Nature and Culture
Volume 8, Issue 1, Spring 2013
Special Symposium on Nature, Science, and Politics, or: Policy Assessment to Promote Sustainable Development, focusing on better understanding science-policy interaction and conducting policy assessments that are supportive of sustainable development.

Anthropology of the Middle East
Volume 7, Issue 2, Winter 2012
This issue includes articles on rituals of healing and mourning, on marriage, and on the significance of hair as an application of religious law in Judaism.

Nomadic Peoples
Volume 16, Issue 2, Winter 2012
The three research articles in this issue tell unorthodox stories of change and adaptation in West African livestock trade, pastoral and agropastoral groups in Niger, Mongolia pastoralists. The second half of the issue is dedicated to the Dana +10 conference held on 11–13 April 2012.

Sibirica
Volume 11, Issue 3, Winter 2012
With articles on alcoholism and suicide among the indigenous peoples of the Russian north, the tradition narratives of Chukotka and Kamchatka, and the new Arctic/Siberian Studies program at the European University at St. Petersburg, as well as book reviews.