AMNH Publications now open access

The American Museum of Natural History has recently launched a “new website”:http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/ which makes available for free its scientific publications. This includes its “Antrhopological Papers”:http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/6 as well as the older “memoir series”:http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/6 which contains more than a few classical anthropological pieces, like those of “Franz”:http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/8//items-by-author?author=Boas%2C+Franz “Boas”:http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/8//items-by-author?author=Boas%2C+Franz%2C+1858-1942 and “George Hunt”:http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/8//items-by-author?author=Hunt%2C+George, “Robert Lowie”:http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/simple-search?query=Lowie&submit=Search+&pubs=sci (particularly well represented) and “Alfred Kroeber”:http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/simple-search?query=kroeber&submit=Search+&pubs=sci. “Kwakiutl texts”:http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/23 anyone (warning: 4 megabyte PDF)? All we need is the Canadian Department of Mines to digitize _their_ anthropological memoirs and _Time Perspective in Aboriginal American Culture, A Study In Method_ will finally be at the world’s fingertips!

I could poke around all day in the AMNH’s collection. Much thanks to AMNH for making this trove of texts available using MIT’s “DSpace”:http://libraries.mit.edu/dspace-mit/ software.

Alex Golub is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He studies mining and petroleum development in Papua New Guinea, as well as American culture in to the online game World of Warcraft. You can contact him at rex@savageminds.org