Journal introduction:

Acta Borealia: A Nordic Journal of Circumpolar Societies is a multi-disciplinary scientific journal for cultural studies. The journal presents results from research on northern societies, including reviews of new books about the north. The journal publishes articles in disciplines such as history, archaeology, social anthropology, ethnography, geography, and linguistics. Topics of primary concern include: -ethnic relations -settlement patterns -economy -political, cultural, and social phenomena from prehistory to the recent past. Articles and book reviews are published in English. Acta Borealia is edited by a group of scholars at the University of Tromsø, and is the only journal dedicated exclusively to a multi-disciplinary comparative focus on circumpolar societies.

Frequency：2 Issues Per Year

Editorial board
Editors
Trude Fonneland, Professor, Department of Cultural Sciences, Tromsø University Museum, UIT - Arctic University of Norway, NO-9037 Tromsø, Norway. E-mail: trude.fonneland@uit.no Telephone: +47 77 64 66 30
Ian Peter Grohse, Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies, and Theology, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, UiT – Arctic University of Norway, NO-9037 Tromsø, Norway. Email: ian.p.grohse@uit.no Telephone: +47 77 66 05 90
Bjarge Schwenke Fors, Director, The Barents Institute, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, UiT – Arctic University of Norway, N-9900 Kirkenes, Norway. E-mail: bjarge.s.fors@uit.no
Bryan Hood - Professor, Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies, and Theology, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, UiT – Arctic University of Norway, NO-9037 Tromsø, Norway.
Email: bryan.hood@uit.no Telephone: +47 77 64 56 12

Editorial Board
Ingela Bergman - Silvermuséet, Sweden
Lars Elenius - University of Umeå, Sweden
Bjarne Grønnow - National Museum of Denmark, Denmark
Kristin Joachimsen - Norwegian School of Theology, Norway
Igor Krupnik - Arctic Studies Center, USA
Maria Lähteenmäki - University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Veli-Pekka Lehtola - University of Oulo, Finland
Gisli Pálsson - University of Iceland, Iceland
Teemu Ryymin - University of Bergen, Norway
Aud Mikkelsen Tretvik - The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Nikolay Vakhtin - Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Gro Birgit Ween - University of Oslo, Norway
Rane Willerslev - University of Aarhus, Denmark

Acta Borealia
Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology
Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education
UiT – Arctic University of Norway
NO-9037 Tromsø Norway
Email: acta@list.uit.no

Abstracting and indexing
Acta Borealia is indexed/tracked/covered by the following services:
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
Lapponica database of Rovaniemi Public Library*
ProQuest Sociology Collection
Scopus (Elsevier)
Scott Polar Research Institute Library, Cambridge*
Social Science Database (ProQuest)
Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest)
Sociology Database (ProQuest)
*These databases are part of the NISC-DISC Arctic & Antarctic CD-ROM and the PolarPac CD-ROM from WLN.


( If you see actual errors or other issues on the webpage, you can remind us through the "Contact us" link at the bottom of the page. Thanks )