Research in Economic Anthropology

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Research in Economic Anthropology is sponsored by Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA), a section of the American Anthropological Association.

Research in Economic Anthropology (REA) is the longest-running book series exclusively dedicated to economic anthropology, and enjoys a high reputation as a promoter of “the comparative study – though time and space – of economic systems in their broader sociocultural context”, as editors Dannhaeuser and Werner described their aim in the introduction to Volume 21 (2002, p. 1).The series was originally a publication of JAI Press (Greenwich, Connecticut) and was edited by George Dalton, close associate of noted economic historian Karl Polanyi. Under the editorship of Dalton, REA carried both previously published material and original research reports and essays. Barry Isaac of the University of Cincinnati, who edited Volumes 6 through 20, began the policy of including only original material in the series, and made special efforts to promote greater involvement of archaeology in the study of human economic behavior. Norbert Dannhaeuser and Cynthia Werner, of Texas A&M University, took over editorship from Volume 21, and Donald C. Wood, of Akita University (Japan), has been series editor since the publication of Volume 25. Since then, a number of guest-edited volumes have been published: Volumes 23 (2004), 27 (2008), 33 (2013), 39 (2019), and 42 (2022).

As an anthropological series, REA is especially concerned with empirical ethnographic research, but more theory-oriented essays and reviews are also accepted for consideration, as are submissions by non-anthropologists. Many well-known economic anthropologists and members of SEA have contributed works for the series. Today, with its considerable momentum, REA continues to promote economic anthropology and improve our understanding of human economic behavior. All papers in REA are subject to double-blind peer review.

Series Editor: Donald Wood, Akita University, Japan

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
 
Jeffrey Cohen
The Ohio State University, USA
 
Geert De Neve
University of Sussex, UK
 
Jumpei Ichinosawa
Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University, Japan
 
Ty Matejowsky
University of Central Florida, USA
 
Atsuro Morita
Osaka University, Japan
 
Lionel Obadia
Université Lumière Lyon 2, France
  
Noel B. Salazar
KU Leuven, Belgium
 
Cynthia Werner
Texas A&M University, USA
 
Tamar Diana Wilson
Independent Researcher

Call for Papers
Research in Economic Anthropology
 
Research in Economic Anthropology is planning to publish a volume on internal and international migration.

Papers are welcome on internal migration within and international migration from  the developing countries of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, and Eastern Europe.

Push factors such as political repression and/or gang violence; climate change challenges; the ravages of Green Revolution technology; economic, political and environmental pressures on the peasantry; and globally induced economic upheavals as well as pull and other factors that induce migration flows including network-mediation and return migration, are open for examination from an anthropological point of view.

The articles should be double-spaced in Times New Roman script and comprise 6,200 to 8,000 words including bibliography.  Format and references should be in APA style.

An abstract of 100-200 words is necessary, and all works cited should be included in a references section. Self-identification should be avoided if possible.

Please send submissions prior to the deadline date of April 1, 2024 to issue editors Tamar Diana Wilson (tamardianawilson@yahoo.com) and Christian Zlolniski (chrisz@uta.edu).

Research in Economic Anthropology IREA) is a peer-reviewed academic journal/book series that focuses on the anthropological investigation of economy and culture/society. Launched by JAI press in 1978, it was first edited by George Dalton, then by Barry Isaac who managed the series from 1984 until its acquisition by Elsevier at the turn of the current century.  Donald Wood has served as editor since 2005 and the series has been published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. (Bingley, UK) since 2007.

View the call for papers as a PDF here.

To submit a proposal to this series, please contact the series editor via email:
Donald Wood, Akita University, Japan - email Donald

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