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CFP: The Management of Natural and Cultural Heritage

A Call for papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Anthropology

"The Management of Natural and Cultural Heritage: A Global Perspective"

Special Issue Guest Editors: Aron Mazel1, Leon Jacobson, Liora Kolska Horwitz

1. International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University, United Kingdom; Email: a.d.mazel@ncl.ac.uk

2. The School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Email: lj.heritage@gmail.com

3. Natural History Collections, Faculty of Life Science, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel; Email: lix1000@gmail.com

Call for papers:

At the outset to the 21st century, worldwide, cultural and natural heritage resources are under increasing threat from a variety of pressures that operate at a number of levels -globalization, tourism, population growth, national and regional development initiatives. The responses to these threats have varied internationally and within nations. In some instances, there is strong state intervention, effective legislation and well-funded government agencies which are generally well-supported by the public. In other instances, state and civil intervention may be weak, threatening the safeguarding of cultural and natural heritage resources through, for example, inappropriate or ill-conceived management and tourism strategies and the lack of will and capacity. The potential also exists for the emergence of conflict between indigenous populations and the state, concerning the ownership and protection of heritage resources - both natural and cultural.

The planned special issue of Journal of Anthropology aims at addressing these issues. We invite investigators to contribute original research articles, case studies as well as review articles that will stimulate debate and contribute to our understanding of the management and interpretation of cultural and natural heritage resources worldwide.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

Globalization and heritage management

State and civil society in heritage management

Role of stewardship in management

Tourism - panacea or threat

Indigenous heritage management

Nature vs. culture in heritage management

Who should interpret heritage and how this is done

The closing date for submitting manuscripts is 28 February 2013. Manuscripts should normally be between 5,000 and 7,000 words including references. Can you please let one of the Guest Editors know if you are planning to submit a manuscript.

For queries relating to papers please contact one of the guest editors at the emails listed above; for cultural heritage authors should please contact Aron Mazel or Leon Jacobson; for papers on natural heritage please contact Liora Kolska Horwitz.

Before submission, authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jop/guidelines.html

An electronic copy of completed manuscripts should be submitted through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com

Hindawi, the publisher of Journal of Anthropology, is committed to publishing academic papers via free online access - prospective authors who cannot afford the cover costs of free-online access publication ($400.00) should please contact one of the guest editors. The journal will waiver the cost for third worlders and those who cannot afford to pay.

Occupy and Open Access

The March 2012 issue of Anthropologies is out, and editor Ryan Anderson has put together an important collection on anthropology, the open access movement inside the field, and how anthropologists are engaging with the Occupy movement. This issue is so full of good ideas, good review of literature and writing, and well-articulated taking of positions. I hope it is widely-read, as it has the potential to mark a shift towards a new way of doing anthropology, a new articulation for the field that won’t be found in any other journal.

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New Journal: Museum Worlds

Museum Worlds: Advances in Research

Editors: Sandra Dudley, University of Leicester and Kylie Message, Australian National University

Museum Worlds: Advances in Research is a new, multi-disciplinary, refereed, annual journal from Berghahn Journals that will publish work that significantly advances knowledge of global trends, case studies and theory relevant to museum practice and scholarship around the world.

Responding to the need for a rigorous, in-depth review of current work in the broad field of Museum Studies, Museum Worlds: Advances in Research will contribute to the ongoing formation of Museum Studies, as an academic and practical field of research which is rapidly expanding and alive with potential, opportunity and challenge that parallels the rapid growth of museums in just about every part of the world.

Museum Worlds: Advances in Research aims to trace and comment on major regional, theoretical, methodological and topical themes and debates, and encourage comparison of museum theories, practices, and developments in different global settings. Each issue includes a conversation piece on a current topic, as well as peer reviewed scholarly articles and review articles, book and exhibition reviews, and news on developments in museum studies and related curricula in different parts of the world. Drawing on the expertise and networks of a global Editorial Board of senior scholars and museum practitioners, the journal will both challenge and develop the core concepts that link different disciplinary perspectives on museums by bringing new voices into ongoing debates and discussions. Articles will be of exceptional quality and general interest from around the world.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Museum Worlds: Advances in Research invites a wide range of contributions that identify, explore and analyse trends in museum-related research and practice. Papers will contribute substantively to a core scholarly discipline or sub-discipline, while engaging with research about museums in other disciplines or through interdisciplinary methods. Papers will be reviewed through a global editorial board including senior scholars in each of the following fields:

* Museum Studies
* Geography
* Cultural Studies
* Art History
* Anthropology
* International Relations
* Archeology
* Sociology
* History
* Political Science

The editorial team also welcomes book reviews, special issue proposals, and ideas for presenting content in new ways.

