Chicago Exchange rises from the ashes (again)

The Chicago Anthropology Exchange was the unofficial journal of the anthropology department of the University of Chicago. If I remember correctly it was one of the many brainchildren of sol Tax. Like a lot of things that Tax got people enthused about, it wasn’t actually that successful and languished on and off for some time. I even did a brief stint doing layout for it during my time as a grad student. After that it collapsed again. But now it has risen from the ashes as “EXCHANGE”:http://newcloud.com/exchange/index.html with new CSS styling and interviews with “Marshall Sahlins”:http://newcloud.com/exchange/interviews/sahlins.html and “Slavoj Zizek”:http://newcloud.com/exchange/interviews/zizek.html. In my experience most departments have enough intellectual ferment to start a journal and now that the barriers for entry are so low technology-wise we should all start one. So I hope EXCHANGE will have a future full of good content (and an RSS feed and more metadata!).

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