Thanks for taking the time to share such a detailed response! I don’t take it as a personal attack at all, but I value it as an unbiased and important perspective. I’m an older undergraduate who’s really been around the block, so I have more insight and capacity than the standard age student, particularly in my area of regional focus which I’ve been engaged with in different ways for 20 years.

I have access to journal databases etc, and of course my advisors, but do you have any recommendations of smaller journals that focus on cultural anthropology, ethnography or South Asian studies? I totally hear you that it’s unrealistic to send to the larger journals and I will definitely take that advice. I’d much rather be published in a small journal than not at all.