Open Access Anthropology

(cross posted from Savage Minds)
Recently Anthropologi.info blogged a new anthropology site, American Ethnography. American Ethnography is a very pretty site with monthly thematic collections of articles from AAA journals. My initial response was: “wow, how happy will the AAA be to see entire articles they are selling for money on AnthroSource being reproduced on the […]

Its a small matter in a sea of broader OAA news, but I am pleased to note (as the journal’s editor) that the spring 2008 issue of Museum Anthropology Review is now available. It can be found online at http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/mar.
Supporters of OA publishing can help the cause by “registering” with the journal.  This is free […]

I recently wrote a piece for Anthropology News which mentioned among other things that regardless of the AAA’s position, official or unofficial, about Open Access, it’s nonetheless happening in all kinds of ways. Now it’s happening in one more way that the AAA will have to deal with. Viz. Harvard’s recent announcement that […]

While my colleagues are busy with other duties, I fear over-discussing folklore matters here at Open Access Anthropology. Thus, I will make this a quick post to simply note (as the journal’s faculty advisor) that the editors of Folklore Forum have just published a new issue focused on the “Folklore of East Asia.” The issue, […]

Thanks to everyone who has found these discussions of OA in folklore studies of interest, especially those who have posted links to them or who have written with encouraging comments. In this final post, which I will try to keep brief, I will take the final leg of my proposed journey and mention new (and […]

In my previous post, I discussed the example of Oral Tradition, citing it as an example of a vital, established house journal that made the transition to OA. Another established folklore studies journals that has made this switch is Asian Ethnology, a venerable (founded 1942) journal that was known until recently as Asian Folklore Studies.
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In a series of brief “did you know” posts I want to lay the foundations for a reflection on the state of OA in a field neighboring anthropology with which cultural and linguistic anthropologists have long had close dealings (or dual identities). This comes easily to me as I was trained in both folklore (or […]

For those who have not encountered it yet, I wanted to call attention to the open access journal Cultural Analysis. As its editors describe it, “Cultural Analysis is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to investigating expressive and everyday culture. The journal features analytical research articles, but also includes notes, reviews, and responses.” In its […]