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The JRAI is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal founded in 1848.

The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (formerly MAN) is the quarterly of the oldest anthropological organisation in the world. The JRAI publishes original, peer-reviewed articles in all aspects of anthropology, as well as correspondence and a section of book reviews. Visit our website for the latest news and guidelines for authors: www.jrai.net

To find out more about the RAI, go here: https://www.therai.org.uk/

05/12/2023

Our online event on publishing in the JRAI has just started 🎉 Many thanks to the over 120 anthropologists joining us from all over the world!

Two of our editors, Chika Watanabe and Hannah Knox, start with an editors presentation about what kinds of articles are a good fit for the JRAI.

04/12/2023

💡New in Early View

Anni Kajanus uses mixed methodology to explore how children develop psychologically and culturally rooted understandings of social status. Central moral frameworks mediating hierarchy and conflict – 'respect' in London and 'yielding' in Nanjing – lead to particular expectations about the behaviour of high-status individuals.

Read it in 👇https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.14065?campaign=wolearlyview

04/12/2023

🚨The final issue of Cultural Anthropology of the year is out now!🚨

It features 5 original research articles from Katie Ulrich, Zachary Sheldon, Catherine Smith, Ann-Christin Zuntz & Iván Sandoval-Cervantes!

Find it fully Open Access below:
https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/issue/view/115

02/12/2023

💡New in Early View

Elif Babül explores hospitality as a key rhetorical framework for refugee management in Turkey. Reflecting on compulsory guesthood, she argues that host-guest metaphors are used to assert power and leverage both domestically and internationally.

Read the full paper
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https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9655.14063?campaign=wolearlyview

01/12/2023

📢 New in Early View

Based on the songs & testimonies of the Marubo of Western Amazonia, this new paper investigates the unique styles of enquiry involved in Lowland South American Amerindian shamanic and narrative discourse genres.

Read the full paper ⬇️
https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9655.14052?campaign=wolearlyview

30/11/2023

There's still time to register for our workshop next week⏳

Join us to learn more about publishing your work in the JRAI. Come along to hear from our editors & authors and ask questions. From PhD students to seasoned anthropologists, everyone is welcome.

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https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlf-CurTMsGNIhvF-B6-EnM5Ebqgo4deWb

30/11/2023

📢 New in Early View

Nicholas Lackenby unpacks the concept of the ‘people’ (narod) to understand post-Yugoslav Orthodox life in central Serbia.

The article shows not how ‘nationalism’ can be understood through ‘religion’, but how faith can be understood through the prism of peoplehood.

Read it in 👇
https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.14058?campaign=wolearlyview

29/11/2023

💡New in Early View

This new paper draws on ethnographic research in kibbutzim which are part of Israel's high-tech scene. In these sites, the authors observe not just the imitation of ‘urban’ innovation, but also the strong influence of the community and the contribution of local knowledge in the design of technologically innovative products and services.

Read more in 👇
https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.14062?campaign=wolearlyview

28/11/2023

📣New in Early View

Victoria Fomina shows how Orthodoxy emerged as an attractive ideological framework for members of a Moscow-based military-patriotic club.

This post-Soviet Orthodox paramilitary scene invites us to rethink conventional associations between religion, militarism, and violent radicalization.

Read the paper in full ⬇️
https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9655.14060?campaign=wolearlyview

27/11/2023

What kinds of papers make it to the reviews stage? How long do reviews take? How should authors address reviewers’ comments? Should I be worried if English is not my first language?

Join our upcoming workshop to learn more about publishing your work in the JRAI.

📆Tuesday, 5 December
🕙2-3.30 pm (GMT)
➡Register here: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlf-CurTMsGNIhvF-B6-EnM5Ebqgo4deWb #/registration

27/11/2023

💡New in Early View

Yulia Egorova from Durham Uni Anthropology draws on ethnography of a UK-based Jewish-Muslim inter-community network to unpack the ethical efforts that groups seen as polarized invest in negotiating boundaries of difference.

Read it in 👇https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.14057?campaign=wolearlyview

26/11/2023

📢 New in Early View

In this new archaeology paper, Gavin Lucas unpacks the concept of survival to show the persistence of the past in the present.

By drawing on the distinctions between survival and related terms of relics, persistent practices, and revivals, this article proposes a reappraisal of the concept of survival and its relevance to contemporary anthropology and archaeology alike.

