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Local Practitioner Organizations (LPOs)
Local Practitioner Organizations are regional practicing anthropology organizations. LPOs can cover a metropolitan area, or several states. LPOs offer networking and professional development opportunities.
Practicing anthropologists should consider joining their local LPO for the professional and social benefits they offer. If there is not an LPO in your area, let us know, and we can work with you to create one!
List of LPOs
- Bay Area Association of Practicing Anthropologists (BAAPA)
- Boston Area LPO (BLPO)
- Central Valley Applied Anthropology Network (CVAAN)
- Chicago Association for the Practice of Anthropology (CAPA)
- High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology (HPSfAA)
- Mid-Atlantic Association of Practicing Anthropologists (tentative)(MAAPA)
- Mid-South Association of Practicing Anthropologists (MSAPA)
- New York Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NYAPA)
- North Carolina LPO (NC LPO)
- Southern California Applied Anthropology Network (SCAAN)
- Sun Coast Organization of Practicing Anthropologists (SCOPA)
- Texas Area Practicing Anthropology Society (TAPAS)
- Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists (WAPA)
An early NAPA Bulletin (1988) highlighted LPOs and their place in American anthropology. The issue itself can be ordered through AAA, and provides an interesting look at LPOs and their impact on anthropology.
LPO Contact
To contact the NAPA LPO liaison, send an email to lpos@practicinganthropology.org.
How NAPA Can Support LPOs
NAPA is committed to helping LPOs develop and thrive. While ultimately it is up to the local members to guide the organization, NAPA will do everything it can to ensure success. Support to LPOs is offered in various forms:
The annual NAPA LPO luncheon at the AAA meeting allows LPO members to gather and discuss their needs, successes and stories in an informal and collegial atmosphere. Luncheons vary in format but either directly or indirectly involve the NAPA leadership. The main goal of the luncheons is for LPO and NAPA members to share information, and for LPO members to directly address their issues to the national organization.
Three resource tools are currently available to assist LPOs. These are an LPO development guide, a membership database, and a website template. NAPA can also host an LPO web page.
NAPA can provide information dissemination support through various means. LPOs can publicize their events and activities through the NAPA column in the monthly Anthropology Newsletter. NAPA can also contact its local members directly on behalf of an individual NGO. NAPA also works with SfAA to coordinate LPO efforts, and to ensure your messages also reach SfAA members.
In addition, LPOs can submit their activities, events and news items directly to the NAPA website calendar, where they are available immediately for both members and the general public to review.
Finally, NAPA can assist in various technical undertakings, such as the creation of an email group or list serve, web site development, public relations efforts, and related activities.
If you would like to work with NAPA to develop an LPO in your area, please contact the NAPA LPO coordinator via email at lpos@practicinganthropology.org.
#1 by james mullooly - January 23rd, 2010 at 11:02
Date: Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:32 PM
Subject: [NAPA] searching for NY Assoc.
To: Administrator
On your list of LPO’s you list the New York Association for the Practice of Anthropology but it doesnt seem to have a website. How do I find out about them?
#2 by james mullooly - January 23rd, 2010 at 11:21
TO MEMBER: NYAPA does not have a web site as of yet. We look forward to them developing one. You can leave a message for the NY folk here if you like.