Emergent Anthropologies

The AAA website is announcing the birth of a brand new journal, “After Culture: Emergent Anthropologies”:http://www.aaanet.org/coop/search/details.cfm?coop_id=417&type=Publication%20Call%20for%20Papers. It sounds interesting and hip (why is it that any word that ends in y and is made plural sounds hip to the anthropological ear? “Other Modernities” “New Alterities”) and, best of all, it will be freely available on the web. While there are a few open access anthropology journals out there, there aren’t too many, and they are (to be frank) of varying quality. After Culture sounds like it might fix this, except for one thing — if you click on the URL of the journal as it’s listed in the call for papers (i.e. http://http//www.tc.umn.edu/~wolf0358/afterculture.htm ) you are redirected to the “Microsoft homepage”:http://www.microsoft.com/ (Firefox) or search results or search.msn.com (IE). Perhaps its the extra http:// in the URL? Regardless, it’s nice to see the AAA supporting this, even if they have some trouble figuring out how to direct people to the website in question. This project has been widely covered already, but here’s a little bit more google juice for them: if you are interested in learning more, “here’s a working link to the call for papers”:http://www.tc.umn.edu/~wolf0358/afterculture.htm.

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Alex Golub is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. His book Leviathans at The Gold Mine has been published by Duke University Press. You can contact him at rex@savageminds.org

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  2. Thinking about this new open access journal in relation to the most recent discussion here on SM on the AAA’s publications and AnthroSource.
    Some naïve (though not totally innocent) questions from someone who’s not involved in any way in the business side of an academic or professional association.
    * What is most costly, in academic publishing?
    * How do Matthew Wolf-Meyer’s “UCP numbers”:http://www.tc.umn.edu/%7Ewolf0358/afterculture.htm stack up with the AAA’s?

    Funding: The total cost of one year’s worth of publications (2 issues, 200 pages) is approximately $3200 (based on University of California Press figures and including the costs of formatting, online storage and publicity).

    * What are the conditions for having publications included in “Project MUSE”:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ ?
    * What has been presented to the AAA membership as options for online access of journal contents?
    * In terms of diffusion of knowledge (not in terms of prestige or “professional development”) what advantages are scholars getting from publishing in AAA publications?

    Again, these questions are quite naïve but other people are likely asking themselves those same questions. None of this is meant as criticism of AAA members. Just trying to understand the situation.

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