Read more ⬇️ https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9655.14056?campaign=wolearlyview

25/11/2023

🎉New in Early View

Olga Fedorenko critically explores the idea of the sharing economy using her fieldwork with Open Closet, a non-profit startup in South Korea.

The article tracks how sharing at Open Closet is realized via circulations of suits, letters, and ‘warm hearts’, and how its meanings and obligations are interpreted via the historical relations of mutual responsibility within local collectivities of belonging.

Read it in full 👇
https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9655.14061?campaign=wolearlyview

24/11/2023

💡New in Early View

Gwen Burnyeat's paper builds on the idiom of ‘giving face’ (dar la cara) to explore how Colombian government officials explain the peace negotiations with the FARC guerrillas, before and after a polarizing referendum which narrowly rejected the 2016 peace agreement that sought to end fifty years of war.

Read in 👇https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.14055?campaign=wolearlyview

24/11/2023

💡Join us for an online event to learn how to publish your work in the JRAI.

What kinds of papers make it to the reviews stage? How long do reviews take? How should authors address reviewers’ comments? Should I be worried if English is not my first language?

The editors will give a short presentation, followed by reflections from our recent authors and a Q&A session. Whether you’re a PhD student, an early career scholar, or a seasoned anthropologist, everyone is welcome!

📆Tuesday, 5 December
🕙2-3.30 pm (GMT)
💻Register here: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlf-CurTMsGNIhvF-B6-EnM5Ebqgo4deWb
➡️More details here: https://www.therai.org.uk/events/events-calendar/eventdetail/869/-/tips-on-publishing-in-the-journal-of-the-royal-anthropological-institute-jrai?filter_reset=1

20/11/2023

📢The JRAI is looking for its next Honorary Editor(s)📢

Could you be the next Editor(s) of the Journal of the
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, the oldest anthropological organisation in the world? Apply individually or as part of an editorial team for the chance to steer one of the world's most influential anthropology journals.

📆Deadline: 6 Feb 2024
➡️Read the further particulars: https://jrai.net/the-editorial-structure/

17/11/2023

💡New in Early View

Lesley Branagan examines the role blame plays in kinship practices in a low-income neighbourhood in Delhi. She focuses on blaming practices to offer a new angle on both the failures and the reconstitution of kinship.

Read the paper in 👇https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.14054?campaign=wolearlyview

16/11/2023

New in Early View 📢

Harvey Whitehouse's Henry Myers 2022 Lecture summarises decades of collaborative research on the role of ritual in group bonding and co-operation, from psychology experiments in university laboratories to field research among indigenous groups.

Read it now in 👇
https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.14048?campaign=wolearlyview

15/11/2023

📣New in Early View

Febi R. Ramadhan explores the life stories of Indonesian Muslims who struggle with same-sex attraction and believe that it is divinely foreordained as a test from Allah.

Read the paper in 👇
https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.14053?campaign=wolearlyview

14/11/2023

💡New in Early View

Emrah Yıldız explores the practice of saint visitation (ziyarat) as a traffic of pilgrims, goods, and ideas across Iran, Turkey, and Syria. The pilgrims' experiences of venerating Sayyida Zainab showcase the utility of a more expansive conceptualisation of ritual in anthropology.

Read the paper in
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https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.14050?campaign=wolearlyview

12/11/2023

Our final issue of 2023 is now live 🎉🎉

Issue 29(4) brings together twelve new ethnographic articles across anthropology, from unpacking 'dirty politics' on the workfloor in New Delhi to exploring the intersections of same-sex relations and kinship practices in Kenya. Make sure to also read our two long reviews and our usual book reviews.

Browse the newest JRAI issue ➡️https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679655/2023/29/4?campaign=woletoc

Society for Cultural Anthropology European Association of Social Anthropologists Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland American Ethnologist (AE) Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale

29/10/2023

📣 New in Early View

Drawing on fieldwork with pro-regime media producers in Iran, this new paper by Narges Bajoghli from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies examines the attempted creation of a new revolutionary hero, an ‘Islamic Che’, who appeals to younger audiences by creating a moderate style.

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https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9655.14044?campaign=wolearlyview

28/10/2023

💡New in Early View

Tom Özden-Schilling Nus Singapore examines how the proliferation of computer models in contemporary resource planning has altered the ways experts participate in and sanction interpretive communities.

