Currently I am working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. (Views and opinions expressed on this site are entirely my own, unless otherwise indicated, and are in no way meant to represent any persons, units or offices of Concordia University.)
I am also the founding and current editor of a peer-reviewed, open access journal–KACIKE: The Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology (www.kacike.org), and the Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink (www.centrelink.org). I also write for another blog, The CAC Review (cacreview.blogspot.com). KACIKE is not the first open access peer reviewed journal in anthropology, but it is one of the earliest, and thus far the longest lasting. Of course, it is not an anthropology journal alone either.
My primary interests beyond open anthropology are in colonialism and globalization, race and ethnicity, visual ethnography, cyberspace ethnography, “political anthropology”, indigeneity, and the Caribbean.
The OAP will never be “finished,” and while I may lack even a fraction of the brilliance of another Italian, Antonio Gramsci, this blog is nonetheless my prison notebook, written in part as a means of coping with a (self-made?) prison, and written in part as a means of eventually breaking out of that prison.
Contact: max.forte@openanthropology.org
Website: http://www.openanthropology.org
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Sandra Rodriguez // November 17, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Only thing I can add to your ideas/views/objectives is — ME TOO! - and THANK YOU!
And yes, I can contribute some of my own research efforts as an independent funded-by-nobody-but-me-and-myself, from whatever paying jobs I can get as a free-lance -via- Internet translator. Of course, that means my real work in research is slowed down to a turtle pace — but, then, turtles have outlived most other species, so maybe I’ll be able to get my projects arrive to some form of completion, some day. My focus is on Taino art and its relation to Taino cosmogony, but I also have work on modern and contempo intra-Caribbean art and history.
For now, I only mean to CONGRATULATE you and express my best wishes.
THANK YOU again, and once more.
Sandra Rodriguez-Beauchamp
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Karl Eklund // November 20, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Max, did you ever look at the website at whatnow.karleklund.net ? The next step is to tell Comrade Ralph that he’s doing the right thing. Ralph has to find the route to whichever Democrat wins the presidency and tell him that he, Ralph, is the only significant politician in the world that talks to both sides. St. Vincent is the best candidate for the Switzerland of the Tropics. The Bushies have already rejected that notion, but their idea is that they can use force to keep the external proletariat in their place (i.e., poor). The Democrat, whoever it may be, is going to get in with the votes of the internal proletariat and will have to convince the internal proletariat (Proletariat in Toynbee’s sense) that they aren’t going to get upward mobility as a gift from the establishment and they need to find a common goal with the external proletariat.
Hillary Bickel said, in a talk here a few years ago, that St. Vincent was the pivot of the world in 1795 and was due to repeat the role. With Ralph’s charisma and ambition we have a chance.
Sandra, take a look at http://1795.karleklund.net I’ve been working on these ideas for 50 years or so and I’m still doing so on my pension.
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