-- The American Anthropological Association recently honored UC Davis anthropology professor Aram Yengoyan with a special plenary session at its annual meeting in San Francisco -- "Locating Theory: Papers in Honor of Aram A. Yengoyan." Two anthropologists who are both National Academy of Sciences members -- University of Chicago ethnographer Marshal Sahlins and UC San Diego Professor Emeritus Melford Spiro -- led discussions of papers presented by 12 scholars. Yengoyan's research and writings have dealt with issues of culture, ideology, civil society and class analysis. His social anthropological fieldwork has focused on Southeast Asia and the Aboriginal cultures of Australia. His most recent work is on the comparative analysis of race and racism and the historical and comparative foundations of international exhibitions from l85l to l940 as they relate to nationalism and global imperialism.