Anthropos (journal)

Anthropos is an international multilingual academic journal dedicated to anthropology, ethnology, and linguistics research. It was founded in 1906 by Wilhelm Schmidt.[2]

Anthropos
Title page of the first issue (1906)
LanguageGerman, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese[1]
Edited byDarius J. Piwowarczyk
Publication details
History1906-
Publisher
Anthropos Institute (Germany)
FrequencyTwo issues per year
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4j.
Indexing
ISSN0257-9774
Links

Originally intended to publish research by Catholic missionaries, the journal quickly became one of the most influential publications in the fields of ethnology and anthropology, while maintaining its religious study origins. In 1931 Schmidt, Martin Gusinde, Paul Schebesta, and Wilhelm Koppers founded the Anthropos Institute, which became the journal's publisher.[2]

History

When Schmidt got the first issue of Anthropos out in February 1906 (then at Missionshaus St. Gabriel near Vienna in Austria), it was praised not only by the religious scholars, but also by such an anti-clerical figure as the French ethnographer Arnold van Gennep. Van Gennep confirmed his initial opinion a year later, stating that the four issues printed so far "place this journal among the ethnographic publications of the first rank".[3]

The initial name of the publication was Anthropos - Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde ("International Review of Ethnology and Linguistcs"), as suggested by Paul Huber (then owner of Kösel-Verlag) and Karl Muth; Schmidt himself considered Latin names like Omnes Gentes ("All Peoples").[1]

The first issue contained (on 163 pages[3]) articles in German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Latin; more languages were added later. However, in the beginning of the 21st century English predominates.[1]

Missionshaus St. Augustin, the current location of the Anthropos Institute

Schmidt always wanted to have an institution behind the journal. It took him 25 years to create the Anthropos Institute, but the interbellum conditions limited the possibilities, so a regular editorial structure was only put into place in 1962, when Anthropos moved to Missionshaus St. Augustin in Germany. In the meantime, after the Anschluss in 1938, Anthropos was operating out of Posieux in Switzerland (for more than 60 years the printing continued to be done in Swiss Fribourg, even after the move of editorial staff to Germany).[4]

Content and circulation

Each year sees two issues of Anthropos, one in January/February and another in August/September. Together the issues comprise approximately 700 pages with about 45 articles and 120 book reviews. Over the first century of its existence, the journal published 3,850 articles and 11,000 book reviews (the total is about 84,000 pages). Circulation is around 800 copies sent to 60 countries.[4]

References
  1. Quack 2006, p. 4.
  2. Anthropos (journal) in the Great Russian Encyclopedia (in Russian)
  3. Quack 2006, p. 3.
  4. Quack 2006, p. 5.

Sources
  • Quack, Anton (2006). "100 Years of "Anthropos"". Anthropos. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. 101 (1): 3–7. JSTOR 40466616.
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