Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing

Anpere – New Open Access Anthropology Journal

Published on November 30, 2006 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, internet, journal articles / papers, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, religion cosmology, websites

anpere – Anthropological Perspectives on Religion is the name of a new journal that is freely available for everybody. It is edited by anthropologists Pierre Wiktorin and André Möller from Lund University (Sweden).

They explain:

The aim of anpere is to offer a flexible and relevant channel for researches as well as lay people interested in questions pertaining to the anthropology of religion.

anpere do not stick to the traditional way of publishing, as it will publish as soon as any text is ready to meet the public. This means that we may publish three articles a day or three articles per month, depending on the quality and quantity of the articles received.

In order to faciliate the life of our valued readers, we will gladly send you an e-mail each time a new article or review is added on the anpere site.

The articles are written both in Swedish and English. At the moment there are three papers in English:

Åse Piltz: Being Tibetan: Internet and Public Identity among Tibetan Youth

André Möller: Islam and Traweh Prayers in Java: Unity, Diversity and Cultural Smoothness

Jörgen Hellman: Entertainment and Circumcisions: Sisingaan Dancing in West Java

There are even lots of photos, among others related to Ramadan.

>> visit anpere – Anthropological Perspectives on Religion

By the way, one of the editors, André Möller, maintains an interesting Indonesian Islam Blog.

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anpere - Anthropological Perspectives on Religion is the name of a new journal that is freely available for everybody. It is edited by anthropologists Pierre Wiktorin and André Möller from Lund University (Sweden).

They explain:

The aim of anpere is to…

Open Access Anthropology Blog

Published on November 29, 2006 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, websites

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/.

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/.

Already 76 signatures for more Open Access Anthropology

Published on November 17, 2006 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, University / Academia

“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 Anthropology Letter, written by the anthropology bloggers at Savage Minds. The letter is one of the initiatives to promote Open Access Anthropology at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association.

>> more at Savage Minds: Please sign the Open Access Anthropology Letter

PS: Sorry for irregular posting. Too much to do at the moment

Open Access Anthropology – antropologi.info’s special

"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 Anthropology Letter,…

New Open Access Anthropology Website, mailinglist, chat and t-shirts!

Published on November 7, 2006 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, internet, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, University / Academia

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 anthropologists care about open access? Why does the American Anthropological Association oppose open access?What can we do to promote open access anthropology?

He has also created a discussion list for Open Access issues. It on Google Groups which means one can read it on the web, via RSS, or you can sign up to get it via e-mail. “Please help spread the word!”, hew writes:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/open-access-anthropology

At Savage Minds there are several new posts on Open Access:

Open Access Your Diss

Who’s down with OAA?

Open Access in San Jose (AAA annual meeting)

UPDATES:

New Open Access Anthropology Blog

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At Savage Minds: AAA Open Access T-shirts

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Open Access Anthropology – antropologi.info’s special

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 anthropologists care…

Paper by Erkan Saka: Blogging as a Research Tool for Ethnographic Fieldwork

Published on November 6, 2006 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, fieldwork / methods, internet, journal articles / papers, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, technology

Erkan Saka, one of the most active blogging anthropologists, has published his paper Blogging as a Research Tool for Ethnographic Fieldwork that he presented at the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers in Brisbane six weeks ago.

The paper is a good introduction into the topic. It was inspired by recent discussions on anthropology blogs.

His main points:

Blogging occupies an interesting place between the personal and the public. The moment one starts blogging, s/he becomes public.
Blogging brings immediate feedback; not only from the limited scholarly circles but from a wider public/audience which in turn exposes exposes the ethnographer to a much more effective issue of accountability.
Moreover, blogging urges to see motives in a more regular sense, thus creates a strong sense of regularity that forces the ethnographer to produce on a regular basis which in turn produces a constant appeal to narrate what would normally remain fragments of field notes.
Finally, blogging might be a remedy to the anxiety of being in ‘after the fact’ that is shared by many anthropologists. Blogging takes place in the present tense while actively engaging with ‘the fact’, with the emergent phenomena unlike the later edited institutionally accepted monographs most of which become outdated.

In this paper, Erkan Saka also compares blogging to traditional journalism and reviews relevant literature on blogging.

>> read the whole paper

UPDATE: An updated version of this paper was discussed in the Media Anthropology Network.

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