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 [...]Yesterday important swaths of the Internet were blacked out to protest SOPA, PIPA, and the RWA. We would have blacked out our site as well but… uh… we sort of didn’t get around to it. One site that did, however, was Wikipedia. This lead to a certain amount of chortling and self-staisfied rubbing of hands [...]
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 onOver at his blog, Jason Jackson wonder whether that AAA supports HR 3699 or not. It’s a good question, but I think there is an even better one to ask: can the AAA support (or oppose) HR 3699? In other words, is there some sort of institutional structure and decision making system at work within the [...]Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s lawyer, Henri Leclerc: At these parties, people were not necessarily dressed, and I defy you to tell the difference between a naked prostitute and any other naked woman. Gayle Rubin, in her famous essay “The Traffic in Women” Marx once asked: “What is a Negro slave? A man of the black race. The [...]A while back Rex wrote a comment on one of his posts that got me thinking. About academia. About publishing. And about the current system that many of us are a part of. Speaking about what he called the “awareness habitus of the general professorate,” he wrote: …a lot of time when tenure committees speak [...]