A Call for papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Anthropology
"The Management of Natural and Cultural Heritage: A Global Perspective"
Special Issue Guest Editors: Aron Mazel1, Leon Jacobson, Liora Kolska Horwitz
1. International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University, United Kingdom; Email: a.d.mazel@ncl.ac.uk
2. The School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Email: lj.heritage@gmail.com
3. Natural History Collections, Faculty of Life Science, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel; Email: lix1000@gmail.com
Call for papers:
At the outset to the 21st century, worldwide, cultural and natural heritage resources are under increasing threat from a variety of pressures that operate at a number of levels -globalization, tourism, population growth, national and regional development initiatives. The responses to these threats have varied internationally and within nations. In some instances, there is strong state intervention, effective legislation and well-funded government agencies which are generally well-supported by the public. In other instances, state and civil intervention may be weak, threatening the safeguarding of cultural and natural heritage resources through, for example, inappropriate or ill-conceived management and tourism strategies and the lack of will and capacity. The potential also exists for the emergence of conflict between indigenous populations and the state, concerning the ownership and protection of heritage resources - both natural and cultural.
The planned special issue of Journal of Anthropology aims at addressing these issues. We invite investigators to contribute original research articles, case studies as well as review articles that will stimulate debate and contribute to our understanding of the management and interpretation of cultural and natural heritage resources worldwide.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
Globalization and heritage management
State and civil society in heritage management
Role of stewardship in management
Tourism - panacea or threat
Indigenous heritage management
Nature vs. culture in heritage management
Who should interpret heritage and how this is done
The closing date for submitting manuscripts is 28 February 2013. Manuscripts should normally be between 5,000 and 7,000 words including references. Can you please let one of the Guest Editors know if you are planning to submit a manuscript.
For queries relating to papers please contact one of the guest editors at the emails listed above; for cultural heritage authors should please contact Aron Mazel or Leon Jacobson; for papers on natural heritage please contact Liora Kolska Horwitz.
Before submission, authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jop/guidelines.html
An electronic copy of completed manuscripts should be submitted through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com
Hindawi, the publisher of Journal of Anthropology, is committed to publishing academic papers via free online access - prospective authors who cannot afford the cover costs of free-online access publication ($400.00) should please contact one of the guest editors. The journal will waiver the cost for third worlders and those who cannot afford to pay.
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Showing posts with label Other Journals. Show all posts
Friday, June 15, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
Occupy and Open Access
The March 2012 issue of Anthropologies is out, and editor Ryan Anderson has put together an important collection on anthropology, the open access movement inside the field, and how anthropologists are engaging with the Occupy movement. This issue is so full of good ideas, good review of literature and writing, and well-articulated taking of positions. I hope it is widely-read, as it has the potential to mark a shift towards a new way of doing anthropology, a new articulation for the field that won’t be found in any other journal.
More here
More here
Monday, March 12, 2012
New Journal: Museum Worlds
Museum Worlds: Advances in Research
Editors: Sandra Dudley, University of Leicester and Kylie Message, Australian National University
Museum Worlds: Advances in Research is a new, multi-disciplinary, refereed, annual journal from Berghahn Journals that will publish work that significantly advances knowledge of global trends, case studies and theory relevant to museum practice and scholarship around the world.
Responding to the need for a rigorous, in-depth review of current work in the broad field of Museum Studies, Museum Worlds: Advances in Research will contribute to the ongoing formation of Museum Studies, as an academic and practical field of research which is rapidly expanding and alive with potential, opportunity and challenge that parallels the rapid growth of museums in just about every part of the world.
Museum Worlds: Advances in Research aims to trace and comment on major regional, theoretical, methodological and topical themes and debates, and encourage comparison of museum theories, practices, and developments in different global settings. Each issue includes a conversation piece on a current topic, as well as peer reviewed scholarly articles and review articles, book and exhibition reviews, and news on developments in museum studies and related curricula in different parts of the world. Drawing on the expertise and networks of a global Editorial Board of senior scholars and museum practitioners, the journal will both challenge and develop the core concepts that link different disciplinary perspectives on museums by bringing new voices into ongoing debates and discussions. Articles will be of exceptional quality and general interest from around the world.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Museum Worlds: Advances in Research invites a wide range of contributions that identify, explore and analyse trends in museum-related research and practice. Papers will contribute substantively to a core scholarly discipline or sub-discipline, while engaging with research about museums in other disciplines or through interdisciplinary methods. Papers will be reviewed through a global editorial board including senior scholars in each of the following fields:
* Museum Studies
* Geography
* Cultural Studies
* Art History
* Anthropology
* International Relations
* Archeology
* Sociology
* History
* Political Science
The editorial team also welcomes book reviews, special issue proposals, and ideas for presenting content in new ways.
