VAR welcomes submissions relating to visual studies, broadly conceived-- projects rethinking the meaning of cultural and theoretical visualization. Visual anthropology includes both the study of visual aspects of human behavior (including the anthropology of art and museology). and the use of visual media in anthropological research, representation, and teaching.

As the journal of the Society for Visual Anthropology, Visual Anthropology Review promotes the discussion of visual studies, broadly conceived. Within its breadth, visual anthropology includes both the study of visual aspects of human behavior and the use of visual media in anthropological research, representation and teaching. The journal welcomes articles, reviews and commentary on the use of multimedia, still photography, film, video and non-camera generated images, as well as on visual ideologies, indigenous media, applied visual anthropology, art, dance, gesture, sign language, human movement, museology, architecture and material culture.

Articles should not be longer than 15,000 words.

Every submission to Visual Anthropology Review must include images, whether photographs, drawings, film stills, or screen grabs. The initial submission of manuscripts with photos should be through email. The document should be in the MS-WORD format and images should be not more than 200kb at 72dbi. The submission will be sent to peer reviewers. If the article is accepted, the author will be asked to send a CD with revised text and digital images to the editor. A 100 word abstract and a short biographical statement should be included with the submission. The author must complete the Author Agreement form and forward it by regular mail to one of the editors. The author must, for any images to be included in the article, complete an Image Permission Form and forward it to the editors. (The Order and Agreement files are in the Adobe PDF format. If you lack the Acrobat reader you can obtain one from: Adobe's web site. )

Final revisions must conform to AAA Guidelines and when articles do not do so they will be returned. cf. below

Photographs that are copyrighted must include written permission to use, granted by the copyright holder.

Unless you are working with a guest editor, send text and images by email (and, at the appropriate time, a CD that contains revised text and digital images) to both:

VAR
Liam Buckley (co-editor)
[e-mail:bucklelm@jmu.edu]

and

Laura Lewis (co-editor)
[e-mail: lewis2la@jmu.edu]


Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
MSC 7501,
James Madison University,
Harrisonburg, VA 22807

Bibliographic and footnote style:

VAR follows the bibliographic style of American Anthropologist, i.e. The Chicago Manual of Style (14thedition, 1993) and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th edition, 2000). In Webster's, use the first spelling if there is a choice and use American (not British) spellings. Click here  to see examples of the proper procedures.  When in doubt, follow Chicago.

Footnotes are expected for each essay, but should not be used merely to provide bibliographic material.  Citations (in appropriate style) should appear in the body of the text. Rules for citations for book and film reviews differ from those for
articles. There is no reference section at the end of reviews. In reviews, all citations are placed in the body of the review. Please see AAA Style Guide, Text Citations and References Cited/Reviews for details.

Images for publication can be black and white or color, scanned at 300 dpi, with a 6" minimum width or height.  Use only PICT or TIFF formats.  Please do not compress images or submit jpg files for production!  A typical image with the required specifications has a size of about 1.2 megabytes.

Only name hard-copy and digital images "Fig. 1," "Fig. 2" etc.  Ambiguous names of picture files create confusion for the editors and layout artists.

Include in the text the approximate location where you would like your figures to appear. Captions for all of the figures must be included on a special page of the manuscript.

Liam Buckley  bucklelm@jmu.edu or Laura Lewis  lal.jmu.anthro@gmail.com and/or to your issue's guest editor.