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“I am pleased to announce that JASO (Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford” has been relaunched as a free online journal, editor David Zeitlyn (University of Kent) writes in an email to the Anthropology Matters mailing list:

The intention is for the new version to exploit the flexibilities of web publication while maintaining a continuity with the precedent set by JASO. A retrospective conversion of the back issues is planned in due course.

On the journal’s website, though, they “reserve the right to levy a charge at any time in the future".

JASO-Online is no refereed journal. Nevertheless, “a strict quality threshold will apply".

The journal was originally launched in 1970 as a hard copy journal; it ceased publication in that form in 2005. It has now been re-launched to coincide with the Centenary of the Oxford Anthropological Society in 2009.

There is only one issue online. The most contributors to this issue are graduate students of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford.

The current issue consists of nine book reviews and these four articles:

Arielle Rittersmith: Contextualising Chinese medicine in Singapore: microcosm and macrocosm

Marisa Wilson: Food as a good versus food as a commodity: contradictions between state and market in Tuta, Cuba

Harry Walker: Transformations of Urarina kinship

Ieva Raubisko: Proper ‘traditional’ versus dangerous ‘new’: religious ideology and idiosyncratic Islamic practices in post-Soviet Chechnya