About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Formerly called "The Anthropology Student Journal", The Ethnograph was established by the UBC Anthropology Students' Association to provide undergraduate students with the opportunity to publish individual research papers and essays within the scope of anthropology and archaeology. The Ethnograph was established in 2012 and continues to draw on a student-run editorial team that work to assist authors with their forthcoming publications. This year The Ethnograph's faculty sponsor is Professor Amirpouyan Shiva, PhD. While lecturing in sociocultural anthropology at UBC, he specializes in linguistic and media anthropology, with an additional interest in the anthropology of science and technology. 

Open Access Policy

The Ethnograph is an Open Access journal. We are committed to the accessibility and deprivatization of knowledge. All materials and research published are readily available to be read and cited by our readers. The materials belong solely to their authour’s, given that used works are properly cited and formatted.

Copyright Policy

Authours published in The Ethnograph retain the copyright and all associated rights to their works. Authour’s have granted the journal first publication rights. Works are open access and available to be used by readers under a Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 license, given proper acknowledgement of authorship and publication in this journal are attributed.

Authour’s are encouraged to post their works online and seek further publication with other journals that are non-exclusive, with acknowledgement of its initial publication in The Ethnograph.

Sponsorship Policy

The Ethnograph is currently sponsored by The University of British Columbia (UBC) Anthropology Department, and the Anthropology Student Association (ASA). Funding is provided by the Department and the Alma Matter Society (AMS) of UBC to the ASA, and allotted to the journal.

Ethics Statement

The Ethnograph upholds and aligns itself with Canada’s Tri-Council Policy on research involving humans. All works published in this journal are original works, in their first publication. The Ethnograph team reviews works to ensure originality and does not condone plagiarism.

Privacy Statement

All information that is stored (ie. names and emails) is agreed on between The Ethnograph and the authours, to be used and shared only with the authour’s consent. The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.