American Anthropologist

Infobox Journal


discipline = anthropology
abbreviation =
publisher = American Anthropological Association
country = USA
frequency = Quarterly
history = 1888 - present
openaccess =
website = http://www.aaanet.org/aa/
ISSN = 0002-7294

"American Anthropologist" is the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). It is known for publishing a wide range of work in anthropology, including articles on cultural, biological and linguistic anthropology and archeology. Its first incarnation (known as the "Old Series") started in 1888 and was published by the Anthropological Society of Washington, the first anthropology association in the United States.Fact|date=February 2007 The "New Series" began in 1899 under an editorial board that included Franz Boas, Daniel G. Brinton, and John Wesley Powell and continues to this day.

Four-field approach

The four fields of Anthropology include cultural, linguistic, archeology and biological/physical. Sometimes applied anthropology is added as a fifth division.

Among the journals published by the AAA, "The American Anthropologist" is the only one that follows the "four field" approach, publishing articles from all the subdisciplines of anthropology. [Segal "et al" 2005, Introduction, p.20] Proponents of four-field anthropology see "American Anthropologist"'s broad scope as important to maintaining disciplinary unity, while critics have expressed serious reservations about this aim, and criticize pressures since the 1970s against editors and works that do not subscribe to four field holism as an ideal for anthropological scholarship. [Segal "et al" 2005, Introduction, pp.7, 22]

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References

*cite book |last= [http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/%7Edsegal/ Segal] |first=Daniel A. |coauthors= [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthroCASA/people/faculty/yanagisako.html Sylvia J. Yanagisako] (eds.), James Clifford, Ian Hodder, Rena Lederman, Michael Silverstein |title=Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle: Reflections on the Disciplining of Anthropology |publisher=Duke University Press |year= 2005 |url=http://www.dukeupress.edu/cgibin/forwardsql/search.cgi?template0=nomatch.htm&template2=books/book_detail_page.htm&user_id=11016434335&Bmain.Btitle_option=1&Bmain.Btitle=Unwrapping+the+Sacred+Bundle introduction: [http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/%7Edsegal/theory/yanasegal.pdf] reviews: [http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/abs/10.1525/jlat.2006.11.1.235] [http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/abs/10.1525/an.2006.47.1.8.2?journalCode=an] [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2006.00372_39.x] [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/anthropological_quarterly/v078/78.4song.pdf]

External links

* [http://www.aaanet.org/aa/ American Anthropologist website]