• New Orleans: 6000 anthropologists, much tweeting, some blogging, no press coverage

    Updated: 2010-11-27 13:43:07
    : , , , antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact If you want to post call for papers etc use the new bulletin board 27 11 10 14:43:07, by Lorenz Categories : anthropology general New Orleans : 6000 anthropologists , much tweeting , some blogging , no press coverage It has been one of the best attended conferences ever . More than 6000 anthropologists went to the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Society AAA in New Orleans But as usual , it’s hard to find any press coverage . There are some blog posts about the conference , though , and more than 1000 tweets . This year was a breakout year for the use of Twitter at the AAA Kerim Friedman writes at Savage Minds The tweets

  • The Visual Anthropology of Fashion and Running

    Updated: 2010-11-26 00:33:41
    antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact If you want to post call for papers etc use the new bulletin board 26 11 10 13:33:41, by Lorenz Categories : Visual Anthropology The Visual Anthropology of Fashion and Running More and more anthropology videos and documentaries are available on Youtube and Vimeo . Among the more recent additions we find these ones here that I enjoyed watching and at the same time show the diversity of the : discipline Run and Become is a film project by the Jon Mitchell Sam Pepper and Jenni Rose Human from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sussex What motivates people to carry on training and carry on running How are people transformed through the act

  • #AAA2010 FTW!

    Updated: 2010-11-22 03:52:27
    This year was a breakout year for the use of Twitter at the AAA. The ease of Tweeting via SMS or over 3G networks meant that limited wifi access wasn’t a problem. According to Summarizr, there were over 1031 tweets using the #AAA2010 hashtag. 80% (824) of the tweets in this TwapperKeeper archive were made [...]

  • How to decide what panels to see at AAAs

    Updated: 2010-11-17 17:40:18
    1. Steal an AAA program. 2. Find page which begins each day’s listings and fold it in half in the program. Now you can easily locate each day. 3.Go through each day’s listings and turn down the corner every time the start time of the sessions change — when the listing of all the 2 [...]

  • New overview: Discover hidden treasures in open anthropology repositories

    Updated: 2010-11-16 23:22:02
    : antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact If you want to post call for papers etc use the new bulletin board 17 11 10 00:22:02, by Lorenz Categories : Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing anthropology general websites New overview : Discover hidden treasures in open anthropology repositories Inspired by the relaunch of the anthropology repository Mana’o I have finally finished a first overview over anthropology repositories and archives here http : www.antropologi.info links Main Archives The overview is far from complete and if you know of some more I should know , leave a comment or sent an email Not all the repositories are user-friendly and it wasn’t always easy to find

  • Digital Labor

    Updated: 2010-11-11 17:40:36
    My colleague Ramesh Srinivasan and I just submitted an article to a journal in which we analyze social entrepreneurs’ digital labor practices. The argument we are making is that one needs to focus on (1) organizational missions, cultures and histories, (2) the nature of the labor (its level of creativity or its invocation of routinized, [...]

  • Bookmark this post for updates on Savage Minds Party, Open Access Lunch, Twitter Meetup

    Updated: 2010-11-10 07:08:31
    This post is a placeholder for information about events we are planning for the AAA in New Orleans: the Savage Minds Party and the Open Access Lunch. There is also some info on the planned Twitter Meetup(s). This post will continue to be updated right up till the last minute, so be sure to check [...]

  • Bourdieu vs. “The Total Intellectual”

    Updated: 2010-11-08 14:53:40
    Below is a repost my contribution to the ongoing series of posts on public anthropology over at the Anthropology and Publicity blog, a special blog set up by Martijn de Koning for a seminar being held in the Netherlands,. Other contributors include names I think many of you will know, including Lorenz Khazaleh, John Postill, [...]

  • Anthropology and Publicity - new blog (and workshop)

    Updated: 2010-11-04 02:08:11
    antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact If you want to post call for papers etc use the new bulletin board 04 11 10 03:08:11, by Lorenz Categories : anthropology general websites Anthropology and Publicity new blog and workshop In a new blog called Anthropology Publicity several authors discuss the reasons for the underexposure of anthropological knowledge and explore ways to improve its dissemination and application in society . The blog is part of a workshop at the Radboud University Nijmegen , Netherlands . One of the organizers is Martijn de Koning , author of the blog Closer One of the posts is written by Daniel Lende from the Neuroanthropology blog about Public Anthropology : The

  • Do they really need our "help"? New Anthropology Matters is out

    Updated: 2010-11-04 01:51:03
    antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact If you want to post call for papers etc use the new bulletin board 04 11 10 02:51:03, by Lorenz Categories : development empowerment applied anthropology anthropology general persons and theories journal articles papers Do they really need our help New Anthropology Matters is out What kinds of theoretical insights have emerged from the anthropology of development What can anthropologists learn from development work Anthropology Through Development : Putting Development Practice into Theory is the topic of the new issue of the open access journal Anthropology Matters that was released a few days ago . This issue , edited by Amy Pollard and Alice Street

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