Berg Publishers (acquired last year by Bloomsbury) has just announced an agreement through which its Berg Fashion Library (an online resource for dress and fashion studies) will be distributed globally by Oxford University Press. See also Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, now an Rowman and Littlefield partnership.
Further Evidence of the Instability of the Not-for-Profit/For-Profit Distinction in Scholarly Publishing
Published November 30, 2009 Neoliberal Patterns , Publications , Scholarly Communication Leave a CommentDell Hymes Remembered in NYT
Published November 23, 2009 For the Record , Scholars to Know Leave a CommentAt last, a New York Times obituary for Dell Hymes has appeared. Find it here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/us/23hymes.html?_r=1
Website Visitation Statistics
Published November 23, 2009 Digital Projects , Good News , social media Leave a Comment
Website Usage Stats to November 23, 2009
Information Overload and/or Closet Organizers
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Information Overload and/or Closet Organizers
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Mayer Kirshenblatt (1916-2009)
Published November 20, 2009 Folklore , Folklore Studies , For the Record , Material Culture , Other News , Scholars to Know Leave a CommentI just learned that Mayer Kirshenblatt, a remarkable human being and the father of folklorist Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett has passed away. If you have not seen it yet, I strongly recommend their jointly composed book They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust (University of California Press, 2007). The paintings and stories gathered therein (and in the companion exhibition) are simply amazing. (The book was reviewed in Museum Anthropology Review here.)
My condolences go to Barbara and to everyone whose life Mr. Kirshenblatt touched. His memory, and his memories, will live forever.
Arthur Lawton: Music on the Goshenhoppen Landscape
Published November 20, 2009 Folklore Studies , Good News , New Publications Leave a CommentCongratulations go to IU Folklore doctoral student Arthur Lawton, whose latest article “Music on the Goshenhoppen Landscape” has just appeared in The Bulletin of the Historical Society of Montgomery County.
IU Celebrates the Work of Christopher Peebles
Published November 19, 2009 Awards , Prizes , Scholars to Know Leave a CommentOne of my graduate school mentors-turned-senior colleagues, Dr. Christopher Peebles has been recognized by the university through the bestowal of the Thomas Hart Benton Mural Medallion by IU President Michael McRobbie. Chris has maintained a remarkable administrative and research agenda, concurrently working as a Southeastern archaeologist (hence our connection) and as a research computing scholar and administrator. He is transitioning into retirement this year after more that 25 years of service at Indiana, where he has directed the Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology and served in a number of key administrative roles. The IU Press Release is available here. Congratulations Chris!
(Chris was an amazing teacher and supporter of my work during my graduate school career and he has been a generous mentor in the ways of university administration since my return to Indiana.)
Brenda Johnson named Ruth Lilly Dean of Indiana University Libraries
Published November 19, 2009 Good News , Scholars to Know Leave a CommentAs a person involved in a mix of collaborative projects with the Indiana University Libraries, I am pleased to note that the search for Ruth Lilly Dean of Indiana University Libraries has been concluded and that Brenda Johnson has agreed to join the Indiana University community in this key role. I look forward to working with her in the months and years ahead. Read the IU Press Release here. Congratulations to Dean Johnson and to the university.
News from the Corporate Enclosure of Scholarly Publishing: American Geography Society+Wiley-Blackwell
Published November 18, 2009 23913398 , Editorial and Opinion , Enclosure , Geography , Publications , Scholarly Communication , Scholarly Societies Leave a CommentAs Inside Higher Education has reported today, the American Geographical Society has entered into a partnership with Wiley-Blackwell to publish its journals Geographical Review and FOCUS on Geography. (W-B press release here.) This move follows similar agreements made by the American Anthropological Association and a multitude of other publishing societies.
Karl Kroeber (1926–2009)
Published November 17, 2009 For the Record , Scholars to Know Leave a CommentIn the Native American communities in which I live off and on, it is a common observation that deaths–always deeply felt–often seem to occur in groups or clusters. This pattern seems characterized by my discovery just now that Karl Kroeber, another leading student of Native American verbal art, has just passed away. Professor Kroeber long taught at Columbia University, where his father, A. L. Kroeber, earned his doctorate in anthropology under Franz Boas. His sister, author Ursula K. Le Guin, is well known to many. His son Paul pursues his own studies of American Indian linguistics here at Indiana University, where he and I are both affiliated with the American Indian Studies Research Institute.
Karl Kroeber’s linked the Americanist tradition of Native American verbal art studies (in folklore, ethnopoetics, field linguistics, etc.) to the wider field of literature studies. Representative works include Artistry in Native American Myths (University of Nebraska Press, 1998) and Traditional Literatures of the American Indian: Texts and Interpretations (University of Nebraska Press, 1981). Like his mother Theodora, he (with his brother Clifton Kroeber) sought to make sense of the story of Ishi, with whom his family’s life entwined. (See: Ishi in Three Centuries, with Clifton Kroeber. University of Nebraska Press, 2003.)
Condolences go to the whole Kroeber family.