How to Submit a Paper
Please send submissions or expressions of interest to the editors at:
shd3@le.ac.uk and kylie.message@anu.edu.au
Submissions should be formatted in line with the journal style guide, which can be downloaded from the journal’s website: journals.berghahnbooks.com/air-mw/index.php?pg=notes
More information: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/air-mw/
Editors: Sandra Dudley, University of Leicester and Kylie Message, Australian National University
Museum Worlds: Advances in Research is a new, multi-disciplinary, refereed, annual journal from Berghahn Journals that will publish work that significantly advances knowledge of global trends, case studies and theory relevant to museum practice and scholarship around the world.
Responding to the need for a rigorous, in-depth review of current work in the broad field of Museum Studies, Museum Worlds: Advances in Research will contribute to the ongoing formation of Museum Studies, as an academic and practical field of research which is rapidly expanding and alive with potential, opportunity and challenge that parallels the rapid growth of museums in just about every part of the world.
Museum Worlds: Advances in Research aims to trace and comment on major regional, theoretical, methodological and topical themes and debates, and encourage comparison of museum theories, practices, and developments in different global settings. Each issue includes a conversation piece on a current topic, as well as peer reviewed scholarly articles and review articles, book and exhibition reviews, and news on developments in museum studies and related curricula in different parts of the world. Drawing on the expertise and networks of a global Editorial Board of senior scholars and museum practitioners, the journal will both challenge and develop the core concepts that link different disciplinary perspectives on museums by bringing new voices into ongoing debates and discussions. Articles will be of exceptional quality and general interest from around the world.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Museum Worlds: Advances in Research invites a wide range of contributions that identify, explore and analyse trends in museum-related research and practice. Papers will contribute substantively to a core scholarly discipline or sub-discipline, while engaging with research about museums in other disciplines or through interdisciplinary methods. Papers will be reviewed through a global editorial board including senior scholars in each of the following fields:
* Museum Studies
* Geography
* Cultural Studies
* Art History
* Anthropology
* International Relations
* Archeology
* Sociology
* History
* Political Science
The editorial team also welcomes book reviews, special issue proposals, and ideas for presenting content in new ways.
How to Submit a Paper
Please send submissions or expressions of interest to the editors at:
shd3@le.ac.uk and kylie.message@anu.edu.au
Submissions should be formatted in line with the journal style guide, which can be downloaded from the journal’s website: journals.berghahnbooks.com/air-mw/index.php?pg=notes
More information: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/air-mw/
Friday, March 02, 2012
El Palacio Digitized
First 10 Years of El Palacio Digitized and Placed Online
El Palacio Magazine, published by the Museum of New Mexico for nearly 100 years, celebrates the digital age just as the state celebrates its centennial, by putting the first ten years of the magazine online, free to all at http://archives.elpalacio.org. With the changing times, the vision of many magazine publishers—including El Palacio‘s—has had to broaden in order to continue a print product while also developing an online version and full archive for a Web-savvy audience. The New Mexico State Library’s State Document Program, which has long collected and cataloged printed copies of El Palacio, shared the magazine’s online, digital goals because of the publication’s historical content, its focus on New Mexico, and its perfect fit with the library’s mission to increase access to state publications.
http://archives.elpalacio.org
El Palacio Magazine, published by the Museum of New Mexico for nearly 100 years, celebrates the digital age just as the state celebrates its centennial, by putting the first ten years of the magazine online, free to all at http://archives.elpalacio.org. With the changing times, the vision of many magazine publishers—including El Palacio‘s—has had to broaden in order to continue a print product while also developing an online version and full archive for a Web-savvy audience. The New Mexico State Library’s State Document Program, which has long collected and cataloged printed copies of El Palacio, shared the magazine’s online, digital goals because of the publication’s historical content, its focus on New Mexico, and its perfect fit with the library’s mission to increase access to state publications.
