Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
(formerly: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures)
Aims & Scope
Editor: Ullrich Kockel School of History, English and Politics, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
Previously published as Anthropological Yearbook 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.
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, European Studies
Forthcoming Issue
Volume 22 • Issue 1 • 2013
THEMATIC FOCUS: History, Heritage and Place-Making
Introduction: History as a Resource in Postmodern Societies
Máiréad Nic Craith and Michaela Fenske
Making the New by Rebuilding the Old: Histourism in Werben, Germany
Michaela Fenske
‘The Best Way to See Waterloo is with Your Eyes Shut’: British ‘Histourism’, Authenticity and Commercialisation in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Pieter François
Living Heritage and Religious Traditions: Re-interpreting Columba/Colmcille in the UK City of Culture
Máiréad Nic Craith
The Memorialisation of the Highland Clearances in Scottish Museums: Economic and Socio-Political Uses of Heritage
Laurence Gouriévidis
The Life of the Death of ‘The Fighting Fairy Woman of Bodmin’: Storytelling around the Museum of Witchcraft
Helen Cornish
The Zoo as a Realm of Memory
Cornelius Holtorf
GENERAL ARTICLE
Regional Identity and Regionalisation in Eastern Europe: The Case of Lubuskie, Poland
Robert A. Parkin