ANTHROPOLOGY OF/IN CIRCULATION: The Future of Open Access and Scholarly Societies

  1. CHRISTOPHER M. KELTY1,
  2. MICHAEL M. J. FISCHER2,
  3. ALEX “REX” GOLUB3,
  4. JASON BAIRD JACKSON4,
  5. KIMBERLY CHRISTEN5,
  6. MICHAEL F. BROWN6,
  7. TOM BOELLSTORFF7

Article first published online: 31 JUL 2008

DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1360.2008.00018.x

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Cultural Anthropology

Cultural Anthropology

Volume 23, Issue 3, pages 559–588, August 2008

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KELTY, C. M., FISCHER, M. M. J., GOLUB, A. “., JACKSON, J. B., CHRISTEN, K., BROWN, M. F. and BOELLSTORFF, T. (2008), ANTHROPOLOGY OF/IN CIRCULATION: The Future of Open Access and Scholarly Societies. Cultural Anthropology, 23: 559–588. doi: 10.1111/j.1548-1360.2008.00018.x

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  1. 1

    Rice University

  2. 2

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  3. 3

    University of Hawai'i at Manoa

  4. 4

    Indiana University

  5. 5

    Washington State University

  6. 6

    Williams College

  7. 7

    University of California–Irvine

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  1. Issue published online: 31 JUL 2008
  2. Article first published online: 31 JUL 2008

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Keywords:

  • open access;
  • publishing;
  • knowledge circulation;
  • libraries;
  • scholarly societies;
  • digital technologies

ABSTRACT

In a conversation format, seven anthropologists with extensive expertise in new digital technologies, intellectual property, and journal publishing discuss issues related to open access, the anthropology of information circulation, and the future of scholarly societies. Among the topics discussed are current anthropological research on open source and open access; the effects of open access on traditional anthropological topics; the creation of community archives and new networking tools; potentially transformative uses of field notes and materials in new digital ecologies; the American Anthropological Association's recent history with these issues, from the development of AnthroSource to its new publishing arrangement with Wiley-Blackwell; and the political economies of knowledge circulation more generally.

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