Oceania (journal)

Oceania is an Australian academic journal. Its full title was initially Oceania. A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea and the Islands of the Pacific Ocean.

The magazine was founded in 1930 and is published in Sydney. It publishes contributions from the fields of social and cultural anthropology and is primarily regionally oriented to the peoples of Oceania, particularly Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia and Southeast Asia. The central concern of the journal are contributions that are the result of ongoing ethnographic research. Also, review articles and mounts, which have direct reference to the central ethnographic concerns of the magazine are also published. Correspondence and shorter comments are published at the discretion of the publisher. In an issue usually are five articles and book reviews contain six to ten. As an example of the range of topics covered is a younger version, are treated in the article on land wars, land use and self-determination of Aboriginal people.

Sometimes an issue is devoted to a single topic, which then includes a thematically interconnected collection of essays, which were prepared by a guest editor.

The peer-reviewed by experts Oceania magazine is published three times a year, in March, July and November, in print and online version.

The current publisher is the anthropologist Neil Maclean from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney. Former editors have included Alfred Radcliffe -Brown, Adolphus Peter Elkin, Peter Lawrence and Sir Raymond Firth.