PROPOSALS SUBMISSION 

All proposals should be sent to: etnografica@cria.org.pt
subject: proposal submission FORUM AGORA [name of the section]


AGORA EXCLUSIVE SECTIONS 

Quick Notes

Section with a blog-like profile. It can include independent and original posts, but also short reflections by authors of texts published in the journal, providing a more "popular" version of the article.
Up to 1000 words. Permanent publication. Proofreading by editors.
Editor: Octávio Sacramento (UTAD, CETRAD, Portugal)


Short Cuts 

Featured articles for online reading ; only articles from the current issue; summarised texts with photographs or other content that paper does not allow.
Up to 500 words. Permanent publication. Proofreading by editors. May include photography, video, and audio.
Editor: Humberto Martins (UTAD, UMinho, CRIA-UMinho/IN2PAST, Portugal)


"From the archives"

Here we dig deep into the archives to take a fresh look at the anthropology published in Etnográfica since 1997. Every four months, a guest editor proposes a selection of re-readings based on a thematic (or geographical, or temporal, or...) axis that they define according to their research interests and the questions that today's world poses to them.
A text introducing the selection, written by the guest. Up to 1000 words. Selection of up to 8 articles. Every four months.
Editor: Emília Margarida Marques (CRIA-Iscte/IN2PAST, Portugal)


Multimodal – Audiovisual section

This section publishes original multimodal contributions engaging with ethnographic practice and enriching the writing. We encourage submissions of essays that incorporate visual formats, such as photography, drawing, graphics and audiovisuals, or sound, as part of their ethnographic reflection.
Up to 6000 words. Images are worth 200 words each. Video and audio up to 20 min.
Essay - review by the editor and invited peers, optionally anonymised.
Technical specifications to be agreed with editor.
Editor: Inês Ponte (ICS-ULisboa, Portugal)


Urgent Anthropology

Articles in the form of short essays on hot topics within the scope of the anthropology of urgency and the anthropology of affections; but also articles/essays that shape public agendas or explore invisibilised realities and phenomena.
Review by editors. Permanent publication. Publication time up to 3 months. By submission or by invitation from the editor.
Between 2000 and 2500 words. May include photography, video and audio.
Editor: Renata Gonçalves (U. Fluminense, Brazil)


Field notes

Original texts that provide a look and reflection on research experiences with the presentation of fieldwork vignettes. Authors are invited to incorporate multimodal representations (text, sound and image in the most varied formats) that facilitate access to facts, materialities, involvements, interactions, relationships and interactions made possible during fieldwork. A section that opens the door to the ways in which anthropologists produce knowledge when they carry out their research, valuing raw data, materials to be analysed, impressions and inaccuracies, circumstantiality and the gerundial nature of doing anthropology and which invites creative solutions that make us enter or approach the experiences lived by anthropologists in the field.
Review by editors. Audiovisual materials: each image is worth 200 words. Video and audio up to 6 min.
Maximum 2500 words.
Editors: Antonádia Borges (UFRJ, Brazil); Cyril Isnart (IDEMEC, France; CRIA-Iscte/IN2PAST, Portugal); Ernesto Martínez Fernández (Universidade de Sevilha, Espanha); Humberto Martins (UTAD, UMinho, CRIA-UMinho/IN2PAST, Portugal);



B Side

B Side presents unpublished texts in a non-academic format, with authorial and editorial freedom. Authors are invited to share unpublished texts kept in their drawers that may arise from academic or scientific interests, but which for whatever reason have not been transformed into a conventional product such as an article or chapter. There is also room for essays and experimentalism, with complete openness to other fields (literature, poetry, dramatic or theatrical texts, etc). B Side defends the dignity and anthropological fidelity of essayistic and literary writing and invites authors to present literary or poetic texts in the construction of their narratives, considering that writing, like fieldwork, is above all a relational, affective, emotional, sensory and aesthetic process.
Curated by the editor.
Maximum 6000 words.
Editor: Chiara Pussetti (ICS-ULisboa, Portugal)


LAB – Living Anthropology and Art Boundaries

This section, curated annually by a guest artist, is a kind of permanent gallery and creative workshop in which curators and invited artists and authors explore the experimental and creative dimension of ethnography from the field of the arts and innovative proposals that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries (of the arts and anthropology) in a fruitful and reflective dialogue about its potential in terms of knowledge and experience of things.
Editor: Chiara Pussetti (ICS-ULisboa, Portugal)
Guest curator 2025: Marco Maria Zanin


April 25: 50 Years - Reflections and Reflections

Section created as part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of April 25 in Portugal, inviting perspectives from anthropology to think about the memory and socio-political trajectory of the revolution.



