Social Analysis
The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice
Aims & Scope
Editor-in-Chief: Bruce Kapferer, University of Bergen
Social Analysis has long been at the forefront of anthropology's engagement with the humanities and other social sciences. In forming a critical, concerned, and empirical perspective, Social Analysis encourages contributions that break away from the disciplinary bounds of anthropology and suggest innovative ways of challenging hegemonic paradigms through 'grounded theory', analysis based in original empirical research.
The journal invites contributions directed toward a critical and theoretical understanding of cultural, political, and social processes. It is available for the publication of information and discussion by active ethnographic researchers into the forces involved in the production of human suffering, poverty, prejudice, war, and violence. The main thrust of the journal is toward publishing material that presents a critical and concerned anthropology.
Social Analysis is published three times a year: spring, summer, and winter. Each year one issue is guest edited and focuses on a single theme. The other issues contain a forum on anthropology's contribution to current issues of global significance, as well as general articles. Other features can include a special section, reviews, and review essays.
Subjects: Anthropology, Politics, International Relations
Forthcoming Issue
Volume 55 • Issue 3 • 2011
Soul Encounters: Emotions, Corporeality, and the Matter of Belief in a Bornean Village
Liana Chua
Autochthony, Rumor Dynamics, and Communal Violence in Western Uganda
Rune Hjalmar Espeland
Video Surveillance in Portugal: Political Rhetoric at the Center of a Technological Project
Catarina Frois
Representing Mayas: Indigenous Authorities and Citizenship Demands in Guatemala
Elisabet Dueholm Rasch
Imposed Politics of Cultural Differences: Managed Multiculturalism in Israeli Civil Society
Zvika Orr
Vigilance: On Conflict, Social Invisibility, and Negative Potentiality
Henrik Vigh
Toward an Anthropology of ‘State Failure’: Lebanon’s Leviathan and Peace Expertise
Nikolas Kosmatopoulos
The Self of the Scientist, Material for the Artist: Emergent Distinctions in an Interdisciplinary Collaboration
James Leach
Soul Encounters: Emotions, Corporeality, and the Matter of Belief in a Bornean Village
Liana Chua
BOOK REVIEW
Cecilie Vindal Ødegaard, Mobility, Markets and Indigenous Socialities:
Contemporary Migration in the Peruvian Andes
Review by Jason Pribilsky