http://archives.elpalacio.org
Friday, December 02, 2011
American Anthropology: A Conference
American Anthropology
A Conference at UC Irvine
Friday, January 27, 2012, 9:00am-5:50pm
Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway (SBSG) 1517
Attendance is free, no RSVP needed
Speakers include current & former members
of the editorial board & journal staff:
Tom Boellstorff (UC Irvine)
Yoon Choi (Para los Niños)
Alessandro Duranti (UCLA)
Allison Fish (Ohio State)
Agustín Fuentes (Notre Dame)
Lilith Mahmud (UC Irvine)
Erin Moran (UC Irvine)
Barbara Rose Johnston (Ctr for Political Ecology)
Michael Silverstein (U. of Chicago)
Neha Vora (Texas A&M)
• Rethinking the “editor” subject position
• New configurations for the un-disciplining of
anthropology
• The article genre in anthropological
knowledge production
• Critically engaging with the political economy
and epistemology of journal publishing
A Conference at UC Irvine
Friday, January 27, 2012, 9:00am-5:50pm
Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway (SBSG) 1517
Attendance is free, no RSVP needed
Speakers include current & former members
of the editorial board & journal staff:
Tom Boellstorff (UC Irvine)
Yoon Choi (Para los Niños)
Alessandro Duranti (UCLA)
Allison Fish (Ohio State)
Agustín Fuentes (Notre Dame)
Lilith Mahmud (UC Irvine)
Erin Moran (UC Irvine)
Barbara Rose Johnston (Ctr for Political Ecology)
Michael Silverstein (U. of Chicago)
Neha Vora (Texas A&M)
• Rethinking the “editor” subject position
• New configurations for the un-disciplining of
anthropology
• The article genre in anthropological
knowledge production
• Critically engaging with the political economy
and epistemology of journal publishing
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
HAU: A New Online Journal
HAU, Journal of Ethnographic Theory, is an international peer-reviewed, open-access online journal which aims to situate ethnography as the prime heuristic of anthropology, and return it to the forefront of conceptual developments in the discipline.
The journal is motivated by the need to reinstate ethnographic theorization in contemporary anthropology as a potent alternative to its 'explanation' or 'contextualization' by philosophical arguments, moves which have resulted in a loss of the discipline’s distinctive theoretical nerve. By drawing out its potential to critically engage and challenge Western cosmological assumptions and conceptual determinations, HAU aims to provide an exciting new arena for evaluating ethnography as a daring enterprise for 'worlding' alien terms and forms of life, by exploiting their potential for rethinking humanity and alterity.
HAU takes its name from Mauss’ Spirit of the Gift, an anthropological concept that derives its theoretical potential precisely from the translational inadequations and equivocations involved in comparing the incomparable. Through their reversibility, such inferential misunderstandings invite us to explore how encounters with alterity occasion the resurgence and revisitation of indigenous knowledge practices. As an online journal, HAU stresses immediacy of publication, allowing for the timely publication and distribution of untimely ideas. Aiming to attract the most daring thinkers in the discipline, regardless of position or background, HAU also plachttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifes no restriction on further publication of material published by the journal.
HAU welcomes submissions that strengthen ethnographic engagement with received knowledges, and revive the vibrant themes of anthropology through debate and engagement with other disciplines and explore domains held until recently to be the province of economics, philosophy and the natural sciences. Topics addressed by the journal include indigenous ontologies and systems of knowledge, forms of human engagement and relationality, cosmology and myth, magic, witchcraft and sorcery, truth and falsehood, indigenous theories of kinship and relatedness with humans and non-humans, hierarchy, materiality, perception, environment and space, time and temporality, personhood and subjectivity, alternative metaphysics of morality.
More here
The journal is motivated by the need to reinstate ethnographic theorization in contemporary anthropology as a potent alternative to its 'explanation' or 'contextualization' by philosophical arguments, moves which have resulted in a loss of the discipline’s distinctive theoretical nerve. By drawing out its potential to critically engage and challenge Western cosmological assumptions and conceptual determinations, HAU aims to provide an exciting new arena for evaluating ethnography as a daring enterprise for 'worlding' alien terms and forms of life, by exploiting their potential for rethinking humanity and alterity.
HAU takes its name from Mauss’ Spirit of the Gift, an anthropological concept that derives its theoretical potential precisely from the translational inadequations and equivocations involved in comparing the incomparable. Through their reversibility, such inferential misunderstandings invite us to explore how encounters with alterity occasion the resurgence and revisitation of indigenous knowledge practices. As an online journal, HAU stresses immediacy of publication, allowing for the timely publication and distribution of untimely ideas. Aiming to attract the most daring thinkers in the discipline, regardless of position or background, HAU also plachttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifes no restriction on further publication of material published by the journal.
HAU welcomes submissions that strengthen ethnographic engagement with received knowledges, and revive the vibrant themes of anthropology through debate and engagement with other disciplines and explore domains held until recently to be the province of economics, philosophy and the natural sciences. Topics addressed by the journal include indigenous ontologies and systems of knowledge, forms of human engagement and relationality, cosmology and myth, magic, witchcraft and sorcery, truth and falsehood, indigenous theories of kinship and relatedness with humans and non-humans, hierarchy, materiality, perception, environment and space, time and temporality, personhood and subjectivity, alternative metaphysics of morality.
More here
Sunday, September 11, 2011
9/11 Anthropology Articles
In the 10 years since the events of September 2001 a vast amount of scholarly research has been written on the impact of 9/11. Wiley-Blackwell is pleased to share with you this collection of free book and journal content, featuring over 20 book chapters and 185 journal articles from over 200 publications, spanning subjects across the social sciences and humanities.
