Organizing Committee, Delegates and Advisory Committee
Gordon Mathews
Chair
Hong Kong Anthropological Association
Clara Saraiva
DEPUTY CHAIR
Institute Of Social Sciences University Of Lisbon.
Helen Macdonald
Treasurer
Anthropology Southern Africa
Michel Bouchard
Secretary
Canadian Anthropology Society
Gonzalo Díaz Crovetto
University’s Postgraduate School
Bela Feldman-Bianco
Associação Brasileira de Antropologia
Francesca Declich
Edward B. Liebow
American Anthropological Association
James Cheng Chang
International delegates
Anthropology Southern Africa (ASnA) Helen Macdonald
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Mariya Ivancheva
International Association for Southeast European Anthropology (InASEA) Danijela Birt
International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) Bernhard Tschofen
International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Junji Koizumi
Latin American Association / Asociación Latinoamericana de Antropología (ALA) Lía Ferrero
Pan African Anthropology Association (PAAA) Paul Nkwi
Wenner-Gren Foundation (WGF) Danilyn Rutherford
Anthropology Association of Ireland (AAI) Thomas Strong
Argentina: Colegio de Graduados en Antropología de la República Argentina (CGA) Silvia Hirsch
Association of Social Anthropologists UK & Commonwealth (ASA) Simone Abram
Australia: Australian Anthopological Society (AAS) Debra McDougall
Brazil: Associação Brasileira de Antropologia (ABA) Patricia Birman
Canada: La Societe Canadienne d’Anthropologie (CASCA) Éric Gagnon Poulin
Chile: Colegio de Antropólogos de Chile (CAC) Rosamel Millaman Reinao
China: Chinese Anthropological Society (CAS) Gang Chen
Croatia: Croatian Anthropological Society (HAD) Pavao Rudan
Czech Republic: Czech Association for Social Anthropology (CASA) Martin Hermansky
Czech Republic: Česká Národopisná Společnost (ČNS) Eva Kuminkova
Finland: Finnish Anthropological Society (SAS) Jukka Jouhki
France: Association Française d’Ethnologie et d’Anthropologie / French Association of Ethnology and Anthropology (AFEA) Marie-Pierre Julien
France: Association Française des Anthropologues (AFA) Barbara Morovich
Germany: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA) Dorle Dracklé
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Anthropological Society (HKAS) Gordon Mathews
India: Indian Anthropological Association (IAA) Soumendra Mohan Patnaik
India: Indian Anthropological Society, Calcutta (IAS) Rajat Das
Indonesia: Indonesian Anthropological Association (AAI) Dian Rosdiana
Israel: Israeli Anthropological Association (IAA) Malka Shabtay
Italy: Società Italiana di Antropologia Culturale (SIAC) Ferdinando Mirizzi
Italy: Istituto Italiano di Antropologia (ISItA) Bernardino Fantini
Japan: Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (JASCA) Sachiko Kubota
Latvia: Latvijas Antropologu Biedriba / Latvijas Antropologu Biedriba (LAB) Klāvs SedlenieksIeva Puzo
Lithuanian Anthropological Association
Mexico: Colegio de Etnólogos y Antropólogos Sociales (CEAS) Lizeth Pérez Cárdenas.
New Zealand: Association of Social Anthropologists of New Zealand/Aoteroa (ASAA/NZ) Brigitte Bonisch-Brednich
Norway: Norsk Antropologisk Forening (NAF) Elisabeth Fosseli Olsen
Norway: Nordic Antropological Film Association (NAFA) Frode Storaas
Philippines: Anthropological Association of the Philippines / Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc (UGAT) Skilty Labastilla
Poland: Polskie Towarszystwo Ludoznawcze / Polish Ethnological Society (PTL) Anna Weronika Brzezińska
Portugal: Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (APA) Clara Saraiva
Russia: Association of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia (AAER) Valery Alexandrovich Tishkov
Serbia: Serbian Ethnological and Anthropological Society (SEAS) Vladimir S. Kostić
South-Korea: The Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology (KOSCA) Seok-jun Hong
Spain: Anthropological Association of Castile and Leon (AAC-LMK) Ignacio Fernández de Mata
Spain: (Catalania) Institut Català d’Antropologia (ICA) Araceli Muñoz Garcia
Spain: Instituto Madrileño de Antropología (IMA) Álvaro Pazos
Sweden: Anthropological Association of Sweden (SANT) Ulrik Jennishce
Taiwan: Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology (TSAE) Shu-min Huang
Tunisia: Tunisian Association of Anthropology / L’Association Tunisienne d’Anthropologie (ATA) Hassen Chaabani
UK: Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) David Shankland
Uruguay: Uruguay Association for Social and Cultural Anthropology (AUAS) María Noel Curbelo
USA: American Anthropological Association (AAA) Akhil Gupta
USA: Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Sherylyn Briller
Advisory committee
Greg Acciaioli – former undesignated member of the Org Comm
Annie Benveniste (Former President – French Association of Anthropologists)
Niko Besnier (Former editor-in-chief of American Ethonologist)
Nurit Bird-David (Former President – Israeli Anthropological Association)
David Bogopa (Former President – Pan African Anthropological Association)
João de Pina Cabral (Former President – European Association of Social Anthropologists)
Luis R. Cardoso de Oliveira (Former President – Brazilian Association)
Milka Castro Lucic (Former President – Latin American Association of Anthropology)
Yuri K. Chistov (Former President – Russian Association of Anthropologists and Ethnologists)
Freek Colombijn (Former Secretary of IUAES)
Virginia Dominguez (Former President – American Anthropological Association)
Benoît de l’Estoile (Former International Delegate – EASA)
Richard Fardon (Former Chair – Association of Social Anthropologists of the U.K and the Commonwealth)
Bela Feldman-Bianco (Former President – Associação Brasileira de Antropologia, ABA)
John Gledhill (Former Chairperson – Association of Social Anthropologists UK)
Miriam Grossi (Former President – Brazilian Anthropological Association, ABA)
Monica Heller (Former President – American Anthropological Association)
Shu-min Huang (Former President – Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology, TSAE)
