BERGHAHN JOURNALS

Published since 1990, AJEC engages with current debates and innovative research agendas addressing the social and cultural transformations of contemporary European societies. The journal serves as an important forum for ethnographic research in and on Europe, which in this context is not defined narrowly as a geopolitical entity but rather as a meaningful cultural construction in people's lives, which both legitimates political power and calls forth practices of resistance and subversion. By presenting both new field studies and theoretical reflections on the history and politics of studying culture in Europe anthropologically, AJEC encompasses different academic traditions of engaging with its subject, from social and cultural anthropology to European ethnology and empirische Kulturwissenschaften.

In addition to the thematic focus of each issue, which has characterised the journal from its inception, AJEC now also carries individual articles on other topics addressing aspects of social and cultural transformations in contemporary Europe from an ethnographically grounded anthropological perspective. All such contributions are peer reviewed. Each issue also includes book reviews and reports on major current research programmes.

Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, European Studies

Forthcoming Issue

Volume 19 • Issue 2 • 2010

Thematic Focus: Human Ecology and the Anthropology of Place

Introduction: Fieldpaths Towards an Eco-Anthropology
Ullrich Kockel

Cosmologies and Lifestyles: A Cultural Ecological Framework and its Implications for Education Systems
Phil Bayliss and Patrick Dillon

Working ‘in the Opposite Direction’: Joseph Beuys in the Field
Victoria Walters

Calamity Meat and Cows of Abundance: Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Irish Folklore
Patricia Monaghan

‘Nature Has Its Own Soul and Speaks Its Own Language’: The Meaning of Local Landscape in the Pallastunturi Fells
Helena Ruotsala

Pokaiņi – The ‘Latvian Stonehenge’
Rūta Muktupāvela

Research Reports

Listening the Troubled Waters: Ethnographical Work as a Reciprocal Activity
Jaana Kouri

‘Isteach chun an Oileain’: Reflections on Community Mapping
Liam Campbell and Iain Mackinnon

General Articles

Religious Crossings and Conversions on the Muslim–Christian Frontier in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan
Mathijs Pelkmans

Weaving Threads between the Ethnic and the Global: African Women’s Entrepreneurial Ventures in Athens
Marina Petronoti

Book Review

Peter Worsley, An Academic Skating on Thin Ice
Reviewed by Elizabeth Tonkin

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

(formerly: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures)

Aims & Scope

Forthcoming Issue

Volume 19 • Issue 2 • 2010