Popular Anthropology Magazine seeks submissions from Visual Anthropologists for publication in future issues. Each quarter, Popular Anthropology Magazine features the photography of a visual anthropologist on the cover of the magazine. In addition, a two-page spread on the inside of the magazine is devoted to both the photography and the biography of the visual anthropologist.

Popular Anthropology Magazine is a free online magazine with over 1,400 subscribers on six different continents. Tentative June 2011, we will also be going in print in the continental United States.

Submissions may be sent electronically to:
Dawn C. Stricklin
dcstricklin@popanthro.com

Mailing:
Dawn C. Stricklin, MA
Department of Anthropology
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
1000 Faner Dr., Rm. 3525- MC 4502
Carbondale, IL 62901
Email: dcstricklin@popanthro.com
Web: http://www.popanthro.com

No longer unsecure about their aesthetic sensibilities, contemporary ethnographers have expanded upon the established tradition of impressionistic and confessional fieldwork to produce works that not only stimulate the intellect, but that also delight the senses. From visual to reflexive ethnography, from narrative to arts-based inquiry, from hypertext to multimodal scholarship, and from autoethnography to performance ethnography, fieldwork has undergone a revolution in data collection practice and strategies of representation and dissemination. Innovative ethnography is a catalytic field of experimentation and reflection, innovation and revelation, transformation and call to action.

The new Routledge Innovative Ethnographies book series publishes fieldwork that appeals to new and traditional audiences of scholarly research through the use of new media and new genres. Combining the book and multimedia material hosted on the series website, this series challenges the boundaries between ethnography and documentary journalism, between the scholarly essay and the novel, between academia and drama. From the use of narrative and drama to the use of reflexivity and pathos, from the contextualization of ethnographic documentation in felt textures of place to the employment of artistic conventions for the sake of good writing, this series entertains, enlightens, and educates.

Series editor: Phillip Vannini, Royal Roads University, Canada

Contact: phillip.vannini@royalroads.ca

VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY, the premier international journal in our field, is planning to present several innovative issues during 2010, dealing with Bollywood(!), cultural hybridity in Hong Kong, the visual aspects of ritual behavior, and certain aspects of using the visual arts, both publicly and privately. In addition, we need to announce some important changes of address. Beginning in January 2010 our editorial office will be relocated to California. All correspondence and manuscript submissions should now be sent to:

Paul Hockings
1849 Montage Court
San Jose, CA 95131
USA.

Submissions and other correspondence can normally be sent by e-mail, and this address remains unchanged: < visualanthro@yahoo.com >
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What: Practical Matters, http://www.practicalmattersjournal.org/submissions
Deadine for submissions: September 15, 2009

The online, multimedia academic journal Practical Matters invites multimedia submissions in the categories and genres of film, video, soundscape, new media, photography, art, and performance pieces (broadly construed) that engage the topics of ethnography, ethnography and theology, and anthropology of religion for an upcoming issue on the theme of Ethnography and Theology. This issue will explore the numerous intersections of ethnography, theology, and the study of religion. We are also interested in work that examines these themes in relation to pedagogy and religious practices.

The issue will explore questions such as (1) how do new approaches such as visual ethnography and web-based multimedia possess the potential to deepen and elevate the doing of ethnographies that investigate “religious” phenomena and theological questions? (2) can the questions and discourses of theology and religious studies enrich the doing and creating of ethnography across disciplinary boundaries? (3) what are the contributions of ethnographic fieldwork to the study of religion, ritual, and theology?(4) what emerges through the teaching of ethnographic tools to students of theology and religion?
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What: Short article submissions for Apskety Festival, Poland
Deadline: September 15, 2009

Festival of Visual Anthropology Aspekty invites submissions of articles related to visual anthropology, and anthropology of film. The most interesting articles will be published in promotional materials during the festival. They will also be published on the festival website in the database of articles.

The maximum size of article: 4-5 pages A4, font size 12.
Please send your texts till 15 September 2009 to festival@aspektyfestival.pl
In the title of an e-mail, please enter “Article for Festival”
The festival starts on 27th November 2009.
For more information, please go to our website www.aspektyfestival.pl

Lukas Jakielski
lukas@aspektyfestival.pl
www.aspektyfestival.pl

What: a new visual anthropology textbook for undergraduate teachers and students. Now out in hard cover, and soon to be published in paper. Fifteen chapter contributors verbally and visually discuss their field research.

Where: Please see web site: http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/strvie.html