Comments on: Online anthro tutorial

By: Hector Blackhurst

Hector Blackhurst — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:47:35 +0000

Thanks for your comments about the Internet Anthropologist. It’s true that Savage Minds is not mentioned there but I had not come across it when the tutorial was being written. It is now included in Intute: Social Sciences – Anthropology which, I hope, goes some way in making up for the original omission.

First-footing I know, but what is footing?

By: a little reminder from your friends « A World Among Worlds

a little reminder from your friends « A World Among Worlds — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:01:16 +0000

[...] like how anthropology as a field is making an online leap but still maintaining its academic sense of superiority. [...]

By: hwm

hwm — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:41:54 +0000

me thinks it’s a good idea to have any internet antho exposure. there is so much resistance within the institutions to accept or look into adapting to a new format that internal internet disagreements should be dealt with creatively. otherwise the web world is at risk of going the ways of the insulated scholarly settings.

By: comet jo

comet jo — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:02:23 +0000

On the other hand, the intute database itself doesn’t seem particularly useful–I tried a search across all social sciences for information on “footing” (something I was in fact recently trying to read up on) and got nada.

And, actually, seriously, if they don’t list SM as a popular anthro blog, then what rock have they been hanging out under?

By: Alexandre

Alexandre — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:11:10 +0000

This could, in fact, be very interesting for teaching. Haven’t looked at all of it but it seems to have some interesting features (link basket, comments on evaluating online information). Probably a lot more useful for our students than the typical website created by a textbook publisher.
In fact, while discussing with a publisher representative, I kept mentioning that these kinds of tools could become useful if they weren’t an afterthought. In this case, there seems to be actual pedagogical thinking behind the site and I might use it in future semesters.
Thanks for the link!

(BTW, which mailing-list was this on?)