The Finnish Anthropological Society is a learned society founded in 1975. The core function of the Society is to promote research of high quality in the fields of anthropology and disciplines closely related to anthropology. The Society also creates public venues for discussing and disseminating anthropological knowledge and aims at consolidating the identity of anthropologists working in Finland.
Events of the Finnish Anthropological Society
The 2011 Annual Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society was held in Helsinki on 5th-7th October 2011 under the theme Dynamic Anthropology: Tensions between Theory and Practice.
Professor Joel Robbins gave the Edvard Westermarck Memorial Lecture in Helsinki on 5th October 2011 titled Transcendence and the Anthropology of Christianity (lecture abstract - pdf)