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17/11/09
16:37:43, by Lorenz 
. Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), internet, websites Looking back at 10 years Public Anthropology online
What is public anthropology? Already in 1999, when he had started his Ph.D project, Martijn de Koning has made his first anthropology website. In a very interesting blog post with many links, he is looking back at 10 years public anthropology online:… more »
01/11/09
17:49:07, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, websites SSOAR - The first Social Science Open Access Repository is online
(via media/anthropology and Open Access Anthropology blog) Where can I publish my papers online? A few weeks ago, I wrote about ResearchGATE and other initiatives. Now, SSOAR - the Social Science Open Access Repository is online. It is according to Ke… more »
26/09/09
02:41:21, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, migration, anthropology (general), websites What has anthropology taught you?
A friend of mine sent me a link to the website of the Norwegian migration researcher Jørgen Carling http://www.dragoeiro.com It has an unusually nice design, but what I'm even more impressed about is the section "Research findings". Here, he lists selec… more »
06/09/09
23:00:26, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, music, history, internet, websites Oral history, folk music and more: British Library puts vast sound archive online
Wow! Overwhelming! The British Library has made more than 23 000 sound recordings from all over the world freely available to everyone at http://sounds.bl.uk
"World and traditional music", "oral history", "accents and dialects", "environment and natu… more »
24/08/09
18:17:59, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), websites 96 year old anthropologist starts blogging
(via AAA-blog) He was both president of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and editor of the journal American Anthropologist. Now Walter Goldschmidt, born in 1913, is joing the growing anthropological blogging community at http://waltergoldsc… more »
09/08/09
13:56:46, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), internet, websites, internal notes 5 years antropologi.info
It's hard to believe that I have been running this blog already for around five years. It was in June 2004, I bought the domain antropologi.info and on the 7th of July 2004, the English blog was launched by anthropologist Simon Roberts from Ideas Bazaar… more »
18/04/09
11:20:20, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), websites The new blog by the American Anthropological Association
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has launched a new blog at http://blog.aaanet.org/ It combines their previous Anthropology News, Public Affairs and Human Rights blogs. All archived content and comments were migrated to the new location. Th… more »
02/01/09
00:26:42, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), internet, websites The best of anthropology blogging 2008
What has happened on anthropology blogs during the last year? The group blog Neuroanthropology has posted Round Up of the Best of Anthro 2008 and The “Best of Anthro 2008″ Prizes.
Most anthropology blogs have participated, so these two posts pr… more »
28/12/08
Do we need to define anthropology?
toBEintheWORLD is the name of a new anthropology blog. In his first posts, anthropology student Pawel Tomasz Chyc (University of Poznań, Poland) asks anthro-bloggers to explain what they understand as "anthropology".
For, in his opinion, good an… more »
29/11/08
14:05:39, by Lorenz . Categories: religion cosmology, culture traditions, websites, interdisciplinary The Cognition and Culture Blog
While browsing the web for Claude Levi Strauss posts, I stumbled upon a great site: Cognition and Culture.
It is run by International Cognition & Culture Institute, an initiative of the Department of Anthropology of the London School of Economics… more »
22/07/08
01:29:25, by Lorenz . Categories: medical anthropology / ethnobothany, anthropology (general), websites, interdisciplinary New anthropology group blog, forum
Somatosphere - Science medicine and anthropology is the title of a new medical anthropology blog by researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
It will be an interdisciplinary blog as Eugene Raikhel writes in his first post:
The core o… more »
07/06/08
11:46:30, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, gift economy gift giving, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, books, cyberanthropology, internet, websites Online: New book on the cultural significance of Free Software
How has Free Software transformed not only software, but also music, film, science, and education? Anthropologist and Savage Minds blogger Christopher M. Kelty explores this question in his new book "Two bits" that now is "available for purchase, for do… more »
21/05/08
11:17:26, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, media, youth, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet, websites Ethnographic study: Social network sites are "virtual campfires"
After five years participant observation, anthropologist Jenny Ryan has published her masters' thesis about the social network sites Facebook, My Space and Tribe.net. She created a beautiful web version of her thesis at http://www.thevirtualcampfire.org/… more »
27/04/08
21:20:54, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Latin- and Central America, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, Northern America, journal articles / papers, websites New e-zine: American Ethnography
Anthropologist Martin Høyem has launched the e-zine "American Ethnography", an "internet glossy on the study of cultures":
We cover ethnography that relates to anything we would call America. We aim to present the tradition and practice of ethnograph… more »
30/03/08
15:51:51, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, development empowerment, fieldwork / methods, Native American, Caribbean, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet, websites Another way of doing fieldwork: Developing websites with your informants!