For the anthropology articles click here
For the anthropology articles click here
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Recent Heritage and Society Published
Heritage & Society volume 4, number 1
Elizabeth Chilton and Neil A. Silberman
From the Editors
Articles
Our Heritage, Our Future - Archaeology and the Interessment of Desires Jean Dennison
Documenting Pastoral Landscapes - Connecting Archaeology, History, and Communities Steve Brown
Civil Society Action in the Field of Cultural Heritage - A European Perspective Sigrid Van der Auwera and Annick Schramme
Treasure Bearers - Personal Foundations for Effective Leadership in Northern Coast Salish Heritage Stewardship John R. Welch , Dana Lepofsky, Megan Caldwell , Georgia Combes, and Craig Rust
Forum
Intangible Heritage and Sustainable Development - Realistic Outcome or Wishful Thinking? Sophia Labadi, Forum Editor
Challenges to Sustaining Intangible Cultural Heritage Rosabelle Boswell
Peopling Places, Storying Spaces - Heritage Sustaining Human Development? Marilyn C. Truscott
A Gandhi Turning Point for ICH
Rahul Goswami
Resources
From the Editors donald F. Craib and susan forbes
ICOMOS — Tolerance for Change Initiative
UNESCO Recommendation — Historic Urban Landscape (HUL)
U.S. Ratifies Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples
China Considers Law to Protect Intangible Cultural Heritage
Elizabeth Chilton and Neil A. Silberman
From the Editors
Articles
Our Heritage, Our Future - Archaeology and the Interessment of Desires Jean Dennison
Documenting Pastoral Landscapes - Connecting Archaeology, History, and Communities Steve Brown
Civil Society Action in the Field of Cultural Heritage - A European Perspective Sigrid Van der Auwera and Annick Schramme
Treasure Bearers - Personal Foundations for Effective Leadership in Northern Coast Salish Heritage Stewardship John R. Welch , Dana Lepofsky, Megan Caldwell , Georgia Combes, and Craig Rust
Forum
Intangible Heritage and Sustainable Development - Realistic Outcome or Wishful Thinking? Sophia Labadi, Forum Editor
Challenges to Sustaining Intangible Cultural Heritage Rosabelle Boswell
Peopling Places, Storying Spaces - Heritage Sustaining Human Development? Marilyn C. Truscott
A Gandhi Turning Point for ICH
Rahul Goswami
Resources
From the Editors donald F. Craib and susan forbes
ICOMOS — Tolerance for Change Initiative
UNESCO Recommendation — Historic Urban Landscape (HUL)
U.S. Ratifies Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples
China Considers Law to Protect Intangible Cultural Heritage
Friday, April 08, 2011
CFP: Museum History Journal
Call for Papers: Museum History Journal
Museum History Journal, now in it fourth volume, is soliciting new
submissions for volumes 5 and 6, to appear in 2012 and 2013 (each volume
includes two issues, published in January and July). For specific submission
guidelines and other information, please visit the Left Coast Press website:
http://www.lcoastpress.com/journal.php?id=6
Museum History Journal is an international, peer-reviewed journal of
critical, evaluative histories related to museums. Content encompasses not
only a broad range of museum types---including natural history,
anthropology, archaeology, fine art, history, medical and science and
technology---but also related cultural institutions such as aquaria, zoos,
botanical gardens, arboreta, historical societies and sites, architectural
sites, archives and planetariums. It presents a variety of scholarly
approaches, such as analytical, narrative, historical, cultural, social,
quantitative and intellectual.
Please send manuscripts to the Editor, Hugh H. Genoways
.
Museum History Journal, now in it fourth volume, is soliciting new
submissions for volumes 5 and 6, to appear in 2012 and 2013 (each volume
includes two issues, published in January and July). For specific submission
guidelines and other information, please visit the Left Coast Press website:
http://www.lcoastpress.com/journal.php?id=6
Museum History Journal is an international, peer-reviewed journal of
critical, evaluative histories related to museums. Content encompasses not
only a broad range of museum types---including natural history,
anthropology, archaeology, fine art, history, medical and science and
technology---but also related cultural institutions such as aquaria, zoos,
botanical gardens, arboreta, historical societies and sites, architectural
sites, archives and planetariums. It presents a variety of scholarly
approaches, such as analytical, narrative, historical, cultural, social,
quantitative and intellectual.
