Research
in
Economic
Anthropology
(REA),
first
published
by
JAI
Press
in
1978
and
edited
by George Dalton,
is the longest continuously running annual series in
economic
anthropology. Under the leadership of
Barry Isaac, who
served as editor from 1983 (Volume 6 - 1984) to 1999
(Volume
20), REA earned a
reputation as a supporter
of both
ethnological and archaeological research on
relationships
between
economy and culture/society. At the end of
Isaac's tenure as editor, Elsevier Science
acquired REA from JAI
and commenced publishing the series as
Elsevier/JAI.
Norbert
Dannhaeuser and
Cynthia
Werner, both of Texas A&M University, edited Volumes
21 through 24,
but Michael Alvard
(also of TAMU) handled Volume 23 as guest editor.
In 2005
editorship of REA passed to
Donald
C. Wood of Akita University, and in late 2007 Emerald
Publishing bought
the REA series, among others, from Elsevier.