American Ethnologist
Last updated ISSN 0094-0496
American Ethnologist is published by Wiley in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,400.
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What it publishes
Recent work in American Ethnologist concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- African history and culture analysis
- Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Philippine History and Culture
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
Key facts
| Publisher | Wiley |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0094-0496, 1548-1425 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,400 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 8,159 |
| Publishing since | 1974 |
| Journal website | anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1548142 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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