NEW SECTIONS – ETNOGRÁFICA AND AGORA

Found in Translation

This section aims to give space to peripheral texts or those that are outside academic circulation for linguistic or epistemological reasons. Many of the texts not translated into dominant languages or already accommodated in the global circuit of social science journals lead to the unbalanced dissemination and reproduction of established paradigms of thought. Etnográfica therefore proposes to bring to the discussion forum a production that is sometimes unknown and challenges these same paradigms, in terms of content, style and format. This may include translations of works from languages and circuits peripheral to those of the dominant production in academia, as well as from other disciplinary and/or ontological fields. 
Variable length. Annual publication. Presentation text.
Maximum 1000 words.
Guest Editor 2024: Francisco Freire (NOVA-FCSH, CRIA-NOVA FCSH/IN2PAST)

The cut: cutting-edge themes in dialogue

In this section the editors propose a challenging essay that will question and push forward theoretical-anthropological thinking. This piece may also include cutting-edge ethnographic methodologies, and will propose something new and controversial, within the parameters of professional academic common sense. Three different contributors will respond to these provocations with their own thoughts, based on their anthropological experience, with critical perspectives. The author of the main piece gives a final response.
Maximum 7000 words.
Main article in provocation: 3000 words.
Contestant 1: 1000 words; Contestant 2: 1000 words.
Contestant 3: 1000 words; Main author's response: 1000 words.
Published once a year. Invitation and review by editors.
Editors: Diana Espírito Santo (U. Católica, Chile) and Ruy Blanes (CRIA-Iscte/IN2PAST, Portugal)

The Book and its Critics

Four reviewers are invited to write a critical review of a recent book with significant theoretical and/or methodological implications for anthropology. Each reviewer creates a brief synopsis of the book, from their perspective, and a critical commentary on aspects of the book, as well as outstanding questions and other issues that leave room for the author to respond at a later date. At the end of these four essays, the author of the book will address each of them and, finally, acknowledge the criticisms and defend his book (or not).
Maximum 6000 words.
Commentator/critic 1: 1000 words; Commentator/critic 2: 1000 words
Commentator/critic 3: 1000 words; Commentator/critic 4: 1000 words
Author's response: 2000 words
Published once a year. Invitation and review by editors.
Editors: Diana Espírito Santo (U. Católica, Chile) and Ruy Blanes (CRIA-Iscte/IN2PAST, Portugal)


EXISTING SECTIONS – ETNOGRÁFICA AND AGORA

Interviews

The publication of interviews in Etnográfica will be stimulated by a proposal from the Board of Directors and may also result from proposals made directly by the contributors. In the first case, the interviews are part of the journal’s editorial project and are planned by the Editorial Board. As far as proposals from contributors are concerned, they must fulfil the following criteria:

They must not exceed 7500 words, including any bibliographical references, or exceed 40 minutes in length in the case of recorded interviews (sound or video).
They should be geared towards emphasising one of the following items:

-- The interviewee's scientific/academic career.
-- Analysis and/or critical commentary on recent work (no more than three years after publication).
-- The interviewee's inclusion in a theoretical current and the corresponding discussion/confrontation with other authors and/or currents.
-- Presentation and corresponding discussion of concepts and/or categories proposed by the author or that refer to their work.

Interview proposals are open on a permanent basis, and the journal undertakes to give its consent or express its disinterest within a maximum of 60 days. The timing of publication is the responsibility of the Editorial Board, which will evaluate the suitability of the publication within the journal's editorial framework.
Editor: Luís Cunha (UMinho, CRIA-UMinho/IN2PAST, Portugal)

Reviews

Review proposals, for written works as well as cinematographic and documentary works, must be written in one of the languages accepted by the journal - Portuguese, English, Spanish and French - and may not exceed 1500 words. Except in exceptional situations, which are always defined in liaison with the Board, only reviews that refer to works published or edited in the last five years will be accepted. Without prejudice to any proposals that the Editorial Board may consider appropriate, Etnográfica will privilege the following criteria when publishing reviews:

-- Works that refer to or privilege the internationalisation of Portuguese works and/or those from the Lusophone space.
-- The reception and dissemination in Portugal of referential works, seen as relevant contributions to contemporary anthropological debates.
-- Works from lesser-known geographical contexts, other than Europe or North America.
The Editorial Board is responsible for accepting or rejecting proposals, a decision that will be communicated to the proposers within a maximum of 60 days, and the Board is responsible for scheduling the respective publication.
Editor: Luís Cunha (UMinho, CRIA-UMinho/IN2PAST, Portugal)