Anthropology Newsletter 15

April 1980

Meeting Calendar

Osc 2C.J.n 1 INlERNAlIONAL ASSOCIATION

FOR CROMEULTURAL PSlCHOLOOY 51n

1980

1981

Sen1 8.10 181 NILO.SAUARAN LINGUISTICS

Jan 3.8AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD.

VANCEMENT OF SCIENCE APnbal Meallno.
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Canada Sympos,m p , o w a I aeeaJne Uar 15.
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Socy Priscilla R e h r g , a1 AAAS

Jan 11 I 0 FIRST NEW WORLO CONFERENCE
ON RESCUE ARCHEOLOOY Owlo EcJsdOn

May 22-25 INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ClVlLUATlONS S ,

Popular Culture in
Latin America Is Theme
of 1981 Conference

Call for Papers

on Drug Abuse
in Papua New Guinea

A 2.day conference on Popular Culture in Latln

Amerca will be held March 5-7. 1981 in the El
Paso.Juare7.Las Cruces area, sponsored by the
New Mexico State University. Unwersity of Texas
at El Paso. Unwersity of Minnesota and the Unlver.
%dad Autonoma 4e Chlhuahua. Papers are invited
on a wide range of aspects of popular culture such
as COVICS. p ~ l p s radio.
.
television. tabloid press.
carnivals, spor:s. popular mus!c. crnema. loro
novelas. cartoons and popular poster or wel: art.
Selecled papers w t l i be publtshed in (he brst issue
01 tne Journal 01 Lafin Amencen Popular Culrure.
coedited by Harold H,nCs and Charles Tatum
Send 250.word abstract to Tatum. Box 3L. Dept o f
Forelgv Languqes. New Mexlco State U. Las
Crdces NM: 5051646.2942 or 3408.Jolning Tatum
and.Hinds asconlerence Coordinalors are Ricardo
Agu'lar !Texas.[ Paso) ana Enriaue Conazar
(UACI.

The Papua New Guinea Institute 01 Applied

Social 8 Economic Research is sponsoring a
2.year governmental study of alcohol use and
abuse, whlch has been identified as a major social
problem in that country. As a part of this project a
conlerence is being planned lor the spring o! 1981
In Port Moresby. Scholars who have data on
alcohol uselabuse in Papua New Guinea w i l l be
flown In for a \-week symposium. The proceealngs
will be published in the LASER Series. Interested
paper contributors should provide ( 1 1 a curriculum
vitae, (2) dates of fieldwork in Papua New Guinea.
(3) location!s) of fleldwork. includmg cultures
s:udled an4 the provinces in wh'ch lhey are
located. (4the major focus of research prolects.
and (5) the nature of data and genera; dqreclions
the paper maght lake.,Wr#te'to Mac MBlshaU,.lneI
o f X ~ l * 6 o&:con
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Res. W Box 5854. B B I ~ O ,
Papua New Guinea.

Colloquium Addresses
R&D Public Policy
For the fifth year, the American Assocletlon for
the Advancement of Science will hold a collo
qulum In Washington. DC. June 19-20, at which
leaders from government. industry and the sclen.
tilic and technical community will discuss issues
01 current concern relating to research and devei.
opment (R&D) and public policy. Topics to be addressed inclt,de federal RBD; industry R&D and
the economy; science and research at universi.
tles; International aspects of R&D; and state and
)caI interests in RCD. For information. write to
?e AAAS Office of Public Sector Programs, 1776
lassachusetts Av NW. Washlngton. DC 20038.

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