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ISAZ Newsletter Number 29, June 2005 er 29 r b m u N e t t Interim Editor: Patricia K Anderson (USA) e l Contents Letter from the President 2 Greetings from James Serpell, ISAZ President s Editorial Note 2 Official ISAZ Business 3 Annual General Meeting and Call for Nominations for Elections w Notice of Proposed Change to ISAZ By-laws Articles Received 5 e The Tower Ravens: A Modern Myth Boria Sax Gorilla Religiosus Janet Spittler Cat Mummification Project Richard Lobban and Emily Boisseau Centers of Research 13 N Center for the Human-Animal Bond Alan Beck Books, etc. 14 Hot off the Presses David C. Anderson’s Bibliographic Column Z Special Announcements 27 Bustad Companion Animal Veterinarian of the Year Award A Meetings of Distinction 28 ISAZ 2005, and various others www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CCAB/ISAZ.htm e 2005 S n I Ju 2 Letter from the President It has been a relatively quiet winter for ISAZ with Zoophilia: Sexual Relations with Animals” edited few major new developments to report. On Feb by Andrea Beetz and Anthony Podberscek is 16 the Board agreed formally to invite Purdue scheduled for publication in the near future. University Press to begin the process of Members will receive a copy of this in addition to converting Anthrozoös to digital format so as to their usual four issues of Anthrozoös this year. allow ISAZ members and other subscribers access to the journal online. Back issues of the journal Meanwhile, the annual scientific conference and are now in the process of being scanned and AGM in Niagara Falls is fast approaching. Kathy converted into Extensible Markup Language Gerbasi accepted the task of organizing this (XML); a simple, and very flexible text format meeting at alarmingly short notice but seems to originally designed to meet the challenges of have put together an excellent program large-scale electronic publishing. According the nonetheless. Please take the opportunity to thank Press, this process will be complete by the end of her for her efforts in person, if you plan to attend. July. Non-members will have online access only ISAZ is also grateful to Debbie Coultis and through libraries and institutions that purchase People Animals Nature, and the Humane Society site licenses for the journal, and ISAZ members of the United States, for their generous will have independent access via a “members sponsorship of this year’s conference. Finally, only” site. Members will also have pre-print because this is an election year, I also wish to publication access to journal articles, while the extend special thanks to three other outgoing conversion to XML makes it relatively simple for members of the ISAZ Board—Deborah Goodwin, the Press to extract subject-related articles and Andrew Rowan and Lee Zasloff—for their long reprint them as themed monographs. and distinguished service to the Society. As a possible taste of what is to come, the first James Serpell such anthrozoology monograph on “Bestiality and [email protected] Editorial Note It is my pleasure to take over the task of interim bond. I am happy to continue this job if elected in editor from Kathy Gerbasi who is busy organizing the July election, and look forward to meeting and this year’s ISAZ conference. I teach anthropology hearing from more of you at ISAZ meetings or at Western Illinois University in Macomb, IL through correspondence. Thank you to each of the where I developed and teach annually an scholars who contributed to my first issue. Anthrozoology course. As an anthropologist and archaeologist, I am particularly interested in the Pat Anderson many ways that culture affects our relationship [email protected] with other species and their habitats. My current research in this area pertains to the human-avian ISAZ Newsletter No. 29, June 2005 3 Official ISAZ Business Annual General Meeting and ISAZ Board Elections 2005 The Annual General Meeting (business meeting) Candidates standing for election or re-election of ISAZ is held every year between April and to the Board, either as Officers or Ordinary November, usually at the annual conference. This Members: year, the AGM will be held at the annual Officers: conference in Niagara Falls, NY, July 11-12. Please note that this is an election year. Ballots President: James Serpell (USA) were e-mailed to members by Kathy Kruger on Secretary: Penny Bernstein (USA) May 20, 2005. Please contact her at Membership Secretary & Treasurer: Kathy [email protected] if you have not received Krueger (USA) your ballot and are not attending the Annual Journal Editor: Anthony Podberscek (UK) General Meeting. Otherwise you may vote at the Newsletter Editor: Pat Anderson (USA) AGM. Ordinary Members of the Board: Current Officers and Members of the Board: Stine Christiansen (DK) President: James Serpell Lynette Hart (USA) Secretary: Penny Bernstein Garry Marvin (UK) (Interim) Membership Secretary/Treasurer: Veronique Servais (BE) Kathy Kruger Marie Suthers-McCabe (USA) Journal Editor: Anthony Podberscek Jo Swabe (NL) (Interim) Newsletter Editor: Pat Anderson Dennis Turner (ex officio) (CH) IAHAIO Liaison: Dennis Turner (ex officio - non- Steve Wickens (UK) voting, not elected) Candidates nominated as Ordinary Members Ordinary Members of the Board: to fill THREE existing vacancies on the Board: Stine Christiansen, Lynette Hart, Garry Marvin, Dr. Erika Friedmann (nominated: Penny Veronique Servais, Jo Swabe, Dennis Turner (ex Bernstein & Anthony Podberscek) officio) Steve Wickens, and Lee Zasloff Dr. Harold Herzog (nominated: James Serpell & Anthony Podberscek Co-opted members of the board: Dr. Francois Martin (nominated: Marie Suthers- McCabe & Kathy Gerbasi) Kathy Gerbasi and Marie Suthers-McCabe Dr. Stephen Zawistowski (nominated: James Serpell & Penny Bernstein) Current Board members whose terms are ending: Debbie Goodwin, Andrew Rowan, and Lee Zasloff The ISAZ Newsletter is currently published (electronically) twice a year, usually in April and November. The deadline for submission of material for the next issue is 15th October 2005. Please send all copy and announcements in electronic format to interim editor, Dr. Pat Anderson E-mail: [email protected] ISAZ Newsletter No. 29, June 2005 4 NOTICE OF PROPOSED CHANGE TO THE ISAZ BY-LAWS A previous change in the ISAZ by-laws in 2001 Proposed amendment: created an unforeseen contradiction that needs to be amended. In accordance to the rules of the Section 5. Term of Office. The President shall be Society, this notice of a proposed additional eligible for re-election for a total period of not change in the by-laws is being sent to the more than four successive years. Apart from the membership in advance of the July Annual Editor of the corporation's journal who shall be General Meeting: eligible for re-election indefinitely, all other officers and ordinary members of the board of Current by-law: directors shall be eligible for re-election for a total period of not more than six successive years. Section 5. Term of Office. The President shall be Officers may, however, be re-elected as ordinary eligible for re-election for a total period of not members of the Board, and vice versa. Other than more than four successive years. Apart from the the journal Editor, whose tenure may be extended Editor of the corporation’s journal who shall be subject to the agreement of a majority of board eligible for re-election indefinitely, all other members, no person may serve on the Board for officers and ordinary members of the board of more than twelve successive years. Any member directors shall be eligible for re-election for a total of the Board of Directors who has attended no period of not more than six successive years. board meetings for the three years preceding any Officers may, however, be re-elected as ordinary AGM at which elections take place shall not be members of the Board, and vice versa, but no eligible for re-election to the board at the AGM. person may serve on the Board for more than twelve successive years. Any member of the If you attend the AGM, you will be asked to vote Board of Directors who has attended no board on this amendment. Otherwise, no action need be meetings for the three years preceding any AGM taken. at which elections take place shall not be eligible for re-election to the board at the AGM. James A. Serpell, PhD President, ISAZ [email protected] ISAZ Newsletter No. 29, June 2005 5 Articles Received The Tower Ravens: A Modern Myth Boria Sax There are plenty of stories of ghosts that haunt the English Middle Ages and Renaissance, but the Tower of London, but even the most superstitious ravens are a reminder of a Britain that is far older visitors may feel reassured by manicured lawns, still. When their spontaneous cries echo souvenir shops, and crowds that fill the place dramatically against the stone walls, it can still today. The site, according to one legend, was the also be a reminder of mortality. grave of the Trojan leader Brutus, who had founded London.1 Its central fortification, known One flyer entitled “A Guide to the Tower as the “White Tower,” was built by William of Ravens,” published in about 1997 and distributed Normandy shortly after his conquest of Britain in free to tourists, announces on the cover, “For over 1066. The Tower has housed many famous 900 years these unique guardians have patrolled prisoners such as Sir Thomas More, Lady Jane the Tower of London.” It also states: Grey and Sir Walter Raleigh. It was the location of a great menagerie in medieval through For many centuries, ravens have Victorian times, and the Crown Jewels are still guarded the Tower of London displayed there.
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