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.
Jeige hen hao! Xie-xie ni gaosong women.
Great stuff. Thanks for letting us know.
Well, I think the magazine is still experimenting a few things to find a better way to position itself. We picked the name ‘AnthroVisions’, aiming to illustrate how anthropology could provide a different way of seeing the world (and thus the discipline does matter!). Maybe 1/2 of the first issue discusses current affairs from anthropological perspectives, in particular the cover story (3 articles) on recent legislation of Idigenous Intellectual Property Right in Taiwan. 1/3 is the kind Rex imagines, 1/3 is sort of reflections within the discipline (including Kerim’s article).
(Not that my math is bad; some articels crossover the simplified categories above)