Thanks to everyone to read and contributed to last week’s reinauguration of our ‘reading circle’ feature. This week I’d like to showcase some more great open access work by asking people to read an article from the open access serial Pacific Asia Inquiry: Voyaging for Anti-Colonial Recovery: Austronesian Seafaring, Archipelagic Rethinking and the Re-Mapping of Indigeneity [...]I’m currently on a committee which has been tasked with developing a set of ethical guidelines for visual ethnography in Taiwan. While I agreed to take part in this process because ‘image ethics’ are something I take very seriously, I am also very skeptical about the application of a medical ethics model to anthropology. For [...]Recent comments on Hau and the opening of ethnographic theory remind me of what I always think of when I hear about the Bongobongo: The time is gone when anthropologists could find solace in the claim that our main civic duty–and the justification for our public support–was the constant reaffirmation that the Bongobongo are “humans [...]Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Jason Antrosio. [I realize the irony of prominently citing American Anthropologist during the Open Access debates--I do end with a call to support Rex's proposal to read and talk about HAU] These major waves of anthropology’s critical self-examination were the neo-Marxist, feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial autocritiques between roughly the late [...]With all the lively debate here at the blog, maybe you’ve missed the fun we’ve been having on the @savageminds twitter feed and Facebook page. There you’ll find fresh daily links to internet flotsam that’s semi-interesting and even occasionally relevant to anthropology! Once a month I collect all the tweets and post them here. Below [...]One of the problems plaguing anthropology today is its state of perpetual indecision. This is probably not a new problem, but it does have serious consequences for how we write and publish. What is the center of sociocultural anthropology today? Where is the discipline going? What standards can we use to assess the work of [...]There’s been a ton of discussion in blogs, twitter, and hallways about the AAA’s shameful opposition to the free dissemination of knowledge. It’s depressing, but ultimately I think time is on our side and things are trending up. How can I put this delicately? As generational change occurs institutions will increasingly be staffed by people [...]We’ve been here before. We’ve tried to explain why it is important. We’ve written a lot about it. But nothing seems to have changed. What can we do to make anthropologists care about open access? To make them care what the AAA says about open access? [This is an open thread for constructive suggestions about [...]I just read about this news this morning (thanks to the wonders of email). The American Anthropological Association recently published its comments to the Request for Information (RFI) from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) about the state of affairs when it comes to public access to scholarly publication. All of the responses [...]Who can save us…from ourselves? Who can put an end to the current fiasco that is academic publishing? Since we are all so entrenched in this system, where can we look for a way out? In a post about some of the issues that academia faces when it comes to the current politics of publishing [...]
antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact 19 01 12 12:40:10, by Lorenz Categories : internal notes Thank You Antropologi.info was recently voted as one of the best anthropology blogs Jason Antrosio , editor of Living Anthropologically and Anthropology Report asked his readers to pick their three favorites among 120 anthropology blogs . I’m especially happy about the result as I haven’t told anybody about the survey and I don’t use facebook og twitter to promote” this blog . And his list included also several popular blogs within physical biological anthropology and archaeology . So , thanks a lot to everybody who voted for antropologi.info It has been quite quiet recently here on