Association of Social Anthropologists Information

The ASA offers a number of benefits to members, including receipt of the annual ASA monograph, reduced fees for its annual conference and inclusion in the directory of members. Through agreements within the World Council of Anthropological Associations it enables members to secure reduced (member rate) fees to conferences hosted by anthropological associations that are WCAA members around the world (such as the AAA and EASA). The ASA holds a major annual conference: this is usually hosted by an Anthropology department in the UK, but aims every five years to be a collaborative event with a Commonwealth partner association. Since 2007, a highlight of the ASA conference has been the annual Firth lecture, given by leading anthropologists from around the world. The ASA offers a limited number of bursaries to assist students (particularly those from the global South) to attend ASA conferences. It also provides occasional small grants to support workshops and conferences by ASA members and networks. The ASA publishes and maintains the discipline's Ethical Guidelines, which are increasingly used as a model for other associations and other disciplines. It has an open access journal, ASAonline and supports various networks: Apply (with the journal Anthropology in Action); Anthropology of Britain; and a postgraduate network (with the journal Anthropology Matters). It also supports members who wish to set up new networks. The ASA manages the Firth Fund and, in collaboration with the Royal Anthropological Institute, administers the Radcliffe-Brown, Firth and Sutasoma Awards which assist postgraduates in their last six months of thesis-writing. The ASA represents its members in a wide range of consultations and campaigns, for example relaying its members' interests to the ESRC, HEFCE, and other policy and funding bodies. It also represents individual members or Anthropology departments when this is necessary. The ASA aims to promote Anthropology, complementing the activities of the RAI, through its own activities and ...