From Things and Stuff to Radically Optimist Multi-Modal Platform
On May 20, 2021, Felix Girke, a member of our editorial collective, gave a presentation in the framework of the workshop “Multimodal …
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to Rashmi Sadana
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
Ethnographic Film at the Crossroads
Ethnographic film is blooming Ethnographic film, however loosely defined, is blooming. While to track and map the entire production of ethnographic film …
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to Robert Caldwell
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to Alina Méndez
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
Infrastructuring an open access journal is easy, until it’s not
All respect to the Public Knowledge Project and Open Journal Systems. The ecosystem they’ve built over years is tremendous and respectable. For …
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to John Arroyo
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to Nicholas Barron
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
No Journal is an Island
Libraria is a collective of researchers based in the social sciences who seek to bring about a more open, diverse, community-controlled scholarly …
What Students Deserve in a Textbook
With the recent release of Through the Lens of Cultural Anthropology, we asked author Laura Tubelle de González to talk about her …
Van masterscriptie naar gepubliceerd boek: The Urban Gardens of Havana
Door Ola Plonska In juli 2017 was het eindelijk zover. Na maandenlang hard werken was dit het moment om onze masterscripties in …
How to fix the Conde Nast business model
Peter Kafka has a great piece on Conde Nast, specifically how this once dominant publishing enterprise now struggles and what this means for incoming …
Respect, care, and labor in collaborative scholarly projects by Nayantara Sheoran Appleton
As members of Somatosphere’s Editorial Collaborative, we have been following the unfolding crisis surrounding Hau with profound concern (Agro 2018, Flaherty 2018). …
Community-Based Open Access, Fast and Slow #hautalk
I would like to make the case that open access remains relevant to the mix of painful problems and worthy opportunities still …
The Politics of Explaining Taiwan
Mail to Taiwan often gets sent to Thailand Imagine if, when writing a paper on Donald Trump, you had to start your …
Institutionalizing Critical University Studies
One thing I’ve been keeping an eye on for a while is the slow institutionalization of a subfield of “Critical University Studies” …
Precarious publishing in Latin America
If you find yourself in a big Latin American city like Buenos Aires, Mexico City, or São Paulo, chances are it won’t …
Year of the Mushroom
In the next week or so, many of us will celebrate the year of the rooster. The year of the monkey, which …
Excerpt: A History of Anthropological Theory
An exciting new feature of the fifth edition of A History of Anthropological Theory, as well as the fifth edition of its …
A History of Anthropological Theory
To mark the publication of the fifth editions of their enormously successful texts, A History of Anthropological Theory and Readings for a History …
On the responsibilities of panelists
So you can tell what’s coming here. The short version is: should panelists provide for a good show (topical, interesting, cutting edge, …
→The Anxious Anthropologist: culture, health and everyday life
ArXiv for anthropology: @SocArXiv + #AAA2016 = Open Access Strikes Back
Cliffs Notes version of this post: @SocArXiv is a Green Open Access digital repository that is currently being developed for the social …
REDUX: Publishing for PhD students #Anthroadvice
Playing a bit part in organising a workshop on academic publishing for PhD students at the next annual conference of the British …
What is arXiv and how can we get one?
After ckelty’s post on the SSRN/Elsevier merger fellow mind, Ryan Anderson, gave me a shout out in Twitter, ArXiv for social science …