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Forum The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2010, pp. 6474 On the Referee System as a Barrier to Global Anthropology That TAPJA is publishing this paper is to be welcomed. That the author identifies a specific work practice (the referee system) as a principal barrier to a global anthropology is, to say the least, interesting. And it would be hard to object to the aspirations of a global anthropology. But at what point do we recognise that a phenomenon is global? Needless to say, as soon as anyone postulates a potential cultural form as ‘global’, as in some of the aspirations enunciated here, one can look for the parochialism (‘metropolitan provincialism’, as Mathews notes) of what that means. A long time ago, Roy Wagner pointed out that the counterpart to anthropology in other contexts (non-literate in the particular case he was thinking of ) may be something that would not look like (Euro-American) anthropology at all, would not even be concerned with abstract knowledge. However, this is not what the author is after. Rather, he is describing a situation where there is a shared consensus about knowledge building, education, scholarly enterprise and research, as well http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Taylor & Francis

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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2010, pp. 6474 On the Referee System as a Barrier to Global Anthropology That TAPJA is publishing this paper is to be welcomed. That the author identifies a specific work practice (the referee system) as a principal barrier to a global anthropology is, to say the least, interesting. And it would be hard to object to the aspirations of a global anthropology. But at what point do we recognise that a phenomenon is global? Needless...
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Abstract

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2010, pp. 6474 On the Referee System as a Barrier to Global Anthropology That TAPJA is publishing this paper is to be welcomed. That the author identifies a specific work practice (the referee system) as a principal barrier to a global anthropology is, to say the least, interesting. And it would be hard to object to the aspirations of a global anthropology. But at what point do we recognise that a phenomenon is global? Needless to say, as soon as anyone postulates a potential cultural form as ‘global’, as in some of the aspirations enunciated here, one can look for the parochialism (‘metropolitan provincialism’, as Mathews notes) of what that means. A long time ago, Roy Wagner pointed out that the counterpart to anthropology in other contexts (non-literate in the particular case he was thinking of ) may be something that would not look like (Euro-American) anthropology at all, would not even be concerned with abstract knowledge. However, this is not what the author is after. Rather, he is describing a situation where there is a shared consensus about knowledge building, education, scholarly enterprise and research, as well

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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology – Taylor & Francis

Published: Mar 1, 2010

References

  • ‘Global culture: An introduction’