Revista de Antropologia

Revista de Antropologia
Title	Revista de Antropologia
Discipline	Anthropology
Language	Portuguese
Abbreviation	Rev. Antropol.
Publisher	[University press or academic publisher]
Country	Brazil
Frequency	Biannual
History	1950–present
Openaccess	Yes/No
Issn	[ISSN number]

Revista de Antropologia is an academic journal publishing research in cultural anthropology, social anthropology, and related fields with emphasis on Latin American studies and Lusophone scholarship. It features articles, review essays, and critical debates that engage with ethnography, historiography, and theory across communities in Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, and global diasporas. Contributors and readers include scholars affiliated with universities, museums, and research institutions across Latin America, Europe, and Africa.

History

Founded in the mid-20th century, the journal emerged amid intellectual currents shaped by figures associated with São Paulo Museum of Art, Museu Nacional (Brazil), Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, and regional centers such as Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Its early decades overlapped with debates involving scholars connected to Claude Lévi-Strauss, Bronisław Malinowski, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Julio Cezar Melatti, Florestan Fernandes, Gilberto Freyre, Fernando Ortiz, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, Vladimir Propp, Raymond Firth, Edward Sapir, Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, Marcel Mauss, Pierre Bourdieu, Talal Asad, Clifford Geertz, Marshall Sahlins, Sidney Mintz, Erving Goffman, John Comaroff, Jean Comaroff, Arjun Appadurai, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Donna Haraway, and Nancy Scheper-Hughes. Institutional shifts reflected interactions with archives such as Arquivo Nacional (Brazil) and collaborations with cultural organizations like Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros and Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa.

Scope and Editorial Focus

The journal prioritizes ethnographic studies, theoretical reflections, and historiographical revisions engaging communities and institutions ranging from urban neighborhoods to indigenous territories. It publishes work on indigenous peoples such as Guarani, Tupi, Kayapó, Yanomami, Xavante, Pataxó, Ticuna, and Arawak-linked populations, and research concerning regions including Amazonas (Brazilian state), Bahia (Brazil), Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul, Amapá, Ceará, Paraíba, Sergipe and Lusophone Africa like Luanda, Maputo, Bissau, Lobito, and Beira. The focus intersects studies of labor and migration referencing institutions and events such as Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional, Rede Ferroviária Federal, Cangaço, Vila Operária, Quilombo dos Palmares, Law of 1934 (Brazilian labor) and movements like Diretas Já, Tropicalia, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, Movimento Negro and transnational networks connected to African Union, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, International Labour Organization, World Bank, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Mercosur, Community of Portuguese Language Countries, and European Union scholarship initiatives.

Publication and Access

Published by university presses and academic publishers affiliated with Brazilian and Lusophone institutions such as Universidade de Brasília, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Universidade Federal do Pará, and collaborative museums like Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, the journal issues peer-reviewed volumes on a biannual schedule. Access options include print subscriptions through academic libraries including Biblioteca Nacional (Brazil), interlibrary loan networks tied to Library of Congress, British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Universidade de Coimbra Library, and digital distribution via platforms used by Scielo, JSTOR, Project MUSE, Redalyc, OpenEdition, and institutional repositories hosted by Portal de Periódicos CAPES and university archives.

Indexing and Impact

The journal is indexed in regional and international bibliographic services and citation databases such as Scopus, Web of Science, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Latindex, Google Scholar, ERIC, AnthroSource, DOAJ, Redalyc, SciELO, CrossRef, JSTOR and library consortia including OCLC WorldCat. Its impact is assessed through citation metrics, h-index measures visible via Scopus profiles, influence in curricula at institutions like London School of Economics, Harvard University, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Columbia University, Yale University, University of California, Berkeley, New York University, University of Toronto, University of Chicago, McGill University, Australian National University, and postgraduate programs throughout Latin America.

Notable Articles and Special Issues

Special issues have gathered contributions on themes such as urban anthropology, indigenous rights, memory studies, and postcolonial critiques, featuring contributors linked to journals and projects at American Anthropological Association, Royal Anthropological Institute, Latin American Studies Association, Association of Social Anthropologists, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, and festivals like Bienal de São Paulo. Notable articles intersect with debates around authors and works including The Savage Mind, Black Skin, White Masks, The Wretched of the Earth, The Interpretation of Cultures, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, Imagined Communities, The Elementary Structures of Kinship, Open Veins of Latin America, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, The Location of Culture, Orientalism, and key fieldwork reports referencing sites such as Belém (Brazil), Manaus, Recife, Salvador, Bahia, Fortaleza, Porto Alegre, São Luís, Maranhão, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Belo Horizonte and Lusophone African centers like Huambo and Nampula.

Editorial Board and Peer Review Process

The editorial board comprises scholars and institutional representatives from departments and centers such as Department of Anthropology, Universidade de São Paulo, Institute of Social Medicine, UFRJ, Museu Nacional, Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada, Centro de Estudos Sociais, University of Coimbra, ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, CIES-ISCTE, Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, and international affiliates at University College London, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Ethnology (Japan), Museo Nacional de Antropología (Mexico), Museo Nacional de Antropología (Spain), Ethnological Museum of Berlin and others. Submissions undergo double-blind peer review managed with editorial policies comparable to those of Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Springer Nature and governed by ethics guidelines akin to World Health Organization and Committee on Publication Ethics standards.

Reception and Influence in Anthropology

The journal is cited in monographs, doctoral dissertations, and policy reports produced by institutions including Fundação Getulio Vargas, Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Instituto Socioambiental, Society for Applied Anthropology, Latin American Council of Social Sciences, and appears in syllabi at centers such as Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento, Instituto de Estudos Avançados (USP), King's College London, University of Edinburgh, European University Institute, Brown University, Duke University and University of Michigan. Its influence extends into cultural heritage debates involving IPHAN, environmental controversies tied to IBAMA, Amazonian research networks, and international collaborations with foundations like Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Gates Foundation and UNESCO programs addressing cultural preservation and indigenous rights.

Category:Anthropology journals