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 29, 2009 in religion cosmology, Us and Them, Pacific Oceania, gender • 12 comments »
What is it like being veiled and working in Australian companies? Anthropologist Siham Ouazzif sent me her thesis "Veiled Muslim Women in Australian Public Space: How do Veiled Women Express their Presence and Interact in the Workplace?"
Siham Ouazz… more »
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 »
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 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 27, 2009 in Europe, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia
Is Open Access the new buzz-word? Do we see some change in the world of anthropology journals? Angels Trias i Valls recently announced the birth of a new open access journal, Anthropology Reviews: Dissent and Cultural Politics.
And last week, I receiv… more »
How do middle-class women in Calcutta understand and experience economic change? What impact is globalization having on the new middle-classes in Asia? Our reviewer Tessa Valo has again been lucky with her choice of books. For antropologi.info, she revie… more »
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