Chicago Exchange rises from the ashes (again)

by Rex on June 9th, 2006

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 with new CSS styling and interviews with Marshall Sahlins and Slavoj Zizek. 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!).

From Bibliomania, Open Access Open Source

4 Comments →
  1. John McCreery permalink

    Thanks, Rex. Apropro of our recent discussions of neoliberalism, Tsing, etc., I was particularly struck by this paragraph in the interview with Sahlins,

    We, as anthropologists, used to think about how natives would become colonized by capitalism. It didn’t quite happen that way. What did happen was that anthropologists got colonized by capitalism, and got largely involved in doing exotic economics. We had a recent seminar – I won’t mention any names – about neoliberalism and artists in Egypt. The whole thing started with neoliberalism and the structure of neoliberalism in Egypt and we never got to the artists. In the end, we were told that the artists don’t totally buy it. But instead of starting with the artists, and with the ethnography, we are starting with neoliberalism and that is where we stop.

  2. oneman permalink

    Cool, but…

    It needs an RSS feed.

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