SAS 40th CELEBRATION: BACK TO BEGINNINGS

Just in time for the the fortieth anniversary of the Southern Anthropological Society, in February 2005 the University of Alabama Press published a work of very special historical interest to members of SAS.  By agreement with the University of Georgia Press, regular publisher of SAS proceedings, the University of Alabama Press has brought together in one volume the first five proceedings of SAS. The 624-page reprint volume is Anthropological Society, 1968-1971. The titles and editors of the proceedings reprinted are

    Essays on Medical Anthropolog , Thomas Weaver, ed.

    Urban Anthropology: Research Perspectives and Strategies, Elizabeth M. Eddy, ed.

    Concepts and Assumptions in Contemporary Anthropology, Stephen A. Tyler, ed.

    The Not So Solid South: Anthropological Studies in a Regional Subculture, J. Kenneth Moreland, ed.

    Red, White, and Black: Symposium on Indians in the Old South, Charles M. Hudson, ed.

Setting it all into context will be an introductory essay by one of anthropology's finest literary stylists--and one of the founders of SAS--Miles E. Richardson.

This is an important work for all interested in the growth and span of modern anthropology. As a publisher's advance notice says-- Almost globally, the 1960s was a decade of change and a decade whose changes invariably focused one way or another on the human species.
Anthropology was no exception. As anthropologists began working in the South and on Southern issues, it became clear that this Southern focus deserved the gathering of specialists. Thus, the Southern Anthropological Society was established at in Atlanta. Emergent sub-areas in anthropology provided the structure upon which the early meetings of the SAS could
build. The first five "Proceedings" reveal both the heat and the light generated by their determination to apply anthropological research to the region's languages, cultures, archaeologies, and human compositions...and bring justice to the South by setting the record straight.

For more information on this forthcoming book contact University of Alabama Press at BOX 870380, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0380; or by telephone at (205) 348-5180; or through their website <http://www.uapress.ua.edu/staff.html>.

It promises to be a terrific boost for broadening awareness and respect for SAS in the profession nationally as well as regionally. Tell your colleagues--and urge them to join SAS if not already a member.

[Thanks to Tony Paredes for forwarding this text from Dan Ingersoll, webmaster]