Historical Anthropology. Culture - Society - Everyday Life

Specialist journals are an enormously important medium for publishing new research questions, approaches and results. They thus communicate both to an academic and an interested wider audience. Around 1990, several new historical journals emerged. This can be seen as an expression of a time of departure and renewal as well as a changed understanding of history. The unease about a type of social history that is overly oriented towards structures and, in the process, ignoring experiences, attributions of meaning and ideas of concrete women and men , the discussion of ethnological approaches and topics and a new interest in a broad understanding of culture were, among other things, behind the founding of the journal Historical Anthropology - Culture, Society, Everyday Life, which, with three issues per year, appeared for the first time in 1993. The journals critical point of departure is demonstrating that relevant phenomena have come into being and have been made historically, and are thus, simultaneously, changeable. The journal places a focus on everyday life and the ways in which people act in the different situations both normal and extraordinary , on questions about changes in the perception of birth, pain or death, on the shaping of childhood, family, work and much more. A team of editors from Germany, Austria and Switzerland has been responsible for the content. Since then, 30 years have passed. The journal continues to hold an important position in the publication landscape of history and cultural studies. The critical debate on globalised history, the challenge to question and expand anthropocentric perspectives, to rethink the relationship between nature and culture, the intensified examination of the topic of knowledge production in imperial and Western hegemonic contexts and more have been added. In order to remain fit for the future, however, a journal must also be visible and the contributions must be accessible this means open access. The funds granted for the modernisation of the journal will be used to ensure that this step which is as urgent as it is important will be as successful as possible. The aim is to ensure that the journal Historical Anthropology remains attractive: for the publication of exciting research results, especially for articles written within the framework of research projects, and for younger generations, who have their own understanding of the media and who particularly need peer-reviewed articles for their further careers. The broad public accessibility of content that can be achieved by moving to open access strikes at the heart of the journals self- image, as signalled by the subtitle: Culture, Society, Everyday Life.