About the journal

Antípoda. Revista de Antropología y Arqueología is a publication that comes out every three months (January-March, April-June, July-September, and October-December) at the beginning of each of the periods indicated. It was created in 2005 and funded by the School of Social Sciences of the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). It aims to contribute to the advancement and dissemination of anthropological and archaeological knowledge, and to the critical analysis of sociocultural, methodological and theoretical topics that are relevant for the diverse subfields of the discipline and of other related fields in the social and human sciences. Antípoda constitutes an open, critical, pluralist forum in which hitherto unpublished articles and studies are published in Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Antípoda has a special interest in disseminating the experiences and the results of anthropological studies and of social research on the anthropologies of the world, especially those of Latin America.

Starting with the name Antípoda as a metaphor of otherness, the journal presents diverse visions. The different sections are organized on the basis of the following spatial allegories:

Meridians: This section indicates the orientation of each issue. Articles based on the results of studies related to the central theme are published here.

Parallels: This section presents articles related to the central theme of the issue from diverse approaches and theoretical and methodological perspectives.

Panoramics: This is an open section that gathers writings on topics that are relevant for the discipline.

Documents: This section includes writings and interviews on anthropology and archaeology, as well as visual essays proposal that accompany the issue.

Keywords: Archaeology, biological anthropology, ethnography, ethnohistory, linguistics, social and cultural anthropology.

Antípoda does not charge the authors for the costs of the editorial processes. All the digital contents of the journal are diamond open access* through its website. The journal declares that all the articles it receives are submitted to a plagiarism detection test; the contents that are published in the digital version are freely available and can be downloaded in PDF and HTML format; the authors should manifest that the text they present is of their own authorship, unpublished, and that they respect the intellectual property rights of third parties; and the evaluators should indicate on the evaluation format that they have no conflict of interest with the authors and topics on which they are going to render judgment.

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* Diamond open access consists in publishing open access content and the authors do not pay any fees to submit or publish in the journal.