Submissions

Author Guidelines

Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society welcomes contributions from the fields of anthropology and other related disciplines.

Each manuscript (apart from review essays and Forum submissions) must begin with an abstract of approximately 150 words, ending with a list of up to seven key words. Approximate manuscript lengths (including the abstract, reference list and endnotes) are as follows: articles 8–11,000 words; research reports and essays 3–5,000 words; book reviews and news items 800–1,200 words. We welcome illustrations, charts, drawings and photographs, which should be sent as separate, numbered and titled files, not embedded in the article text file.

We encourage submissions by authors whose native language is not English and, provided the text is comprehensible, we arrange for internal language editing free of charge after the text has been approved. We explain this policy to our reviewers, to whom it is usually a novelty. Only on rare occassions (ie. if the text is incomprehensible), will we request authors to complete language editing before submission at the authors’ own expense. 

Production and review process for peer-reviewed articles

All manuscripts are first evaluated by a member of the editorial team. Within two weeks after submission, the assigned editor will inform the authors whether a manuscript has been declined or will be sent for review. Each article manuscript is reviewed by at least two reviewers following a double-blind review protocol. Peer review usually takes 4–8 weeks. The decision about whether to accept, reject or request revisions to the article is usually made within three months of submission. Acceptance is conditional upon suggested revisions being satisfactorily executed; a second round of review is usually required.

Authors are invited to suggest potential reviewers; however, the editors are not bound by these suggestions.

We reserve the right to make minor editorial changes without consulting the author. The publisher does not take responsibility for possible loss or damage to authors’ files. For further information, please contact one of the Editor-in-Chief or the Editorial Secretary.

Submissions that fit outside peer-reviewed articles

To complement our peer-reviewed articles, Suomen Antropologi also offers a platform to publish research reports, interviews, book reviews, critical essays and forums. These complementary contributions will not follow the double-blind peer review procedure but will instead be read, commented on, and edited by a member/s of the Suomen Antropologi editorial team. Illustrations, drawings, photographs, audio clips, poetry and all forms reader-friendly texts written for an anthropological oriented audience are welcome!

Forums

Forums offer a flexible format that may comprise an assemblage of 3-4 short pieces of discussions or themed texts that center around a particular field or problem written by people with experience and ideas on the topic. Short, provocative opinion-pieces, reports and ‘blog-style’ contributions, which are themed around a particular problem or field are all welcome. Forums can compromise of texts that have derived through workshops or debates around a particular book in a reading group. We invite forum ideas that both follow or choose to diverge from the more conventional scholarly format.

Essays

Currently Suomen Antropologi runs two separate periodic essays series. These are the following:

• The Anthropologist’s Toolkit: Reflections on ethnographic methodology This essay series peers into the anthropologist’s toolkit to reflect on what ethnographic methodology constitutes in all its multimodal forms. We invite all contributions that explore the multiple engagements that come into play when working ethnographically with humans and more-than-humans.

• Reprises Reprises invites scholars in anthropology to revisit and highlight debates, arguments, problematics and works that have been obscured by the flow and fashion of academic research. Please refer to A. Graan. 2019. Introducing Reprises: A Periodic Essay Series in Suomen Antropologi.  vol. 44 (3-4): 24-35 for more information

• Individual Essays or contemplations that are not part of a forum and do not fit into the thematic focus of the two essay series.

Research Reports

Alongside essays and peer-reviewed articles, Suomen Antropologi also publishes research reports. that incorporate a collection of observations and contemplations gathered through fieldwork or conferences and other academic events.

We welcome transcribed interviews with scholars of prominence for the holistic insights on the anthropological project they so frequently provide, and for the encouragement and inspiration they almost always offer to young and flagging anthropologists.

Lectio Præcursoria

We also publish Lectio Præcursoria, which are short presentations presented verbally by a doctoral candidate at the start of every public thesis examination in Finland. Lectios introduce the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion between the examinee and the examiner apprehensible to the audience, many of whom may be unfamiliar with the candidate’s research or even anthropological research in general. We publish lectios by anthropologists and scholars deeply invested in the work of anthropologists. 

Book Reviews

Suomen Antropologi accepts book reviews of scholarly work written by anthropologists and related studies. A review should offer a summary of the book and its chapters through a critical analytical lens. Book reviews should be between 800–1,200 words.

Note: If you are thinking about compiling a section or entity that does not fit the categorical descriptions above, please feel free to pitch your idea and contact the editor-in-chief at jfas@suomenantropologinenseura.fi

Submission Guidelines

Please submit your manuscript in MS Word or Open/Libre Office format (.docx or .odt file; 12-point font; alignment left). Divide paragraphs with a double space, do not indent; do not format headings or the body of the text unless a word needs to be italicized (foreign language or emphasis); indent long quotations (more than 100 characters) but do not otherwise format.

References (including archival references) must be indicated within the text, for instance (Boas 1928: 75) and not appear as foot or endnotes. Up to eight endnotes may be used for additional comments.

References are listed in full at the end of the text in the following manner. Make sure the bibliography is not otherwise formatted (do not indent etc.)!

Books:
Li, Tania Murray and Pujo Semedi 2021. Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia’s Oil Palm Zone. Durham: Duke University Press.

Foucault, Michel 1991 [1975]. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Translated by Alan Sheridan. London: Penguin Books.

Gründner, Horst 1985. Geschichte der deutschen Kolonien. Padeborn: Schöningh.

Articles:
Kelly, Alice and Nancy Peluso 2014. Frontiers of Commodification: State Lands and their Formalization. Society & Natural Resources: An International Journal 28 (5): 473–95. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2015.1014602.

Book chapters:
Bell, Joshua 2015. The Structural Violence of Resource Extraction in the Purari Delta. In Joshua Bell, Paige West and Colin Filer (eds). Tropical Forests of Oceania: Anthropological Perspectives. Canberra: ANU Press.

Web pages:
Publication Forum 2017. Evaluations. Publication Forum Website, October 6. https://www.julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/evaluations. <accessed 24 July 2017>

The full name of an archive should be provided at first usage but may be abbreviated thereafter; primary sources and their abbreviations should be explained and listed in full in the end-list of references. When citing electronic media, conference reports, visual material and other sources, please follow the Harvard system.

If you use reference management software, you can download the CSL stylesheet of Suoman antropologi here to automatically generate citations and the list of references according to the journal style.

At the end of the manuscript, kindly enclose your contact information: name, affiliation and position (unless you are an independent scholar, in which case the institution where you gained your most recent degree or write "Independent Scholar"),  and email address. 

Ethics and plagiarism

Suomen antropologi strongly encourages all researchers in anthropology and related disciplines to adhere to the ethical principles of conducting research as defined by the American Anthropological Association in the Principles of Professional Responsibility (2012). Authors who wish to publish in Suomen Antropologi are responsible for ensuring that their research and publication follows these basic principles. The editors and reviewers of Suomen antropologi will asses also the ethical standards of the submitted texts.

Suomen Antropologi asks authors to make sure that the work they submit is their own, and to give due credit to the scholarly work of others through proper citations and attributions. Following the definition of the Office of Research Integrity, we define plagiarism as "both the theft or misappropriation of intellectual property and the substantial unattributed textual copying of another's work". Plagiarism of any kind constitutes ground for rejecting a submitted article.