"We need a solid open access policy to make anthropological research widely available." "We need a form of financial sustainability that does not compromise our ability to disseminate our research." 76 people have already signed the Open Access Anthropol… more »
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by lorenz on Nov 7, 2006 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), University / Academia, internet
Great new initiatives: Kerim Friedman has set up a wiki to promote free access to anthropology journal articles and papers - Open Access Anthropology. It is located at http://openaccessanthropology.org/ This wiki explains: What is open access? Why should… more »
by lorenz on Nov 7, 2006 in politics, Northern America, anthropology (general), University / Academia
Generally, anthropologists support social justice, but in their own department, they fire colleagues like David Graeber who publicly supported graduate students' right to form a union. "In increasingly corporate universities, the gap between one's schola… more »
by lorenz on Nov 5, 2006 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), University / Academia
(via Erkan's Field Diary) "The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is starting to remind me of the recording industry and their rearguard actions against file-sharing and online dissemination in general", Eric Kansa from Digging Digitally comment… more »
"For those of us whose prime focus is advancing human knowledge, megaconferences are a waste of time and money." Don Moody agrees, but also criticizes my article in Anthropology Today august 2006 about weak presentations at the conference "Anthropology… more »
A local news story that might say something more general about why anthropology isn't more present in the news? The results of University research between April 1 and June 30 show high school athletes often get 4 to 8 times the media coverage of an acade… more »
by lorenz on Oct 4, 2006 in corporate & business anthropology, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), University / Academia
Why haven't there been such blog posts about the recent EASA-conference (European Association of Social Anthropologists)? Anthropologist Grant McCracken has presented a paper at the EPIC-conference (Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference) and written… more »
Last week, the bi-annual conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) has taken place in Bristol. The theme sounds extremely interesting:
The theme [Europe and the World ]encourages us to consider the global dimensions of pa… more »
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