SEAA
Society for East Asian Anthropology
What is SEAA?
The Society for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA) is an officially recognized section within the American Anthropological Association (AAA), open to all members of the AAA, but its activities are intended to reach beyond the membership of the AAA. Any anthropologist anywhere in the world is welcome to join SEAA, to subscribe to our EASIANTH listserv, to post, and to participate. SEAA is committed to developing international channels of communication among anthropologists throughout the world. We hope to promote discussion and share information on diverse topics related to the anthropology of Taiwan; PRC; Hong Kong; Japan; Korea; other societies/cultures of Asia and the Pacific Basin with historical or contemporary ties to East Asia; transnational linkages among East Asian or between East Asian and other societies/cultures; and diasporic societies/cultures identified with East Asia.
SEAA Member Journal Discount Offer
We are pleased to announce a special offer available to members of SEAA. You may now receive a discount on subscription to the journal Asian Anthropology. This discount in no way indicates any special or "official" relationship between SEAA and Asian Anthropology. Simply, it is the first of what we hope will be many journals that will offer discounts for our members. Click here for more information and the Table of Contents for current and past issues. To receive your discount, use this form (332KB PDF) from the Chinese University.
2007 Prize Recipients
Many congratulations to Tamara Jacka, recipient of The Society for East Asian Anthropology’s 2007 Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize for Rural Women in Urban China: Gender, Migration, and Social Change (London: M.E. Sharpe, 2006); Jay Sohn, winner of the 2007 David Plath Media Award for Shocking Family; and 
John Cho, winner of the Theodore Bestor Outstanding Graduate Paper Award for The Wedding Banquet Revisited: ’Contract Marriages’ Between Korean Gays and Lesbians and 
Matthew Erie, honorable mention for the Bestor Award for Property Law, Public Interest, and the New Media in China: The Hard Case of "The Toughest Nail House in History"
SEAA 2006 Conference at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (13-16 July 2006)
SEAA 2006 Conference Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ant/SEAAconf/. You are invited to participate in a conference of the Society for East Asian Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association, which will be held in New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong on 13-16 July 2006. This meeting is a unique opportunity for East Asian anthropologists and anthropologists of East Asia to learn about recent research in their areas (both geographic and theoretical) and to create links with research in other East Asian countries. The conference will include a diverse and multi-cultural community of anthropologists, both students and established scholars, and both academic and applied anthropologists. This conference, which will be conducted in English, is jointly sponsored by the Society for East Asian Anthropology, the Department of Anthropology of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Anthropological Society. Abstracts should be submitted by 15 Jan 2006; your conference registration and housing application need to be submitted by 15 March 2006. Please visit the conference website for applications, forms, and additional information.
106th AAA Annual Meeting: Papers and Panels Concerning the Anthropology of Asia
Download the SEAA printer ready program (108KB PDF)
2006 Prize Recipients
The Society for East Asian Anthropology’s 2006 Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize was awarded to Susan Orpett Long for Final Days: Japanese Culture and Choice at the End of Life (University of Hawaii Press, 2005). This prize is awarded annually for the best book in East Asian anthropology at the Society’s business meeting at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting on November 18, 2006. Final Days is a rich ethnography of the last stage of life in contemporary Japan and an exploration of descriptive cross-cultural bioethics.
The Bestor Prize for the Outstanding Graduate Paper in East Asian Anthropology for 2006 was awarded to Shannon May for her paper, "The Work of Development: National Agendas, Local Income and Knotted Knowledge in Huangbaiyu." This paper describes the ways in which a development project in rural China is shaped by competing national and local goals, and by the financing and organization of the development apparatus. This annual prize was awarded by the Society for East Asian Anthropology at its business meeting on November 18, 2006 at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
SEAA 2006 Conference at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (13-16 July 2006)
SEAA 2006 Conference Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ant/SEAAconf/. You are invited to participate in a conference of the Society for East Asian Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association, which will be held in New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong on 13-16 July 2006. This meeting is a unique opportunity for East Asian anthropologists and anthropologists of East Asia to learn about recent research in their areas (both geographic and theoretical) and to create links with research in other East Asian countries. The conference will include a diverse and multi-cultural community of anthropologists, both students and established scholars, and both academic and applied anthropologists. This conference, which will be conducted in English, is jointly sponsored by the Society for East Asian Anthropology, the Department of Anthropology of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Anthropological Society. Abstracts should be submitted by 15 Jan 2006; your conference registration and housing application need to be submitted by 15 March 2006. Please visit the conference website for applications, forms, and additional information.