Oceania (journal)
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The Australian academic journal Oceania was founded in 1930. It publishes contributions in the field of social and cultural anthropology
, and its primary regional orientation is to the peoples of Oceania
, primarily comprising Australia
, Melanesia
, Polynesia
, Micronesia
and southeast Asia
. The central concern of the journal lies with papers that are the product of sustained ethnographic research, but review articles and papers that have direct bearing on the central ethnographic concerns of the journal are also published. Correspondence and shorter comments are published at the discretion of the editor. There are typically five articles per issue and six to ten book reviews. As an example of the range of topics featured, a recent issue featured articles on land wars, land utilisation and aboriginal self-determination.
Occasionally, an issue is devoted to a single topic, comprising thematically connected collections of papers prepared by a guest editor.
Oceania is a fully refereed journal which is published in print and online versions three times a year, in March, July and November.
The current Editor is Neil Maclean of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Sydney
. Past editors include Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
, Adolphus Peter Elkin and Sir Raymond Firth
.
Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...
, and its primary regional orientation is to the peoples of Oceania
Oceania
Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...
, primarily comprising Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, Melanesia
Melanesia
Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania extending from the western end of the Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and eastward to Fiji. The region comprises most of the islands immediately north and northeast of Australia...
, Polynesia
Polynesia
Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, made up of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. The indigenous people who inhabit the islands of Polynesia are termed Polynesians and they share many similar traits including language, culture and beliefs...
, Micronesia
Micronesia
Micronesia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising thousands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It is distinct from Melanesia to the south, and Polynesia to the east. The Philippines lie to the west, and Indonesia to the southwest....
and southeast Asia
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, South-East Asia, South East Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia. The region lies on the intersection of geological plates, with heavy seismic...
. The central concern of the journal lies with papers that are the product of sustained ethnographic research, but review articles and papers that have direct bearing on the central ethnographic concerns of the journal are also published. Correspondence and shorter comments are published at the discretion of the editor. There are typically five articles per issue and six to ten book reviews. As an example of the range of topics featured, a recent issue featured articles on land wars, land utilisation and aboriginal self-determination.
Occasionally, an issue is devoted to a single topic, comprising thematically connected collections of papers prepared by a guest editor.
Oceania is a fully refereed journal which is published in print and online versions three times a year, in March, July and November.
The current Editor is Neil Maclean of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Sydney
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
. Past editors include Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown was an English social anthropologist who developed the theory of Structural Functionalism.- Biography :...
, Adolphus Peter Elkin and Sir Raymond Firth
Raymond Firth
Sir Raymond William Firth, CNZM, FBA, was an ethnologist from New Zealand. As a result of Firth's ethnographic work, actual behaviour of societies is separated from the idealized rules of behaviour within the particular society...
.
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