BAKER, Professor, Eckerd College, CAE
JANET RAFFERTY, Professor, Mississippi State University
DR. GERALDINE GRANT
GISELA ERNST-SLAVIT, Professor, Washington State University, CAE
EDWARD MURPHY
BENITO VERGARA, San Francisco State University
LETTY LINCOLN, Ph.D., Cascade AIDS Project, CAE, SAC
ROBIN LEBARON, Finance Director, Parodneck Foundation, SUNTA, SANA
LISA ROSEN, Research Associate (Assistant Professor), The University of Chicago, CAE, SANA
ANNE-MARIA MAKHULU, Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University
STACY LEIGH PIGG, Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University, SCA, AES, SMA
NANCY R. ANDERSON, M.A. Student, University of Tennessee Knoxville
MARISOL DE LA CADENA, associate professor, UC Davis, SLAA, SCA
JEFFREY SLUKA
JOANNE RAPPAPORT, Georgetown University, SLAA
JACQUALINE REID
ROBERT P. MARLIN, Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, SMA
DEBORAH POOLE, Professor, Johns Hopkins University, SLAA, SVA, AES
SUZANA SAWYER, Associate Professor, UC Davis
BRADLEY S. TATAR, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, SUNTA
DIANE M. NELSON, Associate Professor, Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, SCA, AES
BILL MAURER, Assoc Prof, University of California, Irvine, AES, SCA, APLA
JULIAN, Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Center, City University of New York, SUNTA
FRANCES NORWOOD, PhD Candidate, University of California-San Francisco/Berkeley, SMA
SHANNON JACKSON, assistant professor, university of missouri urban anthropology
JESSICA WEINBERG, Ph.D. candidate, University of Arizona, SLA, AFA, NASA
ROBERT J. SHEPHERD, Professorial Lecturer, The George Washington University
CHARLES R. HALE, University of Texas at Austin , AES, SLAA, CAE
CATHY STANTON, Lecturer, Tufts University, AES, SUNTA
MARINA AMAT
BEVERLY ANN DAVENPORT, Doctoral Candidate, UCSF-UCBerkeley Joint Program in Medical Anthropology, SMA, SANA
BONNIE ADRIAN, U of Denver
JAMES PFEIFFER, Associate Professor, University of Washington, SMA
PETE RICHARDSON, VA Professor, University of Michigan, SAW, SPA
KIRA KOSNICK, Nottingham Trent University
JENNIFER JO THOMPSON, Ph.D. Student, University of Arizona, SMA
ELIZABETH CHIN, Associate Professor, Occidental College
RODNEY HOPSON, Duquesne University
BARBARA SCHRODER, Assistant Professor, Lehman College, CAE, SOLGA
ASHLEY SPALDING, Doctoral Student, University of South Florida, SANA
ANTHONY BALZANO, Professor, Sussex County Community College
MARY ROAF, Temple University

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Polly Strong Resolution under consideration at 2004 AAA Business Meeting

Date: November 14, 2004
To: Mac Marshall, AAA Secretary
From: Pauline Turner Strong, President, Society for Cultural Anthropology


RESOLUTION FOR CONSIDERATION AT 2004 AAA BUSINESS MEETING

Whereas all AAA members are required to join a Section;

Whereas much of the intellectual work of the AAA is conducted by the Sections;

Whereas the decisions of the AAA Executive Board directly impact the activities and finances of the Sections;

Whereas the AAA Executive Board relies on the Sections for providing a conduit for communications with Section members; and

Whereas the current organization of the AAA makes no provision for the direct representation of the Sections on the Executive Board, except through the non-voting Section Convenor:

Be it resolved that an ad hoc Governance and Communications Committee be established to formulate proposals for (1) reforming the relationship between the AAA Executive Board and the Sections and (2) facilitating communication and feedback mechanisms between annual meetings within the AAA as a whole. The Committee will be composed of the AAA President, the Section Convenor, and an equal number of representatives of the AAA Executive Board and the Section Assembly.

The implementation of this resolution should fall within the ordinary budget of the AAA Executive Board, except for any necessary travel on the part of the representatives of the Section Assembly.

Respectfully submitted,
Pauline T. Strong, President
Society for Cultural Anthropology

Motions Passed by SA in 2003

Section Assembly Actions since November Meeting
Items adopted by Email Ballot

Adopted by Section Assembly February 9, 2004

MOTION 1 ("Union Motion")

Whereas: The employment situation and real wages in the United States continues to deteriorate and there are substantial differences according to race and gender
The costs of healthcare and health insurance are steadily increasing
There are increasing inequities in our economic system
Unions offer effective remedies to these problems
Be it resolved that the Section Assembly urges:

The Executive Board of the AAA to study and adopt a policy that would have the American Anthropological Association, and its sections, meet only in hotels whose staff are represented by a union.

