Social Analysis

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 56 • Issue 1 • 2012

Cosmologies of Fortune. Luck, Vitality and the contingency of Daily Life
Guest editors Giovanni da Col and Caroline Humphrey

Natural Philosophies of Fortune: Luck, Vitality and Uncontrolled Relatedness
Giovanni da Col

The Sword, the Sponge and the Paradox of Performativity: some observations on Fate, Luck, Financial Chicanery and the Limits of Human Knowledge
David Graeber

Is there Fortune in Great Amazonia
Peter Gow and Margherita Margiotti

Vital Energy: the Current of Relations
Stephen Gudeman

The Elementary Economies of Life: Fortune, Vitality and the Mountain in Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
Giovanni da Col

The Three Duties of Good Fortune: ‘Luck’ at the heart of a relational process among hunting peoples of the Siberian forest in pre-soviet times
Roberte Hamayon

The Dangers of Excess: Accumulating and Dispersing Fortune in Mongolia
Rebecca Empson

Knowledge, morality, and causality in a ”luckless society”: the case of Chewong, hunter-gatherer-shifting cultivators in the Malaysian rain forest
Signe Howell

The Lottery in Babylon or The Logics of Happenstance in Melanesia and Beyond
Roy Wagner