This was posted on Digging Digitally and I thought I would share it-
Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration is now available via the University of California’s eScholarship repository.
This book explores the social use and context of the World Wide Web within the discipline of archaeology.
A good overview of some of the recent discussion about open access and publishing in anthropology.
Rex discusses Sung Tales from the Papua New Guinea Highlands, an impressive OA monograph, on Savage Minds.
The list of open access archaeology journals has been expanded to 259 and covers multiple languages.
Senior scholar in the study of anthropology and oral narrative publishes a new book on quotations with an innovative not-for-profit academic publisher with OA goals and an innovative business model.
Before entering the café, the customer is asked, ‘Is this your first time coming home?’ (gokitaku hajimete desu ka). The rather awkward question captures the ambiguity of an impersonal commercial space designed to be a personal intimate space.
Maid in Japan: An Ethnographic Account of Alternative Intimacy
Is this one of the first real web2.0-journals in anthropology? A new Open Access journal was launched: Anthropology Reviews: Dissent and Cultural Politics (ARDAC)
The AAA and Wiley are providing free access to Kim Fortun’s essay on the Open Folklore project www.openfolklore.org. In this essay, she considers the broader implications of the project.
This is an open access book review of a book published by Utah State University Press in 2004. The publisher has made the book freely available as a PDF download at http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/32/ .
Christopher Kelty’s book is much more than merely a technical - or even a social - history. It is a broadly based analysis of how the congruent elements of otherwise wildly differing ideologies have interacted across human development at those critical nodes where technology-induced change or intellectual revolution has threatened social stability.
Book can be found online, here.
The violent backlash from the community of anthropologists who felt alienated by the AAA with exclusion of the word; the media’s handling of the debate pegging it as “an epic struggle in the discipline between the true scientists and their foes” (Kuper and Marks, 2011)
