Minpaku serials and monographs

The Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology is a research journal that contribute to the advancement of ethnic studies and cultural anthropology. It publishes articles, book reviews, documentary materials, and research notes related to ethnic studies, anthropology, and related fields. Published four times a year.

Senri Ethnological Studies presents individual works, article collections, and annotated bibliographies regarding specific peoples, regions, or themes, with the goal of publicizing in Japan and overseas the results of research conducted by the Museum. An occasional publication.

The purpose of Senri Ethnological Reports is to publicize as quickly as possible the results of research conducted by the Museum’s faculty, cooperating faculty, and research fellows. SER publishes the results of field investigations regarding specific peoples, regions, or themes that require preliminary reports, as well as items of a source material nature such as bibliographies and data collections. Published in Japanese and other languages. Occasional publication.

TRAJECTORIA is an international multimedia online journal situated at the intersection of anthropology, heritage studies, museum studies, and the arts, published by the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan. The journal is peer-reviewed and published annually.

Minpaku Tsushin Online is a magazine that describes the academic characteristics and unique features of and achievements resulting from individual research projects conducted at the Museum in a manner that is comprehensible to researchers and the general public. The magazine launched online publications in FY2019 and has published electronic books.

MINPAKU Anthropology Newsletter promotes a continuing exchange of information with ‘Minpaku fellows’ who have been attached to the Museum as visiting scholors from overseas.

“Info-Forum Archives Resources” is a series of books featuring information from the Info-Forum Museum and Info-Forum Archives of Human Culture databases. By re-editing this information into book form, the series aims to promote alternative academic uses of the material to those offered by the databases. (Not published according to fixed schedule.)
Intended as a means of internationally disseminating the research results of the Info-Forum Museum, the “Info-Forum Museum Resources” series presents information about the materials included in the databases developed through the project, as well as archival materials, such as accounts of the database construction process.