Please send manuscripts to the Editor, Hugh H. Genoways
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Latest Anthropology and Humanism Published
Anthropology and Humanism
Volume 35, Issue 2 Page 131 - 249
The latest issue of Anthropology and Humanism is available on Wiley Online Library
Original Articles
Introduction to “Do Spirits Exist? Ways to Know” (pages 131–141)
Joan Koss-Chioino
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01062.x
Visionary Spiritual Experiences in an Enchanted World (pages 142–158)
David J. Hufford
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01063.x
Seeing Dead People Not Known to Have Died: “Peak in Darien” Experiences (pages 159–171)
Bruce Greyson
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01064.x
Understanding the Conundrum of Rebirth Experience of the Beaver, Gitxsan, and Witsuwit'en (pages 172–191)
Antonia Mills
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01065.x
Encounters with Sorcery: An Ethnographer's Account (pages 192–203)
Evgenia Fotiou
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01066.x
Anthropology, Shamanism, and Alternate Ways of Knowing–Being in the World: One Anthropologist's Journey of Discovery and Transformation (pages 204–217)
Bonnie Glass-Coffin
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01067.x
Discussion: Ethnography as a Transformative Experience (pages 218–226)
Edith Turner
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01068.x
Fiction
The Cure (pages 227–234)
Laura Biagi
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01069.x
Basurita Ndoki (pages 235–239)
Todd Ochoa
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01070.x
POEMS
Poems (pages 240–247)
Sienna Craig
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01071.x
Book Reviews
Net Notations (Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive– By Johannes Fabian (pages 248–249)
Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01072.x
Volume 35, Issue 2 Page 131 - 249
The latest issue of Anthropology and Humanism is available on Wiley Online Library
Original Articles
Introduction to “Do Spirits Exist? Ways to Know” (pages 131–141)
Joan Koss-Chioino
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01062.x
Visionary Spiritual Experiences in an Enchanted World (pages 142–158)
David J. Hufford
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01063.x
Seeing Dead People Not Known to Have Died: “Peak in Darien” Experiences (pages 159–171)
Bruce Greyson
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01064.x
Understanding the Conundrum of Rebirth Experience of the Beaver, Gitxsan, and Witsuwit'en (pages 172–191)
Antonia Mills
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01065.x
Encounters with Sorcery: An Ethnographer's Account (pages 192–203)
Evgenia Fotiou
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01066.x
Anthropology, Shamanism, and Alternate Ways of Knowing–Being in the World: One Anthropologist's Journey of Discovery and Transformation (pages 204–217)
Bonnie Glass-Coffin
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01067.x
Discussion: Ethnography as a Transformative Experience (pages 218–226)
Edith Turner
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01068.x
Fiction
The Cure (pages 227–234)
Laura Biagi
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01069.x
Basurita Ndoki (pages 235–239)
Todd Ochoa
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01070.x
POEMS
Poems (pages 240–247)
Sienna Craig
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01071.x
Book Reviews
Net Notations (Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive– By Johannes Fabian (pages 248–249)
Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01072.x
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Return to Moundville
A long article in the American Indian Times talking about repatriation and NAGPRA with the Choctaw. Several quotes come from Museum Anthropology editorial board member, Dorothy Lippert.
In other NAGPRA news, here is a new article to appear in Curator: "NAGPRA: Effective Repatriation Programs and Cultural Change in Museums." We haven't read it yet, but seems to be an interesting new viewpoint (and set of data) on how repatriation and consultation really work in the United States.
In other NAGPRA news, here is a new article to appear in Curator: "NAGPRA: Effective Repatriation Programs and Cultural Change in Museums." We haven't read it yet, but seems to be an interesting new viewpoint (and set of data) on how repatriation and consultation really work in the United States.
Saturday, June 05, 2010
New Online Journal
Submit an article to "Journal of Anthropology," which provides a rapid forum for the dissemination of original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of anthropology.
Journal of Anthropology is published using an open access publication model, meaning that all interested readers are able to freely access the journal online without the need for a subscription. The journal has a distinguished editorial board with extensive academic qualifications, ensuring that the journal maintains high scientific standards and has a broad international coverage. A current list of the journal's editors can be found here.
Manuscripts should be submitted to the journal online. Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication, it will undergo language copyediting, typesetting, and reference validation in order to provide the highest publication quality possible.
Journal of Anthropology is published using an open access publication model, meaning that all interested readers are able to freely access the journal online without the need for a subscription. The journal has a distinguished editorial board with extensive academic qualifications, ensuring that the journal maintains high scientific standards and has a broad international coverage. A current list of the journal's editors can be found here.
Manuscripts should be submitted to the journal online. Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication, it will undergo language copyediting, typesetting, and reference validation in order to provide the highest publication quality possible.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
New Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Edited by Simon Coleman
Special Issue: Making Knowledge
Guest edited by Trevor H.J. Marchand
Making Knowledge
Trevor H.J. Marchand
Making knowledge: explorations of the indissoluble relation between minds, bodies and environment
Trevor H.J. Marchand
"Practice without theory": a neuroanthropological perspective on embodied learning
Greg Downey
Learning to listen: auscultation and the transmission of auditory knowledge
Tom Rice
The craft of skilful learning: Kazakh women’s everyday craft practices in western Mongolia
Anna Odland Portisch
"Something to talk about": notation and knowledge-making among Central Slovak lace-makers
Nicolette Makovicky
Embodied cognition and communication: studies with British fine woodworkers
Trevor H.J. Marchand
Footprints through the weather-world: walking, breathing, knowing
Tim Ingold
Unconscious culture and conscious nature: exploring East Javanese conceptions of the person through Bourdieu's lens
Konstantinos Retsikas
Learning to weave: weaving to learn... what?
