Scholars of the Pacific are mourning the loss of Teresia Teaiwa this week. Teresia was an iconic figure in Pacific Studies: A poet and critic, dedicated teacher, and determined institution builde...
https://savageminds.org/2017/03/21/remembering-teresia-teaiwa-an-open-access-bibliography/
By: Lisa Uperesa Over the past two decades, non-White and non-Western scholars have posed serious challenges to the politics of knowledge production in anthropology and the academy more widely. I...
https://savageminds.org/2016/06/07/a-decolonial-turn-in-anthropology-a-view-from-the-pacific/
(Last week a major international conference was held in Alotau, the capital of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, where Bronislaw Malinowski did the research on kula that resulted in Argonaut...
People around the world have heard about the devastation cyclone Pam has wrought in Vanuatu and other areas of the Island Melanesia. It’s striking to see people who normally couldn’t tell Tan...
https://savageminds.org/2015/03/17/anthropologists-are-helping-vanuatu-and-so-should-you/
Open access scholarship faces a lot of challenges, and sometimes we focus on those so much we lose sight of how successful the movement for open access is. Just take a look, for instance, at the ...
https://savageminds.org/2014/10/23/pacific-anthropology-open-access-resources/
(former Mind Thomas Strong recently participated in a conference on ‘competing responsibilities’ organized by Susanna Trnka and Catherine Trundle. What follows is an interview between Tom, S...
Today The Appendix (“a quarterly journal of experimental and narrative history”) published my piece “The History of Mana: How an Austronesian Concept Became a Video Game Mechanic“. I’m ...
https://savageminds.org/2014/06/17/mana-how-an-austronesian-concept-became-a-video-game-mechanic/
Carl Hoffman is a travel writer who has recently turned his attention to New Guinea, where he produces grisly stories of cannibalism, murder, and The Smell Of Men. Jared Diamond is a scientist w...
https://savageminds.org/2014/05/20/carl-hoffman-jared-diamond/
In 1928 Margaret Mead published Coming of Age in Samoa with William Morrow & Company. She did not copyright her book, possibly because copyright was only a few years old in the US and the idea ...
https://savageminds.org/2014/04/29/coming-of-age-in-samoa-open-access/
A doomed genius taken before his time. One of the last line of ancient Roman noblemen revealing his secrets. Hidden writings once known only to an elite few, now revealed for all to see. It sound...
https://savageminds.org/2014/04/09/no-april-fools-read-valeris-rites-and-annals/
Most major criticisms of World Until Yesterday have focused on Diamond’s description of ‘traditional societies’ as violent and dangerous. Diamond, Critics clam, over estimates the dangers o...
https://savageminds.org/2013/03/10/the-dangers-of-excess-and-restraint/
I spend a lot of time on this blog extolling the virtues of open access publishing, so I thought I should take a minute to extoll the virtues of for-profit publishing and the role they play in th...
https://savageminds.org/2012/10/17/the-virtues-of-charging-for-publications/
I recently read on the Pacific Anthropology listserv of the passing of Ali Pomponio, an ethnographer of Papua New Guinea. I only met Ali once, at a conference, but she she cut a bella figure and ...
https://savageminds.org/2012/06/22/seagulls-dont-fly-into-the-bush/
In Freedom in Entangled Worlds, the first book by anthropologist Eben Kirksey, Mellon Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, the reader is presented with a history o...
https://savageminds.org/2012/06/11/book-review-freedom-in-entangled-worlds-by-eben-kirksey/
The piece for discussion this week (actually, it should have been last week, but I got caught behind a couple of different eight balls) is Vincente Diaz’s “Voyaging for Anti-Colonial Recovery...
https://savageminds.org/2012/02/17/voyaging-for-anti-colonial-recovery/