Explanation
The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union maintains a website--http://www.hereunion.org/hotelguide/results.asp that lists all organized hotels, so that it takes virtually no staff time to find organized hotels.
This would use the economic power of our organization to reversing the negative trends listed above, and to improve the lives of working people


Adopted by Section Assembly February 17, 2004


MOTION 2 (“Living Wage Motion”)

Whereas: i. There is an increasing trend to contracting work and
ii. worsening economic conditions for working people and
iii. living wage ordinances have proven to be an effective means for combating poverty and race and gender imbalances in remuneration
Be it resolved that the Section Assembly urges the Executive Committee of the American Anthropological Association to study and adopt a policy that will restrict the AAA and its sections from meeting in any municipality, within the United States, that has not adopted a living wage ordinance.Explanation
This puts the economic power of the American Anthropological Association behind the move to gain living wage ordinances across the United States that has proven effective in combating poverty. This website maintains a list of municipalities that have adopted such ordinances so that it would take virtually no staff time to check sites:
http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/issueguides_livingwage_livingwagefacts

In Atlanta for the AAA? Join AAAUnite at Jobs with Justice Event

Jobs with Justice International Solidarity Tour

Thousands of jobs are being outsourced to lower-wage countries like India. How should workers and communities respond?

Come meet Indian labor leaders to discuss our mutual interests in fighting together to defend good jobs and fair labor standards.

Speakers will include:


· Ashim Roy, President of union representing General Electric workers in Gujarat state.
· V. Chandra, Organizing Secretary of a union representing 50,000 miners who has worked in the coal industry for 25 years.
· Anannya Bhattacharjee, coordinator of an international collaboration between Jobs with Justice and India's New Trade Union Initiative.

Date: Thursday, December 16, 2004
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place: CWA Local 3204 (279 Logan St. near I-20 & Hill St.)

Less than a month after a U.S. presidential election in which candidates traded accusations about the increase in the number of jobs shifting from the U.S. to India and other countries, a delegation of labor leaders from India is coming to Atlanta. The goal of the tour is to develop grassroots strategies to force global corporations to respect workers' rights and to help build international solidarity between U.S. and Indian workers to fight for good jobs and fair labor standards.

The tour is sponsored by Jobs with Justice and India's New Trade Union Initiative. The New Trade Union Initiative is a democratizing force within the Indian labor movement, independent of any political party. It is playing a leading role in the larger social movements that are now burgeoning in India. Jobs with Justice is a national campaign for workers' rights with over 40 local coalitions that unite labor unions, community groups, faith-based organizations and students to promote economic and social justice for all working people.

For more information contact:
Terence Courtney 404-381-5993 terencecourtney@yahoo.com

For more information and updates about the New Trade Union Initiative tour, visit www.jwj.org.

From the Hyatt to CWA:
Start: Depart Start on Courtland St (NE) (South) 0.9 0:02
1: Road name changes to Washington St SW 0.2 0:01
2: Turn LEFT (East) onto SR-154 [Trinity Ave SW] 0.1 0:01
3: Keep STRAIGHT onto SR-154 [Memorial Dr SW] 0.1 < 1min
4: Keep STRAIGHT onto SR-154 [Memorial Dr SE] 0.1 < 1min
5: Turn RIGHT (South) onto Martin St SE 0.1 0:01
6: Turn LEFT (East) onto Logan St SE 0.1 0:01
End: Arrive End < 0.1 < 1min
Total Route 1.7 mi 6 mins

SCA Open Forum on the AAA and Labor Relations

OPEN FORUM ON THE AAA AND LABOR RELATIONS

Hyatt Regency Atlanta 265 Peachtree Street North East (6 blocks
from the AAA meeting hotel)

Friday, December 17, 2004 5:00-7:30 PM

SCA has organized this forum in order to promote discussion
about current struggles involving workers in the hotel and
restaurant industry and, specifically, about how professional
groups such as the American Anthropological Association might
play an active role in solidarity with hotel and restaurant
workers. The forum is intended to be forward-looking and
practical. Discussion topics will include the strategies of
organized labor; proposals for alternate meeting sites and
structures; and the kinds of plans AAA is making for future
meetings.

PRESENTATIONS (5:00 - 6:15 PM)

Neal Kwatra (Department of Strategic Affairs, UNITE HERE!) Paul
Durrenberger (Pennsylvania State) Suzan Erem (Independent
Scholar, Writer, and Activist) Sandy Smith-Nonini (Elon
University & Society for the Anthropology of Work) Elizabeth
Brumfiel (President, American Anthropological Association)
DISCUSSION: THE AUDIENCE (6:15 -- 7:30 PM) Moderators: Pauline
Strong (President, Society for Cultural Anthropology) Robert
Foster (Treasurer, Society for Cultural Anthropology)

Defeat the Hayden Resolutions

Dear Colleagues:

I am writing to ask you to oppose Dr. Robert Hayden's proposed resolutions for the 2004 American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting. These resolutions are here and here.

