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Anthropology in Action

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 25, 2023
Entity authorityQ4773908 ↗
Source-derived summary

Anthropology in Action is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Berghahn Books that covers anthropological subjects through commentaries, key articles, research reports, and book reviews. The editor-in-chief is Christine McCourt (City University London).

Editorial summary

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 33-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Anthropology, Action and journal providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 25, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q4773908. VIAF identifies the subject as 267572257. The Library of Congress control number is no97016184. 9 of 10 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Anthropology in Action” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.