How to Submit a Paper

Please send submissions or expressions of interest to the editors at:
shd3@le.ac.uk and kylie.message@anu.edu.au

Submissions should be formatted in line with the journal style guide, which can be downloaded from the journal’s website: journals.berghahnbooks.com/air-mw/index.php?pg=notes

More information: http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/air-mw/

El Palacio Digitized

First 10 Years of El Palacio Digitized and Placed Online

El Palacio Magazine, published by the Museum of New Mexico for nearly 100 years, celebrates the digital age just as the state celebrates its centennial, by putting the first ten years of the magazine online, free to all at http://archives.elpalacio.org. With the changing times, the vision of many magazine publishers—including El Palacio‘s—has had to broaden in order to continue a print product while also developing an online version and full archive for a Web-savvy audience. The New Mexico State Library’s State Document Program, which has long collected and cataloged printed copies of El Palacio, shared the magazine’s online, digital goals because of the publication’s historical content, its focus on New Mexico, and its perfect fit with the library’s mission to increase access to state publications.

http://archives.elpalacio.org

American Anthropology: A Conference

American Anthropology
A Conference at UC Irvine
Friday, January 27, 2012, 9:00am-5:50pm
Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway (SBSG) 1517
Attendance is free, no RSVP needed

Speakers include current & former members
of the editorial board & journal staff:
Tom Boellstorff (UC Irvine)
Yoon Choi (Para los Niños)
Alessandro Duranti (UCLA)
Allison Fish (Ohio State)
Agustín Fuentes (Notre Dame)
Lilith Mahmud (UC Irvine)
Erin Moran (UC Irvine)
Barbara Rose Johnston (Ctr for Political Ecology)
Michael Silverstein (U. of Chicago)
Neha Vora (Texas A&M)

• Rethinking the “editor” subject position
• New configurations for the un-disciplining of
anthropology
• The article genre in anthropological
knowledge production
• Critically engaging with the political economy
and epistemology of journal publishing

HAU: A New Online Journal

HAU, Journal of Ethnographic Theory, is an international peer-reviewed, open-access online journal which aims to situate ethnography as the prime heuristic of anthropology, and return it to the forefront of conceptual developments in the discipline.

The journal is motivated by the need to reinstate ethnographic theorization in contemporary anthropology as a potent alternative to its 'explanation' or 'contextualization' by philosophical arguments, moves which have resulted in a loss of the discipline’s distinctive theoretical nerve. By drawing out its potential to critically engage and challenge Western cosmological assumptions and conceptual determinations, HAU aims to provide an exciting new arena for evaluating ethnography as a daring enterprise for 'worlding' alien terms and forms of life, by exploiting their potential for rethinking humanity and alterity.

HAU takes its name from Mauss’ Spirit of the Gift, an anthropological concept that derives its theoretical potential precisely from the translational inadequations and equivocations involved in comparing the incomparable. Through their reversibility, such inferential misunderstandings invite us to explore how encounters with alterity occasion the resurgence and revisitation of indigenous knowledge practices. As an online journal, HAU stresses immediacy of publication, allowing for the timely publication and distribution of untimely ideas. Aiming to attract the most daring thinkers in the discipline, regardless of position or background, HAU also plachttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifes no restriction on further publication of material published by the journal.

HAU welcomes submissions that strengthen ethnographic engagement with received knowledges, and revive the vibrant themes of anthropology through debate and engagement with other disciplines and explore domains held until recently to be the province of economics, philosophy and the natural sciences. Topics addressed by the journal include indigenous ontologies and systems of knowledge, forms of human engagement and relationality, cosmology and myth, magic, witchcraft and sorcery, truth and falsehood, indigenous theories of kinship and relatedness with humans and non-humans, hierarchy, materiality, perception, environment and space, time and temporality, personhood and subjectivity, alternative metaphysics of morality.

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9/11 Anthropology Articles

In the 10 years since the events of September 2001 a vast amount of scholarly research has been written on the impact of 9/11. Wiley-Blackwell is pleased to share with you this collection of free book and journal content, featuring over 20 book chapters and 185 journal articles from over 200 publications, spanning subjects across the social sciences and humanities.

