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Re: USA ETHNOCENTRISM IN ANTHRO-L
Thomas Fillitz (thomas.fillitz@UNIVIE.AC.AT)
Fri, 24 Feb 1995 11:27:30 +0100
On feb. 22nd Faybienne Geenhuizen wrote:
>ANTHRO-L mail list. As an American (please), I have noticed it
>too. And I agree that it is mostly just because most of the
>writers are American, and as a matter of fact most of the audience
>is American too.
>What can be done about it? Can't do much about the audience, but
>participation is up to each of us. Step up to the microphone and
>let us hear what you have to say. I, for one, hunger for
>non-American viewpoints.
>From discussions with European colleagues about Internet, I want to make
the following remarks:
* Although reading the messages, many face a certain barrier in putting
messages themselves;
* In many cases the discussions seem to be concentrated on topics related
to anthropology in USA, but not in Europe - e.g. we have neither the strong
socio-biological impact, as it seems to me to be in this list, archaeology
is a science on its own, etc.;
* Some feel that their ideas, published in the list, might get stolen;
These are just some points - not wanting to produce "national scientists
patterns" (we are, you are, they are...).
As a matter of fact, we are running an Electronic Journal on World Wide Web
Theoretical Anthropology:
http://www.univie.ac.at/voelkerkunde/theoretical-anthropology/
It is extremely difficult for us to get contributions, and most of the time
we feel that people get scared about the vision of the Internet community.
Another point is that an E-Journal is not a scientific Journal for them
(quite conservative opinion...)
By the way, we do neither get contributions by American colleagues - Can
anyone tell us the problem about it? We would appreciate to be told why! It
is there for you as well!
If it is just because of the ISSN-Number, we are getting it hopefully
within the next times.
Thomas Fillitz Institut fuer Voelkerkunde
thomas.fillitz@univie.ac.at University of Vienna
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