An interview with Tom Boellstorff and more… an Anthropology roundup..

Opening our anthropological conversations: An Interview with Tom Boellstorff from Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology ? A Group Blog by Ryan I had the chance to conduct an email-based interview with Tom Boellstorff during this past month to explore some of his views about Open Access (hereafter OA) publishing in anthropology.  Update: You … Read more

A book review: How racist is American anthropology?

How racist is American anthropology? from antropologi.info – anthropology in the news blog by Lorenz Why does anthropology tend to focus on ?exotic others”? Why this obsession with Africa? How come calls by well-known anthropologists such as Paul Rabinow to ?anthropologize the West seemed to have not brought forth much fruit? How racist is American … Read more