Society for Economic Anthropology

Society for Economic Anthropology

A section of the American Anthropological Association.

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Join a diverse community exploring economic and social connections.

Meetings

SEA members meet twice per year: once at the annual meeting of the AAA and again during our small-sized, annual spring meetings. Join us!

Journal

Economic Anthropology makes high-caliber, innovative research on economic and social life available to scholarly, practitioner, and general audiences alike.

Awards

The SEA rewards excellence at all stages, from undergraduate research, to graduate level field work and beyond. Learn about exciting, new findings and research underway.

Podcast

“Mergers & Acquisitions” is a podcast that explores exchanges in and beyond the field of economic anthropology.

Congratulations to our 2026 Kate Browne Awardee!

Caroline Schuster, Australian National University

Project: Forecasts: a story of weather and finance at the edge of disaster, (University of Toronto Press ethnoGRAPHIC series, 2023).

Congratulations to the 2026 Halperin Awardee!

Maria Sosa Vasquez,
City University of New York

Project: “Fintech Everydayness: How Mercado Pago Is Transforming Working-Class Sociality in Buenos Aires, Argentina.”

Advisor: Sarah Muir

Congratulations to our 2026 M.Estelle Smith Awardees!

Anam Fatima Khan, University of Texas at Austin
Project: “Working the City: The Precarious lives of Women in Lahore’s Retail Sector”

Aman Roy, City University of New York
Project: “Titular Economies in Central India: The Politics of Land on Record”

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