AN    INTERNATIONAL     JOURNAL     OF
CULTURAL  AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Ethnology was founded in 1962 by George P. Murdock with the goal of offering the broadest range of general cultural and social anthropology of any anthropological journal in the United States.

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Ethnology has achieved wide circulation throughout the United States and the world and a deserved reputation as one of the most literate anthropological journals.

Ethnology:

  • provides its readers with a unique opportunity to stay rooted in traditional anthropology while keeping current with new directions of the field.

  • is an academically oriented journal not just for academics.

  • is highly readable and reflects an impressive cross-section of specializations, making it an ideal tool for teaching, reference, and general knowledge of anthropology.

  • is diverse enough to educate the most sophisticated research scholar as well as the anthropology enthusiast.

How anthropologists view Ethnology:

Elizabeth Colson: Ethnology publishes articles that I find among the best now appearing in journals devoted to anthropology . . . the journal is characterized by the high quality of the ethnography of its articles, whose authors at the same time show an awareness of theoretical issues and an understanding of the importance of comparison for placing their findings in context. Equally admirable is that they do not burden the reader with long citations of currently popular writers to prove their own intellectual superiority, but rather rely upon the value of what they themselves can contribute to the anthropological record.

Ward Goodenough: The quality of its articles outstrips all other journals publishing cultural anthropology.

Ulf Hannerz: After nearly half a century as one of the independent voices of anthropology, Ethnology remains committed to its goal of fostering ethnographic knowledge and producing a growing and reliable basis for comparative perspectives.

Barry L. Isaac: Ethnology successfully held its course during the postmodern hurricanes of the 1990s, while many other journals were . . . steered through the Looking Glass in search of the latest fads.

Nancy Lurie: A special appeal of Ethnology is that it is not a member benefit in a professional society. Its energies are devoted entirely to bringing well chosen, carefully edited, and instructive articles to its readers whatever their professional affiliations.

Sidney Mintz: Anthropology has seen a proliferation of journals, some of them devoted to cutting the field into pieces. Ethnology represents the field without operating on it. Readable, contemporary, and catholic (in the original meaning of that word), Ethnology gives its readers opportunities to keep abreast of the field, and to understand much better where it is really going.

Anthony F. C. Wallace: Ethnology is certainly one of the mainstays for the publication of insightful and professional writing in cultural anthropology. May it long survive!

Ethnology (ISSN 0014-1828) is published quarterly by the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, and supported jointly by the Department of Anthropology and the University Library System.