Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

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Editor: Ullrich Kockel School of History, English and Politics, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures
Relaunched in 2008 as the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

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.

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Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, European Studies

Forthcoming Issue

Volume 21 • Issue 1 • 2012

Editorial
Ullrich Kockel

Dante Alighieri Was Here: Production of Locality, Imaginary Geographies and Actualised Histories in a Small Slovenian Town
Miha Kozorog

Border/land Sustainability: Notes on the Human and Material Bordering of Communities at the External Border of the European Union
Karri Kiiskinen

Looking for the ‘Language’ of Recognition among Greek Communities of Georgia
Eleni Sideri

Emotions and Authority in Religious Organisations: The Case of a New Prayer Group in Contemporary Transcarpathia
Agnieszka Halemba

The Worse the Better: On Safe Ground in ‘The Most Polluted Town on Earth’
Trond Berge

Resistance against the Mafia: A Civic Struggle to Defy an Uncontestable Power
Baris Cayli

Ta’ Pinu: Ritualised Empathy on the Doorstep of Heaven
Philip Kao