Studia ethnologica Croatica is one of those Open Access journals I've found recently. Their latest issue gives an overview over recent delevopments in anthropology in Eastern Europe. The texts are based on presentations made at the conference ‘New Curric… more »
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by lorenz on Jun 20, 2009 in politics, religion cosmology, Us and Them, Europe, applied anthropology, University / Academia, ethics • 5 comments »
We have discussed a lot about the strengthening ties between the military and universities in the USA and Britain, but similar things are happening in Scandinavia. And there is no public debate about it here.
One example is a research center that was… more »
Shortly after I wrote about Olivia Harris' death I was informed about the death of medical anthropologist Cecil Helman.
Helman was both anthropologist, doctor and poet. He combined both clinical and anthropological perspectives on a variety of issues… more »
One of antropologi.info's readers alerted me to the death of anthropologist Olivia Harris. She died suddenly of cancer aged 60 on the morning of 9th April.
Harris is the co-founder of the Anthropology Department at Goldsmiths College (also Universit… more »
by lorenz on Jun 7, 2009 in politics, books, fieldwork / methods, poverty, Northern America • 3 comments »
"In Search of Respect. Selling Crack in El Barrio" is one of my favorite ethnographies. Now, Philippe Bourgois, is out with a new book. In “Righteous Dopefiend", he looks at the clients of the dealers, the University paper Penn Current reports.
The pa… more »
by lorenz on Jun 7, 2009 in Us and Them, fieldwork / methods, journal articles / papers • 1 comment »
When anthropologist Michael Madison Walker did research in rural Mozambique, he - as a white man - was variously assumed to be a priest, a development worker, a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer, and even a spy. Fieldwork identities is the topic of the new issu… more »
by lorenz on May 28, 2009 in Us and Them, Asia, persons and theories, journal articles / papers, history, cosmopolitanism
During my research for the new overview over open access anthropology journals, I made many great discoveries. I'll try to present some of them.
One of the discoveries was Invisible Culture. An electronic journal for visual culture. The most recent is… more »
by lorenz on May 28, 2009 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), University / Academia • 4 comments »
(updated)What about creating A worldwide community for anthropological discussion and collaboration away from the restrictions of formal academic structures has been created at http://openanthcoop.ning.com/ (already more than 140 members Thursdag night!)… more »
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