This is a critical time, in which we can and should evaluate the AAA's mission(s) and the role of the Executive Board (EB). However, these resolutions limit discussion rather than facilitate it. Further, they border on sanctioning the AAA EB for the widely-supported, ethical stance they took in moving the Annual Meeting from the the San Francisco Hilton during the worker lockout.

There are three reasons to oppose these motions:

1) Opposition to the "corporate culture" of the AAA has been clearly voiced in the past several weeks. The language of both of Dr. Hayden's resolutions supports further corporatization of the AAA and clear prioritization of fiduciary over ethical responsibilities.

A full accounting of the costs of the move to Atlanta must be done. Likewise, while there are questions as to the soundness of the AAA Counsel's advice and the actions of the AAA leadership regarding this advice, it is not clear that the EB or the membership would benefit from training the EB in corporate law. Neither an accounting of the recent move's costs nor actions regarding the AAA EB and the AAA Counsel should be conducted under the terms suggested in Dr. Hayden's resolution.

2) Although Dr. Hayden cites the AAA Mission Statement and the Long-Range Plan in his proposed resolutions, he chooses his citations in a manner that depict an Association that few among us would recognize. He, correctly, points out that the "duty of corporate officers runs to the corporation in support of achieving its stated goals," yet he chooses carefully among the goals of the AAA. He has left out the portions of the Mission Statement that refer to the goals of "the dissemination of anthropological knowledge and its use to solve human problems" and "represent[ing] the discipline nationally and internationally, in the public and private sectors." Further, in choosing only these two documents, Dr. Hayden neglects the Code of Ethics of the AAA, the AAA Declaration on Anthropology and Human Rights, and the goverment relations and public policy efforts of the Association.

The cumulative effect of AAA and other groups moving meeting business out of San Francisco MEG hotels built political pressure which resulted in an end to the lockout. This is entirely consistent with the goals and efforts I cite above.

3) Just as there is no "value-free" science, there is no position that the AAA can take that leaves us out of the labor struggle so long as we continue to hold conferences.

The AAA has two options -- to oppose labor's efforts or to get behind them.

Roughly one-third of the hotel industry's business in the US comes from conferences held by groups like academic and professional organizations, labor, and progressive clergy. Although business and vacation travelers make up almost two-thirds of hotel business, these consumers are increasingly fickle. Hotel chains count on our return business -- as witnessed by the contracts we've maintained with Hilton and Marriot over the years and into the next decade. Academic conferences alone account for more than $65 million in hotel business annually. We also tend to spend more money on ancillary services like audio-visual equipment than business and vacation travellers.

The struggle continues, at both Local 2 -- as they negotiate their contract and fight to retain healthcare and pension benefits, fair working hours and jobs -- and throughout the industry -- as an effort to strengthen collective bargaining and the right to organize in the form of nationally coordinated contract negotiation.

UNITE HERE has developed a strategy that puts pressure on the employers without putting hotel employees at risk. This offers us the opportunity to, as Leith Mullings has called on us to do, use our relatively privileged position as academics to solve people's real problems. While it is odious to many of us to discuss inequality and suffering inside the Grand Ballroom of some corporate hotel, moving out of these hotels takes away from the power we can bring to bear on these very hotels. By using this leverage, UNITE HERE has been able to get "card-check neutrality" agreements to unionize new hotels. What this means is that they use the economic leverage of the AAA, the ASA, the NAACP, and others to increase worker opportunities for organizing. In this way, vulnerable workers have not had to deal with the employer intimidation that comes with organizing in the US.

The success of this strategy can best be seen in UNITE HERE's history of organizing the gaming industry in Las Vegas. Over the course of a decade, the city's union workforce grew from 10,000 to 45,000, making it the most densely unionized city in the US.

The AAA can (and in my mind should) be central to the realization of these efforts. Defeating this resolution is one step in the right direction. EB passage of the restriction of all conference business to union hotels is another.

In solidarity,

Rob

SCA Announces Online Business Meeting and Open Forum

November 30, 2004

Dear SCA members,

This e_mail is a reminder about the SCA On_line Business Meeting. As you know, the SCA Business Meeting/Reception (ordinarily held at the AAA) has been canceled. Instead, we are holding an electronic business meeting, from December 1-10, at this url.

You can also get to this URL through the link at the SCA web site. Easy-to-follow instructions are included on the site. We invite all SCA members to participate in the electronic business meeting, which will provide a forum for the discussion of labor relations, AAA governance structure and communications with members, and AAA meeting structure.

Let me also take this opportunity to remind those of you who will be at AAA in Atlanta that we are holding an Open Forum on labor issues and questions of AAA governance at the HYATT REGENCY Hotel, 265 Peachtree St. NE, Friday, December 17th, 5-8pm.

Your participation in the electronic meeting (and, if possible, the Open Forum in Atlanta) are deeply appreciated, particularly since the events of this past fall have put all of us at so critical a moment in the history of the AAA and its sections.

Yours sincerely,
Bonnie Urciuoli,
SCA Secretary