Soumhya Venkatesan
Reflections on knowledge practices and the problem of ignorance
Roy Dilley
Anthropology of knowledge
Emma Cohen
Edited by Simon Coleman
Special Issue: Making Knowledge
Guest edited by Trevor H.J. Marchand
Making Knowledge
Trevor H.J. Marchand
Making knowledge: explorations of the indissoluble relation between minds, bodies and environment
Trevor H.J. Marchand
"Practice without theory": a neuroanthropological perspective on embodied learning
Greg Downey
Learning to listen: auscultation and the transmission of auditory knowledge
Tom Rice
The craft of skilful learning: Kazakh women’s everyday craft practices in western Mongolia
Anna Odland Portisch
"Something to talk about": notation and knowledge-making among Central Slovak lace-makers
Nicolette Makovicky
Embodied cognition and communication: studies with British fine woodworkers
Trevor H.J. Marchand
Footprints through the weather-world: walking, breathing, knowing
Tim Ingold
Unconscious culture and conscious nature: exploring East Javanese conceptions of the person through Bourdieu's lens
Konstantinos Retsikas
Learning to weave: weaving to learn... what?
Soumhya Venkatesan
Reflections on knowledge practices and the problem of ignorance
Roy Dilley
Anthropology of knowledge
Emma Cohen
Friday, May 21, 2010
New Visual Anthropology Review
Visual Anthropology Review
Volume 26, Issue 1, 2010.
Designer Vandalism: Indonesian Indie Fashion and the Cultural Practice of Cut 'n' Paste
BRENT LUVAAS
Digitizing the Decisive Moment
DENNIS LANG
Photography as Ethnographic Passport
JONATHAN S. MARION
Ethnographic Terminalia
LUCIAN GOMOLL
Volume 26, Issue 1, 2010.
Designer Vandalism: Indonesian Indie Fashion and the Cultural Practice of Cut 'n' Paste
BRENT LUVAAS
Digitizing the Decisive Moment
DENNIS LANG
Photography as Ethnographic Passport
JONATHAN S. MARION
Ethnographic Terminalia
LUCIAN GOMOLL
Monday, April 26, 2010
Museum Anthropology Review - Vol. 4, No. 1
Congratulations to our colleagues at Museum Anthropology Review for another fine online issue. Check it out!
Sunday, March 28, 2010
World Art: New Journal
Call for Papers
Please accept this email as a cordial invitation to consider the submission of your work to a new journal, World Art, which we are publishing through Taylor and Francis from 2011.
As editors we encourage contributions in the form of research articles, position pieces, visual essays, dialogues etc. We anticipate that this journal will become a showcase for the academic, creative and museological excellence of colleagues in the inter-related fields of world art history, contemporary arts, indigenous studies, heritage studies, visual anthropology, community archaeology, de-colonisation etc.
We also hope that the journal will establish dialogues and collaborations - between disciplines, practices and professions - as a way to address new issues and debates in world art studies and in related post-western contexts.
Please see http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/RWOR for details, plus the attached call for contributions to the first volume on 'Making, sensing, writing: what are the possibilities for world art?'
We can discuss any ideas you may have for dialogues, interventions etc. in the near future. We would also be grateful if you could please circulate this call widely amongst your colleagues elsewhere.
Very best wishes,
Dan Rycroft, George Lau and Veronica Sekules
Editors, World Art <worldart@uea.ac.uk>
Please accept this email as a cordial invitation to consider the submission of your work to a new journal, World Art, which we are publishing through Taylor and Francis from 2011.
As editors we encourage contributions in the form of research articles, position pieces, visual essays, dialogues etc. We anticipate that this journal will become a showcase for the academic, creative and museological excellence of colleagues in the inter-related fields of world art history, contemporary arts, indigenous studies, heritage studies, visual anthropology, community archaeology, de-colonisation etc.
We also hope that the journal will establish dialogues and collaborations - between disciplines, practices and professions - as a way to address new issues and debates in world art studies and in related post-western contexts.
Please see http://www.tandf.co.uk/
We can discuss any ideas you may have for dialogues, interventions etc. in the near future. We would also be grateful if you could please circulate this call widely amongst your colleagues elsewhere.
