AnthroVisions

Lately there has been some discussion here on Savage Minds about what an Anthropology magazine for a general audience might look like. There has also been some discussion about how the anthropological blogsphere seemingly perpetuates the hegemony of Euro-American academia. So I’m very happy to announce the first issue of AnthroVisions – a Chinese language magazine about contemporary Taiwanese anthropology, aimed at a broad audience.

In many ways it is the kind of magazine Rex imagines:

What we don’t have is a “it’s great to be an anthropologist! Here are the latest discoveries from anthropology! Learn more about how to do anthropology here!”

I’m a member of the editorial board, but the real work has mostly been done by Pei-yi Guo 郭佩宜 and Shao-hua Liu 劉紹華 at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, who deserve credit for all their hard work getting this thing off the ground. I also pleased that my Savage Minds post about the lack of ethnographies in Chinese was translated into Chinese and included [PDF] in this issue.

P. Kerim Friedman is an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures at National Dong Hwa University, in Taiwan, where he teaches linguistic and visual anthropology. He is co-director of the film Please Don't Beat Me, Sir!, winner of the 2011 Jean Rouch Award from the Society of Visual Anthropology. Follow Kerim on Twitter.