Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing

Marshall Sahlins wants to make the Internet the new medium for pamphleteering

Published on October 21, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, internet, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing

Creative Commons

Marshall Sahlins wants to make the Internet the new medium for traditional pamphleteering. Sahlins, a celebrated anthropologist at the University of Chicago and the founder of Prickly Paradigm Press, has decided to re-release the press’s backlist with “some rights reserved.” This week, Prickly Paradigm goes online with the publication of five pamphlets under a Creative Commons license.

“I just want to say that I truly support the idea of the free dissemination of intellectual information, and that I truly lament the various forms of copyrights and patents that are being put on so-called intellectual property. I also lament the collusion of universities in licensing the results of scientific research, and thus violating the project of the free dissemination of knowledge that is their reason for existence. So I consider it an important act to release these books under a Creative Commons type of license. I’m happy, and also a little proud, to do so.”

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What is Creative Commons?
Prickly Paradigm Press (Five articles on the bottom of the page are free to download. More will follow later on)
News from the open access movement
Budapest Open Access Initiative

Creative Commons

The Future of Anthropology: “We ought to build our own mass media”

Published on October 17, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, media, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing

Maximilian C. Forte, University of Adelaide, published in Anthronews(2000)

Should anthropologists continue to behave as if Anthropology’s most important market consists of anthropologists themselves and their students? I believe that, beyond a very limited degree, this behaviour can be an impediment to the fullest realization of Anthropology’s potential.

We do not have to depend on the mass media to call on our expertise and bemoan every occasion that they fail to do so. We can become our own mass media — that is the freedom and independence offered by these new technologies.

We should aim to place ourselves on the same footing as any of the better cable television broadcast networks, via the Internet. We could produce our own documentaries and news reports, an Anthropology-focused “open university,” present the expertise of noted anthropologists, and have all of our willing fieldworkers act as “correspondents.” Wide international coverage and multi-lingual programming should be relatively easy for us. Our own audiences would see and hear us both on regular computers and on WebTV >> continue

Maximilian C. Forte, University of Adelaide, published in Anthronews(2000)

The Anthropologist as Barman – Durham Anthropology Journal fulltext online

Published on October 17, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, Europe, fieldwork / methods, journal articles / papers, music, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, tourism

Adam R. Kaul, Durham Anthropology Journal

My doctoral research looks at the way in which tourism is changing and interacting with the performance and meaning of traditional Irish music. I carried out over 14 months of fieldwork in a small, rural Irish village of under 600 people, called Doolin, in northwest County Clare.

Anthropologists and sociologists are relatively new to the field of tourism, but I would argue we have some powerful qualitative tools at our disposal that can contribute to a much richer understanding of tourists and tourist destinations. This is true not just for tourist populations, but for other mobile or shifting groups like asylum seekers or economic migrants.

We need to start discussing the everyday realities of doing fieldwork, the potential problems and opportunities, in much more detail in the literature, and how they might be used as units of analysis in and of themselves. >> continue

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More articles in Volume 12 / Issue 1 Durham Anthropology Journal (Formerly Dyn)

Adam R. Kaul, Durham Anthropology Journal

Pro Ethnologica – an anthropological journal with articles in full tekst online

Published on October 13, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, journal articles / papers, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing

Pro Ethnologia is one of the few free accessible anthropological journals. It is published by Eesti Rahva Museum in Tartu, Estonia.

Recent issues include articles on Studies on Socialist and Post-socialist Everyday Life, Multiethnic Communities in the Past and Present Tartu, Cultural Identity of Arctic Peoples. Most articles are written in English

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Pro Ethnologia is one of the few free accessible anthropological journals. It is published by Eesti Rahva Museum in Tartu, Estonia.

Recent issues include articles on Studies on Socialist and Post-socialist Everyday Life, Multiethnic Communities in the Past and Present Tartu,…

AnthroSource – AAA announces new anthropology portal. Great, but….

Published on October 12, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, websites

(via Ethno::log)

“The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is proud to announce the development of AnthroSource, the premier online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Combining low-cost digital access to the AAA’s peer reviewed journals, newsletters and bulletins with high-level electronic content functionality, AnthroSource is an indispensable research tool for your patrons.”

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Sounds good, but it looks like to be one more of those scientific pay-sites. Shouldn’t knowledge circulate freely and be free accessible to all of us?

>> Budapest Open Access Initiative >> Creative Commons – an alternative to full copyright

>> Copyleft

>> Paper in First Monday on AnthroSource and anthropologists’ use of the Internet

(via Ethno::log)
"The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is proud to announce the development of AnthroSource, the premier online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Combining low-cost digital access to the AAA's peer reviewed journals, newsletters and bulletins…