Very best wishes,
Dan Rycroft, George Lau and Veronica Sekules
Editors, World Art <worldart@uea.ac.uk>
Saturday, November 07, 2009
American Anthropologist & Practicing Anthropology
A message from T. J. Ferguson (Anthropological Research, LLC.):
In November and December 2009, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and Wiley-Blackwell are offering free access to over ten years of Anthrosource content, AAA’s online portal for anthropological research.
I encourage the practicing community to take advantage of this opportunity to explore the benefits of Anthrosource as a research tool. In particular, I’d like to draw to your attention some efforts being made in American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of AAA, to make sure this title brings practicing, applied, and public anthropologists and their contributions into this august record of the field.
In June 2009, the journal published a review by Melissa Checker of 2008 literature, "Anthropology in the Public Sphere, 2008: Emerging Trends and Significant Impacts.” The editor of the journal, Tom Boellstorff, plans to have these annual recaps each year, summarizing key contributions and themes in the documents produced by applied, practicing and public anthropologists.
This same issue features a research article by Timothy de Waal Malefyt, “Understanding the Rise of Consumer Ethnography: Branding Technomethodologies in the New Economy.”
American Anthropologist will also, starting in March 2010, launch a second new feature. The journal will begin reviewing professional reports and other documents that public, practicing, and applied anthropologists create, but which have not been published by university presses or in other traditional academic venues, and thus have historically been occluded from book review sections.
Because the journal is both widely visible in the discipline and because of its role as an unofficial record of the discipline, I am very excited to see these new efforts featuring the emerging place of practicing anthropologists in our field.
In November and December 2009, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and Wiley-Blackwell are offering free access to over ten years of Anthrosource content, AAA’s online portal for anthropological research.
I encourage the practicing community to take advantage of this opportunity to explore the benefits of Anthrosource as a research tool. In particular, I’d like to draw to your attention some efforts being made in American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of AAA, to make sure this title brings practicing, applied, and public anthropologists and their contributions into this august record of the field.
In June 2009, the journal published a review by Melissa Checker of 2008 literature, "Anthropology in the Public Sphere, 2008: Emerging Trends and Significant Impacts.” The editor of the journal, Tom Boellstorff, plans to have these annual recaps each year, summarizing key contributions and themes in the documents produced by applied, practicing and public anthropologists.
This same issue features a research article by Timothy de Waal Malefyt, “Understanding the Rise of Consumer Ethnography: Branding Technomethodologies in the New Economy.”
American Anthropologist will also, starting in March 2010, launch a second new feature. The journal will begin reviewing professional reports and other documents that public, practicing, and applied anthropologists create, but which have not been published by university presses or in other traditional academic venues, and thus have historically been occluded from book review sections.
Because the journal is both widely visible in the discipline and because of its role as an unofficial record of the discipline, I am very excited to see these new efforts featuring the emerging place of practicing anthropologists in our field.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Museum Anthropology Review
A new issue (vol. 3, no. 2) of Museum Anthropology Review. Congratulations to our museum journal colleagues across the ether!
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Ethics and Information Technology
Initially, this call for papers seemed a bit far afield for Museum Anthropology. But, then, we got thinking about the discussion surrounding open source, and began considering the ways in which these technologies intersect with questions of ethics. Perhaps these issues should deeply concern museums because they hold and channel information to different communities in different ways. From a news release:
Call for Papers for a Special Issue with Ethics and Information Technology on “ICT and the capability approach”
Some influential theories of distributive justice, fairness and equality, like that of John Rawls, discuss fair distribution in terms of shares of primary goods available to people. The main criticism of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum of these views is that it is not the goods that are ultimately important, but what they allow us to do and be, the kind of lives they enable us to live. Giving everyone a laptop or some other piece of technology is no good in and by itself, according to their ‘capability approach’.
Some people will be able to make good use of it and increase their level of functioning, whereas others who are for example illiterate or do not have access to a reliable power supply cannot possibly convert their possession of this particular technology into anything useful in their lives. Human functioning and capabilities are therefore at the centre of the work of Nussbaum and Sen. The capability approach is thoroughly normative, since it demands that people are brought to a minimum level of capabilities necessary to lead flourishing lives.
Although the capability approach has been widely adopted in development thinking, hardly any work has been done on the interrelations between the capability approach and technology. This is remarkable, since technology by definition aims at expanding human capabilities. In recent years, however, publications have started emerging on this topic, most of them concerned with ICT and more in particular with ICT and developing countries. A possible reason for this may be the high expectations regarding the positive contributions ICT will make in issues concerning development and global justice. One of the icons of ‘ICT for Development’ or e-development is the poor farmer in a developing country who now has access to crop prizes thanks to his mobile phone and as a result can eliminate the middlemen. The capability approach may be able to provide a lens through which such ICT applications can be critically scrutinized and evaluated.
