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(updated) Anthropology News February about Open Access Anthropology

Published on February 6, 2008 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, University / Academia

“The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is starting to remind me of the recording industry and their rearguard actions against file-sharing and online dissemination in general”, Eric Kansa commented one year ago.

I was reminded on this comment when I read about the the Februrary issue of Anthropology News that focuses on Open Access Anthropology. Five articles are available online – but only for one month. Then, the articles about Open Access Anthropology will be hidden behind login-boxes.

UPDATE: Dinah Winnick, Associate Managing Editor Anthropology News writes to me and clarifies that the articles will continue to be accessible after the 1st of March:

To clarify, these articles will appear on the Featured page for one month, after which they will be moved over to our Archives page and also be available through AnthroSource. They are moved from the Featured page monthly so that we can feature new content from our latest issue. I appreciate your bringing this misunderstanding to my attention and I have added a phrase to our website for clarification.

Four of the five articles provide lots of good arguments for Open Access Anthropology. It’s only Jason Cross, member of the AAA Long-Range Planning Committee who is reluctant. He is mainly concerned for the financial consequences and proposes “careful research on business models to assess whether and how to make an OA transition”.

So download now:

Lee D Baker: Mission Improbable and the Possible Mission

Don Brenneis: Process, Access and Value

Melissa Cefkin: Organizing for Access

Jason Cross: Open Access and the AAA

Christopher Kelty: The State of Open Access Anthropology (see also an earlier version of the text on Savage Minds)

The AAA has also set up an Open Access blog “where members and non-members alike can offer both their reactions to the In Focus series and their general thoughts on the Open Access issue”.

PS: The AAA has redesigned their website, see discussion over at Savage Minds

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"The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is starting to remind me of the recording industry and their rearguard actions against file-sharing and online dissemination in general", Eric Kansa commented one year ago.

I was reminded on this comment when I read…

Visuel kultur: Sveriges antropologförbunds (SANT) årliga konferens (Falun)

Published on February 2, 2008 by lorenz Posted in * Conferences, *In Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, antropologi.info calendar, Scandinavia

Högskolan Dalarnas Mediehus, Falun 25-26 april 2008

Självklara studieobjekt för visuell kultur är alla gamla och nya medier som har en viktig visuell komponent, t ex film, teve, tevespel, internet, serietidningar, manga, traditionell konst, reklam. För antropologer öppnar sig nya forskningsvärldar när Facebook, My Space, YouTube, Second Life och andra internetsajter alltmer kommer att användas för dagligt umgänge mellan människor.

Låt oss tillsammans i Falun den 25 och 26 april närma oss forskningsfältet visuell kultur och undersöka hur vår disciplin också fortsättningsvis kan bidra till ökad kunskap om det visuella. Obs! Konferensen är också öppen för andra än antropologer med intresse för detta tvärvetenskapliga fält.

Mer informasjon: http://www.du.se/Templates/InfoPage.aspx?id=4583&epslanguage=SV

Högskolan Dalarnas Mediehus, Falun 25-26 april 2008

Plan for the next three sessions

Published on February 1, 2008 by cicilie Posted in Arrangementer, phd

*) 22nd of February at 10:15: Methods
Alex Stewart: The ethnographer’s method
-85 dry but inspiring pages on how to tell if a particular ethnography is good, scientific work or not…

Cicilie F. will present the book briefly and everybody is encouraged to make a short presentation discussing to what extent Stewart’s criteria of scientificness are useful in their own material. (I’m thinking about posting my presentation either here or on my own blog…).

AK also suggested that we read Paul Stoller’s The taste of ethnographic things, as it is highly relevant in a methods discussion (It’s also interesting for us that Tim Ingold criticized exactly Stoller’s phenomenology for not being able to provide explanations, and explanations in anthropology was also one of the points that came up in today’s discussion). We haven’t decided yet whether we’ve got time read it or not… What do the rest of you think?

*) 14th of March: a monograph on power by Paul Farmer… which one?

*) 4th of April: something by Daniel Miller
as he will have a seminar with us (the phd-candidates the 10th of April). Hopefully he will provide us with a reading list in time for the seminar, or some of us – Christian for instance – can suggest a text of general theoretical and/or methodological interest.

We haven’t yet decided for the rest of the semester, but it’s probably about time we have some presentations of our own work…

Hope to see you all in three weeks!

*) 22nd of February at 10:15: Methods
Alex Stewart: The ethnographer’s method
-85 dry but inspiring pages on how to tell if a particular ethnography is good, scientific work or not…

Cicilie F. will present the book briefly and…

Første doktorgrad om kvener

Published on January 31, 2008 by lorenz Posted in doktoravhandlinger, identitet etnisitet, kvener, Norge, sosialantropologi i Norge, Sverige og Danmark

Selv ser de på seg som finske norske borgere. Men de blir ofte betegnet som kvener. Det er forvirring om kvenbegrepet, sier antropolog Kari Storaas, som nylig har forsvart doktorgradsavhandlingen “Finland er bak oss, Norge er vårt land. Konteksters betydning for etniske endringsprosesser i Sør-Varanger”, skriver Universitetet i Tromsø i en pressemelding.

Kari Storaas er den første norske sosialantropologen som har doktorgrad om kvener, leser vi. Hun har vært på feltarbeid i Sør-Varanger kommune.

