Module 1: weblog #1 (Chantal Drolet)

Open Anthropology: Internet Indigeneity & Anthropological Advocacy

Resources available:

Open Anthropology Video Collection 

• Imperialism
• Racism
• Indigenous Rights

On YouTube:

• ABORIGINAL PEOPLES
• ANTI-IMPERIALISM & DECOLONIZATION

Also on YouTube:

• ABORIGINAL RIGHTS AUSTRALIA
• INDIGENOUS RIGHTS CANADA
• YOTHU YINDI & ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN MUSIC

Links to other sites:

• Open Anthropology TV
• OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY ON TWITTER
• Pdf documents on Indigenous scholars

Usefulness for research on Indigenous knowledge, media, and community reality:

This site offers an impressive bibliography, some with detailed abstracts, including:

• Barnard, Alan. (2006). Kalahari revisionism, Vienna and the ‘Indigenous Peoples’ debate. Social Anthropology 14(1): 1-16.
• Beteille, Andre. (1998). The idea of indigenous people. Current Anthropology 39(2) April: 187-191.
• Biolsi, Thomas, and Larry J. Zimmerman, eds. (1997). Indians and anthropologists: Vine Deloria, Jr., and the critique of anthropology. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Furthermore, there is a wide variety of links to projects related to Indigenous issues and perspectives, such as:

• Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures
• Center for World Indigenous Studies
• HIDDEN FROM HISTORY: The Canadian Holocaust

Address:

http://openanthropology.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/internet-indigeneity-anthropological-advocacy-text-of-a-presentation-at-the-university-of-south-florida-march-19-2008/