In this special issue of Ethics and Information Technology the relevance and implications of the capability approach for ICT will further be explored, though not merely confined to the context of developing countries. We invite contributions concerning both theoretical and applied issues from all over the world and with relevance for either Western countries, developing countries, or both. Some of the issues that can be addressed are the following:
Call for Papers for a Special Issue with Ethics and Information Technology on “ICT and the capability approach”
Some influential theories of distributive justice, fairness and equality, like that of John Rawls, discuss fair distribution in terms of shares of primary goods available to people. The main criticism of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum of these views is that it is not the goods that are ultimately important, but what they allow us to do and be, the kind of lives they enable us to live. Giving everyone a laptop or some other piece of technology is no good in and by itself, according to their ‘capability approach’.
Some people will be able to make good use of it and increase their level of functioning, whereas others who are for example illiterate or do not have access to a reliable power supply cannot possibly convert their possession of this particular technology into anything useful in their lives. Human functioning and capabilities are therefore at the centre of the work of Nussbaum and Sen. The capability approach is thoroughly normative, since it demands that people are brought to a minimum level of capabilities necessary to lead flourishing lives.
Although the capability approach has been widely adopted in development thinking, hardly any work has been done on the interrelations between the capability approach and technology. This is remarkable, since technology by definition aims at expanding human capabilities. In recent years, however, publications have started emerging on this topic, most of them concerned with ICT and more in particular with ICT and developing countries. A possible reason for this may be the high expectations regarding the positive contributions ICT will make in issues concerning development and global justice. One of the icons of ‘ICT for Development’ or e-development is the poor farmer in a developing country who now has access to crop prizes thanks to his mobile phone and as a result can eliminate the middlemen. The capability approach may be able to provide a lens through which such ICT applications can be critically scrutinized and evaluated.
In this special issue of Ethics and Information Technology the relevance and implications of the capability approach for ICT will further be explored, though not merely confined to the context of developing countries. We invite contributions concerning both theoretical and applied issues from all over the world and with relevance for either Western countries, developing countries, or both. Some of the issues that can be addressed are the following:
- Case studies about specific ICTs / capabilities / groups of people / contexts
- The capability approach and the digital divide
- System level effects of ICT and the capability approach
- Designing ICT for human capabilities
- The capability approach and evaluation of e-development projects
- Complexity of capability effects of ICT: short versus long term, enabling as well as constraining, etc.
- The tension between agency versus well-being in ICT4D practise
- ICT, objective capabilities, subjective valuations & adaptive preferences
- The capability approach, participation and ICT
- The capability approach, ICT and (neutrality towards) the good lifeICT and individual / collective / external capabilities
- Applied ontology of ICT and human capabilities
The editors at Ethics and Information Technology are seeking articles for a special issue in this area. Submissions will be double‐blind refereed for relevance to the theme as well as academic rigor and originality. High quality articles not deemed to be sufficiently relevant to the special issue may be considered for publication in a subsequent non-themed issue. Closing date for submissions: February 28nd, 2010.
To submit your paper, please use the online submission system, to be found at www.editorialmanager.com/etin. For any questions or information regarding this special issue, please contact the managing editor, Noëmi Manders‐Huits, N.L.J.L.Manders‐Huits@tudelft.nl
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Open Access Compact
An article on a new open access agreement, signed by five elite universities. The agreement compels the universities to develop systems to pay open access journals for the articles they publish by the institutions' scholars.
The article presents different viewpoints on whether or not this proposed model is a good one. (A good string of comments at the end of the article too.) We wonder in particular about the implications for museum and applied anthropologists. If scholars are not part of a university system, but employed in small institutions, non-profits, or even private companies, is requiring payment in order to publish truly equitable and sustainable? This agreement is perhaps a visible struggle of the contending goals of opening up a journal's readership while still encouraging broad authorship.
Jason Baird Jackson -- current editor of Museum Anthropology Review, and former editor of our own Museum Anthropology -- is quoted. Jackson voices some legitimate concerns, but offers that in principle, this compact is an "awesome thing." We agree that the agreement seems to open up some very exciting possibilities.
The article presents different viewpoints on whether or not this proposed model is a good one. (A good string of comments at the end of the article too.) We wonder in particular about the implications for museum and applied anthropologists. If scholars are not part of a university system, but employed in small institutions, non-profits, or even private companies, is requiring payment in order to publish truly equitable and sustainable? This agreement is perhaps a visible struggle of the contending goals of opening up a journal's readership while still encouraging broad authorship.
Jason Baird Jackson -- current editor of Museum Anthropology Review, and former editor of our own Museum Anthropology -- is quoted. Jackson voices some legitimate concerns, but offers that in principle, this compact is an "awesome thing." We agree that the agreement seems to open up some very exciting possibilities.
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