This was a key point in my research; suddenly focusing on the process of business agenda formulation seemed a bit boring, especially since I had a full-scale development battle emerging in front of me!What I do, and why this begins to explain why an anthropologist would do something like study the administration of New York's ex-billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg.I’d like to extend a warm welcome to our new guest blogger, Julian Brash. Julian’s research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of anthropology, geography, and urban studies. His recent book, “Bloomberg’s New York: Class and Governance in the Luxury City,” focuses on how Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s corporate and technocratic approach to urban governance [...]
: antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact 21 02 11 04:06:24, by Lorenz Categories : Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing books anthropology general Here they are : Open access anthropology books More and more journals have gone open access , now it’s time for open access books OAPEN Open Access Publishing in European Networks is an initiative in Open Access publishing for humanities and social sciences monographs Several European university presses have joined the initiative that aims to improve the accessibility and dissemination of academic books . The traditional book publishing model they state , is no longer sustainable OAPEN was launched last autumn at the Frankfurt Book FairThe Spring semester starts today here in Taiwan, and this semester I will once again be teaching a course on production methods in visual ethnography. One of my requirements each semester, the one which most bothers my students, is that their final work be posted to the internet. This is a problem for them because [...]I love anthropology — cultural anthropology, my subfield of the discipline — because it is the most human of the human sciences: the one that is the most about people. The one which thinks you can learn about how people live their lives by watching how they live their lives — not by building models [...]My university has doubled the size of our introduction to cultural anthropology (1 field, not 4 field) course and so I’m changing the way I normally teach it and using a big-ol’ text book for like, the first time ever. I have a whole gaggle of sample textbooks to evaluate. I’m not particularly happy about [...]I have a collaborative project that I would like to float out to the anthropology blogosphere on this Valentine’s Day: a love letter to our discipline This won’t work for several reasons: First, because of my position on the earth, it is probably not Valentine’s Day where you are. Second, there is a strong chance [...]Around the Web is back and, with a nod to one of the most writerly of anthropological writers, this week’s column is dedicated to putting pen to paper. To the links! The writing process Lifehacker explains why you learn more effectively by writing longhand than typing. Teaching writing A neat little exercise to get your [...]The latest issues of Cultural Anthropology is out, featuring new editors Anne Allison and Charles Piot. A new feature of the journal that I was surprised to see was the inclusion of ‘playlists’, which the editors define as “a feature of iPods that list one’s top song picks of the moment”. This slightly awkward attempt [...]
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