March 22, 2008
Anthropology Journalism?
One of my latests interests is "Anthropology Journalism". This term does not hold much cogency in either field, aside from discussions about their methodological similarities. With the intense focus many anthropologists expend on matters of "authorship" and "authority", I assume there is much more discussion about these matters that I am simply not aware of. [Please educate me with a comment.]
Why is it that we do not have any control over our news? For example, a big announcement was made today about the origins of hominid bipedalism dating to 6 rather than 3.5 million years ago. The research, conducted by Brian Richmond and William Jungers came out in the March 21 issue of Science. I wrote a light piece about it on my blog but why wasn't I able learn about this cool bit of anthropology on an anthropology feed? I did hear about it from a US News and World Report feed but I wish we had our own feed that rivaled theirs.
I have a project I have started with a group of anthro majors in my program at Fresno State called "Making Anthropology Public". Like AnthroBlogs, our blog is intended to make Anthropology real for the rest of the world.
As inductive analysts, Anthropologists have skills most others lack. My hope now is to get more people thinking about these issues for the betterment of our field.
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Greetings Everyone
I'm a new member to this community. I'm James Mullooly and I teach anthropology at Fresno State. I have a few blogs of my own at theanthrogeek.wordpress.com.
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November 07, 2007
The AAA has a blog...
...found here.
The auspicious inaugural post went straight to work, reporting on the Executive Committee's Statement on the Human Terrain System (i.e., anthropologist spies/advisers on the ground in Iraq). The permalink to the post is here; the Statement is found here.
Welcome to the blogosphere, AAA and especially one technology-averse Board member I happen to know well!
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October 19, 2007
Anthropologists at War
It's worth taking a look at the growing collection of entries at the Savage Minds blog under the category Anthropology at War.
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July 30, 2007
Download the SfAA podcasts now, they will be taken down in 2 days!!
(X-posted at SfAApodcasts.net)
I wanted to remind everyone that the SfAA podcasts from the 67th Annual Meeting of the SfAA will be taken down from this website on August 1, 2007. To this end, make sure you download the podcasts that you want before then. Also, if you know someone that might be interested in any of the recordings- make sure you tell them about the website soon so that they will have the opportunity to download the podcasts before then too. After August 1 there will be more frequent updates, calls for help, and calls for participation on this site, so please continue to subscribe to this site's RSS feed or email updates of new posts so that you don't miss out! If you've had thoughts/comments/complaints/etc. that you haven't submitted, now would be a great time to do that too so that they can be considered when we plan for next year!
Why are the podcasts being taken down you ask?
What an excellent question! The decision to make the files available for a few months was mainly based on two factors. Tom May and I picked a date to remove the files after hearing some participants concerns of having the files available long-term. Also, we are storing the files on a file server at the University of North Texas this year. The Center for Distributed Learning at UNT was not able to guarantee free server space past the date.
Going forward, I believe that we (still looking for volunteers!) will keep the files up either permanently or for a longer period of time. This will all depend on how much feedback and communication we receive from participants on the matter. The server space for next year has been taken care of, so that will no longer be a factor.
Link to SfAApodcasts.net
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