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 be long before you come across…
Tag: publishing
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 we are just saying good bye…
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 companion volume Readings for a History…
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 of Anthropological Theory, we asked authors…
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 presentation of new research, ideas,…
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 sciences. I think this is a…
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 Association for South Asian Studies, I…
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 research anyone? @savageminds @culanth @haujournal @jmtromble…
Peer Review and Academic Citizenship: A Call to Our Colleagues
Most of us who earned our degrees before the advent of email remember the thrill of being asked to write our first peer review. We both remember how…
Farewell, Oona Schmid
No, it’s not the title of a whimsical new Wes Anderson movie, it’s news of changes within the American Anthropological Association’s publishing program. Ed Liebow, the executive dire…
An open access publishing cooperative for anthropology? by Eugene Raikhel
Last month HAU and Cultural Anthropology published a proposal for an open access anthropology publishing cooperative written by Alberto Corsín Jiménez, John Willinsky, Dominic Boyer, Giovanni da Col…
What a cooperative proposal means for the AAA
Social media was a-twitter (see what I did there?) today with an important statement about the future of anthropology publishing posted at both Cultural Anthropology and in the latest…
So You’re A Graduate Student and You Want to Get Published: Takeaways from the Anthropod Publishing Series
By Emma Louise Backe Anthropod, the anthropology podcast run out of Cultural Anthropology, is an excellent resource for individuals both within and without the discipline (see what I…
Homo Naledi’s other revolution
When the Homo Naledi discovery was announced I was excited to see that the initial publication was in an open access journal, eLife. In fact to me this…
So You’re an Undergraduate and You Want to Get Published
By Rayna Elizabeth If you are thinking of pursing a career in academia or as a writer in general, you might want to attempt to submit your research…
Forget the outrage: Stop signing away your author rights to corporations.
Earlier this summer here at the Savage Minds editorial offices, we had a temporary informational mishap that led some of our staff to believe that the mega-publisher Elsevier…
I’m in a book
I was looking in Blackwell's bookshop the other day – the big famous bookshop on Broad Street in Oxford – and I came across The Indo-European Controversy…
Geeks Gone D.I.Y.: A Quick Guide to Zines
By Marissa Lorusso In many societies, the power of the written word is unequally distributed: access to literacy and literature, along with editing, publishing, and distribution don’t always…
Announcing ethnoGRAPHIC: A New Series
Graphic Adventures in Anthropology This is the final post in a blog series called Graphic Adventures in Anthropology. For several weeks now, guest contributors have been writing about various…
Some Possible Anthropological Futures: WCAA vs. SSCI
By Gordon Mathews It’s become increasingly recognized that the world has multiple anthropologies—that anthropology is not only a Euro-American endeavor but a global endeavor. One reason…