Focaal
Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
Aims & Scope
Appears 3 times a year
Focaal - Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology is a peer-reviewed journal advocating an approach that rests in the simultaneity of ethnography, processual analysis, local insights, and global vision. It is at the heart of debates on the ongoing conjunction of anthropology and history as well as the incorporation of local research settings in the wider spatial networks of coercion, imagination, and exchange that are often glossed as 'globalization' or 'empire'. Seeking contributions on all world regions, Focaal is unique among anthropology journals for consistently rejecting the old separations between 'at home' and 'abroad' , 'center' and 'periphery'. The journal therefore strives for the resurrection of an 'anthropology at large', that can accommodate issues of the global south, post-socialism, mobility, metropolitan experience, capitalist power and popular resistance into integrated perspectives.
FOCAAL 58 (forthcoming Winter 2010)
THEME SECTION:
Race ascendant: Framing physical anthropology in Central and Southeastern Europe
Edited by Marius Turda and Tudor Georgescu
Introduction: Whither race? Physical anthropology in Central and Southeastern Europe after 1945
Marius Turda
Race and physical anthropology in interwar Austria
Margit Berner
Entangled traditions of race: Physical anthropology in Hungary and Romania, 1900-1940
Marius Turda
Physical anthropology and ethnogenesis in Bulgaria, 1878-1944
Christian Promitzer
The “strong nucleus of the Greek race”: Racial nationalism and anthropological science
Sevasti Trubeta
ARTICLE
How popular Confucianism became embarrassing: On the spatial and moral centre of the house in rural China
Hans Steinmuller
FORUM
1989
Contributions by: Michael Burawoy, Béla Greskovits, Douglas R Holmes, Caroline Humphrey, Don Kalb, David Ost, Katherine Verdery
REVIEW ARTICLES
Anthropology, corruption, and human rights
David Nelken
Can nature be governed? Design, practice, and power in environmental conservation
Michael L. Cepek