I was lucky enough to be one of the fourteen participants of the founding meeting of WCAA in Recife in 2004. Next year I served as Chair of WCAA until 2009 when I started to work for IUAES with similar objectives – “promoting dialogues, joint actions and social solidarity establishing a true community of anthropologists.” Serving for IUAES as Secretary-General and then President until last year, I look back WCAA at its twentieth anniversary as well as IUAES in two decades. It was a stimulating experience to have a global anthropological landscape with details. There were anthropologies with local histories embedded in a world system, universal concerns articulated in localized terms, and varieties of interests and specialties with differing degrees of scale and power. It was also impressive how particular anthropological associations are differently organized and managed based on explicit and tacit assumptions about how they should be. The program for World Anthropologies is inevitably complex and complicated, and anthropology in a unified voice may itself be self-contradictory. Still, we may be approaching a scope or scopes in which we can talk, agree and disagree at WAU in and about the present global situation where we are placed.