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| Anthropological Journal of Canada | |
|---|---|
| Title | Anthropological Journal of Canada |
| Discipline | Anthropology |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English, French |
| Frequency | Biannual |
| History | 1963–present |
Anthropological Journal of Canada is a peer-reviewed academic periodical focused on the study of human societies, cultures, and material remains with emphasis on Canadian and circumpolar contexts. It publishes research spanning ethnography, archaeology, ethnology, Indigenous studies, and museum studies, engaging scholars, curators, policy-makers, and community partners. The journal has been associated with scholarly societies and university presses and contributes to debates involving heritage, repatriation, cultural continuity, and environmental change.
The journal was founded in the 1960s amid institutional developments linking the Canadian Anthropology Association, provincial museums such as the Royal Ontario Museum, and academic departments at institutions like the University of Toronto, McGill University, University of British Columbia, University of Alberta, and Dalhousie University. Early editorial boards included figures associated with expeditions to Arctic sites connected to the Viking expansion, the Thule culture, and interactions described in records like the Treaty 8 era field reports. Over decades the journal reflected methodological shifts paralleling debates arising from conferences such as the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences and publications from scholars linked to the Royal Society of Canada, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the American Anthropological Association. Institutional affiliations evolved through collaborations with museums including the Canadian Museum of History and the Canadian Museum of Nature, and partnerships with presses such as the University of Toronto Press and university-based series tied to the Harvard University-affiliated research networks.
The journal emphasizes interdisciplinary work connecting archaeological projects at sites comparable to Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, analyses of material culture from contexts like the Beothuk and Haida collections, and ethnographic fieldwork among communities including the Inuit, Métis, Cree, and Mi'kmaq. Editorial priorities have included ethical practice in repatriation debates connected to cases like the Kennewick Man controversy, protocols endorsed by institutions such as the National Museum of the American Indian, and frameworks promoted by bodies like the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The journal has published work engaging comparative studies involving regions such as Greenland, Iqaluit, Nunavut, Yukon, British Columbia, and international sites studied by collaborators from Oxford University, Cambridge University, University of Copenhagen, University of Helsinki, and University of Aberdeen.
Historically issued through academic presses and society subscriptions, the journal moved through print cycles influenced by library collections at the Library and Archives Canada and consortia like the Canada Research Knowledge Network. It currently follows peer review processes modeled after editorial standards of journals associated with the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Society for American Archaeology. Distribution involves academic outlets including university libraries at McMaster University, Queen's University, University of Ottawa, and repositories that host backruns alongside indexing in databases maintained by organizations such as the Canadian Research Index and international aggregators used by scholars at the Smithsonian Institution, Natural History Museum, London, and the National Anthropological Archives. The journal has adapted to open access debates paralleled by initiatives at the Wellcome Trust and funding mandates from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Contributors to the journal have included scholars whose work intersects with figures associated with the Montreal School, debates sparked by publications from the Fraser Institute and responses to commissions like the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Reviews and citation patterns show engagement from academics at institutions such as Stanford University, Yale University, University of California, Berkeley, McGill University, and policy analysts in provincial governments of Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, and territorial administrations in Nunavut. The journal has been cited in discussions alongside landmark studies published by presses like Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and in edited volumes emerging from conferences at venues including the Banff Centre and the Terry Fox Centre.
Special issues have addressed topics comparable to investigations of the Laurentide Ice Sheet's archaeological impacts, thematic collections on settler colonialism and Indigenous resurgence, and dossiers on heritage management practices mirrored in policy documents like Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada reports. Notable articles have engaged case studies from archaeological sites such as Groswater Bay and Port au Choix, ethnographic syntheses involving communities in James Bay and the Kluane region, and methodological debates echoing work from scholars associated with The Canadian Journal of Native Studies and the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Special issues have featured guest editors linked to centers at McGill University and University of British Columbia and have drawn responses from curators at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and researchers at the Arctic Institute of North America.
Category:Anthropology journals