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Subject: [GS_DISC:] CFP:The Anthropology of East Europe Review: Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 01:58:47 -0400

http://condor.depaul.edu/~rrotenbe/aeer/
the Anthropology of East Europe Review:
Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Eurasia (AEER),

The Research Letter of the East European Anthropology Group.

This journal is a publication of the East European Anthropology Group (EEAG), an international network of anthropologists working in Central and Eastern Europe and in the Post-Soviet societies of Europe and Asia. It receives financial and institutional support from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. The East European Anthropology Group is a professional network of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE) and the American Anthropological Association (AAA). It holds its annual meeting in conjunction with that of the American Anthropological Association, during which policy for this journal is established by the membership.

The EEAG holds its annual meeting in conjunction with that of the American Anthropological Association. This year (2005), it will be held at noon on Friday, December 2 at the Marriot Wardman Park Hotel, Washington D.C. This meeting is open only to members of the AAA, SAE, EEAG or invited guests.

The AEER serves the membership of this network by publishing research and scholarly papers on issues of rapid cultural change in East European societies. In addition, AEER serves as the publication vehicle for SOYUZ, The Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies. Many ofd the special issyues from recent years are papers originally delivbered at the annual SOYUZ conference. Please see their website for detail on this organization.

The value of the work published in AEER is its timeliness. It's purpose is to put research findings into the hands of professionals is an short a time as possible. The journal is published twice a year. The journal is a benefit of membership in the group. Memberships are open to working professionals in research institutes and universities, and students. Interested parties outside of professional anthropology and institutional library subscriptions are encouraged. The journal is archived at several university libraries in Europe and North America.

The journal welcomes submissions from scholars actively researching cultural issues in Eastern Europe. In the past the journal has published the work of sociologists, political scientists, historians, folklorists, and ethnographers, as well as anthropologists. These articles are not submitted for outside review, but the context of the research must be carefully documented. The articles should represent new knowledge that is the result of long term linguistic and ethnographic commitment to East European communities. If you would like to submit an article, contact one of the editors: Krista Harper or Julie Hemmert

From time to time, the journal publishes special theme issues. The best known of these is War among the Yugoslavs, AEER 11 (1-2), Autumn, 1993.It is out of print. However, the articles have been updated and republished in Joel M. Halpern and David A. Kideckel, eds., Neighbors at War: Anthropologuical Perspectives on Yugoslav Ethnicity, Culture and History, University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2000, ISBN 0-271-01978-6.

Currently five such issues are available: Refugee Women of the Balkans, AEER 13 (1), Spring 1995, and Culture and Society in the Former Soviet Union, AEER 13 (2), Autumn, 1995, Out of the Ruins: Cultural Negotiations in the Soviet Aftermath, AEER 16(2), Autumn, 1998, Reassessing Peripheries in Post-Socialist Societies AEER 17(2), Autumn, 1999, and Why Post-Socialism is Good to Think: The Anthropology of Transforming States AEER 18(1) Spring 2000.

To order a single copy of a theme issue ($20), or to be become a member,
please contact the editors of the AEER: Krista Harper kharper@anthro.umass.edu or Julie Hemmert jhemment@anthro.umass.edu.
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