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Call for Award Submissions!
The Stirling Award, The Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology, and the Condon Prize for Best Student Essay in Psychological Anthropology are now open…
SPA Board Message Regarding AAA & Biennial
Dear SPA Members, We are aware that AAA sections and members are making determinations about whether or not to attend the 2024 AAA meeting in Tampa….
CMS Book Series Call for Submission
The SPA invites you to submit manuscripts to their Culture, Mind, and Society (CMS) Book Series, published by Palgrave Macmillan (part of the Springer Nature Group). The SPA and…
Announcing the 2025 SPA Biennial Meeting
We are pleased to announce that the 2025 SPA Biennial Meeting will be convened at the Tamaya Resort, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico. Meeting dates are April 3rd-6th,…
Spring 2024 Newsletter
Contents include President’s Message and Plan for the 2025 Biennial
Dr. Tanya Luhrmann
2023 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
Dr. Thomas Csordas
2022 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology is the flagship publication of the SPA. Ethos is an interdisciplinary and international quarterly journal devoted to scholarly articles concerning the interrelationships between individuals and sociocultural milieu.