ASAEO + NEWS = ASAO
| dc.contributor.author | Scaglion, Richard | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-10-06T22:23:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-10-06T22:23:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper examines the growth of ASAO from a society primarily focused on Eastern Oceania and Austronesian-speaking peoples to an umbrella organization that, today, encompasses the entire range of Pacific cultures. A primary decision towards this end was to include the very large number of researchers who work with speakers of non-Austronesian languages on the mainland of New Guinea. ASAO began as ASAEO, the Association for Social Anthropology in Eastern Oceania. Its members employed a controlled comparison approach to explore social variation in Austronesian (mostly Polynesian) societies. Meanwhile, Melanesianists, especially those working on the mainland of New Guinea with Papuan-speaking peoples, were without a comparable professional organization. Starting around 1980, a regional newsletter called <i>NEWS (The NorthEast Wantok System newsletter)</i> was begun with the goal of helping Melanesianists located in the Northeast area of the USA to keep in touch. It quickly grew and morphed into a regular newsletter with much wider (actually worldwide) distribution. But as the participation of Melanesianists in ASAO grew, <i>NEWS</i> became redundant with the <i>ASAO Newsletter</i> and the ASAONET listserv, and <i>NEWS</i> was terminated in May 1995. In this paper, I use <i>NEWS</i> as a focal point to trace the increasing involvement of Melanesianist anthropologists in ASAO and the concomitant broadening of ASAO’s comparative ethnographic base. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 19 pages | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Scaglion, Richard. 2021. ASAEO + NEWS = ASAO. ASAO Histories Paper 9. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, May. http://hdl.handle.net/10524/63964 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10524/63964 | |
| dc.language.iso | en-US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | ASAO Histories Papers;9 | |
| dc.rights | Copyright is owned by the author. This paper has been made available online for research purposes, with the permission of the author. Further reproduction, outside fair-use conventions, is prohibited without prior permission of the author. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania | en_US |
| dc.title | ASAEO + NEWS = ASAO | en_US |
| dc.type | Other | en_US |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text | en_US |