CFP: Folklore and Culture in the Americas (open; e-journal)

From: Steven Beech (steven@americultures.org)
Date: Mon Jul 31 2000 - 16:38:35 EDT

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          AmeriCultures.Org is a new and developing website offering a
    mediated academic journal. For further information and online
    submission, please go to www.AmeriCultures.org.

          Our developing e-journal (the Journal of Folklife and Culture in
    the Americas -- JFCA) and other site benefits will be entirely dedicated
    to the publication of folklife, cultural anthropology, and human
    interest items that are produced in a multimedia format for the general
    public. We also anticipate such things as an annual conference that will
    be netcast, an annual on-line conference, and various research-related
    competitions and awards. Eventually, we hope to publish a paper-based
    journal as well.

          It is our widest hopes that AmeriCultures.Org will become a venue
    in which academics may have a creative outlet and general public appeal,
    for all writers interested in folklife and culture to have the
    possibility of future by-word payment for their articles -- much like
    journalists and creative writers do, and for the general public to be
    informed of and entertained by the world that we live in.

          We will accept articles devoted to the close understanding of
    peoples of all of the Americas; our site will have English, French, and
    Spanish versions.

          -- The Staff at AmeriCultures.org

    Submission Guidelines

          1. Submissions under 5MB may currently be sent to us only via our
    online submission form. (*Any submissions larger than 5MB will only be
    accepted via regular mail and may be sent as CD or Zip disk, with prior
    permission from the publishers. In this case, fill out our online
    submission form with all of the required information below, minus the
    main text of the article. We will send you a return e-mail containing
    the appropriate street address, upon approval for publication.)

          2. Unsolicited submissions should not exceed 1250 words of text.

          3. We accept Microsoft Word or Word Perfect, or plain ASCII
    format.

          4. We will only accept submissions using the MLA citation style,
    as it is the most widely known to the public.

          5. Each submission must contain a cover section with the title of
    the article, the approximate word count; a short description/abstract;
    the author's name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and
    preferred form of communication; and, as well, a statement of relevance
    to our publication.

          6. Pertinent photographs, video and sound clips, and other
    multi-media effects are welcome; however, publication of these materials
    will be considered by our editorial staff with a mind to space
    limitations and download times.

          Steven W. Beech, Director
          Publication and Administration Branch
          AmeriCultures.org

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