ALOHA (A QUESTION)

[Richard J Senghas]

[Forwarding this on as requested. Apologies for cross-postings. Please
don't use reply to sender funtion; see contact info at end of message and
URLs within it. -RJS]

>Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 23:35:36 -1000
>From: borofsky at hpu.edu
>Subject: ALOHA (A QUESTION)
>
>Aloha Prof. [name removed -RJS],
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>    If you are among the many who have forwarded information on the Public
>Anthropology Journal Archive project to colleagues and students, THANK
>YOU. You have helped make the archive at
><http://www.publicanthropology.org/>www.publicanthropology.org a well used
>tool of anthropological research. (It presently receives between 45,000
>and 60,000 hits per month.)
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>    BUT, THERE IS A PROBLEM.Most of the website's visitors appear to be
>anthropologically inclined individuals from Canada and the United States.
>Would you be kind enough to FORWARD this e-mail to colleagues in other
>countries as well as to colleagues in other departments at your (and
>other) universities. Sending it on to your school library and/or
>individuals you know in the media would be great as well.
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>    It is one thing to have a valued resource that WE know about. But the
>Public Anthropology Archive should also prove valuable to anthropologists
>in OTHER COUNTRIES as well as to a range of people OUTSIDE the discipline.
>Your help, in achieving this, would be appreciated. Who knows what new
>doors the archive will open for the discipline?
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>    As stated in my earlier letter, you can use the archive to search for
>ANY AUTHOR, NAME, SUBJECT, OR CULTURAL GROUP WRITTEN ABOUT IN THE AMERICAN
>ANTHROPOLOGIST FROM 1888 THROUGH 2000 and can get a summary of what was
>said by whom. (To try it out, simply click on
><http://www.publicanthropology.org/Archive/AAListByYears.htm>publicanthropology.
>org/Archive/AAListByYears.htm ). Besides finding a particular author,
>name, subject, or cultural group, individuals can take a particular year -
>say 1890 - and see what topics were covered in what ways focusing on which
>cultural groups. Better yet, people can compare several years - say 1890,
>1920, 1950, 1970, and 2000 - to see to what degree and in what ways
>anthropology has developed over that past 110 years: How have the
>questions and topics changed? In what ways has there been progress? (You
>can even see how you and your colleaguesí articles are summarized in the
>American Anthropologist.)
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>    The project, involving more than 70 schools from Canada and the United
>States, presents what might be termed a "bifocal" view of the material.
>"Bifocal" refers to the fact that there are two summaries by two different
>students at two different schools for each article and obituary. The goal
>is to avoid the biases implicit in single-authored reviews so common today.
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>    We have completed roughly 75% of the 8,000 summaries involved in the
>AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST portion of the project and expect to complete the
>rest this fall. If you or colleagues are interested in HAVING ONE OF YOUR
>CLASSES PARTICIPATE IN THE PROJECT FOR CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY or HUMAN
>ORGANIZATION this coming spring - I would stress it works best when done
>as a set of class assignments - all you have to do send me an e-mail at
><mailto:borofsky at hpu.edu>borofsky at hpu.edu or you can click on:
><http://www.publicanthropology.org/Archive/HowToParticipate.htm>http://www.publi
>canthropology.org/Archive/HowToParticipate.htm to find out more about the
>project.
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>    THANK YOU for your help.
>
>Regards,
>
>Rob Borofsky
>
>Webmaster, <http://www.publicanthropology.org>www.publicanthropology.org
> Professor of Anthropology, Hawaii Pacific University
> Director, Center for a Public Anthropology
> Editor, California Series in Public Anthropology
><http://www.publicanthropology.org/Bookseries/UCseries.htm>http://www.publicanth
>ropology.org/Bookseries/UCseries.htm

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