Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Former names	Man
Abbreviated title (ISO 4)	J. Roy. Anthropol. Inst.
Discipline	Anthropology
Language	English
Publication details
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Publication history	1901-present
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor (2011)	1.078
Indexing
ISSN	1359-0987 (print) 1467-9655 (web) Man 0025-1496
LCCN	95660943
OCLC no.	69372347
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Anthropology
Disciplines Archaeological Biological Cultural Linguistic Social
Discipline subfields Social and cultural subfields Applied Art Cognitive Cyborg Development Digital Ecological Environmental Economic Political economy Feminist Historical Kinship Legal Media Medical Musical Nutritional Political Psychological Public Religion Transpersonal Urban Visual Linguistic subfields Descriptive Ethno- Historical Semiotic Sociolinguistics Archaeological and biological subfields Anthrozoological Biocultural Evolutionary Feminist Forensic Maritime Palaeoanthropological
Research framework Ethnocentrism Ethnography Ethnology Emic and etic Participant observation Online ethnography Cross-cultural comparison Holism Reflexivity Cultural relativism History of anthropology
Key theories Actor-network theory Alliance theory Cross-cultural studies Cultural ecology Cultural materialism Culture theory Diffusionism Feminism Functionalism Historical particularism Interpretive Performance studies Political economy Practice theory Structuralism Post-structuralism Systems theory
Key concepts Evolution Society Culture Prehistory Sociocultural evolution Kinship and descent Gender Race Ethnicity Development Colonialism Postcolonialism Value
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The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. The journal covers anthropological topics such as archaeology, civilisation, ritual, mythology, religion, society, and ethnography and includes a book review section.

History

The journal was established in 1901 as Man and obtained its current title in 1995, with volume numbering restarting at 1. For first sixty-three volumes from its inception in 1901 up to 1963 it was issued on a monthly basis, moving to bimonthly issues for the years 1964–1965. From March 1966 until its last issue in December 1994, it was published quarterly as a "new series", with a new sequence of volume numbers (1–29).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

Academic Search
Anthropological Index
Biological Abstracts
CSA Biological Sciences Database
CSA Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database
Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
Ecology Abstracts
EMBASE
Expanded Academic ASAP
FRANCIS
InfoTrac
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
Multicultural Education Abstracts
ProQuest
Social Sciences Citation Index
Social Services Abstracts
SocINDEX
Sociological Abstracts

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 1.078, ranking it 28th out of 81 journals in the category "Anthropology".^[1]

References

↑ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Anthropology". 2011 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2012. |accessdate= requires |url= (help)

External links

Official website
Hathi Trust fulltext, selected issues