Antropologen forklarer:

– De finskættede opplever begrepet kven som forvirrende. Man har tradisjonelt oppfattet seg som finske, norske borgere og ikke som kvener. Kvenforbundet snakker om kvener, et folk fra Kvenlandet. Men dette bildet kjenner ikke de finskættede i Sør-Varanger seg igjen i.

– De finskættede i Sør-Varanger sier heller ikke at de snakker kvensk, men finsk. Selv om det er annerledes finsk enn det de snakker i Finland, så er det likevel finsk. Begrepet kven ble generelt avvist, og er først blitt aktuelt de siste 30 år.

– På 1980-tallet ble det aktuelt å snakke om identitet som kven. Kvensk etnopolitikk og akademisk bruk av kven-benevnelsen, i tillegg til moderne identitetsdiskurs, har medført en ny diskusjon om egen og andres etniske identitet, det vil si at identitet politiseres.

>> les hele pressemeldingen

Det er mange andre som forsker på kvenene. Ifølge Ruijan Kaiku holder den polske antropologen Marta Petryk ved Universitetet i Poznań på med en doktoravhandling hvor hun spør om kvenene i Norge utgjør et etnisk felleskap. Hun sier:

– Mange tviler om det fins kvener. For eksempel i Bugøynes fins det mange som sier de ikke er kvener, og i Pasvik er mange sterkt imot dette begrepet. Også forskere som Venke Olsen og Einar Niemi har debattert dette i forskjellige artikler.

– Jeg treffer folk som sier det ikke er forskjell mellom kvensk og finsk. Noen sier at de er finskættede nordmenn. Jeg skal finne ut om det er forskjell.

Høsten 2006 leverte språkforsker Pia Lane doktoravhandlingen A Tale of Two Towns: A Comparative Study of Language and Culture Contact der hun studerte hvordan språkskiftet fra kvensk til norsk påvirket den kvenske kulturen og identiteten i Nord-Norge. Hun holder nå på med et prosjekt i regi av Polaråret.

SE OGSÅ:

Pia Lane: Kvenene – et upåaktet folk i Norge

Spiller inn singel med kvensk pop

Første kvenske roman

Kvensk anerkjennes som eget språk

Kven-debatt: Minoritetsspørsmål i nasjonalstatens samfunn et tema som engasjerer

Vadsø museum / Ruija Kvenmuseum: Hva betyr kven? Hvem er kvener?

Selv ser de på seg som finske norske borgere. Men de blir ofte betegnet som kvener. Det er forvirring om kvenbegrepet, sier antropolog Kari Storaas, som nylig har forsvart doktorgradsavhandlingen "Finland er bak oss, Norge er vårt land. Konteksters betydning…

Für mehr Technikforschung: Magisterarbeit über Ethnologie des Mobiltelefons online

Published on January 31, 2008 by lorenz Posted in Artikel und Papers, Zeitschriften, Ethnologie Sozialanthropologie Kulturanthropologie, Kultur Tradition, Technologie

(via ethno::log) Fabian Klenk hat seine Magisterarbeit an der Uni München über die Ethnologie des Mobiltelefons geschrieben. Dieses Ding hat das Leben vieler Menschen dieser Welt verändert – aber wie? Und wie unterscheidet sich die Nutzung des Mobiltelefons in verschiedenen Ecken der Erde?

Der Ethnologe schreibt:

Dieser Arbeit liegt die Neugier zugrunde (…) wie die Ethnologie als Kulturwissenschaft mit modernen Technologien im lokalen Kontext umgeht, welche Konzepte sie bietet um die unterschiedliche Nutzung ein und desselben physischen Geräts zu verstehen und welche Konzepte und Theorien aus Nachbarwissenschaften – wie den Science and Technology Studies (STS) oder der Soziologie – herangezogen werden können, um ein aussagekräftiges Bild über eine bestimmte Technologie zu erhalten.

Anhand von lokalen Beispielen aus Westafrika und Jamaika zeigt Klenk “die Dynamik und Anpassungsfähigkeit von Kulturen” auf. In Westafrika wird das Mobiltelefon dazu genutzt, schon vorher existente enge Beziehungen zu intensivieren, während es im jamaikanischen Kontext genutzt wird, extensive Beziehungen zu pflegen und auszubauen, um auf diese zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt aus verschiedenen Gründen zurück greifen zu können.

Obwohl immer mehr Ethnologen sich für neue Technologien interessieren, ist der Forschungsbedarf weiterhin gross:

Jedoch muss die Forschungsneugier in diesen Bereichen durchaus nochgestärkt und gefördert werden, da die Wechselwirkung neuer Technologien mit den kulturellen Gegebenheiten bei weitem noch nicht erschöpfend untersucht wurde und stets einem Wandel unterliegt, aufgrund dessen sich immer neue Bereiche als Untersuchungsgegenstand eröffnen werden. Die Folgen des Zusammenwirkens von Technologien und Kultur auf den Alltag vieler Menschen sind nicht abzusehen, und werden doch unser Zusammenleben und unsere Kommunikation miteinander weiter prägen.

>> Download der Arbeit auf Fabian Klenks Webseite

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(via ethno::log) Fabian Klenk hat seine Magisterarbeit an der Uni München über die Ethnologie des Mobiltelefons geschrieben. Dieses Ding hat das Leben vieler Menschen dieser Welt verändert - aber wie? Und wie unterscheidet sich die Nutzung des Mobiltelefons in verschiedenen…