Comments on: The 1st Annual Savage Minds Awarding of teh Excellents

By: Jason Baird Jackson

Jason Baird Jackson — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:13:46 +0000

This is a great idea. I will be happy to help. I wrote a comment soon after Chris’ post and it somehow evaporated on me. In this second try at a comment, I won’t attempt a full reconstruction of my earlier go.

As for a missing category, I think it would be important to highlight major gold journal efforts. While start ups are great, I am particularly pleased to see established (some long established) journals going gold OA. Matt pointed to a paper in Oral Tradition, which is one such journal I would celebrate, but my nomination would go to Asian Ethnology (formerly Asian Folklore Studies). It has been around for a very long time and has an important role in its part of the field. The whole business, 1942-present, is now available online.

In the article department, I favor favoring articles published in gold venues, as this is a bigger statement of commitment on the part of authors. It has a 2006 publication date, but I would nominate “The Judgment of Solomon: Global Protections for Tradition and the Problem of Community Ownership” by my friend Dorothy Noyes. It appeared in Cultural Analysis. That issue was a bit late and it actually was published in 2007 (as confirmed by the shout out that Michael gave it on WONC? and its first appearance in the Internet Archive). It is a great paper in a fine gold OA journal.

I appreciate antropologi.info ’s role as a blog of blogs (metablog?).

By: John Postill

John Postill — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:58:23 +0000

A most excellent initiative!

By: ponocrates

ponocrates — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:25:42 +0000

May i suggest :

1. http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/lectures/documents/Sahlins_2007.pdf

2. http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=174 (thanks SM for linking)

4. fictional trendy title : “Mapping contested imaginaries : steps to an ethnography of blogalization.”

6. Pay-per-open-access-article

By: Yoni

Yoni — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:06:56 +0000

Chris: I’d love to know what the paywall articles you find stimulating to be!

Playing further on Michael’s nomination for the title but adding a little bite for the cult lit peeps:

“Contesting Minds & Interstitial-Interspatial Contributions: Internet Imaginaries and their Irrelevance to the AAA”?

By: ckelty

ckelty — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:58:09 +0000

Contested Blogs and Spaces of Nomination…
The blog contest is heating up…. let’s have nominations for best open access article… this is harder than it sounds… all the articles I love from this year are behind a paywall somewhere :(

By: Alexandre

Alexandre — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:23:29 +0000

@Owen As you know, I don’t consider my main blog to be anthropological. LingAnth.blogspot.com is more specifically anthropological, and I did post a few things there.

By: Owen Wiltshire

Owen Wiltshire — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:39:43 +0000

woops links stripped… Can never get a comment right.

By: Owen Wiltshire

Owen Wiltshire — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:38:57 +0000

Thanks for the vote Alexandre! And since you’re right that Lorenz’s can win without our votes, I’ll nominate Erkan Saka’s blog.

(I’d say Lorenz and Erkan’s blogs were the first blogs I latched on to and which inspired me to get blogging).

Of course, Enkerli’s blog should be nominated for breaking disciplinary boundaries… and Max’s blog needs a nomination too. Hmm… Good luck with this contest! Maybe we could have a student category to even the competition a little !

By: MTBradley

MTBradley — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:49:20 +0000

My nominations:

1. http://journal.oraltradition.org/issues/22i/d%26%23233%3Bsveaux

2. http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/syllabi/

4. branding

5. http://www.materialworldblog.com/

7. best non-colonated article title (peer-reviewed).

By: Alexandre Enkerli

Alexandre Enkerli — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:36:28 +0000

I nominate Owen Wiltshire’s “Another Anthro Blog” in the “most excellent anthropology blog” category. Yes, I’m biased (Owen and I know each other pretty well as I’m an informant of his, he was one of my ethnomusicology students, and he’s at Concordia, where I currently teach). But I seriously think that Owen is using blogs in a very neat way (his current research is on blogs and publishing).
http://nodivide.wordpress.com/

I won’t nominate Lorenz Khazaleh’s blog because I’m assuming it can win without my vote.
Of course, there are several other anthroblogs which could win. Culture Matters, Grant McCracken’s “This Blog Sits,” Jenny Cool’s “The Participant Observer” (if it were updated regularly!), John Postill’s “media/anthropology,” Max Forte’s “Open Anthropology”…

But if I can only nominate one blog, it should be Owen’s.

By: Michael Brown

Michael Brown — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:16:18 +0000

I’d amend Yoni’s excellent suggestion to: “Contesting Embodied Spatial Imaginaries.” ;-]

By: gretchen

gretchen — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:06:15 +0000

I’ll do something, as long as it involves presenting things or gesturing. Can we have giant fake checks to give away?

By: ckelty

ckelty — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:20:15 +0000

Contested contests? Like this one? I love it…
please everyone, circulate this post to grad students and lists… I’m serious about good prizes and about raising awareness of OA… so take a moment and forward it…

By: Yoni

Yoni — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:45:38 +0000

LL that would have to be something deriving from “contest” and a word deriving from “space.” Preferably “contested spaces,” or “contesting spatiality.”

By: L.L. Wynn

L.L. Wynn — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:32:44 +0000

Along the lines of best/worst theoretical fad, what about an award for the best/worst trendy phrase in anthropology titles? See because I’m always try to figure out what this decade’s equivalent of “poetics and politics of” is.