Results of the 1985 Survey of Departments

Abstract

The Second Annual Open Forum offers you thc opponunity 10 pencrate discussion of initiatives that you may wish to develop. to address pruplbals already undrr consideration by the Association. to bring your concern* as anthmplogist. citixen and human k i n g to the attention of othcr anthmpolrr gists. to initiate networks or rhc formation of interest eroups and in general to learn what othcr anthropulopists lind of concern md to express your own views. The 1985 Open Forum wtll be held at 9 pm on Friday. December 6 . during the annual meeting in Washington. DC In large pan as a result of issues raised last year at the t i n t Open Forum regarding the Principles of Professional Responsibility and the draft Code of Ethics that had k e n proposed to supersede it. the Association's b a r d of Directors is undertaking a thomugh reassessment. concentrating on thc possibility of amending the prcsenl Principles of F'mfessional Responsibility to meet anthropolopirrs' need5 for ethical guidance and arandardr in all research andemployment situuims. In rcqmnre 10 anaher.topic raised at last y e a ' s Forum. the Board has moved to develop programs and publications for 1992. thc ycdr of Ihc Columbion Quinccnrenary. that will cmphasize the indigenous pcoples of the Americas This year's Forum provides anothcr opponunity fur AAA mcmbcrs to offer opinions and perspectives tin a variety of issues lo h assured that your topic is presented to the audience at the Forum. pleaw send your agenda itcm to me before November IS.Addilional items for the agenda will bc received from the floor if time permits. An individual introducing a topic will be called on initially to speak to it for 3-5 minutes. Bring your own handouts. etc. i t you wish. (WK will not. however. be able to duplicate them for you. ) Is51 year's Forum got off to a strong start. with c h c tu 200 pcrsuns attending. The of^ ficus of thc Association invite you to continuc to make the Open Forum an invigoratingand innovativeevcnt. .runt! Helm Prc.~idmr-clccf. A M Ucpr nfAnrh. Ulowu Iowa Cin. IA52242 NEW JOURNAL ANNOUNCED Cultural Anthropology Debuts in 1986CulnrmlA&mpdo@. a quarterlypllrnal o f the S o c i f a Cultural A n t h m pology, will be published in Fehruary 1986 under che e d i t d i p of George E Marcus (Rice). w h q u r h that the new journal "will be a forum for discussion and dchatc in che d y of culture as i t is developing in anauopOlogy and all other relevant d i s c i p l i . We encourage contributions that at ambitious in their aim and in spirit am speculative. risk-taking. and synmctic of cumw ideas. We arr especially i n t d in cxplonng relationships between thedevelopment of theory and its applidions in mearch practice.Contrihutiuar m srcknme that represent the traditional subfields o f anthm pology and also dm examine trends in culrunl srudiesmUuisc in such ficldcas history. philosopby, l i i studies. sociology, feminism. muxism. psychoanalysis. politid ecommy. architecnuc.

Introduction

“…Further, more recent evidence suggests that the number of academic positions is not likely to increase in the near future. In 1984-85, for example, 65 academic departments reported only 55 (net) open teaching positions, while the year's total production of new PhDs by those same departments was 391 (Whitney 1985). At the present rate of increase in nonacademic employment, at least 50% of all new anthropology PhDs will be working outside academia by 1993 (Wulff 1985).…”