Critique of Anthropology (COA)

Critique of Anthropology is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of anthropology that has been published continuously since 1974. It is dedicated to the critical examination of social realities, challenging received wisdom in both academic anthropology and broader society. The journal embraces innovative, often experimental research that addresses power structures, cultural ideologies, and social processes from a cross-cultural and critically reflective standpoint. Its remit covers all branches of anthropology — including social and cultural anthropology, ethno-history, biological anthropology, archaeology, and interdisciplinary work that foregrounds the social, political, and ideological determinants of the human condition. The journal explicitly encourages contributions that combine rigorous ethnographic insight with theoretical depth, eschewing prescriptive or purely descriptive accounts in favor of scholarship that interrogates disciplinary assumptions and broader sociocultural paradigms. This critical orientation makes the journal an important venue for scholars engaged in reflexive and theoretically ambitious work that advances anthropology as a self-aware and socially relevant discipline. Over its run, Critique of Anthropology has published essays that engage with debates on theory, methodology, ethics, and anthropology’s role in global and local contexts.

Critique of Anthropology (COA) is :-

• International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, Anthropology, critical theory, political economy, power and ideology, inequality, colonialism and postcolonial studies, globalization, development, state and governance, culture and identity, and reflexive anthropological methods , Online or Print , Quarterly Journal

• UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN P-ISSN: 0308-275X, E-ISSN: 1460-3721, Established: 1974, Impact Factor: 1.6
• Does Not Provide Crossref DOI

• Not indexed in Scopus, WoS, DOAJ, PubMed, UGC CARE