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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

James Acheson the 2004 winner of American Anthropological Association’s award

Published on October 15, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, ecology nature, fieldwork / methods, Northern America, persons and theories

Eurek Alert

University of Maine anthropology and marine sciences professor James Acheson has been named the 2004 winner of the American Anthropological Association’s Kimball award for effecting change in public policy. Acheson will receive the Award at the association’s annual meeting in San Francisco in November.

“In the past few years, my primary contribution has been to use ‘rational choice theory’ to show under what conditions groups of people will and will not develop rules to conserve the resources on which their livelihood depends,” Acheson says. “This has led me into a far more theoretical realm – namely trying to understand the circumstances under which people develop rules in general.”

Acheson has studied the system of self governance in the Maine lobster industry and has chronicled the circumstances under which lobster fishermen developed informal rules and lobbied for formal laws to conserve the lobster stock. >> continue

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James Acheson: Capturing the Commons (University Press of New England)

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University of Maine anthropology and marine sciences professor James Acheson has been named the 2004 winner of the American Anthropological Association's Kimball award for effecting change in public policy. Acheson will receive the Award at the association's annual meeting…

A secret writing system used only by women in China’s Hunan province

Published on October 15, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, culture traditions, gender, language

The Straits Times Asia

MADAM Yang Huanyi, 98, died in a remote part of China’s Hunan province last month. There was nothing unusual about her death, except that she was the last person on Earth who had mastered a secret writing system used only by women in that region.

Today, the number of people who understand nushu well comes to less than 50 worldwide. Most of them live in Madam Yang’s Jiangyong county. The residents there want to exploit its potential as an attraction for tourists. This has alarmed linguists, anthropologists and other experts, who are worried that the ancient writing system will be defiled through such commercial exploitation.

Nushu, believed to have been invented almost 2,000 years ago, was used exclusively by women in western Hunan and parts of adjoining Guangxi region. (article no longer online)

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A language by women, for women. Scholars try to save unique Chinese script (MSNBC / Washington Post)
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The Straits Times Asia

MADAM Yang Huanyi, 98, died in a remote part of China's Hunan province last month. There was nothing unusual about her death, except that she was the last person on Earth who had mastered a secret writing…

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

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"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…