Journal Ideas?

[aboutdesouffle]

Hello,

 

I graduated a couple years ago and have been in a sort of informal post-bac internship under a professor friend of mine. It involved a fieldwork based research project, some of which was collaborative and some of which I worked independently. I'm writing a paper from my independent work and I was wondering if any of you good people had suggestions for a journal that I might hope to submit to. I think the paper is probably on par with a strong undergrad honors thesis or the start to a graduate school project.

 

Would you suggest looking for a theme specific journal, or at this level am I more likely to find just general anthro/cultural studies journals? I can go more into it if it would help with suggestions, but some key words are: visual media, violence, ethics, self formation, training, police.

 

Any ideas in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you and congrats to everyone who put apps in this season

[Canis]

Does it involve any fieldwork or human subject interaction? If so and you aren't doing it as part of an institution, journals may be concerned about not having IRB oversight of the project.

 

In which case you might want to avoid anthro journals, write it as a more thought piece, remove references to any people or information that isn't publicly accessible and try to publish it in a culture studies, literature, or interdisciplinary journal.

 

This is a good place to read for advice about understanding the goals and effectiveness of publishing: http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/cla/departments/anthropology/docs/BoellstorffHowtoGetanArticleAcceptedatAmericanAnthropologist.pdf

 

Also, this book (this is a review) is full of good ideas: http://studentanthropologist.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/macdougall-2013.pdf

[Alterman]

Does it involve any fieldwork or human subject interaction? If so and you aren't doing it as part of an institution, journals may be concerned about not having IRB oversight of the project.

 

In which case you might want to avoid anthro journals, write it as a more thought piece, remove references to any people or information that isn't publicly accessible and try to publish it in a culture studies, literature, or interdisciplinary journal.

 

This is a good place to read for advice about understanding the goals and effectiveness of publishing: http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/cla/departments/anthropology/docs/BoellstorffHowtoGetanArticleAcceptedatAmericanAnthropologist.pdf

 

Also, this book (this is a review) is full of good ideas: http://studentanthropologist.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/macdougall-2013.pdf

 

Thank you for the links Canis. Very interesting. 

Edited January 11, 2014 by Guy F

[anthro.fish]

Also, many universities have undergraduate journals - mostly associated with an undergrad anthropology society.  I've started two of these (journals) myself, and it's pretty easy to get a paper published . . . sometimes they're dying for submissions.  Although you may think that these types of journals are not serious enough, it's definitely a publication that you can put on your CV . . . and that looks really good when you're applying to grad school.