I've just discovered http://openaccessanthropology.wordpress.com/ - an Open Access Anthropology blog - an extension to the Open Access Anthropology Wiki!! UPDATE: The blog also exists at http://blog.openaccessanthropology.org/. more »

"Anthropologists Should Participate in the Current Immigration Debate" was the title of an earlier entry. Josiah McC. Heyman is one of the engaged anthropologists. He wrote several newspaper articles about the US-Mexican border where he showed that more… more »

On the day of the one-year anniversary of Anthropology.net Kambiz Kamrani has launched the First Round of the Four Stone Hearth - The Anthropology Blog Carnival - a great initiative to promote anthropological blogging: A blog carnival is a type of bl… more »

A new interactive multimedia-website was launched about Swiss folk music including an Alphorn Tune Composer. On www.swissalpinemusic.ch you can read about alphorn music and yodelling, on alpine traditions and so on but the best thing is that you can list… more »

The first part of the paper Media consumption, conformity and resistance: a visual ethnography of youth culture in Iranian Kurdistan by anthropologist Kameel Ahmady has been published on KurdishMedia. Ahmady wanted to examine the factors which shape a s… more »

We all know the directory SOSIG, but now it has been relaunched as Intute: Social Sciences. It combines two databases of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN): Altis and SOSIG. It is edited by the University of Manchester and the University of Kent at Ca… more »

I've received an email by Bill Jackson, the webmaster of www.storyofmyhome.com/ He hopes that this website will become a resource for academics and historians. On www.storyofmyhome.com people can submit their stories about the houses they've lived in:… more »

(via Gumsagumlao.dk) One more Danish anthroblogger: Rune Kier Nielsen is doing research on the black consciousness movement in Brasil. In his first post (three months ago) he writes: I am writing this blog for me to reflect on an upcomming challenge i… more »