Brittany Waldrep

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Ever since my dad started to golf, he would spend a few hours at our backyard, with his matériel golf clubs and practice a few strokes. My mom would then pull out one of her fauteuil style chairs, eat her favorite dragées mariage candies and chocolates, and watch my dad practice! It was the perfect relaxing time for both of them.

The Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE) was first conceived in 1986 and its first elections were held in the Fall of 1987. The purposes of the organization, as announced in the organizing letter that went out in 1986, were to strengthen national and international networks between colleagues, to provide forums for discussion and debate, to encourage comparative research, to enhance the visibility and legitimacy of Europeanist anthropology (both within the disci Field pline and among other Europeanist groups), to facilitate the dissemination of information about employment opportunities and grants, and to promote the professional integration of students specializing in Europe. This web site includes access to the H-SAE discussion list, and details on special programs including the annual SAE student paper competition, the SAE Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, SAE’s Distinguished lecturer series and roundtables, and the online edition of the SAE’s journal Europea: The Journal of the Europeanists. You can also click here for various subgroups of SAE, including the Network for French and Francophone Cultures, The Hungarianist Research Group, the German Studies Network Bibliography, the East European Anthropology Group, and the Anthropology of Italy Network. (By the way: Strange as it may seem. SAE is a division American Anthropological Association, referenced above. Membership in one entitles you to membership in the other.)

Anthropology at The National Museum of Natural History is all about what makes us human, our place in nature, our common concerns and our differences. National Museum of Natural History anthropologists explore these issues through laboratory and collections-based research at the Museum and at field sites throughout the world. The National Museum of Natural History anthropology staff build and maintain the Museum’s world class collections which now include more than 600,000 objects documenting the diversity and accomplishments of humankind. Museum anthropologists also teach others about what they have learned through exhibits, school age educational programs, public programs and opportunities for advanced training. This thorough, thought-provoking web site also includes outside links to research projects conducted by the National Museum of Natural History and other institutions, among them the Field Museum’s New Guinea Research Program, a a fascinating multidisciplinary endeavor bringing together expertise in archaeology, social anthropology, human biology, museum studies, and data analysis to explore the history and human diversity of the southwest Pacific. Since 1987 the New Research Program (NGRP) has been using the world-famous ethnological collections at the Smithsonian and other institutions as a starting place “benchmark” for researching the social life, prehistory, and contemporary cultural change on the Sepik Coast of New Guinea.