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{{Unreferenced, date=October 2017 The Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) is a group of anthropologists, archaeologists, economists, geographers and other scholars interested in the connections between economics and social life. Its members take a variety of approaches to economics: some have a substantivist perspective, while others are interested in the
new institutional economics New Institutional Economics (NIE) is an economic perspective that attempts to extend economics by focusing on the institutions (that is to say the sociology, social and legal Norm (sociology), norms and rules) that underlie economic activity and ...
. Every year the SEA holds a spring meeting focused on a specific topic in
economic anthropology Economic anthropology is a field that attempts to explain human economic behavior in its widest historic, geographic and cultural scope. It is an amalgamation of economics and anthropology. It is practiced by anthropologists and has a complex re ...
. The journal ''Economic Anthropology '' is also produced annually, based on the meeting. The SEA is a section of the
American Anthropological Association The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is an organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology. With 10,000 members, the association, based in Arlington, Virginia, includes archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, ...
. The society was founded in 1980. Harold K. Schneider served as the first president, from 1980 until 1982.


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Economic anthropology Economic anthropology is a field that attempts to explain human economic behavior in its widest historic, geographic and cultural scope. It is an amalgamation of economics and anthropology. It is practiced by anthropologists and has a complex re ...


Topics of recent spring meetings

*2010 - ''Contested Economies: Global Tourism and Cultural Heritage.'' University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida *2009 - ''Weaving Across Time and Space: The Political Economy of Textiles.'' University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California. *2008 - ''Cooperation'', University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. *2007 - ''The Political Economy of Hazards and Disasters'', University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina. *2006 – ''Economics and Morality''. California State University, Channel Islands, Ventural California. *2005 - ''Economies and the Transformation of Landscape''. Dartmouth College. Hanover, New Hampshire. *2004 - ''Fast Food - Slow Food: Social and Economic Contexts of Food and Food Systems'',Decatur, Georgia *2003 - ''Migration and Economy'', Monterrey, Mexico *2002 - ''Valuables, Goods, Wealth and Money'', Toronto, Canada *2001 - ''Labor'', Milwaukee, WI *2000 - ''Gender in Economic Life'', Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana *1999 - ''Development Beyond the 20th Century: A Critical Discussion in Economic Anthropology'', Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas *1998 - ''Theory in Economic Anthropology'', Chicago, Illinois


Titles of recent volumes

*Vol. 25: ''Economies and the Transformation of Landscape.'' Lisa Cliggett and Chris Poole, eds. In Progress. *Vol. 24: ''Fast-Food, Slow-Food.'' Rick Wilk, ed. 2007 *Vol. 23: ''Labor in Cross-Cultural Perspective.'' (Paul Durrenberger and Judith Marti, eds.) Alta Mira 2006. *Vol. 22: ''Migration and Economy: Global and Local Dynamics.'' Lillian Trager, ed. Alta Mira 2005.


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Society for Economic Anthropology wiki and websiteAltaMira press, the publisher of the annual volumesThe Society for Economic Anthropology Home page
Anthropology organizations Economic anthropology Articles lacking reliable references from October 2017