Indigenous communities have embraced the internet from early on. The website of the Oneida Indian Nation was set up before the website for the White House. Anthropologist Maximilian C. Forte has developped several websites in collaboration with indigenou… more »
05/03/08
16:52:25, by Lorenz . Categories: Asia, fieldwork / methods, Visual Anthropology, internet, websites "Visual Anthropology of Japan" and more new blogs
Visual Anthropology of Japan" is the name of the blog by anthropologist Steven Fedorowicz (Kansai Gaidai University). All of his students in his class with the same name are required to blog. He links to more than a dozen student blogs.
He explains:… more »
26/02/08
15:15:05, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, fieldwork / methods, cyberanthropology, University / Academia, internet, websites Plans to study anthropological online communities and Open Access movement
Anthropology of anthropology: How do anthropologists form online communities? How are open access publishing and other developments that have sprung up online changing community boundaries? Soon, an anthropologist will do fieldwork among us online anthro… more »
14:14:58, by Lorenz . Categories: Latin- and Central America, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, websites “Focalizar o que é comum aos seres humanos” / Open Access Anthropology in Brasil
What do all humans have in common? My interview with anthropologist Christoph Antweiler in German about his book on cultural universalisms has been translated into Portuguese and will be published in the journal Revista ANTHROPOLÓGICAS. You can download… more »
22/02/08
Professor lets students blog their field experiences: More than 20 new blogs online!
Anthropology professor Joe Rubenstein has started an interesting project: Students in his course "Field Methods" are expected to blog their field experiences (it seems). Their research topic is teens and adolescence.
"The purpose of writing on our bl… more »
21/02/08
18:15:31, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia, websites Museum Anthropology Review goes open access
This morning, the journal Museum Anthropology Review was launched as an open access journal. The content that was published during 2007 (the journal's first year) is now available in both HTML and PDF format - free for all readers all over the world.… more »
17/02/08
17:41:55, by Lorenz . Categories: Asia, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, migration, journal articles / papers, websites Open Access: South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
Migration and Constructions of the Other is the topic of the first (and most recent) issue of the Open Access journal South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal.
According to their self-description, the journal "seeks to ‘democratize’ research-bas… more »
20/01/08
18:26:09, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia, websites ScientificCommons.org - The Open Access Search Engine
How can I find research papers and theses that are freely available? ScienceCommons is a search engine and portal that is still in beta but now lists 893 repositories (according to Peter Suber at Open Access News). A search for anthropology gives more th… more »
11/12/07
11:36:11, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, websites Already lots of publications in the open access anthropology repository Mana'o
MANAO - new Open Access repository for anthropology was announced for the first time not more than two months ago. Now, already 82 publications can be read and downloaded - both theses, conference papers, monographs and book chapters - including the pape… more »
10/12/07
01:01:49, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, media, internet, websites, ethics New media and anthropology - AAA meeting part III
While new media can foster participatory ethnography and enhance access, one also has to reflect on the implications of the Internet’s openness and availability. This was one of the lessons of a session at the annual meeting of the American Anthropologic… more »
06/12/07
23:52:50, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, University / Academia, websites Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth has started blogging
Not even more and more anthropologists are blogging. Now, even anthropology organisations have discovered the internet. A few days ago, ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth) has launched their blog "aimed at providing a n… more »
03/12/07
18:47:19, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet, websites, interdisciplinary Now open access to 39 years of the journal Folklore Forum
Folklore Forum, a journal that is produced by graduate students at the Folklore and Ethnomusicology Department of Indiana University, has gone Open Access. From now on, 39 years of scholarship, debate, and exchange of ideas are freely accessible for ever… more »
02/11/07
New blog: "Open Anthropology" by Maximilian C. Forte
Another new blog: Anthropologist Maximilian C. Forte has recently launched the blog Open Anthropology - "a project of decolonization, growing out of a discipline with a long history and a deep epistemological connection to colonialism":
OPEN ANTHROPOL… more »
30/10/07
New fieldwork blog: Struggling with antipathy for the field and "anthropology-fed-up-ness"
Norwegian anthropologist Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme has started blogging. He is currently on fieldwork in the Philippines among the Pentecostal Christians in Ifugao.
In his first two posts of his blog Jon Henrik in Ifugao, he describes parts of the fi… more »
28/10/07
AfricaWrites - Videos from rural Africa
Patrick Gorham, editor of AfricaWrites: Heroes, Rituals & Legends writes to me. He created AfricaWrites several years ago "with the intent and goals of research, exploration, preservation and documentation of traditional African culture". On the webs… more »
11/10/07
00:44:06, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, University / Academia, websites MANAO - new Open Access repository for anthropology to be launched
As the open access to Annual Review of Anthropology only was a temporary pleasure, it is good to know that the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawai’i is going to launch MANAO - an Open Access repository for anthropology:
The Mana’o pr… more »
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