With this issue, the Journal of Anthropological Research has completed two years under the management of the University of Chicago Press (UCP) Journals Division. Ownership and the Editorship remain with the University of New Mexico, where JAR was founded as the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology by Prof. Leslie Spier in 1945. SWJA was the successor to a more modest Department of Anthropology publication, The New Mexico Anthropologist, which had begun in 1937, a decade after the founding of the department by Prof. Edgar Lee Hewett and UNM President James Zimmerman.With approximately 80 years of anthropological publishing and 90 years as a department, UNM Anthropology—despite ups and downs that characterize all institutions—is a milestone in the American West and in the still relatively young discipline of anthropology worldwide. The road that we have traveled (in my case, 42 years on the faculty and 22 as editor-in-chief of the Journal ) has been a long one, and increasingly it has extended beyond the bounds of the Southwest, one of the richest and most diverse anthropological regions of the world—past and present. Although internationalist in outlook from the very first issue of SWJA, the increasingly worldwide content of JAR should be apparent to long-time readers. The visibility and accessibility of the Journal via the Internet (now on the webpages of the UCP Journals Division) and the relative ease of submission through Editorial Manager have meant that more and more manuscripts (and publication inquiries) are pouring in from around the globe. Many are not appropriate for publication for a variety of reasons (e.g., strictly local interest, overly narrow subject matter, lack of clarity in the argument), but I attempt to provide as much feedback and advice as I can, both for inquiries and actual submissions, in the latter cases generally with the invaluable input of specialist reviewers. My overall belief is that anthropological journals based in the major “Western” (i.e., colonialist) countries have an obligation to give voice to anthropologists located in other parts of the world. Specifically, the domination of the English language and of Anglo-American journals (to the detriment of journals in other languages and published even in major nations from France, Spain, or Germany to Japan, Argentina, or Brazil, for example) represents a continuation of scholarly “colonialism.” On top of this is the tyranny of the huge, multinational publishing giants, which is why, out of necessity, JAR has partnered with a university-based, not-for-profit publisher. The manuscripts must meet the highest standards of relevance, subject matter, originality

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有了这个问题，人类学研究杂志在芝加哥大学出版社 (UCP) 期刊部的管理下已经完成了两年。所有权和编辑权仍归新墨西哥大学所有，JAR 于 1945 年由 Leslie Spier 教授创立为西南人类学杂志。 SWJA 是更温和的人类学系出版物《新墨西哥人类学家》的继任者，该杂志曾在始于 1937 年，即 Edgar Lee Hewett 教授和 UNM 校长 James Zimmerman 成立该系十年后。UNM 人类学拥有大约 80 年的人类学出版和 90 年作为一个系的经验，尽管所有机构都经历了起起落落——是美国西部和世界范围内相对年轻的人类学学科的里程碑。我们走过的路（就我而言，在教职人员工作 42 年，担任期刊主编 22 年）很长，而且越来越超出西南地区的范围，西南地区是最富有的地区之一。以及世界上最多样化的人类学地区——过去和现在。尽管从 SWJA 的第一期开始就具有国际主义色彩，但 JAR 日益全球化的内容对于长期读者来说应该是显而易见的。该期刊通过互联网（现在在 UCP 期刊部的网页上）的可见性和可访问性以及通过编辑经理提交的相对容易性意味着越来越多的手稿（和出版物查询）从全球涌入。由于各种原因（例如，严格的本地利益，主题过于狭窄，论点缺乏清晰度），但我试图提供尽可能多的反馈和建议，无论是查询还是实际提交，在后一种情况下，通常会有专家审稿人的宝贵意见。我的总体看法是，位于主要“西方”（即殖民主义）国家的人类学期刊有义务为世界其他地区的人类学家发表意见。具体来说，英语和英美期刊的统治（损害其他语言的期刊，甚至在法国、西班牙、德国、日本、阿根廷或巴西等主要国家出版）代表了一种延续学术上的“殖民主义”。最重要的是大型跨国出版巨头的暴政，这就是为什么，出于必要，JAR 与一家基于大学的非营利性出版商合作。手稿必须符合相关性、主题、原创性的最高标准