IUAES

The IUAES is the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, the largest world forum of anthropologists and ethnologists. Its international Congress meets every five years in different countries, and includes biological anthropology, social anthropology, cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, medical anthroppology, ethnology, and folkloristics. The IUAES was founded under the guidance of UNESCO in 1948. The then-separate International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences had been founded in London in 1934. The two organizations united in 1964, becoming formally one organization four years later.

ites of previous Congresses

*I Congress (1934) - London, England, presided over by J.L. Myres
*II Congress (1938) - Copenhagen, presided over by T. Tomsen
*III Congress (1948) - Brussels, presided over by C. Olbrechts
*IV Congress (1952) - Vienna, presided over by Wilhelm Schmidt
*V Congress (1956) - Philadelphia, presided over by Froelich Rainey
*VI Congress (1960) - Paris, presided over by Henri Victor Vallois
*VII Congress (1964) - Moscow, presided over by S.P. Tolstov
*VIII Congress (1968) - Tokyo and Kyoto, presided over by Masao Oka
*IX Congress (1973) - Chicago
*X Congress (1978) - New Delhi, presided over by L. P. Vidyarthi
*XI Congress (1983) - Québec City and Vancouver
*XII Congress (1988) - Zagreb
*XIII Congress (1993) - Mexico City
*XIV Congress (1998) - Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A. Executive Secretary was Tomoko Hamada, who filled in after the death of the scheduled Congress president, Mario Zamora just after the previous Congress
*XV Congress (2003) - Florence, Italy, presided over by Brunetto Chiarelli

The XVI Congress was scheduled for Kunming, China for July 15-23, 2008, but was postponed ten weeks before the Congress was supposed to start. Although the actual date of the announcement came on May 13, one day after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, discussion among the various officials through memos, later circulated on the internet, showed the decision was made in the week before. Eventually it was revealed that the congress was postponed because of the riots in Tibet, [Citation
title = Minutes of the IUAES Executive Council meeting
date = July 17-18
year = 2008
url = http://www.leidenuniv.nl/fsw/iuaes/10-04-kunmingcongress.htm
accessdate = 2008-10-07] which is close to Kunming and that the central government in Beijing canceled the conference. [Citation
last = Angry Chinese Blogger
first =
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title = Anthropology: a Taboo Topic in China?
date = 24 May
year = 2008
url = http://angrychineseblogger.blog-city.com/anthropology_a_taboo_topic_in_china.htm
accessdate = 2008-10-07.] The conference's emphasis on cultural diversity may also have been a factor. It is now tentatively scheduled for July 2009, pending IUAES approval. The Congress president is Jing Jun.

The proposed site for the XVII Congress in 2013 is Manchester.

External links

* [http://www.wcaanet.org/member/iuaes Official web site]

References

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"International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences: Report of the Secretary-General," "Current Anthropology" 15 (1974): 145-6. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2740990?seq=1]