For the anthropology articles click here

Recent Heritage and Society Published

Heritage & Society volume 4, number 1
Elizabeth Chilton and Neil A. Silberman

From the Editors

Articles
Our Heritage, Our Future - Archaeology and the Interessment of Desires Jean Dennison
Documenting Pastoral Landscapes - Connecting Archaeology, History, and Communities Steve Brown
Civil Society Action in the Field of Cultural Heritage - A European Perspective Sigrid Van der Auwera and Annick Schramme
Treasure Bearers - Personal Foundations for Effective Leadership in Northern Coast Salish Heritage Stewardship John R. Welch , Dana Lepofsky, Megan Caldwell , Georgia Combes, and Craig Rust

Forum
Intangible Heritage and Sustainable Development - Realistic Outcome or Wishful Thinking? Sophia Labadi, Forum Editor
Challenges to Sustaining Intangible Cultural Heritage Rosabelle Boswell
Peopling Places, Storying Spaces - Heritage Sustaining Human Development? Marilyn C. Truscott
A Gandhi Turning Point for ICH
Rahul Goswami

Resources
From the Editors donald F. Craib and susan forbes
ICOMOS — Tolerance for Change Initiative
UNESCO Recommendation — Historic Urban Landscape (HUL)
U.S. Ratifies Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples
China Considers Law to Protect Intangible Cultural Heritage

CFP: Museum History Journal

Call for Papers: Museum History Journal

Museum History Journal, now in it fourth volume, is soliciting new
submissions for volumes 5 and 6, to appear in 2012 and 2013 (each volume
includes two issues, published in January and July). For specific submission
guidelines and other information, please visit the Left Coast Press website:
http://www.lcoastpress.com/journal.php?id=6

Museum History Journal is an international, peer-reviewed journal of
critical, evaluative histories related to museums. Content encompasses not
only a broad range of museum types---including natural history,
anthropology, archaeology, fine art, history, medical and science and
technology---but also related cultural institutions such as aquaria, zoos,
botanical gardens, arboreta, historical societies and sites, architectural
sites, archives and planetariums. It presents a variety of scholarly
approaches, such as analytical, narrative, historical, cultural, social,
quantitative and intellectual.

Please send manuscripts to the Editor, Hugh H. Genoways
.

Latest Anthropology and Humanism Published

Anthropology and Humanism

Volume 35, Issue 2 Page 131 - 249

The latest issue of Anthropology and Humanism is available on Wiley Online Library

Original Articles
Introduction to “Do Spirits Exist? Ways to Know” (pages 131–141)
Joan Koss-Chioino
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01062.x

Visionary Spiritual Experiences in an Enchanted World (pages 142–158)
David J. Hufford
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01063.x

Seeing Dead People Not Known to Have Died: “Peak in Darien” Experiences (pages 159–171)
Bruce Greyson
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01064.x

Understanding the Conundrum of Rebirth Experience of the Beaver, Gitxsan, and Witsuwit'en (pages 172–191)
Antonia Mills
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01065.x

Encounters with Sorcery: An Ethnographer's Account (pages 192–203)
Evgenia Fotiou
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01066.x

Anthropology, Shamanism, and Alternate Ways of Knowing–Being in the World: One Anthropologist's Journey of Discovery and Transformation (pages 204–217)
Bonnie Glass-Coffin
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01067.x

Discussion: Ethnography as a Transformative Experience (pages 218–226)
Edith Turner
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01068.x

Fiction
The Cure (pages 227–234)
Laura Biagi
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01069.x

Basurita Ndoki (pages 235–239)
Todd Ochoa
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01070.x

POEMS
Poems (pages 240–247)
Sienna Craig
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01071.x

Book Reviews
Net Notations (Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive– By Johannes Fabian (pages 248–249)
Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington
Article first published online: 21 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2010.01072.x

Return to Moundville

A long article in the American Indian Times talking about repatriation and NAGPRA with the Choctaw. Several quotes come from Museum Anthropology editorial board member, Dorothy Lippert.

In other NAGPRA news, here is a new article to appear in Curator: "NAGPRA: Effective Repatriation Programs and Cultural Change in Museums." We haven't read it yet, but seems to be an interesting new viewpoint (and set of data) on how repatriation and consultation really work in the United States.