Just months after the Anthropology Department at Yale University voted not to renew sociocultural anthropology professor David Graeber's contract based on his political views, rumors are swirling that the department may lose as many as six additional pro… more »
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Yale anthropologist David Graeber has been recently fired for his anarchist activism. For a long time, there were no news, and the Graeber solidarity blog hasn't been updated either. Now, Yale Daily News writes that Graeber has formally appealed the deci… more »
by lorenz on Aug 17, 2005 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), University / Academia, internet • 2 comments »
More and more anthropologists have started blogging and discussing their research interests with a wider audience. They use the internet as a library, as a tool for learning and teaching, as a space where they conduct fieldwork. They exchange knowledge,… more »
Another great article on the Open Access philosophy, written by Shankar Iyer in the Financial Expressvia del.icio.us)
"The big question on everyone's mind is, "Why would someone open source an idea that they obviously struggled to work so hard for?"… more »
by lorenz on Aug 10, 2005 in technology, design anthropology, applied anthropology, fieldwork / methods, University / Academia • 1 comment »
"Rebekah Nathan" isn't the only anthropologist who is studying students.
The article in Democrat & Chronicle starts like this (quite typically for journalists who are somehow puzzeled by recent changes in anthropology)
On and off for two years… more »
by lorenz on Aug 4, 2005 in fieldwork / methods, youth, University / Academia, ethics • 8 comments »
Gil Klein, Media General News Service
WASHINGTON - When most anthropologists do field work, they head off to places like Indonesia to study such things as 20th century head-hunting rituals. But when Rebekah Nathan wanted to study a foreign culture, sh… more »
As posted earlier, the CIA is sponsering anthropologists to gather sensitive information during their fieldwork.
The Kansas City Star provides more detailes about the spies on the campus. Among others, they interviewed Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, who leads… more »
by lorenz on May 26, 2005 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), University / Academia
A delayed note on two articles that (again) lead to a debate on the oldfashioned publishing conventions in the social sciences:
Christopher Kelty: Recursive public irony. On the difficulties to get a free copy of his own article, published in the jour… more »
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