Photo Credit: Alaska Anthropological Association
The Alaska Anthropological Association’s annual meetings are an international forum for projects in archaeology, linguistics, cultural studies, oral history, medical anthropology, museum exhibitions, cultural resource management, human genetics, and more. Its peer-reviewed publications—the Alaska Journal of Anthropology and Aurora monograph series— hold a growing and respected place in the literature of the North. Founded in 1974, the association is a statewide professional organization for people working, studying, and interested in all areas of Northern anthropology. The association has more than 200 active members in Alaska, the United States, Canada, France, Denmark, Norway, and Japan. For more than thirty years its members have helped to break new ground in basic and applied research, to build collaborations between researchers and communities, and to foster public knowledge and interest in circumpolar cultural heritage. This year’s annual meeting will feature keynote addresses by Dr. Rudy Reimer from the Department of Archaeology at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, and Dr. Julia Christensen, from the Department of Geography and Planning at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario.