About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The journal currently publishes two issues a year in which unpublished original articles present and discuss the results of recent empirical and ethnographic research in anthropology and related disciplines, in the national and international sphere, with emphasis first in the Andean and Amazon region, and secondly in the Latin American region. It also publishes book reviews, interviews, and others, that contribute to the ethnographic knowledge of these regions, the understanding of their problems and the development of the anthropological discipline. All sections go through double-blind peer review. It is aimed at anthropology students, university professors, researchers and academics of the social and human sciences.

Journal history

Anthropologica of the Department of Social Sciences is a publication of the specialty of Anthropology since 1983 dedicated to the academic dissemination of scientific researches in the field of Andean and Amazon anthropology. Between 1979 and 1983 the Department of Social Sciences published the Debates journal which, alternatively, led the title Debates in Sociology and Debates in Anthropology. The latter stopped coming out replaced by Anthropologica of the Department of Social Sciences. Anthropologica's management was under the control, first, of Alejandro Ortiz Rascaniere, and then of Norma Fuller Osores who initiated the process of digitalization and indexing of the journal. Anthropologica is published twice a year since 2014. Its editorial committee, initially made up of researchers from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, has unfolded, creating also an international editorial committee whose members have varied and expanded over time. In the Editorial Teams section we can find the conformation of all the teams over time. Thus, with almost 40 years of history, the journal has presented and discussed various topics relevant to anthropology and related disciplines, while adapting to the demands of changing contexts. With an emphasis first on the Andean and Amazon region, and secondarily, on the Latin American region, a complete review of Anthropologica allows us to travel through the most classical themes of the anthropological discipline such as kinship, religiosity and myth, to more current issues such as migration, intercultural education, political ecology, media, and gender.

 

Peridiocity

July and December

 

Sponsors of the journal

Pontifical Catholic University of Peru - Department of Social Sciences