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Focaal
Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
Aims & Scope
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.
In Memoriam: Pattana Kitiarsa
In Memoriam: Franz von Benda-Beckmann
The forum section in Focaal Volume 2003, Issue 41 is available in recognition of Professor Benda-Beckmann's contributions to global anthropology.
Current Issue, Focaal 65
THEME SECTION I
Toward an anthropology of affirmative action
Edited by Alpa Shah and Sara Shneiderman
The practices, policies, and politics of transforming inequality in South Asia: Ethnographies of affirmative action
Alpa Shah and Sara Shneiderman
Scheduling tribes: A view from inside India’s ethnographic state
Townsend Middleton
Upward mobility in a forgotten tribe: Notes on the “creamy layer” problem
Megan Moodie
The social life of categories: Affirmative action and trajectories of the indigenous
Bengt G. Karlsson
Developing a culture of marginality: Nepal’s current classificatory moment
Sara Shneiderman
The politics of entitlement: Affirmative action and strategic voting in Uttar Pradesh, India
Lucia Michelutti and Oliver Heath
“They have it in their stomachs but they can’t vomit it up”: Dalits, reservations, and “caste feeling” in rural Andhra Pradesh
Clarinda Still
Affirmative action and political economic transformations: Secondary education, indigenous people, and the state in Jharkhand, India
Rob Higham and Alpa Shah
THEME SECTION II
Horizons of choice: An ethnographic approach to decision making
Edited by Åsa Boholm and Annette Henning
Anthropology and decision making: An introduction
Åsa Boholm, Annette Henning, and Amanda Krzyworzeka
When wolves harm private property: Decision making on state compensation
Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist and Serena Cinque
Decision-making in farming households in eastern Poland
Amanda Krzyworzeka
FORUM
The Greek economic crisis as trope
Daniel M. Knight