Now published by Berghahn

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.

Volume 16 (2007) of AYEC:

Preface
Alexei Elfimov and Ullrich Kockel

The Benefits of Structural Marginality to British Social Anthropology
Penny Harvey

Changing Contents in Shifting Contexts: An Essay on the Status of Socio-cultural Anthropology in the German-speaking Countries
Andre Gingrich

The Passion of Anthropology in the US, circa 2007
George E. Marcus

Ethnologists and Indians in a Brazilian Scenario
Alcida Rita Ramos

Russian Ethnography: Dilemmas of the Present and the Past
Alexei Elfimov

On Anthropology in France
Marc Abélès

Anthropology in the Netherlands: Studying Social and Cultural Diversity in the South and the North
Han F. Vermeulen

Troubles with Identity: South African Anthropology, 1921–2005
Aleksandar Boskovic and Ilana Van Wyk

Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, European Studies