American Anthropological Association

Organization's name: American Anthropological Association
Organization's acronym: AAA
Former Name(s): ZAP
Headquarters address  
Address: 2300 Clarendon Blvd, Suite 210
ZAP
ZAP
United States of America
Phone: 1-703-528-1902
Fax: 1-703-528-3546
Email: eliebow@americananthro.org
Web site: www.americananthro.org
Organization type: Non-governmental organization
Languages:
  • English

Activities

Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
Economic and Social:
  • Aging
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
  • Culture
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Extreme poverty
  • Financing for Development
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Human Rights
  • Humanitarian Affairs
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • Least Developed Countries
  • Migration
  • Minority Rights
  • Population
  • Refugees
  • Religion
  • Social Development
  • Sustainable Development
  • Women/gender Equality

Social Development:
  • Aging
  • Conflict
  • Cooperative
  • Disabled persons
  • Employment
  • Indigenous issues
  • Information and Communications Technologies
  • Poverty
  • Social policy
  • Technical cooperation
  • Youth

Sustainable Development:
  • Agriculture
  • Atmosphere
  • Biodiversity
  • Biotechnology
  • Capacity-building
  • Climate change
  • Consumption and production patterns
  • Demographics
  • Desertification and Drought
  • Disaster management and vulnerability
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • Forests
  • Freshwater
  • Gender equality
  • Health
  • Human settlements
  • Indicators
  • Industrial development
  • Information for decision-making and participation
  • Institutional arrangements
  • Integrated decision-making
  • International cooperation for an enabling environment
  • International law
  • Land management
  • Major Groups
  • Marine Resources
  • Means of Implementation (Trade, Finance, Technology, Tranfer, etc.)
  • Mining
  • Mountains
  • Oceans and seas
  • Partnerships
  • Poverty
  • Protecting and managing the natural resources
  • Rural Development
  • Sanitation
  • Science
  • Sustainable Tourism
  • Sustainable development for Africa
  • Sustainable development in a globalizing world
  • Sustainable development of SIDS
  • Technology
  • Toxic chemicals
  • Trade and environment
  • Transport
  • Waste (hazardous)
  • Waste (radioactive)
  • Waste (solid)
  • Waste Management

Peace and Development in Africa:
  • Development in Africa
  • Peace in Africa

Conflict Resolution in Africa:
  • Conflicts Resolution
Geographic scope: International
Year established (YYYY): 1902
Year of registration (YYYY): 2004
Organizational structure: The American Anthropological Association has about 10,000 members governed by an elected executive board, and further organized into 40 sections based on content area or culture area specialty. A full-time staff of 22 individuals manages publications, meetings, membership, public outreach, and public education initiatives.
Funding structure:
  • Membership fees or dues
  • Fundraising campaigns
  • Donations and grants from domestic sources
  • Other sources

Additional Information

Sustainable Development

Major group affiliation:
  • Non-governmental organization