Somethings are nice to sleep up against, but not everything. Anthropologists have a lot to worry about when it comes to bed partners, as the outrage over the Human Terrain System has shown. More ugly, and more threatening than the HTS program lies in the military’s ability to tap into nearly unlimited amounts of tax [...]
Archive for October, 2008
31 Oct
Fighting over textbooks… More OA please?
People going undercover to get an edge in the bloody academic textbook market? Yup. According to a recent article in the Chronicle for Higher Education competition is fierce among book stores who are working hard to tap into our student loans. Mytelka writes, “The competitors for students’ textbook business are, on the one hand, several [...]
26 Oct
working through divides
The internet provides fantastic opportunities to stay connected to ones interests, regardless of location. I’ve been on the move recently, and I’ve been engaging anthropologists and academics I meet using my blog as a business card of sorts. I’m not sure how well it will work out, but hopefully I’ll successfully bring some new collaborators [...]
16 Oct
Open Access Day at Concordia Library
Yesterday was Open Access Day. I found out about this today, but I was still able to pickup an information handout advocating open access journals, and an open access pin! I was actually going to pickup a copy of a thesis a prior anthropology graduate had written about online communities, to get an idea what [...]
13 Oct
Are publishers middlemen or drivers?
As I engage the issue of open access in anthropology, my position and views continue to change. I am one seriously biased academic, but this doesn’t mean I can’t change my mind often (several times a day even). Having stalled out on the research front, I went back to some trusty sources to find inspiration. [...]
8 Oct
Shame on Endnote. Long live Zotero.
Mary at pickingupsticks.wordpress.com writes that the makers of Endnote have filed suit against Zotero, the open source bibliographic management software which I love. Thanks Mary for bringing this to my attention! I am calling for a boycott of Endnote, and ask all academics to use Zotero (even if it has fewer features for now). We [...]
25 Oct
More Commentary on “Ethnography as Commentary”
Posted by o.w. in Doing ethnography online, What is anthropology?. Tagged: blogging research, Ethnography as Commentary, is anthropology a science?, johannes fabian, online ethnography. 7 Comments
Will anthropology find renewed passion and direction with the help of the internet? According to Johannes Fabian, yes it will, and obviously I agree! Johannes Fabian’s recent book, Ethnography as Commentary, sets the stage for an internet invigorated ethnography. In it he argues that the co-presence of author and reader, text and commentary, will develop [...]
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