Editorial and Technical Protocols

Anthropoetics — anthropoetics.org

Last updated: June 2026

This page documents the editorial and technical standards governing Anthropoetics and Chronicles of Love and Resentment. It records all post-publication interventions to the archive — changes made after original publication — together with the principles that authorize them and the dates on which they were made.

Transparent record-keeping of this kind is both an ethical obligation to the scholarly community and a practical contribution to the long-term reliability of open-access publication. Scholars citing Anthropoetics should be able to verify that the texts they are working with are authentic, and to understand the exact nature and scope of any changes that have been made to the archival record.

Principles

The text is primary. No editorial intervention touches the published text of any article or Chronicle. The intellectual content — argument, quotation, citation, footnote — is preserved exactly as originally published in every case. This commitment is absolute.

All interventions are documented here. Any addition, correction, or revision to a published piece — however minor — is recorded in this document with a description of what changed, the reason for the change, and the date. We do not make undocumented changes.

Corrections are distinguished from revisions. A correction repairs an error present in the original (a factual mistake, a typographic error that alters meaning, a broken link). A revision improves the presentation of content that was correct but incomplete (adding metadata, updating URLs, improving PDF formatting). Both are documented; corrections are noted on the affected page as well.

Authors are notified of substantive corrections. Where a correction touches authorial content — even to fix an obvious error — the author or estate is informed if contactable.

PDF Revisions (2026 Migration)

The original PDFs distributed through anthropoetics.ucla.edu were produced under varying technical conditions across thirty years. Many lacked standard bibliographic apparatus that modern readers, repositories, and citation managers expect.

PDFs for all journal articles are being processed accordingly for upload and will be available shortly after launch.

During migration processing, a bibliographic footer will be added to each PDF, prefixed [Ed.], making visible the citation and copyright information already embedded in the PDF file properties. The footer includes author, title, journal, volume, issue, date, and a URL.

Internal Anthropoetics and Chronicles links within PDF text were not updated during migration — unlike the HTML versions, where internal links were redirected to anthropoetics.org equivalents.

Article text, footnotes, and page layout are unchanged in all but documented exceptions. If you find a discrepancy between a PDF and the original, please report it to editors@anthropoetics.org.

Newly created PDFs. A small number of articles had no accessible PDF in the original archive. For these, a PDF was generated from the migrated HTML version by the Anthropoetics editorial team in 2026. Each carries an editor’s note: “A PDF of this article was not preserved from the original publication. This PDF was generated from the digitized text by the Anthropoetics editorial team, 2026, and may differ in appearance from the original print version. The text is as published.”

Text Reconstructions from the Internet Archive

A small number of articles were unavailable at anthropoetics.ucla.edu at the time of migration — the original files had been lost or corrupted at the hosting level. These pieces were reconstructed from snapshots held by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

Each reconstructed piece carries an editorial note at the foot of the article text:

Editor’s note: The text of this article was reconstructed from an archived copy held by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine (snapshot dated [date]). The original source at anthropoetics.ucla.edu was no longer available at the time of migration. The text has been verified against the archived record.

Reconstruction procedure: the Wayback Machine snapshot was retrieved, the HTML text was extracted and cleaned, and the result was verified against any other available copies (author manuscripts, secondary citations) where possible. No editorial changes were made to the text during reconstruction.

URL Migration

All content previously accessible at anthropoetics.ucla.edu is now hosted at anthropoetics.org. The URL structure has changed as follows:

Previous format	New format
`http://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap[vol][issue]/[file].html`	`https://anthropoetics.org/journal/[slug]/`
`http://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/views/chron[n].html`	`https://anthropoetics.org/chronicles/[slug]/`

Redirects from anthropoetics.ucla.edu to anthropoetics.org are maintained by Anthropoetics through 2027. Scholars with published citations using the old URLs do not need to update them during this period. After 2027, the authoritative URLs are those at anthropoetics.org.

Internal reference URLs. Hyperlinks within article and Chronicles texts that pointed to other pages on the UCLA-hosted site (cross-references between articles, links to journal issues, links to Chronicles entries) were updated to their anthropoetics.org equivalents during the migration. The linked content is identical; only the URL has changed. No links to external sources were modified.

Authentic copies of the site as it existed at UCLA are preserved at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine and may be used to verify older citations independently.

Metadata Implementation

The following metadata standards are implemented across the archive as of the 2026 migration. All metadata is generated from structured fields attached to each published piece and output automatically in the <head> of each page.

Google Scholar (citation_* meta tags)

All journal article and Chronicles pages include Google Scholar–compatible metadata. For journal articles this covers: citation_title, citation_author (one tag per author, formatted Last, First), citation_publication_date, citation_journal_title (Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology), citation_issn (1083-7264), citation_volume, citation_issue, citation_fulltext_html_url, citation_pdf_url (when a PDF is on file), citation_abstract (when present), citation_keywords (when present), citation_copyright, and citation_language (en). For Chronicles the same fields are used with citation_journal_title set to Chronicles of Love and Resentment (ISSN 3066-6848) and citation_issue used for the Chronicle number.

Dublin Core

Dublin Core metadata supplements the Google Scholar tags on all post pages: DC.type (Journal Article or Text), DC.publisher, DC.language, DC.rights, and DC.source (formatted as publication title, volume, and number where applicable).

