Ethos is the official journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology. The journal came into being in 1973 through the efforts of Walter Goldschmidt and Douglas Price-Williams (founding editors), Mel Spiro, Ted Schwartz, Robert Levy, Douglas Schwartz, John Kennedy, George DeVos, and Robert Edgerton. Published by the University of California Press for seven years, Ethos became the official publication of the Society for Psychological Anthropology in 1978, when the organization was formally recognized as a section of the American Anthropological Association.
In 2004, at the request of Sara Harkness, then editor of Ethos, Walter Goldschmidt published a brief history of the origins of Ethos and the Society for Psychological Anthropology. With his permission and that of the American Anthropological Association and the University of California Press, we refer you to his text at the link below.
For more information about the Society for Psychological Anthropology, please visit the SPA website.
