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| Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia | |
|---|---|
| Title | Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia |
| Discipline | Anthropology |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Anthropological Society of South Australia |
| Country | Australia |
| History | 1920s–present |
| Frequency | Annual |
Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia is a regional scholarly periodical associated with the Anthropological Society of South Australia that publishes research on Indigenous studies, ethnography, archaeology, and cultural history. The journal has appeared alongside institutions and events such as the University of Adelaide, Flinders University, the Australian National University, the South Australian Museum and the Royal Society of South Australia, serving scholars connected to the British Museum, the Pitt Rivers Museum, the National Museum of Australia, and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
The journal emerged in the interwar and postwar milieu linked to figures and institutions including Sir Douglas Mawson, Sir Hubert Wilkins, Norman Tindale, Ernest Giles, and Edward Eyre, and developed alongside publications like the Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, Records of the South Australian Museum, Antiquity, Man (later Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute), and Oceania. Early editorial networks connected contributors from the University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, University of Western Australia, British Museum, Pitt Rivers Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and the Australian Museum. Over decades the journal intersected with field projects at Lake Eyre, Arnhem Land, Cape York, the Flinders Ranges, the Murray River, and Kangaroo Island, and dialogues with researchers affiliated with the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement.
The journal covers ethnography, archaeological reports, linguistic descriptions, material culture studies, and historical anthropology, engaging subjects such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, Torres Strait Islanders, Yolngu, Arrernte, Pitjantjatjara, Kaurna, Narungga, Adnyamathanha, and Ngarrindjeri peoples. Articles have addressed rock art at Kakadu, shell middens on the Coorong, stone tool assemblages from Lake Mungo, ceremonial life at Uluru, kinship systems discussed alongside works by Bronisław Malinowski, A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred Cort Haddon, and W. H. R. Rivers, and methodological debates exemplified in parallel with publications from the Journal of Pacific History, Aboriginal History, Australian Archaeology, and Ethnohistory. Contributions frequently connect to collections and comparative research at institutions such as the South Australian Museum, National Gallery of Australia, British Museum, Pitt Rivers Museum, and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Published under the auspices of the Anthropological Society of South Australia, the journal’s editorial boards have included scholars linked to the University of Adelaide, Flinders University, Australian National University, Monash University, La Trobe University, University of Queensland, and University of New South Wales. Editors and contributors have been associated with research grants and programs from the Australian Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, the Wellcome Trust, the British Academy, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Production and distribution have interfaced with publishing partners and platforms such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, and university presses, while managing subscriptions for libraries like the State Library of South Australia, National Library of Australia, Mitchell Library, and the Bodleian Library.
Indexing and abstracting practices have linked the journal to databases and catalogues including JSTOR, Informit, Scopus, Web of Science, ProQuest, Trove, WorldCat, and the Directory of Open Access Journals, facilitating discovery by researchers affiliated with the Australian National Bibliographic Database, the British Library, the Library of Congress, the National Library of Australia, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Back issues, special issues, and monographic supplements have been catalogued in institutional repositories at the University of Adelaide, Flinders University Library, Australian National University Library, the South Australian Museum, and the National Library of Australia, and have appeared in bibliographies alongside works indexed in AnthroBase, AustLit, and the Aboriginal Studies Press catalogue.
The journal has published influential reports and discussions on Pleistocene archaeology at Lake Mungo and Kow Swamp, ethnohistorical analyses involving Matthew Flinders and Edward Eyre narratives, assessments of missionary records linked to the Church Missionary Society and the London Missionary Society, and theoretical pieces engaging with the legacies of Marcel Mauss, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Franz Boas. Standout contributions have addressed rock art panels comparable to research in Kakadu and Arnhem Land, reappraisals of frontier encounters akin to studies of the Myall Creek Massacre and the Black War, and conservation dialogues resonant with UNESCO World Heritage listings, the Australian Heritage Commission, and the National Trust of Australia.
As the journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia it sits within a network including the Royal Society of South Australia, the Australian Anthropological Society, the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, the South Australian Museum, the State Library of South Australia, and regional societies and museums such as the Port Augusta Historical Society, the Whyalla Historical Society, and the Flinders Ranges Council. The society and journal interact with governmental and non-governmental bodies such as the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (Victoria), the Department for Environment and Water (South Australia), the National Native Title Tribunal, the Native Title Representative Bodies, and native title litigation contexts exemplified by Mabo v Queensland, Wik Peoples v Queensland, and the Native Title Act.
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