This is Part III of a series of posts on anthropology and democracy. Part I is here, Part II, here. In the USA, the spectre of democracy looms. It is days away. November 6, when people all across the country will step into a small booth and exercise their right to participate in the democratic [...]One of the things a good book does is to show you patterns which you start seeing everywhere. David Graeber’s Debt is one of those books. Right now I’m enjoying listing to the Moby Dick Big Read in which: David Cameron, Tilda Swinton, Stephen Fry and Simon Callow jump aboard ambitious project to broadcast Herman [...]an experience that many have had and that some have written about has been providing expert opinion. I’m sharing here to see what people’s experience might be like. last weekend, I attended a conference of ethnic Chinese professional people of various political identities, but all living in the United States. The conference made me anxious [...]Open Access week is well underway here on the Internet, and so it’s time to return to a topic I touched on before but didn’t give enough attention to: Tom Boelstorff’s recent call for AAA journals to go completely open access. As the editor of American Anthropologist, our flagship journal, his editorial on this subject is [...]
: antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact 24 10 12 17:34:00, by Lorenz Categories : Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing anthropology general websites When anthropology is begging for attention : PopAnth website launched Regularily , new initiatives are launched to make anthropological knowledge more accessible to the general public . A few weeks ago , PopAnth was launched a highly ambitious project that translates anthropological discoveries for popular consumption” as they explain We take anthropology’s collective knowledge and translate it for mainstream audiences , much in the way that popular science books , tv shows and trivia quizzes make even the hardest of sciences
This probably belongs on Sociological Images, but I am going to post it here anyway. I just read this brief 2010 article about violence against women in Russia, after reading through this fact sheet from the World Health Organization. Then when I looked back at the article, I noticed something that seemed off. Here’s a [...]With the elections in the US less than three weeks away, the idea of “democracy” has been on my mind a lot. And, considering recent events like this (which isn’t exactly getting a lot of press coverage), I am thinking a lot about the ideals of democracy versus the actual practice of democracy–here in the [...]I spend a lot of time on this blog extolling the virtues of open access publishing, so I thought I should take a minute to extoll the virtues of for-profit publishing and the role they play in the scholarly endeavor. As scholars, we anthropologists subscribe to the idea that knowledge should be free and spread [...]The Nacirema, till now most famous for their unusual body rituals, are also quite well known for their political rituals; especially the unusual way they choose their headman.* Whereas many traditional societies choose their headman based on his demonstrated ability at skills related to the survival of the community, the Nacirema have chosen instead to [...]
[This is the 6th installment in an ongoing series.] Above is a picture of my student ID from the “Hualien Tribal College.” Actually the official English name on their web page is “Hualien Indigenous Community College” which sounds better to my anthropological ears. Indigenous Community Colleges in Taiwan are not degree granting institutions. Courses tend [...]
: antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact 11 10 12 03:39:00, by Lorenz Categories : indigenous people minorities Us and Them anthropology general journal articles papers Minorities treated as second class academics : Still a racial bias in anthropology In a blog post at AnthroNow Manissa McCleave Maharawal draws our attention to an important article in the American Anthropologist that was already published in november 2011 : Anthropology as White Public Space Here , Karen Brodkin , Sandra Morgen , and Janis Hutchinson show that there is still a racial bias in American anthropology . Their online survey among anthropologists of color in the US reveals that anthropology has not done well whenantropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact 10 10 12 23:30:00, by Lorenz Categories : culture traditions Europe journal articles papers history What the burial of a 4 year old boy says about daily life more than 24 000 years ago Antropologi.info is mainly about social anthropology . So , maybe now it’s time to get inspired by a paper from a neighbouring discipline archaeology . Lukas Loeb has sent me this paper that he’d like to share with others : The Human Burial of the Abrigo Lagar Velho Child . An analysis of human burial and the understanding of social relations and ancient society Loeb is currently a student in the Social Science and Economy Department at the University of Agder Norway .
antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact 08 10 12 12:34:00, by Lorenz Categories : Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing anthropology general journal articles papers University Academia Why are academic articles so expensive Academic paywalls : No access to knowledge . Photo : noboder network , flickr 30 US Dollars in order to read a single academic article Why Is it about making money No . The high price is designed to maintain the barrier between academia and the outside world . Paywalls codify and commodify tacit elitism” , writes anthropologist Sarah Kendzior in Al Jazeera She gives a good overview of some important issues that restrict the circulation of knowledge . Most