The ''Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford'' is a

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

that was established in 1970. Publishing the print edition was discontinued in 2000 and in 2009 the journal was re-launched as an

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without publishing fees (

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). All the back-issues and occasional papers are available online. The

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is Bob Parkin who has also written about the history of the journal. Malcolm Chapman also discusses the history in his introduction to Edwin Ardener's essays.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by the

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and International Bibliography of the Social Sciences.

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