➡️ Read it in : https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.14047?campaign=wolearlyview

28/10/2023

📣 New in Early View

Drawing on her research with middle-class married women in Pakistan, Ammara Maqsood from UCL Anthropology asks what the work of time is on a marriage. How does it transform people as they struggle to change and leave traces on others?

➡Read the full paper in :
https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.14046?campaign=wolearlyview

27/10/2023

💡New in Early View

This new paper by Joe Ellis provides an ethnographic account of ‘ethnic’ difference in Khovd province, Mongolia. It explores how moralized understandings of ethnic difference in the medium of mythic-historical exemplars are mobilised and examines their impact on social life.

➡️ Read in : https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.14051?campaign=wolearlyview

26/10/2023

🎉 New in Early View

Ali Sipahi uncovers a forgotten chapter in the history of anthropology by revealing the experiences of American ethnographers in Cold War Turkey, using a focus on guest-to-guest relationships.

➡️ Read it in : https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.14049?campaign=wolearlyview

25/10/2023

📢 New in Early View

This new paper by Cathrine Degnen, Katharine Tyler, and Joshua Blamire analyses senses of belonging and belonging disrupted via the lens of Brexit with a little ‘b’: namely at the level of ordinary experiences in the flow of daily lives.

Read it in : https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.14043?campaign=wolearlyview

24/10/2023

💡New article available in Early View

James Carrier considers the increasing invisibility of economic transactions in everyday life. Drawing on a range of historical examples, the paper argues that the declining visibility of economic networks encouraged the development of the idea of the economy as a distinct realm.

Read the new paper here: https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9655.14045?campaign=wolearlyview

23/09/2023

Call for Panels Deadline: 13 October 2023
for our Face-to-Face conference:

𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗘𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡
25–28 June 2024 at Senate House, University of London

There will be distinct strands which we invite delegates to explore. However, panel proposals are also invited on any topic that may be found of interest.

One of the strands is:

◾ Academic Teaching and Truth

University teaching can be nothing without freedom of expression. Yet, from various parts of the world there appears to be increasing intolerance of a plurality of views. How can we as anthropologists contribute toward maintaining the integrity of our Higher Education institutions, wherever they may be found? Panel proposals are particularly invited that give instances of these potential problems, from whatever location.

All info here 👉 https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-education

06/09/2023

📢📢 New in

Jayaseelan Raj explores the employment of kinship relations in sustaining the plantation economy in the tea plantations of Kerala, South India.

Read it in : https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.14041?campaign=wolearlyview

05/09/2023

💡New article available in

Ute Dieckmann explores how the Haiǁom of the Etosha National Park in Namibia use their relations with the land and with human and beyond-the-human beings to navigate resettlement.

➡️ Read it in : https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.14008?campaign=wolearlyview

04/09/2023

Rose Drew discusses her paper with Gwyn Madden analysing human remains from the Oslo's House of Correction cemetery.

Read the paper in full in here: https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9655.13994

04/09/2023

Professor Dame Sue Black reflects on how forensic anthropology is all about studying humans, both physical and social aspects.

Read the Forensic Anthropology Issue in here: https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679655/2023/29/S2?fbclid=IwAR3rOHcKcWorvaKDyckcCbhGSZXLpCOfqaFujlVq1H-OvMxZBo2ITwatEqE

04/09/2023

Valentina Panci discusses her paper on using a bibliometric approach to review literature on the forensic age estimation of living individuals.

➡️Read the paper in full in here: https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9655.13989

04/09/2023

Professor Lucy Easthope reflects on how the intersections of forensic and social anthropology can help contribute to Disaster Victim Identification.

➡️Read Lucy's article in in the Supplement Issue: https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9655.13990

04/09/2023

James Rose reflects on how forensic & social anthropology can help provide justice to those who were denied justice during their lives.

Drawing on his work in Australia, he dwells on how anthropological evidence can be used in courts to address marginalisation in cases from systematic land expropriation to unlawful detention.

➡️ Read James' contribution to the Supplement here: https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9655.13991

04/09/2023

Our launch event for the Forensic Anthropology Supplement Issue is starting now!

Guest editor Lucina Hackman starts by discussing the origins of forensic anthropology and its UK certification with the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

➡️Read the full Supplement for free here: https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679655/2023/29/S2

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