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Anthropology in Action is a peer-reviewed journal publishing key articles, commentaries, research reports, and book reviews that deal with the use of anthropology in all areas of policy and practice. Recent themes have included identity and movement, anthropology in Denmark, the effects of ethics, and anthropology and activism. Subjects covered by the journal include organizations, HIV/AIDS research, new reproductive technologies, the rights of indigenous peoples, community care and social policy, health, medicine and suffering, education and government policy, museums, place and space, management, ethnicity and violence, and overseas development.

Publisher: Berghahn Journals

18 issues are available electronically
  • Volume 18
  • Number 3, Winter 2011
    Special Issue on Anthropology of Welfare
  • Number 2, Summer 2011
    Special Issue on Anthropology of Britain. Guest Editor: Arnar Árnason.
  • Number 1, Spring 2011
    Special Issue on Feminism and Anthropology. Edited by Robin Whitaker and Pamela J. Downe.
  • Volume 17
  • Numbers 2-3, Summer/Winter 2010
    Pathways to Anthropology. Guest Editors: Paul Basu and Simon Coleman
  • Number 1, Spring 2010
    International Student and Youth Mobility. Guest Editors: Vered Amit and Noel Dyck
  • Volume 16
  • Number 3, Winter 2009
  • Number 2, Summer 2009
    Special Two-Part Issue on Public Anthropology: Part One. Guest Editors: Sam Beck and Carl Maida
  • Number 1, Spring 2009
    Special Issue Title: Special Joint Issue with the Irish Journal of Anthropology Volume 12 Number 1
  • Volume 15
  • Number 3, Winter 2008
    What is a Gift? Questioning the Distinction between Gift and Commodity in Contemporary Societies. Edited by Michaela Benson and Denise Carter
  • Number 2, Summer 2008
    Anthropology of Policy, edited by Tara Schwegler and Michael G. Powell
  • Number 1, Spring 2008
    Transferring Anthropological Skills to Applied Health Research
  • Volume 14
  • Number 3, Winter 2007
    The Location of Culture and Politics in Latin American and Caribbeanist Anthropology. Guest Editors: Catherine Benoît and Raymond Massé
  • Numbers 1-2, Spring/Summer 2007
    Ethnographic Humanism: Migrant Experiences in the Quest for Well-Being. Guest Editors: Robin Oakley and Anne Grønseth
  • Volume 13
  • Number 3, Winter 2006
    Indigenous Knowledge in Development. Guest Editor: Paul Sillitoe
  • Numbers 1-2, Spring/Summer 2006
    The Edge of the Union: Peace, Conflict and Policy in Northern Ireland. Guest Editor: Dominic Bryan
  • Volume 12
  • Number 3, Winter 2005
    Friends and Foes: Anthropologists and the Making of 'the Enemy'. Guest Editiors: Eric B. Ross and David H. Price
  • Number 2, Summer 2005
    Embodiment and Teaching and Learning in Anthropology. Guest Editor: Jonathan Skinner
  • Number 1, Spring 2005
    Universities and the Politics of Accountability. Guest Editors: Don Brenneis, Cris Shore and Susan Wright

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