Voting on the Objects of the Association and Joint Membership Category

At the meeting of the Members’ Forum in Tallinn, the Executive Committee asked members to consider and vote on two special resolutions.

Resolution 1: That the Association adopt as its Articles of Association the draft Articles set out in the document annexed hereto in substitution for its present Memorandum and Articles of Association.

Resolution 2: That the Association adopts as its Objects of the Association:

The objects of the Association are to promote education and research in social anthropology by improving understanding of world societies and encouraging professional communication and cooperation between anthropologists, especially those working in and on Europe.

Whilst Resolution 1 was carried unanimously, the proposal to vote on the new Objects opened up the floor to a lively discussion over the nature of the association.

Attending to the various issues raised at the meeting as recorded in its minutes, and following a proposal from the floor, the Executive Committee proposed the following amendment:

The objects of the Association are to promote education and research in social anthropology by improving understanding of world societies and encouraging professional communication and cooperation between anthropologists, especially in Europe.

The new wording was submitted to the Charity Commission for approval, which has now been confirmed. We hereby make the announcement of an electronic vote on the new Objects, which we plan to conduct in the early summer of 2015.

The EASA Executive will also be seeking members' views about removal or continuation of the joint membership category. EASA currently offers a category of joint membership. This applies to two people living at the same address. The annual membership fee for a pair of joint members is slightly lower than the sum of two individual annual membership fees. A previous justification for the fee was that joint members received only one paper-copy of the journal between them. However, EASA now offers online-only journal access as an option for all members.