The Society for Economic Anthropology is a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Membership in SEA requires membership in the AAA. Current AAA members can add themselves to the SEA at any time through the AAA web site. Section membership costs are just $10 for students and $20 for all others.
Non-members are encouraged to join both the AAA and the SEA through the same site. See pricing for AAA membership here.
Benefits of AAA/SEA membership
- Subscriptions to Anthrosource and associated publications, including our section’s peer-reviewed journal, Economic Anthropology. Economic Anthropology continues to publish strong interdisciplinary research, guided by an outstanding editorial collective.
- Radical Spotlights is a new collaboration between SEA and the Network Anthropology of Economy in the EASA
- Our awards continue to spotlight the incredible work done by our students and our colleagues. We honor undergraduate students, graduate students, and post-doctoral colleagues for their research, their methodologies, and their book-length publications.
- Our podcast, Mergers & Acquisitions is recruiting for Season 4 after a dynamic Season 3.
- Resources such as course syllabi and curated bibliographies, and lists of economic anthropology programs.
- Resources for graduate students and early career anthropologists, such as career readiness resources and online mentoring events.
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Networking Opportunities
Each spring, the engaging and sociable SEA conference focuses on a single theme, with opportunities to present on additional topics at the conference’s poster session. The SEA conference has a long tradition of providing scholars considerable support to papers in development. The conference’s small size – with just one, or at most two, speakers in any given time slot – means presentations receive considerable attention. Attendees follow a single conversation over the course of three days, with a culminating, open discussion that never fails to inspire. For junior scholars and practitioners, especially, the meetings are a welcoming place that offers formal mentoring activities and lots of opportunity for informal connecting.
Looking forward, the SEA Spring meeting is in Puebla, Mexico with the theme “Sustaining Life between Popular and Illicit Economies”. The call for papers is out now, due February 25.
There are also online mentoring events, online workshops, and our annual business meetings at the annual AAA conference.
Publication Opportunities
Economic Anthropology is the Society for Economic Anthropology’s influential and interdisciplinary forum for research on economic and social life. The journal reports the findings of scholars from a range of disciplines including cultural anthropology, archaeology, demography, economics, ecology, geography, and history.
Economic Anthropology publishes two issues per year. Of the two issues, one allows “open submissions” of papers and features both regular-length papers and the “Symposium,” short essays by high-profile economic anthropologists responding to timely topics. Another, guest-edited issue focuses on a topic of current debate and significance, following the thematic format of the Society’s Annual Meetings.
Additional publication opportunities include chapter contributions for the annual volume of Research in Economic Anthropology (REA), and The Exchange, which publishes short-form, Open Access articles.
SEA Listserv (SEA-L)
The Society for Economic Anthropology maintains a moderated listserv, SEA-L. With an average of one or two messages per week, the SEA’s listserv is a place where economic anthropologists from around the world connect, announce conferences, share job postings and other important information, and ask questions. The list is open to all interested individuals.
To subscribe, send an email to the list-serv manager, Brandon Lundy (blundy@kennesaw.edu). To send a message to the list itself, write to SEA-L@LIST.KENNESAW.EDU. For more information about the listserv please contact the list manager, Brandon Lundy at blundy@kennesaw.edu. For full instructions, you can go to list.kennesaw.edu.
