Comments on: Teh Excellents so far…

By: Ingie Hovland

Ingie Hovland — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:46:03 +0000

Thanks for the nomination Lorenz!
I’d like to nominate a recent article for the OA Article category: Paul Hendrich, “Charting a New Course for Deptford Town Hall,” Anthropology Matters 10(1), 2008 (http://www.anthropologymatters.com/journal/2008-1/hendrich_2008_charting.pdf)

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By: lorenz

lorenz — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:31:08 +0000

The best OA Journal? I’d like to nominate Anthropology Matters http://www.anthropologymatters.com/

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By: Jason Baird Jackson

Jason Baird Jackson — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:02:56 +0000

For lots of reasons, I am eager to see the gold journal category succeed. I have already offered a nomination and three of my favorites already constitute the current list, but I can name a few other significant ones that might be considered in the work of filling out and broadening the pool. Rounding these three up suggests the way that OA in mainline science research has inflected certain sectors of anthropology more than others.

Ethnobotany Research and Applications
http://128.171.206.29/ojs/index.php/era

Ecological and Environmental Anthropology
http://eea.anthro.uga.edu/index.php/eea/index

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
http://www.ethnobiomed.com/

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By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:18:20 +0000

http://www.alanmacfarlane.com is an amazing resource put together by someone in the Cambridge anthropology department… interviews with many notable anthropologists, video lectures on many topics, electronic versions of his books. Whether it constitutes open access or not, and would therefore be eligible for “Most Excellent OA Teaching Materials”, is a point for the lawyers – but I felt that shouldn’t stop me from flagging it up as excellent, given I’ve whiled away many an hour looking around there.

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By: John Smith

John Smith — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:54:18 +0000

And another for Open Anthropology! Pamthropologist has a fantastic blog as well. Why not just nominate them all?

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By: Pamthropologist

Pamthropologist — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:17:01 +0000

I second the nomination for Open Anthropology and suggest adding Neuroanthropology both for blog and teaching resource. If you teach at the undergrad level its invaluable for making sense of the bio developments (particularly if you are a cultural type). BTW shouldn’t you all update your own blog roll? Us small, struggling, bloggers need a little love.

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By: Alexandre

Alexandre — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:05:20 +0000

To be clear: my main blog isn’t about anthropology, so I wouldn’t think it a good idea to have it nominated here. The Linguistic Anthropology blog is a collaborative blog about “teh most excellent field within anthropology.” The main contributor to that blog is Chad Nilep but I did post a couple of things (including a piece which should be in the next issue of AN). The LingAnth blog is a perfectly reasonable nomination, here. I didn’t want to nominate it myself because I’m involved in that blog and self-promotion always sounds fake.
LingAnth gets too little attention. My main blog gets enough.

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By: Christos

Christos — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:35:56 +0000

Split the blogs if that is what it takes for Open Anthropology to be nominated. But it must.

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By: ckelty

ckelty — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:33:29 +0000

We may yet have to have a group/individual blog split… we’ll see what the response is.

And as for deadlines… yes. I just don’t know what it is yet :)

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By: lorenz

lorenz — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:06:05 +0000

Thanks for the nomination! May I nominate one of my favorite blogs Culture Matters?

If there are (too) many nominated blogs (there are so many great blogs!) one could split them into two categories: group blogs and individual blogs

Is there a deadline for the nominations?

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By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:03:09 +0000

I’d like to nominate Open Anthropology in the Most Excellent Blog category. Thanks!

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