Open Graph

All post and archive pages carry Open Graph tags for social sharing: og:type, og:site_name, og:title, og:url, and og:description (derived from the abstract when available).

Schema.org / JSON-LD

Structured data is output as JSON-LD on all post and category pages:

Journal article pages: ScholarlyArticle type, with headline, author (as Person objects), datePublished, publisher (Organization), isPartOf (nested PublicationIssue → PublicationVolume → Periodical with ISSN), url, sameAs, inLanguage, abstract, keywords, and encoding (PDF MediaObject when available). Copyright fields included when data is present.
Chronicles pages: BlogPosting type, with headline, author, datePublished, publisher, isPartOf (Blog with ISSN 3066-6848), url, position (Chronicle number), and available abstract/keyword/copyright fields.
Journal volume category pages: PublicationVolume, linked to parent Periodical.
Journal issue category pages: PublicationIssue, linked to parent PublicationVolume and Periodical.
Journal archive / home: Periodical.
Chronicles archive: Blog.

Canonical URLs

A <link rel="canonical"> tag is output on all post pages, set to the post’s permalink (or an explicitly overridden URL where specified).

ORCID Integration

ORCID ID fields for authors are present in the article metadata infrastructure and will be surfaced in Schema.org Person objects once populated. This is listed as in progress.

ISSN Registration

Anthropoetics holds ISSN 1083-7264, registered with the ISSN International Centre.

Chronicles of Love and Resentment holds ISSN 3066-6848, registered in 2026 in connection with the migration to independent hosting.

Citation Format

The preferred citation format for Anthropoetics articles is:

[Author Last], [First]. “[Article Title].” Anthropoetics [Volume in Roman numerals], no. [Issue] ([Season/Year]). [URL].

Example:

Gans, Eric. “The Unique Source of Religion and Morality.” Anthropoetics I, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1995). https://anthropoetics.org/journal/AP-vol-1/0101/gans/.

The preferred citation format for Chronicles of Love and Resentment is:

Gans, Eric. “[Title].” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. [Number], [Month Day, Year]. Anthropoetics. [URL].

Example:

Gans, Eric. “Public and Private.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 73, December 28, 1996. Anthropoetics. https://anthropoetics.org/chronicles/chronicle73.

Intervention Log

All post-publication interventions to the archive are recorded here in reverse chronological order.

Date	Scope	Type	Description
June 2026	Gans, “The Unique Source of Religion and Morality,” AP I, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1995)	Text reconstruction	HTML text unavailable at anthropoetics.ucla.edu at time of migration. Reconstructed from Internet Archive Wayback Machine snapshot dated March 26, 2025. PDF generated from reconstructed HTML.
June 2026	Taylor, “Strategies of Dissociation,” AP XII, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 20026)	Text reconstruction	HTML text unavailable at anthropoetics.ucla.edu at time of migration. Reconstructed from Internet Archive Wayback Machine snapshot dated February 2, 2019. PDF generated from reconstructed HTML.
June 2026	Schneider, “Sacred Ambivalence,” AP I, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1995)	Newly created PDF	No PDF preserved from original publication. PDF generated from migrated HTML by the Anthropoetics editorial team, 2026. Text unchanged.
June 2026	Abdulhamid, Ammar and Eric Gans. “A Dialogue on the Middle East and Other Subjects.” Anthropoetics VII, no. 2 (Spring/Summer 2002)	Text correction	HTML formatting errors had obscured speaker attribution at one point in the dialogue. Speaker identity was verified against the PDF of record and confirmed with one of the authors; the text was reformatted accordingly. No change to the words spoken.
June 2026	“A Door to Another World: The Imagination in Japanese Folkways and Religion,” AP XXII, no. 1 (2016)	Metadata correction	Author field incorrectly populated with “Kinjo Occult Research Group,” which is part of the article title, not an author. Author field corrected; title restored in full.
May 2026	All interviews and dialogues	Reformatting	Speaker labels and discourse formatted consistently across all interview and dialogue texts to improve readability. No change to text.
May 2026	All journal articles and Chronicles	Metadata addition	Google Scholar (citation_*), Dublin Core, Open Graph, and Schema.org JSON-LD metadata added to all article and Chronicle pages via Anthropoetics Combined Metadata plugin v2.0.
May 2026	All content	URL migration	All content migrated from anthropoetics.ucla.edu to anthropoetics.org. Redirects from anthropoetics.ucla.edu to anthropoetics.org are maintained by Anthropoetics through 2027.
May 2026	All journal articles and Chronicles	Internal link update	Hyperlinks within published texts pointing to other UCLA-hosted pages updated to anthropoetics.org equivalents. Linked content unchanged; external links not modified.
2016	All content (at time)	Platform migration	Static HTML site migrated to WordPress by Lucian Tucker, UCLA Humanities Computing, with funding from Dean David Schaberg. No text changes.

Reporting Errors

If you identify an error in any published text, a metadata discrepancy, a broken link, or any other problem with the archive, please contact the editors at editors@anthropoetics.org. Please include the article title or Chronicle number, the nature of the error, and (if possible) a source for the correct version.

For questions about the editorial and technical standards of Anthropoetics, contact the editors at editors@anthropoetics.org.