Aims & Scope

Focaal is published and distributed three times a year by Berghahn Books

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Focaal - European Journal of Anthropology is a peer-reviewed journal advocating an approach that rests in the simultaneity of ethnography, processual analysis, local insights, and global vision. It is at the heart of debates on the ongoing conjunction of anthropology and history as well as the incorporation of local research settings in the wider spatial networks of coercion, imagination, and exchange that are often glossed as 'globalization' or 'empire'. Seeking contributions on all world regions, Focaal is unique among anthropology journals for consistently rejecting the old separations between 'at home' and 'abroad' , 'center' and 'periphery'. The journal therefore strives for the resurrection of an 'anthropology at large', that can accommodate issues of the global south, post-socialism, mobility, metropolitan experience, capitalist power and popular resistance into integrated perspectives.

FOCAAL 53 (forthcoming Spring 2009)

SPECIAL SECTION

The East speaks back: Gender and sexuality in Central Eastern Europe
Edited and Introduction by Agnieszka Kościańska and Jill Owczarzak

Homophobia and queer belonging in Hungary
Hadley Z. Renkin

Negotiating democracy’s gender between Europe and the nation
Anika Keinz

The ‘power of silence’: Spirituality and women’s agency in Catholic Poland
Agnieszka Kościańska

ARTICLES

The road to nowhere? Poverty and policy in the South of Laos
Holly High

Space, power, and prestige in the academic field: A case-study of Russian scholars
Artyom Kosmarski

FORUM

On 'tribes' and bribes: Iraq tribal study, al-Anbar's awakening, and social science
Roberto J. Gonzalez

REVIEW ARTICLES

Re-imagining the Amazon
Maximilian Viatori