''Cultural Anthropology'' is a quarterly

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published by the American Anthropological Association on behalf of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. It was established in 1986 and covers emerging areas of

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, society, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans. Social anthropology studies patterns of behav ...

. In 2014, it became

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. Since 2022, it has been edited by a collective, composed of Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, Alberto Corsín Jiménez, Julia Elyachar, Joanne Nucho, AbdouMaliq Simone, Manuel Tironi, and Ather Zia.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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/Social & Behavioral Sciences,

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, and the

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. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2013

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of 1.606.

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