Chair
Anthony Carter (USA)

Membership
Arunachalam Dharmalingam (India)
William Hanks (USA)
Barthélémy Kuate Defo (Cameroon)
Stephen Kunitz (USA)
Hania Sholkamy (Egypt)
Simon Szreter (United Kingdom)
Susan Watkins (USA)

Council Liaison
Alaka Basu

IUSSP Secretariat Contact Person
Mary Ellen Zuppan

Terms of Reference

This Committee seeks to foster interdisciplinary work in demography and anthropology. The core research methodologies of the two disciplines - quantitative, on the one hand, and ethnographic, on the other - are sharply contrasting but have the capacity to be mutually informing. Population processes and socio-cultural practices affect each other at both large and small levels of organization. The enormous changes and complex patterns of variation found by demographers challenge anthropologists to pay close attention to practices involved in vital events and to specify the relations between these local practices and those operating at national and global levels. The diverse realms of meaning and practice described by anthropologists challenge demographers to heed the cultural contexts of population processes.