Fw: American Anthropologist Journal Archive Project Now Online

[R. Rankin]

I received this from my anthropologist colleagues.
Bob


>     I am pleased to announce that the American
Anthropologist Journal
> Archive Project is "open for business" (as they say).
You and your
> students can now 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
>
<http://www.publicanthropology.org/Archive/AAListByYear
s.htm>  ).  I
> would appreciate your passing this information on to
your students and
> colleagues. Thank you.
>
>     Besides finding a particular author, name,
subject, or cultural
> group, you and your students can also take a
particular year - say 1890
> - and see what topics were covered in what ways
focusing on which
> cultural groups. Better yet, you 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 your own article is summarized in
the AMERICAN
> ANTHROPOLOGIST.)
>
>     The project, involving over 70 schools from
across Canada and the
> United States, presents what is termed a "bifocal"
view. "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.
>
>     We have completed roughly 75% of the 8,000
summaries involved in the
> AMERICAN ANTNROPOLOGIST portion of the project and
expect to complete
> the rest this fall. If you 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
> borofsky at hpu.edu <mailto:borofsky at hpu.edu>  or you
can click on:
>
http://www.publicanthropology.org/Archive/HowToParticip
ate.htm
>
<http://www.publicanthropology.org/Archive/HowToPartici
pate.htm>  to
> find out more about the project.
>
>     Again, all you or your students have to do, to
visit the archive, is
> click on
http://www.publicanthropology.org/Archive/AAListByYears
.htm
>
<http://www.publicanthropology.org/Archive/AAListByYear
s.htm>   and take
> it from there. You can also visit the
www.publicanthropology.org website
> and click on journal archive.

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