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Already lots of publications in the open access anthropology repository Mana’o

Published on December 11, 2007 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, journal articles / papers, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, websites

MANAO – new Open Access repository for anthropology was announced for the first time not more than two months ago. Now, already 82 publications can be read and downloaded – both theses, conference papers, monographs and book chapters – including the papers Alex Golub gave at AAA-meeting and other publications by Savage Minds bloggers.

>> visit Mana’o

antropologi.info survey: Six anthropologists on Anthropology and Internet

Open Source Anthropology : Are anthropologists serious about sharing knowledge?

First issue of open access journal “After Culture” is online

Omertaa – Open access journal for Applied Anthropology

For Open Access: “The pay-for-content model has never been successful”

Open Access: “The American Anthropological Association reminds me of the recording industry”

2006 – The Year of Open Access Anthropology?

MANAO - new Open Access repository for anthropology was announced for the first time not more than two months ago. Now, already 82 publications can be read and downloaded - both theses, conference papers, monographs and book chapters - including…

New media and anthropology – AAA meeting part III

Published on December 10, 2007 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, ethics, internet, media, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, technology, websites

While new media can foster participatory ethnography and enhance access, one also has to reflect on the implications of the Internet’s openness and availability. This was one of the lessons of a session at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association about new media and anthropology according to Inside Higher Education.

Kate Hennessy, a graduate student at the University of British Columbia, described an online exhibit on the indigenous culture of the Doig River First Nation that she helped to develop for the Virtual Museum of Canada. It makes songs, photographs and video of the Dane-zaa people freely available to the general public, in what Hennessy described as “a form of repatriation” — the term for returning objects and artifacts to the cultures from which they came, although here the term was used in a virtual sense.

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Over the course of several meetings with community elders, the team came to realize that, according to the Web site, “it is not appropriate to show Dane-zaa Dreamers’ drawings to a worldwide audience on the Internet. Even though the drum is central to this website, in order to ensure that the Dreamers drawings are treated properly and with respect, no images of Dreamers’ drawings or the drum that we describe here are shown.”

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(T)he online exhibit project extended discussions about when the display of cultural heritage crosses the line into appropriation, and how giving communities access to digital tools can provide a means for self-representation.

>> read the whole article in Inside Higher Ed “Downloading Cultures”

How to save Tibetan folk songs? Put them online!

New website helps save Kenai Peoples language (Alaska)

“A new approach to the collection of traditional Aboriginal music”

Multimedia Music Ethnography of Yodelling and Alphorn Blowing

How Media and Digital Technology Empower Indigenous Survival

Book review: Claiming the Stones, Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of Identity

Book review: Who owns native culture – A book with an excellent website

For more news on the AAA meeting see Circumcision: “Harmful practice claim has been exaggerated” – AAA meeting part IV, “The insecure American needs help by anthropologists” – AAA-meeting part II, and Final report launched: AAA no longer opposes collaboration with CIA and the military – AAA meeting part I

Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth has started blogging

Published on December 6, 2007 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, University / Academia, websites

Not even more and more anthropologists are blogging. Now, even anthropology organisations have discovered the internet. A few days ago, ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth) has launched their blog “aimed at providing a new platform for anthropological discusion”. Their first guest blogger is Alberto Corsin Jimenez of the University of Manchester.

>> visit the ASA blog

PS: More updates soon

Now open access to 39 years of the journal Folklore Forum

Published on December 3, 2007 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, cyberanthropology, interdisciplinary, internet, journal articles / papers, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, websites

Folklore Forum, a journal that is produced by graduate students at the Folklore and Ethnomusicology Department of Indiana University, has gone Open Access. From now on, 39 years of scholarship, debate, and exchange of ideas are freely accessible for everybody in the freshly digitized archives of Folklore Forum.

Their most recent volum focuses on Folklore and the Internet and includes articles on urban legends that circulate in chain letter-form as anonymous emails, and on icons and avatars as cyberart and examples of the development of folkloric art forms online.

Folklore has has always had an ambivalent relationship with mass media, Editor-in-Chief Curtis Ashton writes in the editorial:

Salvage ethnography to recover oral texts would be unnecessary if print were not invading 19th century Europe and America and depriving the Folk of their lore. (…) Though the trend has been shifting in professional meetings and journal publications, folklorists do tend to avoid the world of computers as a field for enquiry, either because of a lack of technical training or just a lack of general interest.

But as this volume demonstrates, the web has much to offer for folklorists:

I encourage our readers to consider how we use the Internet in our work as folklorists, as a object of study in an of itself, with its own discourse of traditional motifs; as a field for ethnographic research into the virtual, networked community; as a means for scholarly communication and publication; as a storage facility for the digitally compressed knowledge of the past; as a presentation space for the mutual benefit of both ethnographer and informant; as a means for reflection, rethinking how we do our work, what draws us to it, and why.

>> visit Folklore Forum

As a sidenote: In the most recent entry here on antropologi.info I wrote about how folkore can enrich anthropology, see “Take care of the different national traditions of anthropology”

2006 – The Year of Open Access Anthropology?

antropologi.info survey: Six anthropologists on Anthropology and Internet

New blog: “Open Anthropology” by Maximilian C. Forte

Published on November 2, 2007 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, persons and theories, websites

Another new blog: Anthropologist Maximilian C. Forte has recently launched the blog Open Anthropology – “a project of decolonization, growing out of a discipline with a long history and a deep epistemological connection to colonialism”:

OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY arises from a dissastisfaction with the state of knowledge in contemporary and classical anthropology, and is meant to significantly restructure and move anthropology beyond its current confines, beyond the constraints of professionalization and institutionalization, transcending the very “disciplinariness” of a discipline that has often foundered on its own shoals since its inception as “anthropology.”

Maximilian C. Forte is among others the editor of the open access journal KACIKE: The Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology, and writes also for the The CAC Review.

>> visit Open Anthropology

Another new blog: Anthropologist Maximilian C. Forte has recently launched the blog Open Anthropology - "a project of decolonization, growing out of a discipline with a long history and a deep epistemological connection to colonialism":

OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY arises from a dissastisfaction…