Alex Golub

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Beyond Open Access, Net Neutrality: Cultural Anthropology Takes Action

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Beyond Open Access, Net Neutrality: Cultural Anthropology Takes Action

In 2008, when my collaborators and I published “Anthropology of/in Circulation” in Cultural Anthropology (Kelty et al. 2008), we were excited by the ways in whi... More

Crisis and Identity in Contemporary Papua New Guinea

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Crisis and Identity in Contemporary Papua New Guinea

Despite decades of research to the contrary, Papua New Guinea (PNG) is often viewed by outsiders as either a world of Stone Age cannibals (West 2016) or, if you... More

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Theorizing the Contemporary

Leviathans

Four thousand years ago they knew the world would end the same way it began: with dragons. Humanity’s first experiments with the state, city, and surplus were a... More

Why An Open-Access Publishing Cooperative Can Work: A Proposal for the AAA’s Journal Portfolio

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Why An Open-Access Publishing Cooperative Can Work: A Proposal for the AAA’s Journal Portfolio

The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has recently announced that it will soon issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) to invite potential publishers to bi... More