The Swedish Anthropological Association, SANT, was established in 1991. The main activities of SANT are the annual conferences, organized in different university locations across Sweden. SANT has about 100 paying members. The mission of SANT is to serve as a forum for anthropology in Sweden, and thus to promote the development of scholarship and teaching in anthropology and its applied areas, anthropological knowledge and expertise in various contexts, to protect the professional interests of anthropologists, and to inform about anthropology, and actively work for an increased understanding of anthropology´s social and cultural scholarship at universities, governmental authorities and among the general public.
SANT’s board 2018-2019:
- Ulrik Jennische, chair (Stockholm University)
- Staffan Appelgren (University of Gothenburg)
- Tova Höjdestrand (Lund University)
- Nimmo Elmi (Linköping University)
- Molly Sundberg (Uppsala University)