Ellen R. Judd (Former President – Canadian Anthropology Society)
Karl-Heinz Kohl (Former Chairperson – DGV)
Susana Narotzky (Former President – European Association of Social Anthropologists, EASA)
Setha Low (Former President – American Anthropological Association)
Graeme Macrae (Former Chair – ASAA/NZ The Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Saša Missoni – (Former Vice-President International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences)
Henk Pauw (Former president – South African Association, Former member of WCAA Organising Committee)
Ana Bella Perez Castro (Former President – Latin American Association)
Thomas Reuter (Former Chair – WCAA)
Robert Rowland (Former President – Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, APA)
Danilyn Rutherford (President – Wenner-Gren Foundation)
Francine Saillant (Former President – Canadian Anthropology Society)
Noel B. Salazar (Former President – European Association of Social Anthropologists, EASA)
Yasumasa Sekine (Former President – Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, JASCA)
Mugsy Spiegel (Former President – Anthropology Southern Africa)
James B. Waldram (Former President – Canadian Anthropology Society)
Terence Wright (Former President – Anthropological Association of Ireland)
AB Permanent Council
Isaac Nyamongo (Pan African Association of Anthropologists – Past Chair 2020-2023)
Carmen Rial (Associação Brasileira de Antropologia – Past Chair 2018-2020)
Chandana Mathur (Anthropology Association of Ireland – Past Chair 2016-2018)
Vesna Vučinić-Nešković (International Association for Southeast European Anthropology Past Chair – 2014-2016)
Michal Buchowski (Polskie Towarszystwo Ludoznawcze / Polish Ethnological Society – Past Chair 2012-2014)
Thomas Reuter (Australian Anthropological Association – Past Chair 2009-2012)
Junji Koizumi (Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology – Past Chair 2005-2009)
Gustavo Lins Ribeiro (Brazilian Association of Anthropology – Past Chair 2004-2005)
Gordon Mathews
WCAA, Co-Chair WAU Steering Committee
Gordon Mathews is a Research Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and is the Deputy Chair of the World Council of Anthropological Associations. He has written What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds (1996), Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket (2000), Hong Kong China: Learning to Belong to a Nation (2008, with Lui Tai-lok and Ma Kit-wai), Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong (2011), The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace (2017, with Linessa Dan Lin and Yang Yang) and Life After Death Today in the United States, Japan, and China (2023, with Yang Yang and Miu Ying Kwong). He has co-edited books on consumption in Hong Kong, the Japanese generation gap, pursuits of happiness around the world, and globalization from below. He has been involved with the Hong Kong Anthropological Society for several decades, as well as with the East Asian Anthropological Association, and has been co-editor of WCAA’s Déjà Lu since its founding, and also of Asian Anthropology. He has been teaching a weekly class of asylum seekers in Hong Kong for the past fifteen years, and also composes and performs electronic music: https://www.youtube.com/@gordonmathews2647/videos
Clara Saraiva
WCAA, Deputy Chair WCAA
Institute of Social Sciences- University of Lisbon (ICS-UL)
Helen Macdonald
Helen Macdonald is Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town. A social anthropologist with a BA, BCom and MA from the University of Otago in her native New Zealand, and a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Drawing on 25 years of research, she recently published with Routledge Witch Accusations from Central India: The Fragmented Urn. This book positions witchcraft in light of current dialogues around modernity, post colonialism, violence and where alternative beliefs to those imagined as rational can and should be engaged, yet extends the conversation beyond the African continent where very little attention has been focused. For the last decade she has led a research project entitled The Social Markers of TB that has worked with ethnographic research methods to understand TB infected persons, their families, care providers, and social networks. This international Medical Humanities project in partnership with community led NGOs in both South Africa and India was an important and valuable foundation in bridging anthropology with other disciplines to try to bring further insight to the controversial issues surrounding TB. Her new research interests look at the way parents have allied (or not) with their transgender children and with many others to better understand, explain, and undo structural transphobia and the intersection with gendered and racialized discrimination. She is the WAU Treasurer.
Michel Bouchard
Michel Bouchard is a Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Northern British Columbia in Canada. He served as President of the Canadian Anthropology Society/Société Canadienne d’Anthropologie (CASCA). He has researched ethnicity and nationalism, particularly in Eastern Europe and Russia. He has studied the history of French-speaking populations in Western North America in the 18th and 19th centuries. This past decade, he has studied Métis ethnogenesis and has published a number of books examining historical Métis communities. These include Bois-Brûlés: The Untold Story of the Métis of Western Québec. Vancouver: UBCPress, 2020. Co-authored with Sébastien Malette and Guillaume Marcottehttp://www.ubcpress.ca/bois-brules as well as the winner of the 2020 Prix du Canada Prize Les Bois-Brûlés de l’Outaouais. Une étude ethnoculturelle des Métis de la Gatineau. Québec: Les Presses de l’Université Laval. Co-authored with Sébastien Malette and Guillaume Marcotte. https://www.pulaval.com/produit/les-bois-brules-de-l-outaouais-etude-ethnoculturelle-et-juridique-des-metis-de-la-gatineau.
He is serving as WAU Secretary.
